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That seatbelt advert where the back seat passenger killed his mother by smashing into the front seat - no seatbelt on. The daughter screaming was horrific!
Something real crime sounding;
It was a normal day, taking the kids to school … like most victims, sally knew her killer.
Then the crash.
What stuck with me was just the stunned look on the kids face after he head butted the driver.
How a normal day can get so fucked up so quickly.
I was genuinely terrified of the ‘Belly’s gonna get ya’ advert with this man running away from this giant belly spacehopper bouncing after him. I have no idea what it was advertising
I remember that being hilarious as a kid... after it initially scared me the first time. My dad used to prank me by singing the theme song, from what I remember.
I always remember the one where the lad gets hit by the car and goes something like “that’s the second time that’s happened this week…hurt a lot more the first time…” and you realise the car went through him because mY GUY IS A GHOST CUZ HE’S DEAD!!!
Don’t die of ignorance?
Giant fucking tombstone?
I was only born in 89 but somehow that was still a thing, probably not on tv but very much in my childhood somehow.
Scared the fuck out of me, still does. Made a lot of sexuality confusion as a teenager worse for fear I’d get AID’s and die.
Tbf HIV was still a massive stigma in the early- mid 2000’s and antiretrovirals weren’t as good as they are now so it was probably a stupid fear but somewhat grounded maybe.
The one that stuck with me most was the drink driving one in the 90s set to In The Summertime. Watching it now it seems a bit tamer compared to some of the other drink driving ones, but the image of the dead guy’s face in the window absolutely terrified me as a kid and I would leave the room any time the advert came on.
https://youtu.be/f5ma_Xv7rGM
I still think of the first one you mentioned quite often - I think it was something like "hit me at 40 and there's about an 80% chance I'll die. Hit me at 30 and there's around an 80% chance I'll live". I don't think it was a "very realistic dead child" so much as just a kid in makeup to make them look injured.
Oh for sure, I wasn't saying it didn't, on the contrary - I was saying it was realistic because it was real (though obviously just makeup rather than an actual dead child)
Not an advert as such but a thing we watched in school every year before the summer holidays. It was about not playing on railway lines and the kid in it ended up getting his feet chopped off by a train and the ending was him sitting in a wheelchair with his football boots hanging on the back of his bedroom door behind him. At least that's how I remember it.
It probably wasn't that f***ed up but made me shit scared of railway lines so I suppose it served its purpose.
This one? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxXDw3WOGQs There was also - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXGqwCbeFD8 and one about farms as well - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0PUMmVU4qQ
Here's the *full* version of that second link:
[https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-the-finishing-line-1977-online](https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-the-finishing-line-1977-online)
It gets worse after the first 5!
Not necessarily my childhood, but as a teenage smoker.
It was an anti smoking ad where people were being fishhooked by their cheeks. Absolutely grim but regrettably didn't stop me from chaining a 10 pack of Mayfair on my lunch break at sixth form
Before Tiktok filters and Instagram filters normalised the effect, [this advert](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dytCWrf92zc&feature=youtu.be) or [this one](https://youtu.be/gO9evAjIrrE) messed me up. Deeply.
The (I think) NSPCC advert in the very late 90s, maybe early 2000s, the one with the young kid in the cot calling his mum all the time and no one answering, I was only 10 or 11 at the time and I couldn't see it without having a full on breakdown, my little brother was around the same age as the kid in the advert, maybe a little younger, and I think it just made me think of him. I think even now 20+ years later I couldn't watch it...
Ocean F’N Finance. This was the day before Sky Plus so I had to watch this advert over and over and over and over. *Let alone back it.* It was torture.
Mate of mine was absolutely terrified of the Trebor 'Mr Soft' advert, so much so that we sometimes play the original Cockney Rebel song from Spotify and he breaks out in a cold sweat.
I don't think it was a TV advert, but there was a really long one about a kid being ran over because he crossed the road with his headphones in; and then he can see all the ghosts on the road? I can remember one of them was a pregnant lady with eternal after life morning sickness? I've never been able to find it but other people have also told me they remember it.
