Most shocking/disturbing commercial you've ever seen
Most shocking/disturbing commercial you've ever seen
#0Most shocking/disturbing commercial you've ever seen
Posted: 8/25/05 at 11:04am
The "shocking/disturbing movie" thread got me thinking about this. What is the most shocking or disturbing commercial you've ever seen? For me, I'd have to go with all those old drug PSAs. I remember the one for meth that featured an a capella choir singing about a girl's fanatic cleaning of her house when she was high, and the one for heroin that takes a pretty woman and ages her horribly, ending with her removing her teeth. And one about huffing that featured a young girl drowning as her room filled with water. Those scared the hell out of me as a kid.
What commercials creep you out?
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#1re: Most shocking/disturbing commercial you've ever seen
Posted: 8/25/05 at 11:48amThat Quiznos baby!
"Carson has combined his passion for helping children with his love for one of Cincinnati's favorite past times - cornhole - to create a unique and exciting event perfect for a corporate outing, entertaining clients or family fun."
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#2re: Most shocking/disturbing commercial you've ever seen
Posted: 8/25/05 at 12:55pmOnce again..............AFLAC!
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#4re: Most shocking/disturbing commercial you've ever seen
Posted: 8/27/05 at 2:08pm
There is a commercial for a pet owners' product called "Urine Gone" that runs frequently on Game Show Network. Among the scintillating text for this send-for product is the catchy:
"Urine Gone's powerful enzymes have an appetite for urine!"
Eeeww.
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#5re: Most shocking/disturbing commercial you've ever seen
Posted: 8/27/05 at 2:11pmI have no idea what the name of the product is, but it's a male-enhancer medication commercial. It's very creepy.
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#6re: Most shocking/disturbing commercial you've ever seen
Posted: 8/27/05 at 2:24pm
The Burger King "Wake Up With the King" commercials.
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#7re: most shocking/disturbing commercial you've ever seen
Posted: 8/27/05 at 2:35pmthose are effin' great, marc!
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...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
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#8re: most shocking/disturbing commercial you've ever seen
Posted: 8/27/05 at 3:30pmthe foreign commercials on those HBO shows where couples are having full on intercourse while advertising breath mints and other odd products that have nothing to do with sex...
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#10re: most shocking/disturbing commercial you've ever seen
Posted: 8/30/05 at 1:36pmI have no idea why, but the new Coke commercials with those guys up on a roof and singing that old Coke song totally freaks me out. I loved the old ones that used that song, but this one is so creepy to me. I have to hit the MUTE button on the remote every time it comes on.
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#11re: most shocking/disturbing commercial you've ever seen
Posted: 8/30/05 at 2:26pm
-"Wake Up with the King"!!! So effing scary...
-The trailers for White Noise and ...Emily Rose
-The one where the little boy whispers "Zoom, zoom!"
-The Quiznos baby and roadkill.
#12re: most shocking/disturbing commercial you've ever seen
Posted: 8/30/05 at 2:29pm
That Snickers commercial where all the men throw snickers bars at a deer, who runs away. Then some random guy with bad shorts eats the snickers..it was just..weird.
And that one about the 2-in-1 touch body massage thing...another just weird....
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#13re: most shocking/disturbing commercial you've ever seen
Posted: 8/30/05 at 5:40pmThe tampax commericial with the girl and the guy in a boat and it springs a leak and she gets the clever idea to plug the leak up with her tampon. Not only does she do this, but she actually applicates it instead of just taking it apart and plugging it up like a mad woman. And the guy isn't fazed by this at all either.
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#14re: most shocking/disturbing commercial you've ever seen
Posted: 8/30/05 at 7:43pmthe superbowl commercial from years ago with a badly manipulated computerized image of Chris Reeve walking.
#15re: most shocking/disturbing commercial you've ever seen
Posted: 8/30/05 at 7:47pm
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Wanting life but never knowing how
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#16re: most shocking/disturbing commercial you've ever seen
Posted: 8/30/05 at 7:52pm
AAHHHH!!!yea the Burger King commercials freak the hell outta me!!!why did they have to put that huge plastic mask on his head?
And the Hardees commercials are so sexist and steriotypical,it annoys me
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#17re: most shocking/disturbing commercial you've ever seen
Posted: 8/31/05 at 11:28am
Smiling Bob really, really frightens me.
As does that baby in the womb who keeps yelling for his mother to stop eating spicy something-or-other... that one always makes me dive under the couch, it's just creepy.
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#18re: most shocking/disturbing commercial you've ever seen
Posted: 8/31/05 at 11:36am
The BK ads are creepy as is the "Ranch Tooth" one...
The worst is the anti-smoking campaign with the little baby pretend smoking... I also resent the anti-pot one with the guys in the drive-through that hit the little girl on the bike!
#19re: most shocking/disturbing commercial you've ever seen
Posted: 8/31/05 at 11:56amThe anti-drug one where the girl watches her friend drowning in the lake always made me shudder.
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#20re: most shocking/disturbing commercial you've ever seen
Posted: 8/31/05 at 1:32pm
AFLAC commercials are DAMN ANNOYING!
-The one with that yellow bug guy about the live infection in toenails...ick!!! i hate it everytime he opens up that toenail! ewwww!
-the drowning friend about the anti-drug(the one mentioned in the post above)
-the Quiznos Bob.
-all the ED treatment and they go on telling you all the side effects and if it last more than 4 hours and stuff.
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#21re: most shocking/disturbing commercial you've ever seen
Posted: 8/31/05 at 1:35pm
HAIRAGAMI is by far the most disturbing commercial I have ever seen...
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#22re: most shocking/disturbing commercial you've ever seen
Posted: 8/31/05 at 2:27pmI LOVE the "Wake Up With The King" Ads!! Also the one with the black cowboy singing to some busty, Daisy Duke types who pick hamburgers off of a hamburger tree. Brilliant! It's like a Russ Meyer meets Hee Haw. I love it when they get weird.
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#23re: most shocking/disturbing commercial you've ever seen
Posted: 8/31/05 at 3:04pmTrix. I once had a pet rabbit who was killed during a bank robbery as he tried to get money to feed his obsession with mealy balls of sugar that kinda taste like fruit. I find those commercials exploiting his addiction in poor taste.
#24re: most shocking/disturbing commercial you've ever seen
Posted: 8/31/05 at 3:29pmCalvin - I can only imagine how you feel about Cocoa Puffs.
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#25re: most shocking/disturbing commercial you've ever seen
Posted: 8/31/05 at 3:35pm
Now that bird has problems. He and Toucan Sam should consider group therapy.
I really always felt for the Cookie Crook, though. That one police officer was always going after that poor guy who was just trying to steal a simple box of cereal, probably to feed his starving family. What a waste of police manpower.
Ronald McDonald and the Hamburglar might have had their differences, but at least Ronald never called the cops on him.
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