Reason: A mentally ill man named Kenneth Lamar Noid, who felt that the commercials were a personal attack on him, held two employees at Domino's in Atlanta hostage for over five hours. After forcing them to make him a pizza and making demands for $100,000, getaway transportation, and a copy of The Widow's Son, Noid surrendered to the police. He was
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Top 10 Advertising Characters That Were Discontinued on Bad Terms
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Emmanuel Dunk
Mac Tonight
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Emmanuel Dunk
8 years ago Report
Reason: Bobby Darin's son, Dodd Mitchell filed a lawsuit claiming that the jingle (inspired by Mack the Knife, specifically the version adapted by his late father) was used without prior permission as well as launching an injunction to have the song removed from TV and radio commercials.
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#3
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Emmanuel Dunk
Dougie the Pizza Guy
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Emmanuel Dunk
8 years ago Report
Reason: The actor portraying him, Diarmid Heindenreich was arrested for crashing his car while high on drugs where he injured his girlfriend (where she almost died) and have to serve periodic detention as a result.
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#4
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Emmanuel Dunk
Erin Esurance
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Emmanuel Dunk
8 years ago Report
Reason: Because of her declining popularity (becoming more hated than Microsoft's Clippy) and the amount of NSFW artwork of her that makes up a majority of the results on Google Images if one simply types her name with SafeSearch off.