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Mr. George Whipple (also known as George the Grocer) [1] is a fictional supermarket manager featured in television commercials, radio, and print advertisements that ran in the United States and Canada from 1964 to 1985 for Charmin toilet paper.
He made 504 commercials as Mr. Whipple, earning U.S. $300,000 annually while working only 12–16 days a year. [ 2 ] [ 5 ] In an interview with ABC News on April 22, 1983, he mentioned that the first series of commercials for Charmin he appeared in were filmed in, appropriately enough, Flushing, New York City . [ 6 ]
Mr. Whipple told his customers: "Please don't squeeze the Charmin!", emphasizing its softness in more than 500 advertisements between 1964 and 1985, [ 6 ] and later returning in 1999–2000. The country song "Don't Squeeze My Sharmon", which was a minor hit for Charlie Walker in 1967, was inspired by the ad campaign for Charmin.
Chervokas went to work in the advertising industry following his graduation from college. In 1964, while working for Benton & Bowles, Chevokas wrote the Mr. Whipple commercial and created the character's iconic plea to grocery shoppers, "Please don't squeeze the Charmin." [1] The commercial proved a massive hit with consumers.
The robot that ultimately replaces Mr. Whipple is "Robby the Robot" from the 1956 Sci-Fi film Forbidden Planet. "Robby" appeared in two other episodes of The Twilight Zone : " One for the Angels ", the second episode of the series (as a miniature toy), and " Uncle Simon ."
Mr. Whipple, in American television ads for Charmin toilet paper; Whipple Jones (The Bold and the Beautiful), in the American soap opera The Bold and the BeautifulWallace V. Whipple, protagonist of "The Brain Center at Whipple's", a 1964 episode of the American television series The Twilight Zone
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Richard Lewis Deacon (May 14, 1922 [2] [3] – August 8, 1984) was an American television and motion picture actor, [4] best known for playing supporting roles in television shows such as The Dick Van Dyke Show, [5] Leave It to Beaver, [6] and The Jack Benny Program, [7] along with minor roles in films such as Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) [8] and Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963).