We Watched all of Bea Arthur's Shoppers Drug Mart Commercials!
Out on the Lanai: A Golden Girls Podcast
H Alan Scott, Kerri Doherty
4.5 • 605 Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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H. Alan Scott/Sadie Pines and Kerri Doherty are breaking down Bea Arthur's seven years as the Shoppers Drug Mart spokesperson! After watching the commercials they discuss the pharmacist's serial killer smile, how Bea's relationship with Santa resembles Dorothy and Stan and why celebrities in the past only did commercials that aired outside of the U.S.
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| 0:00.0 | Calvin Klein. |
| 0:11.8 | And they have a fun thing where you can, hold on, I love this part of it. |
| 0:19.2 | Please leave that in the intro. |
| 0:21.1 | Leave that in the intro. Leave that in the intro. |
| 0:21.9 | Leave that in the intro. |
| 0:23.1 | Picture in Los Angeles, 2026. |
| 0:26.2 | Now I can't see anything. |
| 0:28.0 | Everybody needs to be watching the video version for what just happened. |
| 0:32.2 | Welcome to Out on the Lanai, the only Golden Girls podcast. |
| 0:35.6 | You're ever going to need to listen to. I'm H.L. and Scotch slash Sadie Pines. |
| 0:40.4 | I'm Carrie Dordy, and today we're doing a Beyond Golden Girls episode where we cover the many film and TV projects that the women did outside of the Golden Girls during the course of their illustrious careers. |
| 0:50.6 | And today, by wildly popular demand, we are watching and talking about B. Arthur Stint as the Shoppers Drug Mart spokesperson from 1984 to 1991. |
| 1:00.9 | Okay. I love how weird it is that we're actually doing an entire episode dedicated to Shoppers Drug Mart. |
| 1:07.3 | To our Canadian fans, we thank you so much but also I love how I mean I love a jingle |
| 1:17.9 | I love a jingle I love a commercial I love commercial actors I mean Stan in great commercial |
| 1:24.1 | he's a great actor but he's done great commercials as well, which that makes |
| 1:27.9 | me love him so much more. And I love that we're doing a full episode dedicated to commercials. |
| 1:33.6 | When you texted this, I was like, how are we going to do this? But also, yes, let's do this. |
| 1:40.9 | So, yeah, we've gotten a lot of requests from fans who are, because we've watched a few of them here and there on the podcast, but they were, we have a lot of fans who have said, we love these, let's watch them. |
| 1:50.6 | So I found a YouTube playlist that has 46 of them because she did this over seven years. So there are probably a lot of commercials. |
| 1:58.5 | Primarily, primarily over the run of Golden Girls, correct? Yes, 1984 to 1991. And what's funny is you can tell what year she did them because of looking at B. Arthur's hair. Yes. So the later ones she has what you call like the football helmet hair. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Yeah. So we're not going to watch all 46. We will link the playlist below. I think I picked seven for us to watch because they're eight. Okay. We picked eight to watch. So I'm very, very excited to talk about them because B, B had a blast, clearly. |
| 2:33.5 | She also had that thing. |
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