History FridgeHorror / Advertising

%%* Four words: Snickers. Peanut. Butter. Squared. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fvCPvzy-kM]]
%%** What's probably worse is that this company is willing to feed their own employees (or possibly even unwitting volunteers they picked off the street) to sharks for a profit.
%%** And what about that one where a lifeguard, who should be doing his job, is just staring at seagulls and thinking a voice calling "Help!" is coming from the seagulls instead of that poor boy far away who we then see dip under.

* Four words: [[EverythingsEvenWorseWithSharks Snickers]]. [[ImAHumanitarian Peanut]]. [[KilledOffForReal Butter]]. [[PlayedForLaughs Squared]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fvCPvzy-kM]]
** What's probably worse is that this company is willing to feed their own employees (or possibly even unwitting volunteers they picked off the street) to sharks for a profit.
** And what about that one where a lifeguard, who should be doing his job, is just staring at seagulls and thinking a voice calling "Help!" is coming from the seagulls instead of that poor boy far away who we then see dip under.

* There's a rather touching Duracell [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA7xYeiWg54 commercial]] based around ''Franchise/StarWars'' where kids bring an R2-D2 toy to a fellow kid. It's nice and all, but then you realize those kids were in a hospital playing rebels and you think of what they could possibly rebel against, be it the medical system or the God that placed them in the hospital in the first place. What makes this worse is that the commercial is based heavily off of ''Film/RogueOne'', and if you have seen it, you'd know that [[spoiler:[[KillEmAll all the protagonists, i.e. rebels, die]]. Considering ''why'' they're in the hospital [[LittlestCancerPatient to begin with]], and it just becomes [[TearJerker sad]].]]

* 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 [[BalefulPolymorph after the kid became a monkey, the magician girl sold him off to someone else, or he was simply found and made a pet.]]

* There's a rather touching Duracell [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA7xYeiWg54 commercial]] based around ''Franchise/StarWars'' where kids bring an R2-D2 toy to a fellow kid. It's nice and all, but then you realize those kids were in a hospital playing rebels and you think of what they could possibly rebel against, be it the medical system or the God that placed them in the hospital in the first place. What makes this worse is that the commercial is based heavily off of ''Film/RogueOne'', and if you have seen it, you'd know that [[spoiler:[[KillEmAll all the protagonists, i.e. rebels, die]]. Considering ''why'' they're [[IllGirl in the hospital]] [[LittlestCancerPatient to begin with]], and it just becomes [[TearJerker sad]].]]

* I forget what the company was, but in the late '90s/early 2000's (forget which), there was a commercial for high speed internet. A guy who had it proudly proclaimed that due to the fast internet connection, he had been across the internet and back. If you think about it, that could mean he looked at every single site on the internet, which means every twisted, disgusting porn site (including [[PaedoHunt the underage variety...]]), every shock site, every hate site, and probably downloaded everything illegal in existence. Yikes. ([[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife On the bright side]], this commercial predates Wiki/TVTropes.)

* In a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24aujbPtWxc Pediasure commercial]], two mothers are sitting on the sidelines of their children's soccer game. One mother asks if her child looks 'slow'. The child is shown to be a giant container of french fries. The mothers continue to talk and the responding mother says that her daughter has been drinking Pediasure and that 'kids are what they eat.' The mother's child is shown to look like a normal girl, not a giant food, which means that Pediasure is ''[[{{Film/SoylentGreen}} made out of children.]]'' [[{{UpToEleven}} Also,]] [[{{ImAHumanitarian}} every other child on the field not dressed as a giant food is a cannibal.]]

* 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 [[UpToEleven at the Pearly Gates]], or else they'll be going there for ''real''.

** And now with the A&W Root Beer and Orange Crush variants we have a commercial that's basically a girl getting the two Pop-Tarts drunk on their own sodas. Made worse by the fact that she utters a line to the effect of "Can't handle your soda boys?", implying that she's going to do something with the Pop-Tarts. (And no, not eat them.)

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF4bGNocwV8 The]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ-6Aoq1zyo "Sorry I was Eating a Milky Way"]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhIagtp-4fs commercials]] have people eating Milky Ways while simultaneously absentmindedly trying to perform another task. I guess it's funny when the tattoo artist accidentally misspells "No Regrets" on a biker's arm, but what if a mother was eating one while her child was ''[[AdultFear in danger]]''?

