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World's Absolutely Strangest Television Ads?


I'm not completely sure if there are the absolutely strangest TV ads ever made, but they're certain among the top fifty or so. These are the kind of ads that make you wonder whether ad agencies are out of their minds.

I've added a poll to each video so that you can vote on how strange you think it is.

CLICK HERE for the first strange television ad » NUMBER 10 This one seems like a commercial for children, but it's clearly something that came out of the brain of Salvadore Dali...



Click here for the next strange television ad » NUMBER 9 Ah yes, if you want to sell something, traipse out the robot babies--



Click here for the next strange television ad » NUMBER 8 What is it about computer games that result in such strange commercials?--



Click here for the next strange television ad » NUMBER 7 Just what the world needs, a skin cream endorsed by a robot. Because if robots know about something, it's soft skin...



Click here for the next strange television ad » NUMBER 6 What's strange about this is that anybody thought it would be funny--



Click here for the next strange television ad » NUMBER 5 This commercial could put a kid in therapy for the next twenty years...



Click here for the next strange television ad » NUMBER 4
This one makes me want to buy GM cars for the rest of my life--



Click here for the next strange television ad » NUMBER 3
If I showed this to my toddlers, they'd never go outside again--



Click here for the next strange television ad » NUMBER 2
When the baby caterpillar starts crying, I start freaking out--



Click here for the final strange television ad » NUMBER 1
What's strange about this one is that it stars the governor of one of the largest states in the union, a state that, if it were a country, would have the 9th largest economy in the world--



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