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best and worst mascots in the ad game

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Used to like Mac Tonight as a kid. Kinda weird when I see him now though.

Still, he gets points for being a moon-headed Ray Charles.
 
I never understood why the Michelin Man was white. Tires aren't white!

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibendum
From 1912, tires took on a black appearance because carbon was added as a preservative and strengthener to the base rubber material. Before then, they were a gray-white or light, translucent beige colour. Bibendum's appearance also changed. Though briefly featured in several print ads, Michelin quickly changed back his appearance, citing printing and aesthetic issues for the change, and not racial concerns as commonly believed
 
Wait a minute, she's Wendy?

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Then who is this?

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I'm sorry, too much brand confusion, I'm just going to McDonalds now.
 
Yeah didn't the car fox first get introduced as a carfax knockoff that dealers would use. Odd they'd turn that into their actual mascot.

Similarly, in early commercials, the Geico gecko originally was annoyed because people kept accidentally calling him when they meant to call Geico.
 
The Jack in the Box Mascot is pretty dope, so is Flo from the car insurance commercials.

The worst is easily "MAXXX FROM BLUE TAX, WOOOAHHHH"
seriously, youtube the shitty scam commercials where they change their phone number from commercial to commercial.
 
I have started disliking Mr. Clean since his latest commercial has shown his back story where he has real life non-animated parents. Come on now, that's just too weird.
 
I've never understood the mascots for a certain brand of gum. Can't remember the name. But they have this cute dougnut and garlic and one other thing. Then the commercial basically tells us that this gum will get rid of them.

Why the hell make them cute then say we can get rid of them? I don't wanna!
 
The Wendy's chick leaves me conflicted at the end of every commercial. My brain is always turned off but my penis is more than a little appreciative.

Then I go and eat a pretzel burger or spicy chicken sandwich so I guess it works.
 
I hate all insurance commercial mascots. They're always on. Has it always been like this? The insurance commercials every commercial break. I could of sworn there wasn't this much back a decade ago.
 
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