"Hey Richard, two minutes for lookin' so good..."

[David Bruce Banner]

 

[MeHateHe]

Today I still leave a touch of grey. The wife likes it.

What’s this ad about?

 

[JackSlater]

To be fair, my grandmother once danced with Maurice Richard at some sort of Acadian dance and regarded it as the thrill of her life. That was a few decades before he needed Grecian Formula 16 though.

Doug Gilmour shampoo commercials were on all the time in the 90s as well.

 

[MadLuke]

Damphouse had the exact same version in French:


They were also a bit all the time, so RBO made a parody out of it:

 

[The Panther]

Never seen that Gilmour one before. Yikes.

Makes sense, though. Gilmour did have a pretty impressive flow / mullet.

But Damphousse? Close to regulation military.

 

[reckoning]

When I was much younger I knew who Richard was primarily from that commercial, and not his actual hockey career.

The two commercials stuck in my mind from my youth are Maurice Richards Grecian Formula, and that PSA they would always air where everyone sang a different line in a song about treating people better:

"Give your seat up on the bus
Throw some kids out on the ice
Its nice to do some good
Its nice to be nice"

 

[reckoning]

This one didn't last as long, but in the mid-80s there was the Phil Esposito battery commercial:

 

[Staniowski]

For me, this is by far the most memorable commercial ever involving a hockey player.

"Two minutes for looking so good" became quite a major catch phrase in Canada.

Around the same time, I attended a Habs old timers game and Maurice was the referee, as in the commercial.

 

[MeHateHe]

Do we not have a thread with bad hockey player acting over the years? Gretzky’s General Hospital turn is gotta be the worst.

Sitter , McDonald and Williams in the series about Salming was pretty uh, chunky too.

 

[Takuto Maruki]

I'm not going to lie, until I saw this commercial just now, my mind thought of Maurice Richard as someone who spoke French only.

 

[Staniowski]

Bobby Orr had the Planters peanuts commercials in the '80s.

 

[JackSlater]

I always enjoyed that they used Roy Dupuis for the Richard CBC movie a decade after he was Richard in the famous commercial. I especially enjoy when he tries doing the crazy Richard eyes. Always preferred the Plante heritage moment commercial though.

 

[The Panther]

I'm not going to lie, until I saw this commercial just now, my mind thought of Maurice Richard as someone who spoke French only.

You know, in the Canadiens' dressing room of the 1940s (and after) the coaches spoke in English-only to the players...

I always enjoyed that they used Roy Dupuis for the Richard CBC movie a decade after he was Richard in the famous commercial. I especially enjoy when he tries doing the crazy Richard eyes. Always preferred the Plante heritage moment commercial though.

The Rocket is one of the great hockey movies and quite well done, but yeah, Dupuis was too old. I wish they'd made it 10 years earlier...

 

[reckoning]

Do we not have a thread with bad hockey player acting over the years? Gretzky’s General Hospital turn is gotta be the worst.

It was the Young and Restless, and it was bad. He was supposed to be a mobster, but hard to pull it off when he looks like he's 16.

 

[MeHateHe]

It was the Young and Restless, and it was bad. He was supposed to be a mobster, but hard to pull it off when he looks like he's 16.

My apologies for my insufficient memory about ‘80s daytime soaps.

 

[David Bruce Banner]

And, of course, there's whatever this is...

 

[frisco]

The two commercials stuck in my mind from my youth are Maurice Richards Grecian Formula, and that PSA they would always air where everyone sang a different line in a song about treating people better:

"Give your seat up on the bus
Throw some kids out on the ice
Its nice to do some good
Its nice to be nice"

I think the second line was "Coach some kids on the ice". It is was a good commercial.

My Best-Carey

 

[frisco]

It was the Young and Restless, and it was bad. He was supposed to be a mobster, but hard to pull it off when he looks like he's 16.

I believe Gretzky said in 1982 that meeting Genie Francis (Laura Spencer-General Hospital) was his lifetime highlight. Or that if he got to meet her it would be his lifetime highlight. Something like that.

My Best-Carey

 

[The Panther]

"Hey Gretzky -- two minutes for acting so bad!"

 

[sr edler]

Henrik Lundqvist's been doing shampoo commercials in his home country for almost 15 years now, very long running. It's a bit tongue-in-cheek but you can tell he loves a camera in front of his face.

 

[tabness]

Jacques couldn't read the cue cards at the time but he did pretty good

 

[Takuto Maruki]

You know, in the Canadiens' dressing room of the 1940s (and after) the coaches spoke in English-only to the players...

Thinking about it now, yeah that makes total sense. Lingua franca and all that. But I dunno - Richard is just the undisputed titan of French Canadian hockey, and really only seeing clips and anecdotes of him playing, never speaking, it just never crossed my mind that he would speak English, and fairly well for a Francophone. Almost like it feels sacrilegious in a way.

 

[JackSlater]

Thinking about it now, yeah that makes total sense. Lingua franca and all that. But I dunno - Richard is just the undisputed titan of French Canadian hockey, and really only seeing clips and anecdotes of him playing, never speaking, it just never crossed my mind that he would speak English, and fairly well for a Francophone. Almost like it feels sacrilegious in a way.

I get where you are coming from but Richard did speak English well. A standard French Canadian accent obviously, but not even an especially thick one. Growing up in Montreal as opposed to Quebec City or some small village in Quebec would also mean that Richard had decent exposure to English as a kid, I would imagine.

 

[Son of Nogatco]

It was the Young and Restless, and it was bad. He was supposed to be a mobster, but hard to pull it off when he looks like he's 16.

Brutal