World's Worst Spokescharacter

[ElvisL1ves]

There's quite a few misconceived advertising campaigns out there, some with cartoon characters. But none could be more misconceived than the campaign by Manogram.org to get more men to get screened for cancer.

May I present (drumroll....) Prosty the Spokesgland! (http://www.manogram.org/prosty.html). Got his own little song and everything.

Available for birthdays, weddings, bar mitzvahs ...


(Yes, I know it's a joke)

[DigitalC]

Is that from a ren and stimpy cartoon? the animation is the same style.

[Ichbin Dubist]

I really like him, actually, but many are perturbed by Fleet's Eneman, (http://thesuperficial.com/2008/03/kate_hudson_went_to_miami_for.php) the cuddly enema.

[Lambo]

I really like him, actually, but many are perturbed by Fleet's Eneman, (http://thesuperficial.com/2008/03/kate_hudson_went_to_miami_for.php) the cuddly enema.

Umm, that link goes to pics of Kate Hudson's butt. Not a bad mistake, but I think a mistake, still.

[Tripler]

Umm, that link goes to pics of Kate Hudson's butt. Not a bad mistake, but I think a mistake, still.

He said it was a 'cuddly enema'.

Tripler
((This sig snipped on edit, because my flu-addled mind thought you were talking about Brooke Hogan's butt)) :smack:

[Sublight]

Need to know how to prepare your stool sample?

Just ask Mr. Poop! (http://flickr.com/photos/jmrocher2001/462503217/)

As weird Japanese mascots go, he's not even in the top 10, but he's all that I have photo evidence of.

[Caractacus Pott]

Sublight, is Noppon (http://news.3yen.com/2006-09-30/pink-penis-plushes-welcome-150-millionth-visitor-to-tokyo-tower/), the Tokyo Tower mascot in your Top Ten? It's even more phallic in person than the photos imply.

[Ichbin Dubist]

Well, at least it was focused on the right thing.

try this (http://oracknows.blogspot.com/2005/06/half-year-of-eneman.html)

Fleet's own website seems to play their spokesenema down.

[Beware of Doug]

Prosty the Spokesgland
Spreads the word on what we need
No more pokes and prods
No more biopsies
How about some imaging? :eek: AAAAAARRRRrrrgggggg

[Sublight]

Sublight, is Noppon (http://news.3yen.com/2006-09-30/pink-penis-plushes-welcome-150-millionth-visitor-to-tokyo-tower/), the Tokyo Tower mascot in your Top Ten? It's even more phallic in person than the photos imply.
That's what he was created for? Man, I'd seen him around and just figured he was supposed to be some kind of vegetable or flukeworm.

[Caractacus Pott]

Sublight,

Ignorance fought and subdued, but I guess I can see how you'd think he was Diakon-son or something.

[ElvisL1ves]

There's also Kikko Man (www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz-mJed_bP0), the Soy Sauce Superhero.

(What's the right sauce, dammit?) :D

[Sublight]

This news story seems appropriate for the thread:

Nara governor under fire over 'ugly' mascot (http://mdn.mainichi.jp/national/news/20080312p2a00m0et024000c.html)
NARA -- The governor of Nara said he will not withdraw an unpopular mascot to commemorate the 1,300th Anniversary of the founding of the Nara Heijo-kyo capital despite a spate of criticism that the mascot "isn't cute."
Includes a picture of the butt-ugly mascot.

[Ceejaytee]

Tangentially related is the fabulous Australian beaver tampon commercial linked to on Dave Barry's blog: http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=390570: for the ultimate care down there.

[UncleRojelio]

I'm afraid to click on most of the links above, but I will add that the "Burger King" character creeps me right the hell out.

[Caractacus Pott]

I'm afraid to click on most of the links above, but I will add that the "Burger King" character creeps me right the hell out.
Stop the contest, we have a winner!

[Least Original User Name Ever]

Maybe peoples' harsh objections to the King are also the same people that don't like clowns?

[BraheSilver]

The King is pure awesome, coated in an impervious laminate so that his brilliance can never fade.

The Mucinex (http://www.mucinex.com/) glob an animated phlegm makes me retch whenever I see it, though. Just imagine that every time he "vanishes" from the commercial, some poor guy is hawking up the nastiest loogie ever devised by man.

[Sublight]

Now that we have the search function again, I can dig up this thread for another bad mascot.

Marimokkori, the new tourism mascot for Hokkaido.
His name sounds like a combination of Marimo, a green ball of algae slime, and Mokkori, a slang term for crotch or genitalia.

An unintentional naming gaffe? You tell me (http://www.flickr.com/photos/jmrocher2001/2209283224/)
More Marimokkori (slightly NSFW) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/jmrocher2001/2209283536/in/photostream/)

[OtakuLoki]

Does no one else remember the American Cancer Society's Colon Cancer Polyp mascot (http://labyrinth.net.au/~adamford/pages/archives/archive20040609.htm) from a few years ago? At least the OP's prostate wasn't some poor schlub in a suit having to say he was a prostate.

I'm not sure whether I should be glad or disappointed that the ACS has reworked their campaign, and are using this ad (http://www.cancer.org/docroot/PRO/PRO_4_3_ColonMD_Nationwide_Campaign.asp) which is... less distrubing.

[BMalion]

As a previous poster mentioned, it's obviously John Kricfalusi's work, or prostate.