Gillette (brand) - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

  • Saturday Night Live featured a triple-blade razor in 1975, 23 years before the Mach3, with the slogan "The Triple-Trac. Because you'll believe anything." Not to be outdone, satirical newspaper The Onion printed a mock-commentary by Gillette's president after Wilkinson/Schick introduced their Quattro razor in 2004, three years before the Fusion was introduced, entitled Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades.
  • Mad TV also featured a parody poking fun at Gillette's Mach3 line of products. Mad TV called the product the "Spishak Mach 20."
  • Gillette continues to hold the naming rights to Gillette Stadium, which is home to the NFL three-time champion New England Patriots and the MLS New England Revolution.
  • Eh Joe, an avant-garde screenplay for television penned by the minimalist writer Samuel Beckett, published in 1965, references Gillette razors several times in its script.
  • The James Bond film Goldfinger features a Gillette twist to open (TTO) razor which contains a homing device used by Bond while on board the title character's private jet.
  • The U.K. comedian Andy Parsons made jokes as part of his participation in Mock The Week parodying the brand's adverts, saying "Our closest shave yet. In fact, it's too close. It acts like a bacon slicer. Go back to using the previous one."

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