# The Six Flags Old Guy **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 15, 2004, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-six-flags-old-guy/255195 "2004-07-15T02:14:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Heart\_On\_My\_Sleeve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/77aa72/32.png) [@Heart\_On\_My\_Sleeve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heart_On_My_Sleeve)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-six-flags-old-guy/255195/1 "2004-07-15T02:14:48Z")
The Six Flags commercials with the sprightly “old guy” just tickle me! He’s so enthusiastic and enticing. He’s a little dickens rabble-rouser. My husband says it’s just a young guy in makeup. Say it ain’t so! 😃 Maybe these are just running in the Chicago Area? ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-six-flags-old-guy/255195/2 "2004-07-15T02:19:42Z")
[Young guy in make up.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=264414) ---
**Author:** ![Heart\_On\_My\_Sleeve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/77aa72/32.png) [@Heart\_On\_My\_Sleeve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heart_On_My_Sleeve)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-six-flags-old-guy/255195/3 "2004-07-15T02:44:34Z")
Aigh! I did a search, I swear. Naw, I figured it was a young guy, he’s so gosh-darn cute, though. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-six-flags-old-guy/255195/4 "2004-07-15T03:23:26Z")
For the longest time I thought it was Martin Short for some reason? I’m not sure why. ---
**Author:** ![sciguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@sciguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciguy)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-six-flags-old-guy/255195/5 "2004-07-15T18:23:56Z")
We’ve got the same little “bean dude” for the 6 Flags here in Denver, so I’m assuming he’s part of their national advertising. And I always though he looked like Dana Carvey in age makeup, myself. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-six-flags-old-guy/255195/6 "2004-07-15T18:34:15Z")
MUST KEEP ‘SONG’ OUT OF HEAD!!! AAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGHHHHHH!!! Doot doot doot doot doot doooo Doot doot doot doot doot doooo AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRUUUGGGGGHHHH!!! NOOOOOOOOoooooOOOOOoooOOooooOOooOoOOO! ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-six-flags-old-guy/255195/7 "2004-07-15T20:04:10Z")
The guy gives me the creeps, yet everytime the commercial comes on, it takes every ounce of energy not to watch. And doesn’t that song have words? Figured it’s some dance club thing, but I know I heard it as background music where a woman was singing along. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-six-flags-old-guy/255195/8 "2004-07-15T20:23:56Z")
Creeps the hell out of me, too. Can’t figure out if he’s the zombified corpse of Swifty Lazar, or “Enzyte Bob’s” dad. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-six-flags-old-guy/255195/9 "2004-07-15T20:28:13Z")
Neither, he’s Corrado Soprano, better know as Uncle Junior. Dance Uncle Jun, DANCE! ---
**Author:** ![xvxdarkknightxvx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/34f0e0/32.png) [@xvxdarkknightxvx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xvxdarkknightxvx)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-six-flags-old-guy/255195/10 "2004-07-15T20:34:22Z")
> [@sciguy](#): > > We’ve got the same little “bean dude” for the 6 Flags here in Denver, so I’m assuming he’s part of their national advertising. > > And I always though he looked like Dana Carvey in age makeup, myself. It IS Dana Carvey! It just has to be! I mean, it looks exactly like him. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-six-flags-old-guy/255195/11 "2004-07-15T22:27:27Z")
He creeps the holy hell out of me and my SO but, like Archive Guy, we have to watch. But honestly, if that guy came near me in a dark alley I’d blast him in the nards first and ask questions later. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-six-flags-old-guy/255195/12 "2004-07-15T22:40:43Z")
> [@ArchiveGuy](#): > > And doesn’t that song have words? Figured it’s some dance club thing, but I know I heard it as background music where a woman was singing along. [_shudder_](http://www.lyrics007.com/Vengaboys%20Lyrics/We%20Like%20to%20Party%20Lyrics.html) (Warning : Thar be pop-ups on that page) ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-six-flags-old-guy/255195/13 "2004-07-15T22:47:20Z")
> [@drm](#): > > For the longest time I thought it was Martin Short for some reason? I’m not sure why. He looks like Short doing Irving Cohen and dances like Short doing Ed Grimley. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-six-flags-old-guy/255195/14 "2004-07-15T23:25:01Z")
> [@](#): > > _originally posted by Tengu_ > He looks like Short doing Irving Cohen and dances like Short doing Ed Grimley. You know what, I think that’s it. For some reason the Jiminy Glick character helped as well even though that character really has no similarities… ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-six-flags-old-guy/255195/15 "2004-07-15T23:30:14Z")
My theory: It’s both. A real old man is used for the close-ups of him getting off the bus, but a young man in a lot of makeup is used for all the full-length shots. [Swifty Lazar](http://pro.corbis.com/images/0000276592-013.jpg?size=67&uid=%7B3a6a2eed-a6d3-48ad-b5dd-ff02d138e363%7D) in 1992. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-six-flags-old-guy/255195/16 "2004-07-16T00:28:57Z")
What we need is to get him into a commercial with the four Fanta chicks, and they may create a counter-creepy, implosive dance-reaction that elminate them all from our lives. Either that, or an unholy breeding program may ensue… :eek: ---
**Author:** ![MizQuirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/94ad74/32.png) [@MizQuirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MizQuirk)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-six-flags-old-guy/255195/17 "2004-07-16T00:43:38Z")
The commercials are running here in Dallas, too–probably anywhere there’s a SixFlags Amusement Park. They call him Mr. Six, and had a contest to find the best look-alike performer. I believe an 11-year-old boy won that, locally. ---
**Author:** ![GLWasteful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f05b48/32.png) [@GLWasteful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GLWasteful)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-six-flags-old-guy/255195/18 "2004-07-16T00:49:23Z")
> [@MizQuirk](#): > > They call him Mr. Six, and had a contest to find the best look-alike performer. I believe an 11-year-old boy won that, locally. I don’t know which is more disturbing. That they had a contest to find someone who looked like him, or that it was won by an eleven year old.