4 Famous TV Ads That Invented Horrifying Fictional Universes - The Spit Take
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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.
Actually, the M&M commercials DID address cannibalism. It had Patrick Warburton discovering a trio of M&Ms eating M&Ms. He remarks, "You don't eat your own kind, it's unnatural." They stop, look at the bags and then exchange them so that they're all eating a different kind of M&M from themselves. At this point, Warburton says "Gimme the bags." and as he walks outside, he says "Oh that's just disturbing."
And more recently they all joined together and ate the new Hazelnut one before he could be introduced and showed no remorse at all. But I know that was after this was made.
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.
Ok, that last ad with the ballpark frank thing... That was banned, right? Because... that's horrifying. That grotesque mutant arm just murdered an old man while we watched his life slowly fade away as he gasped for precious air.
I feel like I've just watched a snuff film.
You can't just ban shit in America because people thinks it's controversial. If enough people don't like it, they'll stop buying your hot dogs, and then they'll change the ad for something different.
Nicholas Musser Wasn't serious, pal.
OckhamAsylum sorry, I just meet a lot of idiots on youtube who believe stupid shit, so I wasn't sure.
OckhamAsylum This explains my erection.
Alpha Man I mean, yeah, arousal factor aside, this is scary.
How are more people not talking about that last commercial? How did that even get through? Who came up with the idea to have some hungry teenage kid with a fully grown adult male arm growing out of his stomach murdering an old man because he was about to eat the last hot dog and just so happened to be kind of a dick?
I know right?! Like what the hell mate!
Because, clearly, it's more important to ridicule the people at Cracked for not immediately recognizing a certain variation of basketball.
tony's the stepdad bruh
"Sugar-induced Tyler Durden"
I'm wheezing
That last commercial is truly horrifying.
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.
Tony the Tiger needs to stop skipping leg day
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
How about the DIRECTV "no wires" ad with the disturbing marionette people, and the one human guy married to the marionette wife? And their creepy marionette kid? By far the most freaky alternate ad universe I've seen.
Where do those wires go? Who's controlling them? Is it all in the one guy's crazed, fractured mind?
You forgot the marionette father in law
"There are no strings on me"
mando'a minecraft make me
What's really creepy to me is the supposed 'sexy dance' the marionette wife does in one episode. That is the creepiest thing I've been in ages and a I'm a hardcore horror movie watcher. :) Stephen King couldn't write this stuff.
You, my friend, have a lot of time on your hands, and a really perceptive mind.
"Oh I didn't realize he deserved to be murdered." I laughed so loud, I'm pretty sure I woke up my household. xD
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...
Hey, speaking of Tony the Tiger, The dude who voices the original Tony also sang "You're a Mean One, Mr.Grinch".
Tony isn't playing hangman, it's keeping score for horse except it's tiger
Cinnamon Toast Crunch ads.
Why is cannibalism such a prominent theme in advertising lately?
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.
3:55 called HORSE or whatever, if you make the shot you get letter and first to spell word wins.
Tony the Tiger isnt playing hangman. He is keeping score in a game of "horse"...or in this case "tiger"
I'm glad someone else said that because I thought it was obviously just horse but with the word tiger instead. It's like they ignore it for the sake of a joke that wasn't that funny and they're better than that because I watched this shit all the time and I love it
leethethird85 its more likely none of the people at cracked have ever played sports outside of public school PE
What ever happened to craked after hours?
Ohhhhhh ok ty!!!!!!
Uh dude. That was "horse" not hangman. Tony was keeping score for them. Just sayin'
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"...
When tony drawing I thought it wrote “so Lonley”
great work man, love the show. The Spit Take is my new favorite Cracked show. It used to be After Hours, which used to me my most favorite CZcams series but lately I think the show has either run out of ideas or shits to give.
Let's not forget the Geico caveman ads that they took even further and made a horrible tv show out of.
This is the main reason I have netflix and not cable, television ads are the worst.
...great video... but i think the "joke" was that tony was keeping score while they played "HORSE." Its a two on two basketball game. Only instead of the word "HORSE" they used "TIGER."
i was so annoyed that they didn't realize that when shooting his
I don't know if the joke was that "That's obvious, but the host missed it for comedic effect" or if he seriously didn't know.
Master Markus but still doesnt explain why he's being a creep and breaking into peoples houses
Edgar Giron
Yeah, but I didn't say anything about that. Also, it's more like "wandering into" than "breaking into".
Dude, you're great. Keep it up.
Truly, truly horrifying. Poignant critique at the end, well done Cracked editor-in-chief! (and writers?)
This was hilarious! Well done
And then I realized Tony the Tiger is an imaginary friend.
I did not expect such an oddly specific video to be so good and on-topic.
Spot on. And what an exquisite end plate!
he's not playing hangman, he's keeping score in H.O.R.S.E. except it's T.I.G.E.R. instead.
Now that I think about it, Tony's eyes look a little too Hepatitis C ish.
I love this and I love Cracked.
It never ceases to amaze me how crazy your ads can be. I mean seriously!?
Aww poor tony
Nice job Jack funny stuff 😄
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.
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!
the mouth hand made me think of an alien manga lol
+MrSasunaru101 Parasyte the Maxim?
mrwindupbird101 I believe so lol
OMG I LOVE U JACK..."YO, U AWAKE BRO"...CRACKS ME UP...
