History Narm / Advertising

** Another thing to point out is that 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 one big CriticalResearchFailure.

** ''(In a thick, Australian accent:)'' "I'll kick your ass!"

** Special mention goes to the subtitles for the Moluccan Cockatoo:

** Special mention goes to the subtitles for the Umbrella Cockatoo:
--->'''Umbrella Cockatoo:''' [[ClusterFBomb F*#king, f*#king, f*#k, f*#king, f*#k, f*#k!]]

** Special mention goes to the Umbrella Cockatoo:

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXY80p8jMPc This 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.

---> '''Umbrella Cockatoo:''' [[ClusterFBomb: F*#king, f*#king, f*#k, f*#king, f*#k, f*#k!]]

-->[[YouTube'''{{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!

* Coca-Cola's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2QZjUzWPMA Real Magic]] ad takes their usual {{Glurge}}-y writing and applies it to the world of [[WereStillRelevantDammit streaming and E-sports]]. Apparently, drinking Coke in real life can bring your character back from the dead, who then becomes self-aware and throws his weapon to the ground, convincing everyone else in the battle do the same. It's all intercut with reactions from streamers and audience members crying TearsOfJoy. It's utterly ridiculous and makes ''no'' attempt to understand its demographic, which kind of makes it amazing.

* There was once a [[NightmareFuel horrific]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtJqw--DGl8 Northern Irish drink-driving PIF]] in which a car smashes through a garden fence and crushes a young child. In 2014, the DOE decided to ramp this concept up to eleven with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv1rKHGeMRk this ad]], in which a speeding driver loses control of his car and rips through a hedge, ''killing an entire class of schoolchildren'' (pictured above). It's too contrived and over the top to take seriously, and, in contrast to the earlier one, [[BloodlessCarnage there is no blood or injury detail]] at all. Not helping matters is the shot a boy's face just before he gets crushed flat along with his classmates, whose facial expression makes him look '''[[DullSurprise mildly inconvenienced]]''' by his impending death more than anything else. The final kicker is that for some reason, a "SPLAT!" sound effect is played in a cartoonish way (and no, this wasn't edited in- this was in the ''actual PSA''), ruining whatever seriousness it had. The ad was meant to convey the fact that 28 children (roughly the size of a primary school class) have been killed by speeding drivers since 2000. But surely there are better ways of illustrating that.

* There was once a [[NightmareFuel horrific]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtJqw--DGl8 Northern Irish drink-driving PIF]] in which a car smashes through a garden fence and crushes a young child. In 2014, the DOE decided to ramp this concept up to eleven with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv1rKHGeMRk this ad]], in which a speeding driver loses control of his car and rips through a hedge, ''killing an entire class of schoolchildren'' (pictured above). It's too contrived and over the top to take seriously, and, in contrast to the earlier one, [[BloodlessCarnage there is no blood or injury detail]] at all. Not helping matters is the shot a boy's face just before he gets crushed flat along with his classmates, whose facial expression makes him look '''[[DullSurprise mildly inconvenienced]]''' by his impending death more than anything else. The ad was meant to convey the fact that 28 children (roughly the size of a primary school class) have been killed by speeding drivers since 2000. But surely there are better ways of illustrating that.

* In the mid-90's, ''Duncan Yo-Yo'' (like just about ''everybody'' marketing to kids at the time) [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohr0bZ_WWFQ tried to make]] their commercials [[TotallyRadical hipper and more modern]] by depicting a stereotypical "cool kid" enthusiastically playing with a yo-yo, while comparing him to a {{Nerd}} sitting at home playing... [[PacManFever a Sega Genesis with Atari 2600 sound effects]]. As if that (both the whole comparison and its execution) wasn't crazy enough, the ad ended with this classic line: "You want speed, action and excitement? GET A YO-YO!!!"

* There was once a [[NightmareFuel horrific]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtJqw--DGl8 Northern Irish drink-driving PIF]] in which a car smashes through a garden fence and crushes a young child. In 2014, the DOE decided to ramp this concept UpToEleven with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv1rKHGeMRk this ad]], in which a speeding driver loses control of his car and rips through a hedge, ''killing an entire class of schoolchildren'' (pictured above). It's too contrived and over the top to take seriously, and, in contrast to the earlier one, [[BloodlessCarnage there is no blood or injury detail]] at all. Not helping matters is the shot a boy's face just before he gets crushed flat along with his classmates, whose facial expression makes him look '''[[DullSurprise mildly inconvenienced]]''' by his impending death more than anything else. The ad was meant to convey the fact that 28 children (roughly the size of a primary school class) have been killed by speeding drivers since 2000. But surely there are better ways of illustrating that.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spL77iqRl7s This]] Advertising/{{Orangina}} ad. Before, it was simply UsefulNotes/FurryFandom hijinks ramped UpToEleven. But this muscled puma looks silly.

* In the mid-90's, ''Duncan Yo-Yo'' (like just about ''everybody'' marketing to kids at the time) [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohr0bZ_WWFQ tried to make]] their commercials [[TotallyRadical hipper and more modern]] by depicting a stereotypical "cool kid" enthusiastically playing with a yo-yo, while comparing him to a HollywoodNerd sitting at home playing... [[PacManFever a Sega Genesis with Atari 2600 sound effects]]. As if that (both the whole comparison and its execution) wasn't crazy enough, the ad ended with this classic line: "You want speed, action and excitement? GET A YO-YO!!!"

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6uepXw9gZA This]] PSA from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration starts off grim, with a father talking about his daughter in a funeral, while relatives grieve in the background. At the end, it's tries to give the message that the last text message you send could be the message engraved in your tombstone. While this is an interesting concept, it's entirely ruined by the final shot: a tombstone reading [[spoiler:"Smh."]]

* There's a commercial that talks about a medical service that will give you a supply of fresh, disposable catheters. The first commercial showed a woman whining that she had to ''boil'' and ''reuse'' her catheters. This is amusing until you are informed about the reality of the situation, when it becomes a FunnyAneurysmMoment. The second was for the same service and had an old lady and a handicapped man who delivered their lines in a ridiculously fake-sounding way.

* In 2014, Arby's introduced a new slogan. "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7XeVEUK_7M ARBY'S: WE HAVE THE MEATS]]." [[{{Pun}} Obviously this includes]] [[LargeHam a rather healthy serving of ham.]] One in particular takes it even further over the top. "Do the meats scare you? Are you intimidated by the meats?"

* [[https://youtu.be/aT3BjDVR5pM A 2020 PSA by the Dallas Police Department]], which concerned [[FiringInTheAirALot celebratory gunfire]] and the illegal use of fireworks on New Year's Eve, begins with a man shouting "Happy New Year!" before firing a bullet from his pistol in the air. The video then cuts to the Dallas 9-1-1 Call Center receiving a call from a crying woman, briefly shown [[DiedInYourArmsTonight cradling her pet's corpse]] after it was just struck by the same bullet from before. While the scene is meant to be dead serious, the fact that the pet in question is very obviously a ''[[SpecialEffectsFailure plush toy]]'' (not even a plush cat or a dog, but a ''small cow'') completely ruined the intended impact. The PSA was ultimately pulled from television broadcast shortly after, simply because its narminess ''made it too hard for the public to take seriously''.

