History Narm / Advertising

** In 2009, a PSA aired featuring a drug dealer complaining to the parents in the viewing audience about how his business was down because teens had found another, cheaper source. That source was medicine cabinets. This was an anti-''prescription drug'' PSA which is part amusing and part depressing -- especially since stations airing it still air ads for prescription drugs as well, and since no ''specific'' prescription drugs are named.

* The radio station WYSP in Philadelphia has started running ads claiming how many more songs they play per day (or week) than rival station WMMR. It's hard to maintain a hard rock image when you run ads that essentially make your staff look like mindless bean counters.

* A recent commercial for a mixed nut treat has the narrator go into loving description of how the confectionary delight is made and prepared ending with the line "A wonderful nut snack". Unfortunately the line SOUNDS like something completely different. Apparently, the ad makers realized this; current runnings of the add just say "Snack" instead of "[[strike:nutsack]] nutsnack."

* AT&T's "Rollover Minutes" commercials. Even people with mothers who pulled the "there are starving children in China" lecture think this woman is utterly insane with the way she [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmIj7_0-1kg goes]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFepU_hcZ0s wide-eyed]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUyUvq3dsKc twitchy]] berserk over her family not properly hoarding their rollover minutes in ''every damn commercial.'' You'd think that as nervously uncomfortable as her family looks every time she goes off on one of her jittery rants, they'd do what she wants just out of ''fear''.
** The "minutes" [[SpecialEffectFailure resemble plastic milkcaps]]. They don't ''look'' valuable.
---> "They're Rollover Minutes they're EXACTLY the same!"

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UnRno6z2Xc&feature=related Harold the Jewellery Buyer]]. "We're going on a cruiise!"
-->"I loove my new TV!"

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spL77iqRl7s This Orangina ad]]. Before, it was simply FurryFandom FetishFuel ramped UpToEleven. Here, it just looks silly.
** I see your muscled puma and raise you [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUES0gXmRCY this dominatrix panther.]] It's either this or NightmareFuel.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BIOTItUwvk&feature=player_embedded This advert]] that aired during the Super Bowl brought to us by our good friends from ''Focus on the Family''. Oh, Tim, you rascal. Tackling your own mother- when will you learn?

* Any attempt by ABC Family to use their slogan "A new kind of X". It gets silly. Absolutely everything has to be described this way by the network. It is somewhat justified: When {{Disney}} wanted to rename the channel to "XYZ" to remarket it to a different audience, it discovered that the contracts with the cable companies required that the word "Family" stay in the channel name. Disney being Disney, it went ahead with remarketing {{ABC Family}}; "A new kind of Family" was their way of explaining what they were doing (which would eventually be like TheWB of basic cable). It snowballed from there.

* Even good old [[TheAdvertisementServer Adbot]] isn't immune. Every so often, a truly groan-worthy ad will pop up on the left on the screen. This troper's personal "favourites" are the "Are You A Vampire? Find Out Now!" ad, and [[ErectionRejection of course]] the {{Evony}} ads.
* Awhile ago South Dakota had state-issued radio ads during the wintertime, with dramatic, heart-pounding music that is quite obviously meant to be frightening and a man who sounds like PeterThomas who drags out the words "DON'T CROWD THE PLOW" in a menacing way. It's utterly hilarious, but apparently they've realized that and sadly it has stopped playing.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UnRno6z2Xc&feature=related Harold the Jewellery Buyer]]. "We're going on a cruiise!" "I loove my new TV!"
* Adds for the upcoming NBC show TheEvent. They all take the same form, "(insert random, standard plot driving event here) is not the Event. What is the Event?" with a line from the show saying "he's going to tell people about the Event." The whole thing is so overwrought and so generic that many viewers find it impossible to take seriously.
* There's a new Nesquik advert and the gist of it is 'kids only grow up once, enjoy it.' This would be quite touching, if it weren't for the mascot's horrible, cartoon voice. With it, the advert becomes completely ridiculous and seems to be trying too hard.

