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Character Celebrity Endorsement

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Companies want to ensure big sales. They won't take any unnecessary risks, so they won't release their products in the crowded, dangerous marketplace without something that will make them stand out. Even the littlest of the gimmicks can work.
Character Celebrity Endorsement occurs when the companies use fictional characters, but celebrities nonetheless (largely cartoon ones) to promote their products, even if the character or franchise featured has nothing to do whatsoever with the product at hand.
Compare Celebrity Endorsement, when real celebrities lend their approval of the product. See also The Dead Rise to Advertise when commercials feature, darkly enough, dead celebrities. Parody Product Placement may involve the endorsement interfering with the actual work.
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Adventure Time: Finn and Princess Bubblegum appear in the Honda Civic's "#LoveToday" campaign long-form version emphasizing how great the technology of the present day is. A meaningful gesture from denizens of a post-apocalyptic Earth.
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In the 80s, Batman and Robin (clearly intended as the 1960s TV series versions, but sadly not played by the original actors) appeared in an advert where the Batmobile is too big for the Gotham rush hour, so they replace it with a "supermini" Austin Metro (vanity plate BAT-2).
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Smash did this in-universe when Ivy Lynn is shown filming a commercial for Ford, who not coincidentally was a sponsor of the series.
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Chairman Kaga of Iron Chef supports Nissan in Japan-only advertising.
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The Simpsons: Bart and Homer Simpson for Butterfinger; this went on for nearly a decade. Homer would later show up in an Intel ad as well. Multiple tie-ins with The Movie may or may not also qualify.
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Looney Tunes:
Elmer Fudd appeared in a GEICO commercial. Here 'tis.
Bugs Bunny has also gotten in on the action, with ads for Ziploc storage bags (1982), Tang, Kool-Aid, and sugar-free vitamins.
Speedy Gonzales was the mascot of the UK's Virgin Media for a while (the gimmick being their "superfast broadband"), with the first ad showing him at Central Casting before getting the gig.
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (IDW) Issue #1's Lone Star Comics variant Cover RE shows Pinkie Pie, Sweetie Belle, and Apple Bloom reading a Hoof Beat magazine note (not related in any way whatsoever to the Rule 34-filled fanzine of the same name, we hope!) with an In-Universe Celebrity Endorsement on its back: a Lone Star ad featuring Spitfire.
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Son Goku of Dragon Ball fame appeared alongside his son Gohan and his old pal Oolong in an old eye drops commercial, amongst other old endorsements done around the 80s.
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Attack on Titan:
After becoming a runaway hit, the cast started shilling for Japanese fast-food chain Lotteria and convenience store Lawson's. More pictures of some of the Lotteria tie-ins here, including Memetic Badass Levi in a skimpy waitresses' uniform. Also in Japan, there's also the live-action Subaru Forrester ad, which also served as a trial run for the way the Titans would be portrayed in the live-action film.
Over in the U.S., breakfast restaurant chain Denny's unofficially dubbed Sasha "Potato Girl" Braus their mascot, Photoshopping her drooling over some hash browns.
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Austin Powers apparently likes Heineken.
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The Seven Deadly Sins is a fantasy action-adventure story. However, multiple extra comics have been drawn where the characters are high school students. Each short features a new character with romantic or social problems, and then shows how those problems are miraculously fixed (almost) when the character starts using the Uno Fog Bar hair care product.
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Neon Genesis Evangelion:
Apparently Schick Razors managed to survive Second Impact. The Schick promotions actually showed up three times— 2012, 2013, and again in 2015.
There's also Evangelion Doritos.
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Donald Duck Orange Juice
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The cast of Red Dwarf appeared in an advert for the A.A. (Automobile Association, not the other one), with Lister calling them up to repair Starbug.
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Tomb Raider: Lara Croft's known in the UK for, amongst other things, her once-frequent endorsement of Lucozade. That linked video is one of many advertisements she did, printed or otherwise.
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Will Ferrell's Anchorman character Ron Burgundy has given his approval toward the 2014 Dodge Durango in commercials that also make mention of the sequel Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues.
