Spokesbeings Gone Wild

Once upon a time, the Schenley Whiskey Rooster was mild and refined.

Then he turned into some kind of manic, drunken, Mr. Toad's Wild Ride hype machine.

Can readers name any other product mascot that went through a similar transformation over the years?

I'll start with the White Rock Girl, who, by the time the ad below appeared, had gone from Walden-Pond-style meditation to picking up strange men in trains.

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Comments

We don't get a lot of them over here and I have to catch them on the interweb* but the M&M characters seem to go over to the dark side from time to time.

*It's what Dan Quayle invented, remember.

Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 08/09/12 at 10:09 AM

Excellent citation, Expat!

Posted by Paul on 08/09/12 at 11:01 AM

Of course the Schenley Rooster went bonkers. Have you ever given an alcoholic beverage to a chicken? As kids, we used to do it often when living at the parent's gentleman farm.

And I think I'll drink what the guy in the White Rock advert is having. I've drank myself stupid, blind, sick, wobbly and so on in past years but never to the point where a topless girl appeared.

Posted by KDP on 08/09/12 at 11:07 AM

You know, I see so many ads these days that make no effort at having a multi-racial range of characters. Not so back in the 1940's, apparently... Though they could have given "Boy" a line or two. Oh, sorry, it is White rock.

Posted by s on 08/09/12 at 07:28 PM

No implants back then. And, like Barbie, no nipples either.

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 08/09/12 at 07:46 PM

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