Instead, it’s a blend of the actual verbiage of the ad, which starred actor John Gilchrist, then nearly 4 years old, as Mikey. In the clip, Gilchrist’s two real-life brothers, Michael and ...

But the truth of the whole affair was frankly anticlimactic. John Gilchrist, the child actor who played Mikey, was (and is) alive and well; he just turned 57. So Mikey grew old like the rest of us ...