Comments on: The 15 Creepiest Vintage Ads Of All Time

By: Glenn (Chip) Jones

Glenn (Chip) Jones — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:22:38 +0000

Unfotunatly advertisers didnt get disturbing over night. amazing 2 c that troubled people found a career in advertising….wow

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:03:15 +0000

…there just are not enough words to decribe, just this feeling in the pit of my stomach. How did our parents make it through those decades without cerebral damage? Explains the arrival of the little yellow pills!

By: margjack

margjack — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:50:48 +0000

I think the “Pears” ad references the old adage “don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater” – basically, families took baths oldest to youngest and the water would be so dark at the end that the baby might get thrown out.

By: Winni-Pig

Winni-Pig — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:12:51 +0000

I would like to see the marketing proposal that put forward the “Pears” advert….anyone know what year this is? It seems like it might relate to things going on in the world at the time of publication.

By: Robin

Robin — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:09:43 +0000

I have to say, the French suicide sausage is just about the goriest ad I’ve seen. Although they’re all so nasty it’s hard to choose.

By: Shannon K.

Shannon K. — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:22:37 +0000

good ol’ Corporate America! Steer Clear!!!

By: dhchatfield

dhchatfield — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:38:35 +0000

5 and 2 are the worst I have seen but they are all pretty reprehensible!

By: Gnarlodious

Gnarlodious — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:43:45 +0000

These are the finest products capitalism has ever brought us. Now shut up and consume.

By: Melsner

Melsner — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:00:28 +0000

Not that I’m defending anything here, but that’s clearly a different kind of Lysol than what we use today. It looks like a clear glass bottle.

So it’s not quite the same as advocating that you use the spray bottle you keep under the sink…

By: ellen

ellen — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:27:17 +0000

these ads are interesting and its cool to see what society accepted back then..but the author of this article and poster of these photos…hmmm…not my cuppa tea at all

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:28:22 +0000

” . . . but what I’m really excited about is eating jelly made from the blood of the innocent!”

BWAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: cristina

cristina — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:10:27 +0000

Ok, men beating wives, child neglect, innocence is sexy!! To bad are nation isn’t as “Conservative” as it use to be!!

By: Hypkill

Hypkill — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:38:09 +0000

@Bill

Well, those were the cocaine and drug days.
These products are the birth of their mind induced narcotics. =P
Mhm.

By: Sandy

Sandy — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:49:17 +0000

Hands down, “Baby Soft”. Ick . The others were varied levels of disgusting/sad/bewildering, and ultimately, mostly funny.

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:32:57 +0000

Oh…
my…
God.

What were those ad reps thinking?! Those are all so wrong, I can’t even think of all the ways they’re wrong! Sometimes, a little political correctness isn’t such a bad thing.

By: Jean

Jean — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:33:57 +0000

They are all so creepy and disgusting, how can one choose the worst of the lot?

By: Jan Costea

Jan Costea — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:45:35 +0000

The ad that advises women to use Lysol as a douche has to be the most reprehensible of this group! Wringing all of the guilt out of a sexual relationship is manipulative and can hardly be justified, especially with the present connotation of the disinfectant qualities of Lysol…hardly a product to be applied to a person’s private parts!