Jimmmy Dean Sausage TV Ad

[OneFinger]

Don't know if this is happening elsewhere but here in Portland I'm noticing a strange TV ad for Jimmy Dean Sausage. He sold the company to Sara Lee in 1984. They have continued to use his folksy ad since buying the company.

 

However there has been a real increase in the number and frequencies in the ads. Am I the only one that finds it strange they still running Jimmy Dean's commercials?? He's been dead over 8 (yes EIGHT) years.

 

I find it creepy to hear dead man still pitching sausage for a company he sold almost 35 years ago.

Edited October 19, 2018 by OneFinger

[+ Avalon]

I'm fortunate that I have Hulu and CBS All Access and thus can watch tv shows without commercials.

[+ Charlie]

Colonel Sanders still appears in KFC commercials. You're not going to try to tell me that's an actor, are you?

[TruHart1]

Colonel Sanders still appears in KFC commercials. You're not going to try to tell me that's an actor, are you?

LOL!!!

 

George Hamilton IS the Colonel!!!

 

KFC reveals a new Colonel Sanders as sales soar

https://www.businessinsider.com/kfc-has-a-new-celebrity-colonel-sanders-ray-liotta-2017-9

 

 

TruHart1

[samhexum]

I'm Colonel Sanders and I quit smoking with Chantix.

 

[+ pdxleo]

Ya, the Jimmy Dean ads kinda freak me out a tad, and the ever-changing Colonel Sanders casting make me nuts- I mean, really, Reba MacIntyre? Jason Alexander? Who thew hell comes up with this stuff? The other day, I saw an ad featuring a bunch of small kids throwing up and saying "poopy pinata"- WTF?

[rvwnsd]

The last time I saw an ad for Jimmy Dean sausage he was not in the ad. It is creepy that they are still using them, though.

 

Come to think of it, the

and they were pretty weird. A guy was in a sun costume and people in planet costumes were slowly walking around him. Then he served them Jimmy Dean sandwiches and they were orbiting him faster.

 

The ones with Dean are less creepy.

[johnjohn]

I saw/ heard the Jimmy Dean commercial last week, told my parents the man been dead for years. they still using his voice to hock sasauge

[+ sync]

Without meaning to speak ill of the dead, I've tried those sausages:

[edjames]

I noticed this TV ad, too. I think its creepy, especially since Jimmy passed in 2010!

[rvwnsd]

I noticed this TV ad, too. I think its creepy, especially since Jimmy passed in 2010!

As long as they don't start playing the Leona Helmsley hotel ads I'm good.

[+ sam.fitzpatrick]

As long as they don't start playing the Leona Helmsley hotel ads I'm good.

 

Agreed - - my absolutely, without any question, worst hotel experience was at a Helmsley Hotel. My skin crawls just typing this message thinking back 20+ years ago.

[rvwnsd]

Agreed - - my absolutely, without any question, worst hotel experience was at a Helmsley Hotel. My skin crawls just typing this message thinking back 20+ years ago.

Just for you: