Go see Cal, go see Cal, go see Cal...

[RoryN]

...at the cemetery.

He supposedly died while watching week 1 of the NFL.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/04/08/automobiles/190-cal-02.jpg

http://blog.michaelbloomphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/calworthington_001sm.jpg

http://xfinity.comcast.net/blogs/tv/files/2009/05/simpsons-09-albert-brooks.jpg

 

[Sean]

He was still alive? He looked about a hundred years old when I lived in CA 15 years ago. And that annoying bloody song from the adverts is stuck in my head now, arsehole!

 

[RoryN]

He was still alive? He looked about a hundred years old when I lived in CA 15 years ago. And that annoying bloody song from the adverts is stuck in my head now, arsehole!

Get ready to be driven criminally insane:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOsLdT4slsk

 

[Batch]

Oh the nutty memories of elephants and tigers from my long ago childhood.

Damn.

 

[RoryN]

Oh the nutty memories of elephants and tigers from my long ago childhood.

Damn.

TV won't be the same without Pussy Cow.

 

[Batch]

TV won't be the same without Pussy Cow.

no.


Just shut up. I cannot handle this.

moment of silence.

Oh my god. he was immortal. and now, not so much.

 

[pink]

I have no idea who this Cal is.

 

[Batch]

I have no idea who this Cal is.

An Iconic Car Dealer of Southern California. I cannot remember a time in my childhood when there weren't, Go See Cal, commercials.
Hi Pinky!

 

[pink]

An Iconic Car Dealer of Southern California. I cannot remember a time in my childhood when there weren't, Go See Cal, commercials.
Hi Pinky!

hi, batch. *waves*

 

[Batch]

hi, batch. *waves*

Yo, Baby... how's the glasses?

Saw the Halloween thread and started laughing at KS's funnies...

I love Halloween, too!

 

[Byron In Exile]

"I'm Cal Worthington, and if I can't make you a better deal on a car, I'll eat a bug."

 

[Batch]

"I'm Cal Worthington, and if I can't make you a better deal on a car, I'll eat a bug."

and didn't he though

oh. 92.

 

[Wrong Element]

He supposedly died while watching week 1 of the NFL.

That makes two of us.

I remember the Cal commercials from my occasional visits to the L.A. area, and from pop culture generally. I would not have guessed he was still alive.

 

[RobDownSouth]

They printed the lyrics to "Go See Cal" in his NY Times obituary.

Damned earworm.

That Bloopers show they had on in the 1980s did an entire segment once on Cal Worthington commercial outtakes....Let's just say his dog Spot (all 217 of them) seemed to like to crap on his cars...

 

[impetuous]

An Iconic Car Dealer of Southern California. I cannot remember a time in my childhood when there weren't, Go See Cal, commercials.
Hi Pinky!

He was definitely a local TV icon. His commercials were always on during Saturday morning cartoons when I was a kid. Whenever we would drive down the 405 Freeway and see his car lot, I would look for him and his dog Spot.

I saw one of his commercials the other day and was kind of surprised he was not only alive, but still on TV.

RIP, Cal.

 

[Laurel]

My new favorite Facebook Group:

When I was a kid I thought Cal Worthington said "Pussycow" not "Go see Cal"​

RIP Cal. You'll always be a big part of my childhood. You, Popeye cartoons with Tom Hatten, and claymation sci-fi on Channel 5.

 

[RobDownSouth]

My new favorite Facebook Group:

When I was a kid I thought Cal Worthington said "Pussycow" not "Go see Cal"​

RIP Cal. You'll always be a big part of my childhood. You, Popeye cartoons with Tom Hatten, and claymation sci-fi on Channel 5.

Okay, THAT put a smile on my face this morning!!