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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. Edwards, Ingalls's fictional friend [13] The Kennedy Family were the Ingalls's neighbors in Walnut Grove, Minnesota and their children went to school with Mary and Laura Nellie Oleson was actually three real people: Nellie Owens, Genevieve Masters, and Stella Gilbert.
His plant manager, Mr. Hanley, reminds him that Whipple's father, who ran the factory for 40 years, while profit-driven, had a sense of responsibility to his factory workers, and their pride in their work. Whipple coldly responds that while his father only "doubled" his factory production, his competitors quadrupled theirs.
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 man on the can has a name you won’t forget. The post Who Is the Pringles Man? The History Behind Pringles’ Mascot appeared first on Taste of Home.
The uncredited actor playing the overseer of the Pleasure Unit process is Dick Wilson, who later gained fame as "Mr. Whipple" in a long string of commercials for Charmin toilet paper. The voice of then-President Lyndon B. Johnson was provided by Van Williams , who provided the same voice-over effect later that year, in the film Batman: The Movie .
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