Submitted by OptionalPlayer t3_zztsji in todayilearned
Growing up in Middle Tennessee, when the Ernest movies came out we were confused as to why Vern's neighbor suddenly went to a summer camp where there was no Purity milk to be had.
He even did spots for the Atlanta Braves back in the 80s (it was a lot harder to sell tickets for them at the time)
Oh man, the pre Bobby Cox Braves. I can imagine.
Ironically Bobby Cox was the GM at the time (he had managed the Braves earlier in the 80s and was hired back as GM a few years later). Then in 1990 he fired the manager mid-season and said “fuck it i’m gonna manage this team myself”, and the rest was history.
We had no team here, so growing up it was the Braves on WTBS or the Cubs on WGN. When Greg Maddux went to Atlanta it was like all my childhood baseball dreams came true.
Between Braves games at Fulton Co Stadium and NWA wrasslin' at the Georgia Dome, Ted Turner loomed large in the childhoods of many kids in the Southeast.
And if you liked The Beastmaster, Ted was your man. We used to laugh that he must love that movie and would call down to the station on a weekend: “Hey - play Beastmaster!”
“Umm Mr. Turner, we have programming already scheduled, and we did just show that film earlier this week.”
“I own the station - and I want Beastmaster!”
“Of course, sir”
Dude - I must have seen The Beastmaster 200 times growing up for that reason.
I'm willing to bet an inordinate number of ferrets in the South were named Kodo and Podo in the 80's
Remember when HBO stood for “Hey, Beastmaster’s On”?
That’s a brand I forgot about. I used to love the purity lemonade. I haven’t had it in 15 years but I swear I can still taste it.
And Jungle Juice!
Yep, confused in Houston as well when he blew up, as he was a staple of our TV ads. I want to say he might have even done a super glue ad? I might just be wrong though, the hard hat on the girder guy?
No that wasn't Ernest. I can't remember who it was, though.
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