Those Enzyte (for male enhancement!) commercials are icky. All that damned smiling. Plus it forces me to think about Bob and Bob Jr. and that’s just not something I want to do.
Are you kidding? Cannibalism is hilarious! Except for those lime cola commercials that feature limes drinking the lime cola and commenting on the cannibalistic nature of the act. Totally not funny, not to mention the doubtfulness that any limes died in the making of that soda.
Wasn’t that Duracell?
One commercial that freaks me out is for a Sharpie marker. It’s designed like a retractable ink pen; the gist of the commercial is that you no longer have to have both hands free to open a Sharpie. They illustrate this using a mother and a toddler; every time she tries to set the toddler down on the floor he starts wailing, but as long as she holds him he’s happy. The one shot they use of the kid crying makes him look like the spawn of Satan – his face is so horribly twisted and contorted, I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that some CGI was involved. Human faces just can’t do that.
Anyone else remember the one where the sweaty basketball player starts undressing on the court, wringing out each piece of drenched clothing (including his socks) into a glass, and then puts the glass to his mouth to drink the sweat??? I think the line went something like “There’s a better way to replace what your body loses through excercise”. It was for one of those -ade drinks, but I swear it put me off all liquids (and solids, for that matter) everytime I saw it. Yeesh!!
I’ve never seen this commercial, but that’s hilarious!
Digger the Dermatophyte needs to die, and I really, really want to kick Enzyte Bob in the crotch. Bet he’d stop smiling then! The King is too creepy for words–I’m going to have nightmares about that thing. I hate the Gatorade commercials, too–the colored sweat is just nasty, and I hate the one with people smashing into little bits.
My vote for the creepiest commercial of all time is the Quizno’s ad with the guy who was raised by wolves–he flashes back to his wolf family, and he’s nursing from the mama wolf. Truly bizarre. They didn’t show that one very much.
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Yes I’m worng - you are correct - it was DURACELL
I imagine the commercial was so traumatic, I couldn’t (or never cared to) remember which battery company it was.
It is hard to find any information and/or photos of those creepy commercials.
They were supposeddly called the Putterman Family and were actually portrayed by real people in very thick, heavy latex disguises.
I decided to link to one photo. (although thankfully, I couldn’t find many)
This link is work safe but scores close to a perect ten on the Creep-O-Meter™ - well, we warned you:
http://www.podster.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/fotos/tv_zed.jpg
Just remembered this TV show from 2002.
Baby Bob had a sitcom.
Too bad you never saw the followup commercial…where the woman wakes up again to find her husband beaten to death with a shoe.
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Not a television commercial, but there’s a series of billboard adds in the LA area by Toyota dealers with the tagline “Real Deals for Real People”, showing pictures of what are presumably the Real People to whom they are offering Real Deals. Most of them look okay (although they all have the “deer in the headlights” look about them) but there’s one that really creeps me out; it’s this kid with spiky hair and no neck, grinning like he just got a cocaine enema. Actually, I believe it’s just a mask for some alien being who is part of the scout mission for a massive invasion. But then, I have a pretty active imagination.
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The little girl shouting “I’ve got a Splenda Daddy!” sort of creeps me out.
And I suppose I’m the only person who finds the Burger King commericals with the Burger King completely hilarious.
Bob was originally the mascot for the now defunct online service FreeInternet.com (His catchphrase was “have a wonderful day”), then starred in a CBS sitcom before becoming Quiznos’s spokesperson. Pretty big career for a talking baby.
There’s a battery commercial where a little girl sings the words, “coming home.” I think it’s “coming home” because she cannot be saying what it sounds like she’s saying.
“Glory hole! Glory hole!”
And she looks like such a sweet child too.
Biggirl, the lyric is “Going home.” From the New World Symphony by Dvorak.
Not that anybody asked me but the commercials for that sugarless gum where an annoying washed out blonde dressed in a Carnaby Street vintage outfit watches people get covered in filth and then gets them to smile. She then smiles and says “Fabulous.”
I don’t think dirt and gum chewing go all that well together and everything about that woman, especially her voice and pommy accent, sets my teeth on edge. She is the human equivalent of fingernails on a blackboard for me. :dubious:
What DQ did wasn’t really that original. A few years back, there was an m&ms commercial featuring Patrick Warburton that showed large CG chocolate, peanut, and crispy m&ms eating, respectively, bags of chocolate, peanut, and crispy m&ms until they’re told by Warburton they “shouldn’t eat their own kind.” The large m&ms then switch bags only to have them confiscated by Warburton who shudders at how disturbing the whole scene is.
Primus used the same technique in their video for Wynona’s Big Brown Beaver. I thought it was CGI until I saw a “making of” documentary for the video.
None of the commercials mentioned so far freak me out. That Burger King isn’t funny per se, but it always elicits a chuckle. Those spongmonkeys only made me want to smash the TV.
What I always find disturbing are commercials where a mascot also happens to be whatever it’s trying to sell. Take Charlie the Tuna: he’s telling us to feast on his own kind. It strikes me as rather ghoulish. Is he selling out his neighbors to save himself? Does he take some kind of Hannibal-style satisfaction from seeing members of his species shredded, mixed with mayonnaise, and served to their predators between two slices of rye?
Every time I see such an ad I think, “you murderous traitor.”
I used to love Raisin Brand Crunch cereal. Ate it almost every morning.
Until I saw that disgusting commercial where the guy puts it into a blender and then drinks it.
Gaah. I haven’t eaten it since.
Dude, she’s hot.
Did I miss something? Because I cannot believe the thread has gotten this far without someone mentioning that ghastly Mucinex commercial. Creepy and disgusting in one shot!
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Speaking of which, what about the commercial for Total where the guy puts a fish in the blender, plus a lot of other nasty crap, and drinks it down afterwards? That has literally made me vomit before.
I thought that was for orange juice.