Top 10 Most Disturbing Commercials Because of What We Know Now

Imagine being SO fragile that taking a job in advertising is that harmful to your "mental health". No wonder I have never heard of her.

Wait...we are supposed to worry about evil criminals getting CTE?

I don't like the guy who downplayed opioid addiction.

Half of the commercials were perfectly fine. Everyone likes to get offended and over anxious over small things. Also, that looked like a congressional hearing room, not a court room in the Subway add.

Any TV Commercial With Shane Warne?

Fun fact: It wasnt until 2016 that doctors started to acknowledge CTE as being a danger to football players

I like Maria Bamford, but "regretting appearing in a commercial" should not appear on this list. Not even close to on the same level as the other examples on this list.

How is I'm Batman disturbing? 😂

Sarah Ferguson did promos for Weight Watchers. One mailer my mom got was her saying that losing weight was harder than evading the paparazzi. (She was princess Di's good friend).

RIP Steve Irwin. Not done in by a venomous snake or crocodile but a stingray

I loathed Steve Irwin's hypocrisy regarding the environment and care for animals throughout his stardom, constantly paying lip-service to both while destroying habitats by tearing across unspoiled land in large vehicles and horribly mistreating animals his crew had captured for him. I cheered for the stingray when it delivered its small measure of justice.

I actually thought the funniest reference to the Domino's Noid was in the Simpsons when Marge brought up the long the forgotten mascot in a nerdy kind of way! Haha!

Rolf Harris did a learn to swim ad, and there's a dark moment after telling an incident from his childhood he looks coldly to camera and says, "But some children aren't so lucky…"

Walkers crisps in the UK (Lays chips in the US) did a "Walkers Wave" campaign asking users to send in selfies. The winners would score tickets to the UEFA Champions League final. So far so good, eh?
Well the internet being what it is, people sent in pictures that were not selfies, and for whatever reason they were not properly screened and one of wrestler-who-should-not-be-named Chris Benoit slipped through and made it onto the promo video.

Think of all the people named Ronald who never took McDonald's workers hostage because they thought the company's advertising character was about them.

Never knew that about the noid

Bill cosbys jello commercials should be up there.
Sadly the proof was in the pudding.

Aww MAN!
The thumbnail was rough and then I saw Lance and Jarred!😔

The Radioshack commercial with Weird Al Yankovic singing "Toyland" is hard to watch, considering how bad they had fallen and were about to go out of business. 😢

There was this milk commercial where an old guy saves a kid’s birthday party. Not only do they call the milk “the white stuff”, but the old guy is none other than Rolf Harris, a notorious child predator. That one aged horribly in hindsight

Black and white jello adds racist toward asians

The snickers and at&t commercials... aren't that bad to me....idk

The biggest fail is depending on FedEx to deliver anything on time, ever. They've failed me more than I can tell, and it infuriates me when companies don't give me any other choice to have goods shipped. I mean I'd take ANY other choice.

How about the early "Spider-Man" trailer showing the bad guys' helicopter dangling in webbing twixt the Twin Towers...

Sad

The Pole Vaulter is nowhere near as unfortunate as the pilot episode of X-Files spinoff "The Lone Gunmen", which aired just 6 months before 9/11.

Aged like milk? This is golden!

THe Target Lady Christmas Ads; I looked forward to them. We all know people who go ga-ga over the holidays.

Hertz Car Rental Company Commercial = OJ Simpson running for White Bronco.

I like how a bunch of these were featured in that "Poorly-Aged 90s Commercials" compilation

Quarantine matters in 2020

Steve Irwin did not die from a strike from a stingray's barb. It was the stingrays tail that pierced his heart not the barb. :)

omG. So many ads, so many people looking to get offended by them.....and make cash.
Humor went out the door these last 20 years.
I'm not referring to the obvious cigarette and opioid ads.
That's why we had all those ads for a while in the early 10's with crazy music no talking, and just a logo at the end.....made no sense.

The opiods ad was so bad!! James deans was very spooky!!

Wait. Steve Irwin died because the barb of a stingray pierced his heart. It had nothing to do with anti-venom.

How did Bill Cosby's ads for Jello products not make the list?

What a shame that Lance chose to dope and ruin the sport for so many aspiring cyclists.

RIP Steve !💙

I hear ya Barney!! Its time for a Winston!!!

The bat man is hilarious, it wasn't intended for that it's entertainment, too much sensitivity will destroy us all

I miss the Noid.

Yes the Noid is just plain annoying, he does not even speak proper sentences just makes stupid, annoying noises.

Whats harder is when you know the truth when this stuff first airs, not only is it hard to watch, everyone around you thinks you're a conspiracy nut.

Speaking of stupid commercials, I remember there was an old ad for cigarettes, it was a black & white ad from the early 60's
It showed two young people dancing at a party and when the music ends the woman says"Let's go out for a breath of FREASH air , and then they both head out to SMOKE a KOOL cigarette,so much for FREASH air

There use to be a 12oz squeezable pouch of honey sold at the supermarket i wok in, on the front of otje product, it featured an image of Steve Irwin, and just below his heart atea was the printed instructions ' PUNCTURE HERE '
Within afew days of his tragic passing, the product was removed

Subway executives knew what he was doing. When a franchisee brough some concerns to executives the told her that he was married to a teacher and he would get better. They knew, and they let it happen because it made them money.