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Terrible Ads By Major Companies

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When you're advertising something, there are a couple of traditional ways to get it done: You can explain why your something is great, or you can make your something sexy. But there are also mad geniuses out there who come up with a third option: Add bafflingly inappropriate and nonsensical situations, and hope for the best.

And that's how we wind up with ads like:

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It's clever to use suicide in beauty branding right? nappier hair, for dark anatomicals or peachy fair head peach shampoo feeiing for suicidal o compl

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Coke, somehow, tried to cash in on apathy. -1010 A Diet Coke commercial with Gillian Jacobs has her basically shrugging and saying do whatever. She

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For Subway, choosing sandwich toppings is as wild as anything. MAKE ITEIC Their Make it what you want ad shows people playing music in the back of a

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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,

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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

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Kraft's Crave brand is the frozen food for wannabe tough guys, apparently. In an ad, a spokesman brags that Crave is here to grab the frozen food ais

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Terrible Ads By Major 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-

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Penguin floor cleaner used child prostitution to sell cleaning products. Their ad shows a businessman with a bulge in his pants paying a schoolgirl -

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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

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Land Rover tried to make folding car seats with a phone app look adventurous. To advertise its app for rearranging car seats from anywhere, they had B

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Jolly Rancher thought prison rape would sell candy. JOU ranci GET BUSY SUCKING OR GET BUSY DYING! A tweet that stayed up for a weekend had a blue cand

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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

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In Germany, chocolate company Ferrero ran a white-nationalist-like: ad. YES WEISS SANE E Their ad for a new white chocolate spoofed an Obama rally, wi

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