What amazes me is ,how the rumor spread nation wide back in the 70's ,there was no Internet,no cell phones or home computers, but every body knew Mikey "died" from pop rocks and Coca-Cola.
@@kenlompart9905 LOL , IDK that Canada heard about Mikey's tragic "death . that's even more amazing, it spread internationally way before the Internet.
His brothers did an interview and was puzzled as why Mikey was so popular and didn't have a single line. Also in 1987 Life cereal did a commercial with a grown up Mikey.
I remember hearing this rumor as a kid as well with the addition of: “they took his life away” 😂 and because I heard it like that I never believed it to be true. So nice to hear that he got into advertising later on in life.
@billr3053 I was a pre-teen when they came out. I loved them! They were just tiny hard bits of candy that's carbonated, so why your saliva would melt the candy, the trapped bubbles inside would pop causing tiny "explosions" while eating. We had the rumor about Coke. My generation (X) made it up. A '80s urban legend.
Those RIP posts are jarring to say the least..I always Google the celebrity immediately to see if its true..and pray its not.. I was caught off guard by James Earl Jones yesterday..😦
I've always believed that the reason that rumor began was to stop kids from eating Pop Rocks. I remember my mother forbade me from eating them before she realized that it was highly unlikely.
I was in elementary school when this legend was making the rounds. When repeating an urban legend, it was always important to emphasize its truthfulness by ending with: "It was in the NEWSPAPER!"
First time I ever heard the story.... Yeah, You Tube videos about purported death of people can be created and posted in a moment's notice. Getting them removed seems to take forever.
I remember that commercial so well. I’m glad he’s alive and doing well. I hate those thumbnails or clickbait as they say and refuse to watch that garbage. Drives me nuts! Thanks for sharing Dave.😊
Thanks for the update video on Mikey! I'm glad he's alive and well. Yes! All the stories about people being dead when they're not. And yet, Elvis lives forever. Amoung others. Keep on eating Life cereal, Mikey 😃
@@jdsundstrom "Somebody who knows, somebody...", even Spongebob got on the 'Urban Legend' kick. Not Spongebob BUT..."Elevator full of people. Eddie Murphy and his dogs got on and said 'Sit!'. All the people sat on the floor." I also heard it was 'Mike Tyson'. If Mike Tyson said "Sthit!", I'd 'Sthit'.
In the mid-2000’s my wife and I took a Hollander America cruise from Anchorage to Vancouver BC. “Mikey” was the ship’s Social Director. Super nice guy.
📺Yes Dave, as well as the Jacksons spoof version with another Mikey as in Michael Jackson commercial parody which I'm sure you'll also remember Dave!🥣🕺📼
I remember other people later “remembering“ the commercial as saying “he eats everything”… always annoyed me because it totally changes the whole point of the commercial lol 😂🙄🤷♂️
I never heard that rumor, I heard one that scared me, like the little girl (Tracy) from The Partridge Family who was dragged by a school bus when she was running late for school she fell under it and was killed, she died in 2015 so that's not true, every parent including mine believe it and my mom made sure I was never late for the bus oh boy! back then we didn't have the internet to make sure these things weren't true so we had to take the word of someone who heard it somewhere, those were simpler times, and we were nieve, but hardly ever late for the school bus. good video thank you.
Wait Ron Howard died? lol It's amazing if a lie is told enough times people believe it is the truth. Never stopped me from eating Pop Rocks. Take Care.
I have also noticed those “RIP videos” lately. The only one that was legit (so far) that I have seen was Martin Mull. The most recent one that was posted was on Neil Diamond; I quickly looked him up without clicking on the video. Sure enough……still alive and kicking!
im 53 it was like yesterday along with where's the beef n hey koolaid wow i have so many one liner hit commercials in my head. maybe u can do that for us something a little different only u could pull off successfully(just my opinion) oh yeah one more thing,I want my MTV😂😂
People named Michael actually hate that guy because nobody over the age of five named Michael likes to be called Mikey and yet that is what people who want to demean you will use the nickname Mikey
I like whatever happened to John's brothers Michael and Tommy? I loke to know what both if them are up to! Please Dave could please answer me that question for m. Thanks for your help as always and forever for sure!
