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* TelevisionPortal: Happens quite a lot. If a 3D TV is being advertised, you're particularly likely to see something coming out of the TV.

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* TelevisionPortal: Happens quite a lot.bit during TV commercials. If a 3D TV is being advertised, you're particularly likely to see something coming out of the TV.
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* TelevisionPortal: While hh is advertising [=TVs=], water splashes out of one, and grass/dirt/rocks come out of the other during a sports game. hh himself also comes out of a 3D TV in another commercial.

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* TelevisionPortal: While hh Happens quite a lot. If a 3D TV is advertising [=TVs=], water splashes out of one, and grass/dirt/rocks come being advertised, you're particularly likely to see something coming out of the other during a sports game. hh himself also comes out of a 3D TV in another commercial.TV.
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* TelevisionPortal: While hh is advertising [=TVs=], water splashes out of one, and grass/dirt/rocks come out of the other during a sports game.

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* TelevisionPortal: While hh is advertising [=TVs=], water splashes out of one, and grass/dirt/rocks come out of the other during a sports game. hh himself also comes out of a 3D TV in another commercial.
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* TelevisionPortal: While hh is advertising [=TVs=], water splashes out of one, and grass comes out of the other during a sports game.

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* TelevisionPortal: While hh is advertising [=TVs=], water splashes out of one, and grass comes grass/dirt/rocks come out of the other during a sports game.
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* TelevisionPortal: While hh is advertising TVs, water splashes out of one, and grass comes out of the other during a sports game.

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* TelevisionPortal: While hh is advertising TVs, [=TVs=], water splashes out of one, and grass comes out of the other during a sports game.
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* TelevisionPortal: While hh is advertising TVs, water splashes out of one, and grass comes out of the other during a sports game.
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hhgregg is a electronics and appliances retailer from the United States. They have a series of commercials featuring their mascot, hh, a sentient rolled-up hhgregg advertisement. The commercials primarily feature him, but he does interact with other hhgregg employees in certain commercials, voiced by Wally Wingert. hh was featured in commercials between 2009 and 2011. When hhgregg became an online business in 2017, they brought back hh as the company's mascot and featured him in social media posts.

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hhgregg is a electronics and appliances retailer from the United States. They have a series of commercials featuring their mascot, hh, a sentient rolled-up hhgregg advertisement. The commercials primarily feature him, but he does interact with other hhgregg employees in certain commercials, voiced by Wally Wingert.Creator/WallyWingert. hh was featured in commercials between 2009 and 2011. When hhgregg became an online business in 2017, they brought back hh as the company's mascot and featured him in social media posts.
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hhgregg is a electronics and appliances retailer from the United States. They have a series of commercials featuring their mascot, hh, a sentient rolled-up hhgregg advertisement. The commercials primarily feature him, but he does interact with other hhgregg employees in certain commercials, voiced by Wally Wingert. hh was feautured in commercials between 2009 and 2011. When hhgregg became an online business in 2017, they brought back hh as the company's mascot and featured him in social media posts.

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hhgregg is a electronics and appliances retailer from the United States. They have a series of commercials featuring their mascot, hh, a sentient rolled-up hhgregg advertisement. The commercials primarily feature him, but he does interact with other hhgregg employees in certain commercials, voiced by Wally Wingert. hh was feautured featured in commercials between 2009 and 2011. When hhgregg became an online business in 2017, they brought back hh as the company's mascot and featured him in social media posts.
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* AllLowercaseLetters: hh's name is rendered in lowercase letters, to fit the name of the retailer which is usually stylized with lowercase letters as well.
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hhgregg is a electronics and appliances retailer from the United States. They have a series of commercials featuring their mascot, hh, a sentient rolled-up hhgregg advertisement. The commercials primarily feature him, but he does interact with other hhgregg employees in certain commercials. hh was feautured in commercials between 2009 and 2011. When hhgregg became an online business in 2017, they brought back hh as the company's mascot and featured him in social media posts.

