{"id":305,"date":"2025-09-04T13:07:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T13:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/good-worldwide.go-vip.net\/upworthy\/2025\/09\/04\/robin-williams-vintage-commercial-ex1\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T13:07:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T13:07:00","slug":"robin-williams-vintage-commercial-ex1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodinc.com\/qa-upworthy\/2025\/09\/04\/robin-williams-vintage-commercial-ex1\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-fame Robin Williams doing his thing in a 1977 phone commercial is peak nostalgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all know and love the late, great <a href=\"\/robin-williams-and-martha-stewart-can-hardly-keep-it-together-in-this-classic-taco-segment-ex1\" target=\"_self\"><u>Robin Williams<\/u><\/a> for his work in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upworthy.com\/robin-williams-movie-scene\" target=\"_self\"><u>movies<\/u><\/a>, television shows, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upworthy.com\/saturday-night-live-lisa-from-temecula-ex1\" target=\"_self\"><u><em>Saturday Night Live<\/em><\/u><\/a>, and standup. But let\u2019s not forget he <em>also<\/em> has a slew of commercials under his belt as well. The talented Williams delighted in everything he did because, honestly, what medium wouldn\u2019t benefit from his signature charm and humor?<\/p><p>With such a long and illustrious career, fans may be happy to know that there&#8217;s still new (to us!) William&#8217;s content to find and enjoy. The evidence? Even the biggest Robin Williams fans might be surprised to find this recently unearthed commercial he did for the Illinois Bell phone company (later known as AT&amp;T) back in 1977.<\/p><p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2MuP2M3TwNc\" target=\"_blank\">clip<\/a>, where Williams unsurprisingly plays a mischievous husband making voices while his wife shops around for the perfect landline phone, we see a delightful foreshadowing of his alien character Mork from the sitcom <em>Mork &amp; Mindy\u2014<\/em>it certainly helps that the woman playing his wife resembles Pam Dawber, who played Mindy in the show. (Not to mention the fact that he says &#8220;people of Earth\u201d with that perfect alien voice.)<\/p><p>Watch:<\/p><p class=\"shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube\">        \t\t<div class=\"embed-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-has-aspect-ratio \"> \n\t\t\t\t<div style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/2MuP2M3TwNc\/hqdefault.jpg)\" class=\"rkv-video-placeholder \" data-provider=\"youtube\" data-video-id=\"2MuP2M3TwNc\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<button aria-label=\"Play video\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg width=\"17\" height=\"20\" viewBox=\"0 0 17 20\" fill=\"none\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<path d=\"M16.5 9.75047C16.5006 10.0051 16.4353 10.2556 16.3105 10.4775C16.1856 10.6995 16.0055 10.8853 15.7875 11.017L2.28 19.2802C2.05227 19.4196 1.79144 19.4957 1.52445 19.5007C1.25746 19.5056 0.993989 19.4392 0.76125 19.3083C0.530728 19.1794 0.338696 18.9914 0.204904 18.7637C0.0711107 18.536 0.000385179 18.2768 0 18.0127V1.48828C0.000385179 1.22417 0.0711107 0.964934 0.204904 0.737222C0.338696 0.509511 0.530728 0.321545 0.76125 0.192655C0.993989 0.0617322 1.25746 -0.00468706 1.52445 0.0002572C1.79144 0.00520146 2.05227 0.0813301 2.28 0.220781L15.7875 8.4839C16.0055 8.6156 16.1856 8.80145 16.3105 9.0234C16.4353 9.24534 16.5006 9.49582 16.5 9.75047Z\" fill=\"white\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t          <\/p> <p>Of course, it wasn\u2019t just nostalgia for Williams that people felt while watching this video, but also wistfulness for a bygone era, a simpler time when something like a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upworthy.com\/mom-installs-home-phone\" target=\"_blank\">landline<\/a> was even a thing. Here\u2019s a small smattering of comments from YouTube:<\/p><p>\u201cYou bought a phone and it sat on a desk or hung on the wall for decades and did its job, no updates, no &#8216;starting it up&#8217;, it was always on and always worked.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cMiss the days when you could slam the phone.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cThe most surprising thing is that they repaired the broken phones rather than simply throwing them out and giving you a new one.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cOh, the times when we could make ourselves unavailable.\u201d<\/p><p class=\"shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image\">        <figure class=\"rkv-rebelmouse\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/good-worldwide.go-vip.net\/qa-upworthy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/09\/origin-177.gif\" alt=\"obin williams, commercial, 1970s, nostalgia, actor, legend\" \/><figcaption>Robin Williams says Wazzup?  <a href=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/gifs\/robin-williams-wassup-eoVusT7Pi9ODe\" rel=\"nofollow\">Giphy<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>                        <\/p><p>\u201cI remember having to go to the phone company. All the different color phones on display.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cOur yellow kitchen wall phone had a cord like 12 ft long. It got knotted and tangled once and just stayed that way forever.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cI remember being so excited about the new &#8220;pushbuttons&#8221; instead of the rotary dial.\u201d<\/p><p>And last but not least, \u201cI want to live in this time period.\u201d<\/p><p>While we have two things to miss because of this video, it also, as one view put it, gave us \u201csomething to smile about,\u201d and that\u2019s never a bad thing.<\/p><p>If you&#8217;re wanting more of Williams and his special brand of humor, you&#8217;re in luck. Thanks to the Internet, we have a few more archived Robin William commercials at our disposal, arguably more chaotic than the one for Illinois Bell.<\/p><p>Here&#8217;s one for the popular game, <em>Legend of Zelda<\/em>:<\/p><p class=\"shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube\">        \t\t<div class=\"embed-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-has-aspect-ratio \"> \n\t\t\t\t<div style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/D2ZyLEJ0DdU\/hqdefault.jpg)\" class=\"rkv-video-placeholder \" data-provider=\"youtube\" data-video-id=\"D2ZyLEJ0DdU\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<button aria-label=\"Play video\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg width=\"17\" height=\"20\" viewBox=\"0 0 17 20\" fill=\"none\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<path d=\"M16.5 9.75047C16.5006 10.0051 16.4353 10.2556 16.3105 10.4775C16.1856 10.6995 16.0055 10.8853 15.7875 11.017L2.28 19.2802C2.05227 19.4196 1.79144 19.4957 1.52445 19.5007C1.25746 19.5056 0.993989 19.4392 0.76125 19.3083C0.530728 19.1794 0.338696 18.9914 0.204904 18.7637C0.0711107 18.536 0.000385179 18.2768 0 18.0127V1.48828C0.000385179 1.22417 0.0711107 0.964934 0.204904 0.737222C0.338696 0.509511 0.530728 0.321545 0.76125 0.192655C0.993989 0.0617322 1.25746 -0.00468706 1.52445 0.0002572C1.79144 0.00520146 2.05227 0.0813301 2.28 0.220781L15.7875 8.4839C16.0055 8.6156 16.1856 8.80145 16.3105 9.0234C16.4353 9.24534 16.5006 9.49582 16.5 9.75047Z\" fill=\"white\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t          <\/p> <p>And another for Snickers, because who portrays the unhinged quite like Williams? <\/p><p>The man just simply had a talent that hasn&#8217;t been matched since.<\/p> <p class=\"shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube\">        \t\t<div class=\"embed-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-has-aspect-ratio \"> \n\t\t\t\t<div style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/p8ufo1y5KBM\/hqdefault.jpg)\" class=\"rkv-video-placeholder \" data-provider=\"youtube\" data-video-id=\"p8ufo1y5KBM\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<button aria-label=\"Play video\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg width=\"17\" height=\"20\" viewBox=\"0 0 17 20\" fill=\"none\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<path d=\"M16.5 9.75047C16.5006 10.0051 16.4353 10.2556 16.3105 10.4775C16.1856 10.6995 16.0055 10.8853 15.7875 11.017L2.28 19.2802C2.05227 19.4196 1.79144 19.4957 1.52445 19.5007C1.25746 19.5056 0.993989 19.4392 0.76125 19.3083C0.530728 19.1794 0.338696 18.9914 0.204904 18.7637C0.0711107 18.536 0.000385179 18.2768 0 18.0127V1.48828C0.000385179 1.22417 0.0711107 0.964934 0.204904 0.737222C0.338696 0.509511 0.530728 0.321545 0.76125 0.192655C0.993989 0.0617322 1.25746 -0.00468706 1.52445 0.0002572C1.79144 0.00520146 2.05227 0.0813301 2.28 0.220781L15.7875 8.4839C16.0055 8.6156 16.1856 8.80145 16.3105 9.0234C16.4353 9.24534 16.5006 9.49582 16.5 9.75047Z\" fill=\"white\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t          <\/p> <p>Especially this rather notorious one, in which Williams drives director Howard Storm insane with his shotgun style improv skills.<\/p><p>Still, you can&#8217;t argue with the final product.<\/p><p><span><\/span>Williams\u2019 comedic genius continues to be something we marvel at, and its inexplicable blend of zaniness, tragedy, and existentialism will always be a mystery we can never fully solve. That\u2019s part of what made it so magical, and why we can watch even one of his most seemingly insignificant works and still be mesmerized. He was one of the greats, no doubt about it.<\/p><p><em>This article originally appeared in February. 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