Top 10 Banned Television Ads

Earlier this month, I posted my "Top Ten Funny/Edgy Car Ads" list. According to the descriptions on the original postings, some of those ads were banned from being shown on television.

Since banned ads are often much funnier (and probably more effective) than on the ones that actually do air, I thought it would be fun to pick out the best that I could find and post them here.

However, I quickly found that most banned ads are banned because they are WAY over the top when it came to sexual innuendo. And since this blog is intended to mixed audiences, I'm putting those on hold for a later post...maybe.

Fortunately, there are a fair number of banned ads that aren't overly sexual. Here they are, with a brief remark about why they were probably banned.

Click here for the first banned TV ad » NUMBER 10 Apparently banned because the child is saying a mildly-offensive term...

Click here for the next banned TV ad » NUMBER 9 Takes on an entirely new meaning if you are, like myself, the parent of a toddler...

Click here for the next banned TV ad » NUMBER 8 Apparently showing children doing unsafe things is a big no-no, even if the situation is inherently absurd...

Click here for the next banned TV ad » NUMBER 7 Evidently this was deemed too scary for some markets...

Click here for the next banned TV ad » NUMBER 6 I have no idea why this was banned, except that perhaps it was just too gross...

Click here for the next banned TV ad » NUMBER 5 Another one deemed too scary, this time for children...

Click here for the next banned TV ad » NUMBER 4
Guaranteed to offend almost everybody...

Click here for the next banned TV ad » NUMBER 3
This was banned in the 1970s, apparently for being too painfully obvious...

Click here for the next banned TV ad » NUMBER 2
Banned, I believe, as the result of using somebody else's brand name...

Click here for the next banned TV ad » NUMBER 1
And finally, the winner!!! More stuff that's unsafe for kids, with a twist at the end...