Top 10 Unintentionally Creepy TV Ads

One of my posts this week ("How Branding Can Kill Your Profit") surfaced some interesting arguments about the value of branding (in general) and advertising (in particular).

Relative to this, I've often thought that ad agency people are slightly out of their minds, so I thought I'd post some videos to prove it.

The following pages contain the ten most creepy television ads I've ever seen, all the more creepy because the ad agency apparently wasn't aware how creepy the ads actually were.

By the way, for this post, I've added a poll to each video, so that you can vote on how creepy you think it is.

Get ready to feel hairs on the back of your head stand up...

Click here for the first unintentionally creepy TV ad » NUMBER 10 Surrealism hits commercial television, with a vengeance...

Click here for the next unintentionally creepy TV ad » NUMBER 9 Is it my imagination, or does this early Ronald look like serial killer John Wayne Gacy? What freaks me out is that he's got a dixie cup as a fake nose, like he's some sort of homeless schizo...

Click here for the next unintentionally creepy TV ad » NUMBER 8 This promotional TV spot (to which somebody added comments) seems like it was either made by a stalker or by the producers of the movie "Children of the Damned"...

Click here for the next unintentionally creepy TV ad » NUMBER 7 Wow, just what the world needs, a skin cream endorsed by a robot...

Click here for the next unintentionally creepy TV ad » NUMBER 6 Something is just something wrong about this guy...

Click here for the next unintentionally creepy TV ad » NUMBER 5 This commercial could put a kid in therapy for the next twenty years...

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I'll be having nightmares about this one for weeks...

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This is WAY WAY WAY too real for any toy...

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And we wonder why so many women get bulimia...

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Tobacco companies: gotta love 'em. Hook them while they're young, guys...