# Obscure lines from commercials **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** commercials-ads\ **Created:** [December 9, 2024, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-lines-from-commercials/1011420 "2024-12-09T22:33:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2024, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-lines-from-commercials/1011420/1 "2024-12-09T22:33:53Z")
I’ll start: “She can’t count too good, but she shore is purty.” Cowboy Sid, referring to Sheila The Wonder Horse on a Krystal commercial. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2024, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-lines-from-commercials/1011420/2 "2024-12-09T22:49:21Z")
What’s Krystal? We’re at least some an international board, and definitely an all-50-US-states board. A lot more commercial stuff is regional than people who never leave their home region realize. I’ve lived in 6 states spread across our country and I’ve never heard of a product or store called just “Krystal”. My turn: If you’re from SoCal, and only if you’re from SoCal, there’s “I’m Cal Worthington and this is my dog Spot.” Hint: Spot was many different kinds of critter, but never, and I mean _never_, a dog. Bonus points for anyone who can say which competing dealership this was a direct dig at. 😁 ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2024, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-lines-from-commercials/1011420/3 "2024-12-10T01:59:01Z")
“It’s stuck, Helen.” “Cold again, too.” “Dogs LOVE trucks!” ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2024, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-lines-from-commercials/1011420/4 "2024-12-10T02:17:47Z")
“Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”. Something I recall almost entirely because I saw it a lot in magazines as a young kid (which would put in sometime in the 1970s) and was really offended by the slogan because I mistook it as an _order._ I thought it was trying to _command_ me to prefer blondes, which I found obnoxious and presumptuous. ---
**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:** [December 10, 2024, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-lines-from-commercials/1011420/5 "2024-12-10T02:46:27Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > What’s Krystal? The White Castle of the South. (The founder visited a WC on a trip to Chicago, and copied the idea when the went back home to Tennessee.) Not a single location north of the Ohio River. > **[Krystal (restaurant)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krystal_(restaurant))** > > Krystal is an American regional fast food restaurant chain headquartered in Dunwoody, Georgia, with restaurants in the Southeastern United States and Puerto Rico. It is known for its small, square hamburgers, called sliders in places other than the Southeast, with steamed-in onions. Krystal moved its headquarters from Chattanooga, Tennessee, where it had been based since 1932, to the Atlanta suburb of Dunwoody in early 2013. > Founded on October 24, 1932, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, during the ... ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2024, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-lines-from-commercials/1011420/6 "2024-12-10T02:56:06Z")
Thank you. Here in FL there are two Krystals, both in greater Orlando. I did live in White Castle country for 20 years. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2024, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-lines-from-commercials/1011420/7 "2024-12-10T03:03:20Z")
> [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > The founder visited a WC on a trip to Chicago Water closet? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2024, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-lines-from-commercials/1011420/8 "2024-12-10T03:07:38Z")
This line is probably not so obscure. It is from a commercial I used to see often that I found annoying, but I can’t remember the exact commercial to link it. I expect it will be non-obscute enough that someone will be able to find it: “_Zorb_ it? Hehehehehehehehehe!” ---
**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:** [December 10, 2024, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-lines-from-commercials/1011420/9 "2024-12-10T03:29:01Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Water closet? That’s a joke from Jack Paar. But that’s important right now. ---
**Author:** ![Crane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crane/32/3495_2.png) [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2024, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-lines-from-commercials/1011420/10 "2024-12-10T04:04:19Z")
During WW2 Lucky Strike cigarettes were in green packages until dye became scarce, so they changed to white with the slogan: “Lucky Strike green has gone to war” ---
**Author:** ![phs3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8491ac/32.png) [@phs3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phs3)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2024, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-lines-from-commercials/1011420/11 "2024-12-10T05:26:43Z")
“I always wanted to work on a transmission” ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2024, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-lines-from-commercials/1011420/12 "2024-12-10T05:26:44Z")
