Did I hallucinate this long version of "I've fallen and I can't get up"?

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Almost 15 years ago in the middle of the night I saw this commercial for the first and last time. It was the same LifeAlert commercial that everyone remembers, only longer with two little old ladies falling down the stairs. One had LifeAlert and uttered the famous line, the other didn’t have LifeAlert. The paramedics show up and cover her lifeless body with a sheet while sadly shaking their heads.

Because I’m a sick fu. . . um, have an unconventional sense of humor, I laughed and laughed and woke my husband to tell him about the unbelievable commercial I just saw. To this day he thinks I made up the dead old lady part. Someone besides me must have seen it. Or did I hallucinate it?

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I don’t remember it - which isn’t to say you didn’t see it.

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Now that I think about it, it was about 20 years ago. My kids were babies.
Post-partum crazies, perhaps?

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I remember a longer version that not only had the lady uttering the classic line but also included a man that shouted to the phone “I’m having… CHEST PAINS!”

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I remember that one too. No dead lady though.

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Is there any possibility at all you caught a few minutes of the mockumentary Every Night and Twice on Sundays, purportedly about the original LifeCall/Life Alert lady? Man, I wish I could catch that again.

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I don’t remember the dead lady either. I do remember that there were two versions of “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up.” In one, she says it in a long, drawn out manner: “I’ve fwawwwllen…and I caaaan’t get uuuup!” In the other, she says it much more quickly.

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I don’t remember a dead lady, but do remember the mix song some radio station made where they dubbed the old lady’s voice into a James Brown song

Old Lady: “I’ve fwawwwllen…and I caaaan’t get uuuup!”
James Brown “A get up- aaaaa get on up”
OL: “I can’t get up”
JB “Get on up now! Owww!”

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When those commercials were in heavy rotation I heard a couple of boys on the schoolbus rapping about it

Help, I’ve fallen and I can’t get up
Stuck to the floor like a peanut butter cup!

No idea if that was a real song, but it still makes me laugh.

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Hmm…

I seem to recall part of the commercial featuring a sheet being pulled over what was presumably a recently expired schlub but I don’t know if this was a direct result of some old biddy falling and then unable to get herself back up.

I think -memory is very hazy on this one- that the recently deceased had some misfortune befall him / her and without the aid of the trusty LifeAlert system, s/he promptly kicked the oxygen habit.

Also I remember when this expression was in its hey day, you heard it everywhere. I know this one seemed to be a favorite of Urkel of Family Matters fame.

In one ep. he had been studying Japanese and he utters some line from the language. Then when asked what he had just said, he replies with IFBICGU to subsequent big yuks.

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Heh. Just said that line to Mr. singular while watching Priscilla Presley crawl across the floor at the end of her dance on Dancing with the Stars…