* [[https://youtu.be/aT3BjDVR5pM A 2020 PSA by the Dallas Police Department]], which concerned [[FiringInTheAirALot celebratory gunfire]] and the illegal use of fireworks on New Year's Eve, begins with a man shouting "Happy New Year!" before firing a bullet from his pistol in the air. The video then cuts to the Dallas 9-1-1 Call Center receiving a call from a crying woman, briefly shown [[DiedInYourArmsTonight cradling her pet's corpse]] after it was just struck by the same bullet from before. While the scene is meant to be dead serious, the fact that the pet in question is very obviously a ''[[SpecialEffectsFailure plush toy]]'' (not even a plush cat or a dog, but a ''small cow'') makes it hard to take seriously.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdHYIdyVMIk This]] NPD (German neonazi party) ad from 2012. Content: Three industrious German dwarfs find some gold during digging, "Aah" and "Ooh" about it - but then some sleazy AmbiguouslyJewish (or foreign) guy enters the stage and takes the poor dwarves' gold away, just like that. Fortunately, the NPD guy on a horse enters the scene to kick his ass (offscreen) and bring justice.

* Everyone knows you're not supposed to use your phone during a movie, making [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgU2ue37hgY this video's]] annoying and condescending tone all the more grating. [[WhatAnIdiot Apparently, there's no technology in movie theaters... or something]]. And this plays before ''every movie at a Cinemark theater.'' If you go to a place where the local movie theater is a Cinemark, expect anyone who goes to the movies regularly to have this memorized by heart.

* The trailer for Creator/ButchHartman's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPkRPy_gzFc OAXIS streaming service]] is supposed to sell a family-friendly streaming service by having a family get disgusted at inappropriate content in their television program. The family does this by acting horrified at a television airing the words "HORROR MOVIE COMMERCIAL" and "SEX SCENE" and "MURDER SCENE" and trying to cover the kids' eyes in an exaggerated panic. The lack of any actual threat in context makes it look like a joke, but Hartman is trying to make a genuine point about inappropriate television content. (Hartman's arrival in the trailer does bring deliberate humor, though.)

!![=PSAs=] and [=PIFs=]:

* There was once a [[NightmareFuel horrific]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtJqw--DGl8 Northern Irish drink-driving PIF]] in which a car smashes through a garden fence and crushes a young child. In 2014, the DOE decided to ramp this concept UpToEleven with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv1rKHGeMRk this ad]], in which a speeding driver loses control of his car and rips through a hedge, ''killing an entire class of schoolchildren'' (pictured to the right). It's too contrived and over the top to take seriously, and, in contrast to the earlier one, [[BloodlessCarnage there is no blood or injury detail]] at all. Not helping matters is the shot a boy's face just before he gets crushed flat along with his classmates, whose facial expression makes him look '''[[DullSurprise mildly inconvenienced]]''' by his impending death more than anything else. The ad was meant to convey the fact that 28 children (roughly the size of a primary school class) have been killed by speeding drivers since 2000. But surely there are better ways of illustrating that.

!!Other
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr2gdPY-88w This glorious Ad.]] It confused everyone when it came out. It is an ad for a lawyer and has heavy metal, fire and a scene where he hits a tombstone with a sledge.
** And [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-JdG8aaUyc here's the follow-up]]: involving government class in high school, a scene where the lawyer ''literally interrogates injustice'', and a scene where an angel forges the sledgehammer in the previous video.
*** What makes these extra narmy is the guy's backstory- he was a criminal defense lawyer who got rich defending scumbags, but then his brother was murdered so he became a super lawyer. It sounds like the plot to an 80's movie.
* At one point, Edmonton-based radio station The Bounce aired ads which mashed together songs it plays. These were hilariously awful and mashed together Katy Perry's "E.T.," [=Ke$ha=]'s "We R Who We R," Lady Gaga's "Born this Way," Martin Solveig and Dragonette's "Hello", etc. None of the choices fit together, and it was simply hilarious.
* The [=WaxVac=] infomercials that advertise a vacuum that removes earwax from your ears. As soon as the scenes with the couple practicing ear candling and the guy yelling "'''OW!'''" [[TooIncompetentToOperateABlanket while barely poking a Q-tip into his ears]] come on, it's no longer possible to take the commercial seriously. (Though it's worse in that it dampens the seriousness of anything said by the experts that follow in the commercial. It's hard to take the words of a doctor seriously on the risks of using Q-tips when people are too distracted by the unintentionally humorous agony of a man from the result of a Q-tip. Unsurprisingly, the narm factor is made fun of by ''Series/TheSoup''.)
* Anna [[MeaningfulName Blue]], a CGI girl who sings a song called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tE31Wd7DF4 "So Alone"]] in a Jamster commercial. [[StockFootage The repeated mirror throwing]], mixed with the over-dramatic, stereotypical {{emo}} [[EmoTeen behavior]] makes the song hardly anything to take seriously. As if the emo appeal weren't cheesy enough, Jamster took the liberty of making a second song called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aun1lHyqwBg "Your Heart,"]] sung by a ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''-esque CGI vampire guy named Damien Dawn. Not only does it use the same StockFootage from "So Alone," but it also adds its own cheesy clips. Like Damien climbing up and singing on Anna's roof, and him jumping in the moonlight.
** Jamster commercials in general were driven by truckloads of narm. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtUEEJ200ZA This one]], which [[RepeatingAd will probably trigger flashbacks to those who watched TeenNick in the early 2010s]], implies that if you don't use their love calculator service, then you will be dumped and left at the altar by your boyfriend. The narm isn't helped by the overacting and how often this commercial was recycled (the names of the two leads would often change, i.e. "[[Music/MileyCyrus Miley]] and [[Music/JonasBrothers Nick]]", "[[Music/JustinBieber Justin]] and [[Music/SelenaGomez Selena]]").
* The 2010 TV ad for Creator/CirqueDuSoleil's winter production ''Wintuk'' has this narration:
-->This is the magic of ''Wintuk''. This is the thrill of ''Wintuk''. This is the season of ''Wintuk''! ... Don't miss the final season of this wonderful, winterful show that ''The New York Times'' calls "a family-oriented holiday extravaganza"!
* 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=o50_ZlMnjqY This]] ad for a CD called "Cheers to You". The very fact that such a product exists (each of the CD's tracks consist of words of encouragement towards the listener) is depressing enough (ironically), but the "HOORAY FOR YOU!" at the end of the commercial really push it off the edge.
** Parodied by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsKHueDfT8U this]] video.
* "I've fallen and I can't get up!" — originally supposed to be a shocking line in an ad for "Life Alert" ads depicting a helpless elderly woman who had fallen from her walker, it quickly descended into farce. There were even T-shirts once. Life Alert now has the phrase trademarked, and it appears at the bottom of some ads.
** From a later commercial:
---> [[PunctuatedForEmphasis All. Senior. Citizens. Should. Have. Life Alert.]]
** Then there's the scene where an elderly woman is lying on the floor and trying to reach a phone that's sitting on a desk a few feet away -- sort of. She doesn't try to move towards it; she just reaches for it as if she believes that she can make her arm stretch the rest of the way.
** AAAAND there's [[https://youtu.be/ZAQo0ja6IPM another one]], which tries to go for a dark and serious tone but ends up being somehow even narmier than the other examples; dark and moody music is heard while a camera pans through different rooms in the house and a woman can be heard yelping "HEEEELP!!! I've fallen... It hurts!!! Help me... HELP ME!" and the elderly woman can be seen at the foot of the stairs sobbing with a laundry basket dropped on her. There seems to be nobody home, making it even more hilarious. And shortly after such a dramatic scene, [[MoodWhiplash they cut to happy music and bright colors as if nothing happened]].
** Bonus narm points for the weird shift between blue and amber tints, and the fact that woman doesn't even try to look like she really took a fall; she's laying on her back in the ChalkOutline pose with her feet resting on the stairs.
** The commercial also comes with a trigger warning.
---> The following is based on reality. You may be offended.
** In another Life Alert commercial, a little girl happens to be home with her grandmother and actually hears the crash, and she asks: "Grandma, are you OK?" instead of calling 911. It's one of the few times in these commercials a person didn't actually need the product advertised.
** The newest commercial features an elderly woman taking a shower, but at some point she may have forgotten she wasn't in an anti-drug PSA and hears voices in her head, then falls and takes the curtain down with her (thankfully).
** An elderly woman falling down the stairs should theoretically not be a humorous sight, but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cTEcLtBfgM here we are]].
* ''All'' of the commercials for Michael's Furniture in Los Angeles. You can tell that the producers of the commercial didn't bother with trying with costumes, advertising, and even special effects.
* The ad for the movie ''Film/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 (and [[Film/NightOfTheLepus rabbits]]) are a rare exception.
* The ad for the movie ''The Darkest Hour'', HolidayMode. Watching something unrelated, just seeing the super-serious "Survive (beat) The Holidays" and seeing the dog disintegrate, was just hilarious.
* "More Ovaltine, please!" Ovaltine hasn't changed their commercials from BadBadActing cutesy children since the product came on the market. And while at one time, it went into NarmCharm category with how long they'd kept it up, now the gimmick is squarely back in the eyeroll-worthy box.

