# Iggy Pop for Chrysler? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 11, 2013, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iggy-pop-for-chrysler/655386 "2013-04-11T08:39:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iggy-pop-for-chrysler/655386/1 "2013-04-11T08:39:44Z")
Yeah ok, I don’t really give shit but we’ll get to that. What freaked me out is that I picked out Iggy Pop from had to have been like a single frame while fast forwarding. Now understand that while I’m an old fart, that was never really my genre so sure, I know the name, and yes I did get pretty wasted and got dragged to one of his concerts once. At least I think it was him. Could have been some other skinny UK junkie. I wasn’t paying close attention. The point is I don’t really know who the fuck he is so why the fuck is my subconscious screaming like an 11 year old girl, OMG, OMG Iggy Pop Iggy Pop, look, it’s Iggy Pop - all in the space of about 50 milliseconds? You’d think maybe there had been a little more to that “concert” than I recall. Nah. :eek: 😃 Anyway, the interesting thing about the [commercial](http://www.autoweek.com/article/20130322/carnews/130329924) is that they never actually use his name. So if you don’t know who he is (and have no repressed memories of any kind - kidding 🆒 ), he’s just some skeevy old dude in black leather jacket. I sort of like it. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iggy-pop-for-chrysler/655386/2 "2013-04-11T09:01:57Z")
Iggy’s not a skinny UK junky; he’s a skinny Detroit junky. Does the ad make sense now? ---
**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iggy-pop-for-chrysler/655386/3 "2013-04-11T09:08:44Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > Iggy’s not a skinny UK junky; he’s a skinny Detroit junky. Does the ad make sense now? Really? OK, now I’m more confused that freaked. I must have done a lot more drugs I’m telling myself. We’re going to have to sit down and have a chat. Right. A nice chat. ---
**Author:** ![Virgil\_Tibbs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@Virgil\_Tibbs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Virgil_Tibbs)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iggy-pop-for-chrysler/655386/4 "2013-04-11T10:24:08Z")
He did adverts for car insurance in the UK… they were godawful. And Johnny Rotten did a butter advert. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iggy-pop-for-chrysler/655386/5 "2013-04-11T12:50:38Z")
What I wonder is how far down the list does the marketing department for say, Yoplait, go before they get to Lisa Kudrow? How far down the list was Tim Allen (Chevy)? Who’s at the top of the list and how many people are between that person and John Cryer (Wells Fargo)? How bored is Gene Hackman (Lowes)? It’s not like he needs the money. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iggy-pop-for-chrysler/655386/6 "2013-04-11T12:57:21Z")
And…here’s Kurt Cobain for Buick. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iggy-pop-for-chrysler/655386/7 "2013-04-11T13:08:37Z")
Just today I saw a vending machine using a chipper young (that’s sarcasmese for gumpy old constipated) Tommy Lee Jones to sell [coffee drinks](http://hayakawajunpei.tumblr.com/image/542862810). What? Did they forget to take the “after” photo?