I'd Rather Do It Myself


When Eric von Zipper is kidnapping Sugar, one of his gang asks if he needs any help when he's trying to pick her up. He says, "I'd rather do it myself!" I think this was a parody of an Anacin (pain reliever) commercial that had been popular at the time. In the commercial, a woman is cooking and her mother asks if the soup ( or whatever was cooking) needed more salt. The woman, who apparently had a headache, slams down the lid onto the pot and says through clenched teeth, "Mother, please....I'd rather do it myself!"

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I caught that too but it was a quickie so if you sneezed, you would have missed it.

Incidentally, those ads for Anacin were the most hated on TV but Anacin sales went through the roof. It took all my dad's strength to keep from shoving his foot through the screen when the Anacin ads aired.

I don't think Anacin is around anymore.

"You may as well go to perdition in ermine; you're sure to come back in rags." Katharine Hepburn

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