# Creepy commercials **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 25, 2005, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-commercials/309817 "2005-06-25T18:17:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2005, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-commercials/309817/21 "2005-06-25T22:15:33Z")
> [@wolf\_meister](#): > > The song by the way was “I’m Coming Out” which I guess was used to acknowledge the fact that women were displaying their navels more frequently. (A fashion statement with which I am in total agreement). I was aware they were suppost to be singing, but somehow, it never looked like it to me. Also, I always thought the commercial was meant to show solidarity between Levi’s, and young lesbians. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Archergal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2005, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-commercials/309817/22 "2005-06-25T22:34:14Z")
> [@wolf\_meister](#): > > And for distasteful, I believe **Levi’s** scores again with their ads from a few years ago that featured singing female navels (moving lips and everything) ewwwwwwwwww !!! The song by the way was “I’m Coming Out” which I guess was used to acknowledge the fact that women were displaying their navels more frequently. (A fashion statement with which I am in total agreement). > Hey I like … no … I LOVE female navels. I think they are quite the attention-getter _as is_. No need to show them singing. OMG, the singing navels!!! I had totally forgotten (read: wiped from my mind) this commercial. Thanks for the nightmares, wolf\_meister. Jeezopete. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2005, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-commercials/309817/23 "2005-06-25T22:37:08Z")
> [@Lisa-go-Blind](#): > > I think the reason why I find him so creepy is because his lips move, _but his jaw doesn’t_. It’s unnatural and jarring. And having the creepy voice of Joel Murray coming out of those lips makes it even worse… ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2005, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-commercials/309817/24 "2005-06-25T22:38:12Z")
No one’s mentioned the Ball Park Frank “mmm…girthy” spot yet? That seriously wiggensed some folks when it was on. [quote(It had the words “I put a spell on you”; unfortunately, I don’t know what it’s called or who performed it.)[/quote] “I Put a Spell on You” by Screamin’ Jay Hawkins? ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2005, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-commercials/309817/25 "2005-06-25T23:08:45Z")
Thank you for starting this thread, because now I can mention: 1. How weirded out I am by the TV adverts for some variant of Gatorade that show a runner and various football (both soccer and gridiron) players shattering into a million pieces of what looks like coal. I guess this is supposed to symbolize the dire effects of excessive dehydration, but for some reason I can’t bear to look at it. 1. These radio commercials they play in Houston that consist mainly of the sound of someone grinding their teeth, amplified to 11. Gaah. Someone please make them stop. ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2005, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-commercials/309817/26 "2005-06-25T23:14:23Z")
> [@Archergal](#): > > OMG, the singing navels!!! I had totally forgotten (read: wiped from my mind) this commercial. ::Stewie, of the show "Family Guy:: Yes, your pain sustains me. ::Stewie, of the show "Family Guy:: Also, do you know you can now do the following: > [@me](#): > > I had totally [del]wiped from my mind[/del] forgotten this commercial. ---
**Author:** ![Archergal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2005, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-commercials/309817/27 "2005-06-25T23:21:45Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Thank you for starting this thread, because now I can mention: > > 1. How weirded out I am by the TV adverts for some variant of Gatorade that show a runner and various football (both soccer and gridiron) players shattering into a million pieces of what looks like coal. You know, those Gatorade commercials that show folks sweating in color (sweating Gatorade??) kinda weird me out too. ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2005, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-commercials/309817/28 "2005-06-25T23:34:32Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > I started a pit thread about how the tampon commercial where there’s a leak in the bout and the girl sticks a tampon in it, string up. Skeevy. Also, there was one for I-don’t-know-what where somebody takes a big swig of spoiled milk. Urk. OMG GOD. The milk one is for Sears appliances. Holy crap. I actually got really sick on milk as a kid and have a compulsion to smell ANY AND ALL milk like substances before I’ll come near them (and even then I don’t like them). When I saw that ad, I almost puked on the spot. And all of y’all ragging on toenail guy- Digger the dermatophyte rules. I love how he’s actually moved in under the nail- he has a mailbox and all! What sort of mail do you suppose he gets, anyway? Probably hate mail from people who just don’t understand him. Poor Digger. ---
**Author:** ![ltfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@ltfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ltfire)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2005, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-commercials/309817/29 "2005-06-25T23:48:44Z")
The singing navels reminded me of a beer filled night, when my neighbor, glued to the screen when it came on, made the comment that he was waiting for the ‘baritone’ down below, to join in for a duet. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2005, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-commercials/309817/30 "2005-06-26T01:44:43Z")
