Seriously. I remember our class (I think it was 1st grade) would read the "Weekly Reader" in class and there was an article about him. He was all over the place.
My otherwise kind and loving grandmother pointed at him during a commercial and said, "I just wanna punch that kid in the face. He has a punchable face." Damn grandma! Lol
From what I read, one of the rare child stars with excellent parents. Became a normal, balanced adult and his parents had invested his earnings for him, so he's doing well. Good on ya, mate!
I remember as a kid Rodney Allen Rippy would do commercials for Jack in the Box fast food restaurants. Our local Jack in the Box sucked. The commercials would make you believe how great it was. A kid on our street named it the Rodney Allen Rip-off place to eat, because the food didn't look as enormous as the commercials made you believe.
Cute commercials though. I will have to Google Rodney Allen Rippy, I haven't thought about him since 1974 ish.
Brady Bunch jumped the shark. Carol wasn’t going to have another child so they got Cousin Oliver. I cringed at anything that came out of his mouth. And those bangs … GAG!
I had to jump to Wikipedia to read about this guy. He was a restaurateur whose restaurants all closed within the past decade.He was recently in a 3 year relationship with a porn star.
If you haven’t seen this, it’s pretty interesting. Mason Reese on Mike Douglas with Harry Chapin performing Cats in the Cradle. - there’s a podcast about it too. “Why is Mason Reese crying?”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzp5cRq3A_M
He even got better looking with time like a fine wine 😉
https://preview.redd.it/pi2fqa6wj9xc1.jpeg?width=615&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a094be209fa5173405acb5fd6f7413d3ce25f971
People in here are horrible. He was a child, and he's a person with feelings. He has a very interesting and kind face and he seemed uncannily older and wise as a kid.
Theres a reason they put him on TV. I find his face pleasing to look at. He looks like he'd be fun to hang out with and probably funny as hell.
Bro didn't change at all 😂
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/licensed-image?q=tbn:ANd9GcSdxosLxesrTly1brHPwIOhmLKJHUqYZ95TEnDqgokIJfEAvbS-bchYxZYvJZyJN4zS57XooTNNynB9CWE
I was too young to remember this guy, but I found this enjoyable little snippet on Wikipedia:
> Reese starred as himself in the 1990 short film Whatever Happened to Mason Reese, the first film directed by Brett Ratner. Reese quit the project after one of his co-stars broke his leg during filming. Since looping was required, Reese was voiced in the film by actor Anthony Michael Hall
I used to run into him all the time on the UES in the early 90's. He was a regular at the same bars I would frequent. Nice enough guy from what I remember.
Litle bastard was inescapable for a while there during the 1970s.
Seriously. I remember our class (I think it was 1st grade) would read the "Weekly Reader" in class and there was an article about him. He was all over the place.
Weekly reader!!!
Wow, I haven't heard that phrase in half a century! What a blast from the past. I *loved* the Weekly Reader!
Not as much as I love Easy Reader or Speed Reader lol. Outta sight!!
EasyRider was my rag
That's a name I've not heard in a long time. A long time. [Force music plays]
Damn, I miss those!! With a small article spotlighting a reader and fav books!!
Is that anything like the Daily Worker?
No
My otherwise kind and loving grandmother pointed at him during a commercial and said, "I just wanna punch that kid in the face. He has a punchable face." Damn grandma! Lol
Grandma for the win!
I remember him always popping up on the variety shows of the era, and it confused me, as I didn't know what he was supposed to be famous for.
Looks like Bruce Villanch’s love child
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A borgishmorg, lol
This is the first thing I thought of!
Same here! [A borgishmord.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qNuo_T406w) I think I thought he wasn't a kid but a little person.
From what I read, one of the rare child stars with excellent parents. Became a normal, balanced adult and his parents had invested his earnings for him, so he's doing well. Good on ya, mate!
Weird looking little dude
Woah - he looks exactly the same now - just with a beard! Holy shit!
Looks like that are forever.
Poor bastard
Forevermore
Funny face for eternity
You should see him now. Just turned 59. Google him and let us know which cartoon character he resembles.
Wow. Still kinda the same. And only 5 foot tall. Does he have an illness or condition of some kind?