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A UK Kit Kat advert that shows Andy Capp "taking a break" from ... lying on the couch.
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Doraemon was used to promote Toyota. The weird part? He looked like Jean Reno. Yeah.
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Axe Cop and his friends all love Xbox One.
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Halo: Master Chief's brief Game Fuel advertising campaign for Mountain Dew.
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Kenny Powers from Eastbound & Down supports K-Swiss shoes. This culminated in a series of ESPN the Magazine ads depicting him as the CEO of the company!
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Steven Universe and the Crystal Gems have done shorts for the Dove Self-Esteem Project, a series of soap brand-sponsored PSAs on concerns such as body image and bullying.
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The Flintstones:
Flinstones vitamin pills.
Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble hawking Winston cigarettes (1961).
And after Pebbles was born, Welch's Grape Juice. In fact, Pebbles is seen drinking grape juice in some episodes.
The Flintstones appear to be really into the commercials, because they also hawk Fruity Pebbles and Cocoa Pebbles. These commercials have been the only animated media featuring the Flintstones to be produced for years.
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Super Mario Bros.: Mario appeared in this "Got Milk?" commercial during the '90s.
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Bugs Bunny has also gotten in on the action, with ads for Ziploc storage bags (1982), Tang, Kool-Aid, and sugar-free vitamins.
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"Dr." Spaceman from 30 Rock for Dr Pepper as part of the "Doctor's orders" campaign.
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Bob and Doug McKenzie of SCTV and Strange Brew have appeared in several ads over the years, including this Pizza Hut commercial.
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Popeye:
Popeye Spinach - also a form of Defictionalization, since it's his Trademark Favorite Food.
Popeye was also used (oddly) to advertise Quaker Oatmeal. "I'm Popeye the Quaker man, I eats all the oats I can!"
And let's not forget the Minute Maid ad with extra Foe Romance Subtext between Popeye and Bluto.
In the mid-1980s, he also co-starred with Sonny the Cuckoo Bird in a couple of Cocoa Puffs commercials, and they offered Popeye bubble gum in the cereal package as a promotion.
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Sailor Moon:
She vouches for a brand of potato soup. Knowing Usagi's love of food, this is high praise indeed.
The Sailor Guardians will persuade you to buy a 2017 Ford Fusion.
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Superman endorsed the American Express credit card.
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The Pink Panther:
(Owens Corning) insulation.
As well as Safeco Insurance in the late 1970s-early 80s.
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Thunderbirds:
Lady Penelope appeared in a rather sexist ad for Swinton car insurance, in which she was shown as utterly incapable of driving FAB 1 on Parker's day off.
Not as sexist, but even weirder, a DVLA ad in which Parker fails to pay FAB 1's road tax, and Lady P reacts by cutting his strings.
A Kit Kat advert which shows the classic title sequence, until the narrator says "Thunderbirds are go!" and, to his irritation, Thunderbird 1 fails to take off because Scott is having a break.
Brains body-popping to "Rhythm is a Dancer" in an ad for Drench bottled water, with the drink (and modern video effects) making him far more mobile than he'd ever been in the show. (Tagline: "Brains perform better when they're hydrated.")
One Specsavers ad for reaction lenses saw Virgil and the Hood involved in a jet-pack chase through some underground tunnels. When they emerged into the sunlight, Virgil's visor went dark while the Hood was dazzled, causing him to crash in a fiery explosion worthy of the series.
Lyons Maid's ice lollies had a major Gerry Anderson deal in the sixties. In addition to Lady Penelope advertising the Fab, their other "space age" lollies were tied to other Supermarionation programmes: Zoom was Fireball XL5, Sea Jet (and Super Sea Jet) were Stingray (1964) and Orbit was Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons.
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Bewitched cast members often promoted the sponsors' products - such as the Chevrolet Impala, Quaker Instant Oatmeal, and the Kodak Instamatic camera - as their respective characters.