There was another rumor that they’re saying Michael J. Fox died. I know he’s been sick but they have said he’s been dead before when he still alive so I wonder if you could tell me again if he’s still alive today I’m praying that he is because he is one of my favorite actors please please confirm either way if he is here or not cause I believe what you would say, I can’t believe anything else because they have said this too many times that they said he was dead when he was still here so hope it’s just a bad rumor
It's most likely the result of the joke.... Did you hear the Mikey died? He ran out of Life. It's a stupid joke and if heard by someone who doesn't get it, the rumor mill starts and some people don't check the information and spread it anyway.
They are all brothers. That was nice. Great video Dave!
Thanks 👍
I knew just from looking at them that they were brothers.
What amazes me is ,how the rumor spread nation wide back in the 70's ,there was no Internet,no cell phones or home computers, but every body knew Mikey "died" from pop rocks and Coca-Cola.
Just goes to show that if a fake story is good enough...it doesn't need the internet.
Not just in the US either, it was wide spread here in Canada too.
@@kenlompart9905 LOL , IDK that Canada heard about Mikey's tragic "death . that's even more amazing, it spread internationally way before the Internet.
Yep
Or the rumor about Rod Stewart having to get his stomach pumped for you know what. Lol! 😅
His brothers did an interview and was puzzled as why Mikey was so popular and didn't have a single line. Also in 1987 Life cereal did a commercial with a grown up Mikey.
I wonder if Quaker Oats ever thought of bringing those 3 guys back together to do the commercial again.
I was thinking the same thing. That'd be so funny!
That would be a great Super Bowl commercial.
@@kenlompart9905 They don't make good superbowl commercials anymore but yes that would be great.
I thought they did get back together in something a few years ago?
It would be hilarious to reshoot the commercial with the same actors and the same dialog, only with them all being VERY grown men.
I remember hearing this rumor as a kid as well with the addition of: “they took his life away” 😂 and because I heard it like that I never believed it to be true. So nice to hear that he got into advertising later on in life.
👩"He won't eat it he hates everything"! Dave I can quote the entire commercial...It stuck with me for decades! 😂📺
My friend and I drank pop rocks and coke when we were both 15. Tragically we both died when our stomachs exploded. It was quite painful.
Please RIP
Who was your friend, Dean? Audrey Rose?!
@@williamlangan5902 'No, was a crew member from the 'Alien' movie!
LOL
You win!
Now if you told me Mikey drank Coca-Cola and swallowed Mentos, I'd believe he died.
That does feel like a MORE deadly combination!
That what I thought of: Mentos. From YT vids where they cause violent foaming. I have no idea what pop rocks are.
@billr3053
I was a pre-teen when they came out. I loved them! They were just tiny hard bits of candy that's carbonated, so why your saliva would melt the candy, the trapped bubbles inside would pop causing tiny "explosions" while eating.
We had the rumor about Coke. My generation (X) made it up. A '80s urban legend.
That's why they developed the 'New Coke', hawked by America's Dad!
Thanks for setting the record straight. I never heard the story of his death before, but it was nice to find out what he's up to today.
I'm glad you enjoyed the video, Larry!
I loved life cereal back then. It is too bad that it had become a sugar delivery system. No longer that healthy anymore.
Those RIP posts are jarring to say the least..I always Google the celebrity immediately to see if its true..and pray its not.. I was caught off guard by James Earl Jones yesterday..😦
I am so glad we have your cchannel. ❤ You bring back so many memories and answer questions to what happened to them.
Thanks Willa!
@@jdsundstrom I Thank you 👌
Thanks Dave for posting ❤❤❤Prayers for Everyone
I've always believed that the reason that rumor began was to stop kids from eating Pop Rocks. I remember my mother forbade me from eating them before she realized that it was highly unlikely.
I was in elementary school when this legend was making the rounds.
When repeating an urban legend, it was always important to emphasize its truthfulness by ending with: "It was in the NEWSPAPER!"
First time I ever heard the story.... Yeah, You Tube videos about purported death of people can be created and posted in a moment's notice. Getting them removed seems to take forever.
they made a commercial several yrs ago with a contest looking for a new mikey
Great stuff Dave thanks for sharing this
Glad you enjoyed it, Cade!
Sure did enjoyed it Dave
He likes it! Hey Mikey
Dave
Great content ! I haven't eaten cereal and 40 years
No cereal for 40 years?!!?
Definitely remember this.you can tell they are brothers easy.
