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#1 comment!!! WOOOOO DOG!!!!
Chestnuts roasted by BaronVonHotPants @ 02/19/2004 01:06 PM EST
What a strange, strange commercial. Nice job on the toy fair review too! Can't wait until I see the Transformers!
Chestnuts roasted by John @ 02/19/2004 01:25 PM EST
Nice one Matt, this one is destined for greatness. I usually pee a little when I laugh, but, boy, you really rocked the waterworks today!
Chestnuts roasted by Zack @ 02/19/2004 01:26 PM EST
I'm a little to young to recall that commercial, but it was still an entertaining update. Good job. And string cheese is still awesome.
Chestnuts roasted by Rood @ 02/19/2004 01:27 PM EST
In the words of Charton Heston "Polly-O String Cheese is made of people!!!!Polly-O String Cheese is made of people!!!!Polly-O String Cheese is made of people!!!!"
Chestnuts roasted by dr mindbender in a speedo @ 02/19/2004 01:27 PM EST
Oh Man! I hated those chunk biters so much!!!!
Chestnuts roasted by B-Dawg @ 02/19/2004 01:35 PM EST
Huh. I suppose that commercial does have its own charm. Perhaps if I had been older than one or so I too would remember it with such fondness.
Chestnuts roasted by abby normal @ 02/19/2004 01:38 PM EST
family guy action figures!
hooray
Chestnuts roasted by chad @ 02/19/2004 01:47 PM EST
String pullers rule!! Chunk biters drool!!
Chestnuts roasted by Kookie @ 02/19/2004 01:56 PM EST
growing up, my sister and my friends used to mimic this commercial all the time, with incorrect pronunciations.
pellissimo - mag nee fique - sessy pon.
nuthin'?
Chestnuts roasted by victor @ 02/19/2004 02:03 PM EST
Hahah, I loved the look on that old man's face!! Too bad he's most assuredly dead now, his most memorable moment in life a one-liner in a cheese commercial.
I remember this commercial, but I don't think it stuck around in our school's culture as much as say the clapper or 'I've fallen and I can't get up'
Chestnuts roasted by Cobra Soldier #18 @ 02/19/2004 02:25 PM EST
that's an 80's commercial if i ever saw one.
Chestnuts roasted by winkle @ 02/19/2004 02:32 PM EST
cheese, cheese, cheese, cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssee. String cheese is fun.
Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 02/19/2004 02:35 PM EST
Awesome article! I found it most entertaining. Thanks, Matt!
Chestnuts roasted by Bobby... @ 02/19/2004 02:49 PM EST
That was SO Anthony Michael Hall in that commercial.
Chestnuts roasted by Stilewalker @ 02/19/2004 02:52 PM EST
Dude, you neglected to mention how REALLY BAD the commercials got after this. . . with the parrot that RAPPED. "The best part of the pizza. . .WORD"
He even shilled for the Pepsi Chill Out and told you to get your "License to Chill" Card. I hated that douche bag. He totally made me throw up my Dunkaroos.
Chestnuts roasted by kata @ 02/19/2004 02:57 PM EST
To this day i hate polly o sting cheese. that stuff was so gross.
Chestnuts roasted by mikey @ 02/19/2004 03:06 PM EST
I've always been a string puller instead of a chunk biter.
Yes... I pull my cheese.
Chestnuts roasted by Chiablo @ 02/19/2004 03:07 PM EST
Being a string puller, I've never really understood the chuck biters. I mean, it's STRING cheese. It's meant to be pulled apart.
Chestnuts roasted by Andrea @ 02/19/2004 03:34 PM EST
Hey, Dunkaroos... I haven't seen those in a while. Are they still being produced? I seem to remember some kind of contest to create the new Dunkaroos mascot. Does anyone else remember this, or am I thinking of something else?
Chestnuts roasted by MG @ 02/19/2004 03:36 PM EST
Good God! My back-assward state doesn't have any Polly-O string cheese! And as a person capable of eating enough of the precious cheese to constipate a horse, I find this to be an outrage!
Chestnuts roasted by Skeen @ 02/19/2004 03:37 PM EST
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you!
