History TearJerker / Advertising

** Those notorious ASPCA 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.

** Those notorious ASPCA 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.

** It's mostly {{Narm}}, but [[https://youtu.be/96Q5ED1mKA8 this commercial for the International Fellowship Of Christians and Jews is 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.

** It's extremely [[Narm Narmy]], but [[https://youtu.be/96Q5ED1mKA8 this commercial for the International Fellowship Of Christians and Jews is 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.

** Those notorious ASPCA commercials with Music/{{SarahMcLachlan}} 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. It's so depressing that so many people ([[Everybody has Standards]] Even Sarah herself]]) would change the channel when these commercials came on.
--> Sarah: Hi, I'm 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.

** Those notorious ASPCA commercials with 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. In fact, there were so many people who would change the channel when these came on.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL1aDMvkzHw This Racumin ad]] from the Philippines will ironically make you feel sorry for a ''rat'' of all things. The ad follows the rat wandering about in a rainy night, eating the Racumin baits as it enters the house, crawling past the actual food in favor of the poison, which the camera films in detail. When the rat comes back to its hole, a day passes and the viewer is treated to a first-person shot from the dying rat's POV before vanishing near the end. The music and Tagalog lyrics become worse when interpreted from the rat's POV, as it implies that it got addicted to the stuff.

* ''"Kwentong Jollibee Valentine's Series"'' in the Philippines showed three different scenarios that were based on real life stories, most of them were both Heartwarming and Tearjerking at the same time that Youtubers created their reaction videos not only nationwide, but also in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU000JtChwc the international countries]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCPs95g86cI even]] in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r232_8c-n4A schools]]:
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kAOvTFA5rs Vow]] takes place on a marriage ceremony where a young man narrates his time with his 'best friend', this was known to have TheReveal that the man [[spoiler: wasn't actually the groom, and the bride was marrying someone else.]] Vow is a famous commercial for it's [[TheReveal shocking twist]] and it's relative to the young teens who were "friend zoned" in real life.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai1AmULzVqY Crush]] tackles about a college boy fell in love with a girl at first sight. The company uses their product as a method of communication between the two [[spoiler: even at the school's homecoming and it's the series' video that features a happy ending]].
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDHZkLeh6vw Date]] is much more on family oriented. A young boy, named Joey, prepares a "dinner date" at the company's fast food chain for [[spoiler: his mother and his late father who messaged his son via video to be his mother's Valentine date]].
* A [=McDonald=]'s commercial in the early 1980s about a little boy whose parents just brought home a new baby. A voice sings about the new baby, then there's a shot of family members oohing and ahhing over the baby and its big blue eyes, while ignoring the little boy. The voice then sings "Doesn't anybody remember..." and the little boy, completely dejected, looks at himself in the mirror and sadly tells his reflection "I had blue eyes first." If you ever felt like TheUnfavorite, this could [[TruthInTelevision hit close to home]].
* This [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGvu9XLLsas McDonald's commercial]] about a family slowly growing apart over the years: At first, everyone was at the table, chattering happily, with their new baby sister. Then it showed the family growing fewer, one by one, 'til only the mom and dad are left in their old age. Made even sadder by the song playing. It turned SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming|Moments}} at the end though, when the whole family is shown (with some new additions) at [=McDonald=]'s for a reunion.

* 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.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cfdbw9paC0 To Michael,]]'' an ad for the Playstation 3 where numerous video game characters tell their story on how a gamer (the aforementioned Michael) helped them prove their worth and become the heroes they are. The concept alone will get you choked up, but it really turns on the waterworks once you realize that the ad was dedicated to a popular gamer who had recently died of cancer, so the characters are congratulating Michael in remembrance of him due to his recent death.
* The Playstation 4's launch ad, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK03aVJekGg Perfect Day.]]'' It's about people playing multiplayer games and having fun with one another, all while singing about their fun. You can't help but shed tears of joy when watching this.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OekR7Ocu86M This commercial]] for Knorr Sidekicks dubbed "Salty". It's supposed to be funny, but it's hard to see the humour in something so cute as a humanized salt shaker being so unwanted, especially when one knows the feeling.
* 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.
* You probably have to be a Florida alum for this effect to kick in, but the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9FcrQrjdNw university's]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXelE1j7QbE series]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlnPVqs005E of]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhLbzCIDiR0 "Go Gators!"]] commercials bring a tear every time. Especially those last two.
** "The Michigan Difference" (seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLf45uNlo9w here]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2DgPUqwEdc here]]). Seeing the Survival Flight chopper take off is particularly wrenching, knowing that they're still flying despite losing a crew (pilots, surgeons and perfusionists) on takeoff from Milwaukee two years ago.

