Line #5 MindScrew/Advertising


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4	For a general list of bizarre ads, not all of which fall under this trope, see DadaAd. For ads that are confusing on account of failing to properly say what they were advertising, see WhatWereTheySellingAgain
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6	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Kwg4esaWbs This]] commercial for Charmin Ultra Soft toilet paper. We have a blue cartoon bear giving a Music/BarryWhite-esque serenade to his girl bear. He then reaches over... and grabs some toilet paper. He proceeds to rub it all over him. Insert spiel about how awesome the toilet paper is. He then passes the toilet paper to the girl bear, who then proceeds to rub it all over him while they look at each other amorously. It's safe to assume that furry toilet paper fetish foreplay ensued.
7	* Old Spice. "Advertising/TheManYourManCouldSmellLike" series is bizarre, but still clear in the presentation of its thesis. "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAAsamEoWmk The Heart of a Champion]]," however, is sheer insanity.
8	** Terry Crews' Odor Blocker ads have it both ways. Why they zoom in to show him chilling out in his own armpit makes sense, but it's hard to explain what the hell [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCl5uyn5K7k the talking tiger is doing]].
9	*** Naturally, these ads were done by Creator/{{Tim and Eric}}.
10	%% * The "Find Your Frappuccino" commercials from Starbucks.
11	* "[[https://vimeo.com/23043835 Suzi Van Zoom]]" from [=McDonald's=] involves a girl riding a bicycle to the titular restaurant... and that's all you get, she rides through a bunch of surreal jungle landscapes picking up animals on her way to [=McDonald's=] while it's filmed in surreal claymation and moving so fast your brain will explode trying to figure out what the heck is going on!
12	** The screwiest thing about this commercial is that all of that happens in a span of ''less than 10 seconds''. Before you can even register the first few seconds, the commercial's over already.
13	%% ** And then there's [[http://www.retrojunk.com/content/commercial/35777/index/ this one]], which aired in Japan.
14	%% * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydVbrRhxnF8 This]] Sprite ad. Apparently they're trying to do subliminal messaging...?
15	* Creator/DavidLynch has expanded his surreal directorial skills to encompass TV ads. Among the strangest are [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vor65mNB8Uk this cigarette ad]] (was apparently filmed backwards, involves two guys in [[TheFifties Fifties]] attire using magic powers on a pile of fish), [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mABW_91c_Xk this teaser]] for Music/MichaelJackson's "Dangerous" (some red desert landscape and a fiery geyser feature in it), and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msMehuZo3x8 this ad]] for the Platform/PlayStation2 (guy walks down a hall with a lot of weird and creepy stuff happening).
16	%% * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIXhKZU7-bo&feature=player_embedded This]] acid-trip-like advert for a Russian clothing store (somewhat NSFW).
17	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXWj5BK7evM&ab_channel=RCColaPhilippines This]] Filipino RC Cola commercial shows a boy revealed to have drinking glasses on his back, while her mother is revealed to ''have a bottle of RC Cola as a hidden head''. What's more insane is that it is presented at first as a tear-jerking ad about the boy asking his mother about his real parentage.
18	** RC Cola Philippines [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQlA9YJUro0&ab_channel=RCColaPhilippines does this again]]: a woman goes home after a birthday party of the son of her friend named Nenet, and when her husband asked the food she brought, she [[{{Hammerspace}} churns out]] [[BagOfHolding from her small bag]] some meals, ''a wok of cooked stir-fried noodles'', ''a pot of cooked rice'', ''a full-size roasted pig'', ''the confused son of the woman's friend Nenet'', ''a clown'', ''a singer impersonating legendary Filipino ballad singer Sharon Cuneta'', and [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg a bottle of RC Cola]]. The family then continued their party, and on the stinger, ''Nenet went out from the bag herself'', asking the people on the table if they have seen her son Jun-Jun.

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