* Call Liberty Medical and ask them about your [[MemeticMutation DAHH'BEETUS]]. This message brought to you by Wilford Brimley (a.k.a. the "Quaker Oats" guy). [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFIsoq63lwo Here:]]
** "Ah haet prickin mah fingahs! With Liberty Meter, it's much less painful. ''And it even talks to me.''" This is ridiculous because testing one's blood sugar levels via any regular meter that's been introduced to the market since 2000 has become so refined that it requires one tiny little finger prick that you barely feel. The insulin jab hurts a heck of a lot more. Granted, the hospital meters still require the old fashioned ginormous pricks that would hurt, but...
** The poorly acted commercials for those "free" diabetic cookbooks ("Free" is in quotation marks since there's always a catch to these things.), where Nicole Johnson tries her hardest, but puts across a creepy Sandra Lee kind of vibe, and the black woman sasses it up so much that it's almost worthy of giving the NAACP a conniption.
* Multiple House Alarm commercials that play out pretend scenarios where a burglar, rapist, etc. would be scared away by the alarm. These scenarios, however, were frequently farfetched and downright funny.
** One involves two burglars attempting to break into a house ''in the middle of the day'' by loudly breaking a window with a crowbar because they spotted overgrown grass and multiple newspapers in the porch. It turns out a single mother with her children were all in the laundry room (why they let the grass over-grow and didn't pick up the paper for days on end is a mystery), but they were gladly protected by the incredible threat of a loud noise.
** A more ridiculous scenario involves a single woman coming back to her (two-story, full-sized, middle-class) house from a date, only to have another man spy on them. Immediately after the man on a date left, the spying man runs up to the house and kicks open the door in the most obnoxious and over-dramatic way, setting off the alarm that baffles him and causes him to run away. The woman gets a call from the alarm system technicians to ask what's wrong, and she says her ''ex-boyfriend'' knocked down the door.
** A third commercial of equal ridiculous nature involves a burglar breaking open a front door in the middle of the night in the most obnoxious and loudest way possible, then acts surprised before running away because of a house alarm. Narm moment indeed.
** There's also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKI4t5MFG1E "this"]] Broadview Security ad, where the man breaking in looks straight at the woman before punching through her window (which sets off the alarm), lets her run upstairs, and ''then'' runs away. It's even more narm-y and ridiculous because the commercial made it clear that he'd just been to this woman's house while she was having a party (probably casing the joint, as neither the woman nor her friends seemed to know who he was) - he could have easily gotten in with a lie about leaving his keys or wallet behind and then incapacitated the woman. Instead he seems to think that if he waits fifteen minutes she'll magically be gone from her own home ''and'' manages to miss the security keypad next to the front door.
** Another security system ad has a jacket-wearing man in a neighborhood at about noon watch a jogger go past. Once the jogger's gone, the man in the jacket flips his hoodie up like a low-rent supervillain and proceeds to loudly kick open the door to a house, setting off the alarm and sending him running.

* "Our world is under constant attack". The start of a trailer for ''Mega Disasters'' on the History Channel's UK version.
* In [[TheEighties the 1980s]], video games were given some narmful adverts. For instance, every commercial for an UsefulNotes/{{Atari 2600}} video game, ever.
** A ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaIISimonsQuest'' ad had a [[Franchise/{{Metroid}} random blonde with a shirt with mega-shoulder pads]] and big hair, and a guy in a cheap Dracula costume with stiff, almost zombie-like poses and weird faces, standing in dry ice and tombstones that were obviously pieces of styrofoam painted gray.
* The ad for the horror film ''Film/{{Mirrors}}'' had a scene at the end that features Kiefer Sutherland sitting in a car saying, "mirrors are everywhere." Then he looks at the rearview mirror, sees a monster in it, lets out the most narmy yells, and dramatically flinches away from the mirror. Ironically it's more or less correctly done as the entire film is like that, with the absolute peak coming from his vision of a burning woman in a large ceiling-to-floor mirror, and his then being afflicted with this condition himself. Nearly a minute is devoted to just him writhing on the floor yelling, "THE FIRE! IT BURNS! AAAAAHHHHHH!"
* "We just finished level three, and need to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRWvfMLl4ho tighten up the graphics]] a little bit." This commercial suggests that video game testers have the cushiest job in the world, but the attempt to replicate what video game testers ''say'' just sounds like somebody who has no idea what they're talking about.
** Neatly put to bed in [[http://www.threepanelsoul.com/comic/on-level-three this strip]].
** [[http://lr-comic.com/index.php?strip_id=223 Also parodied in this strip]]
%%* This driver's-ed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjoPZzG_oVk video]]. It should speak for itself.
* 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.
* The protagonist yelling out "JUNNNIIOOOORRRR!" with added repetition and echoes [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQVs71qabnY in the trailer for the film "Waist Deep"]] at about 0:40.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5bju8ybvSs& "Thank You Sarah Palin"]].
* The [[Advertising/TheMagicBullet Magic Bullet]] To Go infomercial. While the first had the distinction of colorful, wacky characters congregating over a small machine after a party the previous night, it didn't have Dino. Dino makes his first appearance in the To Go infomercial, and the actor playing him is so bad that it makes every line top-grade Narm fuel. Just [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nmEqSD_MBQ check out]] the way he says "Whoa! That is magic." at 3:49. Also, the background music at the start of the infomercial bears a strange resemblance to that of "[[Film/GoodBurger We're All Dudes]]".