Chestnuts roasted by VK @ 02/19/2004 03:57 PM EST
My god, these things still suck kids into the madness that is preprocessed dairy products. My five year old will be quitely sitting in front of the rectangular babysitter complacently examining whatever goodness he can find in his various orfices (mostly on the head, thank god) when a stringy cheezy like product will appear. Without fail, he'll earnestly pipe up with a "I realllly think we need to get some of that Dad" At this point, I normally sling him over my shoulder, carry his momento-like ass down to the kitchen, throw open the door to the fridge to reveal the 20 odd family packs of expired cheezy-stringy thingies waging a life or death struggle over the last kraft cheese slice.
"But I think I like them now!" he inevitably wails.
I got to tell you, every time I hear a radio commercial for the Canadian charity "Cash For Kids", I cant help wondering how much I could get for him...
Chestnuts roasted by olapbill @ 02/19/2004 04:13 PM EST
I represent the lactose intolerants...we hate string cheese more than anything...except maybe milk.
Chestnuts roasted by Nemesis @ 02/19/2004 04:25 PM EST
Have never heard of this product or have any opinion. I have a HUGE virous on my computer. It's basically a paper weight right now, so I'm in an internet cafe.
Just thought I'd let every one know how many new goodies are out for easter. I work at major grocery store and we have so much friggin chocolatey stuff.
Nestle cream eggs are the best.
Chestnuts roasted by turkeys can't fly? @ 02/19/2004 04:29 PM EST
Hooray, time for a new holiday countdown. :)
Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 02/19/2004 04:30 PM EST
Guess I didn't mention how many or what new gooidies are out there huh?
Well let me just say there are over a million new easter chocolates. You'd better start booking your dentist apointments soon.
Matt are you planning on a special new theme for easter?
Chestnuts roasted by turkeys can't fly? @ 02/19/2004 04:34 PM EST
Definitely something, yeah. I'll see what I can round up. :)
Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 02/19/2004 04:38 PM EST
Ha the best part of the pizza.
Chestnuts roasted by OtherMatt @ 02/19/2004 04:52 PM EST
This commercial brought back another memory of mine:
Does anyone else remember that string cheese with the pizza sauce in the middle? What was it called?
Yeah I noticed Easter stuff in the stores already too. Candy, baskets, decorations, egg coloring kits, etc..
Chestnuts roasted by heeloyd @ 02/19/2004 04:54 PM EST
Hey turkeys, My comp is down from a virus too. Windows is installing right now. Im on my parents comp til its done. Luckily I didnt lose my Lego inventory work. I would have been mega pissed. >:O
Chestnuts roasted by heeloyd @ 02/19/2004 04:57 PM EST
I remember when they stared a parrot rapping in later commercials the parrot was in a cage with a small cap on turn to the back with a gold rope on with a big charm on it. Do you have that commercial? I miss laughing atit
Chestnuts roasted by FC4 @ 02/19/2004 05:00 PM EST
A commercial that stuck with me is a McDonalds one where the kids sit there and fiddle with the food. Like one moves the straw in a cup up and down and other things and it turns to a impromptu jam session. Dunno why,but it always stuck with me after...alot of years.
Chestnuts roasted by Josh @ 02/19/2004 05:02 PM EST
As soon as Wal-Mart gets those baskets with Knock-off Japanese robots in them, I'm looking for the fake Devastator I saw last year. Or the T-Rex with snap-on battle armor.
Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 02/19/2004 05:12 PM EST
That's not a real face. It can't be a real face. It must be a latex mask, or Jim Henson or something. Look at how little it moves...
Chestnuts roasted by Rogue Scholar @ 02/19/2004 06:09 PM EST
Schjimi seems to be of Sullustian descent there.
Chestnuts roasted by Alpha Centaurian @ 02/19/2004 06:16 PM EST
I remember the cheese with the sauce in the middle, but I can't remember what it was called...
Probably because something like that is marketed solely to the damn chunk biters.
Chestnuts roasted by Kate @ 02/19/2004 06:30 PM EST
is there something terribly wrong with the blonde boy's face?
