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Obsessive Spokesperson
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It's expected that characters in Advertising Campaigns will spend most of their appearance enjoying the advertised product. We usually don't need to learn about their lives when they're not using the product, so we don't expect their in-universe existence to revolve around the product — the commercial is just a snapshot of their life that happens to involve the product. In other ads, the spokesperson isn't just enjoying the product like a typical customer, or even just doing their job as a mascot. Their entire life, even off the clock, is dedicated to the product. They're incapable of having a normal conversation without bringing up the product. They will go to extreme lengths just to get their hands on the product, and won't accept any alternative. The worst thing they can imagine is not having the product, and it may drive them to go insane. Other characters in the commercial, even those who also enjoy the product, are likely to be weirded out at this character's behavior. Alternatively, they might be just as obsessed with the product, and either beg the character for assistance scoring the product or start a rivalry with them. Either way, the company doesn't expect you to take this character's behavior very seriously, even if they want the product itself to be taken seriously. This usually appears in Long Running campaigns that flesh out the everyday lives of their mascot characters, but still have them constantly refer to advertising. The kind of product can also affect how reasonable the obsession appears to be, since a Trademark Favorite Food is more likely to come up more in casual conversation often than, say, an insurance comparison site. This often falls into Self-Parody territory by mocking the unrealistic nature of a character that exists to shill a product. Compare Flat Character and The Power of Cheese, which often overlap with this trope. Also compare Abusive Advertising, when not only is the product Serious Business, but the mascot will threaten anybody who doesn't buy it, and Stepford Consumer, when the consumer is ridiculously happy about the product they buy. Contrast What Were They Selling Again?, where the characters barely talk about the product at all, and Our Product Sucks, when the characters hate the product. |
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Parodied in an article of The Onion introducing a violent McDonald's mascot, "The Hammurderer." The article mentions another (fictional) recalled character, "Shakes McJunkie," who was so addicted to McDonald's shakes that he committed robberies just to get money for shakes. This mascot was apparently retooled into "The Machead" who used "panhandling and gay prostitution" to fund his burger addiction. | |
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There's Shadow Man, a man dedicated to making sure people know about Raid: Shadow Legends, going as far as to cause car accidents and plane crashes for it. In one ad, he gifts Raid: Shadow Legends to his children on Christmas (instead of telling them their mother died), and they respond with delight. | |
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Internet Historian's sponsorships tend to include over-the-top scenarios and really obsessive spokespeople. There's Shadow Man, a man dedicated to making sure people know about Raid: Shadow Legends, going as far as to cause car accidents and plane crashes for it. In one ad, he gifts Raid: Shadow Legends to his children on Christmas (instead of telling them their mother died), and they respond with delight. There's NordVPN Man, who once tried to coerce a woman into letting him use NordVPN, and also once stalked and harassed a different woman to "prove" how easy it is for hackers to collect data. There's Raycon Man, who is on a personal quest to replace all wires with Raycon earbuds. On his journey, he cuts the wrong wire to a bomb causing untold amounts of injury, cuts an astronaut's oxygen line, leaving him to die in space, and cuts power to major cities along the American east coast. He also proposes to a woman with Raycon earbuds. |
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In first half of A Case of Spring Fever, the protagonist Gilbert gains a new appreciation for springs after seeing how dull the world would be without them. In the second half, Gilbert becomes an evangelist for springs: when he goes golfing with his friends, he spends the entire trip monologuing about springs and their many, many uses. His friends get annoyed at him, or bored to the point of falling asleep, and he just keeps talking about springs. | |
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Game Grumps: A bit in the Grumps Dream Course playthrough had Arin mimic Larry the Cable Guy's Prilosec heartburn medicine commercials, except the impression derails into Larry worshiping Prilosec as a god and eating it in the place of normal food. | |
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In the CollegeHumor video "Extremely Real People Who Are Definitely Not Actors," a group of "real people, not actors" in a battery commercial go absolutely berserk over the obscure-award-winning power of Omnivolt batteries. One girl breaks a table and another guy's head explodes after learning that Omnivolt was the second most reliable battery in a consumer survey. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants has Patchy the Pirate, the SpongeBob Fan Club president who hosts several special episodes of SpongeBob, as well as SpongeBob promotional material. His house is filled with SpongeBob merchandise and he goes to extreme lengths to see new SpongeBob episodes, including a lost episode, and even tries to meet SpongeBob in person. Even his pirate getup seems to just be an extension of his SpongeBob obsession, since he lives in modern-day Encino, California. | |
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The aptly named 'Magic Bullet' special of Meme House is about a 'family' of spokespersons based on the actual real-life Magic Bullet (a food processor) commercials. In the episode itself, the main couple are cultishly obsessed with said food processor, constantly cooking beyond what's necessary, on top of being extremely mean to the designated Butt-Monkey Ralph. The episode ends with Ralph murdering everyone else in the household, and the reveal that the entire episode was just one long, extremely weird commercial In-Universe. | |
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Homestar Runner parodies this. It had previously been established that Homestar Runner's favorite drink is melonade, but in the cartoon "Hremail 7" he reveals that he's actually a paid spokesman for the company, and therefore contractually obligated to act obsessed with the product: "As a national spokesmodel for the Ethical Advancement of Melonade, I am contractually unable to drink, talk about, or bathe in any other liquid!" Homestar ends the Hremail by telling anyone who wants to know what his non-melonade favorite drink is, they need to ask him again in two years, when his contract expires. | |
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Drawn Together parodied Sonny the Cuckoo Bird's Cocoa Puffs obsession by depicting him at the hospital in a straitjacket, screaming, "Somebody get me some fucking puffs!" | |
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The Critic: The episode "Eyes on the Prize" parodies the food commercials that Orson Welles did late in his life. Welles has a low opinion of the peas and wine commercials, doing them only for the money, but has an intense attachment to the frozen fish sticks ones. Several times when filming other works, some of which aren't even commercials, he'll switch to plugging fish sticks and eating them on camera. Even as a ghost, he's still snacking on them, claiming they taste even better when one is dead. | |
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