History FridgeHorror / Advertising

* Once upon a time there was a commercial for Subway which featured a man making a wish... causing his wife to turn into a sandwich.

* In a Pediasure commercial, two mothers are sitting on the sidelines of their children's soccer game. One mother asks if her child looks 'slow'. The child is shown to be a giant container of french fries. The mothers continue to talk and the responding mother says that her daughter has been drinking Pediasure and that 'kids are what they eat.' The mother's child is shown to look like a normal girl, not a giant food, which means that Pediasure is ''[[{{Film/SoylentGreen}} made out of children.]]'' [[{{UpToEleven}} Also,]] [[{{ImAHumanitarian}} every other child on the field not dressed as a giant food is a cannibal.]]

* In "Believe the Rainbow", three kids are shown thousands of feet in the air sitting on top of a rainbow while eating skittles. When one of them begins to wonder if the rainbow exists or not, the part of the rainbow he's sitting on opens like a trap door and he begins falling out of the sky while the others showing little to no concern. Although it's not shown, we already know what's going to happen next...

* In a Skittles commercial, three kids are shown thousands of feet in the air sitting on top of a rainbow while eating skittles. When one of them begins to wonder if the rainbow exists or not, the part of the rainbow he's sitting on opens like a trap door and he begins falling out of the sky while the others showing little to no concern. Although it's not shown, we already know what's going to happen next...

* In a Skittles advert on UK television, it shows a man whose very touch turns things into Skittles. Everyone seems to think this is fine, except for the man himself, who is understandably annoyed when his desk phone and then the whole desk turns into Skittles. The horror of these two incidents barely scratches the surface. How long has he been wearing those clothes? Bathroom ablutions must surely be horrendous. Shaving impossible. And eating a exclusive diet of Skittles would kill him eventually. Worse, it's mentioned that he shook someone's hand on the bus that morning and turned ''him'' into Skittles.
** The only way he could get out of this, figuratively, is ask someone to slice his hands off. This advert gets really depressing when you realize that's the best-case scenario.
** It gets worse. Someone in the Youtube comments asks what happens if he falls down and touches the ground. Falls into a pit of Skittles he can't climb out of? Keeps sinking until he is incinerated by lava? [[ApocalypseWow Turn the entire continent into Skittles?]] [[UpToEleven Or the whole planet?]]
* Another Skittles ad, referenced by the "Abusive Parents" and "Financial Abuse" tags is bad enough on its own, but considering that the "Skittles Tree" is coming out of a guy's chest, he wasn't always that way, and his mother is harvesting said Skittles to sell... Is she spreading a plague for monetary gain?!

** For that matter, what do you suppose happened to these two now that Wilkins Coffee no longer exists? One ad implies Wilkins has the ability to [[CessationOfExistence erase Wontkins from existence]] when he turns down a cup of Wilkins; what might happen if he turned that aggression on other non-Wilkins drinkers, which no includes everybody?

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Pes79Ijczw This Lending Club commercial]] has a woman about to cut her credit cards, but is stopped by the girl in the picture in the credit cards. These are ''living credit cards asking not to be cut up to bits.'' At the end, the woman ''starts cutting up the card,'' and the girl in the picture '''SCREAMS!'''
** And if that wasn't enough, the commercial is actually called, ''"Taking Matters Into Your Own Hands"''

** In another Chef Boyardee commercial, a monster breaks into the car of a camping couple, eats a can of Chef Boyardee, then turns into a boy. On top of that, it eats the Chef Boyardee raw.

** In another Chef Boyardee commercial, a monster eats a can of Chef Boyardee, then turns into a boy. On top of that, it eats the Chef Boyardee raw.

* During the fifties, Creator/JimHenson made a series of commercials for Wilkins Coffee, featuring a Kermit-like Muppet named Wilkins and another Muppet named Wontkins. The general plot of a commercial was thus: Wilkins asks Wontkins to have Wilkins Coffee, Wontkins refuses, Wilkins murders Wontkins. The [[UnfortunateImplications implications]] here are quite clear: buy Wilkins Coffee or Wilkins will murder the shit out of you! Don't believe me? [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIhPKgXeFuk See for yourself!]]

* M&M's commercials, especially the ones depicting individual M&M's trying desperately to hide themselves from humans who want nothing more than to mash them apart with their teeth. Seeing the look of pure horror on their colorful faces is enough to make anyone think twice about that next handful...

* Trix: children starve a rabbit, insisting that their cereal is for them and not to be consumed by rabbits.

