History Narm / Advertising

* 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.

* In [[TheEighties the 1980s]], video games were given some narmful adverts. For instance, every commercial for an UsefulNotes/{{Atari 2600}} video game, ever.

** The number of voice actors seems to be rather small, as its not uncommon to get an ad promotion a political party read by one voice actor, only for the next ad to be from a rival party voiced by ''the same actor, disparaging the same party they were just promoting''.

** A JumpScare road-safety ad was briefly shown in the late 90s/early 2000s, wherein a driver would arrive at a junction. He'd stop the car, look both ways, pause a little longer then slowly start to pull out...and a man on a motorbike suddenly crashes into the window. SmashCut to the biker on the ground (presumably dead) while a crowd of people stand around and give the driver of the car dirty looks. The message was for motorists to be aware of bikes on the road. A good enough message, certainly, but somewhat ruined by the fact that the driver of the car is clearly not the one at fault, having ''explicitly followed the proper procedure at a junction'', and the biker appeared to be some kind of [[Literature/HarryPotter apparating]] ninja biker who appeared out of nowhere just for the sole purpose of [[AesopCollateralDamage driving home]] the SafeDrivingAesop. It would have made more sense for the advert to be aimed at ''bikers''.

* There used to be a Canadian ad about getting tested for colon cancer. As serious as the topic was, it's hard to take it seriously when there are see-through bodies and one telling the other "Looks like you've got colon cancer." in a casual tone you would use when talking about the weather.
* American anti-drug [[PublicServiceAnnouncement PSAs]] seem almost always destined to be a magnet for narm.
** Worth special mention is an Above the Influence ad in which a girl's dog tells her to stop smoking marijuana. Left unsaid was that if your dog is talking to you, then you have bigger problems than marijuana, like the powerful hallucinogen you obviously took. The thing is, [[MarijuanaIsLSD Marijuana does not work that way.]] While it wasn't their intent, it was a non-anthropomorphic dog who does nothing in the body of the ad but disapprove of marijuana -- and all the dialogue is ''written on-screen,'' not spoken. The whole thing is surreal. ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' even made a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGkKeaggYVs parody of it]].

%%** One late 1980s-early 1990s ad had an [[TheAggressiveDrugDealer Aggressive Drug Dealer]] that turned into a [[ScaledUp snake man]]. [[{{Anvilicious}} Subtlety]], thy name is ''not'' anti-drug ads. See it or read about it in loving detail [[http://www.x-entertainment.com/halloween/2004/september27/ here]].

%%** And here's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC4KJ9Nd3EQ this PSA]] with some good ol' concrete diving.

** In 2019, South Dakota rolled out a new ad campaign that was meant to be a call to action against the state's increasingly severe epidemic of methamphetamine use. The tagline they chose? "Meth. We're on it." The internet promptly memed the entire campaign to death, while annoyed locals pointed out that it reinforced negative stereotypes about the state by making [[UnfortunateImplications it sound like everyone in South Dakota was hooked on speed]]. State officials argued that it at least got [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity people talking about the issue]], but the slogan has quietly receded into the background since its debut.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HuhV0Axg44 This]] video 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]].
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHi2dxSf9hw A PSA]] about the example parents set for their kids had this unfortunate effect. The video showed children copying their parents (almost) exact actions right alongside them: the {{Narm}} takes over when some of the examples include a young girl smoking, a young boy throwing rocks at the neighbor's dog, a five-year old flipping off a driver, and a little boy helping batter his mother. The tagline "Children See, Children Do" didn't help.

* Oxfam's (a UK aid charity) TV campaign, called "Be Humankind". Apparently, you can defeat poverty (depicted as a giant monster) with halitosis.

%% * London South Bank University has a poster campaign involving people with giant brains for heads.

%%* The Canadian "Home Front" domestic abuse [=PSAs.=] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GdTgjn_lsM "You stupid BITCH!"]] Or better yet, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZQLeeNo6Qw "She spilled my coffee!"]]
%%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-yGTrd4Z7I This old British PSA from the late 1970s]] that warned children not to play in electrical substations could either be considered hilariously Narmy or pure horror.

%%** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orl6vXPJAww "... a door... a table..." *klang* "... a FIST!"]]

* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbJH1NF0yKE "Think Before You Speak"]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrJrw5ZZfRU commercials.]] Sure, the intention is good (telling people to stop using the word "gay" as an insult) but the way they go about it is pretty funny. Having Music/HilaryDuff pop up out of nowhere and say "You shouldn't say that!" as if she's summoned by casual homophobia probably isn't the best way to go about it. Neither is the passive aggressive "Knock it off!" at the end.

-->"Hey cancer? ''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Not. My. Child.]]''"

