Rubberband Man

Yes.... THAT is the greatest commercial EVER!!!! I must have seen it at least 20 times today alone. How can we find out just how much that dude is making from it? Also..... can you imagine the choreography? Too cool. It would be great to have a supply/mailroom guy that cool.... and dressed so neatly. WOW. Imagine getting paid to have sooooo much fun.

Yes.... THAT is the greatest commercial EVER!!!! I must have seen it at least 20 times today alone. How can we find out just how much that dude is making from it? Also..... can you imagine the choreography? Too cool. It would be great to have a supply/mailroom guy that cool.... and dressed so neatly. WOW. Imagine getting paid to have sooooo much fun.

Who is the rubberband man? He is the coolest! Anyone know how I can meet him please let me know!

Rubberband Man is one of the coolest songs around. It should never have been used in a commercial.

I totally agree. This is one of the all time best commercials. When it comes on I turn up the volume and just start movin'. Who is this actor? He is awewome, with his moves and terrific expressions. Kudos to Office Max.

Rubberband Man makes my day! No matter how low or put out or crabby I feel, when the Rubberband Man comes on I can't help but smile and have the energy and a positive attitude for going on! He's my hero!!!!

I love the rubberband man, too! When that commercial comes on, I stop what I'm doing to watch it. I wish I could get a video of it. Who is that guy, anyway. He's so cute.

I wanna download this song, but I can't find it anywhere. It's a great song.

I'm glad to find a circle of friends to share the Rubberband Man with. That song always gets my toes-a-tappin and it really gets my goat!

My sis works for a LARGE advertising agency and I couldn't believe they didn't have this account and that she also DIDN'T know who I was talking about. If I could dance like the R/B man, I'd be rich and skinny :-) Their agency handles the GEICO dude, but it just doesn't compare to R/B. Can't get enough of it - I might enjoy working if R/B brought the supplies to my office :-)

The Rubberband man commercial can be downloaded from milkandcookies.com. It's impossible to watch this without smiling. I never thought i would be searching the net for an advertisment, but there you go. I think he just might be a big star someday.

The thing thats so cool about rubberband man is that he loves what he is doing! He makes people go wow, I wish I had a fun job like that! Think about what he is doing, spending all day getting people things. Put yourself in his position, if you hadnt seen the commercial, weould YOu want to do that? Take whatever you do and become it, have fun with it, become your own rubberband man-
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It is a cool commercial and certainly catchy.
I'm headin' out to buy the song for my own rubberband man. I want to see him jam out to the song. Maybe the next time we're shoppin' about he'll embaress me and I'll wish I hadn't.
I love you Shaw!
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The rubberband man best comercial ever

I work for OfficeMax and have to say that this is the best commercial we have ever had. It is also my favorite and not just because I work there. THe only ones better are the Cub/Sox ones they have out.

I have looked everywhere for the name of the "Rubberband man" anyone know who he is? Greatest commercial ever!!!!!

I found it, I found it...........his name is Eddie Steeple.

The actor is Eddie Steeples

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/07-23-2004/0002216889&EDATE=

To Whomever is Interested:

Find out more about the Rubberband Man on the following site:

www.mo-freek.com/steeples

His real name is Eddie Steeples.

You're welcome. :)

It's a funky song...deffintly deseres all praise. The commercial is nomitated for an emmy to so I hope it wins cause it kicks.

Congratulations Office Max on bringing back Blacksploitation to corporate advertising. The current commercial only serves to highlight the most gross and obvious stereotypes ever hurled at African-American culture. Almost everyone shown in Blacksploitation films is a loud, obnoxious weed-head who’s more interested in sex and music than running a business. Corporations have many choices when presenting an advertising campaign. Congratulations on bringing back Blacksploitation. Office Max should be ashamed.

I could watch this commercial all day. The Rummerman Man is THE BEST COMMERCIAL EVER!! whoever discovered this man, deserves a huge bonus

Great commercial!!!!!! VINSON: Chill: if Eddie Steeples were white, you may be screaming they should have used a "brother". As it is, it was well done and I doubt The Spinners will turn down the royalty checks which likely will rain on them-and deservedly so. Please don't watch The Great Adventure theme park ad, as it is sooo disrecpectful to our senior citizens. :P

I LOVE ALL THE RUBBERBAND MAN COMMERCIALS THANK YOU EDDIE STEEPLE FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT, THANK YOU OFFICE MAX ADVERTISING STAFF FOR THE CREATIVIY, AND A VERY BIG THANKS TO THE SPINNERS FOR PERFORMING A WONDERFUL SONG....IT SURE TAKES MY BLUES AWAY.

