Why do they continue using his voice?

I just checked this a couple months ago to find he's long dead. I think they're counting on A) people who remember him not realizing he's dead--after all, the last time anyone saw him, he seemed relatively young and B) people not knowing who he is--to them, he's nothing but a brand name and maybe a voice.

No what makes it creepy is that they fired him a few years before he died, which he was of course very upset over for his final years, then they went back to using his voice after he died.

Who's dead? Jimmy Dean? I always thought that was a fictional persona like Uncle Ben.

Who cares. I'm sure if it helps his family's company his ghost would be okay with using his voice or likeness.

OP, that's what makes it FUN!

OP, your post is making me laugh, because about three months ago, my boyfriend and I had the TV volume UP in the other room, so we could hear it out in the kitchen where we were cooking. One of his commercials came on and we both recognized his voice. We just looked at each other, then were like, "Isn't he DEAD?" .. I had to go look it up.

R4 Jimmy Dean was a country music singer who managed to cross over into television. His big hit, that you can still hear played today was Big Bad John. His television show was where the US fell in love with the Muppets. And, he costarred in the bond film Diamonds Are Forever. He founded the sausage company in 1969 and sold it to Sara Lee in 1984. In 2004, Sara Lee dropped him as spokesman, he then announced he liquidated all his Sara Lee stock. And, he was bitter about it until the end. Then a few years after he died they started using his voice again. If it is possible for the dead to haunt people, the only thing that would make it not horrible on Sara Lee's part is if he just haunted the shit out of them until they put him back on tv.

Oh, and like so many DL favs, his last acting credit was on Murder She Wrote.

Always thought that was creepy. Maybe people think the spokesman is the late James Dean.

He was a loner…a rebel!

He was very hot even with those giant ears. RIP.

Wasn't he married to Betty Crocker? Or was that Mrs. Butterworth?

Mrs. Butterworth, the real golden globes.

R13 Rumors persist that he was on the downlow with Chef Boyardee.

He was married to Weezie Jefferson for a while, but she took him to the cleaners.

I LOVED him in Rebel Without a Cause

Still looking for that blue jean baby queen

Prettiest sausage I ever seen

Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean

ROCK ON!

I never sampled his SAUSAGES

My favorite sausages were Swift Premium- YUM😋

It's better they keep the actual Jimmy Dean than follow the KFC example and use those actors giving pathetic imitations of the late Colonel Sanders.

"In 2004, Sara Lee dropped him as spokesman, he then announced he liquidated all his Sara Lee stock. And, he was bitter about it until the end."

I feel your pain, Jimmy.

What's really creepy is, at the end of one of his commercials, he says "I'll know you'll love" for a product that came out long after his death! How hell would he know anyone would like his microwaveable-only English muffin with turkey sausage, egg whites and fake cheese???!!

I know right? Talking about a tasty breakfast in the morning like he’s rising from the grave to go get one.

I had no idea he was a celebrity and was always wondering why I’d care about some old guys sausage.

Jimmy hosted a popular variety show in the early 1960s.

Here he is dueting with DL fave Patty Duke.

He was definitely hot. Then he ended up schilling sausages. What went wrong?

𝐺𝑜𝑜𝑑 sausages. Not a thing wrong with that.

We already had a thread on this from last November, op.

You really ARE worse than Hitler!

R28 DL has existing threads about EVERYTHING. BFD. Any thread over a couple months old with no posts is fair game for a new thread. Many of us aren't inclined to search...

Did he invent the sausages?

Tagline used to be “pure pork sausage”. As to what else it could be I don’t know.

Rumor is that he was a total douche in Tennessee. He thought he was the king. BUT he turned his one-hit (Big Bad John) into a career and gave Jim Henson (and the Muppets) a big break. Jimmy Dean is to pork sausage what George Foreman is to indoor grills.

I would have sampled his sausage when he was young

He was probably worth a gazillion dollars when he died.

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