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30 Times Brands Completely Blew It

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30 Times Brands Completely Blew It

August 17, 2023

These unbelievable corporate gaffes make us want to say, “You’re better than that,” but we don’t want to lie. Scroll down for some truly jaw-dropping marketing blunders from your favorite massive corporations…

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30 Times Brands Completely Blew It — Source: 18 Awful Ads By Surprising Companies

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Jolly Rancher thought prison rape would sell candy. JOL ran GET BUSY SUCKING OR GET BUSY DYING! A tweet that stayed up for a weekend had a blue candy prisoner telling the reader, Get busy sucking or get busy dying! Not only was it a prison rape joke and a threat, it was also twisting a pop culture message of hope (from The Shawshank Redemption). CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Awful Ads By Surprising Companies

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CPA Canada tried to make CPAs look like rock stars. They ran a commercial claiming that, actually, CPAs do cool things like saving the environment and changing music's business model. If that's boring, then call us boring, they dared the viewers. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Awful Ads By Surprising Companies

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Penguin floor cleaner used child prostitution to sell cleaning products. FILTH HAS NOWHERE TO HIDE Their ad shows a businessman with a bulge in his pants paying a schoolgirl - all of which we see only as a reflection on the super-shiny floor. Filth has nowhere to hide, says the tagline, totally not trivializing pedophilia. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Awful Ads By Surprising Companies

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Source: 18 Awful Ads By Surprising Companies

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For Subway, choosing sandwich toppings is as wild as anything. MAKE IT EPIC. Don't adidas either Their Make it what you want ad shows people playing music in the back of a pickup, standing on a moving motorcycle, skating over fire, and way more. All to promote being able to choose what goes in your sandwich. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Awful Ads By Surprising Companies

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In Germany, chocolate company Ferrero ran a white-nationalist-like ad. YES WEISS BAN E V Their ad for a new white chocolate spoofed an Obama rally, with the slogan Yes weiss can! (Yes white can!) And the slogan the ad wrapped up with was Germany votes white. Germany having the history it does, this didn't go over too well. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Awful Ads By Surprising Companies

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Would you murder to keep your butt clean? Toletta thinks so. GET YOUR OWN Their ads shows women killing each other in public restrooms over $3 toilet seat covers. A small price to pay for not having to sit on a public toilet seat, apparently. Toletta's defense? Well, these are high fashion ads. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Awful Ads By Surprising Companies

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Coke, somehow, tried to cash in on apathy. Colle - A Diet Coke commercial with Gillian Jacobs has her basically shrugging and saying do whatever. She says that marathons are super hard, and you can go live in a yurt if you want. The takeaway? Drink Diet Coke or something, whatever, not like it matters anyway. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Awful Ads By Surprising Companies

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To poke Ford about its aluminum cars, Chevy set a grizzly bear loose. In Chevrolet's ad, a grizzly is released into a cement room with test subjects, who are told to get into a steel or aluminum cage. They pick the steel one, always. Then, the announcer reveals the new, steel-built Chevrolet Silverado. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Awful Ads By Surprising Companies

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It's clever to use suicide in beauty branding ... right? for happier hair, dark or fair anatomicals peachy head peach shampoo for suicidal hair de elita и n alt Jom n por only abile adida Mentiful and colour, for this see . want el state heaven dye clitte late, conditioning me, page by wonderfully 1 knew but job. hair you tossing completely and of bring to i just here I never complete the follow would for de wacky your was rocks put your & Itself on peach de actually knew world feeling earth. that locks bald. Twitter body below. depression off de down — Source: 18 Awful Ads By Surprising Companies

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Target associated plus-size women with manatees. add to registry add to list Mossimo® Women s Plus-Size Kimono Maxi Dress - Assorted Colors 12 reviews $22.00 Free shipping when you spend $50 choose color: Manatee Gray quantity: size : 1 Please make a selection Target listed kimono maxi dresses in regular size as dark heather gray. In plus size, they were called manatee gray. Target said that both names are regularly used, and this happened because different teams posted the different dress information. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Awful Ads By Surprising Companies

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Belgian comedy magazine Humo ran a 9/11 ad in 2004. - - - - - - - - Back when the site of the World Trade Center was still an empty lot called Ground Zero, Humo tried to milk comedy from the tragedy. Their ad showed pilots about to crash into the WTC because they were too busy reading Humo. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Awful Ads By Surprising Companies

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Land Rover tried to make folding car seats with a phone app look adventurous. RTS ABO To advertise its app for rearranging car seats from anywhere, they had Bear Grylls and a bunch of other guys jump out of a plane and fold up a Land Rover's seats during freefall. Once they landed, they got in and sat down on the raised seats, then drove off. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Awful Ads By Surprising Companies

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Checkers Drive-In said its 99c burgers were fuel for human hi-performance. In the '90s, Checkers had an animated campaign with Fast and the Furious-type racers in an apocalyptic wasteland, who murdered each other for Checkers burgers. When they ate one, the hi-performance human fuel gauge in their car would jump to full. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Awful Ads By Surprising Companies

