Some Weird And Creepy Ads…

 Here Are Some Creepy But Weird Ads!

• Bob, the Enzyte Man, is a real dude but he's really creepy with his soulless smile and perpetual wave. And the less said about his implied perpetual erection, the better.
• This Fruit-to-Go commercial was definitely trying too hard with the CGI child character 
• In the United Kingdom, Lynx deodorant ran an advertising campaign in which a man made entirely of chocolate broke off pieces of himself. The advert was eventually banned for being too disturbing. See it here. They used the same ad for the American version, called Axe. It's still really creepy.
• An Evian ad featured babies breakdancing to The Sugarhill Gang. Some found it cute, some found it creepy. The babies are CGI and look human except for a few features.
• This Ad for Diet Coke, featuring creepy big-headed, big-eyed pale puppets.
• In his debut, the Jolly Green Giant wasn't so Jolly as he was a "Robotic Moving, Maliciously Evil Green Giant".
• At some point, Mayflower realized nothing made you want to move out of your house faster than seeing a giant, horrifying marionette girl walking the streets of your neighborhood.
• The crash test dummies in this Kit Kat Chunky commercial have rather unsettling facial expressions, especially at the end. Steve Madden Shoes used to feature similar images in its advertising.
• This piece of Mind Screw, courtesy of Cadbury Chocolate: two expressionless children twitching their computer-generated eyebrows to music. That this ad has no direct relation to the product makes it creepier
• The "My American Girl" portion of the American Girl doll company features animated versions of their dolls, seen on this very Wiki. The dolls themselves are not creepy, but their cartoon counterparts are somewhat soulless.
• The Old Navy: The SuperModelquins. You have the eerie over-perfect look of a mannequin and words come out of their mouth but their lips don't move.
  • This took on a whole new level of creepy during a Christmas 2010 ad, where one of the mannequins was giving sweaters to her family, including her twin brothers—one of whom was a mannequin, and one who was a real human child. One of the other mannequins remarks "now I can tell them apart."
• The Wrightnows from the Netflix commercials may be played by real humans, but there's nothing "human" about them.
• That's why grandpa always looks so unhappy and seems to get his only enjoyment from horror movies. He's forced to be around them 24/7.
• This Pedigree Dentastix commercial shows that dogs can enter uncanny valley as well. There is something horribly Bad about a dog with human teeth.
• Etrade babies. Their big adorable baby eyes stare unblinkingly ahead while their mouths move independently of their faces.
• In December 2010, Andrex toilet tissue in the UK, well known for its long-running campaign with real life labrador pups, launched an advertisement replacing real dogs with CGI-rendered dog characters behaving like humans.
• This McDonald's Happy Meal ad, called Suzi Van Zoom. Suzi already looks creepy, but the monkey takes it up to eleven.
• The whole "Joy is a Gift" ad campaign in general. Those children are not cute. They're not even Ugly Cute.
• Later on, people on social media became disturbed and creeped out when McDonalds revealed their newest mascot, Happy.Something about mixing a red boxy body, Pixar-style eyes and too-real teeth just makes it ugly, but it might, unlike before, be Ugly Cute.
• Glamour magazine once saw fit to announce a "secret issue" for iPad with this monstrosity. As if magazine covers weren't already in the Photoshop of Uncanny Things
• Speaking of mascots, McDonald's first version of Ronald McDonald from 1963 was a clown wearing ketchup colored Uncanny Valley Makeup with a drink cup for a nose (which partially covered his eyes), wild hair (probably meant to look like french fries), and a box topped with a drink, burger and fries. The combination made him look, at best, like a guy who was just dumpster diving in a McDonalds trash bin.
• Ads for Gerber Graduates have babies doing things that babies naturally should not be able to do and it is quite unsettling.
• This Hot Pockets Snackers commercial. For a human actress, the girl playing the waitress comes off as robotic.
• This ad for MiO, where all the anthropomorphic animals have disturbingly realistic faces.
• An ad on this very site for "California's Summer of Fun" (basically an ad for various Californian amusement parks) features either a teenage boy, a teenage girl, or a young boy, all with freakishly distorted facial features (eyes bugging out, mouth stretched to impossible dimensions).
• Subway's "Subprize Party" contest's website (not as much its commercials) opens with a Steadicam making its way into a Subway sandwich restaurant with everyone dancing. If you want to enter in one of the codes to see if you've won something, the camera will go to a corner of the restaurant with a group of people dancing and partying, who then all turn to stare intently at you when the music suddenly cuts out. Unlike this image It Is not a still. It's a looping video, so you see them moving and shifting about.
• Albertson's ran a few ads featuring singing CG fruits and vegetables with human faces. The effect is really unnerving, see here [1]and here [2].
• Wonga, one of those short-term loan companies with insane interest rates, use to have puppets of old people telling you how simple their loans are. Now the puppets have been replaced by semi-realistic CGI models of the puppets making them look rather disconcerting as seen here
• This commercial from Sunraysia features a baby kangaroo shilling for organic juice. Problem is, the eyes are too big, the voice is misplaced and the graphics look like a rejected Silicon Graphics rendering (a.k.a. the CG is very off-putting).
• An advertisement for a portable exercise app called DailyBurn comes across as this due to the lighting on the actors' eyes that, whether intentional or not, make their eyes look like the home button of an iPad.
• This StateFarm ad which features a talking mime and a talking baby. The baby's face is animated so poorly in an attempt to match up with the words that it falls straight down into Uncanny Valley, not to mention the strange disembodied voice that is supposed to be coming from its mouth.
• This ad for the loan company Sunny Images the puppets from the aforementioned Diet Coke ad crossed with those from the Wonga.com ads. It doesn't help that the puppets work in a dimly lit office.
• This commercial for MTS, featuring the concept of cheap CGI and babies doing things babies can't normally do.
• This commercial for the prescription drug Prezcobix. The designs of the people are very disturbing. Their stiff movements don't help either
• An ad for Nectar memory foam mattressfeatures people noting how they are now "sleeping like babies", demonstrating this by having adult heads superimposed on baby bodies. They may be sleeping like babies, but the viewers certainly won't.
• In 1992, a PSA about construction safety aired that starred puppets of rapping traffic cones with human faces.
• an ad for pancreatic enzymes featuring a 3D-animated human that is more detailed but that arguably only makes it worse.

  

That Is All For These Creepy But Weird Ads!