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welcome to watch mojo and today we're
counting down our picks for the top 10
most bizarre nostalgic commercials when
i was a little lat if i wanted berries
and cream mommy made me do the little
odd dance for this list we'll be looking
at 10 of the weirdest commercials from
years past what are some of the
strangest commercials you remember from
your childhood let us know in the
comments below
number 10 starburst berries and cream
while some bizarre advertisements are
just hazy childhood memories others have
made comebacks in recent years either
from the company themselves or in the
form of internet memes berries and cream
oh hurrah
berries and cream patties and cream i'm
a little lad who loves berries and cream
the latter happened in 2021 with
starbursts berries and cream add when
comedian justin mcelroy posted a clip of
the commercial to tick-tock berries and
cream berries and cream i'm a little lad
who loves berries and cream the ad which
shows a little lad dressed in
old-fashioned clothes dancing and
singing about his love for berries and
cream was a surprise hit inspiring a
number of memes and remixes an interview
was even released with the little lad
himself jack fervor since doing the
commercial the actor and choreographer
has taught at bard college and
choreographed scenes for alvin the
armadillo in the netflix mockumentary
mascots i love putting on the mask
and
just being inside of him it's like i can
i can be
i can move any way i want and
i love it number nine winston cigarettes
in 1971 cigarette commercials were
banned from american television making
this next series of advertisements seem
like a real product of the stone age the
easy drawing filter cigarette that
tastes good like a cigarette sure
winston takes good like a cigarette
should was the basis of a jingle
advertising winston cigarettes but it's
the brand spokesperson not their slogan
which has landed them a spot on this
list
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who was their spokesperson none other
than the family friendly suburban
cavemen the flintstones i got a better
idea let's take a winston break that's
it living in a world where the teen
centric show stranger things came under
fire for the amount of smoking shown on
screen it may seem hard to imagine a
cartoon character selling cigarettes but
this was the surreal reality for
americans in the 1960s
number 8 earthworm gym
blammo this commercial for earthworm gym
shows plenty of footage from the
cartoony side-scrolling adventure game
but it may be hard to focus on gameplay
when the story is being told by a
deranged grandma this is the story of
earthworm gym video game in outer space
a sweet evil cycle belongs to queen
cyberspace the ad which aired in 1994 to
coincide with the first game's release
on sega genesis and super nintendo
features an older woman who begins to
eat from a bowl of wriggling live worms
as she explains the new game as it goes
on the woman becomes more and more
excited by the story her voice becoming
deeper and her hair becoming unkempt
maybe the pearl with queen festering
sweaty slung for a butt quill
it may seem like a strange way to
advertise a video game but it created a
lasting impression on its young
demographic now i tried to get marketing
to approve that but they said nah number
seven meow energy
anthropomorphic animals that is animals
with human qualities are a popular
character type in animation especially
for children as mayor of zootopia i am
proud to announce that my mammal
inclusion initiative has produced its
first police academy graduate characters
like mickey mouse bugs bunny and even
smokey bear have made lasting
impressions on american pop culture
unfortunately for mio energy their
attempt at creating anthropomorphic
animal characters just comes across as a
little
well creepy hey look michelle got her
nose done yeah i know she said it was
for medical reasons medical reasons what
a crock in the ad an ostrich and giraffe
with uncannily human faces discuss a
rhino's recent nose job and ultimately
decide to customize their water like she
customized her nose with mio energy
while talking they're passed by a
similarly uncanny camel who is implied
to have had her humps done i think those
are real those do not exist in nature
not any nature i've been in
number six big banana ink crayons
charles nelson reilly was an actor who
lent his voice to a number of animated
characters including evil henchman
killer and all dogs go to heaven and mr
toad in the 1987 adaptation of the wind
in the willows i walk down the street
and what do i see
a whole lot of people wishing they were
me
he also played the alien game show host
d-o-r-c on space cats where he was
represented by a green disembodied head
prior to these roles however riley could
be seen on american television in a
rather wacky big banana ink crayon
advertisement oh we've gone bananas for
big banana and crayons you'll learn to
write a lot of ways
the commercial which ran in 1973
showed riley dressed in a banana costume
singing about how great the new crayons
were to a classroom full of students who
were also dressed as bananas draw a
banana and give it a hat okay bunch
you'll go bananas
number five airheads fruit spinners you
may not think that a regular human face
would make for a bizarre commercial
mascot but what if that face was spun
upside down this is the case for the
2010's airhead fruit spinners
commercials which show excited chins and
mouths talking about the fruity flavors
of fruit spinners okay let's try to
describe the thick juicy fruity flavors
of airheads fruit sitters like trying to
wow
to complete the look the strange
creatures are given googly eyes
eyelashes and small human arms making
them feel a bit reminiscent of the late
90s
early 2000s thumb based parody franchise
beginning with thumb wars the phantom
cuticle look i'm trying to keep a low
profile i owe gobble the butt a lot of
money and he's right over there
at the end of the ad the chin creatures
are cleverly turned into the airheads
logo a red balloon with a face airhead's
root spinners with a big fruity flavor
crazy enough to make your taste buds
spin number four hummer h3 what better
way is there to sell your product than
with a depiction of true love what makes
this hummer h3 ad bizarre is that the
true love on display is between a giant
robot and godzilla-like monster
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the unlikely pair meet while destroying
a city and immediately hit it off with
the monster getting pregnant and
eventually giving birth to a hummer h3
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yes you heard correctly the monster
gives birth to a hummer the tagline for
the ad which played during super bowl 40
was fittingly it's a little monster
paired with the hummer slogan like
nothing else
truer words were never spoken
number 3 pole position video game
graphics have improved a lot since the
1980s as witnessed by the pole position
ads for the game's release on the atari
2600. hey
yeah you look like a real jerk well i am
a corporate executive one ad features a
corporate executive who stops exciting
things from happening taking a sunday
drive with his family they get shaken
out of his car by a giant disembodied
hand and dropped into a race car the
family then race against each other with
some cars running into signs and
exploding all of this live action action
is juxtaposed against actual gameplay
footage which is laughably tamed by
today's standards pole position
atari's most realistic video game ever
now in the arcades to hammer in the
absurdity the commercial ends with the
slogan
and leave skid marks on your soul
number two
bud ice
it's not every day that a company tries
to sell you its product by implying that
you'll be stalked if you have it but
that was the premise of a series of bud
ice ads that aired in the mid-1990s
authorities say it is now safe to serve
bud eyes that's right just bring it all
out in the open there
nothing to worry about everything's fine
most of the ads played out like a short
thriller or horror scene ending with a
shot of a penguin hauntingly singing the
tune
as the human protagonist screamed and
ran away in fear the
ice slogans
beware the penguins despite the ads
strange content it was a hit with
american television viewers with the
series dark comedic edge working in bud
ice's favor police have no clues except
for a sound heard by one of the night
watchmen
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number one quiznos
if you lived in america in the early
2000s chances are you saw one of these
bizarre commercials for the sub shop
quiznos
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the ads puzzled and occasionally charmed
those who saw them featuring abrasively
weird creatures photoshopped to have
buggy eyes human mouths and hats
naturally these creatures screamed about
their love for a tasty toasted subs if
you do some digging you can find that
these animals are called sponge monkeys
and were created by a man named joelle
veach for a video called we like the
moon
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the quiznos chief marketing officer was
a fan of the video and ordered a series
of attention grabbing ads from veach for
the company unleashing the sponge
monkeys onto tvs across the country
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