Thanks Dave, I grew up with that commercial. Love your theme song! How cool is that?!
Thanks for the comment, William! I'm glad you like the song. 🙂
I have a little, so called Ferral Cat around my house and I named him Mikey because he hates EVERYTHING!
The only thing that died was sales of Pop Rocks. They were even taken off the market for a while!
I saw the commercial when I was five in 1971
I remember this
Tv ads .
When i was a kid
I evening get this line since my name Michael aka Mikey.
I knew about the ad, but I didn’t know the cereal was still around from the seventies.
I've heard the coke pop rocks story as a child.
I remember that commercial so well. I’m glad he’s alive and doing well. I hate those thumbnails or clickbait as they say and refuse to watch that garbage. Drives me nuts! Thanks for sharing Dave.😊
I'm glad you enjoyed the video!
The internet was supposed to kill urban legends. Instead it serves to proliferate them.
Very true, Rich
Mythbusters tackled this myth in their very first episode in 2003. Painful gas is about all you get if you mix Pop Rocks and soda.
Especially when I have a difficult day, your upbeat videos always put a smile on my face. Thanks Dave!!!
Thank you!
Gotta love the internet and all the fake gossip lol. Thanks for putting this silly rumor to bed once and for all
It's a fun rumor because it is so silly...that said, it's good to know that John is still alive and kicking.
Mikey is still a handsome person.
Legend says famous people can only die in a Fantastical Fashion...........It's never he died in an auto accident.
'Harry Chapin, Anne Heche, Jayne Mansfield, James Dean, ...
Saw him ripping bong hits at Fairfield in the late eighties. Never was pretentious at all just a good dude.
Great video Dave 👍 great to know Mikey is still with us 🙏🏻
Thank you for doing this, this aired before I was born but I knew about it also the urban legend.
I remember watching this commercial on TV back in the 70s. Only thing I don't know is what his name is.
Great one. My brother is mike and we used to bust him up when he ate cinnamon life. Thanks for the video.
I'm glad you enjoyed it. Say "hi" to your brother, Mike, for me. 🙂
@@jdsundstrom I will thank you
There's a grain of truth in this story. It was Bigfoot who ate pop rocks and coke and exploded. Notice we haven't seen him in a while.
Didn’t the mythbusters debunked the whole pop-rocks and coke myth on their show?
Thanks for the update video on Mikey! I'm glad he's alive and well.
Yes! All the stories about people being dead when they're not.
And yet, Elvis lives forever. Amoung others.
Keep on eating Life cereal, Mikey 😃
Thanks for sharing, Marlene!
@@jdsundstrom "Somebody who knows, somebody...", even Spongebob got on the 'Urban Legend' kick.
Not Spongebob BUT..."Elevator full of people. Eddie Murphy and his dogs got on and said 'Sit!'. All the people sat on the floor." I also heard it was 'Mike Tyson'. If Mike Tyson said "Sthit!", I'd 'Sthit'.
LOL! I remember that rumor back about 74 when pop-rocks became popular.
Great video Dave 🥰
Glad you enjoyed it
In the mid-2000’s my wife and I took a Hollander America cruise from Anchorage to Vancouver BC. “Mikey” was the ship’s Social Director. Super nice guy.
Cruise Ship Social Director, 'Super Nice Guy', "You know what they say about 'nice guys'...they're either 💍married or🩰 gay."
Thanks for this!!! Super awesome to find out these were smart kids and didn't fall into the Hollywood hole of despair.
Go Mikey!!!
I was named after Mikey.
I’m the same age as that kid. And my name is Mike. My big brother tortured me relentlessly about this commercial.
Darn older brothers! Thanks for sharing, Mike. 🙂
📺Yes Dave, as well as the Jacksons spoof version with another Mikey as in Michael Jackson commercial parody which I'm sure you'll also remember Dave!🥣🕺📼
Interesting 😊
I remember other people later “remembering“ the commercial as saying “he eats everything”… always annoyed me because it totally changes the whole point of the commercial lol 😂🙄🤷♂️
Dave you’re always top shelf one the good guys in the world and your brother sssss say you’re a good guy too
I remember the rumor about the pop rocks.