* A notorious anti-drunk driving [[PublicServiceAnnouncement PSA]] from circa 1980 with a hysterical housewife chasing after her husband shrieking, "Don't use the car! You'll kill yourself!"

* A commercial for a Time-Life documentary of ThoseWackyNazis is hard to take seriously because the voice-over announcer is attempting a terrible {{Don LaFontaine}} impression.
** It doesn't help when the end-of-infomercial voiceover guy cheerfully pipes up to instruct you how to "order your copy of ''The Nazis''."

* Any and all attempts by ABC Family to tack on their misplaced slogan "A new kind of X" to form of media. It gets silly at times. Absolutely everything has to be described this way by the network.
** When {{Disney}} wanted to rename the channel to "XYZ" to remarket it to a different audience, it discovered that the contracts with the cable companies required that the word "Family" stay in the channel name. Its name still has "Family" but, as evidenced by shows like ''{{Greek}}'', ''MakeItOrBreakIt'', ''KyleXY'' and ''TheSecretLifeOfTheAmericanTeenager'', ABC Family isn't that family-oriented. It's a modern-day, basic cable version of [[TheWB the former WB network]]. ''The 700 Club'' (required in the original contract with Pat Robertson) is the only thing left to hint at ABC Family's roots as a religious channel, and they've buried it at 11 PM and given it a disclaimer warning unequivocally that it "does not reflect the views of ABC Family".
* A commercial for a Time Life documentary of ThoseWackyNazis is hard to take seriously because the voice-over announcer is attempting a terrible {{Don LaFontaine}} impression.
** It doesn't help when the end-of-infomercial voiceover guy cheerfully pipes up to instruct you how to "order your copy of The Nazis."

* Have you been injured at home or at work in the last 4 years and it wasn’t your fault? You could claim money. This line is normally given after a poorly acted “reconstruction,” though it sometimes is used on screens which should have people suing the law firms for causing epilepsy.

* No Midwest Hemmorhoid Treatment Center? Very few people from St. Louis and Kansas City must visit this page. You've got to wonder which poor saps were stuck with composing and singing [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4fzO9whly8 the]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRGw5uAJBHc jingle]]. Not to mention the whole "don't suffer in silence" thing is probably more appropriate for victims of domestic abuse or something along those lines, not hemmorhoids.

** Somewhere on the internet, there is footage of one of these things starring [[BlackFlag Henry Rollins]]. He compares the feeling of using meth or speed (they're closely related) to driving a powerful car very fast. The car in the ad explodes.

* How has anyone missed the utterly hilarious [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U219eUIZ7Qo Australian Grim Reaper AIDS PSA from the 1980s?]] Ok maybe it was scary back in the day, but this troper can't stop herself from bursting out laughing when the people suddenly fall over in the most spastic over the top way ever.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bhq_NL6jL0 BAAAAABY CARROOOOOOTS]] ...though to be fair the narm was probably deliberate

* Adds for the upcoming NBC show "The Event." They all take the same form, "(insert random, standard plot driving event here) is not the Event. What is the Event?" with a line from the show saying "he's going to tell people about the Event." The whole thing is so overwrought and so generic that many viewers find it impossible to take seriously.

* The ad for the movie ''OneMissedCall'' is unintentionally hilarious, with an ominous announcer voice saying, "When your call goes straight to voicemail, your world goes straight to '''Hell.'''" Bonus points for the victim saying "That's not my ringtone" in a terrified almost-whisper. With skill, it's possible to make nearly anything scary; but it seems cell phones are a rare exception. Whether the ''movie'' is Narmtacular remains to be seen.
** It's about an evil little ghost girl killing people ''via'' cell phone; of course it is.
*** The Japanese version had its scary moments; the American version is SoBadItsHorrible. So maybe not.

* Adds for the upcoming NBC show "The Event." They all take the same form, "(insert random, standard plot driving event here) is not the Event. What is the Event?" with a line from the show saying "he's going to tell people about the Event." The whole thing is so overwrought and so generic that it's impossible to take it seriously.