Commercials are often the sort of things that scar one for life. Discuss.

The one I will never get out of my head is ironically for that anti-scar medicine, Medera. A child discusses a mysterious and inexplicable way to get a scar ("when my face got burned"), then explains that Medera made it better. After that, they reach up to their face and pull the sad face off to the side, revealing a happy face underneath. It's truly horrifying.

The toenail fungus commercial. Can I ever change the channel fast enough?

Does anyone know if the ad agency responsible for Digger the Dermatophyte (icky toenail fungus guy) is the same one that brought us the Mucinex phlegm family and the little migraine monster that attacks the woman's head while she's on vacation? There seems to be a similarity...

Please don't let them do one for Immodium A-D next. Please.

The VW "fast" commercials of course. The horrible mask-thing, the humming, the demonic voice, the way that one guy who get pulled over keeps twitching. . . . I miss them. Cpmmercial watching isnt't the same without knowing you might have to change the channel quickly at a moment's notice.

There's an ad where a guy comes home to find his dummy waiting for him, and then the dummy sits up and starts talking to him. Gah! I don't even know what it's for, as I make sure to change the channel ASAP.

My current one is the latest horror movie ad ($1 says it's a remake of a foreign film--am I right?) with the little girl with the deformed face.

The Pepto-Bismol diarrhea conga line. My stomach churns every time I see it.

That's another one I literally cannot watch. I actually have to turn the channel or physically turn my head and mute the TV. I'm just so embarrassed for everybody involved.

The BK guy sneaking up on the construction worker. That's the scariest of the bunch.

You actually feel badly for the construction worker. The King isn't friendly, he's apparently homicidal. I hope the worker was wearing his safety harness.

Actually that's a remake of The Hills Have Eyes, an early slasher from Wes Craven.

Aw, phooey. I guess I only win $0.50 then...from myself. The other $0.50 will be donated in etain's name to the tip jar the next time I get a latte.

The Dulcolax "Comfy Chair" ad. If I'm going to get "comfy" with a laxative, I head to the bathroom. This ad earns extra stomach-churning points if it's aired during dinner time. Another reason to click off the tube!

+10 points for the Tales of Interest title reference!

That woman really really likes her easy chair. Also cringeworthy is the one where people are tossing her around on a blanket and she's all "Wheee! I'm regular!" Lady, pooping is not a team sport.

Hooray! I'm collecting GlarkPoints.

Anything digestive should not be allowed in commercials. The pepto bismal one with the little dance is both annoying and gross, especially the latest one which appears to be at the ickiest ballet recital ever.

New ickiness from a horror movie ad: if you hear Air Supply, turn the channel. The movie looks like it might be semi-humorous (Nathan Fillion and Jenna Fischer seem to be in it), but the ad itself mostly features live action Mucinex creatures. Making out. To Air Supply.

There was a Ross ad that used to air a few months ago that featured this guy who purchased his clothes from Ross for some big dates he had with a couple of women. They show the first date one night and then the second date on another night. Then they show this same guy on a third "date", siting on a couch in his home, candles lit, a very romantic setting. Then, the voice-over says something to the effect of "And for that special evening in with [so-and-so]". The camera pans over and there is a dog sitting next to him. This guy is giving his dog the bedroom eyes and then it fades out. And then I become ill. Good call to use implied bestiality to sell your products, Ross. Fortunately, I don't think this ad runs anymore.

I don't know why, but that is cracking me up. Who thinks of this shit? And then who green-lights it?

Some of those healing product ads, esp. the ones from Neosporin (I get the feeling I spelled that wrong), where they show up close, gruesome scars. That's just an example of the tons of ads for body function products that advertise. I swear that has something to do with all the gleeful gross-outs in our culture. I see I'm hardly alone in that feeling here. I don't care if one of those disgusting cartoon creatures is voiced by Will "GOB" Arnett, I hate 'em.

Mibbitmaker, are you saying GOB is Digger or GOB is the mucus blob? Wow, I keep picturing Digger saying, " I get under your nails. With CLUB sauce!,"

VersesBatman, the King suddenly appearing in the backseat with a burger is the scariest IMO followed (very closely) by the King appearing in a guy's yard and one second later appearing IMMEDIATELY in the window holding a breakfast croissant. Eeep!

Total holy crap scarrage! I just saw a commercial for Juicy Fruit gum that featured a guy playing frisbee with a giant ant. As if that wasn't bad enough, when the guy pulls out a stick of gum the ant attacks him! It rips the door off his car when he tries to hide from it and ends up dragging him down a hole in the ground.

I not only don't want to see the commercial again, I think I might actually be scared to chew Juicy Fruit.

I really hope you're making that up because that's beyond frightening. ANTS? Coming after GUM? Too bizarre.

Two words: Ghost Car.

(No, DON'T google it)

Just to add to "The Hills Have Eyes" remake ads, I saw one today that features Claire from "Lost" sleeping and being fondled by some deformed guy, only to wake up screaming. Consider pottie-mouth horrified.

I don't mind the "Hill Have Eyes" ads. But the Red Lobster "Lobster-fest" or whatever ads are killing me. I mean lobster's look a little like roaches without their heads! And that guy breaking the poor thing's claws and it bursting with juices?

No thanks. I don't like mercury anyway.

ETA: The ghost car ad NEVER gets old! It's so funny and cute and quirky and clever.