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L65VrvcVNM This]] ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance'' ad. Their version of "Marche" is just... so... wrong.
-->Feel free to call, otherwise I may become '''irritable'''!
* One TV spot for ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'' features Creator/ShiaLaBeouf's character screaming "Bumblebee!!" in an anguished tone of voice -- which may send viewers not familiar with the ''character'' named Bumblebee into hysterics. But heck, even if you are, it's still funny -- especially if you have someone nearby who decides to snark, "Hey Shia, what's your favorite brand of tuna?" just before the line comes up.

* The Australian advert for [[Creator/{{Syfy}} Sci Fi]] [[Film/SyfyChannelOriginalMovie Original]] ''Boa'' is quite bizarre. All it shows is a factory at night, a guy looking at something, and a big snake. The narmy narration is apparently the result of a schizophrenic howler monkey who'd been handed various hallucinogens and a broken-down typewriter from 1935.
-->Narrator: *ominously* If it had legs... maybe you could tie them together... and capture it. But it doesn't... so you can't. ''Boa''.
** Protip: Never argue against your own narration.
* The ad campaign for the ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'' [[ForTheEvulz Piraka]]. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZXBDIMBKm4 first ad]] is kinda cool, even with ([[MundaneMadeAwesome or because of]]) Thok blowing a presumably Antidermis bubble; but as soon as the [[HipHop painfully gangsta]] announcer opens his mouth, it's hilarious. And even more hilarious is the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1CTPC02n0c Piraka Rap]]. The video isn't official, but the music is.
** The following year, they had a promotional mini-movie for the Toa Mahri setline, in which the characters actually ''talked''. Leading to the lines...
-->Hewkii, as a giant Gadunka appears: ''Holy Gadunka!''\\
Matoro, ramming a sea-craft into it: ''Eat '''this''', Gadunka!''

* Book commercials in general, or at least the ones that try to adapt the contents to live action. They're often plagued by cheesy narration over [[SpecialEffectFailure exceedingly low budget footage]] that make them look more like bargain-bin UsefulNotes/{{DVD}} movies than {{literature}}.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spL77iqRl7s This]] Advertising/{{Orangina}} ad. Before, it was simply UsefulNotes/FurryFandom hijinks ramped UpToEleven. But this muscled puma looks silly.
** Look at [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06o4skl2xzg this dominatrix panther.]]
* There's a commercial that talks about a medical service that will give you a supply of fresh, disposable catheters. The first commercial showed a woman whining that she had to ''boil'' and ''reuse'' her catheters. This is amusing until you are informed about the reality of the situation, when it becomes a FunnyAneurysmMoment. The second was for the same service and had an old lady and a handicapped man who delivered their lines in a ridiculously fake-sounding way.
* Some old douching commercials were so {{narm}} that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1cAYWi9E_0 they seem like parodies...]]
* Any attempt by Creator/ABCFamily to use their slogan "A new kind of X". It gets silly. Absolutely everything has to be described this way by the network. How it began: When Creator/{{Disney}} wanted to rename the channel to "XYZ" to remarket it to a different audience, they were forced to change it to ABC Family instead (the debacle about the word "Family" remaining in the name as part of a contract turned out to be a hoax when the network rebranded as Freeform in 2016). Disney being Disney, "A new kind of Family" was their way of explaining what they were doing (which would eventually be like Creator/TheWB of basic cable). It snowballed (snowcloned?) from there.
* A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6g9sCEFF10 commercial]] for a Time-Life documentary of ThoseWackyNazis is hard to take seriously because the voice-over announcer is attempting a terrible Creator/DonLaFontaine impression. It doesn't help when the end-of-infomercial voiceover guy [[MoodWhiplash cheerfully pipes up]] to instruct you how to "order your copy of ''The Nazis''."
* Even [[Tropers/TheAdvertisementServer Adbot]] isn't immune. Every so often, a truly groan-worthy ad will pop up on the left on the screen. Notable examples are ads like the "Are You A Vampire? Find Out Now!", "Which Naruto are you?", and, [[FetishRetardant of course,]] the VideoGame/{{Evony}} ads.
** Some advertisements are only pictures of actual screenshots from media like VideoGame/MarioKartDoubleDash and WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb with nothing else added onto them.

* Ads for the Creator/{{NBC}} show ''Series/TheEvent'' before it started airing. 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.
** Even better, they strung this series of commercials out so long that some viewers were actually sick of the show before it ever hit the air.
* There's a 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 Nesquik bunny's voice. With it, the advert becomes ridiculous and seems to be trying too hard.
* Jamster has been running these advertisements for a "Ghost Camera" for your cellphone. It starts with a voiceover of a woman showing you pictures of various locales from her European trip. She gets increasing confused and edgy from the images of "ghosts" on each of her photos, but by the third photo she freaks out and lets out one of the most unconvincing screams of terror ever. Any iota of suspense built up to that point is completely ruined and turned into narm. To give you an idea, it sounded like the voice actor just flatly ''read'' the word "Aaaaaah" aloud from the script.

* An ad slogan for Tyson Chicken: "It's what your family deserves."
** As in a [[StealthPun big, fat cock]].
* The 24-hour news networks have been showing an ad by the oil companies featuring people on the street talking about taxing energy. Naturally, these people are all smarter about macroeconomics than real economists, even though all economics is inherently uncertain. And they are so not reading from teleprompters; it's just natural to talk like a fourth-grader reading from his reader (i.e., flat and pausing at awkward times).

* The commercials for the St. Louis and Kansas City-based Midwest Hemorrhoid Treatment Center have become a huge joke across the state of Missouri. You've got to wonder which poor saps were stuck with composing and singing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4fzO9whly8 the]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRGw5uAJBHc jingle]]. Not to mention the whole "don't suffer in silence" thing, which is probably more appropriate for victims of domestic abuse or something along those lines, not hemorrhoids.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltA50HKyM14 This Kay commercial]] features some spectacularly BadBadActing, as well as the gem (no pun intended) that the cold piece of shiny metal "captures the comfort found in each other's arms."
** Strangely, the way the woman reacted to the lightning, she acted as though she'd never seen anything brighter than a full moon, or louder than a vacuum. Not to mention - a line that is supposed to be delivered as a sweet platitude comes off more like a threat.
* [[UsefulNotes/NorthernIreland The Belfast City Council]] embarked on an anti-litter campaign which features pop art characters expressing [[FelonyMisdemeanor horror and disgust]] any time their companion litters. This results in ads like a picture of a crying girl thinking, "''All I did was drop my chewing gum on the ground... [[DisproportionateRetribution and now he won't speak to me!]]''"
** And, speaking of [[UsefulNotes/NorthernIreland Our Wee Country]], lest we forget the mind-meltingly narmy [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L84dSVDg5XU "Walking" PSAs]] that helpfully extolled the benefit of doing just that while singing about it. "Give yourself MORE ENERGY and BETTER SLEEP!"
* The trailers for the 2011 ''Film/GreenLantern2011'' movie. Dramatic music, a dying alien dramatically intoning, "Become one of us... become... a Green Lantern!" If you're not familiar with the comics, that's a pretty bizarre request to make in a dramatic scene.

