That Bayer rice ad is actually very interesting, because of the story behind it. What had happened is that Bayer had made an experimental genetically modified rice strain and it accidentally got out and found its way into the fields, it then crossbred with the rest of the rice and tainted a ton of rice farmland with its modified genes. The rice was designed to be resistant to Bayer Liberty herbicide, though it was still in the experimental development stages. The rice itself was fine to eat, however most countries were still suspicious of it and didn't want to import it from the US, because it was experimental rice. This caused US rice farmers to lose a ton of money. Bayer eventually paid $750 million dollars out to the farmers who bought rice seeds from Bayer.
The key components to traumatize 2000s kids: •Horror game soundtrack •Monotone voices •Disturbing images •List of scary sounding diseases •Making everyday things sound like freaking murder devices And the worst part: •Having these come on right after your happy, colorful, harmless kids shows.
I remember watching a cartoon on Noggin back in 2008, and I saw a creepy ad about contaminated bananas, with creepy music, unsettling voices, and some strange diseases that a 4 year old would not understand. I started crying, and had nightmares for two weeks or so
Honestly these are pretty scary, and would be especially for children. I'm not in America though, I'm in Australia and by far the scariest ads we had here were our government anti-smoking PSAs. One particularly freaky one was this ad where there was an old picture of this young woman back in the 60s or something and she's with her family. Then this really raspy, creepy voice narrates saying "my name is Terri and I used to be a smoker" and then it shows her and like she's so clearly incredibly sick from the smoking... That ad is the whole reason I don't watch cable TV late at night. Also check out the grim reaper 80s AIDS ad.
I remember the peanut butter one. I was around 5 years old at the time and I thought they were talking about ALL peanut butter, not just Peter Pan peanut butter. So I took all the jif and skippy peanut butter we had and put it on the shelf and called the number on the screen... they hung up on me. So I threw all the peanut butter away because I thought it had salmonella. Funny story, but I will never forget the fear that I felt from that. The music too is just terrifying.
i was 13 when that happened and sadly was effected by it i barely survived it but sadly due to this it pretty much fucked my intestines up causing me to have IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) irl TwT
I guess what makes these so terrifying is not only the music, but the context behind it: It’s basically saying a company f*cked up big time, and many people may be subject to serious side effects. The music may be scary, but the Pokémon one actually hits different due to the loss of music. That one gives off “no more fun and games, this is serious” vibes.
I actually think the Burger King/Pokémon one is more intimidating than all the attorney ads, mostly because of its lack of music as well as the lack of over-the-top dramatization. Its just the Poké Ball in a dark background with a nameless voice spending 15 seconds at most telling you precisely what the issue is and what to do about it. On top of that, unlike most of the other products, Burger King and Pokémon, especially Pokémon, have a history of being targeted toward children, adding to the intimidation.
Whenever I used MLB's streaming service, one of the most common commercials I saw was for a weed killer called round up. It literally came up every other commercial break. During one particular break however, the same commercial played again but then RIGHT AFTER it finished, one of these PSAs came up stating that THE SAME WEED KILLER apparently was causing lung cancer or something like that and that you may be entitled to whatever.
nothing is as scary as the tv randomly switching to a blue and a terrifying female voice comes on saying stuff about an amber alert in the middle of the night.
The music is what really makes this disturbing. We associate it with fear and urgency. I wonder how these recall ads would be with a less foreboding track accompanying them. I would also like to know where to find the music by itself.
the birth control ones make me really sad, it's a shame that all birth control pills have such shitty side effects. you could make a blanket out of the paper that comes with the box of pills...
The monotone voice and black background certainly didn't help, what made it worse was the VHS distortion as it makes me feel like something is about to pop out of the black background.
Born in 2000, and man as a kid I didn’t realize half of these were recalls but they always made me unsettled and I’d ask my mom if she took it lol she never took any of them but stiLl
I have a love/terrified type of thing with this background music. I’m terrified of it, but at the same time, I can’t resist listening to it. It’s stupid, but I can’t explain why. Imagine seeing your medication with this background music 😱
I was 8 when I saw the Burger King Pokeball Recall commercial. I only saw it in full once and it scared the mess out of me. I had nightmares about that commercial for a long time. I used to think I was a weirdo because of it, but seeing how many other people it scared over time has shown me I actually wasn't so atypical in being scared of it!
Man seeing these ads as a early 200s kids weren't really creepy but made me think why is this on kids channel? Like your waching tom and jerry on boomerang or spongebob on Nickelodeon then something like this shows up. Like why?
These are scary and all but i have alot of nostalgia for these because when I went to my grandparents house and watched tv, these were the most common ads.
As a kid I was never able to sleep unless I had background noise so I'd often keep my TV on and these commercials would wake me up out of a sound sleep
i swear there's some drug recall or law firm commercial that's been playing recently, where after the call number is shown, the narrator says "do it now" after like three whole seconds of silence, it always fucks me up when i hear it
Absolutely. The monotone voice, dark background, talking about a choking hazard, and the lack of any music, not to mention the very VHS quality really spook me and would most definitely spook any kid who watched it when it aired.