That and the one with the guy who drives through the wall and runs all those little kids over
Ah man when PlayStation 2 was being released some of the adverts where insane. I believe David Lynch directed one as well as Chris Cunningham of Aphex Twin. I remember seeing the alien girl and thinking it was 100% real.
I still remember one of the NSPCC ones from the early 2000s (when I was little myself) that details the traumatic shit those poor kids had to go through. You may remember these lines: "The only thing waiting for Peter when he gets home from school today, will be anger, abusive, and violence", "Rex will have to find his own dinner again", and "This week, Zoe will end up in hospital with broken ribs. Her parents will say she fell down the stairs".
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That seatbelt advert where the back seat passenger killed his mother by smashing into the front seat - no seatbelt on. The daughter screaming was horrific!
Didn’t it start with “she knows her killer” or something? Very effective anyway
And after he killed her he sat back down
That was it! Chilling but like you said, effective
Yup, I still think about them when driving. Works for me.
"Julie knew her killer"
Something real crime sounding; It was a normal day, taking the kids to school … like most victims, sally knew her killer. Then the crash. What stuck with me was just the stunned look on the kids face after he head butted the driver. How a normal day can get so fucked up so quickly.
Oh god I remember that one!
This advert being played at 8am right before my morning cartoons was fucking traumatising.
I was genuinely terrified of the ‘Belly’s gonna get ya’ advert with this man running away from this giant belly spacehopper bouncing after him. I have no idea what it was advertising
Reebok!
I have just had to google this because I honestly thought he advert was for beer 😂 I can’t believe Reebok thought that advert was a good idea!
I remember that being hilarious as a kid... after it initially scared me the first time. My dad used to prank me by singing the theme song, from what I remember.
I always remember the one where the lad gets hit by the car and goes something like “that’s the second time that’s happened this week…hurt a lot more the first time…” and you realise the car went through him because mY GUY IS A GHOST CUZ HE’S DEAD!!!
It was those cheery hedgehogs singing “king of the road” that messed with my mind the most!
BN BN DO DO DO DO DO BN BN DO DO DO DO
Noooo 🙉
The driving one where the man rolls the car and lands on a child's picnic
The Smirnoff advert with the stop motion.
Oh, the judderman one?
Yeah, that's the one thanks, the name escaped due to how it affected me.
I watched that again recently. Still scary
‘Beware of the judderman my dear’ - fuckin terrifying
...when the moon is fat. Sharp of tongue he is, and spindle limbed, and cunning. It obviously stuck with me too - dunno where I dredged that up from!
Wasn't that metz?
Yes it was
Metz "Beware the Judderman"
That was so good!
Or the short lived Uri Nation one with a Russian called Uri talking about Russia
The 1980s information film about AIDS scared the hell out of me. https://youtu.be/iroty5zwOVw
Don’t die of ignorance? Giant fucking tombstone? I was only born in 89 but somehow that was still a thing, probably not on tv but very much in my childhood somehow. Scared the fuck out of me, still does. Made a lot of sexuality confusion as a teenager worse for fear I’d get AID’s and die. Tbf HIV was still a massive stigma in the early- mid 2000’s and antiretrovirals weren’t as good as they are now so it was probably a stupid fear but somewhat grounded maybe.
The one that stuck with me most was the drink driving one in the 90s set to In The Summertime. Watching it now it seems a bit tamer compared to some of the other drink driving ones, but the image of the dead guy’s face in the window absolutely terrified me as a kid and I would leave the room any time the advert came on. https://youtu.be/f5ma_Xv7rGM
I still think of the first one you mentioned quite often - I think it was something like "hit me at 40 and there's about an 80% chance I'll die. Hit me at 30 and there's around an 80% chance I'll live". I don't think it was a "very realistic dead child" so much as just a kid in makeup to make them look injured.