* A [=McDonald=]'s commercial in the early 1980s about a little boy whose parents just brought home a new baby. A voice sings about the new baby, then there's a shot of family members oohing and ahhing over the baby and its big blue eyes, while ignoring the little boy. The voice then sings "Doesn't anybody remember..." and the little boy, completely dejected, looks at himself in the mirror and sadly tells his reflection "I had blue eyes first." If you ever felt like TheUnfavorite, this could [[TruthInTelevision hit close to home]].

* [[http://youtu.be/TkyoCHCZlKw This advert for Aviva]] starts out like any normal insurance commercial. Then there's a tearjerking twist near the end. [[spoiler:The father that was talking about his family turns out to be a ghost and as soon as that fact is realized, he is no longer there.]]
* A Hardee's commercial features a robot buying one of their hand-breaded chicken fillet sandwiches, only to realize he doesn't have a mouth, becoming depressed. The fact that the narrator expresses NoSympathy towards the robot's misery doesn't help, either. It was meant to be funny, but it just ends up becoming a {{Glurge}}-ridden piece of CringeComedy that becomes [[FridgeHorror more depressing in hindsight]]. There's even an extended version where the robot destroys a room in a fit of rage.

* This [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGvu9XLLsas McDonald's commercial]] about a family slowly growing apart over the years: At first, everyone was at the table, chattering happily, with their new baby sister. Then it showed the family growing fewer, one by one, 'til only the mom and dad are left in their old age. Made even sadder by the song playing. It turned SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming|Moments}} at the end though, when the whole family is shown (with some new additions) at [=McDonald=]'s for a reunion.
* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghHTrbxkrWg 2012]] ''Advertising/CompareTheMeerkat'' advertisement. It's a series that's been going on for years and the duo... Watch his lip.
** Baby Oleg was a new character who quickly became popular, and we are shown many funny adverts of the meerkats taking him in and raising him (Which is especially heartwarming in Aleksandr's case, due to his [[JerkAss usual portrayal in the series]]) and they eventually take him to Africa to show him his roots... then at Christmas 2014, [[http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DSHlwqcc1tI this happens.]] We actually hear Sergei crying afterwards. Possibly one of the few [[WhamEpisode genuinely shocking and sad]] things to happen in a series of advertising. The reactions on social networking sites go to show just how attached people have become to these meerkats.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v6KKMtjm54 "Brotherhood"]] by Budweiser. A man and a horse share a great kinship. It's a TearJerker and a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}} all at once!
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3eQmzw6n3k This]] one, however, also deserves a mention here. It was made after September 11th and aired only once on TV just to acknowledge the tragic event. It ''will'' make you cry.
** 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.
* An [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyeDBZaxFa8 advert]] in the UK for Robinsons' Juice has two boys playing together outside, teasing each other about girls, drinking the orange juice and watching a film together at home. The first boy falls asleep on the couch, and the second boy takes off his shoes for him, carries him upstairs and puts him into bed. As the second boy walks out, he pauses at the door and the first boy sleepily says [[spoiler:"Night, Dad." We see the 'second boy' at the door again, now grown-up as his Dad, as the text says at the end "It's Good To Be A Dad, It's Better To Be A Friend."]]

* ''Chipotle'' has an online advertisement for an Android game of theirs called ''Advertising/TheScarecrow''. It depicts a scarecrow who works in the meat industry. The face on the cow as he closes the door is just heartbreaking.

* 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.
* ''Advertising/{{GEICO}}'' had a radio ad featuring a penny under the driver seat of a car. She says she knows she isn't worth very much, and that you could save more with a GEICO policy. The penny's child-like voice is what sells it as unintentionally heartbreaking.
-->'''Penny''': So go ahead, call GEICO. I'll be here...on the floor...

* When the Chicago Cubs ended their own World Series dry spell in 2016, Budweiser [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axcIvYs8Qso temporarily resurrected]] the Cubs' late, longtime announcer Harry Caray to let him "announce" their victory in a tribute commercial. If you as a Cubs fan remember all the years of yelling at the team to "do it for Harry" after his death in 1998, this will leave you a sobbing mess.
* Macy's produced a similar commercial to the Red Sox one involving an unlikely friendship between a young boy and a UsefulNotes/MacysThanksgivingDayParade balloon that continues even as the boy becomes an old man. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCv37nXwlPw It's much cuter than it sounds.]]

