Memetic Molester / Advertising

• The Burger King
  • At Burger King, you can have it your way. The Burger King, however, has it his way. There used to be commercials that actually said 'Don't go to bed before the king.'
  Wake up with the king!
  • With this song made to advertise kids meals, you have a pretty solid case for saying it's canon. The hand motions he makes at 0:29 of that video makes one fear for poor SpongeBob's innocence.
  • It gets even worse with one of the newer commercials, where the King actually breaks into a building (granted, it seems to be the McDonald's' headquarters, but still).
  • Maybe BK has caught onto this phenomenon. The King is being dropped as a mascot so that the chains can focus on products and "there are no plans to bring the King back anytime soon".
• Uh oh... you better start running... No, really. Because if you don't...BELLY'S GONNA GET YA!!!
• From Venezuela, we bring you Baneskin◊, the mascot of Banesco.
  • Not half bad than the Childhood Inspector from that very same country. Who gets into your house very quietly, asks children to show them their bedroom and get dressed and then... he gives them a hot dog if he considers them "child enough". I mean, what were they thinking?
• The 1960s incarnation of Ronald McDonald is, even accounting for Values Dissonance, creepy as hell. In his first commercial he first shows up sitting by himself in the dark, then the lights come on and it's a guy in the least-convincing clown costume ever, he has a tray with hamburgers and fries at crotch level, then there's this exchange:
  Announcer: Ronald, come meet the boys and girls.
  Ronald: Oh, we've already met. I know we're gonna be friends because I like to do everything boys and girls like to do.
  • The second commercial is even worse — a kid isn't sure about accepting food from strangers, but Ronald tells a kid it's OK — he's Ronald McDonald!
• Smiling Bob, because he's just... creepy. The fact that he's selling "natural male enhancement" pills only makes it worse.
  • Possibly an Invoked Trope since it's plausible the grotesque smile is the basis for the advertisement.
• This dog (at the end of the one commercial he quite literally looks like he's humping the kid) from a Japanese potato chip commercial. He's like the new Pedobear.
• The NAPA Know-How Guy seems like he's about to pull a weapon out from under the counter until he smiles and wags that air filter around. The customer's reaction shot only confirms that he's about to give up more than money to make his car run better.
• THE SUN FIZZ GUY IS COMING!!! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!!!
• The old dancing guy in the Six Flags commercials. His name is Mr. Six.
• NEVER say no to Panda! I'd feel unsafe around that bear, and not because of his temper.
• The Travelocity commericals always feature their mascot: The Roaming Gnome, a lifeless garden gnome who seems to show up everywhere you go.