Mr. Coffee

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Mr. Coffee is an automatic-drip kitchen coffee machine that was popular in the 1970s and 1980s. Its spokesman was former baseball player Joe DiMaggio. Introduced in 1972, it was the first drip coffee maker made available for home use (prior to this coffee was usually perked, either on stovetop or in an electric percolator).

There have been several cultural references to the easily-parodied name. It has been parodied in the Back to the Future trilogy as Mr. Fusion, and in Spaceballs as Mr. Radar and Mr. Rental (the latter movie actually features Mr. Coffee itself; the DVD version of the movie features another parody called Mr. DVD in the menu screens). It was also mentioned in The Bloodhound Gang's song The Bad Touch.

Mr. Coffee is now part of the Jarden Corporation.