I nominate the Quiznos advert from a few years ago with the guy suckling a wolf. The guy was creepy looking to begin with and the wolf thing was just odd.
How about the Dancing Zombie Corpse of Swifty Lazar on those Six Flags commercial? The last thing I’d want to do is let it lead me to its lair!
Ha! Good one! That would be “Mr. Six”, the name Six Flags gave poor undead Swifty. Looks as if they went a little overboard on the juice when they reanimated him.
Those hopped-up, overly enthusiastic people in the Ovaltine–excuse me, "Rich Chocolate Ovaltine"™–commercials are pretty durn creepy, if you ask me.
“Mr. Brain’s Pork Faggots.”
The world just seems a…colder, darker, frightening place now that I know these exist.
I haven’t seen the commercials lately, but the Yaffa lady used to creep me out. She sounded like the Yaffa blocks were orally servicing her during her pitch. “It hooks on the faucet, floating in midair!! GO, Yaffa! Ooooh, yes, do it to me faster!” Blech.
Not to mention the “Ovaltine Man.” Boy, does that guy give me the creeps–there’s no way I’d let my kids be around him. For some reason, he looks like your friendly neighborhood child molester to me.
YES YES YES YES YES!
I can’t watch them anymore - and the voice of the announer?? Shudder…
I’m surprised no one has mentioned the Swiffer(?) commercial with the "Flor’ restaurant. The idea was this woman started a new concept restaurant where everyone sat on the tiled floor and the food was served on the ‘Flor’.
Yeech
Yes, I so agree. I used to periodically go into Quiznos but since the kid went on the air, I have quit. The association is just too weird.
I don’t know if it is a nation-wide ad, but the one for some soft drink (I want to say Dr. Pepper) and the Six Flags amusement parks. It has some bald burn-victim looking guy doing some strange hyper kenetic simi-speed induced dance. I change channels when that one comes on too.
I hate the lemon bleach commercials where the woman inhales from a couple inches above the bottle. “Mmm it smells just like lemons.” Ah, no it doesn’t! You’d think she was inhaling chocolates through her nose. You spend a lot of time teaching kids and employees not to burn out their lungs sniffing chemicals, and they show that crap. I won’t list that particular brand, because all the cleaning products pull that stunt.
It might be a bit gross, I guess, but it doesn’t seem creepy at all, which is the point of this thread. I mean, if you find it creepy, that’s cool, but I can’t see it.
The baby originally started his career as the spokeman for the now-defunct FreeInternet.com, then gained his own CBS TV series. What a career for a talking baby.
I don’t know if it is a nation-wide ad, but the one for some soft drink (I want to say Dr. Pepper) and the Six Flags amusement parks. It has some bald burn-victim looking guy doing some strange hyper kenetic simi-speed induced dance. I change channels when that one comes on too.
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The soft drink is Coca-Cola. The Six Flags mascot, Mr. Six, has already been mentioned in this thread and compared to the reanimated corpse of Hollywood agent Irving “Swifty” Lazar.
Sorry…the paragraph which begins “I don’t know if it is a nation-wide ad…” is also a quote, and should also be attributed to TV time (appropriate username for this thread).
You’re right. It is more gross than creepy.
There’s a print ad for Viagra, where the user is depicted with devil’s horns drawn onto his picture.
Is “sex is evil” really the message they want to convey?
Regards,
Shodan
The King is evil incarnate if you ask me. He is my new number one hated mascot. That guy seriously freaks me out. A close second is the Jack in the Box dude. I can’t find a good picture (and I don’t want to), but it’s a tall lanky guy typically dressed in a suit, and he has a snowman/clown head (i.e. white globe), with a carrot nose (iirc), coal eyes, and painted on smile. I think he has a child’s birthday party conal shaped party hat on, too. Those commercials were weird, too.
I was going to nominate the Six Flags dancing guy. If you’ve never seen it, the dancer is a obviously young and wearing old man makeup. It was kind of funny at first, but now he’s just creepy. The HR department here has some kind of reduced-price ticket offer for Six Flags and now I see pictures of the guy EVERYWHERE.
Also, Quizno’s. Can we all agree that Quizno’s wins for the all time creepiest commercials ever? On top of all the other oddities they’ve run, they had another ad with these strange…oh heck I don’t even know how to describe them…puppets I guess, that sang in this high-pitched voice. IIRC, they ran them for only a short time because people were actually complaining about them.
I like Jack…
The Burger King beef lovers commercial a few months back. It showed a guy who was on a date, making sweet talk, camera pans out and it’s a cow he’s with. Another one has him in bed with the cow. The idea being I guess that you love beef so much that you want to fuck a cow before you slaughter it and eat it. I actually e-mailed Burger King asking them What The Fuck Were You Thinking??