4 Famous TV Ads That Invented Horrifying Fictional Universes - The Spit Take
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It turns out advertisers are underrated masters of horror.
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the damn poptart commercials.
There is literally one that still airs where a Nurse Eats a Newborn in front of it's helpless parents.
They're so messed up. "But they're not human so that makes it ok." OR at least that's how the company sees it.
ikr
+ShadowWolfRising That nurse is hot. I would do things to that nurse. The way she says "feeding" is sexy.
Oh good I wasn't the only one who felt uncomfortable because of that commercial!
+ShadowWolfRising That commercial made my jaw drop the first time I saw it. The first reason being the nurse eating the baby tart. The second being the mother suggestively NOT saying "damn it" in a commercial that airs during daytime. The last reason being the nurse, a rough sketch, nearly stick figure character having a seductive demeanor to her that some are finding attractive. Best commercial evar.
tony's the stepdad bruh
psychiatrist: "so Tony how are those anti-depressants working?"
Tony the tiger: "they're great! ~cue the saddest violin music~
;';
+Stephen Shaw (Undeadmac) Tony is def masking some kind of drug or drinking problem.
+Stephen Shaw (Undeadmac) 2 minutes later Tony is all alone, saying, "Psychiatrists... Their GRRRRREAT!"
Eric Taylor brings a tear to my eye to see such a childhood icon so vulnerable , well at least he isn't toucan sam, cocaine is a hell of a drug.
Stephen Shaw
He's a tiger. I'd be more worried about the psychiatrist. After all psychiatrists are very tasty.
Ummm... Is substituting the word TIGER for HORSE such a intellectual stretch? Batman solved it.
So it should be less comedy, more factual?
espurious
well theres a big difference between telling a joke and just being plain stupidly wrong. I'm thinking he actually thought it was hangman. but its not. so the humour dies a death too
obzcure
I have confidence in Jack O'Brien's intelligence that he knows it was horse and made a joke. Just because you don't get it, doesn't mean it's as you see it.
espurious
But it doesn't work. we all know it's not hangman so the joke is broken.
It's not even like it's the type of joke that plays on getting it wrong. I mean he's saying Tony the Tiger is stupid for guessing "tiger tiger" is the hangman phrase and yet it's not fucking hangman. He fucked up ok?
obzcure
You don't get the joke.
No, actually you _do_ get the joke, because you just explained it.
I have a theory why Jack O'Brien always wears that jacket...he has no shoulders. His arms just come out of the side of his torso like a Mr. Potatoheadman.
Ohmygod... XD
I think you're right !! #MrPotatoHead
So true
Tony was playing 'horse' a game played by two or more people in which every time a player gets the ball through the hoop they get a letter. (First time 'h', second time 'o' ect.) the first one to get the word 'horse' (or in this case 'Tiger') wins.
This makes Tony that kid in school whom nobody really wanted play with- but whom you kinda felt sorry for.
So he'd ask to play basketball and you and your friends would say no- because "eww- Tony germs!" then that one nice kid (the one who was probably a milk-monitor and always let you use her coloured pencils) would say "why don't you keep score? That would be really useful!" then you go back to your game.
A few minutes later you'd hear "hey you guys! The game's over- Stacey won! Guys? Guys? Oh, you gonna keep on playing- like it's best out of three? Cool. I'll just draw out a new scoreboard then..."
"Guys? Are we going inside now? Wait for me! Please..."
Then you'd see him sitting on the 'I need a friend' bench. Alone.
Cut out the part where a nice person lets them do aomething and just have the lonely bench and you've got me up to high school. Then shit literally took a full U-Turn.
+FORMINCRAFTIA You went back outside?
George Armstrong Uh, no. I actually had a better social life online, without trying even, yet actually trying in real life only made shit worse. Then high school came and all the assholes in middle school went somewhere else, and some actuallt decent people appeared. When most seniors hated freshmen nobody realized I was a freshman until mentioned.
that was explicit detail..sounds like you were that kid. haha ya scrub
actually the first one to horse loses you get a letter by missing a shot...
Tony isn't playing hangman, it's keeping score for horse except it's tiger
3:55 called HORSE or whatever, if you make the shot you get letter and first to spell word wins.
