History TearJerker / Advertising

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CThcyg1MWMQ This 9 Lives commercial]] where a little girl looks all over for her lost cat, Morris.

* During [[SuperBowlSpecial Super Bowl XLIX]], Nationwide aired an ad about how a kid is never going to get cooties, sail the world with his friend, or grow up... because he died in a horrible accident. Since most Super Bowl ads are supposed to be funny, mind-blowing or tongue-in-cheek, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKUy-tfrIHY the ad]] got such a ''massive'' backlash that "Nationwide" became a trending topic on Twitter because of it.

** On the 10th anniversary of the attacks, Budweiser [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whBJdtEz5VE aired another ad]] to, yet again, acknowledge the event. This ''will'' make you cry, especially after seeing the (then under construction) One World Trade Center.

* Advertising/SegataSanshiro's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXz_1mTZCUI final commercial]] for the UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn will have you weeping ManlyTears before the end of it.

* Barnardo's, a British charity that works with vulnerable children, has a few depressing ads:
** A TV commercial showed a series of vignettes from a girl's life: injecting heroin, mugging someone to feed her addiction, being locked up, beaten by her father, and bullied at school because she can't read. These repeat and repeat at increasingly vicious speed, ending with a statement that Barnardo's is often the only way for such kids to break the cycle of violence and abuse.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAYLh09JxJE The Life Story Advert]], where an adult is shown talking to a psychiatrist. He subtly ages down as he speaks to the audience about his childhood.

* As annoying as they are, some charity commercials can definitely pull at the heartstrings.
** [[https://youtu.be/Iu_JqNdp2As Those notorious]] [[https://youtu.be/nTN4DBogHo0 ASPCA]] [[https://youtu.be/Yy38ogBZTnI commercials]] with Music/{{Sarah McLachlan}}. Imagine this, you're having a great time watching TV and eating lots of junk food. It's Friday night and your parents are out, which gives you the freedom to do whatever you want. The TV channel you're watching suddenly goes to a commercial break, and the first thing you see is a sad dog staring directly at you with depressing music playing in the background. You can't find the remote, so you're forced to watch the entire thing from start to finish. It seriously feels like the animals are staring deep into your soul with their vacant eyes. The music certainly doesn't help at all. So many people (Even Sarah herself) would change the channel when these commercials came on. And judging by their haunting content, it's not hard to see why.
--> Sarah: Hi, I'm Music/{{Sarah McLachlan}}. Will you be an angel for a helpless animal? Every day, innocent animals are abused, beaten and neglected... and they're crying out for help.
** Due to how depressing it is, many parodies of this commercial exist on the internet. They suck all the saddening nature out and replace it with something far more comedic. [[https://youtu.be/SE44iVM35Ew This one]] features footage of people crying when an ASPCA commercial comes on. And instead of Sarah begging to donate, she tells the viewer to call the number on the screen to receive an apology for her sad commercials that are always on TV
** On the bright side, the commercial generated $30 million dollars for the company.
** It's mostly {{Narm}}, but [[https://youtu.be/96Q5ED1mKA8 this commercial for the International Fellowship Of Christians and Jews can be seen as bone chilling and touching at the same time]]. The footage of the sick Jewish people is exploitive and '''very''' distressing to watch. The fact that this would be approved to air on Television definitely raises some questions.
--> Rabbi Eckstein: I hope and pray you will do so, before time is up and it is too late.
** Covenant House have made some really gloomy commercials over the years. Most of them tend to be very downbeat and serious, [[https://youtu.be/LsOPkopUSxc But this one]] is just downright melancholic. It starts off with a Teenage girl in a blanket, sitting near a bus stop. She stares into the camera with a blank expression as the words "How Young" swipe in. [[WhamShot The screen then cuts to a crying baby in the same spot]] as the words "Do They Have to Be" "Before we Care?" swipe in. The fact that anyone would leave a baby on the street is just wrong on so many levels, and the commercial doesn't get any better after that. Video clips of Teenagers laying on the street are shown one by one. And to make things more emotional, we hear people talking about their abusive parents ("I felt like my life was in danger, like, the abuse was getting worse and worse" "I slept anywhere that I could find. I slept on a subway, i slept on the street, i slept in a park"). [[AmazingFreakingGrace All while "Amazing Grace" plays in the background, thus adding to the emotional factor]].
** [[https://youtu.be/eyqEjtlZiKQ This Anthony Nolan commercial]] tells the story about Emily, a child with Leukaemia. She had to go to hospital numerous times, and she had to take medicine that made her feel really sick. The real stinger? "Daddy doesn't laugh much anymore".
** [[https://youtu.be/NGKVhpMbpVA This Action Aid commercial about starving children in third world countries]] requires lots and lots of tissues.
** Actually, let's just say All of Save The Children and UNICEF's commercials are massive tearjerkers. Several years back, Save the Children made a commercial about starving children. How did they do this? [[https://youtu.be/UR2UsGsHjnM By showing real life footage of emaciated young children laying on the street]].
** There is also UNICEF's infamous commercial with Alyssa Milano. The opening line "What would you do if there was a child right in front of you?" [[MemeticMutation might be one of the most well known memes]], but the actual ad is very depressing.

