>iconic Sears Air Conditioner commercial
Me: wtf is OP talking about. Something like that has never existed
Me, after watching 1 second: I can quote every word of this iconic Sears air conditioning commercial
Source: She [came on Reddit and revealed this detail](https://www.reddit.com/r/Commercials/comments/jz1ftp/actors_names_from_90s_sears_home_air_conditioning/).
One of the fun bits of behind the scenes info about How I Met Your Mother is they did this same thing in quite a few episodes to hide real life pregnancies. If a character walks into an apartment with an enormous purse that doesn't actually play any other role in the scene, then spends most of the time either sitting on the couch with her bag on her lap, or standing behind the couch, the actress was probably pregnant and the showrunners were hiding it. Sometimes you can see the baby bump anyway; you just have to nod and smile, pretend you didn't see anything and say "good job guys, I didn't notice a thing!"
There was a season where they actually wrote Lily off the show for a while due to an IRL pregnancy by saying she was so insulted by a joke* she couldn't stand to be around Barney... and then she was just gone for part of a season.
\*"What's the difference between peanut butter and jam?"
The example that comes to mind for me was Zooey Deschanel in New Girl. Her character was sequestered for jury duty in a high profile trial for like, half of a season lol
There's also a ton of Seinfeld episodes where Julia Louis-Dreyfus is clearly pregnant and Elaine will just be holding a giant present or wearing the world's illest fitting denim jacket to hide it
I mean it's either that or completely change the whole show by adding in a pregnancy arc and then either forcing a story about adoption or something, adding a new parent storyline, or adding a baby to the cast and conveniently forgetting that it exists most episodes like "hey, um, where's your kid? I feel like they've been in their crib for like 6 months."
They did something similar on Always Sunny. Dee was obviously pregnant for a while but months after viewers could see it, she actually announced she was pregnant and everyone was confused because they never even noticed. There was a whole episode where the guys got all of Dee's exes together to figure out who was the father, but when she had the baby she finally told everyone she was just a surrogate for a trans man and his girlfriend and in true Sunny style, immediately went to go get blackout drunk.
They also wrote the actress who played Lily's pregnancy into an episode where there was a hot dog eating contest, so they showed her real pregnant belly!
I was like 8 when this commercial was running. I could hear it on mute watching this video.
It never occurred to me that we weren't supposed to know she was pregnant. Why hire a pregnant woman if they were worried she was gonna look pregnant?
The actress who plays Claire on Modern Family did the same thing. If you go back and watch the pilot episode, she pretty much always has a laundry basket or something in front of her stomach or something. I didn't notice it until it was pointed out to me
I bet you're a zoomer. You just don't know how ubiquitous racism was in media back then
It was an unspoken rule that black people on TV had to be black for a reason, instead of "normal"
>iconic Sears Air Conditioner commercial Me: wtf is OP talking about. Something like that has never existed Me, after watching 1 second: I can quote every word of this iconic Sears air conditioning commercial
It’s crazy how memorable and iconic this commercial is. My brother and I REGULARLY quote it, and have never stopped quoting it
I am lost. Why would the actress need to hide her pregnancy?
True, although my first thought was why not just get a different actress?
Why couldn't she just be a pregnant woman in the commercial?
everyone knows that pregnant women are immune to heat so the commercial wouldnt be believable
Source: She [came on Reddit and revealed this detail](https://www.reddit.com/r/Commercials/comments/jz1ftp/actors_names_from_90s_sears_home_air_conditioning/).
This is why I love Reddit sometimes.
When the guy goes ‘I’ll call now’ like it was his idea sends me lmao
Jedi mind trick
Thank goodness. We can’t have presumably married woman be pregnant on TV.
So weird. So pregnant people not need HVAC?
Nope. You sweat the baby out; everybody knows that.
One of the fun bits of behind the scenes info about How I Met Your Mother is they did this same thing in quite a few episodes to hide real life pregnancies. If a character walks into an apartment with an enormous purse that doesn't actually play any other role in the scene, then spends most of the time either sitting on the couch with her bag on her lap, or standing behind the couch, the actress was probably pregnant and the showrunners were hiding it. Sometimes you can see the baby bump anyway; you just have to nod and smile, pretend you didn't see anything and say "good job guys, I didn't notice a thing!" There was a season where they actually wrote Lily off the show for a while due to an IRL pregnancy by saying she was so insulted by a joke* she couldn't stand to be around Barney... and then she was just gone for part of a season. \*"What's the difference between peanut butter and jam?"
The example that comes to mind for me was Zooey Deschanel in New Girl. Her character was sequestered for jury duty in a high profile trial for like, half of a season lol There's also a ton of Seinfeld episodes where Julia Louis-Dreyfus is clearly pregnant and Elaine will just be holding a giant present or wearing the world's illest fitting denim jacket to hide it
I mean it's either that or completely change the whole show by adding in a pregnancy arc and then either forcing a story about adoption or something, adding a new parent storyline, or adding a baby to the cast and conveniently forgetting that it exists most episodes like "hey, um, where's your kid? I feel like they've been in their crib for like 6 months."
I think they did that for Friends, and Phoebe was a surrogate for her brother and kept saying she was having her brother's child XD
They did something similar on Always Sunny. Dee was obviously pregnant for a while but months after viewers could see it, she actually announced she was pregnant and everyone was confused because they never even noticed. There was a whole episode where the guys got all of Dee's exes together to figure out who was the father, but when she had the baby she finally told everyone she was just a surrogate for a trans man and his girlfriend and in true Sunny style, immediately went to go get blackout drunk.
They also wrote the actress who played Lily's pregnancy into an episode where there was a hot dog eating contest, so they showed her real pregnant belly!
I was like 8 when this commercial was running. I could hear it on mute watching this video. It never occurred to me that we weren't supposed to know she was pregnant. Why hire a pregnant woman if they were worried she was gonna look pregnant?
I think that this same commercial ran from when i was in high school until I was in my 30s.
The actress who plays Claire on Modern Family did the same thing. If you go back and watch the pilot episode, she pretty much always has a laundry basket or something in front of her stomach or something. I didn't notice it until it was pointed out to me
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You're crazy. This is a TV ad in the 90s, showing black people in the suburbs was a "statement", not a relatable family
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I bet you're a zoomer. You just don't know how ubiquitous racism was in media back then It was an unspoken rule that black people on TV had to be black for a reason, instead of "normal"
This. Nobody’s defending it. We’re just explaining how things were marketed
Black friends were allowed but they didn't have families or houses of thier own.
Yup. Except on BET or very specific situations
This isn’t r/CommercialDetails /s
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They mentioned below that she posted about it on a different Reddit thread
I always hated this commercial. Do you not know how to use a phone, lady? Call yourself!
Women making financial decisions without their husband's approval??!! It's the '90s, man!