Some commercials are memorable because they're good. Unfortunately, it seems like most are memorable because they're horrible. Here's to those commercials that are bad because of annoying mascots.
5. Taco Bell Chihuahua:
The embodiment of two things that annoy me: Taco Bell and chihuahuas. If you disagree on either count, you're wrong.
4. Max Aroni
Don't remember this guy? I'm not surprised--I barely remember him myself. What I do remember is one of the most asinine commercials to come out of the late 90s. Picture a bunch of kids, shoveling some kind of grey stuff into their mouths in a grade school cafeteria. The lunch ladies laugh insanely as the children slowly poison themselves. The principal stares on with cold indifference as a child contracts malaria and dies on the spot. ...And then some annoying cartoon kid bursts into the cafeteria on a skateboard and starts rapping about mac & cheese, concluding his song with a triumphant shout of "MAX ARONI!" ...What. (Yeah, I know, the first part of the commercial wasn't nearly that cool, but just roll with it.)
3. Crazy Fox... Fox
This guy's pretty obscure, only appearing on G4 (to my knowledge) for a while. The Crazy Fox advertises those "get rich quick" schemes (under multiple domain names, though Crazyfox.com seemed to be the longest-running), saying that you'd have to be crazy to call to find out more--crazy like a fox! His catchphrase was annoying, sure, but it probably wasn't the worst part. To me, the worst part was the terrifyingly bad animation of the CGI fox. It's really something you have to see for yourself, and it's still probably something that might not bother you.Actually, I lied--the catchphrase really is the worst part.
2. The General
Auto insurance? Why not? I debated putting The Money You Could Be Saving With Geico up here, but it didn't annoy me nearly as much as this cornball. Why is he around? And why is he such a badly made 3d model? (The model itself is okay-ish, but it looks beyond outdated in the commercials.) There were better-looking CG characters in the 90s. Maybe someone's looking to save some money--And don't even get me started on his little poem he says at the end of every commercial.
1. FreeCreditReport.com Band
The single most annoying "mascot" is actually more than one person. It started off with a simple country song about selling fish to tourists in t-shirts, and then it snowballed into one of the most horrific and infectious advertising campaigns of all time. Once you get one of those awful songs in your head, there's no turning back--it has you, and it's never letting go.