Chestnuts roasted by mysteryguycalvin @ 02/19/2004 06:33 PM EST
I feel left out. My hardware firewall doesn't let me get viruses.
C'mon, Matt. Pardon my French, but it's "C'est si bon." Or, in English, "SO GOOD!"
Chestnuts roasted by Monster Dog @ 02/19/2004 06:35 PM EST
That's not what Fred thinks.
Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 02/19/2004 06:36 PM EST
I, myself, was a string puller, not a lazy chunk biter. Born in '82, I would have been 3 or so when this baby popped onto the teli. So, whether I ever saw it and loved it for what it is would be far embedded in my subconscious along with the other memories from the younger years. Still, I can see how this commercial in its heyday would just be taken lightly and never thought of twice...until now. Thank Gawd for Polly-O...and Schjimi.
Chestnuts roasted by Armagideon Time @ 02/19/2004 07:30 PM EST
That's hilarious. I still find this to be the best article Matt's ever written. :)
Now, is Matt a string puller or a chunk biter? Eh?
Chestnuts roasted by Amanda @ 02/19/2004 08:55 PM EST
Though I first thought of the parrot rapping Polly-O commercial when I saw this mentioned on the main X-E page, I do remember both commercials. I was strictly a string-puller on the rare occasions we got these as kids, but now, it doesn't matter. It's all cheese, no matter where you bite into it. I don't often eat them now, either, because they still aren't cheap. I will occasionally buy them on when they're on sale, but that happens once in a blue, pink, and purple moon.
The small grocery store where I work was still clearing out its Valentine's candy the last time I was there (I've had the last two days off), but I'm going to assume they didn't lump giant heart-shaped boxes of candy into carts with hand printed half-price signs taped to them to make room for food that's good for you.
Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 02/19/2004 09:01 PM EST
this article is cool....
I recall that many weeks back a lot
of people were talking about hostess
Tiger Tails I have the goods Matt so please reply
Chestnuts roasted by no data @ 02/19/2004 09:03 PM EST
man your right,i really wanna bash that dork kids head in.
Chestnuts roasted by meef @ 02/19/2004 09:23 PM EST
Easter Egg alert: click the word "pizza" in the article logo, it links back to an old TMNT review.
Chestnuts roasted by Secret Searcher @ 02/19/2004 09:29 PM EST
Okay, I LOVE string cheese! LOVE IT! So what if I eat so much of it I get constipated! I don't care! By the way, I'm a "strand puller" for all you lady strand pullers out there.
Sadly, if this commercial was out in 1985-1986, I was 2-3 years old, so I don't remember it. But wow, they knew X-E would be reviewing this commerical nearly 20 years later. I mean, "Week Old Pizza: Half Off?" They knew this commercial would have a cult following.
I was laughing so hard, I almost peed all over the pile of Polly-O string cheese sitting in front of me. Strand puller.
Chestnuts roasted by Darth Monkey @ 02/19/2004 09:36 PM EST
Definitely strand puller for the first quarter of the string cheese... then it's all chunk biting, baby! ...Chunk biting... Where's Sloth when you need him?
Chestnuts roasted by Nachokhaki @ 02/19/2004 09:49 PM EST
"Nuuuuutin?!" That's gonna live with The Worst Witch among the best on X-E. :)
Chestnuts roasted by God Animagnus @ 02/19/2004 10:02 PM EST
Strand puller, that's meeeeee! However, in my town, they only seem to sell a cheap version that refuses to pull apart easily. It's got some cheese-man with punk hair for the mascot.
Welcome to my personal hell.
Chestnuts roasted by Mr. Mr. Mr. @ 02/19/2004 10:05 PM EST
The weird thing about this...I have no memory of this commercial, of Fred or Schjimo or "Nuuuuutin??"...EXCEPT for the nerdy kid's line at the end. I have a distinct memory of wanting to kick that moron's teeth down his throat.
But the rest is a total blank.
Chestnuts roasted by Hellpop! @ 02/19/2004 10:09 PM EST
Aw, now I crave string cheese...
