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Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man was a "commercial" from the Family Guy movie Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story, released on September 27th, 2005.

Origin

On September 27th, 2005, the Family Guy direct-to-DVD film Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story It features Al Harrington (voiced by Danny Smith), the President and CEO of Al Harrington’s Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man emporium and warehouse, located on Route 2 in Weekapaug, Rhode Island, telling television viewers that because of a shipping error, he was overstocked with Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Men, and was passing the savings onto potential customers.

Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man
Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man
Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man

Hi, I’m Al Harrington, President and CEO of Al Harrington’s Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man emporium and warehouse. Thanks to a shipping error, I am now currently overstocked on Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Men, and I am passing the savings on to you.

Attract customers to your business. Make a splash at your next presentation. Keep grandma company. Protect your crops. Confuse your neighbors. African American? Hail a cab. Testify in church. Or just raise the roof.

Whatever your Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man needs are. So come on down to Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man emporium and warehouse. Route 2 in Weekapaug.

Spread

That scene was such a hit with the viewers, that Al Harrington showed up in two more Family Guy shows:

• In the Star Wars parody episode "Blue Harvest", Darth Harrington was selling the "Intergalactic Proton-Powered Electrical Tentacled Advertising Droid".
• In season 6 of Family Guy, episode 11, "The Former Life of Brian", Al Harrington shows up once more, this time selling "Crudely Painted Not So Funny Plywood Cutout Folk Art".

Al Harrington and his Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Men (as well as his other merchandise) have become big in pop culture, spawning YTMND pages, a Flickr group of real-life Tube men (bearing the name WWIAFTM), tons of fan-made videos (See Below), a FaceBook group with over 600,000 fans, countless forum threads and posts, and even clothing.