* ContestWinnerCameo: Every year, the Australian TAC hold a competition to direct and produce one of their commercials. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2X9Q-Xre_Q This is one of them.]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIlPFRsseQ8 This Royal Dutch Guide Dog Foundation commercial]] aimed at veterans suffering from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.

* John Lewis makes some really sad, but happy, Christmas ads...
** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iccscUFY860 'Monty the Penguin']] Christmas 2014 ad gets depressing halfway through. It starts with a boy and his pet penguin hanging out and playing, the best of friends. But when the boy points outside that it's snowing, his penguin doesn't care and looks genuinely sad, looking at the TV in sadness... because it's showing a pair of lovers and he doesn't have anyone to love. It doesn't help that he just stops and looks ''so depressed'' when he sees another couple. It doesn't help that the song playing has the lyrics 'Don't want to be alone' playing at that part. It ends on a [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments fuzzy moment]] when [[spoiler: the penguin receives his Christmas present - another penguin... then we cut to the boy's parents then back to them to reveal that the penguins are stuffed toys.]]
** The Christmas ad the year before, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqWig2WARb0 'The Bear and the Hare']] starts with the text, 'There once was an animal who had never seen Christmas'. All the other forest animals are putting up decorations and giving gifts... except the bear who has to go into hibernation, while his best friend the hare just resigns himself the fact... but leaves a Christmas present for him in his cave. When all the other animals are opening presents happily, the hare just can't enjoy the occasion without his friend. [[spoiler: It pays off and the bear arrives just as the sun shines down on the bear. The two happily reunite for the festive holiday as we find out what the gift was - an alarm clock. 'Give someone a Christmas they'll never forget.']]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuz2ILq4UeA Their 2015 Christmas commercial, "Man on the Moon".]] A girl looks through a telescope one night and sees that an old man is living in isolation on the moon. She tries desperately to reach him but fails, [[spoiler:until one Christmas she is able to deliver another telescope to him via {{Balloonacy}}. He looks through the telescope and sees the girl, shedding a {{manly|Tears}} {{single tear}} [[TearsOfJoy of joy]].]]

* [[https://youtu.be/V6-0kYhqoRo A German Christmas Commercial]] from the Supermarket "Edeka", featuring a grandpa bringing everyone together for Christmas through the means of a real tear jerker.

* [[https://youtu.be/RJl68Hn-J-8 This Iams commercial]] with Casey the Irish Setter.

* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LG2oaGh0jmk General Electric's "Ideas Are Scary"]] commercial. The idea-manifested as what can best be described as a dirty, bipedal English Shepard-is continuously abused by the world around him. He has no home, friends, or family. Then he is finally welcomed in by a General Electric employee with open arms as his whole life flips over for the better. And when he steps out in the very end on that stage, looking brand new, with what were once miscolored spots of fur turned into bright feathers, as people applaud him...[[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments aww, GAWD!]]

*** It's mostly {{Narm}}, but [[https://youtu.be/96Q5ED1mKA8 this commercial for the International Fellowship Of Christians and Jews can be seen as bone chilling and touching at the same time]]. The footage of the sick Jewish people is exploitive and '''very''' distressing to watch. The fact that this would be approved to air on Television definitely raises some questions.

*** Covenant House have made some really gloomy commercials over the years. Most of them tend to be very downbeat and serious, [[https://youtu.be/LsOPkopUSxc But this one]] is just downright melancholic. It starts off with a Teenage girl in a blanket, sitting near a bus stop. She stares into the camera with a blank expression as the words "How Young" swipe in. [[WhamShot The screen then cuts to a crying baby in the same spot]] as the words "Do They Have to Be" "Before we Care?" swipe in. The fact that anyone would leave a baby on the street is just wrong on so many levels, and the commercial doesn't get any better after that. Video clips of Teenagers laying on the street are shown one by one. And to make things more emotional, we hear people talking about their abusive parents ("I felt like my life was in danger, like, the abuse was getting worse and worse" "I slept anywhere that I could find. I slept on a subway, i slept on the street, i slept in a park"). [[AmazingFreakingGrace All while "Amazing Grace" plays in the background, thus adding to the emotional factor]].
*** [[https://youtu.be/eyqEjtlZiKQ This Anthony Nolan commercial]] tells the story about Emily, a child with Leukaemia. She had to go to hospital numerous times, and she had to take medicine that made her feel really sick. The real stinger? "Daddy doesn't laugh much anymore".
*** [[https://youtu.be/NGKVhpMbpVA This Action Aid commercial about starving children in third world countries]] requires lots and lots of tissues.
*** Actually, let's just say All of Save The Children and UNICEF's commercials are massive tearjerkers. Several years back, Save the Children made a commercial about starving children. How did they do this? [[https://youtu.be/UR2UsGsHjnM By showing real life footage of emaciated young children laying on the street]].
*** There is also UNICEF's infamous commercial with Alyssa Milano. The opening line "What would you do if there was a child right in front of you?" [[MemeticMutation might be one of the most well known memes]], but the actual ad is very depressing.

