Imperial is a brand of margarine distributed by Unilever. It is known or best remembered for early commercials in which a person who recently ate something with the margarine would have a crown appear on their head (accompanied by a four note fanfare).
The commercial has inspired sporadic cultural references throughout the years. The commercial was spoofed in episodes of The Carol Burnett Show, Green Acres and Parker Lewis Can't Lose. On a 1982 episode of Georgia Championship Wrestling aired on WTBS, wrestler "Rowdy" Roddy Piper gave an interview wherein he mentioned Imperial Margarine by name in the course of mocking his opponent, Jerry "The King" Lawler.
Famous quotes containing the word imperial:
“Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore.”
—Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus, 44:14.
The line “their name liveth for evermore” was chosen by Rudyard Kipling on behalf of the Imperial War Graves Commission as an epitaph to be used in Commonwealth War Cemeteries. Kipling had himself lost a son in the fighting.