History FridgeHorror / Advertising

* The old "Mac Tonite" McDonalds commercials had a faintly spooky central figure with a crescent moon head. [[RetroactiveRecognition The actor has moved on]] to, among other things, the [[PansLabyrinth Pale Man at the dinner table with eyes in his hands.]]

* There is a Sprite commercial that shows people walking into each other and jumping into crowds. And then they explode into thousands of droplets of Sprite and splash the bystanders. Which implies that if you drink Sprite, you are [[ImAHumanitarian drinking]] [[SoylentGreen people]]...

** That's nothing. While on the topic of fruit snacks, there's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eFvIJ_GD0Y 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 [[SoylentGreen eat]].

* Those "Disrespectoids" commercials for Capri Sun that have the kids transforming into inanimate objects for [[DisproportionateRetribution 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.''

** This one is so blatant that it almost doesn't fall into FridgeHorror territory, as the comments section of the ad illustrates how many people realize this.

* 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]].]]

* A K9 Advantex commercial shows a white dog singing "there may be bugs on some of you mugs, but there aint no mugs on me". This sounds cute until it sounds like it says "mutts"; where 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 "Sorry I was Eating a Milky Way" 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 would happen if a mother was eating one while her child was ''[[AdultFear in danger]]''?

* This [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1Z91YkPatw State Farm]] commercial. It starts off really cute with the way every time the couple says they're "never" going to do something, they turn right around and do it. It's cute up until the last "never" where the husband/dad looks down at his asleep family and says softly, "I'm never letting go." Except he's shown to have contradicted every single "never" throughout his life to this point, which just means he probably left them a few weeks/months/years later.

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** That's nothing. While on the topic of fruit snacks, there's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eFvIJ_GD0Y 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 [[SoylentGreen eat]].

** Except that there's evidence that it may actually be the WINNERS that get [[ItGotWorse sacrificed...]]

* A commercial aired for MLK that started with telling us on his gravestone, he has "Free at last" written. This isn't the problem. They then go on to say that [[UnfortunateImplications death is the "free man's freedom"]] (exact words). The scary part comes in when they say ''[[GrimReaper they want to]]'' '''''[[GrimReaper spread this freedom to everyone]]'''''. It is perfectly acceptable to cower in fear.

** The worst yet have been the new PB&J commercials, featuring '''''a nurse eating a baby. IN FRONT OF ITS PARENTS.'''''
*** 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.)

** Make this into a webcomic and you may have my lifetime supply of Internets.

** Except that there's evidence that it may actually be the WINNERS that get sacrificed...

* A [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMuLzRxrNYI commercial]] for NewSuperMarioBros2 has a bunch of coins popping up and things turning into Mario coins. At one point a ice cream van turns into coins and the driver falls through it. The next scene has a whole city of skyscrapers turning into coin. Now if a car turning into coin means the driver can no longer sit in it, what happened to all the people in the upper floors of the Skyscraper?

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** Alternatively, he is sitting on that couch holding his drugged family hostage just before the police close in...

Warning: It probably isn't a good idea to read this if you are the one who does the shopping for your household.

* In one of the early American commercials for the Nintendo DS commercials the protagonist is almost omnipotent with his ''touch-''powers. There is a lot of Horror looking at the portrayed sketches. In one of them there are 5 guys in the showers, and 2 throw their towels at the protagonist, and laugh at them, it is later seen that he shrinks their reproductive organs, not enough to make them unusable or infertile, but enough to socially ''kill'' the guys in the showers. Now imagine the rejections of future potential girlfriend, or the daily confrontations these guys must face for the REST OF THEIR LIVES, only 2 were actually teasing the protagonist so the rest are just being the VictimizedBystander, they will all probably get into depressions, and 1 of them might commit suicide in the short term, and the rest maybe in long terms since they will no longer able to lead normal lives anymore. Later in the same commercial the protagonist is featured moving a plane to form a ''heart-shape'', and you see the pilot and the co-pilot vomiting, now imagine if their would be a pregnant woman inside that aeroplane, she could give birth to a mentally and physically damaged baby, or worse get a miscarriage due to the aforementioned event. Imagine if you would sit on that plane and was on the toilet when the protagonist moves the plane, YIKE!

** The worst yet have been the new PB&J commercials, featuring '''''a nurse eating a baby.'''''