Back when I was a kid those commercials used to give me nightmares and thinking going to church leads to hell and Satan will kill you if you don't call this number, because I was very religious at the time and the music sounds very satanic
I’ll never forget being 7 years old , and seeing the mesothelioma commercials, this one commercial had that same music , except certain ones would play for 20-30 seconds longer , that sound still gives me creeps to this day. No joke!
My mom took/takes prozac, but she dropped it when she was pregnant. It really fucked her up, but no birth defects. That PSA about antidepressants is unsettling (3:12).
I remember i would be at my grandmothers house late at night and my grandmother and i would be sitting watching tv and these sorts of commericals would pop up. Idk why but they have this nostalgic feeling
Not long after I was born, my Grandma got $500k because of one of these law firm commercials
@@dandrecollier800mesothelioma
That Bayer rice ad is actually very interesting, because of the story behind it.
What had happened is that Bayer had made an experimental genetically modified rice strain and it accidentally got out and found its way into the fields, it then crossbred with the rest of the rice and tainted a ton of rice farmland with its modified genes. The rice was designed to be resistant to Bayer Liberty herbicide, though it was still in the experimental development stages. The rice itself was fine to eat, however most countries were still suspicious of it and didn't want to import it from the US, because it was experimental rice. This caused US rice farmers to lose a ton of money. Bayer eventually paid $750 million dollars out to the farmers who bought rice seeds from Bayer.
The key components to traumatize 2000s kids:
•Horror game soundtrack
•Monotone voices
•Disturbing images
•List of scary sounding diseases
•Making everyday things sound like freaking murder devices
And the worst part:
•Having these come on right after your happy, colorful, harmless kids shows.
Absolutely True
I remember watching a cartoon on Noggin back in 2008, and I saw a creepy ad about contaminated bananas, with creepy music, unsettling voices, and some strange diseases that a 4 year old would not understand. I started crying, and had nightmares for two weeks or so
Honestly these are pretty scary, and would be especially for children. I'm not in America though, I'm in Australia and by far the scariest ads we had here were our government anti-smoking PSAs. One particularly freaky one was this ad where there was an old picture of this young woman back in the 60s or something and she's with her family. Then this really raspy, creepy voice narrates saying "my name is Terri and I used to be a smoker" and then it shows her and like she's so clearly incredibly sick from the smoking... That ad is the whole reason I don't watch cable TV late at night.
Also check out the grim reaper 80s AIDS ad.
@@themoon7435 I’ve seen that one with Terri. She’s no longer living.
to me it was mostly the music that played in the background that unsettled me the most to be honest lol
I remember the peanut butter one. I was around 5 years old at the time and I thought they were talking about ALL peanut butter, not just Peter Pan peanut butter. So I took all the jif and skippy peanut butter we had and put it on the shelf and called the number on the screen... they hung up on me. So I threw all the peanut butter away because I thought it had salmonella. Funny story, but I will never forget the fear that I felt from that. The music too is just terrifying.
i was 13 when that happened and sadly was effected by it i barely survived it but sadly due to this it pretty much fucked my intestines up causing me to have IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) irl TwT
I am surprised you didn't call about the Tylenol one too. Lol! 🤣
I had the same when I was 5, except it was for my transvaginal mesh.
Spooky shit.
I guess what makes these so terrifying is not only the music, but the context behind it: It’s basically saying a company f*cked up big time, and many people may be subject to serious side effects.
The music may be scary, but the Pokémon one actually hits different due to the loss of music. That one gives off “no more fun and games, this is serious” vibes.
I actually think the Burger King/Pokémon one is more intimidating than all the attorney ads, mostly because of its lack of music as well as the lack of over-the-top dramatization. Its just the Poké Ball in a dark background with a nameless voice spending 15 seconds at most telling you precisely what the issue is and what to do about it.
On top of that, unlike most of the other products, Burger King and Pokémon, especially Pokémon, have a history of being targeted toward children, adding to the intimidation.
true.
These commercials scared the crap out of me as a child.
I vividly remember having nightmares about these. When I was little I would run out of the room whenever these came on tv
It’s also creepy seeing Lexapro here since I take it
I thought I was the only one 😳
Being a 2000s kid and hearing these broadcasts after staying up too late probably messed me up to some degree. These are EFFECTIVE, man.
Yeah its why I don't watch live TV at night (I usually watch Hulu or Netflix)
I'm SCARRED-
Especially the Peter Pan peanut butter considering the salmonella outbreak as well as the BP Oil Spill.
Whenever I used MLB's streaming service, one of the most common commercials I saw was for a weed killer called round up. It literally came up every other commercial break. During one particular break however, the same commercial played again but then RIGHT AFTER it finished, one of these PSAs came up stating that THE SAME WEED KILLER apparently was causing lung cancer or something like that and that you may be entitled to whatever.