Chestnuts roasted by KTK @ 02/19/2004 10:19 PM EST
John Capodice will always be the Fire Chief in "Gremlins 2" to little ole me.
Hulk Hogan: "Gremlins? In this theater? Now?"
Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 02/19/2004 10:21 PM EST
I think I meant "little ol' me."
Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 02/19/2004 10:24 PM EST
The lame thing is the first polly-o string cheese thing I remember is a commercial starring a Rapping Parrot. God it was so annoying I never got into the whole damn string cheese thing. I can't say I EVER saw this commercial. Now lunchables....I was there.
Chestnuts roasted by OhgodtheRats @ 02/19/2004 10:25 PM EST
Mr. Mr. Mr: The brand with the cheesy punk hair mascot is called "Cheestrings" Yes, one whole word, ain't that wacky???
Matt, glad to see the toy reviews, but where the hell are the new WWE figures. Van Helsing's on that page, so you obviously went to the JAKKS booth.
Never mind, I'll just take the "Mac and Me" review and call it square, kay? >8^D
Chestnuts roasted by A-wel Cruiz @ 02/19/2004 10:41 PM EST
w00t..
Only you Matt..
Chestnuts roasted by Cyanyde @ 02/19/2004 10:55 PM EST
Man i was just thinking about that commercial the other day...GET OUTTA MY HEAD!!!!
Chestnuts roasted by b r a d @ 02/19/2004 11:38 PM EST
that is my older brother in the Polly-O commercial. His name is Matthew Richardson, and he was in many commercials from 1983-91. I will try to call him tomorrow and find out more details about this particular product (he is married now and it is too late to call tonight)...
Chestnuts roasted by Jamie Richardson @ 02/19/2004 11:45 PM EST
Okay, apparently I'm the only one who noticed that of the three phrases that the kids were so emphatic in uttering, like a crack whore calling to a john, only one of them was actually Italian. The other two were French! "Bellisimo", Italian. "Manifique (sp?) French. "C'est ci bon!" French. What the? If you went into ANY pizza joint in the eighties spouting off anything but the prescribed dialogue, you were doomed to the END OF THE LINE where you were gonna end up with the three-hour-old pizza, and no funky lip from anyone!
And I'm bitter that I never got the damn string cheese.
Chestnuts roasted by KatarHol @ 02/19/2004 11:53 PM EST
I still like the Whatchamacallit one better.
Sounds good... SMELLS PEANUTTY.
You really need to review that one, its awesome.
Chestnuts roasted by Piscez @ 02/20/2004 12:37 AM EST
Someone left Matt a voicemail with just the Perfect Strangers theme? Sweet. But Amanda I have to disagree with you, the best article ever is definitely the one where Krang babysits Barney's kids and ends up adopting Venom.
Chestnuts roasted by Gabbylicious @ 02/20/2004 01:36 AM EST
The best Matt-authored webpage is the one where Skeletor visits Pee Wee's Playhouse. Few things are funnier than that. Except for the Ninja Turtle anime on "Scary Crayon"...
I think "what's the best one" is going to be the subject of the next blog....
Chestnuts roasted by Mars @ 02/20/2004 02:41 AM EST
Here in Canada we have (had?) Cheese commercials with the slogan "AHHHHHHH The Power of CHeese!"
I must admit I enjoy cheese alot more then your average person, Munster and Extra Old Cheddar being my favs...
Chestnuts roasted by Allie @ 02/20/2004 03:58 AM EST
Nice article, Matt. All I remember about string cheese: I vomited a lot whenever I ate one!
Yummy. String cheese and barf. Sorry, you may now return to whatever you were eating
Chestnuts roasted by Shane! @ 02/20/2004 04:01 AM EST
so no one knows what the sauce filled string cheese was called?
I'm a string puller half of the time and chunk biter the other half. Just depends on what mood im in. When I pull strings I share with my hamster. ^_^
Chestnuts roasted by heeloyd @ 02/20/2004 05:10 AM EST
Well, I'm a strig puller, but my sister is a chunk biter. It pains me to watch her eat a Polly-O. She bites into it like it's a Snickers. Yuck.