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COLGATE FROZEN MEALS Would you want to eat lasagna that makes you suspect it tastes like toothpaste? Yup, we didn't think you would. That might be why Colgate-branded meals never became a thing, even though they tried. Colgate Beef Colgate® Lasagna Lasagna Beef CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Weird Products Companies Put Their Brands On

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Source: 15 Weird Products Companies Put Their Brands On

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BURGER KING PERFUME Are you trying to be appealing to people who are sexually into hamburgers? Then you should wear Burger King's Flame perfume, which literally smells like a Whopper. FLAME. GRAGKED.COM — Source: 15 Weird Products Companies Put Their Brands On

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GRAGKED.COM SMITH & WESSON BICYCLES There doesn't seem to be much of a straight line from firearms to bikes, does it? The bicycles that Smith & Wesson manufactures are marketed to law enforcement officers, though, and that's apparently close enough. COMATE Smith&Wesson — Source: 15 Weird Products Companies Put Their Brands On

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NASCAR ROMANCE NOVELS In 2009, NASCAR teamed up eso with publisher Harlequin to 42 put out racing-themed novels, Co some of them even featuring HARLEOUIN real-life drivers. Is there a lot Driver cameo NASCA of overlap between hot Carl Edwards rubber enthusiasts and those SPEED DATING of, um, other hot stuff? Nancy Warren USA TODAY bestselling author MARLIQUIM NASC NASCAR Correct approvance DEL CARL EDWARDS 1 ESTECT HITTING THE BRAKES Ken Casper Offic FORCE 99 NAT Kristina When Los para The biggeren Le ml - - your GRACKED. COM — Source: 15 Weird Products Companies Put Their Brands On

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Source: 15 Weird Products Companies Put Their Brands On

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EVIAN WATER BRA Do your breasts often burst into flame? Then the Evian Water Bra is for you! This water- evian cooled bra will stop your fiery bosom from immolating you and your loved ones. ev - CRACKED.COM evian evian evian — Source: 15 Weird Products Companies Put Their Brands On

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COSMOPOLITAN YOGURT Yogurt labels are printed-and that's COSMO IAN Cosmo the only reason we can think of why a Sex - HD School - - MAS - time mesa magazine would branch out into dairy - IEDE in YOU SUPER I Information products. Maybe yogurt was the The World's - 8 Medicis D A - - 7 secret to drive him crazy in bed? - MACHITE EYES We're not sure we want to know. Whisper - - COSMOPOLITAN COSMOPOLITAN CHOPOLITAN Markeria CHOPOLITAN GRAGKED.COM — Source: 15 Weird Products Companies Put Their Brands On

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Source: 15 Weird Products Companies Put Their Brands On

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CRACKED.COM KELLOGG'S URBAN WEAR - Kellogg FROSTIES - - of Kellogg's Under the Hood urban wear lets everybody know that this FROSTED FLAKES hood is Tony the Tiger's turf-and you're sure to look real gangsta in your Honey Smacks low-riders. — Source: 15 Weird Products Companies Put Their Brands On

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JELL-0 FOR SALADS Jell-0 is as simple a desert as you can get -but in the 1960s, they tried to convince the world that it wasn't just a desert, and rolled out vegetable-flavored Jell-0 to prepare blobby salads. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Weird Products Companies Put Their Brands On

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SYLVESTER STALLONE PUDDING Of course, as it's Sly Stallone we're talking about here, it wasn't just pudding-ity was protein pudding. Sadly, someone sued Sly claiming he had stolen their pudding idea, STALLONE HIGH PROTEIN Pudding 20 GRAMS OF PROTEIN LOW CARBI MILK CHOCOLATE SUGAR FREE NET WT 5.82oz (165g) CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Weird Products Companies Put Their Brands On

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CRACKED.COM HARLEY-DAVIDSON WINE COOLERS You know what the biker lifestyle is made of- leather vests, tattoos, bar brawls, and sweet, fruity beverages. In 1984, Harley-Davidson decided to cater to modern bikers by offering them the crisp refreshment of a wine cooler called Scooter Juice. RIA &DAV SCOOTER BOTER JUS REJUICE مبعد - - WHITE COOLER WINE HARLEY-DAVIDSON RICE D.VAVIDSO 1903 WIN COOL Twist-oft Cape — Source: 15 Weird Products Companies Put Their Brands On

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GERBER BABY FOOD FOR ADULTS Have you ever wondered why you stopped eating baby food after you grew teeth? If you can't think of a reason, you're the core demographic for Gerber Singles, a line of mush for grown-ups that Gerber released in the '70s. Singles Singles - BEEF BURGUNDY adults Singles® BLUEBERRY MEDITERRANEAN DELIGHT VEGETABLES CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Weird Products Companies Put Their Brands On

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CRACKED.COM BIC UNDERWEAR When all you have is a cheap, disposable hammer, everything looks like a cheap, disposable nail-so Bic thought that people would buy underwear to throw it away after some time, like they did with pens and lighters. LEVER THING 5-6 BIO Kieldergrope 46-52 SITZT NEU! Mit Zwickel! PASST HALT TRUMPRHOSE — Source: 15 Weird Products Companies Put Their Brands On

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