# Taster's Choice coffee couple -- how did it turn out? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** coffee\ **Created:** [May 4, 2002, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasters-choice-coffee-couple-how-did-it-turn-out/107209 "2002-05-04T03:38:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2002, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasters-choice-coffee-couple-how-did-it-turn-out/107209/1 "2002-05-04T03:38:39Z")
I was talking to my mother, and somehow or another we got around to the subject of that series of Taster’s Choice ads that ran a few years ago. You remember the ones I mean, about the man (Anthony Stewart Head!) and woman who kept meeting over coffee. Their romance was blooming, but then the man went over to give the woman back her coffee tin or something and discovered that she had a college-aged son. Were there any ads in the series after this? My mother and I could not remember any, but it seemed an odd place for Taster’s Choice to abandon the storyline. A quick Google search turned up little but a bunch of copies of a “You know you drink too much coffee when…” list ("…the Taster’s Choice couple wants to adopt you!"). I expected that some geek would have put together a page with a detailed synopsis of each commercial, but I guess not. So Dopers, do any of you remember what happened to the Taster’s Choice couple? ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2002, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasters-choice-coffee-couple-how-did-it-turn-out/107209/2 "2002-05-04T03:45:16Z")
Well, of course the guy ends up fighting vampires and other strange monsters in Sunnyvale or somesuch place. I am not sure about the woman. ---
**Author:** ![lolagranola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ea5d25/32.png) [@lolagranola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lolagranola)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2002, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasters-choice-coffee-couple-how-did-it-turn-out/107209/3 "2002-05-04T05:37:06Z")
Sunnydale, not Sunnyvale. He seems to have switched to tea. In fact, I remember some disparaging remarks about coffee. Sorry, can’t help with the commercials. I just love Anthony Stewart Head, though. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2002, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasters-choice-coffee-couple-how-did-it-turn-out/107209/4 "2002-05-04T05:53:12Z")
[http://www.betsyda.com/ash/items/ahgoldblend.html](http://www.betsyda.com/ash/items/ahgoldblend.html) ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2002, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasters-choice-coffee-couple-how-did-it-turn-out/107209/5 "2002-05-04T06:01:17Z")
> [@](#): > > Head, for one, was anxious to resolve the caffeinated cliffhanger. Although the British actor is now starring as Rupert Giles on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, he still gets recognized from playing Michael in the commercials. “The last installment aired about a year ago,” he relates, “and I fear it will be the last time we delve into these people’s lives. My character had just met her ex-husband (played by Sharon Maughan’s real-life spouse, Trevor Eve), which took our storyline into a new area. Trevor naturally shared his own chemistry with Sharon, so it was really easy for me to play feeling awkward and uncomfortable. We thought we were in for a feud. They had at least three more episodes planned. We were supposed to shoot two, and suddenly we didn’t.” > [@](#): > > The Taster’s Choice couple was kept apart longer than General Hospital’s Luke and Laura–with about as many entanglements. Laughs Head, “It started with me loaning her a jar of Taster’s Choice for a dinner party. When she returned it, I could not invite her in because I had someone in my living room. Then, I went to apologize, but this guy opened the door. He turned out to be her brother.” It got more complicated when her son joined the mix. “He said, ‘Oh, I heard about you.’ And I said, ‘I haven’t heard about you!’ He tells his father, ‘Mom’s got a new boyfriend.’ And the ex says, ‘Oh, really. We’ll see about that!’ There were some wonderfully tense moments. Very Noel Coward-ish.” Indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2002, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasters-choice-coffee-couple-how-did-it-turn-out/107209/6 "2002-05-04T20:04:32Z")
I wouldn’t mind seeing them again. I remember that at least one installment was fairly creepy, with Michael behaving in a way that would have prevented _me_, personally, from letting him into my apartment.