* For this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tTc8__lXkM Pokemon Blue And Red]] commercial, you should be worried about the fact that they thought it was okay to show an advertisement of 151 different creatures being trapped on bus, then violently crushed into a single tiny rectanglur console, by some sadist bus driver, just to [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids advertise a childrens game!]]

* I forget what the company was, but in the late '90s/early 2000's (forget which), there was a commercial for high speed internet. A guy who had it proudly proclaimed that due to the fast internet connection, he had been across the internet and back. If you think about it, that could mean he looked at every single site on the internet, which means every twisted, disgusting porn site (including [[PaedoHunt the underage variety...]]), every shock site, every hate site, and probably downloaded everything illegal in existence. Yikes.
** On the bright side, this commercial predates [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife TVTropes.]]

** YMMV on this one, too. Hospitals have backup generators on-site specifically to keep from being crippled by outages.
** I don't know, I still think it's FridgeHorror. What if a little old lady was walking down the stairs of her home when the lights suddenly shut off? Or someone chopping vegetables/carrying sharp objects when they're pitched into darkness and slip? All the people who might take advantage of the chaotic situation to raid shops, and the bystanders who get caught in their way? Most of them won't have backup generators, but they could just as easily end up in life-threatening situations.
** At the very least, it's Fridge Jerkassness.

** Yet again, YMMV. It's supposed to be cyclic, showing that good deeds will always come back to you in the end. Don't see how that's a hellscape.
*** Every single one of these is YMMV by their very nature. Relax.

* A promotional comic for the Chocapic's cereal brand had the brand's mascot go back to ancient Aztec time. There, he helps the local prince, who suspiciously looks like his human friend ([[MightyWhitey Who, by the way, is a white, blond kid]]), to win a ball game. Everything's looks cool... Until you remember a detail that got mentioned earlier (and that is historically correct): the losing team is ''to be sacrificed to the Aztec gods''. Yay ! The prince's team won ! It still means that a dozen men will have their hearts painfully removed from their chest while they're still alive ! Yipee !

** For a disease that has a distinct auditory symptom, it's only sensible to make a recording for the purpose of educating patients and training medical professionals. And the point of the commercial is education, they're not exploiting a sick kid to sell something. It's a still a horrifying sound, but it's deliberate.

* A promotional comic for the Chocapic's cereal brand had the brand's mascot go back to ancient Aztec time. There, he helps the local prince, who suspiciously looks like his human friend ([[MightyWhitey Who, by the way, is a white, blond kid]]), to win a ball game. Everything's looks cool... Until you remember a detail that got mentioned earlier (and that is historically correct) : the losing team is ''to be sacrificed to the Aztec gods''. Yay ! The prince's team won ! It still means that a dozen men will have their hearts painfully removed from their chest while they're still alive ! Yipee !

** In the advert "Touch the Rainbow", there's a man whose hands' touch turns things into skittles. Everyone seems to think this is fine, except for the man who just that morning killed a man by shaking his hand. The horror of this moment and the others mentioned, such as that he can't touch his son, barely scratches the surface of what his life must look like. Bathroom ablutions must surely be horrendous. Shaving impossible unless its done for him. He has to mind his every move less he kills by accident. And what if he falls over... would he turn the entire world into skittles? He absolutely has a moral obligation to have his hands sliced off!

** In the advert "Touch the Rainbow", there's a man whose hands' touch turns things into skittles. Everyone seems to think this is fine, except for the man who jus that morning killed a man by shaking his hand. The horror of this moment and the others mentioned, such as that he can't touch his son, barely scratches the surface of what his life must look like. Bathroom ablutions must surely be horrendous. Shaving impossible unless its done for him. He has to mind his every move less he kills by accident. And what if he falls over... would he turn the entire world into skittles? He absolutely has a moral obligation to have his hands sliced off!

* A commercial for Pizza Hut's Full House XL pizza featured Audrey II. Yes, [[Film/LittleShopOfHorrors THAT Audrey II.]] That red stuff between the cheese and the crust? It's not tomato sauce, [[ImaHumanitarian it's human blood!]]