What was this preoccupation some producers had with putting Charles Nelson Reilly in ghastly costumes? You all remember him as Hoodoo on Lidsville and as Uncle Croc on Uncle Croc's Block. Here he is selling Bic Banana pens. Let's all try and imagine the meeting in which one advertising guy said to another, "Hey, you know what would sell these crayon things? Charles Nelson Reilly in a banana suit!"
Then the other guy says, "Great! And let's write a song for him to sing and make sure we make the word 'gay' very prominent in it, even if it doesn't exactly rhyme!"
And then the first guy yells, "Brilliant," and they make this commercial…