Chestnuts roasted by Rood @ 02/20/2004 06:06 AM EST
That blonde kid was a damn chunk biter! We need to blur his face in the commercial...
^V^
Chestnuts roasted by Mistress Batty @ 02/20/2004 07:52 AM EST
I remember that commercial. Funny, as soon as I saw Fred, I knew I recognized him from something.
Matt, I love how you can wring so many words out of a 20 second string cheese commercial. You rock!
Blog idea: Everything I Know, I Learned from TV. For me, I learned that you never have to ue greetings when talking on the phone. "Hello" and "Goodbye" aren't actually necessary. You pick up, and the person on the other end starts talking. Of course, you know who it is, even w/o Caller ID. When their speech is over, you hang up. Rude? No, it's not rude. It's TV.
Chestnuts roasted by trajeal @ 02/20/2004 08:30 AM EST
The blonde kid had mob ties. He was the son of Don Anthony Michael Hall. That's the reason Fred and Schjimi were so quick to answer Blonde Kid's ridiculous order of a pizza, with extra cheese, hold the tomato sauce and hold the crust.
He'd have kicked the kids out normally, but Nerdy Boy breaks thumbs.
Chestnuts roasted by Kev @ 02/20/2004 08:52 AM EST
The real question is: Does anybody remember the commercial for the board game Pizza Party?Par-tay. Pizza Par-tay.
Chestnuts roasted by Pants Carlson @ 02/20/2004 09:19 AM EST
The Nerdy Kid looks like a cross between the kid who plays Harry Potter in the movies and Paul Pfieffer.
Chestnuts roasted by The Dragon @ 02/20/2004 09:22 AM EST
I always pull my cheese... it runs out too quickly when I bite it.
...oh, and Pants Carlson, I remember that commercial. I used to have the board game, too. Every once and awhile I get that stuck in my head... pizza partay, pizza partay, pizza partayyyy...
Chestnuts roasted by 9volt @ 02/20/2004 10:28 AM EST
Please go easy with the insults. If Jamie Richardson is telling the truth then we don't need to piss off some commercial star from our youth.
Don't forget about the great Rhett Creighton; child star and adult iconoclast:
http://x-entertainment.com/updates/entries/archives/00000071.html
http://web.mit.edu/~rhett/www/
Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 02/20/2004 12:18 PM EST
Oh, great, now my cheese is all stringy......
Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 02/20/2004 12:27 PM EST
Watching how short the commercial is, and how much Matt got out of the commercial, I want to say thank you very much, Matt, for the hard work you put into entertaining us. As for the nerdy kid, how old is he? He sounds 44 in the commercial...
Chestnuts roasted by Lando Fett @ 02/20/2004 12:27 PM EST
What DO you do with a Pac-Man playing robot, anyway? Besides play Pac-Man with it.
Chestnuts roasted by Kev @ 02/20/2004 12:37 PM EST
Complete World Domination, Kev.
Chestnuts roasted by Stilewalker @ 02/20/2004 12:53 PM EST
Holy mother of God ,Pizza Party?? I remember that damn game! Anyone remember this funky cereal that were in shape of scoops of ice cream and lil ice cream cones?
Chestnuts roasted by Josh @ 02/20/2004 01:33 PM EST
Speaking of PacMan... -
Just a side comment... watching Futurama last night, when Fry asks the What-If machine what the world would be like if it was more like a video game. Well, when the Nintendoo64ians land and all the old school video game icons climb out, I totally geeked when I realized, among the other recognizable characters, the obscure, Mars Attacks!-like creature was a creature from the old arcade classic, Robotron 2084. How I could pick that out from memories of a few pixels, I don't know. But I geeked... like a true dork, I geeked.
Ok, side comment end.
Chestnuts roasted by Nachokhaki @ 02/20/2004 01:44 PM EST
I like that Mario was the rep for Italy. Think I'll run my Mario Bros. cards through my e-Reader and kick a few crabs.
Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 02/20/2004 02:33 PM EST
Oh man, I didn't remember anything about this ad except those three Italian expressions of approval at the end...I must have seen this a thousand times.