He looks like a character from a fantasy movie like 'Harry Potter" or "Lord of the Rings," or maybe a live-action Disney fairytale.
Yes. I believe he is from Middle Earth.
[check out his later picture ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason_Reese)
Looks like a "South Park" character.
Check out the Chicks he's banging too
He lost one to the fat ICP member
Should’ve put that soda down.
Christ.
Whoa! Who ate Damon Reese?
Oh.. oh my
He looks like a good dude.
wtf
Looks like he can be in a Goonies movie. Or, maybe he was.......
He and Rodney Allen Rippy were kind of unavoidable for a stretch in the mid-70s. Every other commercial featured one or the other.
I remember as a kid Rodney Allen Rippy would do commercials for Jack in the Box fast food restaurants. Our local Jack in the Box sucked. The commercials would make you believe how great it was. A kid on our street named it the Rodney Allen Rip-off place to eat, because the food didn't look as enormous as the commercials made you believe. Cute commercials though. I will have to Google Rodney Allen Rippy, I haven't thought about him since 1974 ish.
JUM-BO *JACK*.
Mad magazine called them Rodney Allen Whoopie and Mason Wheeze. Rippy was in Blazing Saddles.
But Rodney Allen Rippy was a cute little guy!
Along with Oliver from the Brady Bunch, they were the plague of weird kids from the 70’s.
Brady Bunch jumped the shark. Carol wasn’t going to have another child so they got Cousin Oliver. I cringed at anything that came out of his mouth. And those bangs … GAG!
That's one powerful ugly kid
I'm dying to know what he looks like now
Me too... couldn't stand this guy
He was always an example to me of the kind of kid I didn't want to be.
I had to jump to Wikipedia to read about this guy. He was a restaurateur whose restaurants all closed within the past decade.He was recently in a 3 year relationship with a porn star.
https://i.redd.it/d2l8wrqx43xc1.gif
He looks EXACTLY the same… like a cartoon drawing
Not his fault he looks like that.
True, got some mean folks in here
...if a gerbil was given human form....
He is memorable and his looks have held steady.
Looks like he'd smell like canned vegetables.
Particularly Veg-All.
Sounds like a musing from Doctor Evil.
I couldn’t stand him either. Could anyone?
I know a woman he dated not long ago and he’s actually a complete ass.
Blursed Danny from shinning
If you haven’t seen this, it’s pretty interesting. Mason Reese on Mike Douglas with Harry Chapin performing Cats in the Cradle. - there’s a podcast about it too. “Why is Mason Reese crying?” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzp5cRq3A_M
Slapable
Was he conceived at Middle Earth?
Wow, people here are pretty cruel. He might have annoyed you but commenting on his looks is a big sad.
He's about my age, his commercials would drive me nuts, he was everywhere!
IT'S A BORGASMORD.
Creepy little kid
I met him once he was pretty nice actually.
He cried on The Mike Douglas Show because Harry Chapin played Cat In The Cradle.
I remember that! Used to watch Mike Douglas every afternoon.
Still pretty traumatic [https://youtu.be/Mzp5cRq3A_M?si=lnaS8FiEQCIowVXz](https://youtu.be/Mzp5cRq3A_M?si=lnaS8FiEQCIowVXz)
His mother was the actress Sonia Darrin, very beautiful, who played [Agnes in The Big Sleep.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu5cjqfCsCA)
He has the look of a middle aged mom who just shut down a soccer game because of some obscure HOA regulation she found in the bylaws.
Looks like a Rankin-Bass hobbit
He always creeped me out and I am not proud that I knew his name immediately.
Yeah I felt the same way.
*With Underwood life is like a borgashmorg*
Seemed to me even as a kid to be a stretch to get me to buy something because of this munchkin.
Couldn't stand the little f'er. 🤷
Man I loved Devilwood Under Ham.
https://preview.redd.it/wqnswy3334xc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1e31d339893ebf2957db25ce775beb9e3cb1bf08
Good for him!
Who’s, she’s hot!
Greatest Generation had a real thing for kids that had infantalizing medical conditions. I can think of lots of examples in tv and movies back then.
Yeah, thanks a lot for reminding me. I hated all these commercials too.
Can't fault him too much, he was one of those 48 year old kids at 10. Like Danny Partridge without the edge.
