Hilariously Bad Adverts - Ones that make you cringe or laugh for all the wrong reasons

[TheImportantFart]

This is for sharing absolutely awful adverts/commercials. I'm not intending it to be for film or TV trailers, rather adverts for products or services as I think there's more potential in that direction. I'm hoping people from all over the world will share bizarre adverts from their homeland so we get a look at some priceless cultural artifacts

Anyway, to start us off I have something from merry old England. Recently a lot of takeaway apps have become very popular over here and one of these is called Just Eat. I've never tried the service, but the adverts for it are cancerously bad. They take famous pop/disco songs and change the lyrics so they fit around takeaway food. They're played on TV and radio far too often for my liking, but they have a certain cringey charm to them, at least at first.

I think this one is the worst of the lot and unfortunately it gets played all the time now. I feel sorry for everyone involved.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

There was this one set of adverts I saw for a Mexican drink that were all made with Xander: Renegade Angel-style 3D effects that were easily some of the weird stuff I've ever seen. Drink was called Martisocco or something(could not tell you the spelling for the life of me.

 

[XYZpdq]

Wish I had one of these back in the old cave!

 

[Positron]

Abbott toddler formula advert from Hong Kong, circa 2010.
It's in Cantonese but the action speaks for itself:

Of course, pre-school education is such grave competition in Hong Kong that parents soon discovered that being book smart isn't enough. The makers of toddler formulas (formulas for infants below age 2 are not allowed in Hong Kong) knew, and Mead Johnson has created a series of masterpieces in which pre-school kids are frighteningly artistic, empathetic, resourceful, cooperative, and show such leadership quality that put most CEOs to shame:

 

[XYZpdq]

Abbott toddler formula advert from Hong Kong, cirra 2010.
It's in Cantonese but the action speaks for itself:

Spedon! Apply directly to the sped!

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

There was this one set of adverts I saw for a Mexican drink that were all made with Xander: Renegade Angel-style 3D effects that were easily some of the weird stuff I've ever seen. Drink was called Martisocco or something(could not tell you the spelling for the life of me.

Holy shit, these are fucking hard to track down! I think they've been removed entirely from YouTube, but I finally found one of them!

And it was ShottaSoCo

 

[TheImportantFart]

Holy shit, these are fucking hard to track down! I think they've been removed entirely from YouTube, but I finally found one of them!

And it was ShottaSoCo

That animation...

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

That animation...

I looked into it a bit and found out that there was an entire set of these made by a Taiwanese animation company

 

[XYZpdq]

Holy shit, these are fucking hard to track down! I think they've been removed entirely from YouTube, but I finally found one of them!

And it was ShottaSoCo

that needs to be Southern Comfort's worldwide ad campaign

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

that needs to be Southern Comfort's worldwide ad campaign

It actually was back in 2015. Along with a bunch of ones just as surreal

 

[OJ 473]

This isn't so much 'cringe' bad as it is 'feels' bad

 

[OJ 473]

I'll make up for that last post with this ad that comes on in the early morning where I live

 

[Quijibo69]

These K-mart ones:

 

[OJ 473]

How could I forget

 

[neverendingmidi]

Any commercial for any product that ends up on the "As Seen On TV" shelf at Walmart.

 

[Positron]

This isn't so much 'cringe' bad as it is 'feels' bad

Thai adverts are often lauded as the best in the world, but I can't stand any of them. It must be a cultural thing but using a long, drawn-out melodrama to sell some (at best) barely relevant product is stupid.

Some of them are sexually explicit, as in the one below -- and you can never guess what they're selling until the very end.

 

[Assorted Nuts]

I used to see this little blue bastard all the time when I watched TV.

 

[NumberingYourState]

Mr. Clean creeps me out. He is a hired killer.

Mister Clean will clean your whole house... of everyone that's in it...

 

[DrainRedRain]

This song sticks with you, damn.

 

[XYZpdq]

This song sticks with you, damn.

iirc the older ads for it that ran during Sailor Moon were kinda weird, but not as much. Same great jingle, too.