# The Best Character created for an advertisment? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 4, 2005, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-character-created-for-an-advertisment/297723 "2005-04-04T20:14:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2005, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-character-created-for-an-advertisment/297723/21 "2005-04-04T23:40:27Z")
I’ve always been partial to Tony the Tiger. ---
**Author:** ![sleeepy2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@sleeepy2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleeepy2)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2005, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-character-created-for-an-advertisment/297723/22 "2005-04-04T23:55:00Z")
Hands down, no brainer, [Flat Eric](http://website.lineone.net/~mroizo/). ---
**Author:** ![ltfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@ltfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ltfire)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2005, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-character-created-for-an-advertisment/297723/23 "2005-04-04T23:55:52Z")
> [@Biffy the Elephant Shrew](#): > > This goes back a ways, and I’m not even sure if he counts as a “character,” but I loved the Jamaican “Uncola Nut Man” from 7-Up commercials in the '60s. (“These are cola nuts…these [holding up a lemon and a lime] are _un_-cola nuts. Rather laaarger than cola nuts. Rather juicier.”) Actor Geoffrey Holder. The one in the middle. [http://www.americanphoto.co.jp/photosearch/Previews/PLX071931.jpg](http://www.americanphoto.co.jp/photosearch/Previews/PLX071931.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-character-created-for-an-advertisment/297723/24 "2005-04-05T00:01:57Z")
Anna-Marie Alberghetti! The good seasons lady!! Does anybody but me even remember her? Or, alternately, Hey Kool-Aid Man! OH YEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!! ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-character-created-for-an-advertisment/297723/25 "2005-04-05T00:14:47Z")
> [@Menocchio](#): > > Paul Bunyan. This was going to be my answer. And this wins hands down. An advertising campaign that, in the end, became so iconographic with the american frontier that he’s passed into folklore along such (real life) legends as ‘Johnny Appleseed’, ‘Davy Crockett’, and ‘Daniel Boone’. All the others mentioned are fine characters, it’s true. But Bunyan has made it into _Legend_. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-character-created-for-an-advertisment/297723/26 "2005-04-05T00:20:41Z")
When I was a kid I was crazy about Farfel the dog, who did singing commercials for Nestle’s chocolate in the 1950s. I had my own stuffed toy Farfel, and I ran around the house driving the adults crazy singing the Nestle’s song in a Farfelesque voice. I was also very fond of the Speedy Alka-Seltzer commercials. But since I liked chocolate better than antacids, Farfel won out. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-character-created-for-an-advertisment/297723/27 "2005-04-05T00:22:30Z")
Dosen’t anybody remember avoiding the Noid? And the Frito Bandito? (Now, I imagine, very un-PC) I miss the Hamburgler, myself. Rubble, rubble. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-character-created-for-an-advertisment/297723/28 "2005-04-05T00:42:07Z")
> [@Dooku](#): > > “First time in a Limo…Doctor?” > > 😃 “First time in a limo… this small.” I _loved_ that ad. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-character-created-for-an-advertisment/297723/29 "2005-04-05T00:42:08Z")
Long ago, some adman gave us the little cartoon lady in the water softener commercial. Pitchman: “…so call your Culligan man.” Lady: (hollering) **"Hey, Culligan Man!"** The startled Pitchman was usually bowled over by our leather-lunged lady’s “call.” Her debut was in black-and-white TV, and she’s still around. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-character-created-for-an-advertisment/297723/30 "2005-04-05T01:23:19Z")
> [@Big Bad Voodoo Lou](#): > > What is? The fight against ignorance. Our slogan is “Fighting Ignorance Since 1973 (It’s taking longer than we thought).” ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-character-created-for-an-advertisment/297723/31 "2005-04-05T02:07:31Z")
Oh. So I stand corrected. Very informative link, and now I know. I don’t see why **Hal** had to be a condescending dick about it, though. ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-character-created-for-an-advertisment/297723/32 "2005-04-05T02:08:00Z")
Either Marshie, or those poor [Naugas](http://www.naugahyde.com/promoitems_nauga.html). ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-character-created-for-an-advertisment/297723/33 "2005-04-05T02:16:31Z")
> [@pinkfreud](#): > > When I was a kid I was crazy about Farfel the dog, who did singing commercials for Nestle’s chocolate in the 1950s. . N-E-S-T-L-E-S, Nestles makes the very best …CHAAAAAWWWWWWWWW-clate. ---
**Author:** ![zenith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zenith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zenith)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-character-created-for-an-advertisment/297723/34 "2005-04-05T03:02:26Z")
The Gadget Freak who drags his wife outside to show her how he can roll down all the windows in his Jetta with one turn of the key in the driver’s door. Tony the Tiger. The Exxon Tiger. The Uniroyal Tiger Paw Tiger. Juan Valdez. Mrs. Olsen. Robert Young’s decaffeinated version of Mrs. Olsen. Granny Clampett selling Winston as tasting like a cigarette “had oughta”. The cartoon engine taking a shower in Mobil Detergent Gasoline. The Taco Bell Chihuahua. The guy in the Hawaiian Shirt offering his clueless buddy many variations of a “nice Hawaiian Punch”. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-character-created-for-an-advertisment/297723/35 "2005-04-05T03:14:03Z")
[Nikki Cappelli.](http://www.blogeasy.com/article.view.run?articleID=65890) ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-character-created-for-an-advertisment/297723/36 "2005-04-05T03:15:11Z")
\*Note: The pictures are work-safe, but the comments that follow aren’t. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-character-created-for-an-advertisment/297723/37 "2005-04-05T03:38:16Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > N-E-S-T-L-E-S, Nestles makes the very best …CHAAAAAWWWWWWWWW-clate. Somebody else remembers Farfel!!! You’ve made my day, **twickster**. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![NoPretentiousCodename](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/82dd89/32.png) [@NoPretentiousCodename](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoPretentiousCodename)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-character-created-for-an-advertisment/297723/38 "2005-04-05T03:41:51Z")
[Eneman.](http://home.att.net/~leahland/fleeteneman.html) [_Shudder_](http://www.x96.com/12605time/djs/rfh.asp) (Scroll down on the second link, last two pictures are from the Eneman CALENDAR!! The mind boggles.) ---
**Author:** ![Elvez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8491ac/32.png) [@Elvez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elvez)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-character-created-for-an-advertisment/297723/39 "2005-04-05T04:01:20Z")
> [@Biffy the Elephant Shrew](#): > > This goes back a ways, and I’m not even sure if he counts as a “character,” but I loved the Jamaican “Uncola Nut Man” from 7-Up commercials in the '60s. (“These are cola nuts…these [holding up a lemon and a lime] are _un_-cola nuts. Rather laaarger than cola nuts. Rather juicier.”) Was he the dude in the sequined suit, said “Crisp and clean; no caffine. Never had it. Never will,”? He was cool. I always liked McGruff the Crime Dog. ---
**Author:** ![Paranoid\_Randroid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paranoid_randroid/32/18_2.png) [@Paranoid\_Randroid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paranoid_Randroid)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-character-created-for-an-advertisment/297723/40 "2005-04-05T04:27:22Z")
I can’t believe nobody’s mentioned: - Raymond of Phillips Milk of Magnesia. When will he lose that loudmouth of a wife? Sheesh! And I could have sworn I saw 'em in a sudafed commercial recently. - The Country Crock Disembodied Hands. They were around long enough to have a kid, fer chrissakes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-character-created-for-an-advertisment/297723.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-character-created-for-an-advertisment/297723.md?page=3)