Best/Worst advertising mascots

[Drtooth]

I miss the Dominos Pizza Noid character. Does anyone remember him?

Perhaps it was the Noid that should have avoided me.

I live those 1980's claymation mascots. I LOVED the California Raisins, and I dispise real raisins myself. That's how good those clymation commercials were. I especially loved the TV specials.

 

[D'Snowth]

My least favorite - Jarrod the Subway guy. Behind that beach ball, door or other object obscuring his midsection he's substantially overweight. No way eating all that bread at one time is low calorie! It's just dishonest. I'm a trim guy, but I wouldn't be if I ate Subway every day or even twice a week! Might as well be going to Taco Bell.

See, this is what I'm talking about: he looks significantly slim and trim to me, as opposed to the way he USED to look, and here you are still claiming he's still fat and overweight.

HOW THIN DO YOU HAVE TO BE TO BE ACCEPTED BY SOCIETY?

 

[SSLFan]

The 2 best advertising mascots:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8sZ1DWsAHE

and(don't know if he's considerd a mascot, but)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze72uyZfY5Q

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[BeakerSqueedom]

Best:
Aflack [DUCKY]
Geico Gecko [I love him]
Cottonelle Pup [SO CUDDLY]

Worst:
All cereal ones.

 

[Baby Gonzo]

I always wind up feeling sorry for cereal mascots. The Lucky Charms guy is just trying to get away from sugar crazed kids and the Trix rabbit just wants his cereal! There wasn't really any fun in that. It just seems like kids being mean to me.


Does anyone remember that one California Raisins Christmas special? That used to give me nightmares.

 

[frogboy4]

See, this is what I'm talking about: he looks significantly slim and trim to me, as opposed to the way he USED to look, and here you are still claiming he's still fat and overweight.

HOW THIN DO YOU HAVE TO BE TO BE ACCEPTED BY SOCIETY?

He's not slim and trim at all. It's not that bad but he's average American sized which is technically overweight. It's not that he's not accepted by society. It's just not very honest for a company to promote weightloss from their run-of-the-mill calorie sandwiches and have their spokesman always covering his midsection in the commercials. He did lose some weight, but he was really up there in the numbers. Keeping to a consistent plan and more restraint and portion control trimmed him down more than the actual sandwiches. I'm sure if he ate only one Big Mac for lunch everyday and nothing else for that meal period he would have lost weight. The whole thing is a scheme when it's the moderation that achieved the goal.

Here is one of many target weights based on height and frame. Now many people are over that and I'm not sure it takes into account that muscle weighs more, but it's generally what's on a healthy target.

Anyway, I like the Pillsbury Doughboy because he displays his cute little belly instead of hiding it. And he's always so darn happy! He's also a more accurate spokes-thingy for his product. What's not to love?

 

[redBoobergurl]

I had almost forgotten about the Doughboy. I do love him, always have. He does bring a smile to my face.

You know who else is cool? Charlie the Tuna. My husband has a very old Charlie the Tuna lamp, it's pretty neat.

 

[D'Snowth]

The problem with the Pillbury Doughboy is if you're a fat guy like me, the other kids in school are always walking up to you and poking your fat, little belly, expecting you to go "Hoo-hoo!"

 

[frogboy4]

The problem with the Pillbury Doughboy is if you're a fat guy like me, the other kids in school are always walking up to you and poking your fat, little belly, expecting you to go "Hoo-hoo!"

If you're a blindingly white guy like me you get that too no matter what you weigh. I also get Casper! For a ghost he's rather round like Poppin' Fresh too. I also get Powder from the movie so that's one trim one in the bunch.

I had a friend growing up who was likened to Miss Piggy but that hasn't phased her for love of the pig! She is a problematic character though. I can understand some women not liking her because of the teasing, but she is a strong role model...one that makes frogs duck!

 

[D'Snowth]

If you're a blindingly white guy like me you get that too no matter what you weigh. I also get Casper! For a ghost he's rather round like Poppin' Fresh too. I also get Powder from the movie so that's one trim one in the bunch.

Hmm... I'm blindingly white, but I've never gotten a Casper... as a matter of fact, the only time someone ever mentioned how white (pale) I was was when I was mentioning to a friend about how I'm of Scotch/Irish desent, and she says "Ohhhh, so THAT'S why you're so pale!"