My mom was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at the age of three and was one of the youngest/ first patients to test the insulin pump. She was about 4/5 years old when this commercial was filmed and did several commercials with Burt Reynolds and Barry & Andy Gibb for the American Diabetes Association.
My Mom and Burt Reynolds for a diabetes commercial (1983)
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So cool! I think she’s smitten with Burt!
My apologies to your dad. He can’t compete with that.
Damn, I’m old…I remember that commercial
I love my grandma
I was 14 then.I remember this.I’m really getting old
Where is his oversized hat?
Puts on jeans and jacket for commercial shoot, as soon as the shoots over rips them off and goes back to laying on the bearskin rug in front of the fireplace
Uh.. Archer?
I remember that commercial when I was a kid
Which ones your mom?
I thought that little girl was Tabitha from Bewitched!!
Reading the fuck out of that teleprompter
Burt is killing it lately on r/OldSchoolCool. I just saw a post of him from the set of Deliverance and now this OP. Very cool!
Burt looking like a whole snack.
He looks like Pedro Pascal
Burt in ‘83 was Brad Pitt *times six thousand.*
Hope your mom is healthy and doing better than poor Andy Gibb.
Pedro Pascal was clearly made from the same mould 😱
Knowing the great Turd Ferguson is the dream of every child.
This commercial kick started my active volunteering with the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation here in Canada
How’s your mom?
Dude looks like he’s right off the set of Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
So adorable….the way she’s looking at Burt and holding onto his finger.
What a sweetheart, your mom was cute too.
Never noticed before but Burt was the original Pedro Pascal.
What is it about old, scratchy voice recordings that sounds so good? For some reason they sound richer and fuller than the crisp, clean recordings we have today.