The Best Character created for an advertisment?

I believe it was:

“Then I’m Mister Galla-KEE-witz.”

“You mean Doctor Galakawitz?”

'Twas a good one…

I can’t believe I found this. (I also can’t believe I bothered to look ;)):

Here:

“Driver, do you have Bud Light in your vehicle?”

“Yes”

“Then I’m Mr. Gally-WEE-kitch.”

“You mean Doctor Ga-LACK-a-wits?”

“Yes I am.”

The donut guy from Mr. Donut - “Time to make the Donuts.”

The Tidy Bowl Man.

The Maytag repairman - the lonliest man on earth.

The action figure guy from the Sprite commericals.

I haven’t had a TV since junior year of university, but I loved those BMW films. If you check out the website, you should listen to the director commentaries. They rock my socks. (Usually DVDs don’t bother captioning or subtitling the commentaries, which made this an epiphany for me)

I can’t believe no one has mentioned Max Headroom yet…

Or Rosie, the quicker pickker-upper…

What about Madge?

“You’re soaking in it!”

From here:
http://www.ljworld.com/section/mellinger/story/131899

“One of the finest pieces of propaganda visited upon my generation came courtesy
of the Popeye cartoon, a dietary morality tale that convinced millions of
American children that spinach was good for them –
even if it plopped out of a can. This was a hard sell, canned spinach being what it is,
but no one came away disputing that spinach had a high nutritional content.”

"…whose mantra was “I yam what I yam,”
then crooned these lines:
“I’m strong to the finish,
because I eat my spinach,
I’m Popeye the sailorman.” "
Also

Rula Lenska

For those too young to remember, she would begin a spiel for some product with, “Hello, I’m Rula Lenska…” in some unrecognizable accent, and with an air that she was actually famous somewhere. (I think there was also text at the bottom of the screen stating she was a “famous actress”).

In reality, she was just some rookie actress, who eventually “became” Rula Lenska.

What about Cassius Marcellus Coolidge’s poker-playing dogs, created for the ad firm of Brown & Bigelow of St. Paul, Minnesota?

They’ve been famous for over 100 years, and 2 of the original 9 were recently auctioned for over half a million dollars!

Studing the details of “A Friend in Need” on the wall of the local barber shop while getting my hair cut as a kid is one of my earliest memories outside my home and yard.

To see a gallery of these and other famous Coolidge works (such as the Columbia Bicycles monkey-and-parrot poster), go to dogsplayingpoker.org and select “Gallery”.

:smack: Of course, that should be “Studying the details”… they’re not even playing stud.

Oh, and guests who are considering joining SDMB, you might want to pay special attention to “Riding the Goat” before you pony up your dues. :wink:

I love the AFLAC duck. My 28 lb part Siamese flamepoint cat, who is kinda weird anyway, actually said "AFLAC’ a few weeks ago. Unfortunately, no one heard it but me and the other cats.

Man from Glad! Man from Glad!
Mr. Clean
The talking Parkay tub. “butter”
Morris the finicky cat
“Bud” “weis” “er”
But the greatest is Duff Man. Ohhhh Yeah!