* The otherwise pretty spooky [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaaEkJcdrP8 trailer]] for the film ''The Skeptic'' ends with an intense montage of quick clips, including two shots of people... goofily tumbling down the stairs. Obviously they're supposed to be violently falling, but both actors (especially the woman) just drew their arms in and sort of ''roll'' in an un-alarming fashion.
** {{Jump scare}}s featured in the trailer quickly become predictable when you notice that they repeatedly use a stock ScareChord which quickly loses its scare factor.
* There is a commercial for Montgomery's Furniture (a local furniture store in South Dakota) that basically consists of music that sounds like it should be featured in an action movie... accompanied by random shots of furniture. In other words, the commercial is trying to make furniture seem "Edgy" and "Awesome", but the commercial is just too hilariously bad for it to work.
* One of the trailers for the 2001 remake of ''Film/Thir13enGhosts'' was also quite Narm-ish. It didn't give us any hints or things to look forward to about the movie; it just listed why it was rated R. Not to mention the things it was rated R for were pretty much standard fare by that point in film history. However, R-rated movies with violence, nudity, and [[Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome colorful metaphors]] already existed, [[OlderThanTheyThink despite what the trailer wanted people to believe]].
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jubP3t27IQ This]] ad for a furniture shop definitely qualifies, although there's horror as well; the man's awkward, stilted dialogue, his subtle threat about your credit and the fact that he talks to mannequins are quite alarming.
* With T-Mobile's ads about its 4G network came an ad in which a man impatiently pounds on his cellphone for the "slow 3G buffering" occurring on his screen, unable to wait a few seconds.

* [[http://www.redshirttreatment.com/ You Deserve The Redshirt Treatment]]. [[{{Redshirt}} Not the sort of thing you want to hear at a hospital]].

* Have you ever read the "Urban Legend" on the side of Paul Newman Lemonade cartons? Try to do it without cringing.
* Northern Irish presenter Julian Simmons has a tendency to deliver [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hbdDvfZbeo hilarious,]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ktiJUUBLPo ridiculous]] introductions to the popular soap opera ''Series/CoronationStreet'' which cross into Narm territory. [[NarmCharm He's pretty much the single reason why UTV still uses continuity announcements]].
-->''[[CatchPhrase But now on the UTV...]]''

* ''Film/TheDevilInside'' looks like a pretty horrific movie, except for one part in the trailer where [[spoiler: the possessed mother motions for her daughter to come closer. After a few seconds of awkward silence, she lets out a hilarious scream]].
** The TV spot shows the rather {{Adorkable}} Father Ben letting out a hilariously girly scream as well, and his facial expression doesn't help matters either.
%%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU9C4ENHEFo This]] Montana Advertising/MethProject video. In spades.
* Subaru's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA3ml2EkJ3o "Keepsake" ad]]. There was also another advertisement from Subaru where a hip young man delivered a forlorn narration as he put his old Subaru out to pasture... Literally.

* The TV spots for the 2012 action movie ''Film/{{Chronicle}}'' show a character being hit by a flying bus. It's hard not to laugh at it.
** Likewise for the scene where the kid sits cross-legged, staring into the camera with a dead serious facial expression, clenching a fist, crushing a car.
*** And the "B-BLING, B-BLING!" at the beginning.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Xd2ceHDd-g A trailer]] for the horror film ''House at the End of the Street'' uses a "rewind" gimmick a la the ''VideoGame/DeadIsland'' trailer, to show how fine and dandy everything started out before the horror stuff happened. A couple of shots -- such as a teenager backflipping out of a swimming pool and a child flying ''back onto'' a swing -- merit at least a chuckle.
* The anti-tobacco ads running in the US qualify as {{Narm}}, if only because the ill effects shown are rarely connected to smoking, and are much too {{Anvilicious}} to be taken seriously.

* The commercial for James Patterson's new novel, ''I, Michael Bennett,'' is pretty funny. It starts with a little girl asking if her dad would take a bullet for her, then cuts to a little boy asking a similar question, followed by a man awkwardly leaning toward the camera and saying, "I will," as slowly and dramatically as possible.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI7TsHKaksA This]] advertisement for the Accu-Check Nano blood testing machine. The song sounds like something meant for advertising a Franchise/MyLittlePony doll, not a diabetes-management device.

* An old commercial for debt recovery featured low-quality footage and BadBadActing. It opens with a woman with some papers in her hands and others strewn in front of her and saying, in the blandest, most monotonous voice possible, "Bills, bills, I don't know how we're gonna pay them," then pursing her lips and shaking her head. It was very hard to take the rest of the commercial seriously after watching that.
* The actors in this advert for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB2L1Q0hjdU The Money Shop]], especially the petrol guy:
-->'''[[LargeHam Ugh! AAAAAAAAAARGH!!!]]'''
* This TotallyRadical [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI3rO3PbYOo ad]] from TheEighties, which features two nerds rapping about ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI''.
-->Yeah, go Link yeah, [[AccidentalInnuendo get some]]!
* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-qBkWerZDg second ad]] has no painful rapping, but makes up for it by being certifiably nuts, featuring a spastic young man in what appears to be an abandoned loony bin hallucinating monsters from the game and calling out for Zelda repeatedly. ''Pe-pe-Peahats!'' For bonus geek points, horror-loving boils and ghouls [[RetroactiveRecognition may recognize the kid in the ad]] as none other than John Kassir, the voice of [[Series/TalesFromTheCrypt the Crypt Keeper]] himself.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzlDg1XKC2Y A DIY book commercial]] at one point runs down pest species you can repel with tips from the book. It inexplicably decides to show this by pasting up a picture of a screaming child's face with wasps photoshopped onto him.
* In the mid-90's, ''Duncan Yo-Yo'' (like just about ''everybody'' marketing to kids at the time) [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohr0bZ_WWFQ tried to make]] their commercials [[TotallyRadical hipper and more modern]] by depicting a stereotypical "cool kid" enthusiastically playing with a yo-yo, while comparing him to a HollywoodNerd sitting at home playing... [[PacManFever a Sega Genesis with Atari 2600 sound effects]]. As if that (both the whole comparison and its execution) wasn't crazy enough, the ad ended with this classic line: "You want speed, action and excitement? GET A YO-YO!!!"
* Another 90's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWJDAOlBO_A toy commercial]]: A board game called ''Ask Zendar''. During the ad, one of the players asks the plastic toy in the center "Am I going to the prom with a geek?" Zendar answers in the affirmative, being sagacious enough to know that [[HypocriticalHumor a girl who consorts with an electronic warlock is almost certainly a geek herself]].

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gccVehom30g This TCF bank commercial]] with polka dancers and a singer on an accordion. The narm should speak for itself.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85q4gJLyfZo This]] UK Iceland advert circa Christmas 2009. The whole thing qualifies.

