# Jimmy's John's guy **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** commercials-ads\ **Created:** [July 19, 2021, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmys-johns-guy/946790 "2021-07-19T01:32:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2021, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmys-johns-guy/946790/1 "2021-07-19T01:32:48Z")
A character in Jimmy John’s commercials is a hood who calls the restaurant Jimmy’s John’s. Is the character supposed to be a generic small-time crime boss who will never make the big time because he’s too stupid to get the name of a fast food joint right? Or is he a cultural reference (real person/actor/character) that I’m not getting? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2021, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmys-johns-guy/946790/2 "2021-07-19T01:38:16Z")
This guy? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/OR7v6lTwkrQ/maxresdefault.jpg "Jimmy John's | Bread :30") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR7v6lTwkrQ) I think he’s just a clueless fictional crime guy who is a lousy sandwich shop owner, because his “business” approach doesn’t lead to good sandwiches. Also, the actor is Brad Garrett (from “Everybody Loves Raymond”), in case you didn’t recognize him. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2021, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmys-johns-guy/946790/3 "2021-07-19T12:43:04Z")
Doesn’t Big Tony, the mob boss on The Simpsons, do that? Maybe there is a real life person they’re referring to, but I thought it might be because all those Joisey types say “youse”. So the writers add unnecessary S’s to a bunch of their other words as well. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2021, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmys-johns-guy/946790/4 "2021-07-19T14:21:10Z")
I think he represents Big Sandwich. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2021, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmys-johns-guy/946790/5 "2021-07-19T18:08:28Z")
Distantly related to Ruth’s Chris. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2021, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmys-johns-guy/946790/6 "2021-07-19T19:35:43Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Maybe there is a real life person they’re referring to, but I thought it might be because all those Joisey types say “youse”. I second that. I’d always assumed it was an attempt at a stereotypical working class New Jersey way of speaking. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2021, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmys-johns-guy/946790/7 "2021-07-28T12:59:28Z")
See “Sal” from Futurama [https://theinfosphere.org/Sal](https://theinfosphere.org/Sal) " Although he doesn’t do so when we first meet him, he eventually adds an ‘s’ to words that don’t normally take one, and sometimes leaves it off of words that should have one. For example, “Whoas! Cripe!” ([4ACV09](https://theinfosphere.org/Teenage_Mutant_Leela%27s_Hurdles)). By the release of [the game](https://theinfosphere.org/Futurama_(video_game)) he has come to believe these words actually require the extra ‘s’, and upon forgetting to add an ‘s’, corrects himself. He may add an ‘s’ to make words seem plural as he refers to [Bigfoot](https://theinfosphere.org/Bigfoot) as “Bigsfeet”." ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2021, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmys-johns-guy/946790/8 "2021-07-28T17:54:35Z")
Here’s the [two minute version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbU2ChdI4Ro&list=RDOR7v6lTwkrQ), which shows his entire background and the leadup to the sandwich wars - he’s Tony Bolognavitch, King of Cold Cuts. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2021, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmys-johns-guy/946790/9 "2021-07-28T18:08:21Z")
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