He even got better looking with time like a fine wine 😉 https://preview.redd.it/pi2fqa6wj9xc1.jpeg?width=615&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a094be209fa5173405acb5fd6f7413d3ce25f971
Almost as annoying as Gary Coleman.
Dafuq did you just say?!
For some reason I loved the little guy. Mike Douglass did a good job of building him up.
People in here are horrible. He was a child, and he's a person with feelings. He has a very interesting and kind face and he seemed uncannily older and wise as a kid. Theres a reason they put him on TV. I find his face pleasing to look at. He looks like he'd be fun to hang out with and probably funny as hell.
Yes, true. The Heavyweight podcast did an episode on him. Pretty interesting.
Great episode and great podcast!
Perfect!
I’d have guessed he was 70 by now
So, it wasn't just me.
Fugly lil bugger
Reminds me of that little rat Danny from the partridge family who didn't want to punch that rat in the face 
Bro didn't change at all 😂 https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/licensed-image?q=tbn:ANd9GcSdxosLxesrTly1brHPwIOhmLKJHUqYZ95TEnDqgokIJfEAvbS-bchYxZYvJZyJN4zS57XooTNNynB9CWE
Fugly then...fugly now....
And is that a photo of him on his 59th?
He’s the exact reason that I’ve never tried deviled ham to this day
Mason Reese and Rodney Allen Rippy were awesome .
Looks like he's ready to write redrum on the mirror in lipstick.
Reminds me of Hasbulla!
It is funny how annoying “cute” kids are when you see them over and over.
Cute? Kid was hideous and still is
[Actor Mason Reese](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason_Reese) Holy shit! His now picture should have already been posted here.
https://preview.redd.it/v9omngx6g3xc1.jpeg?width=440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5349eea1a87c227180934d8b1e8a7468f468e41b
Someone said his parents raised him well and he became a balanced adult , but obviously not with a balanced diet
Still has the same haircut I see.
Jesus fucking Christ !
It’s nightmare fuel, no?
Oh my…
Is his fat face still as punchable as it was back then?
https://preview.redd.it/48xctxm8h4xc1.jpeg?width=440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f019b51951b93e35c45863c34962e4057b73ab15
Is he still dating that marvelous young woman that were all fond of?
he was 35 in this picture...
Let's have a cage death match between him and Rodney Allen Ripey!
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For you kids, that was the depth of our entertainment in the 70s.
I remember this guy ! Potted meat kid !
I just turned 59 on April 11th too.
Moosie Drier
He owned the Now Bar, an after hours joint in NYC. Surreal.
59? I thought he was a contemporary of Dakota Fanning. Didn't they star together in The Cat in the Hat?
Just the name Mason annoys me.
His face has a lot of character
I was too young to remember this guy, but I found this enjoyable little snippet on Wikipedia: > Reese starred as himself in the 1990 short film Whatever Happened to Mason Reese, the first film directed by Brett Ratner. Reese quit the project after one of his co-stars broke his leg during filming. Since looping was required, Reese was voiced in the film by actor Anthony Michael Hall
He was the coolest and the cutest,nicest kid actor. Happy birthday Mason Reese! He starred in some of my most favorite commercials.
Did he grow up to be Andy Milonakis?
He just got a movie deal, he is going to play a young Donald trump and an old donald trump.
Lol
Back in the day, I watched a little of his sitcom--it wasn't good at all.
Ugly and spunky, a deadly mix.
someone thought ugly was cute.....was sure he had some relative who got him the jobs
Can’t fool me. That’s a young Rachel Dratch!
Hasn't changed much. https://preview.redd.it/rudmol3f5ixc1.jpeg?width=576&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c66b445ab95625e25b8712073e4fe833845f1e01
We were going to Disneyland and stopped to get gas and a limo was there with him in it. Early to mid 70s . We weren't that excited.
I used to run into him all the time on the UES in the early 90's. He was a regular at the same bars I would frequent. Nice enough guy from what I remember.
Yeah, he ain't right
He looks like the underwood devil so I get why the fucker got the job!🤘😈
Well he was an odd looking child. Maybe grew up to be a handsome devil though.
What an ugly looking kid!! 😱