# The Tidy Bowl Man Gets Flushed **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 3, 2010, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tidy-bowl-man-gets-flushed/549008 "2010-08-03T14:36:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tidy-bowl-man-gets-flushed/549008/1 "2010-08-03T14:36:16Z")
Sorry I don’t like to disrespect the dead, but it’s too good a line to miss > [@](#): > > Stage and screen actor Dan Resin, who portrayed the dapper Ty-D-Bol man in television commercials for the toilet bowl cleaner, has died. He was 79. > > Resin also played Dr. Beeper, the snobbish physician and country club member in the classic comedy film “Caddyshack.” > > Resin died Saturday of complications from Parkinson’s disease, said his daughter, Elizabeth Olynick. [Full story at the AP](http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gFDaRChn9iiuWeGwBjWmM5PG9ZswD9HBK3C80) Always one of my favourite commercials 🙂 RIP ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tidy-bowl-man-gets-flushed/549008/2 "2010-08-03T16:05:43Z")
Just last night on _No Reservations_, Anthony Bourdain made a comment about becoming the Tidy Bowl man, and asked if that job was available. Sounds to me like it is… ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tidy-bowl-man-gets-flushed/549008/3 "2010-08-03T17:42:52Z")
I have to attend that funeral, just to hear the eulogy and the people trying not to laugh. It will be like a real life Chuckles the Clown incident. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tidy-bowl-man-gets-flushed/549008/4 "2010-08-03T18:04:00Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > I have to attend that funeral, just to hear the eulogy and the people trying not to laugh. It will be like a real life Chuckles the Clown incident. Well, except he didn’t have an ironically catastrophic death like Chuckles the Clown. If I recall correctly, Chuckles had been costumed as a peanut and was mistakenly shelled by an elephant. Now if Resin had died in a boating accident… ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tidy-bowl-man-gets-flushed/549008/5 "2010-08-03T18:47:01Z")
Let the record show that several actors played the [Ty-D-Bol Man](http://www.tvacres.com/props_toilets_tidbowl.htm), the most comically named of which was Larry Sprinkle. (Curiously, Resin’s name doesn’t seem to appear in Web articles about the advertising mascot before this week, although none that I could see were properly sourced.) ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tidy-bowl-man-gets-flushed/549008/6 "2010-08-03T18:48:53Z")
Aw… poor little man in the boat. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tidy-bowl-man-gets-flushed/549008/7 "2010-08-03T18:54:27Z")
Wouldn’t burial at sea be more appropriate?