# adverts that turned out creepy
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adverts-that-turned-out-creepy/812730
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [April 19, 2018, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adverts-that-turned-out-creepy/812730 "2018-04-19T19:50:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Princess\_Perfume](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princess_Perfume)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2018, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adverts-that-turned-out-creepy/812730/1 "2018-04-19T19:50:15Z")
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.
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl2u24_d2w0)
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2018, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adverts-that-turned-out-creepy/812730/2 "2018-04-19T20:12:47Z")
“Santa, we’ve traced the call… it’s coming from inside the house!”
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### Author:  [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2018, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adverts-that-turned-out-creepy/812730/3 "2018-04-19T20:19:17Z")
There’s this [old commercial for Folger’s coffee](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5Ir6CzxKl4) that people seem to think has a brother-sister incest vibe to it.
[Here’s a fine parody of it.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhfcWTZeP1k)😃
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### Author:  [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2018, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adverts-that-turned-out-creepy/812730/4 "2018-04-20T02:30:17Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2018, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adverts-that-turned-out-creepy/812730/5 "2018-04-20T02:35:25Z")
> [@Baker](#):
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> 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.
Was the oven’s voice male or female?
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### Author:  [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2018, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adverts-that-turned-out-creepy/812730/6 "2018-04-20T02:39:00Z")
The Skittles-pox ad just creeps me out
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2018, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adverts-that-turned-out-creepy/812730/7 "2018-04-20T02:39:33Z")
Dr.Peppers lil’Sweet, kinda creeps me out.
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2018, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adverts-that-turned-out-creepy/812730/8 "2018-04-20T02:49:46Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#):
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> The Skittles-pox ad just creeps me out
Be thankful Skittles-pox isn’t a venereal disease.
“Taste The Rainbow”
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### Author:  [@betterlifethroughchemistry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betterlifethroughchemistry)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2018, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adverts-that-turned-out-creepy/812730/9 "2018-04-20T03:22:21Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#):
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> The Skittles-pox ad just creeps me out
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…
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### Author:  [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2018, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adverts-that-turned-out-creepy/812730/10 "2018-04-20T03:50:35Z")
This one for Halo Top ice cream: [Halo Top - Eat the Ice Cream - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4IFNKYmLa8)
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2018, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adverts-that-turned-out-creepy/812730/11 "2018-04-20T03:57:32Z")
> [@elfkin477](#):
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> This one for Halo Top ice cream: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4IFNKYmLa8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4IFNKYmLa8)
This goes a bit [beyond creepy.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUzHnFbRHLM)
Some of you might be a tad disturbed.
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2018, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adverts-that-turned-out-creepy/812730/12 "2018-04-20T06:26:22Z")
Oh the Skittles Pox one…especially when you see her pull it off, and it sticks!
How about the [Rejuvenique Electric Facial Mask](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXcYVh-W14E)?
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### Author:  [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2018, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adverts-that-turned-out-creepy/812730/13 "2018-04-20T06:38:10Z")
> [@Baker](#):
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> 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.
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.
> **[Tour de pants](https://www.bostonherald.com/2009/09/12/tour-de-pants/)**
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> Subway spokesman Jared Fogle displays his former 60-inch waist trousers to students at the Warren Prescott School in Charlestown yesterday in a talk about healthy eating.Fogle, whose Jared Foundati…
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### Author:  [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2018, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adverts-that-turned-out-creepy/812730/14 "2018-04-20T12:50:50Z")
We shouldn’t forgot Jim Parsons’ early commercial work for Quizno’s [Jim Parsons Both Quiznos Commercials "Raised By Wolves" Day Time "PG" and Night Time "R" Versions - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aCqf_oZneM)
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### Author:  [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2018, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adverts-that-turned-out-creepy/812730/15 "2018-04-20T13:57:01Z")
> [@elfkin477](#):
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> This one for Halo Top ice cream: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4IFNKYmLa8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4IFNKYmLa8)
W T F???
> [@running coach](#):
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> This goes a bit beyond creepy.
> Some of you might be a tad disturbed.
Double WTF for that horror.
[This commercial for Dove chocolate](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uQOVZw9XJU) 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.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2018, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adverts-that-turned-out-creepy/812730/16 "2018-04-20T14:16:49Z")
> [@Princess\_Perfume](#):
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> it’s creepy that a strange old man can talk to a child, of any gender, through their toy phone.
Come on. A kid talking to someone on a toy telephone isn’t exactly something out of _The Twilight Zone_
[Oh, wait…](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734587/)
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### Author:  [@Leo\_Krupe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Krupe)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2018, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adverts-that-turned-out-creepy/812730/17 "2018-04-20T14:20:48Z")
> [@running\_coach](#):
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> This goes a bit [beyond creepy.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUzHnFbRHLM)
> Some of you might be a tad disturbed.
Those SNL writers are really great at making parodies!
(It’s real?!)
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2018, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adverts-that-turned-out-creepy/812730/18 "2018-04-20T14:27:35Z")
I keep seeing [this Covergirl commercial](https://www.cosmopolitan.com/style-beauty/beauty/a18345479/covergirl-model-with-vitiligo-ad/). It’s not the vitiligo that bothers me, it’s the lipstick color.
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### Author:  [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2018, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adverts-that-turned-out-creepy/812730/19 "2018-04-20T14:58:47Z")
The talking wound in the New skin commercial creeps me out.
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### Author:  [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2018, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adverts-that-turned-out-creepy/812730/20 "2018-04-20T15:09:52Z")
> [@Princess\_Perfume](#):
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> it’s creepy that a strange old man can talk to a child, of any gender, through their toy phone.
How is that any creepier than “He sees you when you’re sleeping”?
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