10 MORE Strange Times Wrestlers Appeared In Commercials
10. Bret Hart Sells Humptey's Omelettes
Of course Bret Hart has starred in a commercial. The man can sell anything. He successfully sold for Tom Magee, for Christ's sake.
He couldn't do the same thing for Isaac Yankem, DDS, but come on. That's unrealistic.
He tried to flog something called 'Humptey's Omelettes', and somehow succeeded. In the advert, he works an Omelette match with the titular mascot. Because Hart is great, he does an effective job of conveying how much of a f*cker cooking an omelette actually is. Working out how hot the pan should be is tricky. Too hot, and you have to scrape the thing off; too cold, and there isn't a solid enough base to flip over. Just some oozing mess of yellow.
Hart builds the suspense of the high spot by struggling with the pancake turner before inadvertently launching the omelette into the rafters. In the end, Hart, always willing to do the job, suggests to Humptey that they form a tag team.
Hart recalled in his autobiography that Humptey was moved to tears by the quality of their match. Hart also praised Humptey for working with him safely.
"Not like that oversized gorilla, Goldberg."
He also tried to flog...