# Dubious celebrity endorsements

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dubious-celebrity-endorsements/817856>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 13, 2018, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dubious-celebrity-endorsements/817856 "2018-07-13T18:40:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dubious-celebrity-endorsements/817856/61 "2018-07-16T21:19:07Z")

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> [@Asuka](#):
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> Steven Seagal advertising the video game World of Warships in full Admiral uniform.
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> I get it, you were in the Navy in one of your films, but you were a Navy SEAL turned Cook. Then he became a character in the game, also as an Admiral.

He got a battlefield promotion. 🆒

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**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dubious-celebrity-endorsements/817856/62 "2018-07-16T21:20:10Z")

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Speaking of “remember when,” remember when Bob Dole did a commercial for [Viagra](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjhc0-6eSiw)?

And then he did a commercial for [Pepsi](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzvOBKjiQPU).\*

And then he showed up in a[Pepsi commercial starring Britney Spears!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD-Adu3L81w)

\*Wait, is that Eric Stonestreet as the clerk?

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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dubious-celebrity-endorsements/817856/63 "2018-07-16T21:25:29Z")

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> [@kunilou](#):
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> Speaking of “remember when,” remember when Bob Dole did a commercial for [Viagra](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjhc0-6eSiw)?
> 
> And then he did a commercial for [Pepsi](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzvOBKjiQPU).\*
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> And then he showed up in a[Pepsi commercial starring Britney Spears!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD-Adu3L81w)

Geraldine Ferraro set the bar in the '80s:

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/pOw0DvqzLS0/hqdefault.jpg "Geraldine Ferraro Diet Pepsi Commercial") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOw0DvqzLS0)

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**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dubious-celebrity-endorsements/817856/64 "2018-07-16T22:50:41Z")

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> [@kunilou](#):
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> Speaking of “remember when,” remember when Bob Dole did a commercial for [Viagra](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjhc0-6eSiw)?
> 
> And then he did a commercial for [Pepsi](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzvOBKjiQPU).\*
> 
> And then he showed up in a[Pepsi commercial starring Britney Spears!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD-Adu3L81w)
> 
> \*Wait, is that Eric Stonestreet as the clerk?

I definitely remember the Dole/Viagra commercials. The drug had just come out, and he used it because he’d experienced impotence after being treated for prostate cancer. Elizabeth even said that she was happy about it. 🆒 However, at the time I worked with a woman who was a bit of a fundie Christian who wasn’t happy about him using the word “partners.” I replied, “You’d be surprised at how much hanky-panky goes on in some of those old age homes.”

Incredibly, he made a public appearance recently. He’s something like 95 years old.

And of course Jay Leno parodied the heck out of that commercial, and others too. Remember the Levitra commercial where a guy threw a football through a tire swing? It was out at the same time as Passover, and some Jews wondered if they could take ED meds during Passover because they weren’t extra-kosher; I know there’s an official term for it but I’m not Jewish. Anyway, the Leno parody featured a rabbi throwing a matzoh ball through a tire swing. 😛

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**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dubious-celebrity-endorsements/817856/65 "2018-07-16T22:53:08Z")

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[quote=“terentii, post:63, topic:817856”]

Geraldine Ferraro set the bar in the '80s:

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That commercial isn’t as bad as an old John Stamos commercial for some kind of chemical hair remover where he compared its effectiveness by rubbing girls’ shins. :dubious:

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