I clean the stupid kitchen no less than three times a day. Mr. Clean can wink at me, fondle me, turn me upside down and take me on the stairs, I don't care. As long as the dishes are done.
Whoa! A man who cleans, wears an earring with panache AND can dance?
I don't mind the wink or the sink humping at all.
He can come visit me anytime.
Somehow this entire post about cleaning made me feel very dirty indeed.
I've never heard of Mr. Clean (in Portugal). But I have things to be cleaned and surfaces to be polished...I don't think it's fair!
We're no good for him? No winks at the portuguese women? Not fair!
As a single woman living in Chicago who turns 31 today, I think you nailed it with the below comment...yes, that's all we are hoping for. 
01:00 The image of a hefty, gap-toothed Mr. Clean holding a diamond engagement ring in a country kitchen is, I think, exactly what all your thirty-something single female friends partying and drinking all night in the big city think about when they get home in the wee hours of the morning and weep into the bathroom sink while counting the growing number of lines around their eyes.
Look I've absolutely no idea who this Mr Clean guy is but did you have to make the disparaging comment about Mary Ingalls? I have to hate you for it as boy did I have the hots for her growing up.
This whole resolution idea sounds ridiculous. Don't they have anything better to do? Like, make certain that Swiss cheese doesn't have too many holes in it?
Wait... you mean to tell me that Orville Redenbacher isn't a real guy?
High-larious.
And a bit disturbing.
I'd take him winking at me to have a clean house, too.
Orville Redenbacher was real, but he's dead. Same with Frank Purdue and Colonel Sanders. The three of them are probably roomates in heaven.
hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
That is sooo european! My god, I didn't even know that Meister Proper was so big of an gender issue! I always thought of him as a mixture of Right Said Fred (they are part of the newest Proper-commercial right now!) and uncle Fester...
Oh, Orville Redenbacher was quite real.
Of course Mr. Clean is about making women feel inferior about their ability to clean, then why do all cleaning product commercials feature women? Er, wait....that can't be right.
I worked for a volunteer service organization that cleaned the homes of folks who couldn't do it themselves for various reasons. P&G was a sponsor of such projects, complete with a smokin' hot Mr. Clean coming out to the volunteer site to mingle with the folks who were helpin' out.
He took his job seriously, this Don Limpio, so much so he didn't actually do any work. But, man, he was seriously all that. Not fat and bald, bald and built.
It worked for me.
The stereotype is that only a big, strong man can do the heavy cleaning in the house? Oh dear, I need to let my husband know right away. Surely a delicate flower such as myself should not be cleaning off the stove top or washing the pots tonight.
It's good to know that American legislative bodies are not the only idiots.
Bye bye Scrubbing Bubbles and to the Brawny Paper Towel guy. Is that, no, it couldn't be. Michael Chiklis from The Shield?
I don't understand why they don't call him Don Limpio here-- it's a way cooler name.
I can't believe you are really serious that they are talking about this. Are they suggesting it's like the idea that the patriarchy makes women do all the cooking but only men can be the world's greatest chefs, handing down recipes and techniques to the housewives of the world?
Whether that's the case or not, don't they have hundreds of billions of euros to be handing out to rich people over there, instead of passing non-binding resolutions on stupid things? Actually, now that I think about it, we should be so lucky over here.
Lastly, I'm a househusband, and I promise I won't be blazing any trails in the cleaning department in the foreseeable future. Maybe it's because Don Limpio makes me feel so inferior. I'm going to write my Congresswoman.
Jim, I'm sure we can get you in touch with the Pine Sol lady. I think she's more your style, anyway.
What about one of the environmental companies? They'd probably be interested in portraying a more socially conscious icon, like a SAHD! Doood! Get on that, already!
In India, we use Mr. Muscles instead! Maybe time for guys to raise their voices against gender bias in detergents' branding...huh?
Europe never heard of choreplay?
Oh no, how am I going to identify Meister Proper at the grocery store now? It's hard enough figuring out the German labels on cleaning products, but this one was so easily recognizable.
Hmph, I always thought Mr. Clean was a black dude. Like that guy on the 7up commercial. "Crisp and clean and no caffiene. Never had it, never will. Hahahaha."
Mr. Clean Freaks Me Out.
I think I would feel way more inferior and degraded if another lady was showing me up on the cleaning duties in my own house.
Plus, I totally have the hots for Mr. Clean.
Yah, I think it's a hallucination from the toxic fumes.
And I just had to mention the following story... when she was 3 or 4, one of our daughters used to have a crush on Mr. Clean. Also, she couldn't pronounce K sounds at the time. So it was all Mr. Plean this and Mr. Plean that.
Oh yah, one more thing. You totally have it right about the cleaning fantasy thing. My man becomes about 10 times hotter anytime I see him cleaning or cooking. I'll walk up behind him while he's standing at the sink and rub against him. Which does tend to interrupt him doing the dishes, but oh well.
I think this addresses the issue regarding pretty well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C...h?
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holy crap cm that was awesome. that right there is why I need to keep the television.
Wow, this post just made me realize just how dirty Mr. Clean really is...Color me naive!
That post was a fun mash of pop and High culture, Jim. Eliot, check. Steinbeck, check. But Ingalls Wilder? Man, you are full of surprises.
Did you see that Mr. Clean died yesterday (Wednesday)? Timely post.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/...r.ap/
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Ha, Kristin beat me to it. The original Mr. Clean just died.
Did you see this?
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SHOW...r.ap/
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/joh...nab/2906937925/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dep...57607662594144/
Holy crap, I almost died. I think this made me laugh for five minutes straight.
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