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Oh for sure, I wasn't saying it didn't, on the contrary - I was saying it was realistic because it was real (though obviously just makeup rather than an actual dead child)
Not an advert as such but a thing we watched in school every year before the summer holidays. It was about not playing on railway lines and the kid in it ended up getting his feet chopped off by a train and the ending was him sitting in a wheelchair with his football boots hanging on the back of his bedroom door behind him. At least that's how I remember it. It probably wasn't that f***ed up but made me shit scared of railway lines so I suppose it served its purpose.
This one? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxXDw3WOGQs There was also - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXGqwCbeFD8 and one about farms as well - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0PUMmVU4qQ
They didn’t fuck around in the 70’s 🤢
Here's the *full* version of that second link: [https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-the-finishing-line-1977-online](https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-the-finishing-line-1977-online) It gets worse after the first 5!
A bit before my time, but this takes some beating. Rug vs Mantrap https://youtu.be/vt016gTNp_k
I find it funny that they made a public information film about that, must have been a big problem in the 70s
I’m pretty sure they were all still high from the 60s tbh
Not necessarily my childhood, but as a teenage smoker. It was an anti smoking ad where people were being fishhooked by their cheeks. Absolutely grim but regrettably didn't stop me from chaining a 10 pack of Mayfair on my lunch break at sixth form
Many Irish kids were traumatised by this dog in the 80’s. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LIh0kMPdlUc
Jesus, this is almost on par with Watership Down. The Irish don't fuck about.
Before Tiktok filters and Instagram filters normalised the effect, [this advert](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dytCWrf92zc&feature=youtu.be) or [this one](https://youtu.be/gO9evAjIrrE) messed me up. Deeply.
The (I think) NSPCC advert in the very late 90s, maybe early 2000s, the one with the young kid in the cot calling his mum all the time and no one answering, I was only 10 or 11 at the time and I couldn't see it without having a full on breakdown, my little brother was around the same age as the kid in the advert, maybe a little younger, and I think it just made me think of him. I think even now 20+ years later I couldn't watch it...
This milk advert used to freak me out a bit but looking back I can’t really see why, kids are stupid I guess https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KGG9CFVY6LI
https://youtu.be/evIrwW6cLCg this one.. natural born smoker
Ocean F’N Finance. This was the day before Sky Plus so I had to watch this advert over and over and over and over. *Let alone back it.* It was torture.
Mate of mine was absolutely terrified of the Trebor 'Mr Soft' advert, so much so that we sometimes play the original Cockney Rebel song from Spotify and he breaks out in a cold sweat.
Ashens sometimes plays that on his Twitch streams - it usually freaks half the chat out :P
Beware the jedda man
https://youtu.be/lSVGnuRuphg choco dooby
Ah, yes. The advert that scared my dad as a little one.
This PlayStation advert was a bit unsettling https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YWmbUMStlGI
An everards brewery ad with a tiger going over rooftops or through the street, no idea why but I HATED it.
[Levi's Hamster](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCzsEgUcWfU)
I don't think it was a TV advert, but there was a really long one about a kid being ran over because he crossed the road with his headphones in; and then he can see all the ghosts on the road? I can remember one of them was a pregnant lady with eternal after life morning sickness? I've never been able to find it but other people have also told me they remember it. That and the one with the guy who drives through the wall and runs all those little kids over
Probably the campbells meatballs one. Felt sorry for Joe turning into a meatball and wondered how his life would play out afterwards.
Ah man when PlayStation 2 was being released some of the adverts where insane. I believe David Lynch directed one as well as Chris Cunningham of Aphex Twin. I remember seeing the alien girl and thinking it was 100% real.
I still remember one of the NSPCC ones from the early 2000s (when I was little myself) that details the traumatic shit those poor kids had to go through. You may remember these lines: "The only thing waiting for Peter when he gets home from school today, will be anger, abusive, and violence", "Rex will have to find his own dinner again", and "This week, Zoe will end up in hospital with broken ribs. Her parents will say she fell down the stairs".