This absolutely hilarious Jeno’s pizza roll commercial with a cameo from Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels. Apparently he did some General Mills commercials in character as well.
In the latest spots for Intel, is it Jim Parsons or Sheldon Cooper?
I find odd the unrealistic way people eat fast food in commercials. Like the model holding the giant burger in one hand and smashing it into her face, or the people who hold sub sandwiches vertically with one hand and nothing falls out of it.
Did anyone else but me notice that the burger they’re eating in the Burger King commercial is about three times the size of a real whopper?
I would classify this as my “it’s the actor, but he’s wink-winking to his character” definition.
That’s interesting about the Odd Couple though. I guess it proves that even if this isn’t the first time this has happened, it’s quite rare.
The characters from The Adventures of Superman did a whole slew of commercials for Kellogg Cereals in the 1950s.
All except for Lois Lane. The writers couldn’t come up with an innocent reason for her to be having breakfast with Clark or Jimmy.
I am pretty sure some of the early TV programs staged ads right in the live performance, with the cast in character. I couldn’t say if they addressed each other as characters or actors, but when it comes to Luci and Desi, there’s not much difference.
For those who have never seen them, shows of the late 1940s and 1950s would just have the cast stop and share cigarettes or coffee or whatever, right there on the set and in the middle of the show, and then (with or without another commercial break of any kind) continue with the program.
Days of Our Lives just a few years ago would have characters in-scene telling us what made a particular brand of Chinese food, or Cheerios, so good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPJpgjfFJpcI often wondered why you don’t see reruns of Jack Benny or Burns and Allen on TV. Turns out most of the early programs were just one long commercial.
Back in the 80s elderly actress Clara Peller became extremely famous for her, “Where’s the beef!” series of commercials for Wendy’s (Walter Mondale even famously used the phrase in his 1984 presidential campaign). She eventually did a commercial for a spaghetti sauce that was very ‘meaty’ and had her saying, “I finally found it!”. She was fired by Wendy’s soon after.
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This absolutely hilarious Jeno’s pizza roll commercial with a cameo from Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels. Apparently he did some General Mills commercials in character as well.
[/QUOTE]So I’m guessing that the smoking, first guy who asks about the use of *The William Tell Overture *represented a cigarette company that also used the theme? Any idea what brand that was?
I have a DVD set with many commercials from this time, including I Love Lucy ones, and I think they stayed in character. It seemed very common back then, but the sponsor more or less owned the show, unlike today where they buy up ad slots.
This is a commercial for IAMS pet food. At the very end, the boy is standing next to the car at the beach and encouraging the dog to jump in the back seat.
The thing is I remember that scene at the end of a Subaru commercial, preceded by the same scenes of the boy growing up with the dog. So I thought it was an example of two companies using the same footage in commercials for different products. But I can find no mention of this, so perhaps I’m imagining the Subaru commercial?
Larks?
They also did an in-show Midol ad in 2014 that’s too painfully awful to link to.
Wow. I’ve never seen the Iams version before, but I was rather charmed by the Subaru version, and remember it well. They’re using the exact same footage.