I never heard that rumor, I heard one that scared me, like the little girl (Tracy) from The Partridge Family who was dragged by a school bus when she was running late for school she fell under it and was killed, she died in 2015 so that's not true, every parent including mine believe it and my mom made sure I was never late for the bus oh boy! back then we didn't have the internet to make sure these things weren't true so we had to take the word of someone who heard it somewhere, those were simpler times, and we were nieve, but hardly ever late for the school bus. good video thank you.
Thanks for sharing your memories!
Boy that's funny, I DO remember that legend.
Of course, the next cereal will have to be Life.
Wait Ron Howard died? lol It's amazing if a lie is told enough times people believe it is the truth. Never stopped me from eating Pop Rocks. Take Care.
Beats poor Abe Vigoda who lost out on countless gigs because casting directors thought HE was dead due to an urban rumor🤓😎✌🏻
That song at the end lol wtf
I heard that Ule Gibbons died, he ate a whole Pine Tree. And tried to pass a 2X4, in the restroom.
Yikes!
RIP Mikey. You left us far too soon
John Gilchirst is one cereal legend even if he eats Life cereal in the present year.
Seems that John got his start in advertising by being in a tv ad.
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2:18 You gotta follow the science. hahahahaha!
He still looks exactly the same as he did in the commercial 😅
I detected a faint Brooklyn accent perhaps
Me too! 👍
Me too! 👍
I remember hearing of him dying from the stupid Pop Rocks myth back in 1979-1980.
Boy did I get teased in school about the name
I've often wondered what happened to Mikey
At least he’s in good company with Paul McCartney and “Blues Clues”’ Steve Burns. 😅
I have also noticed those “RIP videos” lately. The only one that was legit (so far) that I have seen was Martin Mull. The most recent one that was posted was on Neil Diamond; I quickly looked him up without clicking on the video. Sure enough……still alive and kicking!
I believe John went to Fairfield University in Connecticut.
im 53 it was like yesterday along with where's the beef n hey koolaid wow i have so many one liner hit commercials in my head. maybe u can do that for us something a little different only u could pull off successfully(just my opinion) oh yeah one more thing,I want my MTV😂😂
It wasn't pop rocks it was cosmic candy.
That's what I remember hearing too cosmic candy back the late 70s
That's what I remember hearing too cosmic candy back in the late 70s
I heard the kid ran out of LIFE!!
we had a kid in HS who looked like him in hs his name was Mike W.
He died in Vietnam with "The Beaver"!!!
Oh the 70s. I was born in 68 so the 70s was a big decade for me 😂 Mikey died right around the time Rod Stewart had to get his stomach pumped 😂
People named Michael actually hate that guy because nobody over the age of five named Michael likes to be called Mikey and yet that is what people who want to demean you will use the nickname Mikey
I like putting pop rocks in my mouth and taking a sip of Diet Coke and really intensifies the popping of the pop rocks
Ha! Where did you find that song about Mikey?
I created it using AI. 🙂
@@jdsundstrom GENIUS!!!!!!!!!
@@jdsundstrom How much of it was you? Can you maybe post the whole song? Very cool.
I wish I had a dollar for every time I heard the words MIKEY LIKES IT
Woa
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Who sings that song at the end?
It's just a little ditty that I created with AI.
@@jdsundstrom Congrats. It actually sounded like a show tune or something. That would be good musical about iconic TV commercials.
Maybe he's on the outside looking in.
I like whatever happened to John's brothers Michael and Tommy? I loke to know what both if them are up to! Please Dave could please answer me that question for m. Thanks for your help as always and forever for sure!
No he did not die
Spoiler alert! 😃😁🤣
YAY MICKEY!!!!!!
There was another rumor that they’re saying Michael J. Fox died. I know he’s been sick but they have said he’s been dead before when he still alive so I wonder if you could tell me again if he’s still alive today I’m praying that he is because he is one of my favorite actors please please confirm either way if he is here or not cause I believe what you would say, I can’t believe anything else because they have said this too many times that they said he was dead when he was still here so hope it’s just a bad rumor
So what about the other brother?
It's most likely the result of the joke.... Did you hear the Mikey died? He ran out of Life. It's a stupid joke and if heard by someone who doesn't get it, the rumor mill starts and some people don't check the information and spread it anyway.
Cinnamon Life freaking rules 🤘
Mikey is Still Alive.👍👍👍
My brothers favorite cereal life cinnamon life
I love life cereal it's awesome 😊
I heard it was Pepsi
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