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7 Insane Ads That Have No Clue What They're Selling

By Cezary Strusiewicz July 24, 2009 473,750 views
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#3.
Criminally Negligent Man-Bird, for Insurance Apparently
What it looks like:

The ad starts with two women driving a car and suddenly slamming on the brakes in the middle of the street for no apparent reason. What follows is one of the greatest exchanges ever recorded between two master thespians as both actresses manage to miss their cues in a five second whirlwind of teased hair and stilted delivery.

First lady: "What's that?"

(inexplicable pause)

Second lady: "Do you have insurance on this car?"


Acting!!

Realizing the driver doesn't have car insurance, the passenger comes to the obvious conclusion that it must have been Eagle Man who landed on their roof just now.


The obvious conclusion.

Eagle Man then recites a pseudo-rhyme in a voice that sounds like Leelee Sobieski before literally shitting an egg out onto the top of the vehicle.


The ad ends with Eagle Man's birdshit hatchling clutching a crib sheet of local insurance rates in its beak.


What it really is:

It appears Eagle Man is selling low rate SR-22 forms, which is proof of insurance required for people who tend to have a lot of accidents. So on one hand, he's targeting risky drivers who need coverage, which makes perfect sense. What does not make sense is the fact that in this ad, said driver only had an accident because fucking Eagle Man landed on her car.

Reading between the lines, we're thinking the guys behind Eagle Man are actually running some kind of protection racket. "Haven't had an accident yet? Don't worry. You will."

#2.
A Minute of Nightmares and LeBron James for Sprite
What it looks like:

This starts out well, with a bunch of guys in suits and giant green masks infiltrating a private residence while wielding paintball guns to a hip soundtrack.

Another team, this one clad in yellow Greedo helmets, enters from the back of the house. You now may be wondering if we are being too picky about what constitutes a failed commercial. "This is not that weird," you might even be saying to yourself. Then: MIDGETS IN NIPPLE HATS.


These guys probably went to Juliard.

Did we mention this happens as a series of split second cuts between the scenes of the two paintball teams? After almost 50 seconds of color-coordinated sneaking around and midgets running headlong into each other at top speed, we finally get to the show down when the paintball teams corner... a giant tongue?


You're licked now, buddy! *Applause*

It is at this point that we all succumb to mind diarrhea. While the giant tongue is shot with green and yellow paint like Sonny Corleone, we are assaulted with a barrage of bizarre hyper-cut images including:

A CGI frog eating a lizard;


A statue exploding;


Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots;


A slice of lemon being inseminated--and no, this isn't just a humorous description, it's an actual sperm wiggling into a lemon slice;


Oh, and it stars LeBron James.

What it really is:

Apparently the Coca-Cola Company claims this is an ad for Sprite, as part of their edgy "Sublymonal" marketing campaign. The message of the campaign, as far as we can tell, is "Sprite is manufactured by costumed midgets ejaculating onto sliced lemons. Enjoy."

#1.
Furry Orgy for Vagina Juice
What it looks like:

This is animal porn. There is no other way to describe what we are watching.

This commercial features anthropomorphic animals dry humping, spraying each other with liquid and giving lap dances for nearly a full two minutes of thrusting pelvises and furry jiggling breasts. It's a lot like that sequence in The Shining if it had been animated by Pixar. Some of the more troubling moments include:

An octopus stripper giving a lap dance to a bear;


A doe bathing herself in what we hope is juice;


Zebras in monokinis riding giant bursting phalluses;


Panda boobs;


Right now we can't imagine this commercial advertising anything other than the most terrifying boner anyone has ever achieved.

What it really is:

Perhaps in an effort to top their ad for dairy (see above), France created this masterpiece to promote a line of fruit juices called Orangina. That is not a typo.

Unlike some of the other entries, we can sort of see how this idea might have started out before transforming into the twisted carnival of eye-gouging horror it later became. Fruit juices are natural, hence nature, so that's why we're outside with a bunch of animals, though the presence of the octopus suggests a troubling deficiency in France's public school system.


However, the intended market for this product seems to have been confused. Cartoon animals are generally a strategy for younger consumers, while sexual innuendo is arguably reserved for older audiences. Mixing the two approaches together aims it purely at furries. Furries, and absolutely nobody else. Though we suppose their money is as good as ours.