I think Tony the Tiger is supposed to be the equivalent to Hobbes.
Don't know about anyone else, but the black-and-white commercial was the first time I differentiated the two.
Cinnamon Toast Crunch ads.
Why is cannibalism such a prominent theme in advertising lately?
Can we talk about the Geico cavemen who were made into an entire show...
No. Let that idea die.
Did anything ever come of that, or did they not get further than a pilot?
tiakpark They released several episodes, actually. It's just...we don't like to talk about it anymore...
aboutashow I knew it was a bad idea when I first heard about it.
***** Oh, I hate that pig. His stupid, nasally "like, you know, whatever" voice. Can't we just make him an incendiary-pig like the Romans used to?
... The basketball family was playing "Horse" which Tony decide to rename "Tiger"...
Uh dude. That was "horse" not hangman. Tony was keeping score for them. Just sayin'
This is the main reason I have netflix and not cable, television ads are the worst.
Let's not forget the Geico caveman ads that they took even further and made a horrible tv show out of.
Does anyone remember Ernest P. Worrel and how he went from a funny commercial guy to star in several of his own titular movies? My favorite was always Ernest Rides Again, but remember the fucked up Halloween one about the troll that turned children into wood carvings?
Yep! Well, not the commercial part- I think he had finished with that by the time I was born. But the movie you're talking about, Earnest Scared Stupid, was the first of his movies I ever saw!
Didn't he start out in ads for Brahms or something like that?
What about the one the guy who played Ernest did (I think it was before the other movies) where he played weird super villain guy he played sometimes?
I can recall the name but a friend of mine reminded me of it recently.
3:40 - 3:55
Pretty sure they're actually playing "HORSE" and they had Tony keeping score so that he could feel included.
3:50 isn't he keeping score for a game of "horse" but instead called it "tiger"? Makes more sense to me.
And then I realized Tony the Tiger is an imaginary friend.
Now that I think about it, Tony's eyes look a little too Hepatitis C ish.
That's my favorite moment: "Oh, hey, I must have walked up and started playing the saddest game of Hangman ever in your driveway without seeing you there playing basketball."
Having studied advertising I quickly realised the unspoken marketing mantra: if you can't sell it - put a face on it. creepy shit usually ensues.
the mouth hand made me think of an alien manga lol
+MrSasunaru101 Parasyte the Maxim?
mrwindupbird101 I believe so lol
Cracked end plates sounds like something you'd pick up at yard sale.
That is a good one!
he's not playing hangman, he's keeping score in H.O.R.S.E. except it's T.I.G.E.R. instead.
Aww poor tony
I disagree with the premise of this treatise. It seems to indicate that advertisers are aware of their sociopathic designs. While in fact, advertisers ARE sociopathic and therefore NOT aware of their horrific lack of socially redeeming values. But then again, ad execs were hired by company directors who are ALSO completely lacking in socially redeeming values ...or ethics... or morality...or just plain common sense.
I imagine there are sociopaths in that line of business. It would be interesting to find out what percentage of sociopaths the advertising industry has. I didn't realize until I saw this video that some of the food ads try to promote their food using a similar tactic the anti smoking folks use to try to convince folks not to smoke.
I was attempting humor when I posted, but you brought up the anti-smoking ads.
The "Truth" as the backing for those ads couldn't be further from the actual truth! All those annual deaths due to smoking and second hand smoke make no sense mathmatically. If they were accurate, America would have become completely depopulated decades ago.
The actual truth is those stats come from doctors reports that show that smoking was a contributing factor in thier health. But so were automobile fumes, bacon, Big Macs, sugar, caffeine, and the big truck that squished them flat!
Actual Annual Deaths from Primarily Secondhand smoke can be counted on the hands in a baseball team. Far More people die from vaccination reactions than die from secondhand smoke, More die in E.R. waiting rooms, etc.!
And I'm not joking this time!
Since I don't watch TV, I like to watch these episodes to see what I'm "missing out" on. But no pining for pop culture and mass media here! "So commercials are like this nowadays? Ok, whatever." *goes back to life*
Whoa!!! What about the Quizno's "Toasty Bullet" ad with the talking oven? "Dave", who is the only one that can see or hear the oven, is depicted mid psychotherapy session while his hallucination (the oven) chides him "you don't need therapy, just eat a toasty bullet." Advocate suicide much?
