Actor Dick Wilson was Mr. Whipple in 504 television commercials and Bruce appeared in one of those.

Also, I did probably a hundred commercials - highlights of which were playing "Young Mr. Whipple" in a 1973 Charmin commercial.

I think I've done close to a hundred of the damn things, back in days of yore when I was but an actor. I've done commercials for McDonald's, Mazda, Nissan, United Airlines, Charmin (my first, in which I played Young Mr. Whipple!), the Dairy Association (I had to drink glass after glass of yucky milk), RC Cola, Wells Fargo Bank, and heaven knows what else. My last commercial was done in 1993 in the midst of recording Michelle Nicastro's first album, Toonful. It was for the Energizer, and was a nice way to go out, acting with Rip Torn and directed by Frank Oz. It was the third in that kookie series of Energizer Bunny commercials.

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