Mr. Six (mascot)

Mr. Six was an advertising character that was used from 2004 to 2010 for an

According to USA Today, Mr. Six is the creation of Doner Advertising of Southfield, Michigan. The success of the ad became such that Six Flags toured the vintage bus featured in the ad to all of its 31 parks selling old T-shirts based on the Mr. Six advertisement. Mr. Six also appeared on the nationally broadcast U.S. TV morning show Good Morning America.^[2]

The first airing had Mr. Six as an apparently elderly, slow-moving man dressed in his trademark tuxedo and large glasses, entering a suburban neighborhood in a

Six Flags did not disclose the identity of the actor playing Mr. Six for some time,[3] but eventually it became known that Mr. Six was played by choreographer Danny Teeson.^[4] Teeson said in 2018, "The first few years, I had a hefty NDA [non-disclosure agreement] agreement with my contract."^[4]

Mr. Six impersonators

On July 9, 2004, Six Flags Great America held a contest to find the best person who could impersonate the new "Ambassador of Fun" Mr. Six and dance like him. The reward was $2,500 cash and other small prizes. About 200 people who wore tuxedos and red bow ties, went out onto the stage and danced. Jordan Pope, 13, won the contest. Jim Crowley, Six Flags Great America marketing director, said, "Jordan truly embodies the spirit of Six Flags!... He had Mr. Six's unique dance moves down to a science, the crowd went wild when he took the stage!"^[5]

Retirement and possible revival

On November 29, 2005,

Mr. Six appeared as a bobblehead in the Six Flags New for 2017 announcement video.

On March 21, 2024, several of Six Flags' social media accounts posted a video entitled "The party has just begun" featuring "We Like to Party" playing in the background on speakers. The title of a poster contains a bus emoji, hinting at a potential comeback of Mr. Six to the Six Flags parks.

Parodies

• A 2004 episode of
  The Late Show with David Letterman featured a parody with show announcer Alan Kalter
  driving the Six Flags bus and "accidentally" running over Mr. Six.
• Mr. Six is also parodied in the
  Celebrity Rocket
  ". In a sketch, Mr. Six appears at the site of a car accident and whisks all involved to Six Flags (including a woman, a man, a cop, and a corpse in a body bag). At one point, he dances behind the woman in a very provocative manner, causing the cop to yank him away from her. At the end, Mr. Six begins driving them away from Six Flags only to cause another fatal accident. As the bus passengers look on at the horrifying results, Mr. Six begins dancing again. The cop gets annoyed and shoots him in the head.
• Mr. Six was parodied twice on Saturday Night Live.
  • He was parodied on the
    NBC has over-scheduled The Apprentice and dozens of spinoffs have been created, including one in which the contestants are TV commercial characters. Donald Trump (played by Darrell Hammond) asks Mr. Six (played by Amy Poehler
    ) if he would dance for him. Mr. Six says he would rather not, but the skit ends with Mr. Six next to Trump dancing to "We Like to Party".
  • On the
    April 16, 2022 episode, host Lizzo brings a date (played by Mikey Day) home, only for it to be revealed that her grandfather (played by Sarah Sherman), with whom she lives, is Mr. Six, referred to throughout the sketch as "The Six Flags Guy". Further, it is revealed that her grandmother (Ego Nwodim) and their poker club (Aristotle Athari, Kate McKinnon, Kyle Mooney
    ) are all also "Six Flags Guys". The sketch ends with everyone doing the Mr. Six dance to "We Like to Party".
• Art Wander portrayed "Mr. Empire," a direct parody of Mr. Six, in an advertisement for Empire Sports Network. The original Mr. Six ads were in heavy rotation at the time to promote Six Flags Darien Lake in Empire's coverage area.^[7]