S8E01 - Jumping The Shark: Spokesperson Disasters
Under the Influence with Terry O'Reilly
Apostrophe Podcast Network
4.8 • 627 Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
This week, we look at spokesperson disasters. Hiring a celebrity spokesperson is an advertising strategy many brands can only dream of. But famous names don’t come cheap. From Oprah Winfrey, to Gilbert Gottfried and Eric Clapton, celebs attract a lot of attention. But so do their mishaps.
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| 0:40.2 | From the Under the Influence Digital Box set this episode is from season 8 |
| 0:43.3 | 2019 |
| 0:44.2 | you're so king in it |
| 0:49.9 | the school is up it in an instant |
| 0:55.3 | Your teeth look lighter than no, no, no. |
| 1:05.1 | You're not you when you're hungry. |
| 1:11.9 | You're a good when you're hungry. You're in good hands with a heartbeat. |
| 1:19.3 | You're under the influence with Terry O'Reilly. |
| 1:22.3 | You're under the influence with Terry O'Reilly. TV writer and producer Gary Marshall had an idea for a new sitcom back in 1971. |
| 1:44.0 | It was called New Family in Town. |
| 1:47.3 | It was a fun look at family life in the nostalgic 1960s. |
| 1:51.9 | Marshall shot a pilot episode and cast Ron Howard in the lead. |
| 1:56.3 | But ABC didn't like the idea, so they passed. |
| 2:00.3 | The ABC didn't like the idea. So they passed. |
| 2:09.4 | The next year, George Lucas had a big hit with the coming-of-age film American Graffiti, |
| 2:12.9 | starring Ron Howard as a teenager in 1962. |
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