I'll buy it but only because i'm frightend!

[Corpse Candle]

Company's can use amazing icons for advertising their products and yet sometimes the purley innocent company advertising franchise can be extremly shocking.
Has there been an advertising figure that has scarred you in the past here a few of mine:

1)
RONALD MCDONALD he is the mostinherantly grim advertising figure heads on this planet McDonalds may as well use PENNYWISE from IT.

2)
The original MONSTER MUNCH MONSTERS the relly good adverts came out when I was young and they freaked me out the pink one with the long neck always seemed to be looking at me througth the screen.

3)Grace jones when she did that wired Citreon advertisment when it was on I was about 5 and as my small soft brain had trouble understanding the"ART" I just became very frightend by this ad.

Intresting as a side note that the advert current running in Britian at the moment about adult education has been moved to a latter time.
The advert basicly consisted of goblins coming out of cubords,windows e.t.c..when the main subject came across problems with reading and writing(they represent their shame).
Now your turn...

[robot717]

I don't even know if this ad actually existed or it was something I dreamed up or what,but when I was little I clearly remember seeing an ad where a kid tries to tell her mom about a monster that's been chasing her.The mom didn't believe the kid and as soon as she turns her back,the monster comes out and snatches the kid away.The mother doesn't even acknowledge her child's screams.
I hyave no idea what this ad was for,but I've never forgotten it and back then I dreaded seeing it come on.

[Jewbo]

i remember those monster much ads corpse. i used to love those.

[malaria]

Anyone remember the advert for "Funny Feet" those lovely little foot shaped walls ice-cream lollies? The ad went "Funny Feet Ha ha ha ha, Funny Feet Ha ha ha ha" creepy!

I'm also put in mind of an old cautionary danger awareness campaign they used to screen when I was a kid that scared the crap outta me. Anyone else remember it?
It showed these kids playing about and one of the kids (if memory serves) throws a frisbee and it gets caught up at the top of an electric pylon. Now the kids start egging on one of the kids to go fetch it and he breaks into the generator site and proceeds to climb the pylon. When he reaches the top we hear a loud "FFFZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!" and see the shocked faces of the kids. Then it cuts to the pylon and the kid has evaporated and all that is left are his charred and smoking clothes. Then the message comes up. Something like "play safe kids".
Gave me freakin' nightmares and a lifelong fear of electric shocks.