Cracked end plates sounds like something you'd pick up at yard sale.
That is a good one!
That Tony the Tiger one killed me 😂😂😂😂😂
The last lines from all these videos always make me laugh
3:40 - 3:55
Pretty sure they're actually playing "HORSE" and they had Tony keeping score so that he could feel included.
How are these STILL the best thing Cracked has put out in 8 years?
how is showing that your addiction to junk food could make you harmful to yourself and others supposed to inspire you to buy more of it? who signed off on that sales pitch?!!!
another great cracked endplate
Love Drop Dead Fred...thanks for the namedrop Easter Egg...also, PLEASE BRING THIS SHOW/CHANNEL BACK!
That Milk/peanut butter commercial helped me answer a trivia question about Aaron Burr. Well played
When that Guy French'ed his hand I almost Barfed
I'm pretty sure that Tony is keeping the score of their game, like "Horse" but with the word tiger.
I can't put my finger on why, but Spit Take Theater is most definitely my favorite Cracked series. It's not that I dislike any of the others, but the simplicity of Spit Take is enjoyable. Please! More! Feed Me More!
I've gotta disagree. I really, really, really don't like this guy. He always comes off as a pompous, condescending prick who generally knows little-to-nothing about the subject being discussed. So I don't like this bit as he does most (all?) of them. But that's just my opinion.
He reminds me of a run of the mill Redditor.
I think I like the subdued humor most of all. At least you're constructive with your criticism.
John Davis I think this guy has a better sense of humor and lighter ttemperament than the average redditor, though. Reddit comes off as angry know-it-alls to me.
You're right, but thats probably cuz he's the editor in chief. But yeah it's identical language from the articles
Gotta love these commercials they are grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat!!!!!!
I think Tony is supposed to resemble how the cereal gives you energy and excitement, which explains why only the kids can see him.
You can tell the kind of people who work at cracked because he has no idea what a game of horse or in this case "tiger" looks like... I'm a huge nerd and I have played pick up basketball before
thanks for ruining my childhood lol
Niko Amadeus Prower if these commercials made up your childhood it probably wasn't that special to begin with
Maybe
just remembered, I used to read cracked and mad magazine and loved it. this is what they've matured into? cool
Tony the tiger was playing hangman. He was putting done the letters for a game of horse, or in this case a game of tiger
Tony the tiger was the funniest one OMG I DIED
funny thing is I saw the lays cannibal one before this video started
3:50 isn't he keeping score for a game of "horse" but instead called it "tiger"? Makes more sense to me.
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."
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.
Most amusing!
Lol. he wasn't playing hangman. he was keeping the score.
Actually, M&Ms did get into cannibalism. They once ate bags of their own M&M type and told that was just wrong then they just switch bag to which person just shook their head
As a recent graduate of college with a BA in marketing, I can promise your that hairy palm fucking was not included in the lessons.
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."
Can't unsee the Tony the Tiger thing...
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.
When people bring up commercials or I see ones of these on TV, I can't help but point out how uncomfortable these commercials make me. I would feel horrible if I was eating sentient food!
Tony might be only visible to kids? Adults think the kids just have an imaginary friend or something.
THAT LAST ONE KILLED ME😂😂😂
Ever notice how Tony the Tiger is always talking about how grrrrrrreat Frosted Flakes are but you never see him eating them?
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*
i haven't watched tv in a while; i'm quite surprised some of these would even make it on television.
I like to think that Tony is just the imaginary friend of all of these children.
THAT was hilarious!!!
the anthropomorphization of food can never go well
"Coincidentally" YT showed me a funny post-apocalyptic ad for a car in this video.
best end-plate ever. also the first time i've heard the term end-plate
Ok. I was beginning to think that I was the only one who found those Pop-Tarts commercials to be kinda horrifying.
in the Kelloggs Kraves commercials, they are fighting over who gets to eat each other
You completely forgot Mr. Peanut's universe where he processes and sells his own species while keeping a factory of woodland critters slaving away, and kidnapping nutcrackers...
*clap* you actually put some dialogue in this vid, well done. try it on some of your other vids. Please why don't you.
Fucking gold level comedy in this one... right here.
"At a certain point the ads made the baffling decisions to imply that Tony had a life before and after each commercial as a single male adult.
He's like that kid in school who was always yelling, " Hey wait for me!" if that kid was now a 50 something tiger that seemed to be lifting a ton of weights in his downtime...
And now he's in your fucking house."
Fucking gold, goddammit.
3:00 oh no, I wonder what happened to the other thundercats .
Tiger Tiger? Tnny is an genius xD Because of the William Blake refference^^
For the Tony the Tiger one, couldn't it be that Tony's imaginary to the parents and he wasn't playing hang man he was playing Horse or Tiger in this case
what about those pop tarts commercials where people pretty much murder sentient pop tarts while they realize their fates in terror
I always thought Tony the Tiger was a deity of joy who was cursed by gypsies to have a constant need for companionship.
Actually the saddest game of hang man is the one where you die.
Dark...
1:40 there was a commercial where M&Ms ate other M&Ms. In fact, it probably predated the Lay's commercial!
Ads then: Kill for what you want or die.
I miss that.
Look, if marketing people were smart and creative, they wouldn't be working in marketing.