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Once again!!!??? Tuesday chat night!!!!! May 13th 8:oopm - 10:00pm Please Tell a co -worker!!!!

Submitted by Don Vito on May 7, 2008 - 8:30pm.
Once again!!!??? Tuesday chat night!!!!! May 13th 8:oopm - 10:00pm Please Tell a co -worker!!!!
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Mikey Likes it

Submitted by gotunion on May 12, 2008 - 6:08pm.
Mikey the Freckly-Faced Kid -  In 1971, the Doyle, Dane & Bernbach Agency created an ad campaign for Life Cereal starring three young brothers (The Gilchrist brothers), all freckled and all very cute. The now classic TV spots (which ran from 1972 through 1987) showed two of the boys (Michael & Tommy) wrestling with the decision of whether to try a new cereal (Life) that was supposed to be good for you. "I'm not gonna try it. You try it," they argued. Suddenly, the boys slid the bowl of cereal in front of their little four-year-old brother, Mikey (John Gilchrist), who according to the commercial "hates everything." To their surprise, Mikey liked it ("He likes it! Hey, Mikey!") and the commercial message that Life Cereal was good for kids was complete. Quaker Oates moved Life's Cereal's Mikey Campaign to the BBDO ad agency in 1974.

In 1986, Mikey returned as a college student to continued this cereal saga for the Quaker Oats Company. In addition to Life Cereal, John Gilchrist (a.k.a. "Mikey") appeared in more than 250 commercials for such products as Pepto Bismol, Skippy Peanut Butter, and Jell-O before quitting in 1988.

In later years, the Gilchrist brothers joked about how they did all the talking, yet their brother John got all of the recognition. John's standard answer to this discussion "Well, I was the cute one."

The three Gilchrist brothers are now successfully employed: John as an advertising executive; Michael as a labor negotiator (Is this the Mike Gilchrist at Cox?), and Tommy as an account executive.

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