Talk:I've fallen, and I can't get up!/Archives/2012

Removed POV from this article

In the last several months, a great deal of revisionism has been done on this page; I have undone most of the pointing to Life Alert, restored the fact that the company (whether or not it became Life Alert later) was called LifeCall at the time of the original airing of these commercials, and removed multiple web links and assertions that a similar phrase is still used today by Life Alert. Most of how the line was actually popularized had been removed, and that information has been restored. Skybunny 22:01, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Changes made with respect to LifeCall

Greetings. I do not believe it is appropriate to use this page as a basis for legal trademark status for Life Alert. As such, I have reverted changes which seem to push the trademark of the company Life Alert.

Whoever 'did it first', 'copied who', or owns the trademark now, this is a pop culture page focusing on the phenomenon from the early 1990s, when the company who popularized the phrase was LifeCall, and that company (bankrupt or not, bought or not) deserves full credit for its popularity. History is not rewritten to say that Howard Hughes ran American Airlines just because they bought TWA in 2001, and I see no reason that that should be done here either. I believe LifeCall deserves full credit.

Life Alert has been given a nod in this article for owning a current trademark on the similar phrase 'Help, I've fallen and I can't get up!' which I believe to be a completely reasonable compromise on this matter. If actual proof can be provided that LifeCall was acquired by Life Alert (and not just the expired trademark taken, which has less relevance), then a 'path' can be established from one company to the other in ownership - but LifeCall in that case still came first with respect to pop culture. Skybunny 00:53, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Sentence

I always liked the sentence that appeared in the article when I first read it: "Roseanne once fell down and spoke the words". I mean I dearly loved it. I'm kinda sad to see that it's gone. I want to congratulate Duoraven, who put it there, it was one of my favourite sentences of all time. Maerk 01:19, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Actor playing dispatcher

Maybe its just me, but the actor that plays the dispatcher looks remarkably like Stephen Collins. I think you'd have to watch a recording and get a voice sample to be sure. I remember seeing the commercial but I can't remember what the voice sounds like. At the time, Stephen Collins was kinda in a lull in his acting career. -- Suso 19:35, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Please allow me to post the correct information with regards to the actor who originaally portayed the dispatcher. This role was played by "Skeet Rader"who still has the call sheet and original script. This commercial was shot in Chatsworth California at the corporate offices and produced by Thundebird Productions of Palos Verdes California. Mr Rader is a character actor who has appeared in small roles in General Hospital, Santa Barbara, Superior Court as well as numerous regional and national commercials. He is probably best known, in addition to this role, for his role with Christopher Lloyd in "Tales of the Hollywood Hills - The Pat Hobby Stories" as well as the "NWA" video "Express Yourself" which can still be viewed on YouTube.com. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.64.107.50 (talk) 11:09, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

McHugh vs. Fore

We ever settle this? Thanos6 00:57, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

I don't believe so, but then, I haven't looked this up lately. Skybunny 14:53, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

There is a link to a signed picture of Edith Fore here: http://cgi.ebay.com/Signed-photo-8x10-Size-Edith-Fore_W0QQitemZ7631577734QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting and she signs the famous phrase on the picture. This could be taken as more proof, assuming the signature is truly from Edith Fore. My current best guess is that LifeCall used two actresses during the life of their company, both McHugh and Fore. But that is just a guess at this point. Ddrose 05:27, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

IMHO the refenences for Fore (an interview in a Phoenix Weekly, plus a death notice in Entertainment Weekly) are far more compelling the other two (McHugh and Marcus), which have nothing but an IMDB reference. (In the case of McHugh IMDB gives its source as "Anonymous", while for Marcus it gives no source). I've left McHugh and Marcus in, but I'm tempted to relegate them to a footnote. Peter Ballard (talk) 03:48, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

YTMND Parody

I'd like to post a link to fallenrave.ytmnd.com, but the spam filter blocks it. It's just as relevant as the youtube link posted. --Hoovernj 02:23, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Proposed standard for inclusion in "uses of the line" section

We can probably make this section a lot shorter by only allowing referenced additions. By this I mean: the fact that this line appeared in the movie Suburban Commando is not notable enough unless there is a secondary source (like a newspaper, etc.) that thought fit to mention it.

This would make the Tonight Show incident mentioned above worthy of inclusion, if a reference can be found. If to include an item you would have to say 'Go watch the movie, it's in there', that's the sign that it's not notable enough to be included.

Can we agree on this standard? Doing so would have the dual purpose of not making this section "trivia", but instead "culturally significant uses of the line". Skybunny 22:01, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Date of commercial

The article listed the commercial as appearing "starting in 1989, up to 1990, when [Lifecall] went out of business" but then later states that it trademarked the phrase in '92. So it couldn't have gone out of business in '90, right? There was no source. I removed it. This line first seems to appear in some form, unsourced and along with some other potentially erroneous info back in 2008: Revision as of 1:56, 9 Apr 2008 Dabizi (talk) 22:15, 20 June 2011 (UTC)