Chestnuts roasted by JC @ 02/20/2004 02:33 PM EST
Hey, I noticed an error in the commercial, did any one else? Yes, the kid asks for the extra cheese, and yes he asks for no crust or sauce.
BUT WHAT ABOUT THE TOPPINGS?
Technically the kids should have received a box of Polly-O with some pepperoni or mushrooms thrown in there.
But still, the commercial is pure gold. I'll give it that.
Chestnuts roasted by gerigrrl @ 02/20/2004 03:02 PM EST
Ah, string cheese. I hardly knew thee. Thee I consumed in moderation back in the early '90s, before it dawned on me that there are better things to do than gnaw on a bland, waxy post of mozzarella. And it wasn't Polly-O either. It was a store brand.
Chestnuts roasted by Andrew T. @ 02/20/2004 03:54 PM EST
Wow...I had forgotten all about this stuff... Not sure if I want to remember.
Oh, and I was both a chunk biter and a string puller.
Chestnuts roasted by Cameron @ 02/20/2004 04:04 PM EST
Secretary of Defender.
Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 02/20/2004 04:27 PM EST
Matt - You seriously need to review "Pizza Party" board game commercial from the late-80's.
Best.Commercial.Ever.
"Party! Pizza Party!"
Chestnuts roasted by Harv @ 02/20/2004 04:52 PM EST
I definitely remember Ice Cream Cone cereal! I loved that stuff when I was growing up. It was awesome, but not as awesome as Count Chocula. I think they might have brought it back last summer, but I never bought any. :(
I also remember the game Pizza Party. My sisters and I had that game!
Chestnuts roasted by Andrea @ 02/20/2004 05:05 PM EST
MG, they still make Dunkaroos, or at least did until fairly recently. Now they have all the old shapes, from the sports to just the various Kangaroo poses. (I think the contest was how we got that kanagroo. If not, he was never replaced.) Never cared for the vanilla frosting on that. It was pure sugar cream.
Cheese the best part of the pizza? I'm a cheesecake addict and I put cream cheese on my Ritz crackers (3-ply, baby! Three crackers held together by Philidephia cream cheese). But the best part of pizza is the dang crust! Why do you think fried dough is the food to have at carnivals and amusement parks?
Chestnuts roasted by ShadowWing the Technorganic Autobot @ 02/20/2004 06:01 PM EST
Hmm... sorry I haven't written in here lately, I've had midterms and stuff.
I was never a fan of the string cheese stuff. I'm not a fan of "processed" cheese, by which I mean cheese that isn't of an identifiable type like "Cheddar" or "Swiss", because of the taste. I've always preferred slicing into a block, preferably non-coloured yellow finely-aged Cheddar. We did have string cheese in Canada, but I believe it was made by McCain and wasn't the brand seen in that commercial. And I have a great memory for the sort of commercials that they'd show on WVNY-22 (ABC) in Burlington VT during Transformers, G.I. Joe and Jem and the Holograms, but I'm afraid I don't remember that commercial at all. Maybe it's a regional thing. WVNY-22 seemed to air more Fruit Corners Fruit Roll-ups and Fruit Wrinkles and the Mini-Pops Colgate Pump ad (the one sung to the tune of "Baggy Trousers", which Matt featured in this UGO piece) during each commercial break than any other non-toy-related ads.
Well, I think I've said enough on-topic. I've just found something on the Internet and, knowing the sort of people that read this site, I know I can't possibly be the only X-E reader whom would be thrilled to know that there is now an offical Doctor Snuggles website, the very strange cartoon where the lead character was an inventor voiced by Peter Ustinov, and, better yet, it's run by the creator of the series, Jeffrey O'Kelly. I gotta ask Mr. O'Kelly what the deal was with the tea-sipping camel in the clouds; was it all one big drug reference?
Chestnuts roasted by Steve Brandon @ 02/20/2004 07:47 PM EST
I love all the food related stuff you write about Matt. I really liked the one when you baked a cake. Maybe you should try to bake this cake I saw over on ebay...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2381471485&category=25466
it is an R2D2 cake. I bet it would taste good.