* UsefulNotes/RPGMaker has a couple of narmy trailers. Unfortunately, later versions lack the hilarious narrators and just pan across the different editors while showing off the pre-installed resources.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xnrqig4Eugc The trailer]] for RPG Maker XP has the narrator constantly repeat the product's name [[LargeHam in an increasingly over-the-top voice]], and ends with footage of an RPG starring {{Captain Ersatz}}es of ''Franchise/StarWars'' characters fighting "Dark Vader", who says "You Don't know the power!!!" before [[AnticlimaxBoss dying in one hit]], followed by not-Luke Skywalker saying "Download this!!!"
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=il3ZcBGh20c The trailer]] for RPG Maker VX has some truly awful lines such as "Wow! Check this out! Pixel art is awesome!" and "It's almost like cheating!"
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDASxk5kiDw Principal Wilson has an epic breakdown over]] [[FelonyMisdemeanor someone parking in his spot]].
* In 2014, Arby's introduced a new slogan. "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7XeVEUK_7M ARBY'S: WE HAVE THE MEATS]]." [[{{Pun}} Obviously this includes]] [[LargeHam a rather healthy serving of ham.]] One in particular takes it even further over the top. "Do the meats scare you? Are you intimidated by the meats?"
* Whilst we imagine none of the men in the audience have ever found these funny; a lot of women tend to find tampon adverts unintentionally hilarious. There are quite a few that try to claim that their product is so amazing, stress-free and revolutionary that after using it you will like nothing more than to go roller-skating or rock climbing or dancing in a packed nightclub (and more often than not whilst wearing a huge contented grin upon your face.) What makes this scenario so funny is that A) Tampons have historically never lived up to their claims and B) They fail to take into account that its far more likely to be the cramps and the aching muscles that stop you from enjoying yourself on a period rather than your lack of a God-like tampon that can solve all of your worldly problems for you.
* Value Village is a Canadian chain of second-hand stores that were once infamous for selling clothes that were clearly gotten rid of for a reason, and not just for being several years out of style but also for things like visible threadbare patches or stains, because they would literally accept ''all'' donations and actually attempted to sell them. At the height of this infamy, it released a commercial wherein shoppers would gleefully proclaim "Funky!" "Bargains!" "Value Village is ''stylin'''!" (said by a young woman who was dressed like she was in a Tiffany video) or a little girl, holding up a piece of clothing that her grandmother might wear, and proclaiming "excellent" as though [[DullSurprise heavily sedated]]).
* ''Film/TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial'' is generally considered either narm or too awful to even be considered narm. However, the commercials that were preserved on some bootlegs of the special are narm in their purest form. Highlights include:
** The most well-known is a local news promo from the New York airing of the special consisting of a news anchor saying: "Fighting the frizzies, at 11." A famous ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' RunningGag [[Recap/SouthParkS3E15MrHankeysChristmasClassics sprinkled a parody of this promo throughout their Christmas special]] and ended with the newscaster in [[LiteralMetaphor a boxing match with a frizzy monster.]]
** The hilariously dated promo for a CBS special called "Bobby Vinton's Rock 'N Rollers": "From the creators of ''Donny & Marie'', it's like ''Grease'' on wheels!" To quote [[Podcast/{{Rifftrax}} Mike Nelson]]: Funny what passed for selling points back then."
** [[UsefulNotes/McDonalds "There's more in the middle of an Egg McMuffin than an egg in the middle of a muffin!"]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcHufFQ8UnA This]] commercial promotes the high standards of Whirlpool appliances, but is coated in so much PatrioticFervor (the only visuals in the commercial are clips of an bald eagle flying around) that it becomes ridiculous. The narration ends with, "If we can't keep this simple idea alive, then indeed ''we'' are the endangered species," as if the fate of America depends on where you buy your dishwasher.

* A possibly intentional example with the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkuuhr8hazk Perfect Bacon Bowl]]. The over-the-top singing, overwrought reactions to people eating it, the general presentation of it as if were the most epic thing known to man. Just all of it.

* A Colombian TV ad for a brand of powdered juice similar to Tang has two mothers, one of them pregnant, talking about the benefits of the product for their kids, when the one promoting it says: 'And it helps the immune system to work proficiently!'. This causes the pregnant mother to ask 'Immune system?' with a very bewildered expression and tone. The fact a grown-up woman, pregnant at least twice, hasn't heard about a concept taught in school and mentioned in many environments among them some related to pregnancy development, has caused a lot of laughs and mocking towards the writer of the ad. The ad doesn't really help itself, as the reply to that question is a short explanation as if it were given to a child despite the audience the ad is targeted at are adults.

* Creator/TeenNick advertised their block The Splat (now known as Creator/NickRewind) with a Facebook post that [[http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1032165-nickelodeon read]] "Saturdays are all about Splat and chill". Funny thing is, "Netflix and chill" (the original meme) is meant to be an UnusualEuphemism for inviting someone to your place to hook up.
* Commercials for AT&T U-Verse Internet have families talking about how reliable the service is--while within a house where everything else is breaking down rather catastrophically. For example, in one commercial a bathtub falls through the floor above right near a girl sitting on the couch with her tablet. The last concern on a person's mind after that would be whether or not their Internet was working.

* A series of commercials from 2000-2001 for American Express Travelers Checks featured a middle-aged woman in New York City calling the police about losing her purse filled with $1,000 in a taxi. As sad as it aims to be, it loses some luster and becomes this when the woman cries out in a thick Southern twang, "You don't understand, I'm on vacation. Everything is in that cab!" Fortunately, the other commercials from this era had the other individuals' reactions being more believable and serious.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6Tnult8aKo "If you build it, people will come."]] So says Freddie Flintoff in Morrisons' 2011 Christmas advert. What starts off as a ShoutOut to ''Film/FieldOfDreams'' gradually becomes an AccidentalInnuendo through sheer overuse of the word "come". In the words of Creator/CharlieBrooker, "I've been impressed by an aubergine in Morrisons, but not once have I felt like coming."
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGs4CjeJiJQ This]] famously terrible Chanel No. 5 advert, in which Creator/BradPitt stands alone in a room and talks [[MeaninglessMeaningfulWords complete]] [[FauxlosophicNarration nonsense]] for half a minute. When it first aired, it was roundly ridiculed for being one of the most laughably pretentious things ever.
* The people behind [[https://www.thepoke.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Bk2iFj0IcAA-Njl.jpg this print advert]] for Locum, a Swedish property management company, had the idea of replacing the "o" in the logo (which is all lower case) with a love heart... accidentally resulting in something NSFW. Hilarity ensued when people saw the logo and immediately realised what it looked like.
* One of ''many'' sorts of misdirected advertising agency effort identified and vilified on name-and-shame-crap-adverts site ''Website/AdTurds''.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP5lz2CYNR4 This commercial for Sakura Con]], which quickly became MemeticMutation when it was originally released. Highlights include ''everyone'' in the Japanese restaurant proclaiming their love for Japanese things, and especially the {{goth}} guy who yells "GIRUGAMESH!".