I still think that the first one was horrifying. What would you do if you woke up and the BK King was in bed with you. Then he tries to molest you. Man that commercial was horrible.

Is "Ghost Car" the ad that has the car driving on a winding road, and then towards the end of the commercial this...thing..pops up into the picture?

Because if so, I hate that ad. I'm easily frightened.

Yep, that's the one. I don't what everyone's so freaked out about. It's nothing too scarworthy... Sissies. :P

Heh heh.. I showed that one to my old roommate and she screamed and ran out of the room. She said she had bad dreams about that thing for days. I've watched it several time but it still makes me jump.

And I hate every single fucking commercial with The King in it. Freaks me out.

Is Ghost car a real ad?

I thought it was an internet made joke.

Unless i'm being really dense.

Yeah, I was kind of wondering that myself. Not even the stupidest of stupid ad guys would greenlight that.

My current BK related freakout is the guy on the tandem bike with his girlfriend. All happy and lalala and then they ride through a tunnel and suddenly it's the King and the girlfriend has...disappeared? And then the guy doesn't even seem upset, he just grabs the burger and keeps on going. The hell?

Yeah. If memory serves correctly it aired in Germany.

"Ghost Car" was a German ad for a "Red Bull"-like drink, the selling point was something like, "What gets your blood pumping?" or "What wakes you up?"

Oh, I was just reminding my friend tonight that I still owe her pain for fowarding that ad to me. Now you're saying it was real?! I'm not easily grossed out (neither Digger the Dermaphyte nor self-starting dummies freak me out) but I have this thing about things popping out at you from thin air, so, yeah, total scarrage.

One of the creepiest commercials still airing in Canada is the one for Dentyne Frostbites (or some name like that). A guy and a girl are in the back of a cab, and he eats some mints and freezes. Then, his head falls off on the girl's lap, and she starts screaming bloody murder, and so does the cabbie. Really doesn't make me want to buy the product. Ugh.

When I first clicked the link for the Ghost Car ad, it was one in the morning, so I had my computer on mute. Good thing too.

I finally got to see the Fabreeze one with the stuffed animals. That toy monkey has the most weird, evil eyes ever!

I know I shouldn't have, but I googled the "Ghost Car" ad. I jumped and screamed.

Did I mention that I'm at work?

Dude, I saw that ad last night and I couldn't believe it. I was thinking W.T.F.?! I couldn't have had more than a couple drinks and this ad doesn't even make sense. Chewing gum. And a giant ant. What kind of crack are ad execs smoking these days? Because they need to share.

Add me to the list of seeing that Ghost Car ad on the internet and not knowing it was an actual commercial somewhere. All I know is I'm glad it's not local because there's just not enough therapy.

A while back there was this Juicy Fruit commercial where these people were in a CPR class and the guy chewing the gum practised on the dummy and it came to life and ran after the guy with the gum. Scary indeed!

I'm not sure if anyone has seen these or if it should fall underhear but there are these new United Airlines commercials that are animated oddly. One of them has a dad abandoning his child, going to fight a medieval war in Japan and then coming back with the toy of a dragon. Another has a woman having to give a presentation to animal-people who then turn into people. And it's silent except for the end where they tell us about United Airlines.

I don't know if it's "horrifying" per se but I find them unsettling for some reason I have no idea about and it makes me feel sick and nauseous. Does anyone else have any idea what I'm talking about?

Are you still employed?

Yes. My reaction was "Um, OK." My 8 year old daughter turned to me and asked me what was it about and all i could say was "I...I don't know!"

I KNOW! If Febreze makes those creepy toys come to life, I ain't never buying Febreze.

Ok, after catching up on the commercial forum, had to go google to ghost car - thanks alot! It's been 15 minute, and my heart rate is still too fast. That's not nice to do to an old person!

The Spam commercial with all of the freaky kids attacking the teacher always freaks me out. I can't change the channel fast enough.

Yes. I've always liked United's ads, but the last two are firmly in "WTF" territory. They seem like a good indication of what might happen if you take Ambien on a long-haul flight and start hallucinating.

Mederma for kids - I swear, I thought I was the only one who found these just really disturbing and horrible.

I don't even remember what it's for - wherein the guy who comes home to find his dummy sitting up and talking to him, and is then told "You're nothing without me!" to which he meekly replies, "I know." It's...I don't want to picture what goes on behind those closed doors, you know?

The Burger King didn't bother me until the King Kong parody one came out. Gigantuous King leering in through a woman's window with his perpetual perv-face on? There is not enough acid in the world to burn that image out of my brain.

There were these commercials for a potato product, McCain's I think. The gimmick was that there were no real words you could use to describe how awesome it was, so everyone was talking in this ridiculous gibberish. It wasn't scary, but I was so damn embarrassed for the actors that I had to mute it every time it came on. It was genuinely agonizing to watch.

For some reason, when I was a kid, the "this is your brain on drugs" ads really freaked me out. To this day, I can't figure out why. I have no issues with eggs. But hell, I was scared of the CBS logo too. Yeah, I...I really don't know. And I guess I haven't changed much, because I gotta say, those Charmin bears give me the creeps.

The United ads have the same effect on me, but they also make me feel incredibly depressed after I see them. Why? I don't know. I think it's a combination of the weird animation and the music.