** It's mostly {{Narm}}, but [[https://youtu.be/96Q5ED1mKA8 this commercial for the International Fellowship Of Christians and Jews can be seen as bone chilling and touching at the same time]]. The footage of the sick Jewish people is exploitive and '''very''' distressing to watch. The fact that this would be approved to air on Television definitely raises some questions.

** Covenant House have made some really gloomy commercials over the years. Most of them tend to be very downbeat and serious, [[https://youtu.be/LsOPkopUSxc But this one]] is just downright melancholic. It starts off with a Teenage girl in a blanket, sitting near a bus stop. She stares into the camera with a blank expression as the words "How Young" swipe in. [[WhamShot The screen then cuts to a crying baby in the same spot]] as the words "Do They Have to Be" "Before we Care?" swipe in. The fact that anyone would leave a baby on the street is just wrong on so many levels, and the commercial doesn't get any better after that. Video clips of Teenagers laying on the street are shown one by one. And to make things more emotional, we hear people talking about their abusive parents ("I felt like my life was in danger, like, the abuse was getting worse and worse" "I slept anywhere that I could find. I slept on a subway, i slept on the street, i slept in a park"). [[AmazingFreakingGrace All while "Amazing Grace" plays in the background, thus adding to the emotional factor]].
** [[https://youtu.be/eyqEjtlZiKQ This Anthony Nolan commercial]] tells the story about Emily, a child with Leukaemia. She had to go to hospital numerous times, and she had to take medicine that made her feel really sick. The real stinger? "Daddy doesn't laugh much anymore".
** [[https://youtu.be/NGKVhpMbpVA This Action Aid commercial about starving children in third world countries]] requires lots and lots of tissues.
** Actually, let's just say All of Save The Children and UNICEF's commercials are massive tearjerkers. Several years back, Save the Children made a commercial about starving children. How did they do this? [[https://youtu.be/UR2UsGsHjnM By showing real life footage of emaciated young children laying on the street]].
** There is also UNICEF's infamous commercial with Alyssa Milano. The opening line "What would you do if there was a child right in front of you?" [[MemeticMutation might be one of the most well known memes]], but the actual ad is very depressing.

** [[https://youtu.be/eyqEjtlZiKQ This Anthony Nolan commercial]] tells the story about Emily, a child with Leukaemia. She says that she had to go to hospital numerous times, and she had to take medicine that made her feel really sick. The real stinger? "Daddy doesn't laugh much anymore".

** Covenant House have made some really gloomy commercials over the years. Most of them tend to be very downbeat and serious, [[https://youtu.be/LsOPkopUSxc But this one]] is just downright melancholic. It starts off with a Teenage girl in a blanket, sitting near a bus stop. She stares into the camera with a blank expression as the words "How Young" swipe in. [[WhamShot The screen then cuts to a crying baby in the same spot]] as the words "Do They Have to Be" "Before we Care?" swipe in. The fact that anyone would leave a baby on the street is just wrong on so many levels, and the commercial doesn't get any better after that. Video clips of Teenagers laying on the street are shown one by one. And to make things more emotional, we hear people talking about their abusive parents ("I felt like my life was in danger, like, the abuse was getting worse and worse" "I let anywhere that I could find. I slept on a subway, i slept on the street, i slept in a park"). [[AmazingFreakingGrace All while "Amazing Grace" plays in the background, thus adding to the emotional factor]].

** Covenant House have made some really gloomy commercials over the years. Most of them tend to be very downbeat and serious, [[https://youtu.be/LsOPkopUSxc But this one]] is just downright melancholic. It starts off with a Teenage girl in a blanket, sitting near a bus stop. She stares into the camera with a blank expression as the words "How Young" swipe in. [[WhamShot The screen then cuts to a crying baby in the same spot]] as the words "Do They Have to Be" "Before we Care?" swipe in. The fact that anyone would leave a baby on the street is just wrong on so many levels, and the commercial doesn't get any better after that. Video clips of Teenagers laying on the street are shown one by one. And to make things more emotional, we hear people talking about their abusive ("I felt like my life was in danger, like, the abuse was getting worse and worse" "I let anywhere that I could find. I slept on a subway, i slept on the street, i slept in a park"). [[AmazingFreakingGrace All while "Amazing Grace" plays in the background, thus adding to the emotional factor]].

** [[https://youtu.be/Iu_JqNdp2As Those notorious]] [[https://youtu.be/nTN4DBogHo0 ASPCA]] [[https://youtu.be/Yy38ogBZTnI commercials]] with Music/{{Sarah McLachlan}}. Imagine this, you're having a great time watching TV and eating lots of junk food. It's Friday night and your parents are out, which gives you the freedom to do whatever you want. The TV channel you're watching suddenly goes to a commercial break, and the first thing you see is a sad dog staring directly at you with depressing music playing in the background. You can't find the remote, so you're forced to watch the entire thing from start to finish. It seriously feels like the animals are staring deep into your soul with their vacant eyes. The music certainly doesn't help at all. So many people (Even Sarah herself) would change the channel when this commercial came on. And judging by the commercial's haunting content, it's not hard to see why.