* [[https://youtu.be/3bdm4NBYxII This]] [=MetLife=] Hong Kong ad starts out Heartwarming, with an adorable little girl who adores her supportive dad, then veers ''deep'' into Tearjerker territory: He's been working menial jobs, going without food so his daughter can eat, and struggling as a single parent while pretending everything's fine so she can have a better life. The commercial is 'narrated' as an essay the girl wrote for school and her father's face as he reads it is heartbreaking. He then gives his daughter a giant hug after he finishes reading and she's looking at the ground in nervous anticipation.
--> "Daddy is great, but he lies. He lies about having money. He lies that he is not tired. He lies that he is not hungry. He lies about his happiness. [[ItsAllMyFault He lies because of me.]] [[PlatonicDeclarationOfLove I love Daddy.]]"
* ''"Kwentong Jollibee Valentine's Series"'' in the Philippines showed three different scenarios that were based on real life stories, most of them were both Heartwarming and Tearjerking at the same time that Youtubers created their reaction videos not only nationwide, but also in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU000JtChwc the international countries]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCPs95g86cI even]] in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r232_8c-n4A schools]]:
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kAOvTFA5rs Vow]] takes place on a marriage ceremony where a young man narrates his time with his 'best friend', this was known to have TheReveal that the man [[spoiler: wasn't actually the groom, and the bride was marrying someone else.]] Vow is a famous commercial for it's [[TheReveal shocking twist]] and it's relative to the young teens who were "friend zoned" in real life.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai1AmULzVqY Crush]] tackles about a college boy fell in love with a girl at first sight. The company uses their product as a method of communication between the two [[spoiler: even at the school's homecoming and it's the series' video that features a happy ending]].
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDHZkLeh6vw Date]] is much more on family oriented. A young boy, named Joey, prepares a "dinner date" at the company's fast food chain for [[spoiler: his mother and his late father who messaged his son via video to be his mother's Valentine date]].
* Ikea did this in an odd way. One commercial shows a woman taking a desk lamp out to the curbside to be taken away by the garbagemen. We see the lamp on the curbside in the rain as the woman reads a book using her new lamp (apparently bought at Ikea). After the commercial makes the viewer feel bad for the lamp, a Swedish guy appears.
-->''Why do you feel sad for this lamp? It's because you are crazy. It has no feelings and the new one is much better.''

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL1aDMvkzHw This Racumin ad]] from the Philippines will ironically make you feel sorry for a ''rat'' of all things. The ad follows the rat wandering about in a rainy night, eating the Racumin baits as it enters the house, crawling past the actual food in favor of the poisonous bait, which the camera films in detail. When the rat comes back to its hole, a day passes and the viewer is treated to a first-person shot from the dying rat's POV before vanishing near the end. If the music and Tagalog lyrics are interpreted from the rat's POV, it becomes even worse, as it implies that the rat got addicted to the stuff.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL1aDMvkzHw This Racumin ad]] from the Philippines will make you feel sorry for a ''rat'' of all things. Especially when treated to a first-person shot from the dying rat's POV before watching it disappear near the end. The music and Tagalog lyrics make it worse, especially this segment:

hanggang sa huling sandali.''[[note]]Until the last moment.[[/note]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL1aDMvkzHw This Racumin ad]] from the Philippines will make you feel sorry for a ''rat'' of all things. The music and Tagalog lyrics don't help matters.

* Speaking of Thai ads, [[http://youtu.be/VC9PsJb6S_s this Pantene commercial is just]]... Wow. It's about the story of a deaf and mute girl who learns to play the violin against all odds. "You can shine." Although this overlaps with WhatWereTheySellingAgai

* Speaking of Thai ads, [[http://youtu.be/VC9PsJb6S_s this Pantene commercial is just]]... Wow. It's about the story of a deaf and mute girl who learns to play the violin against all odds. "You can shine." Although this overlaps with WhatWereTheySellingAgain

** While on the subject of AT&T, the "It Can Wait" commercials are actually really depressing. Having no music or no announcer speaking after a person tells their story relating to the commercial's topic of texting and driving doesn't really help. [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped Which is kind of the point]].

** Come to think about it, John Lewis are really good at releasing and that are tear jerkers until the ending, especially around Christmas. 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]].]] [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb I'm not crying, I'm sweating through my eyes!]]

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