Mr. Whipple: No Longer Squeezing the Charmin

Ninety-one-year old Dick Wilson, best known as Mr. Whipple, died today. More here.

And below:



"Don't Squeeze the Charmin." ... "Irresistibly soft."

... I wonder how psychoanalysts would deconstruct these iconic ad phrases (and metaphors for sexual repression).

My Five Favorite Gay Fictional Characters

The below post is from March, reposted in light of the death of Mr. Whipple:



1. Snagglepuss.

2. Legolas and Gimli Son of Gloin from Lord of the Rings. They were secret lovers, right?



3. Mr. Whipple, who rumor has it secretly LOVED to squeeze the "Charmin."




4. Schroeder. (Like my guy-pal Wally, he has blonde hair and can really tickle the fingers.)

5. Morris the Cat. (Based on the below video evidence.)

(Just narrowly missing the list: Velma from Scooby Doo.)



PART OF A CONTINUING SERIES (Click FIVE FAVS in the Labels)

For the complete "Mr. Whipple" posts, click Mr. Whipple in the labels.

Morris May Be A Mo?

Earlier this week, someone named "Morris" replied on this blog with a gentle suggestion not to write so much about American Idol because I'm not (to my knowledge) a teenage girl. Point taken.

Now, I don't know if this is the actual "real life" Morris I know personally -- a cat lover now living in that great southern city -- but it got me thinking about another Morris. Morris the cat.

And thanks to YouTube, we can present the very first Morris commercials from 1972.

Morris -- with his penchant (as you can see below) for tea parties, "creamed gravy," the Oscars and the finer things -- very well could be television's first gay character, and certainly the first-ever gay spokesmodel, assuming (of course) the heterosexuality of Mr. Whipple, whose penchant for squeezing the Charmin probably made him America's first (and creepiest) asexual spokesmodel.

Meow!