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXV3kLmQ528 This]] memetic PSA encouraging people to stop sexual violence. It features two teen actors with monotone, slurred speech. After one boy says he didn't do anything when he saw a guy trying to get his girlfriend to do something she didn't want to do, his friend says "Whoa, what?" and freezes his friend in place. The other boy then delivers his message to the camera and ''walks away with his friend still frozen''.

* [[https://youtu.be/ORjgH3lii3o?si=aR5B5NOR0h5nD-vH This local PSA]] about talking to your kids about underage drinking has a mother warn her child about teens drinking at a party, saying that they're also "doing other things they shouldn't be." It then cuts to... scenes of the teens just hanging around and talking with their drinks in hand, with one fairly chaste kiss between two of them. Then it cuts back to the mother about to tell her daughter "why what they're doing is dangerous." While the message is well-intended, the editing implies we should warn our children about the dangers of age-appropriate socialization and kissing. It also makes the mother look ridiculous by either showing her as so paranoid she doesn't want teens to kiss at parties, or serves as a GilliganCut to imply drinking isn't really that bad.

%%* On the subject of New Zealanders. Drop the lines [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_Ii_IlmrFk "Ït's the same day David" and "Don't say sorry to me, say sorry to his kids"]] into casual conversation with one of them. Odds are they won't put on a grim face and talk about the evils of driving too fast.

* [[https://youtu.be/ORjgH3lii3o?si=aR5B5NOR0h5nD-vH This local PSA]] about talking to your kids about underage drinking has a mother warn her child about teens drinking at a party, saying that they're also "doing things they shouldn't be." It then cuts to... scenes of the teens just hanging around and talking with their drinks in hand, with one fairly chaste kiss between two of them. While the message is well-intended, the editing implies we should warn our children about the dangers of age-appropriate socializion and kissing. It also makes the mother look ridiculous by either showing her as so paranoid she doesn't want teens to kiss at parties, or serves as a GilliganCut to imply drinking isn't really that bad.

* [[http://youtu.be/CPwtPaMa0vc This]] UK ad from safety on the move is a healthy mix of horror. A young woman crosses the road when she is mowed down by a speeding driver. She lands heavily on the tarmac, blood streaming out of her nose, and her ghost bends down over her own corpse, declaring "You've killed me!" This is where it gets into the narm territory, because she is generally trying to communicate with the driver despite knowing she is dead, even though he obviously can't hear her.

** One late 1980s-early 1990s ad had an [[TheAggressiveDrugDealer Aggressive Drug Dealer]] that turned into a [[ScaledUp snake man]]. [[{{Anvilicious}} Subtlety]], thy name is ''not'' anti-drug ads. See it or read about it in loving detail [[http://www.x-entertainment.com/halloween/2004/september27/ here]].

** In one infamous anti-drug PSA, a solemn tone is set as we go into a darkened room with a shadowed figure sitting in the center. The lights come up and reveal... Pee-wee Herman. Not Paul Reubens, '''''Pee-wee Herman.''''' Who proceeds to pull out a vial of crack and solemnly tell us about the dangers of crack. ''In the Pee-Wee Herman voice, but with a dead serious tone.'' Words cannot describe how incredibly surreal this is, so [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agT2GVNQjao we'll let the ad speak for itself]].

** And here's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC4KJ9Nd3EQ this PSA]] with some good ol' concrete diving.

** This gem:
---> [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-Elr5K2Vuo "I LEARNED IT FROM WATCHING YOU!!"]]
*** ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' had a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv4Uh6r1i2g funny parody]] of this ad.
*** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOkkTnRRMkI Also]] ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken''.

** [[https://youtu.be/URIrrAE5m28 "I looked down at my hot dog and there was a face on it."]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADThs4WUsWY "He looked me right in the EYE 'n said 'NAWWW mama, I ain't doin' no drugs'!"]]
** [[https://youtu.be/K0_P88LUX3E "Walter do drugs, and you ain't gonna do it wit' 'im."]]

** Another one of their ads shows analysis of handwriting with one of the loops apparently meaning that "you care deeply about the world and want to help". Even without knowing about the questionable nature of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphology analyzing handwriting]] to determine personality, [[TranslationYes it seems like a lot]] of information packed into one little part of what is written.

* The anti-piracy ad Advertising/DontCopyThatFloppy (see [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up863eQKGUI here]]). I mean, you'd be just as reasonably confused as the kids in the ad if [[AWildRapperAppears a wild rapper suddenly appearing for no reason, would you?]]

* On the subject of New Zealanders. Drop the lines [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_Ii_IlmrFk "Ït's the same day David" and "Don't say sorry to me, say sorry to his kids"]] into casual conversation with one of them. Odds are they won't put on a grim face and talk about the evils of driving too fast.
** Alternatively, you can try: "Eat your peas, Molly! You ungrateful little bitch!"

