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Other ads featured a Lawrence Welk double ( played by actor Pat Harrington Jr .) leading his band in " The Wunnerful Rainier Waltz " complete with bubble machine and soloists blowing on beer bottles, and a performance of a parody of the song " You're the Tops " while thousands of Rainier bottle caps fell like dominoes in a giant " R " frame ( the whole commercial was reportedly shot on the first take, a great relief since it took all day to set up ).

Rainier also produced humorous posters such as a " National Beergraphic " parody of a National Geographic Magazine cover depicting tourists encountering a MFR in the forest, and a Flash Gordon / Star Wars poster, " Fresh Wars " that recalled the bar scene in Episode 4.

There were even costumed MFRs that made promotional appearances at Supermarkets during this period.