Remember When Seth Green Was the 'Cha-Ching!' Burger Commercial Kid?
By Lindsay Robertson, The Set | Monday, March 7, 2011, 10:28 AM
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Cha-CHING!
Seth Green got his first big break as a small boy, playing a young Woody Allen in 1987's "Radio Days." But, in 1991, a 17-year-old Green was the toast of the American Southeast, playing a money-hungry drive-through hamburger stand employee in a series of commercials for the Rally's fast-food chain, and his signature catchphrase, "Cha-ching!" went as viral as anything could go before the mainstream internet.
Green would go on to star in movies (the "Austin Powers" films) and TV shows ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and many more), and now does voiceover work for such popular animated shows as "The Family Guy" and "Robot Chicken" (which he also co-created and produces).
But back in 1991, Green was best known as "The Cha-Ching! Guy," as (hilariously) evidenced by this unearthed news report about Green's star appearance in New Orleans, where, due to the fact that the New Orleans Saints had made "cha-ching!" their new rallying cry, Green was greeted as a hero and given the key to the city. Seriously:
Here's one of the Rally's commercials that started the whole "cha-ching!" craze, which, as someone who lived in North Florida at the time, I can attest was just as huge a phenomenon as the previous video makes it out to be:
Users on Reddit, where someone posted the New Orleans news report video yesterday, compare Green's rise to catchphrase-dependent fame to Bart Simpson's "I didn't do it" kid, as well as to Adam Scott's struggling actor character on "Party Down," who felt doomed to a life of cater-waitering after becoming forever associated with his beer commercial catchphrase, "Are we having fun yet?"
Luckily for Seth Green, he's had a different fate and continues to work as an actor, producer, and writer, and, at least so far, isn't a victim of the Catchphrase Curse. Incidentally, 1991 was the first year the New Orleans Saints ever won their division. Coincidence? I think not. Cha-ching!
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