Terry O'Reilly
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first heard Apr 2026
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A few seasons ago, we did a behind-the-scenes story on the McCain TV commercial that showed a little kid with glasses putting ketchup on his french fries while reading a comic book.
You probably remember that McCain commercial.
Everybody seems to, which is remarkable considering there are no words for 21 full seconds as the kid eats his fries.
Then, an announcer says, Super fries for McCain, for the strong, silent type.
That kid would be in his 40s now, with a mortgage.
Here's something you may not remember.
He did make another commercial for McCain 20 years later.
In this ad, he says his name is Jay and it begins with footage from the original commercial.
As the commercial ends, we see Jay eating French fries with his own son, who looks to be about 8 years old and is a spitting image of his dad when he was that age.
Do you remember another famous commercial from 1971, where two young brothers are suspicious of a new cereal called Life, so they get their three-year-old brother Mikey to try it?
Nutritious, delicious.
That commercial ran for 13 years.
So rare in the world of advertising for a commercial to run for that long.
But it was so popular, Life Cereal stuck with it.
It has been named one of the top 10 best commercials of all time.
Mikey's actual name was John Gilchrist, and those really were his brothers in that original 1971 commercial.
And like Jay did for McCain's Super Fries, a grown-up Mikey did a follow-up commercial for Life Cereal 15 years later.
Gilchrist went on to make over 250 commercials in his career, although none as popular as the first one he starred in.
And today, according to LinkedIn, John is the director of media sales for Madison Square Garden.
He's married and has three kids of his own and says there is always a box of life cereal in the house.
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