The Bride of 10 Ads to Disgust & Disturb You

Hello again, dear readers!  Time for the monthly round-up of unique, bizarre, and just plain gross advertising campaigns being cooked up by those zany marketing people!

This month we have some truly innovative stuff-and one ad that just freaks me out completely.  As usual, I'll start with the tame stuff, then progress to the ads that make me question mental stability (my own and that of the people who concocted some of these things).

1. Mio GPS

I've inadvertently eaten a fly or two in my lifetime.  It disturbs me to think that this is how they got out.

At least this fly shot out right before a shower.  Picture that happening at a dinner party...

2. Land Rover

I get the idea: if you own a Land Rover, you're so in tune with the great outdoors that you'll eschew double-weave toilet paper for nature's very own butt-wipe: a leaf.

Um... what?  I strive to avoid that even while camping.

It's stuff like this that gets a fly in your butt.

3. Ariel

The part of me that wants to live to be 50 or so recoils in horror from this image.

The part of me that will insure that I'll not live to 50 wants to grab a fork and dive in.

Good ad campaign.  You'd definitely need a little something to fight acid indigestion.  If you don't, you may end out like this:

4. Bloodbuster

When I was young and naïve, I thought that a beautiful girl would remain beautiful no matter what she wore.

Well, wearing puke has cured me of that fantasy.

Yuck.

If my Italian is up-to-date (which it isn't-I know what a pizza is, and that's about it), I think this is an ad for a store specializing in horror DVDs, books, and magazines.

Apparently the young lady above likes to shop there...

5. International Society For Human Rights

Take that!

Speaking of puke...

It looks like good ol' Kim Jong-il is getting his just desserts in the form of a pie to the face.  But it sure does look pukey to me...

Let's hope it is.  I have a hard time taking a neutral attitude toward someone allegedly guilty of doing things like this:

6. Amnesty International

This ad, part of a campaign for human rights, is quite disturbing.  I used another of these ads in one of my previous articles and use this one because I find this campaign to be brutal, in your face, and effective.  The message here is clear-and not pleasant.

Now, picture using a similar type of shock value to sell a product:

7. Samsung

This ad for a camera that offers "ultra motion capture" is crazy.  The only thing that keeps this ad interesting rather than morose is the lack of gallons of spraying blood and organs flopping toward the sidewalk.

8. Tooheys Extra Dry Beer

I wish my tongue were this talented.  Or at least that it could leave my body to get me a refreshing beer...

9. MTV

GAH!!!!!
My fear of clowns continues.  If I unzipped my pants and saw this, I'd have a friggin' heart attack.  Pure and simple.

As it is, just keep in mind that MTV wants you to keep your... clown safe.

10. IP Men's Magazines

The tagline states: "If men are your target, make sure you don't miss them."
Ladies and Gentlemen, we have now reached the limit of good taste.  Assassination-even used as a bizarre parody of a historical event-should NOT be used as an ad campaign.

I have to admit, however, that death sells.

Just look at the grocery store rags: between Billy Mays, Farrah Fawcett, and Michael Jackson, they've hit the cash cow.

Sad.

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SOURCE: Ads of the World