Take this Irish Telecom “Santa Claus” ad from 1995.
I think they were trying for “Daw, it’s adorable that the cutie pie calls Santa on her toy telephone!” but looked at in hindsight, it’s creepy that a strange old man can talk to a child, of any gender, through their toy phone.
I saw a Quizno’s sandwich shop ad in which the oven that toasts the sandwiches was talking to a guy with a sandwich. “C’mon, put it in me, you know you want to!” how they got away with that one I don’t know.
Yes, this one, this is the one I was going to mention. Really??? Picking colorful, candy zits off of each others’ faces and eating them?!? That’s not funny, that’s just wrong…
If you’re going to talk sandwiches, the worst by far is Subway’s ill-conceived and unfortunately named “Tour de Pants” campaign where they sent Jared Fogle around to promote healthy diets and Subway subs. It turned out he was using it as opportunity to find kids to molest.
This commercial for Dove chocolate always startles me a bit. The lady in her senior years is very pretty until the second scene when she bites into the chocolate. Then she reminds me of the scene with Jack Nicholson and the lady in room 217. I mean no disrespect to the actress or to demean seniors in general. Something about the way it’s filmed and I guess how her wrinkles suddenly show up when she smiles (?) reminds me of bad CGI.