The same ad campaign had another where the oven would say "put it in me, Dave." Dave: "No way, last time I did that, I got burned."
Tony might be only visible to kids? Adults think the kids just have an imaginary friend or something.
M&M's did address cannibalism. There was an ad featuring three M&M's each eating their own type of M&M (i.e. peanut, plain, and crispy). A human, also eating M&M's, confronted them on eating their own kind. So they exchanged bags among one another, and continued. Then he insisted they all give him the bags.
3:00 oh no, I wonder what happened to the other thundercats .
I did not expect such an oddly specific video to be so good and on-topic.
Didn't Tony have a son at one point? Maybe Tony 1 is from the old black and white ones while Tony 2 is a depressed lonely tiger who plays horse with his neighbors and lifts weights to avoid the crippling reality of lonlieness.
whats your hunger animal spirit? mines big ass snake
Kodiak bear.
A jelly like blog that oozes from my stomach and just kind of absorbs what it touches.
Sasha Braus is mine...
I think mine is an intestine... OH SHIT!
lukassnakeman walrus. Walrus now, walrus tomorrow, walrus forever.
Love Drop Dead Fred...thanks for the namedrop Easter Egg...also, PLEASE BRING THIS SHOW/CHANNEL BACK!
I remember m&ms had a commercial where they were cannibals eating their own kind. All the characters sitting around eating bags of m&ms It was even pointed out in the commercial! Their solution? to trade bags so now they are eating different versions of them selves. Brilliant.
Tony the Tiger was playing HORSE, but substituted "HORSE" for "TIGER". Did no one at Cracked ever attend Middle School PE classes? I didn't, and I still know that shit.
It wasn't hangman Tony the Tiger was playing, he was scoring the dad/son's game of H-O-R-S-E, but using "tiger" instead of "horse". Basically, each person takes a turn making a shot. If you make it, your opponent has to make the same shot or they get a letter toward the word. Once HORSE (or in this case, TIGER) is spelled out, that person loses.
Speaking of adverts being inspired by horror movies, the dude at 1:33 is Jack Torrance from The Shining Miniseries.
There's a new commercial now where a tiny little man yells at a guy, forces him to pause the movie he's watching, drags him outside, bullying him the whole way, then daintily slips between his fingers... as his cigarette. It is so far beyond creepy, I just can't ever watch it again.
It's alarming how similar it is to many of these commercials for foods, though the cigarette never makes him kill an old man, to steal the cigarette in his hand.
Tony is like a less philosophical Hobbes, the kid(s) know he's there but the parents treat him like a stuffed animal so the viewers don't know whether he's real or not.
"Coincidentally" YT showed me a funny post-apocalyptic ad for a car in this video.
the game he is keeping score of is H-O-R-S-E basket ball based game where you have to make the hoop to get a letter
"That's not even how you play hangman! What's that phrase, 'Tiger Tiger'?"
Uh, I think it was a parody of the game Horse...
Tony the Tiger was being the score keeper when the father and child were playing horse. But instead of "horse", it was "tiger".
Look, if marketing people were smart and creative, they wouldn't be working in marketing.
They were playing Horse except with Tiger. For every basket you make you get a letter.
That last commercial... I don't even... what... how... WHO GREENLIT THAT?
One of the best so far. By the way, if I remember my annotated Dracula correctly, hair on the palms, that used to be an old sign of sexual degeneracy, i.e., fappin.' Still, I'm all for Cronenbergian commercials about cells. I mean, just watching toddlers tap still photos waiting for the screen to move . . . it's a cracked world man.
Yeah, that Ball Park ad was... fucking horrifying.
just remembered, I used to read cracked and mad magazine and loved it. this is what they've matured into? cool
Yeah, that last one is disturbing. And "hunger gets what hunger wants" is what we're supposed to get out of that...?
Spot on. And what an exquisite end plate!
This sort of thing is why I flat out stopped watching TV.