There's always one or two people who just don't get it. The ad is diverse with multi-cultural and mixed-race kids throughout, so the label "blacksploitation" is unfair. The ad is about enjoying one's job and finding fun in it no matter what it is. Audiences connect because anyone can appreciate those positive coworkers who make the job easier to bear. Not all posters on this board seem to fit into *that* group.

I purchase office supplies and even though people enjoy me coming around and bringing them stuff they have ordered, I just didn't like that part of my job. Now I think of the fun Rubberband Man has doing this job and it makes me feel good about myself. I think this is the best commercial ever because of how I feel about myself when I see it. Attitude is everything. If this commercial offends you, how would you feel about the waiters throwing rolls at you in a restaurant. We love it and throw our hands up for another pitched roll across the room. This commercial teaches our kids a valuable lesson about life and it can be fun whatever job we get as long as we have the right attitude about it.

Hey did ya'll know that Eddie Steeples played in Tourque with Ice Cube. He had a cool lil part but he was the guy in his motorcycle gang.

I couldn't find the Rubberman download on milkandcookies.com ... Guess I'll keep looking.. What I really like is "The MAKING of Rubberman" on Officemax.. It shows all the casting and outakes while making the commercial.. COOL !!..

Does anyone know where you can download the commerical? the milkandcookies.com link is bad...

Here's the link to see R'man ad:

http://www.usatoday.com/money/advertising/adtrack/2004-05-09-officemax_x.htm

Here is the direct link to the Rubberband man commerical and the making of it.
You know it's got to be an awesome special commerical if all of us took the time to look him up on the internet and all write about him.
Anyone got the new Rubberband man with the school bus?

http://officemax.secureportal.com/

Office Max has taken down the link to the Rubberband Man commercials. Oh, no! What's happening?

I want the video of both spots. Not everyone is in the right place at the right time but Eddie sure was.

i just want 2 know where you can download it forever on the site it will go away so where can you download it?!?!?!? if any1 nos please reply!

High-quality quicktime movies of all three commercials can be found at http://www.boardsmag.com/screeningroom/commercials

You can download quicktime versions of all three commercials from http://www.boardsmag.com/screeningroom/commercials

You can also download all of the clips on the officemax site (including the "making of" clips) by retrieving the files from your Temporary Internet Files folder (or cache) as soon as they're done playing--they'll disappear if you wait too long. They're easy to recognize--they're big files and all have the swf extension. Once you take them out of the folder, they can be replayed with your browser. And what's great is that when you replay them, the image fills the whole screen!

Rubberband man, (Eddie Steeples) is not only a great actor, but he's one of my favorite M.C.'s, he's a dope artist, funny ass stand-up comedian and cool-ass humble cat. yall gonna see alot of him in the future, to view his artwork and hear him flow go to gspotrecords.com and find "2 Days Unda The Sun" album.

Rubberband man, (Eddie Steeples) is not only a great actor, but he's one of my favorite M.C.'s, he's a dope artist, funny ass stand-up comedian and cool-ass humble cat. yall gonna see alot of him in the future, to view his artwork and hear him flow e-mail me at preemospittin@yahoo.com

I just read on CNN.com/appeals that Eddie is reported missing in the tsunami incident...hope it's not true...someone posted an appeal for information about him...

Eddie Steeples is missing in the tragedy in Asia. I just read about it on CNN.

Rubberband Man turned up in Hong Kong. Watched the update on Inside Edition Thursday night, Jan.6. YESSSSSSS!!!!!!!! That commercial makes me want to buy all my supplies at Office Max. Good job, Office Max!!

