I don’t mean like scams or anything like that. I mean what’s the ad that has done the worst job as an advertisement? Instead of making you want to buy the product you wanted to avoid it.

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    10 months ago

    The Quiznos ad with the talking chinchillas.

    Most people didn’t even know what those things were. I heard them being called weasels and rats and deep-fried hamsters and even beavers.

    But, no. Photos of chinchillas, with talking human mouths superimposed. Ended up being the most fingernails-on-a-chalkboard commercial I have ever come across. Sure, there have been worse commercials in terms of raw stinkers or stupidity, but this one was by far the most repellant one I have ever personally experienced.