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    Mr. Whipple Dies

    LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Dick Wilson, the character actor and pitchman who for 21 years played an uptight grocer begging customers "Please, don't squeeze the Charmin," died Monday. He was 91.

    Dick Wilson played Mr. Whipple in more than 500 commercials for Charmin toilet paper.

    The man famous as TV's "Mr. Whipple" died of natural causes at the Motion Picture & Television Fund Hospital in Woodland Hills, said his daughter Melanie Wilson, who is known for her role as a flight attendant on the ABC sitcom "Perfect Strangers."

    Wilson made more than 500 commercials as Mr. George Whipple, a man consumed with keeping bubbly housewives from fondling toilet paper. The punch line of most spots was that Whipple himself was a closeted Charmin-squeezer.

    The first commercial aired in 1964 and by the time the campaign ended in 1985 the tag line and Wilson, a former Canadian airman and vaudeville veteran, were pop culture touchstones.

    He also played a drunk on several episodes of "Bewitched," and appeared as various characters on "Hogan's Heroes," "The Bob Newhart Show," and Walt Disney productions
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    Re: Mr. Whipple Dies

    He also played a drunk on several episodes of "Bewitched
    Many an actor can claim that, that was a serious highball series.

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    Re: Mr. Whipple Dies

    Quote Originally Posted by westofyou View Post
    Many an actor can claim that, that was a serious highball series.
    True. I thought Tate and Tate was more a liquor distributor than ad agency
    Nothing to see here. Please disperse.

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    Re: Mr. Whipple Dies

    Quote Originally Posted by westofyou View Post
    Many an actor can claim that, that was a serious highball series.
    Now that you mention it, that was some serious "highballing."

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    Re: Mr. Whipple Dies

    Quote Originally Posted by RANDY IN CHAR NC View Post
    Now that you mention it, that was some serious "highballing."

    I hadn't thought about that but there was considerable drinking on that show.
    Mr. Whipple can have all the Charmin he wants to squeeze now.
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    Re: Mr. Whipple Dies

    Quote Originally Posted by westofyou View Post
    Many an actor can claim that, that was a serious highball series.
    As soon as Darin came in the door Samantha had a martini waiting on him.

    Of course when your mother-in-law has turned you into everything from a household appliance to every member of the animal kingdom, one could develop a drinking problem.
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    Re: Mr. Whipple Dies

    Quote Originally Posted by GAC View Post
    As soon as Darin came in the door Samantha had a martini waiting on him. Of course when your mother-in-law has turned you into everything from a household appliance to every member of the animal kingdom, one could develop a drinking problem.
    The booze also seemed to change his appearance...


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    Re: Mr. Whipple Dies

    Quote Originally Posted by westofyou View Post
    Many an actor can claim that, that was a serious highball series.
    True enough. Yet Wilson was usually the drunk at the bar Darrin, et. al. would frequent.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chip R View Post
    True enough. Yet Wilson was usually the drunk at the bar Darrin, et. al. would frequent.
    I bet he occasionally came across some "magic" that perplexed him and made him question his leisure activities too.

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    Re: Mr. Whipple Dies

    Quote Originally Posted by westofyou View Post
    I bet he occasionally came across some "magic" that perplexed him and made him question his leisure activities too.
    Yep.

    Drunks were funny in the Sixties.
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    Re: Mr. Whipple Dies

    Quote Originally Posted by Johnny Footstool View Post
    Yep.

    Drunks were funny in the Sixties.
    Except for the loud ones who could play my parents piano.

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    Re: Mr. Whipple Dies

    Quote Originally Posted by Johnny Footstool View Post
    Yep.

    Drunks were funny in the Sixties.
    They sure were.....



    R.I.P Mr. Whipple....


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