* War Amps, the Canadian amputee organization, had the infamous [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GN9dANKe_Y PLAYSAFE]] commercials staring [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASTAR ASTAR]], a robot from Planet Danger (the planet with NoOSHACompliance). The "I can put my arm back on--you can't" line was repeatedly parodied in Canadian pop culture.
** There's also a [[https://youtu.be/45W7YmQNX-o?t=1m9s updated version made in 2000, ]] which takes the first one and renders it in absolutely ''terrible'' CGI, along with rendering ASTAR's voice like he had developmental disabilities.

** 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!"

** [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Alwehs yooz CAHN-DAHMS. Alwehs.]]

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIlUaKIB07E&nohtml5=False This ad]] does something similar: "He promised better. ''(long pause, with the sound of a ticking clock in the background)'' HE LIED."

** The "Testing... 1... 2... 3" part was hilarious too.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orl6vXPJAww "... a door... a table..." *klang* "... a FIST!"]]

* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbJH1NF0yKE "Think Before You Speak"]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrJrw5ZZfRU commercials.]] Sure, the intention is good (telling people to stop using the word "gay" as an insult) but the way they go about it is pretty funny. Having Music/HilaryDuff pop up and say "You shouldn't say that!" probably isn't the best way to go about it. Neither is the passive aggressive "Knock it off!" at the end.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w4Xh6sho2o An anti-smoking PSA]] that states that "cigarettes are bullies". The statement itself is pretty ridiculous because you know cigarettes aren't animate. But the PSA doesn't stop there. It features a itty bitty schlubby looking man that is meant to be an anthropomorphization of a cigarette that seems to have 10 times his own strength. The PSA ends with a narration spoken in a deathly serious voice that doesn't seem to fit because the ridiculousness of the whole commercial. One can't help but feel like the people who came up with this ad thought that it was clever but it's all really silly.

* The Canadian "Home Front" domestic abuse [=PSAs.=] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GdTgjn_lsM "You stupid BITCH!"]] Or better yet, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZQLeeNo6Qw "She spilled my coffee!"]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-yGTrd4Z7I This old British PSA from the late 1970s]] that warned children not to play in electrical substations could either be considered hilariously Narmy or pure horror.

*** [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Da Sturhm. Eez. Kahmming.]]

*** 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.

* It's almost common knowledge that ''WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}'' is a highly dark movie once one looks past the cuteness. Well, it seems the Disney Company is aware of this, and goes out of its way to downplay the subject of death. Whenever the movie is promoted, either for theatrical re-releases or on home video, the trailer will go out of its way to make it seem like a safe, fun and cute romp with cuddly animals. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bo8tJkrZWQ This particular trailer]] takes the cake, with a peppy remix of the ice skating leitmotif and unfitting cartoon sound effects. Anyone who knows what actually happens in the story will find it laughable as well as misleading.

* It's almost common knowledge that ''WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}' is a highly dark movie once one looks past the cuteness. Well, it seems the Disney Company is aware of this, and goes out of its way to downplay the subject of death. Whenever the movie is promoted, either for theatrical re-releases or on home video, the trailer will go out of its way to make it seem like a safe, fun and cute romp with cuddly animals. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bo8tJkrZWQ This particular trailer]] takes the cake, with a peppy remix of the ice skating leitmotif and unfitting cartoon sound effects. Anyone who knows what actually happens in the story will find it laughable as well as misleading.

* [[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 mention goes 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.

* [[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 mention goes to the subtitles for the nearly-unintelligible Moluccan Cockatoo's ClusterFBomb and the parrot with a thick New Zealand accent threatening to kick someone's ass.

* [[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.

** 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 even more ridiculous.
** Special mention goes to the subtitles for the nearly-unintelligible Moluccan Cockatoo:
--->'''Moluccan Cockatoo:''' [[ClusterFBomb F*#king, f*#king, f*#k, f*#king, f*#k, f*#k!]]
*** ''(In a thick, New Zealand accent:)'' '''"I'll kick your ass!"'''

* 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!"

