# Jack from Jack in the Box **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 18, 2000, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-from-jack-in-the-box/25984 "2000-07-18T15:39:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Yosemite\_Joy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/13edae/32.png) [@Yosemite\_Joy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yosemite_Joy)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-from-jack-in-the-box/25984/1 "2000-07-18T15:39:05Z")
Has anyone ever seen what “Jack” looks like? What is his real name? Just curious… ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-from-jack-in-the-box/25984/2 "2000-07-18T15:43:41Z")
HIs real name is Jonathon, but he goes by Jack to seem more friendly and less formal. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-from-jack-in-the-box/25984/3 "2000-07-18T15:57:32Z")
That commercial with the little Jack head talking about how he and Jack hang out together cracks me up. I can’t myself when he uses the little head as a fishing lure! ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-from-jack-in-the-box/25984/4 "2000-07-18T18:05:32Z")
I almost hate to ask this, but does anyone else think Jack is really hot? I just really go for that tall lean type. Plus, he’s smart, witty, powerful… (_sigh_) Married, though; it figures. ☹ (Fave commercial is still the one where he does the spit-take.) ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-from-jack-in-the-box/25984/5 "2000-07-18T18:38:17Z")
I love that one too Vix. He _is_ sexy for those reasons you mentioned but, what about _that voice_??? I get shivers every time I hear it! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-from-jack-in-the-box/25984/6 "2000-07-18T19:27:59Z")
I envy the guy . … I mean, it’s well known that he lives in a box, and we all know what a box is. No wonder he’s never wiped that fucking smile off his face. Surprised he doesn’t come up for air more often. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-from-jack-in-the-box/25984/7 "2000-07-18T20:43:54Z")
You know, the guy who does the voice is whathisname, the dude who played Max Headroom. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-from-jack-in-the-box/25984/8 "2000-07-18T21:07:24Z")
Interesting…just the voice though? Who’s the body? ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-from-jack-in-the-box/25984/9 "2000-07-18T21:21:40Z")
Mr. Floppy from “Unhappily Ever After” . . . Bobcat Goldthwait (sp?), I think? ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-from-jack-in-the-box/25984/10 "2000-07-18T21:38:53Z")
> [@](#): > > You know, the guy who does the voice is whathisname, the dude who played Max Headroom. Matt Frewer? I didn’t know that! \ ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-from-jack-in-the-box/25984/11 "2000-07-18T22:07:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kyla \* > \*\*You know, the guy who does the voice is whathisname, the dude who played Max Headroom. \*\* Are you sure this is Matt Frewer? I’m 99% sure the name of the actor who does the voice of Jack is Michael McGaharn. Check it out: [http://216.132.19.35/cgi-bin/lavl?MID=s,427551269](http://216.132.19.35/cgi-bin/lavl?MID=s,427551269) Listen especially to the third clip in the sample. (Note, this is a RealJukebox file, so you might be asked to download the player.) ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-from-jack-in-the-box/25984/12 "2000-07-18T22:09:37Z")
Here’s another, better sample: [http://www.voicetraxwest.com/audio/r-a/michaelmcgaharn.ra](http://www.voicetraxwest.com/audio/r-a/michaelmcgaharn.ra) ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2000, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-from-jack-in-the-box/25984/13 "2000-07-19T00:15:25Z")
\ Damn, I should know by now to wait until something has been confirmed beyond a shadow of a doubt. \ ---
**Author:** ![Yosemite\_Joy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/13edae/32.png) [@Yosemite\_Joy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yosemite_Joy)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2000, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-from-jack-in-the-box/25984/14 "2000-07-21T19:42:00Z")
I love the commercial where the girl is sitting around the fire and she asks Jacke “How do you know if you are a lesbian?” That was some funny crap! I only saw it a couple times, I bet it was taken off the air for the obvious reason… ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2000, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-from-jack-in-the-box/25984/15 "2000-07-21T20:08:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Yosemite\_Joy \* > \*\*I love the commercial where the girl is sitting around the fire and she asks Jacke “How do you know if you are a lesbian?” That was some funny crap! I only saw it a couple times, I bet it was taken off the air for the obvious reason… \*\* Oh yeah, the “Jack talks to kids” or something…I was rollin at that one. There was another one I think I only saw once and they took it off because it was so weird. It was like a spoof of the show “COPS” and they kicked some guy’s door down and chased him into the yard and threw him on the ground for saying calling it “Junk in the Box” and force fed him a Jumbo Jack or something, lol…They even had the hillbilly neighbors looking over the fence with their faces digitized for anonymity, heh. It was genius. The ones with the Spicy, Crispy girls were great, and I’m sorta sorry the “Beefy, Cheezy Boys” never caught on, I almost think they were too good and people didn’t realise it was a joke!