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUFPGYVhmSs The Story of Lucy]] is a three-minute long prestige ad featuring soft soulful music, as we watch a montage of moments in the life of a man who has a daughter. We see her born, watch as she grows up, gets married, and has a child of her own. Throughout this touching and heart-string tugging commercial, you can't help but wonder what it is they're selling. Life insurance? Cars? Cell phones? It's not very clear. Then, at the end of it all, as the father looks through a pane of nursery-ward glass at his new granddaughter, we see the message, "What's between us, connects us"... then it cuts to a logo for Windex.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q9YVm-X0jA An advert]] that began airing in 2016 featured a woman in a wedding dress being driven away from a church having abandoned the groom at the altar. We're informed that the man has money, a good job and a nice car, "but that still doesn't mean he gets you". The product? [[spoiler:Chewing gum, specifically Wrigley's Extra.]] No, we don't get it either.
* The horror-thriller film ''Film/{{The Snowman|2017}}'' may have generated some hype with its trailer, only to shoot itself in the foot with [[http://www.impawards.com/2017/snowman.html quite possibly one of the worst movie posters of all time]]. It has a juvenile vibe with simplistic handwriting over a doodle of a snowman whose expression is best described as "disappointed". It was so bad that it became a {{meme|ticMutation}}. The fact that the juvenile vibe and snowman drawing are original to the film and not [[Literature/HarryHole the novel it adapts]] hasn't helped.
-->MISTER POLICE.
-->YOU COULD HAVE SAVED HER
-->I GAVE YOU ALL THE CLUES
** On top of that, the stilted wording brings to mind the ''Series/TwinPeaks'' parody from [[Recap/TheSimpsonsWhoShotMrBurns "Who Shot Mr. Burns?"]]. "''Chief Wiggum! Dooon't eat the cluuues!''"
* While [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Niwnnri4kyU this]] commercial for ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'' is rather creepy, there's an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6JlLiOHy90 alternative version]] for a wrestling cross-promotion where a wrestling match is interrupted by footage of the kid playing the video game. Wrestling/MattHardy unenthusiastically says "He's got 72 hours to save the world" as Wrestling/{{Jeff|Hardy}} nods in agreement and we see a close-up of the gamer's sweaty face as a dramatic '''THUD''' plays in the background. It just makes the commercial look silly.
* Both of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlSBNtkFiTo these]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2zSHK1LgMQ adverts]] for Fiftylife life insurance, featuring what must be the most hilariously forced conversations about bereavement ever put on film. Special mention goes to the second one, in which there is absolutely ''no'' change of tone between the woman's cheerful "Mum loved coming here!" and the subsequent "Her death was such a shock."
-->'''[=AdTurds=]:''' Is there a right way to broach the cost of your own mother's funeral? Perhaps, but reserving the manner you'd normally adopt for feigning interest in someone boasting about their double glazing probably isn't the ideal tone to adopt.

* The old Marks and Spencer adverts of the early 2000s. AKA the "This is not just X, this is ''M&S'' X" era. Literally ''everyone'' in the UK was making fun of these. The gist was that you'd be shown a slow-motion pan over a fork or spoon cutting into some kind of food while a woman narrated exactly what kind of food it was. There'd usually be about 3 or 4 of these per ad and it would end with the slogan: "This is not just food. This is M&S food". Not bad in and of itself, but when you factor in the woman speaking in the kind of voice often reserved for more...adult scenarios, and some combination of the slow-mo, the close-ups and the descriptions of the food making it all seem less than appetising, it quickly became utterly ridiculous.
** For more M&S silliness, look no further than their infamous [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqwUOedIo0Y "I'm Normal"]] advert from 2000, in which a size-16 woman runs to the top of a hill while stripping off, where she loudly declares (while fully naked and with arms outstretched) that she is "'''NOOOORRRMMMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLL!'''". The intentions may have been admirable, but the scenario is absurd. While the ad has faded into obscurity, it came at a time when the company's fortunes were beginning to decline, and did no favours for their ailing public image.
* A Mexican ad for the Athletes' Foot cream Silka Medic became a minor meme for its ending, where it's narrator declares in a completely serious voice, "Nothing is faster than Silka Medic. Nothing. There aren't any. ''They don't exist!''" They slightly hammed up the last line in later ads.
* The famous American ''WesternAnimation/{{Muzzy|InGondoland}}'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD9i39GENWU commercial]] from [[TheNineties the 1990s]] is infamous for this. It starts with a young girl pointing to herself and proudly proclaiming ''"Je suis la jeune fille!"'' (''"I am the young girl!"''). Then it gets even funnier when the presenter--who's hanging around the girl's living room for no apparent reason--excitedly points out that ''"Yes, that's French they're speaking. And no, these children aren't French--they're American!"'' That last line has become something of a [[MemeticMutation meme]] among '90s kids, who regularly saw the ad playing on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} while growing up.

* [=4DX=] motion-seating theaters have [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLpIplowO44 this video]] before each screening. However, the last shot of all the onscreen audience miming holding a motorcycle's handlebars has gotten laughs out of real audiences for being so absurdly ''not'' what moviegoers would do.
* The Florida House Experience is a rehab center to help people fight off addiction. Addiction is a serious condition but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZO7zGZfnjc the commercial begs to differ]]. It starts with the mother pouring an alcoholic drink in the glass then it cuts to the scene with her daughter asking for cereal and her response is this: TAKE THE POP-TART AND GO TO YOUR ROOM! The unexpectedness and delivery of this scene altogether makes it hard to take it seriously from that point onwards. You think we would expect something way more serious.
* Admit it: while many CD compilations have some great hits, the fact that the commercials were played ad nauseam, you probably know the whole advertisement by heart. This is ''especially'' true if it aired in your childhood while watching Nickelodeon or Creator/CartoonNetwork. How many times has one seen (or was ''waken up by'') a commercial that came on at full blast singing ''[[https://youtu.be/wSnZi0YTmuo "And I can't fight this FEELING ANYMOOORRE..."]]'', ''[[https://youtu.be/N89qnlZM0i0 "Ooga-chaga, ooga-ooga, I-I-I, hooked on a feeling..."]]'' or possibly the best known example, ''[[https://youtu.be/JkxNLeKGr4M "Cause I'm your la-DAAAAYY, and you are my MAAAANNN..."?]]''

* A commercial shows a dad talking to his kid through a door, apologizing for missing her game. The kid's upset, but when the dad writes a long apology note on the advertised product, she forgives him. Clearly intended to be sweet...but the advertised product is Angel Soft ''[[https://www.ispot.tv/ad/omkS/angel-soft-so-sorry toilet paper.]]'' And he doesn't just use a bit of toilet paper; he uses an ''entire roll,'' writing "So..." on every square until he writes "Sorry" on the last square. It's such an amusingly ridiculous use of the product that [[{{Glurge}} you can't take the intended sweet message seriously at all]].

* [[https://www.ispot.tv/ad/tROy/colonial-penn-the-talk This spot]] for Colonial Penn life insurance should be pretty serious and realistic, with a couple talking about life insurance after a healthy elderly man they knew suddenly died. Unfortunately, the actors' delivery and the AsYouKnow dialogue makes it sound like a strange joke.
-->'''Wife''': I just got a text from my sister. You remember Rick, her neighbor?\\
'''Husband''': Sure, he's the 76 year old who still runs marathons?\\
'''Wife''': Sadly, not anymore!
* The trailer for Creator/ButchHartman's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPkRPy_gzFc OAXIS streaming service]] is supposed to sell a family-friendly streaming service by having a family get disgusted at inappropriate content in their television program. The family does this by acting horrified at a television airing the words "HORROR MOVIE COMMERCIAL" and "SEX SCENE" and "MURDER SCENE" and trying to cover the kids' eyes in an exaggerated panic. The lack of any actual threat in context makes it look like a joke, but Hartman is trying to make a genuine point about inappropriate television content. (Hartman's arrival in the trailer does bring deliberate humor, though.)