** Worth special mention is an Above the Influence ad in which a girl's dog tells her to stop smoking marijuana. Left unsaid was that if your dog is talking to you, then you have bigger problems than marijuana, like the powerful hallucinogen you obviously took. The thing is, [[MarijuanaIsLSD Marijuana does not work that way.]] While it wasn't their intent, it was a non-anthropomorphic dog who does nothing in the body of the ad but disapprove of marijuana -- and all the dialogue is ''written on-screen,'' not spoken. The whole thing is surreal.
** The ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGkKeaggYVs parody]].
** Made worse when a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgJdVEoVbgg live action version]] of this ad began airing. At the very least, though, it's not as surreal as its animated counterpart. But...still. Also see the Website/CollegeHumor [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_t8DvM2kX8 parody]]

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKCYDrur_WI The guys smoking pot and circling through a drive-thru at a restaurant four times while a girl on a bicycle rides by]]; at the end, the producers pull a BolivianArmyEnding and imply she got hit. Memorably parodied on ''Series/ChappellesShow'':

*** This was part of a larger campaign. Another ad culminated with one of two high kids accidentally shooting the other with his dad's loaded gun. Unfortunately, ''Disrespectful'' and ''[=TV=] Guide'' pointed out that maybe the ''real'' problem here was that an easily accessible loaded gun was in the house.
*** This ad was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0YtPi2QZSY parodied]] in ''Film/HaroldAndKumarGoToWhiteCastle''.
** In one infamous anti-drug PSA, a solemn tone is set as we go into a darkened room with a shadowed figure sitting in the center. The lights come up and reveal... [[spoiler:Pee-wee Herman.]] Not [[spoiler:Paul Reubens, '''''Pee-wee Herman.''''']] Who proceeds to pull out a vial of crack and solemnly tell us about the dangers of crack. ''[[spoiler:In the Pee-Wee Herman voice, but with a dead serious tone.]]'' Words cannot describe how incredibly surreal this is, so [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agT2GVNQjao we'll let the ad speak for itself]].
-->''[[spoiler:"Deeyus... eeyus kreck."]]''

*** His voice also cracks as he says this, adding to the narm.

*** Words cannot begin to describe the Narm dripping from every bit of this PSA.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAx1_CsJc1k "Now let's see if I can still make a straight line!"]] This ad is an exercise in attempted scare tactics.
*** Adding to the narm is the "whatever, as long as I get paid" expressions worn by the rest of the OR staff as well as the narrator, whose attempts to sound threatening can come off as a bit silly if you recognize him as the friendly sounding announcer for the Wendy's fast food chain in the 90s.
*** Also, it seems the actor playing the surgeon [[HamAndCheese is fully aware of the kind of ad he's in]].

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6oDJQ-2CVE "I let people draw on me!"]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkuRhZa3qZ0 This]] Anti-drug commercial, featuring what seems to be a human, female version of HumptyDumpty.
%% * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU9C4ENHEFo This]] Montana Advertising/MethProject video. In spades.

%% * 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.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijbovskICjk Boys Beware]], a horrible 1950s short film that equates gay people with pedophiles. "What Jimmy didn't know was that Ralph was sick. You see... RALPH WAS A HOMOSEXUAL." Delivered ''in a completely serious tone'', while [[SoundtrackDissonance inappropriately cheery music plays on the soundtrack]].

* [[http://www.chick.com/catalog/books/vampire.asp This book ad]] from [[ComicBook/ChickTracts Jack Chick]]'s homepage. Forget being ex-gay; this guy's an ex-Cthulhu-worshipping ex-vampire.
--> "I needed blood! While other sinful men craved women’s bodies, I was only interested in their necks or femoral arteries"

* [[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!]]''"

** 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!''"

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

** A similar rap (perhaps the same one) plays on a loop in an exhibit at the Boston Prudential Center, and includes the line "Have you ever been a patient in a mental institution?/ Do you swear to defend the US Constitution?"

* An anti-smoking PSA that states that "cigarettes are bullies". The statement itself is pretty ridiculous because you know cigarettes aren't animate. But the PSA doesn't stop there. It features a itty bitty schlubby looking man that is meant to be an anthropomorphization of a cigarette that seems to have 10 times his own strength. The PSA ends with a narration spoken in a deathly serious voice that doesn't seem to fit because the ridiculousness of the whole commercial. One can't help but feel like the people who came up with this ad thought that it was clever but it's all really silly.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDrQlHx7GK4 This]] gun control ad from the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. It tries to be a take on the classic story of Literature/AliceInWonderland. That is until Alice finds a gun locked on a high shelf and proceeds to shoot herself in the head as the white rabbit looks on in horror, all while creepy music plays also making the ad pure NightmareFuel. The ad concludes with the narration "Over one-third of all American households have a gun. Ask your neighbor: Is there a gun where they play? Asking saves kids." Apparently they think that no parent in America that owns a gun teaches their child about gun safety and that children shooting and killing each other is commonplace.

* A UK ad about reporting suspicious images online features a teenage boy searching for porn on his laptop, while a ''cheerful talking sock'' watches with him. And no, that's not an unfortunate coincidence -- it's [[{{Squick}} strongly implied]] that the boy has indeed used that sock in his moments of [[ADateWithRosiePalms adolescent relaxation]].