History Narm / Advertising

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXY80p8jMPc This UNICEF child abuse PSA]] compares how children can remember growing up in an abusive home to [[ItMakesSenseInContext how parrots can remember it as well.]] How do they convey this message? By showing us a montage of [[FowlMouthedParrot Fowl-Mouthed Parrots]] displaying their [[ClusterFBomb colorful vocabulary.]] The sudden shift in tone when the message at the end about how "1 in 4 young children are exposed to domestic violence" as one of the parrots could still be heard shouting "YOU LITTLE BITCH!" makes it all the more ridiculous. Moreover, most of the footage was from [=YouTube=] videos of parrots who were likely trained to swear just to make people laugh, making this PSA even more ridiculous. Special mentions go to the subtitles for the Moluccan Cockatoo's nearly-unintelligible ClusterFBomb and the parrot with a thick New Zealand accent threatening to kick someone's ass.

** Made worse when a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgJdVEoVbgg live action version]] of this ad began airing. It's not as surreal as its animated counterpart, but it has the added hilarity of a dog talking for no reason. Also see the Website/CollegeHumor [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_t8DvM2kX8 parody.]]

* This [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suE_WJWUEVs SPCA]] ad, which was listed under "IsntItIronic" because of its song choice. As one Website/YouTube commenter put it, "This is so close to satire it's ridiculous. Why do all the animals look like they're going to cry? Why does the voice over sound like she's going to cry? I feel like there should be a kitten at the end of the video with a cg mouth that asks, 'Are you going to let the bad people kill me, mister? I just want to wuv you...'"

* The "truthorange" [=PSAs=], which try to encourage teens and young adults to quit smoking. That's a noble enough goal. However, they try so hard to appeal to their chosen demographic that it becomes ridiculous. Special mention goes to the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loLpcd7gqNE dogs]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLtschJxRy8 cats]] campaign, which undermines its point ("Smoking can hurt your pets") with what appears to be random animal videos taken off of Website/YouTube. It doesn't help that the crux of the campaign is essentially "[[SkewedPriorities there will be no more cute animal videos if they die of cancer]]", rather than, you know, losing a beloved pet to cancer is painful. And then there is their [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNrkj4trOl0 #PEEtition]] follow-up, which adds an element of random {{Squick}}.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXY80p8jMPc This UNICEF child abuse PSA]] compares how children can remember growing up in an abusive home to [[ItMakesSenseInContext how parrots can remember it as well.]] How do they convey this message? By showing us a montage of [[FowlMouthedParrot Fowl-Mouthed Parrots]] displaying their [[ClusterFBomb colorful vocabulary.]] The sudden shift in tone when the message at the end about how "1 in 4 young children are exposed to domestic violence" as one of the parrots could still be heard shouting "YOU LITTLE BITCH!" makes it all the more ridiculous. Moreover, most of the footage was from Website/YouTube videos of parrots who were likely trained to swear just to make people laugh, making this PSA even more ridiculous. Special mentions go to the subtitles for the Moluccan Cockatoo's nearly-unintelligible ClusterFBomb and the parrot with a thick New Zealand accent threatening to kick someone's ass.
-->'''Website/YouTube Commenter:''' I was watching it laughing at the cursing and when the ending came I laughed even harder. Bruh that is serious don't get me wrong, but I wasn't ready. I wasn't ready!

* In 2009, an [[CanadaEh Alberta]] based carpeting company called ''End of the Roll'' issued a series of ads with images of people buying carpets, laying down carpets, people smiling over their carpets and what not. The song in the background is "The Look" by Music/{{Roxette}}. Furthermore the ads having the over-excited narrator saying "Give your house... THE LOOK!!!!" followed by "Na na na na na, she's got the look..." just heightened the narm up to 11.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HuhV0Axg44 This]] commercial on the ''quite serious'' effects of drowsy driving has its impact (no pun intended) taken away at the end of the video... let's just say it makes the effects in ''Film/{{Birdemic}}'' [[SpecialEffectFailure look realistic in comparison]]. The robotic text-to-speech voice only adds to the hilarity.