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hhgregg is a electronics and appliances retailer from the United States. They have a series of commercials featuring their mascot, hh, a sentient rolled-up hhgregg advertisement. The commercials primarily feature him, but he does interact with other hhgregg employees in certain commercials.commercials, voiced by Wally Wingert. hh was feautured in commercials between 2009 and 2011. When hhgregg became an online business in 2017, they brought back hh as the company's mascot and featured him in social media posts.
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* IKnowThatVoice: HH was voiced by Wally Wingert.

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*IKnowThatVoice: HH was voiced by Wally Wingert.
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* AnimateInanimateObject: hh is a sentient version of an hhgregg paper ad.


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* InflatingBodyGag: One ad has hh blowing up some balloons for a blowout sale via a helium tank. hh ends up sucking in the helium from one balloon, causing him to inflate and float around in the air.
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* AndTheRest: In the "Red Tag Sale" commercial, he acknowledges Sony, Samsung, Panasonic, Whirlpool, LG, and everybody else.

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* AndTheRest: In the "Red Tag Sale" commercial, he hh acknowledges Sony, Samsung, Panasonic, Whirlpool, LG, and everybody else.
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hhgregg is a electronics and appliances retailer from the United States. They have a series of commercials featuring their mascot, hh, a sentient rolled-up hhgregg advertisement. The commercials primarily feature him, but he does interact with other hhgregg employees in certain commercials. hh was feautured in commercials between 2009 and 2011. When hhgregg became an online business in 2017, they brought back hh as the company's mascot and featured him in social media posts.

A mostly complete collection of commercials featuring hh can be found [[https://youtu.be/ilQxLvVwYOc here]].

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!!Tropes exhibited by hh and the commercials featuring him:
* AbandonedMascot: hhgregg didn't use hh during the last few years of the company's original lifespan, but they brought him back after they became an online retailer.
* AndNinetyNineCents: Everything hh lists off in the "Christmas in July" commercial is just one dollar below an even number.
* AndTheRest: In the "Red Tag Sale" commercial, he acknowledges Sony, Samsung, Panasonic, Whirlpool, LG, and everybody else.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: hh addresses the viewer in a New Year's commercial to talk about family discounts.
* CharacterNarrator: In some commercials, hh himself narrates the commercials on top of other footage/graphics related to the store.
* ChristmasInJuly: The well-known "Christmas in July" commercial features hh singing the store's latest deals to the tune of "Deck the Halls" while mentioning that it's Christmas in July. Based on the end of the commercial, nobody else is celebrating with him.
* ChristmasSongs: hh sings "Deck the Halls" in multiple commercials. He sings "The 12 Days of Christmas" in another commercial.
* DreamingOfAWhiteChristmas: Despite it being July, it's just cold enough for somebody to throw a snowball at hh at the end of the "Christmas in July" commercial. hh lampshades this:
-->''"A snowball in July?"''
* FloatingLimbs: hh's hands and feet are not attached to his body in any way.
* FormerlyFit: In one commercial, hh appears overweight after ordering too many televisions. He spends the rest of the commercial losing weight.
* InteractiveNarrator: A New Year's commercial features a narrator talking about the employee family discount. At the end of the commercial, hh says "Plus...", implying that he was following up what the narrator said.
* ListSong: The Christmas commercials mostly serve to list various products that are on sale to the tune of a Christmas song.
* {{Mascot}}: hh is the mascot of hhgregg.
* MusicalisInterruptus: At the end of the Christmas commercials, hh gets hit with a snowball before he finishes singing the company's name.
* RepetitiveName: "hh" is just the letter "h" repeated twice.
* RogerRabbitEffect: The commercials feature hh interacting with live-action hhgregg employees.
* SingerNamedrop: Throughout the Christmas commercials, he repeats the letter "H" and says the name of the store.
* TrashOfTheTitans: At the end of the New Year's commercial, the camera pans back to reveal that the entire store is covered in trash. hh is given a broom to clean it up.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Nobody seems to find a talking roll of paper to be out of the norm.
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