Empire Carpets - "The Empire Carpet Man Gets Arrested" (Commercial, 1982) 🚓

Here's a humorous longer commercial (1 minute as opposed to the regular 30 seconds) for Empire Carpets which features the Empire Carpet Man (Lynn Hauldren) getting a citation for speeding from a Chicago Police officer.
This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, May 23rd 1982 during the 12:00pm to 2:00pm timeframe.
This is from a videotape donated to the Museum of Classic Chicago Television as part of the Dr. William Matviuw collection.
About The Museum of Classic Chicago Television:
The MCCTv (FuzzyMemoriesTV) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit whose primary mission is the preservation and display of off-air, early home videotape recordings (70s to early 80s, mostly) recorded off of TV (in Chicago or other cities now too); things which would likely be lost if not sought out and preserved digitally. If you have any old 1970s videotapes recorded off of TV please email: [e-mail] Even though (mostly) short clips are displayed here, we preserve the entire broadcasts in our archives - the complete programs with breaks (or however much is present on the tape), for historical preservation. For information on how to help in our mission, to donate or lend tapes to be converted to digital, please e-mail [e-mail] Thank you for your help!

[@ReedBrunson]

That Empire Carpet Man adventure with the cop is what I call lost media.

[@roxyabrooks864]

Are you even a Chicagoan if you didn't sing along with the phone number?? Thank you for the upload! 🌠

[@rpm773]

you didn’t do business in chicago without a jingle. empire, harlem furniture, arronsons, that natl 29000 one 😊

[@lcbryant78]

Fun fact. We had the same commercials, with the same guy, same number and company in St. Louis, mo.

[@fenderjazzbrian]

No and don’t forget Lincoln Carpet company, National 29-thousand!!

[@BenPanced]

@@rpm773 Nelson Brothers

[@mattdaugherty7865]

I remember theses commercials during Cubbies games!

[@chrisw6164]

Don’t be bribing him with that free Bissel rug shampooer

[@ChipChippersonsBBF2]

I can't believe that the officer let him bring it in squad car with him 🥸🥸🥸

[@infrequentvlogs4433]

as Negativland said -- Makes me wanna GET OUT THE BISSELL™ every time I hear it!!

[@davep1103]

The Empire guy has been STUCK in the warehouse too long.
EVERYBODY knows…. YOU BRIBE COPS WITH DONUTS 🍩 ! 🤣

[@joeferguson2606]

No area code on the phone number
Because everybody should remember the Chicago area code

[@dave11686]

Hilarious set of commercials

[@SoUtHMeMpHis]

I love the animated Jingle😢

[@nightwing1984]

Empire Carpet Man, Chicago Legend!!

[@malirabbit6228]

Wow! So the empire man was caught speeding to get to his next appointment!

[@barronridge5613]

I thought he was going to get arrested for bribery.

[@LoudBreather]

Not in Chicago lol

[@infrequentvlogs4433]

EVERYONE HAS A PRICE for The Empire Man. The police, city hall, local feds, the ombudsman, all of the local dons, they deal with The Empire Man, and he ALWAYS gets his cut.
Why, one day, he may ask you to lay down YOUR life for him.

[@Kevin-hl6ym]

That phone number is burned in my brain 😅

[@MLaker221]

We loved this song as kids and had no idea what he was offering. Now I'm an adult, and eventually going to want new carpet... WHERE are these commercials now? There's that meme around with those tv phone order ads for things we wanted "we have our own money now!" Lol. Commercials now are not fun nor humble.

[@thingmaker67]

This and "call national two nine thousand, national two nine...thousand." and "come to dispensas castle of toys, oak Brook center Illinois."

[@kimshoulders8663]

Arrested

[@tyso5146]

Amazing. 'Member when things weren't just terrible?

[@thetoongrump9801]

Calm down, gramps. Ronald Reagan just became President when this aired.

[@rpm773]

No area code needed yet. Then 312…773…and finally just 800 number

[@MrDuds1984]

He could have been a good Walter White

[@SABMashupMuseum]

Nice try, Carpet Man!

[@haskeymorrison]

First