Creepy Jimmy Dean commercials - He's DEAD

Posted by Abbie Anker on Monday, April 15, 2024

Why do they continue using his voice?

by Anonymousreply 34April 10, 2022 9:31 PM

I just checked this a couple months ago to find he's long dead. I think they're counting on A) people who remember him not realizing he's dead--after all, the last time anyone saw him, he seemed relatively young and B) people not knowing who he is--to them, he's nothing but a brand name and maybe a voice.

by Anonymousreply 1April 6, 2022 5:17 AM

No what makes it creepy is that they fired him a few years before he died, which he was of course very upset over for his final years, then they went back to using his voice after he died.

by Anonymousreply 2April 6, 2022 5:18 AM

Who's dead? Jimmy Dean? I always thought that was a fictional persona like Uncle Ben.

Who cares. I'm sure if it helps his family's company his ghost would be okay with using his voice or likeness.

by Anonymousreply 4April 6, 2022 5:21 AM

OP, that's what makes it FUN!

by Anonymousreply 5April 6, 2022 5:21 AM

OP, your post is making me laugh, because about three months ago, my boyfriend and I had the TV volume UP in the other room, so we could hear it out in the kitchen where we were cooking. One of his commercials came on and we both recognized his voice. We just looked at each other, then were like, "Isn't he DEAD?" .. I had to go look it up.

by Anonymousreply 6April 6, 2022 5:26 AM

R4 Jimmy Dean was a country music singer who managed to cross over into television. His big hit, that you can still hear played today was Big Bad John. His television show was where the US fell in love with the Muppets. And, he costarred in the bond film Diamonds Are Forever. He founded the sausage company in 1969 and sold it to Sara Lee in 1984. In 2004, Sara Lee dropped him as spokesman, he then announced he liquidated all his Sara Lee stock. And, he was bitter about it until the end. Then a few years after he died they started using his voice again. If it is possible for the dead to haunt people, the only thing that would make it not horrible on Sara Lee's part is if he just haunted the shit out of them until they put him back on tv.

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by Anonymousreply 7April 6, 2022 5:31 AM

Oh, and like so many DL favs, his last acting credit was on Murder She Wrote.

by Anonymousreply 8April 6, 2022 5:44 AM

Always thought that was creepy. Maybe people think the spokesman is the late James Dean.

by Anonymousreply 9April 6, 2022 5:57 AM

He was a loner…a rebel!

by Anonymousreply 10April 6, 2022 8:50 AM

He was very hot even with those giant ears. RIP.

by Anonymousreply 12April 6, 2022 3:27 PM

Wasn't he married to Betty Crocker? Or was that Mrs. Butterworth?

by Anonymousreply 13April 6, 2022 3:32 PM

Mrs. Butterworth, the real golden globes.

by Anonymousreply 14April 6, 2022 3:47 PM

R13 Rumors persist that he was on the downlow with Chef Boyardee.

by Anonymousreply 15April 6, 2022 7:45 PM

He was married to Weezie Jefferson for a while, but she took him to the cleaners.

by Anonymousreply 16April 8, 2022 3:34 PM

I LOVED him in Rebel Without a Cause

by Anonymousreply 17April 8, 2022 3:40 PM

Still looking for that blue jean baby queen

Prettiest sausage I ever seen

Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean

ROCK ON!

by Anonymousreply 18April 8, 2022 3:44 PM

I never sampled his SAUSAGES

My favorite sausages were Swift Premium- YUM😋

by Anonymousreply 19April 8, 2022 3:46 PM

It's better they keep the actual Jimmy Dean than follow the KFC example and use those actors giving pathetic imitations of the late Colonel Sanders.

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by Anonymousreply 20April 8, 2022 3:54 PM

"In 2004, Sara Lee dropped him as spokesman, he then announced he liquidated all his Sara Lee stock. And, he was bitter about it until the end."

I feel your pain, Jimmy.

by Anonymousreply 21April 8, 2022 4:02 PM

What's really creepy is, at the end of one of his commercials, he says "I'll know you'll love" for a product that came out long after his death! How hell would he know anyone would like his microwaveable-only English muffin with turkey sausage, egg whites and fake cheese???!!

by Anonymousreply 22April 8, 2022 5:40 PM

I know right? Talking about a tasty breakfast in the morning like he’s rising from the grave to go get one.

by Anonymousreply 23April 8, 2022 6:49 PM

I had no idea he was a celebrity and was always wondering why I’d care about some old guys sausage.

by Anonymousreply 24April 9, 2022 5:45 AM

Jimmy hosted a popular variety show in the early 1960s.

Here he is dueting with DL fave Patty Duke.

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by Anonymousreply 25April 9, 2022 6:11 AM

He was definitely hot. Then he ended up schilling sausages. What went wrong?

by Anonymousreply 26April 9, 2022 6:13 AM

𝐺𝑜𝑜𝑑 sausages. Not a thing wrong with that.

by Anonymousreply 27April 9, 2022 6:31 AM

We already had a thread on this from last November, op.

You really ARE worse than Hitler!

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by Anonymousreply 28April 9, 2022 8:12 AM

R28 DL has existing threads about EVERYTHING. BFD. Any thread over a couple months old with no posts is fair game for a new thread. Many of us aren't inclined to search...

by Anonymousreply 29April 10, 2022 1:24 AM

Did he invent the sausages?

by Anonymousreply 30April 10, 2022 1:33 AM

Tagline used to be “pure pork sausage”. As to what else it could be I don’t know.

by Anonymousreply 31April 10, 2022 6:36 AM

Rumor is that he was a total douche in Tennessee. He thought he was the king. BUT he turned his one-hit (Big Bad John) into a career and gave Jim Henson (and the Muppets) a big break. Jimmy Dean is to pork sausage what George Foreman is to indoor grills.

by Anonymousreply 32April 10, 2022 6:28 PM

I would have sampled his sausage when he was young

by Anonymousreply 33April 10, 2022 9:19 PM

He was probably worth a gazillion dollars when he died.

by Anonymousreply 34April 10, 2022 9:31 PM

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