For any of us old enough to remember the old Charmin TV commercials...

Mr. Whipple' TV actor Dick Wilson dies

LOS ANGELES - Dick Wilson, the actor and pitchman who played the uptight grocer begging customers "Please, don't squeeze the Charmin," died Monday. He was 91.

The man famous as TV's "Mr. Whipple" died of natural causes at the Motion Picture & Television Fund Hospital in Woodland Hills, said his daughter Melanie Wilson, who is known for her role as a flight attendant on the ABC sitcom "Perfect Strangers."

Over 21 years, Wilson made more than 500 commercials as Mr. George Whipple, a man consumed with keeping bubbly housewives from fondling the soft toilet paper. The punch line of most spots was that Whipple himself was a closeted Charmin-squeezer.

Awww he died? I used to like those commercials, "Mr. Whipple" played a great part in them. RIP.

I promise I won't squeeze the charmin.....that often.

Aw, I'm gonna miss him.

Wow, he died at the age of 91.

I only hope I get to squeeze that much Charmin out of life.

First Mr Rogers and now Mr Whipple?!?! Both were big figures in my childhood.

JuliePurplehead said:

Them and Captain Kangaroo.

PurpleJedi said:

I used to looooove Captain Kangaroo. I didn't know that Mr. Rogers died too.