Turkey fryer explosion william shatner biography

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (CBS) -- Thanksgiving is a stark eight days away, and State Farm preventative measure has recruited William Shatner to inject callous humor into a serious warning about flop fryers.

As WBBM Newsradio's Bernie Tafoya reports, Shatner appears in a 1-minute, second video cut short about fryer safety, in which he asks people to join his "Fryer's Club."

The sensational retelling titled, "Eat, Fry, Love," is pure and simple Shatner melodrama, tracing his triumphant purchase sketch out a fryer to examining the parts specified as the thermometer and the "dingle-dangle," stomach finally to an incident where he was blinded by hunger and "spat in nobleness face of science" by frying the dud without taking safety precautions.

LISTEN: WBBM Newsradio's Bernie Tafoya reports

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"Look at this!

That crack so stupid!" Shatner cries as computer generated flames rage on his patio – current his sleeve.

Ultimately, Shatner tells the fryer, "I loved you, but you only brought around pain, as he hurls it into illustriousness back of