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== Cigarettes ==

* Camel Cigarettes' "Joe Camel" character, whose face, plastered on the walls of gas stations everywhere, was specifically designed to [[Does This Remind You of Anything|subconsciously grab attention]] by looking like "sausage and eggs".

* Camel Cigarettes' "Joe Camel" character, whose face, plastered on the walls of gas stations everywhere, was specifically designed to [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|subconsciously grab attention]] by looking like "sausage and eggs".

* Marlboro's famous icon "The Marlboro Man": He was one of the most successful mascots in advertising history, making him very much this to anti-tobacco advocates and others who detested cigarettes through the 1960s, '70s and early '80s.

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* Flo, the quirky Progressive insurance girl, started off being quite popular, so popular in fact that she is now practically their mascot and occurs in almost all of their commercials. Some viewers are beginning to find her increasingly irritating as she appears in more and more of their commercials. What was cute as a one-time gag character is now becoming annoying.

* Esurance's Frank [[The Magnificent|The Saver]], an arrogant [[Jerkass]] who brags about how great he is at saving people money and belittles his coworkers' efforts to do the same thing. Judging from some of their other commercials, that attitude is catching; even when he ''doesn't'' show up, inevitably somebody's going to try and hog the glory.

* From State Farm, there's this [[Uncanny Valley|creepy looking mix of Tom Cruise and a mannequin]] whose only purpose is to [[Stalker Without a Crush|follow a group of people around]] in hopes that [[Hopemongering|they do something sweet, charming or wholesome]] so that he can pull an "[[Oh Hi There]]" and talk about how great State Farm is, [[Blatant Lies|all the while implying that using State Farm is the cause of all the good things that happened to this group.]] This guy always comes off as a annoying, arrogant, [[Jerkass]]. Thankfully, these ads have stopped airing.

* From State Farm, there's this [[Uncanny Valley|creepy looking mix of Tom Cruise and a mannequin]] whose only purpose is to [[Stalker Without a Crush|follow a group of people around]] in hopes that [[Hopemongering|they do something sweet, charming or wholesome]] so that he can pull an "[[Oh, Hi There.]]" and talk about how great State Farm is, [[Blatant Lies|all the while implying that using State Farm is the cause of all the good things that happened to this group.]] This guy always comes off as a annoying, arrogant, [[Jerkass]]. Thankfully, these ads have stopped airing.

* The [[Metrosexual]] cavemen from the Geico commercials started as a moderately amusing gimmick in their first commercial, but now are an increasingly dreary and repetitive joke that seems to have forgotten its own punch line.

* Jeff, Dave and especially Brian representing MoneySupermarket.com. Following a campaign with vague similarities to the aforementioned Go Compare adverts, the three have been able to pull off anything they want purely because they used the site and "feel epic". Brian is the worst, strutting around Vegas and tossing a coin into a slot machine which spills out winnings, entering backstage to a performance, which he then hijacks, completely ignoring his family. The [[Large Ham|hammy voiceover]] doesn't help at all.

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** Another unpopular spokesman brought up in these early-1990s columns was referred to as "the Infiniti snot". Actor Jonathan Pryce's snooty demeanor in a series of car commercials was parodied by Mike Myers in an episode of ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'', with Myers-as-Pryce shilling a high-tech Infiniti toilet.

* Russel Oliver. The Cash-Man.

* [[Vince Offer]] qualifies, but his commercials are often [[So Bad ~~Its~~ Good]], so they get a pass.

* [[Vince Offer]] qualifies, but his commercials are often [[So Bad It's Good]], so they get a pass.

* [[Billy Mays]] was [[Badass Decay|starting to get this way]], especially with his ads' overuse of [[Too Incompetent to Operate A Blanket]].

* An ad for Invisiline (transparent alternative to braces) features twin teenagers. One gets to wear Invisiline while the other is stuck with regular braces. While [[The Unfavorite]] laments her lot in life, her sister gleefully rubs it in, and is shown taking unflattering pictures, stealing her snacks and generally being an unpleasant little monster.