What's the most ridiculous commercial you've ever seen?

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During the holidays, there's a reoccurring lottery commercial in my area where a man sings about how scratch-off tickets are his favorite thing to gift people.

Maybe my perception is inaccurate, but I'm pretty sure scratch tickets are considered the laziest and least thoughtful thing to give someone as a present.

Honorable Mention: A commercial for a snack where a woman had a bowl of them, and the snacks were cheering and asking the woman to eat them first. When the women picked one up, it squealed with glee as it entered her mouth.

Making any jokes about that one might cause the mods to take this down...

The Sonic commercials. They make absolutely no sense at all.

Detective pikachu the movie
It is Ridiculous because it looks good.

This commercial got banned shortly after it was put on TV.

The Coliguard commercial where the box tells you to collect a stool sample and put it inside of him and mail him off to a lab.

Plenty of candidates, but the one that comes to mind is one that tried to pass off an obvious dildo as a face massager.

CockneyRebel,

That one's not only ridiculous, but gross too-and it inevitably comes on when I'm about to eat. I could think of a number of other ridiculous commercials as well, all centered around the bedroom, bathroom and pharmaceuticals designed to cure whatever ails you, but at great cost. The side effects are horrible.

Most ads fall into the "If you have a problem, we have the answer," category. This is true of the latest greatest invention or medication.

The only commercials that are nice are the pet food commercials. I see some lovely cats (and dogs, too).

The Aspercreme commercial "Don't Smell Like Walter". The old woman is creepy, and the young woman doesn't react strongly enough.

If some old woman followed me around a grocery store while sniffing me and calling me by her late husband's name, I'd dial 911 and get my pepper spray ready.

HEADON APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD
HEADON APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD
HEADON APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD


And then later they made a couple of HeadOn commercials where someone actually interrupts it and says how annoying the commercial is, but their product is AMAZING!

Saying it's amazing, however, is a blatant lie. HeadOn is or was a homeopathic "remedy" that was made mostly from wax and is about as effective for headaches as rubbing a candle on your forehead. In fact, they weren't even allowed to say what HeadOn really is or what it's actually supposed to do, all they were really allowed to do to was to explain how to use it, and since American commercials have to be at least 30 seconds long, they decided just to insult people's intelligence and repeat it several times.

Naturally, this became a big internet meme.

The Little Baby's ice cream commercial, where someone made of ice cream eats themselves.

Also the Baby Laugh-a-Lot and the Japanese "cursed" Kleenex commercials are creepy (especially if one believes the tale of the latter commercial).

There is certain kind of uber bad ad that can stick in my head for years....decades.

Back in the 80's there was a commercial that showed a couple: a cool looking yuppie guy in a black leather jacket, and a cute blonde slightly younger women together at a table at a restaurant. At first you assumed they were that... a romantic couple. But then it transpires that they are brother and sister. He is visiting his kid sister from out of town, and she lives in NYC after graduating college, and theyre having dinner together. He says to her "dad worried that I would find a starving artist here". She replies "oh sure. Dad worried..." indicating that ...he has somekind of long standing obsession with his sister that is running issue. So the ad became a switcheroo to the viewer. They are a romantic couple, but wait theyre not that kinda couple, but wait again...if theyre supposed to brother and sister...then...theyre pretty damned CREEPY!! !!

Made my head explode to watch. But it was like starring at the head of snake. I would always watch it when it came on, and could never look away. They say that annoying ads are effective because theyre annoying. But … I have NO memory of what that commercial was advertising. Not the brand, not the product, not even the type of product (financial services? or what). So it was gross without being effective.

Then further back around 1970 there was TV commercial with close ups of people's mouths. The screen would be just the mouth. A guy or girl would crack a smile and expose the person's front teeth. And then a felt tip pen would enter the screen from one side, and would write a number on the person's upper front front tooth! Sixteeen, fourteen, and number one. And the voiceover would tell us how our brand X toothpaste ranked number one in an independent scientific study of whatever (cavity prevention, or making your teeth white or whatever).

Grossest thing ever.

Any commercial connected with the bedroom or bathroom, as I have said in a previous post

That HeadOn was definitely the most annoying and repetitive commercial I have ever heard.