HO HO HO, Green Giant Dies
 

well, I grew up with this guy basically reminding me about vegatables....

between him and voice of Tony the Tiger (They're GREAT!!!) being lost... my childhood slowly slips away...

The time of distinguishable characters as representatives of a product is slowly fading away. Growing up with the Jolly Green Giant, Tony, Charlie the Tuna, Snap, Crackle and Pop and even Speedy Alka-Seltzer(although I don't quite remember all those commercials, they were around when I was a child) has been replaced with growing up with Bob Dylan, Kansas, etc., as background music while some clear, yet plain voice tells you what they're touting.
And when these obits do hit the news, I think 'Gee, I thought he'd be like 100 years old', we were so used to them being a part of life.
Yep, more pieces of childhood lost in time....

I don't remember seeming him much of his commercial while I was growing up but I do remember seeing some stuff. Few weeks ago I think the there was a show that was showing old commercials. The ones were he is made out of clay. He will be missed.
*salutes*

Well, I'm older, so I remember the GGG really well, thank you, along with his obnoxious little animated elves.

But you're right, ngdawg, advertising characters really aren't there anymore. The ad campaigns change too fast, and a single company might have several campaigns anymore and even reposition its products from year to year. So having a standard character who's the "voice of" your product isn't so common. Oh, Poppin' Fresh is still hanging in there, but I haven't seen a Maytag Repairman commercial in years; probably because Maytag's gone into the toilet. A while ago Cheetos had a cartoon cheetah in a series of ads, but again I haven't seen it lately.

If you're _really_ old, you remember automobile ad campaigns with continuing live characters. Dodge had a couple -- the fat Southern sherrif who kept pulling over young guys in Dodges because they were "racing cars," ('Yo in a heapa trouble, boy', was his catchphrase), and even a skinny young blonde in the '60s who commanded us all to "Join the Dodge Rebellion."

Kid's commercials still feature a few recognizable characters, mainly for cereal. Think I saw the Lucky Charms elf not too long ago, or was I dreaming?

Thank fucking GOD they are being used less, they are obnoxious.

It’s a good way to target kids, but you aren’t going to sell me toilet paper by having adds with a fluffy teddybear as some sort of reminder of how soft their paper is on my rectum. The same goes to any number of products that have some anthropomorphic abomination as a spokesthing.

How sad. RIP, JGG.

It occurs to me that I cannot even think of a handful of commercial characters that are still on anymore... mostly breakfast cereals, I guess. Tony the Tiger, Toucan Sam, Lucky the Leprecaun...

Who else?

that's odd, I couldn't figure out why my friend wanted to be the green giant for halloween. I'm going to make sure he knows, just in case it's a coincidence and might offend some people (who the hell knows these days).

I remember him :(

have ya'll seen that commerical (cant remember what its for) where it has a lot of "characters" Mr. Clean, the mortons salt girl, Charlie Tuna and a whole bunch of others I cant remember at the moment

And Mr Whipple asking you to please don't squeeze the charmin encouraged buying ofthe product? :D