Weirdest Ads You've Ever Seen?

[BonJoviStatue]

I was scrolling through the internet, looking for Soviet-era commercials until I came across this ad from Soviet Estonia.

 

[Argent Agent]

In addition, I remember some terrifying poorly-animated (in 3d) commercials from the late 2000s/early 2010s in the U.S. for some marketing/mortgage or whatever? I can't remember what they were for exactly, but they looked like they were made as low-budget as possible and crammed as much information as they could into them.

[Chow Yun Thin]

Boy, the weird things that pop up in my mind after I hit submit:

 

 

Now I've heard of using tampons to plug up bullet entry wounds (no idea about the exit ones), but come on, even for comic effect.

[Captain red pants]

Hey here's a fun ad that my country, a place people insist is extremely laid back made in the 80's
 

 

 

[tewgytaylor]

I have an entire playlist filled with nothing but strange ads so here's one of them:

 

[LoatharMDPhD]

14 hours ago, ducon said:

All ads, I hate ads.

 

[AugPin1973]

Every ad is weird, I use adblock.

[Panzermann11]

There was a strange McDonalds commercial I remember seeing on the Internet when I was around ten. The ad has a girl with one of her legs apparently amputated calling on her phone in her bedroom, unaware that Ronald is hiding under her bed. A low-pitched voice then sings an unsettling tune afterwards. There was a similar ad where at the end, Ronald is seen calling in the dark, with the same exact damned singing. Needless to say, I was afraid to sleep alone because of that.

 

EDIT: I found them after a short Google search. Based on the comments, apparently these aren't actual commercials, but rather from a Japanese comedy sketch.

 

Edited November 20, 2023 by Panzermann11

[MrFroz]

 

[Gravepicker]

8 hours ago, tewgytaylor said:

I have an entire playlist filled with nothing but strange ads so here's one of them:

 

Did mouldy do the music for that? Not gonna lie, it's weird for an ad, but I kinda love it.

[DSC]

12 hours ago, Chow Yun Thin said:

Was it this rock? One hopes it lives up to its name. :P

Unfortunately I don't think it was :( Still, glad you asked, now I know what the most hilarious name ever for a rock is lol.

[Dreemurr Deceevurr]

 

They've been running this ad constantly during football games for a couple years now and it's astonishingly over the top for a desk chair.

Edited November 21, 2023 by Dreemurr Deceevurr

[Panzermann11]

I'm pretty sure y'all remember these kind of commercials if you're around the Internet during the late 2000's-early 2010's. Apparently, the idea of these commercials is that these are scenes that would get you fall asleep, but then a screamer pops up and awakens you. Pretty clever for a coffee ad.

 

Edited November 21, 2023 by Panzermann11

[chomorkuz]

unfortunately, i don't have the video anymore but a couple of months back my mom was watching YouTube on the TV when an ad was shown of a cartoon pig on a green background moving its head up and down for like a minute before changing to a cartoon sheep doing the same thing for the last 30 seconds or so

 

and that was it! no links, no associated names, no details, no nothing

[Lizardcommando]

I swear, the early-mid 2000's had some weird ass commercials, like those stupid singing spud monkeys from Quiznos.

 

 

[Gmg]

League of legends youtube ads.

[Sonikkumania]

Translation included.

 

[Tetzlaff]

Ads often seem weird to me because I tend to overthink them. I see this as a visual clue for that and this as a reference for that, and then my wife explains me it was just a simple, one-dimensional joke.