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Robin Williams doing his thing in a phone commercial from the 1970s is peak nostalgia

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Robin Williams starred in a phone ad for Illinois Bell , later known as AT&T , in 1977 .

In the clip, Williams plays a mischievous husband making voices while his wife shops around for the perfect landline phone.

The woman playing his wife resembles Pam Dawber , who played Mindy in the show Mork & Mindy.

VR Score

28

Informative language

16

Neutral language

24

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

35

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

medium-lived

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no external sources

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