Does This Remind You Of Anything / Advertising

• M&M's: The "Devour" ad, which has Ms. Brown tricking Red into getting eaten— which ends up looking like rape.
• A particularly unsubtle ad on British TV for (beat) "Virgin Railways" features a girl travelling to her boyfriend using Virgin Railways. At one point, the train she's in plunges into a heart-shaped, pink love-tunnel.
• Vince Offer: "You're going to love my nuts."
  • Which is awfully similar to an earlier (as in, early 1990s or late 1980s) Australian commercial that invites the viewer to "have a nibble of Nobby's nuts". That's barely double entendre, come to think of it.
• Around the 90's, Corn Nuts had a set of radio ads with catchy jingles about enjoying the titular product... or as the singers phrase it, "bust a nut". The surrounding lyrics do not help with the imagery, and the opening disclaimer ("This is a song about Corn Nuts, an intensely crunchy snack. It's not about anything else.") makes it clear they knew what they were doing.
  Bust a nut! Bust a nut!
  Grab a bag of Corn Nuts and bust a nut!
  They're lightly toasted and hard as well,
  Enjoy yourself, we won't tell...
  Everybody does it, they like it a lot,
  You can do it at school, just don't get caught!
• Clairol "Herbal Essences" shampoo commercials showcase the woman using their product in the shower and screaming in delight. The "An organic experience" tagline doesn't help.
  • They also have one where the woman's male partner uses it, and gets to the point of his "organic experience" much faster than if the woman were washing her hair.
  • Not to mention that shampoo is all creamy and sometimes white...
• Arby's put out one where a guy in bed, obviously waiting for something to happen, gets his wife dressed as an Arby's worker entering with a plateful of Arby's food. To sexy music. The Arby's symbol over his head springs up with a boing sound effect and he says "Meeee likey."
• This happens all the time in Canadian advertising, specifically when trying to advertise direct-to-consumer prescription drugs like Viagra, Cialis and Celebrex. Much like the European restrictions on talking about a car's maximum speed mentioned on another page, Canadian drug ads are allowed as long as the advertisement does not directly mention the purpose of the product. In response, many companies, Viagra maker Pfizer in particular, rely on Double Entendre and Does This Remind You of Anything? when they advertise up north. This has lead to brilliant Viagra ads like a satisfied customer dancing down a street while "Good Morning, Good Morning" from Singin' in the Rain plays in the background; the "International Language of Viagra" campaign where people speak in Simlish about their re-energized sex lives thanks to Viagra; and another ad for Cialis (can't find a link) where a husband and wife are a bit late joining in a standing ovation.
  • One has to include the infamous ED ad with the guy trying to throw a football through a tire (only succeeding after he's used the product).
• An advertisement in Malaysia asks if the consumer have not cut "it" off yet. Cutting "it" off will make "it" faster, smoother and more enjoyable. It's an ad for a wireless broadband service.
• This old commercial for Squeezit drinks took this to a whole new level. Not only did the drinks themselves and the "squeezing" have some phallic reminders, but there is a boy squeezing a football that is positioned covering his pants, a boy holding a camera with a bulb for the flash that extends upward, a boy squeezing a giant hotdog, wait it gets better, that suddenly shoots out of the bun, and to top it off a girl has a bucket of popcorn that sprays popcorn over all of the kids present.
  Nostalgia Critic: Here's a fun game to play at home. Count all the phallic symbols.
• And of course there was Tickle deodorant, the initial ads for which simply showed the container and various women laughing at it.
• The Progressive commercial where Flo stands in a dark alley and starts trying to talk two men into switching their insurance. They quickly tell her that their insurance companies "told them not to talk to people like her". This sounds an awful like a person pressuring someone into doing drugs.[1]
  • Another Progressive ad, guest starring Maury Povich, featues a scornful man taking a televised test to determine whether Progressive's services are right for him. Then at the end, Maury asks the man to stick around for a real Daddy DNA Test.
• The women squeezing the Charmin, along with Mr. Whipple in the Charmin commercials of the sixties and seventies (like this one), look like they're squeezing a hunk's squeezably soft butt.
• This Infinity commercial, where a man from a BMW-driving family admits his love for the Infinity, seems familiar.
  Son: You must have known I was a little... different.
  Father: Not this different.
• The Long Long Man series of commercials for Sakeru Gummy feature a girl who's constantly distracted by a man whose version of the snack is much larger than her boyfriend's. In case it wasn't clear enough, the Sexophone is a big hint.
• The Sling TV ad campaign featuring couples spicing up their relationships by "slinging" with other couples.
• An old ad for Perrier had a hand gently stroking a bottle of Perrier, which caused it to grow large, and after several strokes, the cap untwists and the water explodes out of the bottle.
• A 2021 Super Bowl ad for Bud Light Seltzer Lemonade playing off the When Life Gives You Lemons... saying had a montage of 2020 events getting destroyed by lemons falling from the sky, to the point where nobody can use airports, attend weddings, attend concerts, or even stay outside due to the raining lemons. A Freeze-Frame Bonus also mentions concerts being cancelled due to a "lemon surge" and the governor giving daily lemon briefings. It's very obvious the lemons are a metaphor for the COVID-19 Pandemic.
• An Amazon commercial has a mom teach her daughter about practicing "safe spending" in a way that resembles giving The Talk.

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