* In one of the early commercials for the Nintendo DS commercials the protagonist is almost omnipotent with his ''touch-''powers. There is a lot of Horror looking at the portrayed sketches. In one of them there are 5 guys in the showers, and 2 throw their towels at the protagonist, and laugh at them, it is later seen that he shrinks their reproductive organs, not enough to make them unusable or infertile, but enough to socially ''kill'' the guys in the showers. Now imagine the rejections of future potential girlfriend, or the daily confrontations these guys must face for the REST OF THEIR LIVES, only 2 were actually teasing the protagonist so the rest are just being the VictimizedBystander, they will all probably get into depressions, and 1 of them might commit suicide in the short term, and the rest maybe in long terms since they will no longer able to lead normal lives anymore. Later in the same commercial the protagonist is featured moving a plane to form a ''heart-shape'', and you see the pilot and the co-pilot vomiting, now imagine if their would be a pregnant woman inside that aeroplane, she could give birth to a mentally and physically damaged baby, or worse get a miscarriage due to the aforementioned event. Imagine if you would sit on that plane and was on the toilet when the protagonist moves the plane, YIKE!
* In one DirectTV commercial, man with cable + scrambled cable divided by work ethic ---> An innocent man goes to JAIL! Flash forward and we see the defendant working out thinking of the lawyer that had failed to defend him before getting release; what is the first thing that man does the moment he gets out of prison? [[spoiler: HE BLOWS UP THE LAWYER'S FRICKING HOUSE!]]

** [[{{Lampshaded}} Lampshaded]] by WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic in his "Rise oftThe Commercials" special, in which the kid [[{{HumanPopsicle}}actually has frozen to death]], and to make it worse, ''[[{{AnArmAndALeg}} the father tears off her arm.]]''

** [[{{Lampshaded}} Lampshaded]] by [[{{WebOriginal/NostalgiaCritic}} Nostalgia Critic]] in his "Rise Of The Commercials" special, in which the kid[[{{HumanPopsicle}}actually has frozen to death]], and to make it worse, ''[[{{AnArmAndALeg}} the father tears off her arm.]]''

** The whole ad is full of [[NightmareFuel Nightmare Fuel]], but the [[FridgeHorror Fridge Horror]] comes from the realization that the pyramids were built by slaves. ''The man was threatening to sell the son into slavery!''

* In a Skittles advert on UK television, it shows a man whose very touch turns things into Skittles. Everyone seems to think this is fine, except for the man himself, who is understandably annoyed when his desk phone and then the whole desk turns into Skittles. The horror of these two incidents barely scratches the surface. How long has he been wearing those clothes? Bathroom ablutions must surely be horrendous. Shaving impossible. And eating a exclusive diet of Skittles would kill him eventually.

* The old "Mac Tonite" McDonalds commercials had a faintly spooky central figure with a crescent moon head. [[RetroactiveRecognition The actor has moved on]] to, among other things, the [[Film/PansLabyrinth Pale Man at the dinner table with eyes in his hands.]]

* In a Pediasure commercial, two mothers are sitting on the sidelines of their children's soccer game. One mother asks if her child looks 'slow'. The child is shown to be a giant container of french fries. The mothers continue to talk and the responding mother says that her daughter has been drinking Pediasure and that 'kids are what they eat.' The mother's child is shown to look like a normal girl, not a giant food, which means that Pediasure is ''[[{{ForsakenChild}} made out of children.]]'' [[{{UpToEleven}} Also,]] [[{{[[{{ImAHumanitarian}} every other child on the field not dressed as a giant food is a cannibal.]]
** That, or they all feed on soccer uniforms

** There was also one commercial containing the most light-hearted outcome: When one boy tries stepping on the pouch, it just bounces to the side and hits a car, making its alarm go off. His friend says, "You're in so much trouble!"

* There this one Buffalo Wild Wings commercial in which one of the employees pulled a switch to inform a power plant worker to shut off all power in the entire city except for the restaurant itself. A city that includes hospitals with patients hooks up to respiratory systems or babies in life support.

* In a Pediasure commercial, two mothers are sitting on the sidelines of their children's soccer game. One mother asks if her child looks 'slow'. The child is shown to be a giant container of french fries. The mothers continue to talk and the responding mother says that her daughter has been drinking pediasure and that 'kids are what they eat.' The mother's child is shown to look like a normal girl, not a giant food, which means that pediasure is made out of children. Also, every other child on the field not dressed as a giant food is a cannibal.

** [[{{Lampshaded}} Lampshaded]] by [[{{WebOriginal/NostalgiaCritic}} Nostalgia Critic]] in his "Rise Of The Commercials" special, in which the kid has [[{{HumanPopsicle}}actually frozen to death]], and to make it worse, ''[[{{AnArmAndALeg}}the father tears off her arm]]''

* I forget what the company was, but in the late '90s/early 2000's (forget which), there was a commercial for high speed internet. A guy who had it proudly proclaimed that due to the fast internet connection, he had been across the internet and back. If you think about it, that could mean he looked at every single site on the internet, which means every twisted, disgusting porn site (including [[{{Lolicon}} the underage]] [[{{Shotacon}} variety...]]), every shock site, every hate site, and probably downloaded everything illegal in existence. Yikes.