[“We make grapple grommets?” “23,000 a day!” “…awesome!”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22N7T3-p3jQ) [“I’m willing to pay…anything.” “ANYTHING???”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu066haghDQ) ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2024, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-lines-from-commercials/1011420/13 "2024-12-10T05:58:53Z")
[Who is Lisa Catera?](https://www.google.com/search?q=who+is+lisa+catera+cadillac+commercial&sca_esv=3b91e47ab754cb87&rlz=1C1RXQR_enUS984US984&sxsrf=ADLYWIKHm91X2AeTqH3bWKzhTaSlLujcDA%3A1733810193403&ei=EdhXZ56gGKyv5NoP_rmPwQc&oq=WHO+IS+LISA+CATERA+CADIL&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiGFdITyBJUyBMSVNBIENBVEVSQSBDQURJTCoCCAMyBRAhGKABMgUQIRigATIFECEYoAEyBRAhGKABMgUQIRigATIFECEYqwIyBRAhGKsCSNdGUIIJWN0qcAR4AJABAJgBaaAB1waqAQM2LjO4AQHIAQD4AQGYAg2gAqoHwgIHEAAYsAMYHsICDhAAGIAEGLADGIYDGIoFwgILEAAYgAQYsAMYogTCAggQABiwAxjvBcICBhAAGBYYHsICCxAAGIAEGIYDGIoFwgIIEAAYgAQYogTCAgUQABjvBZgDAIgGAZAGCJIHAzguNaAH9yM&sclient=gws-wiz-serp#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:968d5bbd,vid:CUK1Enbtpoc,st:0) ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2024, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-lines-from-commercials/1011420/14 "2024-12-10T11:17:51Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > What’s Krystal? > > We’re at least some an international board, and definitely an all-50-US-states board. A lot more commercial stuff is regional than people who never leave their home region realize. I’ve lived in 6 states spread across our country and I’ve never heard of a product or store called just “Krystal” Sorry; it’s a mini-burger joint, a southern version of White Castle. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2024, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-lines-from-commercials/1011420/15 "2024-12-10T11:28:53Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > > [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > > > The founder visited a WC on a trip to Chicago > > Water closet? > [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > The White Castle of the South. (The founder visited a WC on a trip to Chicago, and copied the idea when the went back home to Tennessee.) Seems like @Kent_Clark provided plenty of context there. Or did you skip the first part of the paragraph? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ByrdJrHs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc79bd/32.png) [@ByrdJrHs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ByrdJrHs)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2024, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-lines-from-commercials/1011420/16 "2024-12-10T12:03:36Z")
Crazy Eddie!! His prices are insane!!! Crazy Eddie being a regional chain of home electronics stores with a frenetic spokesperson. I haven’t heard it in over 40 years but it immediately popped in my head reading the thread title. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2024, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-lines-from-commercials/1011420/17 "2024-12-10T12:12:24Z")
> [@ByrdJrHs](#): > > Crazy Eddie being a regional chain of home electronics stores with a frenetic spokesperson. I suspect most of us could think of a local/regional store with a “frenetic spokesperson.” The one that sprang to my mind was the furniture store “Where you always get a free onion!” [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/6pp4q0041Ck/hqdefault.jpg "This Is It Furniture") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pp4q0041Ck) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2024, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-lines-from-commercials/1011420/18 "2024-12-10T13:49:40Z")
Does it come with belt loops? ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2024, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-lines-from-commercials/1011420/19 "2024-12-10T13:53:54Z")
Here’s one from the UK that overseas fans of The Bonzo Dog Doodah Band might recognise as the source for one of their lines: “This is luxury you can afford - by CYRIL LORD!” (Cheap carpets, long since gone out of business) ---
**Author:** ![ByrdJrHs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc79bd/32.png) [@ByrdJrHs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ByrdJrHs)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2024, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-lines-from-commercials/1011420/20 "2024-12-10T14:35:12Z")
I was curious who invented the whole frenetic spokesperson thing. The best I can come up with this guy. > **[Madman Muntz](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_Muntz)** > > Earl William "Madman" Muntz (January 3, 1914 – June 21, 1987) was an American businessman and engineer who sold and promoted cars and consumer electronics in the United States from the 1930s until his death in 1987. He was a pioneer in television commercials with his oddball "Madman" persona; an alter ego who generated publicity with his unusual costumes, stunts, and outrageous claims. Muntz also pioneered car stereos by creating the Muntz Stereo-Pak, better known as the 4-track cartridge, He ... Interestingly, Crazy Eddie and Cal Worthington are both mentioned in the article as examples of people who copied him. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-lines-from-commercials/1011420.md?page=2)