{"id":6978,"date":"2014-01-17T21:58:04","date_gmt":"2014-01-18T02:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennytrout.wordpress.com\/?p=6978"},"modified":"2015-03-20T16:21:24","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T20:21:24","slug":"the-coffee-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=6978","title":{"rendered":"The Coffee People"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you were even slightly aware of broadcast television in the 80’s and 90’s, you’re probably vaguely aware of the coffee people. They started out in commercials in the UK, then later in the US, in a kind of viral-marketing-before-viral-was-a-thing on-going serial that featured two very sophisticated people meeting and falling in love gradually through increasingly far-fetched coffee related interactions. At the height of the coffee people craze here in America,\u00a0TV Guide<\/em> actually ran advertisements about when the ads were going to be on. No, seriously, people were that wrapped up in the ongoing drama of these two coffee-obsessed commercial characters hooking up that they actually tuned in\u00a0just<\/em> for the commercials.<\/p>\n

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Last night, D-Rock and I were watching\u00a0Manchild<\/em> with Bronwyn Green and Jessica Jarman, via Yahoo! Messenger and Dropbox because we are not bound by the constraints of traditional face-to-face socializing. Anyway, while we were watching, I brought up the subject of the Nescafe Gold\/Taster’s Choice commercials Anthony Head starred in during the 1980’s and 90’s. The conversation between D-Rock and I went something like this:<\/p>\n

Me:<\/strong> Do you remember those commercials about the neighbors who liked coffee or whatever, and it always seemed like they were gonna bang?<\/p>\n

D-Rock:<\/strong>Kind of?<\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0<\/strong>You know, where the woman comes over to borrow coffee or whatever, and then you’d have to watch the next ad to see if they were gonna hook up? This was in the 80’s or the 90’s? They were on for like, ever.<\/p>\n

D-Rock:\u00a0<\/strong>Oh my god, yes! I totally forgot those!<\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0<\/strong>Right?<\/p>\n

D-Rock:\u00a0<\/strong>And people were into those!<\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0<\/strong>Tony Head was in those.<\/p>\n

D-Rock:\u00a0<\/strong>It creeps me out that you call him Tony.<\/p>\n

Me:<\/strong> Well, he was in them. He was the coffee guy.<\/p>\n

D-Rock:<\/strong> Do you think those are on the internet?<\/p>\n

Me:<\/strong> Everything is on the internet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, dear readers… the internet did not disappoint:
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