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Orangina is god damn delicious

10/28/2009 6:41:32 PM
sirtwitchy

all the subymonal commercials were weird. u couldn't all of them for the countdown. also i saw this one commercial of a car driving down a nice road. The next second, a woman appears shrieking. End. WTF?!

9/26/2009 4:28:13 PM
sallysmanager

I'm not going to be able to watch an animal documentary for a while after watching that Orangina ad. I will never be able to look at pandas the same way again.

8/17/2009 9:33:20 AM
Gamefreak

Yeah, my country is starting to produce some seriously messed up s**t (I'm French, BTW).



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Let's go on, guys! Soon we'll be weirder than JAPAN!!

8/2/2009 11:32:23 AM
SsnakeBite

n-mayh, you have just ruined my day.

8/1/2009 3:15:44 AM
Colombus

that frog from the sprite one reminds me of Binyah Binyah from Gullah Gullah Island

8/1/2009 12:45:16 AM
conartist317

French advertisers have an old history of sex insertion into fuzzy drinks ads. There was that old 70's commercial for Perrier, where a soft and refined lady's hand was shown gently stroking the standard bottle, making it slowly grow to the brand new liter size, which eventually ejaculated its bubbly content.

7/31/2009 12:10:21 PM
VKayed

Holy...the Orangina ad...
I have not laughed that hysterically in ages.

7/30/2009 11:53:52 AM
KillerPaintCan

I've never been more proud to be from the viewing area that Eagleman airs in.

7/29/2009 8:45:32 PM
bono212

It seems as if the orangina video has been mentioned in a previous article. I'm too lazy to scroll down and see if anybody else pointed this out.

7/29/2009 2:06:32 PM
dushanbe4

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7/28/2009 10:51:04 PM
lindayy2001

I'm not the only one who had an orgasm during the Orangina commercial, right?

7/28/2009 10:46:47 AM
vancha

Has anyone seen "Pickle Surprise"? Check this one out, it looks like the hallucination someone would have if they smoked a pickle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgWn7zbgxZ4

7/28/2009 8:39:15 AM
meanmoegel

THANK YOU for calling out both the French dairy and the Orangina ads as being pure crap, which they are. I live in France and have to deal with these loser spots, in addition to the horrifying print versions, much more frequently than I would like. Plus, since I work in marketing myself, I have the dubious pleasure of hearing myriad "pro" arguments for both ads. Apparently it's brillant to introduce sex (and animals) into something as unsexy as sparkling orange juice (?!?) Personally, I just find it fantastically irritating and frankly, not creative in the slightest (since when is using over-the-top sexuality to sell a mediocre product creative?) As for the dairy, maybe the French dairy industry wanted to make itself look "cool"? I'd say they've failed. Personally, this ad scares the hell out of me every time it airs and by no means gives me any desire what so ever to rush out and buy a Camembert (or a toaster).

7/28/2009 8:38:10 AM
Bébé

Given that Orangina's slogan is "naturally pulpous", that its target is rather the 18-30 age group and that the animals shown are caricatures of your typical night-clubbers, this ad makes pretty much sense (and is very well done), IMO.

Think La Fontaine, not furries.

7/28/2009 5:13:51 AM
MajorDSaster

#1 - Orangina has been around for decades. It's pronounced Or-ange-ee-na.
But, yeah, that weird ad aired in the UK as well (tho not for long!) and when I first saw it I remember being freaked right the f**k out! Luckily for my friends, most of them dont know what Furries are but I KNOW! Damn you, Internets! You have made me see and know too much!

7/28/2009 4:17:09 AM
Darkmage

Because I want to ruin the randomness of #6, though I never saw the ad, Mac's, a pretty common convenience store here in Canada, had a slushie flavor called WTF?. And it was really contrevertial. Not because of the ads, but because the name hinted at a bad word. That's a WTF moment.

7/27/2009 11:09:39 PM
lorchan

I'm surprised you didn't mention how all the peacocks in their skimpy bikinis... Look at the plumage. They're all males.

7/27/2009 1:52:55 PM
RadiantDragon

lolmao on the eagle man comercial at around 0:09 you can see the eagle feet poking through the car, and when she gets out hes standing on top, his feet not in it at all O.O its a conspiracy!

7/27/2009 7:26:57 AM
chucknorris

Jackfuck. I like that word.

7/27/2009 6:36:00 AM
Sefiroto
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