Going back to the '80s, Homer and J.R. the Miller’s Outpost cowboys. I remember their first commercials were better. They had one where Homer gives J.R. a puppy for Christmas that was really sweet.
The “dude, you’re getting a Dell” guy from the 90s.
Maybe I wouldn’t be such a filthy slob today if I hadn’t been frightened by Mr. Clean. Why won’t he talk? He just keeps posing!
Seconding the old lady from “Where’s the beef??” and throwing in Herb from the Burger King commercials.
Also the Bartles and Jaymes guys.
And who could forget the scary-ass huge pitcher of Kool-Ade who would break through the wall and cause all kinds of property damage in order to sugarize your kids into diabetic comas?
After watching the Amazing Race tonight, I want to add: the Roaming Gnome of Travelocity.
Since no one else mentioned it that I noticed - Ronald McDonald.
My present favorite- the eTrade Stock baby “You just saw me buy stock! BLECH Whoa…”
I think the Burger King is even more memorable - in a “check under your bed and closet to make sure that creepy freak isn’t there before going to bed” way.
I had no idea where he came from until I rented Amelie.
Friar Ted, I love that baby! The new one where he talks to his girlfriend on his Blackberry – “Bad girl!” – is a hoot.
I find the Quaker Oat guy to be as creepy as the Burger King guy
The Burger King actually makes me angry. That probably says something about me and not something good, but there it is.
It only says that you own a tv, have a working brain, eyes, and ears, and are not an idiot. Only one of those is even remotely bad.
Are you Chuckie Finster?
Actually, it pre-dates Amelie. I first heard of it in the '80s. Wiki finds the first citation in 1986.
Is that the guy on the canister, or Wilford Brimley, who used to do their commercials?
Wow. I can’t believe this thread got all the way to post #37 before someone mentioned the Maytag repair man!
Huh… maybe he’s not that memorable…?
That’s actress Virginia Christine, who was a suspicious townsperson (and early victim) in the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Which may explain why I never did develop a taste for coffee:eek:
Madge the manicurist, Josephine the plumber, and What’s-her-name the waitress (who wiped everyone’s mess up with Bounty paper towels).
Rosie? Played by Nancy…uh. She was in that awful short-lived show that I loved when I was around ten or so, “Blansky’s Beauties.” LoriBeth from “Happy Days” was also in it.
Nancy Walker! Add Scott Baio and Eddie Mekka…there’s a show, my friends! AND Pat Morita…!
She was also Rhoda’s mother, Ida Morgenstern. And the original Hildy in the virgin production of “On The Town”.