Chestnuts roasted by food dude @ 02/20/2004 07:48 PM EST
The string cheese with the sauce inside are called Stuffsters. Which is just about the worst name for anything, ever, in the history of the universe if you ask me.
Chestnuts roasted by Hellpop! @ 02/20/2004 10:21 PM EST
I think the 80's seen many pizza related merchandise come out, pizza seemed to become more popular with kids in the 80's because of Showbiz Pizza and Chuck E Cheese, where all the latest video games lured in kids, something Ronald couldn't compete with.
I loved that commercial, you can always tell 80's commercials by the hair and the clothes..lol
Chestnuts roasted by Nuke @ 02/20/2004 11:07 PM EST
Bravo! Tour-deForce! The commercial and the review.
This commercial had been nestled sweetly in the recesses of my brain for lo! these 20-odd some years.
Matt has lovingly retrieved it and held it up to the light for all to see.
I also thank him for taking the time and effort to write about it and procure the download.
However, I believe these Pizza guys, due to their age and occupation dealing with the public, obviously had enough street smarts to know when they were being "had", so it was heartening for me to see them "playing along" with the seemingly odd requests from their youngish customers. This is borne-out by the fact that liver-lips #1 was shown smiling knowingly at the end of the commercial holding a pizza box neatly stacked with the packaged congealed salty milk for the Nerdettes to grab with their maws. It not only takes time and effort to pre-fold and store those pizza boxes (I'm a former pizza delivery boy), but to accomodate those annoying kids with an item obviously not on the menu (what would they charge? The proprieters probably gave them away as a grandfatherly gesture) while trying to run a business puts those guys into the realm of the Biblical Job.
And good God! I had forgotten about the signs in the backround. They don't make commercials like that anymore.
'Nuff said
Chestnuts roasted by ibinsomniac @ 02/20/2004 11:41 PM EST
Thanks for the info, ShadowWing the Technorganic Autobot. Although, I thought about it some more and did a Google search or two, and I am pretty sure the Kangaroo was always the mascot, but the contest just resulted in a more 'extreme' version.
Chestnuts roasted by MG @ 02/20/2004 11:43 PM EST
STUFFSTERS?!?!? hahahaha no wonder i couldnt remember the name. >:O
Thanks for finding it though, now i know for future reference(will never happen)
Chestnuts roasted by heeloyd @ 02/21/2004 01:16 AM EST
Oh, Dunkaroos. I haven't had them in so long. If they do still truely make them then I have got to get my hands on some.
Chestnuts roasted by Rood @ 02/21/2004 01:54 AM EST
And here's the surprise of the week... Eurotrip features full frontal male nudity and people having sex in a confessional at the Vatican. I'm not offended, but I don't know how they got that by the rating board without getting an R rating (Up here, R means you can't see it unless you're 18. Eurotrip is 18A which means that anyone under 18 can see it as long as they con some uninformed parent into taking them). It had its moments though, worth seeing if you've got nothing better to do.
Chestnuts roasted by Gabbylicious @ 02/21/2004 02:12 AM EST
That commercial looks funny as hell. For some reason, I can't recall seeing it when I was younger. I wish my stupid computer would let the clip work, so I could see it together.
Ummm, chunk biter or string puller. I do both, depending on what mood I was in. If I'm hungry, I'm sure as heck not going to play with my food and pick at it. I want to take a chunk of cheese so I can get more taste. Other times I just pull strings off, but it seems like you don't get much taste when you eat little strands.
Chestnuts roasted by Goonie4Life @ 02/21/2004 02:48 AM EST
...Polly-O? Da hell? This must be an Eastern thing.
Gah, someone do a snarky review of those old Carl's Jr. ads, with Carl Karcher and Happy Star arguing over advertising, so them easties know what it feels like to be so left out!
Chestnuts roasted by G'Tron @ 02/21/2004 03:10 AM EST
1) Someone has taken it upon themself to interfere with access to this site. This is coming from a "gray area" if you catch my drift.
2) After checking Polly'O's website for product distribution and reading Polly'O's "family history" I clicked on "a message from our lawyers". Holy moley!