That's how they did it with the Pokemon Burger King one too. The recall commercial came up after the original commercial
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nothing is as scary as the tv randomly switching to a blue and a terrifying female voice comes on saying stuff about an amber alert in the middle of the night.
The music is what really makes this disturbing. We associate it with fear and urgency. I wonder how these recall ads would be with a less foreboding track accompanying them. I would also like to know where to find the music by itself.
the birth control ones make me really sad, it's a shame that all birth control pills have such shitty side effects. you could make a blanket out of the paper that comes with the box of pills...
The Burger King one is by far the scariest.
The monotone voice and black background certainly didn't help, what made it worse was the VHS distortion as it makes me feel like something is about to pop out of the black background.
The sound and the screen effect is the one that makes the Burger King one scary
I really hated these commercials as a child. Even the voices gave me shivers down my spine.
Same. I remember the Xarelto one. I slept in my mom's bed because of it, and it made me cry because of it.
The peanut butter one scarred me for life ngl. The worst part is that these would go right after kids shows
Born in 2000, and man as a kid I didn’t realize half of these were recalls but they always made me unsettled and I’d ask my mom if she took it lol she never took any of them but stiLl
It's actually even scarier as an adult when you know what they're talking about, or worse, have used the products/medicines... new fears unlocked
I have a love/terrified type of thing with this background music. I’m terrified of it, but at the same time, I can’t resist listening to it. It’s stupid, but I can’t explain why. Imagine seeing your medication with this background music 😱
I was 8 when I saw the Burger King Pokeball Recall commercial. I only saw it in full once and it scared the mess out of me. I had nightmares about that commercial for a long time. I used to think I was a weirdo because of it, but seeing how many other people it scared over time has shown me I actually wasn't so atypical in being scared of it!
Man seeing these ads as a early 200s kids weren't really creepy but made me think why is this on kids channel? Like your waching tom and jerry on boomerang or spongebob on Nickelodeon then something like this shows up. Like why?
This triggered some genuine fight-or-flight response in me lmao.
These are scary and all but i have alot of nostalgia for these because when I went to my grandparents house and watched tv, these were the most common ads.
This is by FAR the creepiest law firm ads I've had ever had seen!!
Glad to know I'm not the only one that gets scared by stuff like this
As a kid I was never able to sleep unless I had background noise so I'd often keep my TV on and these commercials would wake me up out of a sound sleep
i swear there's some drug recall or law firm commercial that's been playing recently, where after the call number is shown, the narrator says "do it now" after like three whole seconds of silence, it always fucks me up when i hear it
This is both nostalgic and terrifying lmao
The music in the Jim Adler commercials make me extremely uncomfortable.
There was this one commercial that talked about asbestos and I would always run out of the room when it came on
Oh God, everytime these would come on I would switch channels until it finally ended. Terrifying as a kid.
There's nothing more American than "you might be eligible for a cash reward"
Tbh but the Burger King one is the most terrifying recall commercial I've ever seen
Absolutely. The monotone voice, dark background, talking about a choking hazard, and the lack of any music, not to mention the very VHS quality really spook me and would most definitely spook any kid who watched it when it aired.
My spine wants to escape my body when watching these
these were always on sprout. i used to have sprout on every night while i slept, and it was soooo creepy.
Back when I was a kid those commercials used to give me nightmares and thinking going to church leads to hell and Satan will kill you if you don't call this number, because I was very religious at the time and the music sounds very satanic
I’ll never forget being 7 years old , and seeing the mesothelioma commercials, this one commercial had that same music , except certain ones would play for 20-30 seconds longer , that sound still gives me creeps to this day. No joke!
This is nightmare fuel taken to the next level
i never thought i would go out of my way to watch these
I saw a lot of these on tv as a kid
Great goodness gracious, I'm from the Philippines, and, well, from my perspective, it's the music and the images are unsettling.
These Law Firm Commercials Have Creepy Background Music! 😱😱😱😱😱. If These Commercials Don't Get Your Attention What Does.
I was born with a heart condition, and I always asked my mom if she took any of these medicines….she didnt but it scared me as child
My mom took/takes prozac, but she dropped it when she was pregnant. It really fucked her up, but no birth defects. That PSA about antidepressants is unsettling (3:12).
All antidepressants have been linked to birth defects, that's why doctors recommend you stop taking them while pregnant
I remember i would be at my grandmothers house late at night and my grandmother and i would be sitting watching tv and these sorts of commericals would pop up. Idk why but they have this nostalgic feeling
I remember watching these they use to scare the shit out of me! Especially at midnight.
I saw the recall commercial at firehouse subs when im getting a sándwich
This is scary
These are scary.
That outtro, one of my favorite childhood songs ❤
Great video! Keep up all the amazing work!
This is the first ever time I got goosebumps from watching these psas and recalls, holy shit these are legitimately creepy