The Many Names of Mr. Clean

By Alex in Neatorama Exclusives on Sep 15, 2007 at 12:21 am

Mr. Clean – USA	Don Limpio – Spain	Maestro Limpio – Mexico
Mr. Proper – Europe and Eastern Europe	Monsieur Propre – France	Meister Proper – Germany
Mr. Clean [wiki] by any other name is one heck of a global cleaning product. Did you know that although most people think the guy is a genie (because of the bald head and the earring), the real Mr. Clean was supposed to be a sailor?

Update 9/15/07 – here are some more:

M. Net – French Canada
Thanks Algonkin!

Mastro Lindo – Italy
Thanks Pola!

Neat stuff from the NeatoShop:

alex vega
Sep 15th, 2007 at 1:19 am
Just a note (im from Spain) that “Don Limpio” was called “Mr. Proper” in Spain like in the rest of Europe until the year 2001 or 2001 :p

kinda weird !
Jean-Christophe
Sep 15th, 2007 at 1:26 am
Does anybody know why in eastern Europe ‘M.Propre’ (as we call him, here) snaps fingers ?
Chris
Sep 15th, 2007 at 1:33 am
wasn’t he a professional wrestler?
Lasse
Sep 15th, 2007 at 1:59 am
John Locke?

You don’t want to mess around with Don Limpio.
Pola
Sep 15th, 2007 at 3:58 am
In Italy it is called Mastro Lindo, see him here: http://www.mastrolindo.it/img/top2_r1_c1.jpg
Jess
Sep 15th, 2007 at 4:34 am
In Australia we have a product that’s been around for ages called “Mr Muscle”. Not sure if it’s the same product theough as there’s no bald dude.
Sahan
Sep 15th, 2007 at 8:28 pm
Mister Sparkle!
yayo
Sep 16th, 2007 at 6:18 am
In times, in Spain he was Mr. Proper ^^

My favourite is Mr. Sparkle of course

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Marge_We_Trust
cuimhne
Sep 16th, 2007 at 6:44 am
Jess I’m pretty sure that Mr Muscle is a different product.
Here in Ireland and in the UK Mr Clean is actually called Flash http://www.pgprof.com/uk/html/uk_ki_flashcleanerspray.shtml
Alex
Sep 16th, 2007 at 12:03 pm
Yeah, Mr. Muscle is a different product. It’s too bad that Mr. Clean doesn’t make an appearance in Flash.
Simon
Sep 17th, 2007 at 9:41 am
The Italian translation “Mastro Lindo”, in Brazil is a slang that means “beautiful dick” (dick as in penis).
Mar
Sep 18th, 2007 at 9:11 am
As some other readers have mentioned, Don Limpio used to be called Mr. Proper in Spain. What they fail to mention is that sometimes bald men are still humurously still called Mr. Proper over here…
sendells
Sep 19th, 2007 at 4:34 pm
Look at this picture of Britney Spears as Mrs Clean:

http://siskko.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/brit.jpg

LOL.

It says: “Mrs. Clean, B.S. makes my nose happy”.
Some Guy
Sep 30th, 2007 at 12:14 pm
Does anybody know why in eastern Europe â€˜M.Propreâ€™ (as we call him, here) snaps fingers ?

seems he only does it in your part of the world. only thing I can think of, have you ever tried to snap your fingers if they’re greasy? doesn’t work too well. so either showing it’s really really clean, or showing how quick it is to clean with Mr. Clean.

Keep track of the comments with

Comment RSS

Lijit Search

The latest from NeatoBambino: