# This old commercial has given me a new phobia

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-old-commercial-has-given-me-a-new-phobia/461751>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 2, 2008, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-old-commercial-has-given-me-a-new-phobia/461751 "2008-09-02T21:34:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-old-commercial-has-given-me-a-new-phobia/461751/1 "2008-09-02T21:34:15Z")

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And I’m not even exactly sure what I’m phobic of. I was looking at old animation on youtube and came across [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOFRIWx5F9c&NR=1) monstrosity of an 80’s candy commercial.

Okay, I know the new phobia: Kinder eggs. Catch me ever eating one of them now.

Chocodooby!

::shudder::

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**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-old-commercial-has-given-me-a-new-phobia/461751/2 "2008-09-03T08:34:09Z")

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Whoa. That _was_ pretty disturbing. What’s that thing even supposed to be, a chocolate Humpty Dumpty?  
I’m going to have nightmares…

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**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-old-commercial-has-given-me-a-new-phobia/461751/3 "2008-09-03T11:46:40Z")

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Oh, man, I _love_ Kinder Surprise! The toys inside the eggs are so spectacularly random and bizarre! Unfortunately, the US Guvmnt is protecting our Precious Children® from the small parts some of the toys contained, so they can no longer be imported for sale here. I bought a box of them on Ebay from some guy in Germany, and we have a shelf just for displaying our KinderToys.  
But that was one creepy-assed commercial…

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**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-old-commercial-has-given-me-a-new-phobia/461751/4 "2008-09-03T15:46:06Z")

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> [@singular1](#):
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> Oh, man, I _love_ Kinder Surprise! . . .  
> But that was one creepy-assed commercial…

Yeah, pretty unsettling, huh?

I guess I’ve never seen a Kinder egg here in America at that. I was thinking I had, but I must have mistaken them for those cloyingly-sweet Cadbury eggs. I’m assuming this commercial was shown in the UK, because of the fractured English, and also because it looks like it was created by those Teletubbies folk. I also find Teletubbies vaguely disturbing, but Humpty boy here is the stuff of nightmares.