Memorable MIA Commercial Characters…
If you’ve noticed, we now see Earl the Cat from the Smalls cat food commercials mostly as a simplistic two-dimensional line drawing these days. Rarely do we see the wonderful Earl as the guy in the fursuit anymore…
This is a shame, because fursuit Earl is far more captivating than line drawing Earl. He was so good and compelling that his presence probably distracted from the cat food product itself. There are other examples where a commercial character was so magnetic that they apparently distracted from the product being advertised, and so were sadly phased out. I just think that we had yet to see the best of fursuit Earl…
Consider Lactose Cow in the Lactaid commercials, aka “the Milk that Messes With You.” Mess with us she did, but was incredibly comic and memorable in doing so, far outshining the demure blue-and-white Lactaid Cow. I for one deeply miss seeing these commercial stars, and since I am powerless to return them, will leave you with a few memories of the best of The Milk That Messes With You. Characters gone but not forgotten…*sighs*
FOXSYLVANIA 
July 12, 2025 at 12:56 am
Not even Fursuit Earl, however, can top the vintage commercial I saw on Antenna TV, last night. It was a 1982 rerun of a Tonight Show episode wherein Johnny Carson showed some foreign-made commercials. Three of them were for a Swedish insurance agency. The fourth was for a British brand of catfood (“…now in small chunks!”).
The Cockney husband is putting in a pet door for their beloved kitty. His wife thinks it should be a lot bigger. She dishes out the small chunks while he finishes hammering in the last nail. Kitty comes crashing through the definitely under-sized door…revealing herself to be a half-grown tiger cub!
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July 12, 2025 at 1:05 am
As to Lactose Cow and Lactaid Cow? Maybe they got eaten by people allergic to Chick-Fil-A patties!
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July 13, 2025 at 8:47 pm
I always thought that the Lactose Cow would make a great kiddy show host, since Pee-Wee Herman is sadly unavailable…
…and did you know that Pee-Wee’s father’s name was Herman Herman?
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July 14, 2025 at 12:45 am
My apologies to your aching head. But, I just can’t resist! What the head nurse of the maternity ward told PeeWee’s mom the day he was born:
“Mrs. H, you’ve got a lovely offspring.
[Lovely offspring!]
With a birthmark shaped just like a red bow tie!
[Red bow tieeeee!]”
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