More Weird Ads!

 More Weird Ads, This Time, It Is Not Creepy!

 

• There is a commercial for Pay As You Go phones, where a cell phone from the 1980s and a pink modern cell phone are the proud parents, extolling the benefits of their new baby cell phone and how it is going to help people save money on their monthly talk, text, and data plans. And then they walk off screen to go raise some bars, if you know what we mean.

• This unknown anti-drug ad: "She's on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and Heroin."
• Those "Disrespectoids" commercials for Capri Sun that have the kids transforming into inanimate objects for doing something bad to the drink pouch. It's supposed to be funny, but then you realize that these kids are going to be like this for the rest of their lives.
• In other Muppet-Advertising Fridge Horror, Miss Piggy was once EATING BACON in an advert for Denny's and Pepe the King Prawn was spokesman for Long John Silver. So Piggy and Pepe want you to eat their family members. Kermit, on the other hand, refused to be the spokesperson for a frog legs restaurant in The Muppet Movie.
• McDonald's once proudly advertised that their Chicken McNuggets were "now" made with white meat. So what part of the chicken were we eating before? Good question.
  • McDonald's chicken nuggets were probably just made with dark meat, which is fattier and more caloric. By advertising their switch to all-white meat, they're also advertising they've greatly reduced the amount of fat and calories in their chicken nuggets.
  • A commercial for Acorn Stairlifts portrays an old man walking down the stairs with his cane, but he drops it down and he's stuck. It then cuts to the man riding down the stairs on the stair lift from the same position he was in when he dropped his cane... with the cane still on the floor. Was he stuck on that stairwell the entire time until the Stair Lift was installed?
    • He probably used the stairlift to ascend the stairs in the first place and was just demonstrating what to him would've been his worst nightmare. Before, he probably didn't even dare walk up to the second story, which is rather sad and depressing to think about.
    • The Mini Wheat commercials. They seem a little happy with the singing and what not, considering we're going to eat them alive. It doesn't help.
    • Goldfish commercials. They may seem light hearted, but once you realize that one goldfish is basically putting his friends and family up to be eaten by us, they don't seem as happy as they used to.
      • The Goldfish commercials have always been creepy. "The wholesome snack that smiles back — until you bite their heads off!"
      • Any "anthropomorphic food" ads; the happy pig selling barbeque, the Happy Meal guys, etc. The whole cheerful, sentient, wants to be eaten, and sometime alive is pervasive and horrifying.
      • M&M's commercials, especially the ones depicting individual M&M's trying desperately to hide themselves from humans who want nothing more than to mash them apart with their teeth. Seeing the look of pure horror on their colorful faces is enough to make anyone think twice about that next handful...
      • The adverts in the UK for Mazuma, a company that specialise in recycling old unwanted mobile phones and throwing a bit of money your way for the trouble. The cute little cartoon phones happily leap into the envelope, but no mention is made of what horrors happen when the envelope is opened in the recycling plant and the phones are gutted for their parts...
      • A K9 Advantix commercial shows a white dog singing "there may be bugs on some of you mugs, but there ain't no bugs on me". This sounds cute until it sounds like  it almost sounds like a doggie version of racism. Plus due to the fact that the singing dog was white and the itchy dogs were not. I am not saying it was racist; just pointing this out.
      • The Mucinex commercials feature anthropomorphized mucus that are moving into a human's lungs, throwing family reunions, and playing with their children. At the end of the commercial, with the aid of Mucinex, the human coughs up the mucus, evicting them from their lungs. Congratulations, you just made an entire family homeless.
        • It's OK, we're obviously supposed to hate the guy because he looks like a disgusting working class luddite. Or maybe he's supposed to be a jew? Lesson: evicting the mucus wouldn't be OK if it were a respectable middle class family.
        • Trix: children starve a rabbit, insisting that their cereal is for them and not to be consumed by rabbits.
        • That's nothing. While on the topic of fruit snacks, there's this Fruit by the Foot commercial with two kids that keep wishing stuff onto each other. After wishing hands and hair into fruit by the foot, one kid wishes the other person's DNA was made of fruit by the foot. Cue a human-shaped lump of fruit by the foot with clothes on. He just killed the person by switching his molecules with a sugary food substance. That he'll probably Eat Him
        • An ad for Campbell's Soup involves a snowman melting away from the warmth of the soup into a little boy. The Fridge Horror comes when you think about how he got that way...
        • In a commercial for Ancestry.com a woman says, I believe, her "great great(?) grandmother had five children and only one survived. It can be so easy to forget just how lucky you are." I used to think she meant that she was lucky she didn't lose four out of five children like that woman; but I later saw it a different way: did she mean she was lucky that one child survived for her to descend from?
        • Another Chef Boyardee commercial features a monster breaking into the car of a camping couple, eating a can of Chef Boyardee, then turning into a boy. On top of that, it eats the Chef Boyardee raw.
        • A commercial for a cell phone company has two parent phones cooing over their new baby phone. While remarking about how much better their child is, another phone in the nursery has a low signal and a battery runs out on a third and shuts off.
        • A commercial for Chef Boyardee has a girl picking a can of the stuff out of the grocery store, only for her mom to put it back as they've had Chef all week. Luckily for the girl, the can gains sentience and rolls all the way home towards her. That's cute, until you realize the mom is gonna think that she stole it. Better hope the can is capable of explaining itself, too!
        • Once upon a time there was a commercial for Subway which featured a man making a wish... causing his wife to turn into a sandwich.
        • The "Crazy Good" animated Pop Tarts commercials which are in the same vein as the aforementioned cannibalistic Cinnamon Toast Crunch commercials. We see these poor, unsuspecting treats being tricked in a variety of ways going on a tour bus to meet a beloved band of theirs, a day at the spa, even one method which was used as a means of escape.
        • A commercial for Juicy Drop Gum has a joke at the end where a girl dressed as a magician turns a boy into a monkey. The problem comes in when you see another commercial where a different boy has a monkey he's named Mr. Drops. If these ads happen to air pretty close to each other, or you see the magician one first, you might get the idea in your head that after the kid became a monkey, the magician girl sold him off to someone else, or he was simply found and made a pet.
        • In recent times, AirHeads ad campaigns have featured people eating the candy to have fun by floating around with cartoonishly-inflated heads. Let's just say that they'd better hope they're close to the ground again when their heads deflate, as opposed to dozens of feet in the air, or above cloud level, or at the Pearly Gates, or else they'll be going there for real.