<P> She's a Pepper, we're a Pepper, Wouldn't you like to be a Pepper, too? Be a Pepper . Drink Dr Pepper . </P> <P> This became grist for a number of pop culture references and parodies . One of the first was a July 1981 sketch on the program SCTV, in which an overly - excited injured man (Eugene Levy) extols the work of a "Dr Shekter" (Rick Moranis) who has been treating him . Levy and a group of patients wearing casts and crutches engage in their own elaborate dancing and singing ("Wouldn't you like to see my doctor, too?"), which Shekter first uses as an opportunity to explain his work, and then grows alarmed ("These people should not be dancing!"). In the 1982 sex farce Beach Girls, the slogan became "I'm a popper, he's a popper ..." Wreck - Gar parodied the slogan in The Return of Optimus Prime . </P> <P> After appearing in a series of commercials, David Naughton had his breakthrough film role as the main character in the John Landis film An American Werewolf in London . Another famous "I'm a Pepper" dancer was Ray Bolger, the actor who played the Scarecrow in the film The Wizard of Oz . </P> <P> In the early 1960s, Dr Pepper promoted the idea of serving the drink hot with lemon slices in winter . This idea appeared in the film Blast from the Past initially set in the early 1960s . </P>

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