Ok, yeah to most of this stuff but Tony was playing Tiger/ Horse! He was keeping score for them!
Has someone actually managed to sell hotdogs by saying "you will murder old men if you eat them"?
More proof that the ad industry is NOTHING like" Mad men"...
dam...tony the tiger got me in the feels....he just wants to have friends :'(
Dad to the son: you got the balls. Rofl.
Bad research. Tony had at least one kid. In 1964, he bravely sacrificed himself to a garden hose, to save the boy, during a backyard camping trip. "OH, HE'S GOT ME JUNIOR, SAVE YOURSELF!!!!!!!!!"
I mean, I guess the tiger was there since the father's were kids, they all used to be super close friends, it justs makes everything sadder
Tiger Tiger? Tnny is an genius xD Because of the William Blake refference^^
Now i will never see Tony the tiger as anything else than a lonely creepy and extremely ripped 50 years old. thx cracked.
Tony the Tiger isn't playing a sad game of hangman, He is taking count in the game of HORSE that the Father and Daughter are playing, except instead of HORSE it's TIGER.
I am that kid in elementary school always screaming: "Hey, guys! Wait for me!"
😔
Can't unsee the Tony the Tiger thing...
Those adverts are mental! Ours look like a Rembrandt by comparison
"Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there"
best end-plate ever. also the first time i've heard the term end-plate
Just to mention taking the piss out of tony in the driveway he's keeping score while they play horse but his ego means there playing tiger lol
tiger tiger? red john? mentalist? super creepy
LOL good call about the Sugar Puffs bear being a drug dealer.
Tony was keeping track of the "horse" game being played at the end, not hangman. Either way, Tony is creepy.
Did this thing seem to end half way through? He came to a good closure and then there was silence--an oddly long silence. Then he started talking again. It seemed like he was transitioning to a commercial, but he wasn't.
the weirdest ad universe created was Rhonda and Ketut from AAMI's car insurance commercial in Australia.
Oops, in the endplate, you had a clip of Does Not Compute titled "Spit Take Theater" which... incidentally, by looking at the title of this video, doesn't even seem to be the name of this show either...
Looks like everyone in cracked is editor-in-chief.
Those ball park adds are fucking awesomely terrifying!
The DIRECTV ad with a nearly naked woman and a horse talking about his "show business" in Tijuana....was this ad supposed to make you think about Donkey Shows?
In fact, M&Ms made a commercial featuring Patrick Warburton in which the animated M&Ms ate M&Ms but I only saw it once. Maybe viewers reacted poorly to M&M cannibalism.
This video while amusing reminded me of one of the biggest reasons why I stopped watching television.
He's not playing hangman. He's keeping score. They're playing Tiger, instead of Horse.
**Watches start of vid**
PARDON ME ARE YOU AARON BURR, SIR
What about the ads containing sentient food encouraging people to eat large quantities of their own people? (E.g. Planters' Mr. Peanut.)
how have they not mentioned the Skittles commercials?
skittles pox- *shudders*
+Peter Schmidt Yeah! How is "contract the rainbow" not about AIDS?
THAT LAST ONE KILLED ME😂😂😂
Fun Fact: That Aaron Burr "Got Milk" ad was directed by none other than Michael Bay.
I always thought the poptart commercials were fucked up.
Tony the Tiger isn't there. Its the child's attitude! With a bowl of frosted flakes, kids think they're great and it gives them energy to go out and play with their parents. Tony is an imaginary friend. What don't you understand about this?
That wasn't hangman that was horse by with tiger
gotta be honest i screamed when i saw "a. burr"
lin-manuel has ruined me
Has Jack never heard of the game "Horse"? Most of these Spit Takes are in some way making fun of people. You'd think he'd look into things a little more
4:53 Migi, is that you?
Always hated that Lays commercial.
I feel like this could've been an After Hours.
Jack Obrian!! Where did the excellent music on spit take go????
Erm... Cracked - you're addressing *The World Wide Web*.
*The Internet* is the computer systems housing the Web.
I feel like these videos have a lot of untapped potential because of who's 'hosting' them... No? Just me? Yeah; it's probably just me. Carry on.
The Tony the Tiger thing just reminded me of bo burnham XD