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr2gdPY-88w This glorious Ad.]] It confused everyone when it came out. It is an ad for a lawyer and has heavy metal, fire and a scene where he hits a tombstone with a sledge.
** And [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-JdG8aaUyc here's the follow-up]]: involving government class in high school, a scene where the lawyer ''literally interrogates injustice'', and a scene where an angel forges the sledgehammer in the previous video.
*** What makes these extra narmy is the guy's backstory- he was a criminal defense lawyer who got rich defending scumbags, but then his brother was murdered so he became a super lawyer. It sounds like the plot to an 80's movie.

* At one point, Edmonton-based radio station The Bounce aired ads which mashed together songs it plays. These were hilariously awful and mashed together Katy Perry's "E.T.," [=Ke$ha=]'s "We R Who We R," Lady Gaga's "Born this Way," Martin Solveig and Dragonette's "Hello", etc. None of the choices fit together, and it was simply hilarious.
* The [=WaxVac=] infomercials that advertise a vacuum that removes earwax from your ears. As soon as the scenes with the couple practicing ear candling and the guy yelling "'''OW!'''" [[TooIncompetentToOperateABlanket while barely poking a Q-tip into his ears]] come on, it's no longer possible to take the commercial seriously. (Though it's worse in that it dampens the seriousness of anything said by the experts that follow in the commercial. It's hard to take the words of a doctor seriously on the risks of using Q-tips when people are too distracted by the unintentionally humorous agony of a man from the result of a Q-tip. Unsurprisingly, the narm factor is made fun of by ''Series/TheSoup''.)

* Anna [[MeaningfulName Blue]], a CGI girl who sings a song called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tE31Wd7DF4 "So Alone"]] in a Jamster commercial. [[StockFootage The repeated mirror throwing]], mixed with the over-dramatic, stereotypical {{emo}} [[EmoTeen behavior]] makes the song hardly anything to take seriously. As if the emo appeal weren't cheesy enough, Jamster took the liberty of making a second song called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aun1lHyqwBg "Your Heart,"]] sung by a ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''-esque CGI vampire guy named Damien Dawn. Not only does it use the same StockFootage from "So Alone," but it also adds its own cheesy clips. Like Damien climbing up and singing on Anna's roof, and him jumping in the moonlight.
** Jamster commercials in general were driven by truckloads of narm. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtUEEJ200ZA This one]], which [[RepeatingAd will probably trigger flashbacks to those who watched TeenNick in the early 2010s]], implies that if you don't use their love calculator service, then you will be dumped and left at the altar by your boyfriend. The narm isn't helped by the overacting and how often this commercial was recycled (the names of the two leads would often change, i.e. "[[Music/MileyCyrus Miley]] and [[Music/JonasBrothers Nick]]", "[[Music/JustinBieber Justin]] and [[Music/SelenaGomez Selena]]").
* The 2010 TV ad for Creator/CirqueDuSoleil's winter production ''Wintuk'' has this narration:
-->This is the magic of ''Wintuk''. This is the thrill of ''Wintuk''. This is the season of ''Wintuk''! ... Don't miss the final season of this wonderful, winterful show that ''The New York Times'' calls "a family-oriented holiday extravaganza"!
* 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=o50_ZlMnjqY This]] ad for a CD called "Cheers to You". The very fact that such a product exists (each of the CD's tracks consist of words of encouragement towards the listener) is depressing enough (ironically), but the "HOORAY FOR YOU!" at the end of the commercial really push it off the edge.
** Parodied by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsKHueDfT8U this]] video.

* "I've fallen and I can't get up!" — originally supposed to be a shocking line in an ad for "Life Alert" ads depicting a helpless elderly woman who had fallen from her walker, it quickly descended into farce. There were even T-shirts once. Life Alert now has the phrase trademarked, and it appears at the bottom of some ads.
** From a later commercial:
---> [[PunctuatedForEmphasis All. Senior. Citizens. Should. Have. Life Alert.]]
** Then there's the scene where an elderly woman is lying on the floor and trying to reach a phone that's sitting on a desk a few feet away -- sort of. She doesn't try to move towards it; she just reaches for it as if she believes that she can make her arm stretch the rest of the way.
** AAAAND there's [[https://youtu.be/ZAQo0ja6IPM another one]], which tries to go for a dark and serious tone but ends up being somehow even narmier than the other examples; dark and moody music is heard while a camera pans through different rooms in the house and a woman can be heard yelping "HEEEELP!!! I've fallen... It hurts!!! Help me... HELP ME!" and the elderly woman can be seen at the foot of the stairs sobbing with a laundry basket dropped on her. There seems to be nobody home, making it even more hilarious. And shortly after such a dramatic scene, [[MoodWhiplash they cut to happy music and bright colors as if nothing happened]].
** Bonus narm points for the weird shift between blue and amber tints, and the fact that woman doesn't even try to look like she really took a fall; she's laying on her back in the ChalkOutline pose with her feet resting on the stairs.
** The commercial also comes with a trigger warning.
---> The following is based on reality. You may be offended.
** In another Life Alert commercial, a little girl happens to be home with her grandmother and actually hears the crash, and she asks: "Grandma, are you OK?" instead of calling 911. It's one of the few times in these commercials a person didn't actually need the product advertised.
** The newest commercial features an elderly woman taking a shower, but at some point she may have forgotten she wasn't in an anti-drug PSA and hears voices in her head, then falls and takes the curtain down with her (thankfully).
** An elderly woman falling down the stairs should theoretically not be a humorous sight, but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cTEcLtBfgM here we are]].

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K60jgjDD9_c A drink-driving ad called ''Moment of Doubt'']] showed a man walking up to a bar and the barman asks for his order...before embarking on what can only be described as a one-man show which details the man's life once he gets caught drunk-driving (he gets fired, loses his license and apparently somehow ends up with nothing). The barman takes on several characters including a policeman, the man's boss, a car salesman and finally the driver. Then everything goes back to normal and he looks straight at the camera, saying "What's it gonna be?" while the THINK! slogan comes up. The fact that it all happens so fast (the entire ad is 32 seconds long. There is a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNosr8CKWO0 slighty longer 50 seconds version]], but it's not much better) coupled with the threatening glare the barman gives at the end, not to mention the fact that there's no evidence shown for the driver being drunk when he approaches the bar, moves this firmly into narmy territory and makes it seem more like we've just witnessed a man suffering from split-personality disorder having a breakdown than a drink-driving ad. It's become something of a punchline among [=YouTube's=] community of [=PIF=] reviewers, with easportsbig899 calling it the worst [=PIF=] ever made, and making his hatred for it a RunningGag in his top 10 lists.

* One of the trailers for the 2001 remake of ''Film/Thir13enGhosts'' was also quite Narm-ish. It didn't give us any hints or things to look forward to about the movie; it just listed why it was rated R. Not to mention the things it was rated R for were [[SocietyMarchesOn pretty much standard fare by that point in film history]]. However, R-rated movies with violence, nudity, and [[Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome colorful metaphors]] already existed, [[OlderThanTheyThink despite what the trailer wanted people to believe]].

** In 2007 and 2008, there was a very odd anti-drug PSA from abovetheinfluence.org in which a girl dumped her pot-smoking boyfriend for an alien after it declined his joint. That was the message of the PSA: ''[[SpaceWhaleAesop If you smoke pot, an alien will steal your girlfriend]]''. That it was all drawn with magic marker probably didn't help. The most hilarious part was that the pot smoker sees an alien land, and what's the first thing he does is to [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight offer the alien a joint, of course]].