I saw that commercial last night, and was amazed that something so macabre would be treated as “cute.” I’ll bet it doesn’t run for very long.
But then I also thought that profoundly creepy Burger King ad campaign wouldn’t be around for long.
Damn. Well if anyone does know, let me know.
The old Quizos ads with the weird mutant rodent thing.
The early Snuggles the Softener bear ads.
This thread reminds me of how I came across this uber-creepy Kinder egg commercial a couple of years ago on youtube. I’ve probably posted about it here before. I wonder if the American banning of Kinder eggs was just backlash from this commercial!
DrDeth, other folks apparently found Snuggles the Bear creepy, and this commercial (banned for awhile by the fabric softener folks) was the result.
Good God, Biggirl, that Michelin commercial is gross.
That Shiny Suds commercial is brilliantly creepy. The skeevy Megan’s List dad who can finally see his daughter again because she turned 18? Just plain fucked up.
And the Michelin one would have given me nightmares for a year when I was a kid.
Don’t really know what else to say.
My reaction: Wait—is that Veronica Mars’s dad? Is this something she needs to investigate?
:eek: That is disturbing.
I never knew Brits were so horrible to children.
(Yes, I know. But that’s the lesson my mind instinctively wanted to draw from that.)
That didn’t bother me much. I knew right away what the message was going to be.
All sorts of creep here though. I think the laughing doll in post #16 freaks me out the most.
I got the message, too…it’s not subtle, but…wow. The cigarette burn? Yikes.
I had to bring this thread back when I saw this ad campaign. I’m not sure it qualifies as ‘creepy’ more than it does surreal & bizarre. Why does anyone think this is a good idea?
It was the early and bad animation. Later Snuggles was just saccharine.
No, no…the Lipton ones are definitely creepy. Any scenario in which James Lipton is the least bit concerned about teens sexting is, by definition, creepy.
Taiwanese Snuggles is the cutest thing ever.
This. If I ever woke up to that, I would, as they say in the scary movies, wake up screaming. That is some creepy shit.
Eeeeeeeewww. Looks a lot like Chucky in drag.
Just saw the Michelin one. Oh, man…this is sick. I’m a sick puppy myself but wow.
You know, with these things, it’s not so much their mere existence, or even their content, that’s creepy to me; heck, people come up with weird shit: Vanilla coke, quantum mechanics, Japan, to name but a few.
No, it’s not that somebody came up with it that creeps me out – it’s that somebody else, or a group of somebodies, went ‘hey, yeah, that’s good, let’s run with this!’ That’s kind of where my core assumptions about the world around me just break down. I picture myself, in a darkened room, where some slightly dishevelled-looking marketing person has just concluded their presentation of an advert that features the Michelin Man slinging portions of his midsection at a car resulting in the resurrection of zombified roadkill, expecting a storm of disgust, outrage, and maybe a team of friendly, white-clad people to take the marketing person away, but instead, everybody else starts clapping, just as if this was a perfectly normal thing to happen. Like the world just worked that way. Like, maybe it’s me who got it wrong, and I just never noticed.
Just imagine the kind of thing that did get rejected for being too creepy.
[OT]I think a certain banned poster who I will not identify has a potential lawsuit.[/OT]