Chestnuts roasted by ibinsomniac @ 02/21/2004 08:21 AM EST
The problem with chunk biters is that there is entirely too much cheese being digested at one time. The subtleties of enjoyment through slowly chewing and appreciating each strand are where it's at, dawg.
And Matt, if you're going to do a countdown, how about a countdown to that holiest of holies, the rise of the Shamrock Shake!!
Chestnuts roasted by Headmaster @ 02/21/2004 11:41 AM EST
I've put off coming to the site for like a week and I only have the 103rd comment? You're slippin', Matt, you're slippin. Nah, seriously though, you got me wanting string cheese, and the only thing stopping me is the fact that I don't feel like walking to the store in the snow. But I could really go for a cheese with nuttin.
By the way, Matt, did you ever get my e-mail with my idea for an x-e television show?
Chestnuts roasted by Skitzo from stupid5pin.com @ 02/21/2004 12:02 PM EST
Hey Matt, Whats with yer fonts?
Chestnuts roasted by Cyanyde @ 02/21/2004 01:47 PM EST
Shamrock Shakes? Last time I had one of those, the green color didn't digest. Never mind how I found out.
Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 02/21/2004 02:14 PM EST
While we're talking pizza related 80s products with great ads, how can we forget Pizzerias chips? Those things were like crack, and they had a great ad.
Chestnuts roasted by Fly @ 02/21/2004 03:01 PM EST
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~schapira/tmntnet2.mov
Chestnuts roasted by pman @ 02/21/2004 09:28 PM EST
I'm surprised anyone else remembered this commercial. This was one of my favorites way back in the day.
As for the whole chunk biter vs. string puller thing, I did both.
Chestnuts roasted by Andrew Morse @ 02/21/2004 10:41 PM EST
John Caprodice is also a bus driver in "Speed", but sadly, he dies in the first bus explosion. It was very sad, but at least he helped those poor kids with their crazy cheese fetishes that ultimately saved us all.
Chestnuts roasted by Creedo @ 02/22/2004 02:53 PM EST
I don't pull it apart in strings, I pull big pieces off it. So does that make me a chunky string biter?
Chestnuts roasted by Skitzo from stupid5pin.com @ 02/22/2004 06:06 PM EST
God, I remember that commercial. It was cool and I found it strange how those kids starting speaking French on the spot for no reason. What gives?
Chestnuts roasted by Bert Raccoon @ 02/22/2004 11:06 PM EST
I despised then adored that commercial when I was a kid!!! It's so mind-boggling, you really have to wonder who came up with it. AND who directed it!
They should remake it for a new generation... maybe with a cameo from Capodice, just as a little nod to those who remember...
Chestnuts roasted by darthness @ 02/24/2004 11:36 AM EST
MATT,
do you remember any old nickelodion shows? salute your shorts or you cant do that on television? I would LOVE to see pictures and your opinion of those!
Chestnuts roasted by missy @ 02/24/2004 04:19 PM EST
Finally this commercial gets recognized as the cultural icon it truly was. Everyone and I mean everyone was walking around saying "NUTHIN?!" back in the day. And yes, the nerdy guy was hated by all, simply for the way he said "c'est si bon!".
Chestnuts roasted by YES! @ 02/25/2004 10:04 AM EST
I completly forgotten about that commercial!!
NUTTIN??!!
Chestnuts roasted by Jimmy @ 02/26/2004 05:30 PM EST
To anyone whi has tasted it, what does it taste like?!
To me it looks creamy and yum.
Chestnuts roasted by Rebekah @ 02/28/2004 10:13 PM EST
The blond guy in the middle is my cousin. We're having our family reunion this summer and I can't wait to give him crap for this for the 500th time. Thanks for the memories.
Chestnuts roasted by mmk @ 05/21/2004 08:42 PM EST
Thank you for this!
Chestnuts roasted by Ryan @ 06/10/2004 12:14 AM EST
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I'm not sure how many of you will remember this commercial, but around these parts it's one of the longtime faves. There's only one place in the world where kids call for extra cheese and held crusts, and it's the 