Forgive me for reviving painful video memories, but I feel comforted to know I was _not_ the only one weirded out by those singing navels. “Congratulations” Levi’s. You have achieved the dubious distinction of making a female’s navel unappealing. Thanks a bunch … jerks !!! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2005, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-commercials/309817/31 "2005-06-26T02:32:02Z")
> [@badbadrubberpiggy](#): > > This is exactly what I thought of when I read the thread title, before I even read the OP. ANY commercial featuring a talking baby freaks me out. It’s not cute, and it’s not even a new advertising idea - it got played out around the time Look Who’s Talking came out (maybe before, but that’s as far back as my memory of talking babies goes). I don’t so much mind the ones where it’s the baby’s thoughts, or at least they use a kid’s voice, but to make a baby sound like an adult is not cute. At all. In fact, it’s creepy. In **I Hated, Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie** Roger Ebert says something similar. Babies acting like babies= cute. Babies acting/talking/etc. like adults= creepy. I think it was his review for Baby Geniuses. Bob creeps me out too. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2005, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-commercials/309817/32 "2005-06-26T04:20:21Z")
_“You Bet Your Sweet Aspercreme”_ is just wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2005, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-commercials/309817/33 "2005-06-26T04:20:34Z")
There was one for Dairy Queen with some shrimp puppets. The dialogue went something like… Male shrimp: Mmm, check out this new popcorn from Dairy Queen. Female shrimp: (eats) Mmmm…hey this isn’t popcorn. It’s popcorn shrimp. Pause. Female shrimp: Oh my god, where are the kids?! Both shrimp: Aaaaaahhhhhh! Cannibalism is not funny, Dairy Queen. ---
**Author:** ![MissGypsy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8491ac/32.png) [@MissGypsy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissGypsy)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2005, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-commercials/309817/34 "2005-06-26T04:38:36Z")
That Quizno baby freaks me out, too. Mostly because my sister-in-law told me that my baby looks like him. I looked. He DOES NOT. (Ok, fat baby, spiky blond hair, but that’s about a quarter of the babies in the U.S., right?) Anyway, now everyone on that side of the family thinks my baby looks like the Quizno baby. (And he really doesn’t. He just looks like himself. Ok, maybe he bears a resemblance to former U.S. president Dwight Eisenhower, but the Quizno kid? Nope.) ---
**Author:** ![Lama\_Pacos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Lama\_Pacos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lama_Pacos)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2005, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-commercials/309817/35 "2005-06-26T04:47:22Z")
> [@](#): > > 1. How weirded out I am by the TV adverts for some variant of Gatorade that show a runner and various football (both soccer and gridiron) players shattering into a million pieces of what looks like coal. _shudder_ Good God, that ad shoots right past ‘creepy commercial’ and into the realm of ‘deeply disturbing image’. It looks like it should be an allegory for cancer or genocide, not Gatorade. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_of\_the\_Felines](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/b5e925/32.png) [@Queen\_of\_the\_Felines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_of_the_Felines)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2005, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-commercials/309817/36 "2005-06-26T04:58:06Z")
Want to know something REALLY disturbing? Baby Bob is a girl. That was your useless trivia for the day. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2005, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-commercials/309817/37 "2005-06-26T05:06:42Z")
You people are such crybabies. That said, there was this one ad for some kind of home videogame add-on that used a camera so you could see yourself on the television, and when you waved your arms at various targets, you would get points. The game-player evidently lives among a extended family of Appalacian hick rejects, because they’re all amazingly impressed and proud that “Jim’s on the tee-vee!” ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2005, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-commercials/309817/38 "2005-06-26T05:45:48Z")
I don’t know if it’s for a particular quit-smoking product, or just a generic anti-tobacco ad, but this one seems psychotic: A woman is sleeping on one side of a king-sized bed – evidently having a nightmare. On the pillow beside her, on the vacant side of the bed, (seeming like a stand in for a sleeping husband or lover) rests a cigarette. She wakes up, looks over at the cigarette on the pillow, and suddenly grabs a shoe from beside the bed ( 😕 ) which she uses to violently smash the cigarette to pieces, scattering loose tobacco around like tiny, cured and shredded brains. Then she falls back on her pillow with a look of satisfaction on her face. WTF? ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2005, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-commercials/309817/39 "2005-06-26T05:53:10Z")
> [@](#): > > You people are such crybabies. Why do you always say such mean things? _runs off, weeping_ ---
**Author:** ![inkleberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f17d59/32.png) [@inkleberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inkleberry)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2005, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-commercials/309817/40 "2005-06-26T07:10:48Z")
I cannot even hear the words “Digger the Demataphyte” without shuddering. God, my toenails are feeling squinchy just writing it. I’m also creeped out by the Burger King guy in the mask. A lot of the Carl’s Junior ads are really squicky too- messy eating and the grotesque mucnhy/saliva noises. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-commercials/309817.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-commercials/309817.md?page=3)