I think Mr. Clean needs to clean the House and Senate, and make those places spic and span.

Never really cared for this blustery goober. He looked just a little too much like Yul Brenner...who was high on my creepy list as a kid (along with Robert Mitchum and Kirk Douglas). The advertisers probably weren't talking to me anyway since I wasn't into mopping either. Actually, I'm still not all that keen on it.

I guess any ad icon here since. . .since. . .John McCain was an adult and not a near-dead deserves at least four big ones. . .and the phallic appearance of Mr. Clean combined with the smile on sexy housewife-on-TV always makes the sexist pig in me smile.

Having said that, from a homeowner's perspective- the products aren't all that bad. . .

Often confused with Astromike. Mr.Clean is more buff and wears an earing.

Oh and nowadays, there are way too many people who want to look like him.

This is another figure that approaches iconic status in advertising, but falls just short.  If you ever get a chance, see some of the earliest television commercials of this campaign. 

The sexual innuendo is pretty obvious, and the implication is that when Mr. Clean gets done with the kitchen floor, he and the housewife are "getting busy.."

I had his hairdo once or twice...

  I liked him as a kid because he reminded of the bald alien from my then-favorite horror film "Attack of the 50-Foot Woman." Then again, I was a kid who begged my mother to buy Imperial margarine because, in the TV commercials, whenever anyone ate bread or a muffin with the margarine spread on it, an enormous Crown suddenly popped up out of thin air onto their heads, and I wanted that Crown for myself.