That monkey is a sure shot coon if I’ve ever seen one. I know each of you fools on this board think that we enjoy getting your mundane crap with a magic dance and smile. This sell out foolish mule may like it, but the masses of black folk can’t stand working in this system and smiling while they do it. I really hoped he died in the tsunami, I hoped he had to eat his own doo-doo to survive. One less monkey, more bananas we don’t have to share. It shows how you people still think that we are here as your servants. You think each coon with an Afro loves to dance and Hip-Hop the day away, giving you pens, pencils and post-its. Most of you dolts on this board write how "happy" this mope makes you feel. You are showing how you still think you’re our slave master and how this Negro was put on earth to make you smile and feel better about yourself. His ass getting caught in the tsunami was just a warning from the black gods who run this existence, "STOP COONING". Why don't all you slave masters go out to Office Max and but your own Rubberband man monkey. He can dance while he wipes your butt, and serves you ice tea and biscuits. At night he can play the fiddle and sing your rat kids to sleep. After all, you said you should LOVE your job, in other words, LOVE being a slave. It's seems he LOVES being a slave, per his dancing and paper clip serving. You all on here loveeeeeee you a servant it seems, I hope you and the tap dancing, over smiling, ass clone all get drowned in a California mud slide. I would LOVE to see that, makes me dance and smile. Now I hate that song.

Eddie Steeples is beginning work on a movie with Laurence Fishburne, "Akeelah and the Bee," about a young girl competing in the National Spelling Bee. That may be why mo-freek.com is reporting that Eddie may be retiring from the RBM commercials. Good for him, but I'll miss him.

Eddie is the greatest--pure genius. His RBM commericials are the best. You can't help but watch when they're on. Glad you're okay, Eddie! Also, I found an OfficeMax website with all his RBM commericals--rubberbandman.officemax.com.

For those of you that think this is a slam on Africa Americans, you are wrong. And to "The Demon PAN", first you say you hope he died in the Tsunami, then you say you hope he ate his own crap to survive.... you are obviously an idiot that doesn't deserve to live in the freedom we know as America.

This commercial was filmed with Eddie as himself, A BLACK PERSON. To say this commercial is a slam on African Americans is to say that Eddie is slamming his own race. Next time think before you speak moron!!!

Eddie, is a very talanted artist who happens to be gainfully EMPLOYED (Demon PAN). You think this gentleman should have died in the tsunami and since that did not get him he should die in the Cali mud slides, you are a work of art and rightfully so need a master who will think for you. I have never known a person of sound judgement to wish death on someone whom they do not know. I think your inability to discern fact from fiction is clearly noted and you should do some serious soul searching before wishing death on another person or you may find your life drifting aimlessly away while unaware of your simplier surroundings.

your all retarded, its a stupid commercial

The commercials are not black eploitation!!!
Its just a strategy to catch the readers eye!! I mean who couldnt miss a guy wiht 3/4 of an afro dancing around giving every body office supplies. They should do a commecial of him going to school.

to the 'demon pan' guy, you are the kind of racist black trash that gives us African-Americans a bad name as a hateful, vengeful, and wannabe-victims.

one cant be hateful to people that didn't do anything for something that wasn't done on us personally.

i know allot of people like you semi-intellectual immature racists that think the world owes you something, because your great grandparents didn't have it easy, and your wrong.

for every white person here i want you to know that people like him aren't to be pitied or given slack. because people like the 'pan' guy's irrational and racists hatred isn't only directed to whites in general; but also to blacks,Hispanics and pretty much every person that doesn't think like them.

hatred inst something that should be tolerated from neither whites' nor African-Americans. because eventually that racism hurts everyone.

i dont think Hispanics would have been offended if a Mexican with the same amount of charisma and style as Eddie steeples would have done the commercial instead.

it seems completely stupid when black racists' complain about white people being prejudice

Eddie more power to you! work on my brother! Work with intergrety with strength power and might. You are a awesome presence to be reckoned with and may the almight creative force guide you into the path that leads to doors for not only yourself but all of us who choose this profession

Could 'Annie' please tell me which large advertising agency her sister works for which handles the Geico account? Thanks.

Say to The Demon Pan or should I say The Devil's panties who ever the hell raised yo ass should be ashamed of themselves. If you can only throw out names such as clone and monkey about a man who is more than likely making a hell of alot more money than your broke ass then maybe you're the one who should be called The Monkey.Honestly you're probley an offspring of kissing cousins because only a retard would pass judgement or wish death upon someone they don't know anything about. You may need to rethink your point of view before you decide to speak in public.

You can catch "Rubberband Man" weekly as "Crab Man" on the comedy series "My Name is Earl". He is great in this too!

Yall All can suck my ass, He plays a coon on Earl too! I can't wait till the negro is dead, Yall like him cause he doesn't offend you scared white people.

Dear "The Demon Pan"
Your Klan meeting is starting, you best skedaddle.