History Woobie / Advertising

* The Advertising/TrixRabbit. You got to feel bad for a rabbit that has had to put with years of selfish kids who won't let him have his Trix because "Trix Are For Kids."

* [[http://youtu.be/LP5WB6OXv1g This little gem]] features an old, run-down anthropomorphic red bus who is constantly shunned by his [[UnfortunateImplications modern white cousins]], forced to sleep by a garbage container instead of a spot on the parking lot, written on ("DIRTBAG"), despised by adults and minors alike. He finally has enough of his bad luck and decides to commit suicide by hopping into a junkyard crusher. His change of heart just seconds before being crushed and a save by a butterfly make us feel all warm and fuzzy inside... [[spoiler:And then the crusher operator flips the switch again, killing him. The narrator tells us to "show no mercy to obsolete and decrepit vehicles", while we are shown a metallic red cube circled by the aforementioned butterfly. Just to drive the point home - or perhaps to [[KickTheDog ridicule the dead protagonist further]] - the arrow which was stuck in the rear of the bus through the whole video is still sticking out of the cube.]]

* The little salt shaker, and his friend the pepper shaker, from the Sidekicks ads. When they start crying, it's a big TearJerker

* PlayedForLaughs: The poor boy in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wen7rAnaKdc this]] Fruit Gushers commercial gets his big orange head wedged in his friend's locker and is abandoned by the said friend i.e. a girl he tried to impress. No one else walking by bothers to lend a hand despite his cries for help and it goes so far that in an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpMfIyVWbq8 alternate ending]], he's still stuck there after-hours when everyone but the custodian has left, and said man barely gives him a glance before passing by! Admittedly it was the kid's own fault for not thinking things through before sticking his head inside, with the girl notably rolling her eyes at him after the fact before walking away, but it was a dick move by her and it didn't warrant leaving him stuck in her own locker.
* The girl in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MW7EO06bUs this PSA,]] who is implied to be a runaway and is [[TearJerker crying and alone in a dark alley.]]

* PlayedForLaughs: The poor boy in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wen7rAnaKdc this]] Fruit Gushers commercial gets his big orange head wedged in his friend's locker and is abandoned by the said friend i.e. a girl he tried to impress. No one else walking by bothers to lend a hand despite his cries for help and it goes so far that in an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpMfIyVWbq8 alternate ending]], he's still stuck there after-hours when everyone but the custodian has left, and said man barely gives him a glance before passing by! Admittedly it was the kid's own fault for not thinking things through before sticking his head inside, with the girl notably rolling her eyes at him after the fact before walking away, but it was a dick move by her and it didn't warrant leaving him stuck in her own locker.

* PlayedForLaughs: The poor boy in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wen7rAnaKdc this]] Fruit Gushers commercial gets his big orange head wedged in his friend's locker and is abandoned by the said friend i.e. a girl he tried to impress. No one else walking by bothers to lend a hand despite his cries for help and it goes so far that in an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpMfIyVWbq8 alternate ending]], he's still stuck there after-hours when everyone but the custodian has left, and said man barely gives him a glance before walking away! Admittedly it was the kid's own fault for not thinking things through before sticking his head inside, with the girl notably rolling her eyes at him after the fact before walking away, but it was a dick move by her and it didn't warrant leaving him stuck in her own locker.

* The Eggo Waf-full commercials. These are the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHCK04ti_aM strawberry]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRJ6BicCetQ blueberry]] commercials. In both stories, the fillings are just minding their own business, living their lives (strawberry is just listening to music and blueberry is coming out of his house with his cat to feed his birds) and then a waffle attacks and [[EatenAlive both are swallowed whole]] in each story. Just to be clear, these fillings are just living their daily routines and appear as alive as any human and they're clearly horrified when the waffles attack. It's a miracle the apple-cinnamon commercial never happened.

* The Trix Rabbit. You got to feel bad for a rabbit that has had to put with years of selfish kids who won't let him have his Trix because "Trix Are For Kids."
** When a poll was taken to see if the Trix Rabbit should get the Trix, it was almost unanimously agreed that he should. Also, there's several commercials that seem to go out of their way to make the kids look like jerks (one having the Rabbit actually buy a box ''with his own money'' and the kids ''steal it from him'' because "Trix are for kids")

* The Geico commercial where the DrillSergeantNasty is a therapist. Can you blame his client for being tearful in the end?

* Mr. Whipple, who [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoHhzyh9kCg never stopped]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60YhksZUhaY trying]] to keep customers from squeezing the Charmin.

* Surprisingly played for laughs in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5urxHsv1Qc this]] Hey You Pikachu ad. You can't help but feel sorry for that poor dog who got fat, walks himself, and is starved for attention.

* The various rejected cleaning supplies in the Swiffer commercials.

* The numerous dogs, cats, and other animals in the various animal charity commercials (the achingly sad music doesn't help). It's a toss-up as to which one will make you cry the most, but the "I know that I am a good dog" line in the Pedigree commercial will never fail to choke you up.
** It seems like they keep on trying to make sadder and sadder commercials every-time they make one, especially the ASPCA. It hurts even more if you watch Series/AnimalPlanetHeroes.

* The kids in the Jell-O Temptations pudding commercials, who are jump-scared, terrified, abandoned, and forced in child slavery by their [[AbusiveParent parents]] for eating the pudding.