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The Lorax's film adaptation has about 70 marketing tie-ins all told, one being - of all things - for Mazda SUVs. Something about them being green. note (The all-gas vehicles in question have 35 mpg, an improvement for SUVs, but meaningless compared to, say, the Prius.) One gets the idea that the powers that be missed the point of the Lorax a bit.
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The Lone Ranger and Tonto for Jeno's Pizza Rolls.
The Lone Ranger also appeared in a "Who's behind those Foster Grants?" (designer sunglasses) ad when the owners of the Lone Ranger franchise refused to let Clayton Moore go in public with a mask on - he just switched to sunglasses.
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The Partridge Family starred in two Rice Krispies ads, one in which Reuben serves them Rice Krispies in the garage and they sing a song about it, and one in which Shirley wakes Keith up by pouring cereal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ongO0BcDZq0
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The Peanuts characters did lots of endorsements over the years.
The earliest example was for the Kodak Brownie camera in 1955.
An extremely successful and long-running campaign with the gang started in 1960, when they were recruited to help endorse the new Ford Falcon, one of the first American compact cars. Ford used the characters in print and TV ads, with the TV ads marking the first Peanuts animation, and it was the work of Bill Meléndez in those commercials that led Charles Schulz to bring him back for A Charlie Brown Christmas.
Starting in the 1980s they endorsed MetLife insurance. Not to mention the MetLife Super Bowl ad that featured the cast walking into a field, followed by every old-school cartoon character you can think of: Voltron, Yosemite Sam, He-Man and Battle Cat, Snagglepuss, and on and on. There even did a couple of additional commercials purporting to be "behind the scenes" footage of the characters during the filming of the main commercial. The association ended in 2016 when MetLife de-emphasized selling insurance to the general public and refocused on corporate clients.
The characters were a longtime presence in commercials for Zingers snack cakes (originally made by Dolly Madison, now made by Hostess).
They also had a stint promoting Cheerios.
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Wallace & Gromit appeared in a series of ads for NPower, with Wallace's inventions contrasted with the simplicity of the electricity company's energy-saving products. ''
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During its initial network run, members of The Monkees appeared in commercials for sponsors such as Kellogg’s and Yardley; in addition, images of the sponsor’s products would be superimposed on the screen during the end credits, but were removed on reruns and syndication prints.note Due to a contractual obligation, they also appeared in ads for Kool-Aid and Nerf during the late-60s/early 70s Saturday-morning run, but the practice of showing the products onscreen had been discontinued by then.
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Hairspray Live! had Show Within a Show host Corny Collins shill Oreo cookies after singing "Ladies' Choice", to help segue into an actual commercial break.
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Hägar the Horrible appeared in a series of UK adverts for Skol lager back in the 80s. (These days, that would probably fall foul of legislation against alcohol advertising appealing to under 18s.)
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Jonny Quest was the representative of P.F. Flyers tennis shoes, "The Action Shoes". One can hear Tim Matheson's voice beginning to change in the commercial.
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Davey and Goliath for Mountain Dew.
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Family Guy:
Peter Griffin for Subway.
Brian and Stewie for Wheat Thins.
Stewie and Lois for Google Chrome.
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Final Fantasy XIII: Lightning became a spokesmodel for Louis Vuitton in 2016.
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The Matrix:
One G.E. ad campaign included commercials starring Agent Smith.
Agent Smith also endorsed Powerade during the theatrical run of the sequels.
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The Muppets (specifically the cast of characters introduced in The Muppet Show, not every ad Jim Henson made a puppet for in the fifties):
A UK advert for Warburton's Giant Crumpets, with the family bakery slightly bewildered that the Mr the Frog wanted to make a variety show about their products.
A UK advert for Barclaycard, featuring The Electric Mayhem on tour in the UK.
A series of US adverts for Pizza Hut
A series of US adverts for Facebook Portal.
A German advert for BMW, with Kermit stopping his car to avoid running over a real frog.
A series of US adverts for the Ford Escape Hybrid, with Kermit commenting that sometimes it is easy to be green.
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A G.E. ad campaign featuring various robots including Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation, the Lost in Space Robot, and K.I.T.T. of Knight Rider.
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