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Another Top 10 Funniest Banned Commercials

The funniest banned commercials won't be seeing any airtime soon, but we can still laugh at them on the internet.

By WatchMojoPublished 5 years ago 5 min read
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Some people just don’t want us to have any fun. Welcome to WatchMojo.com and today we’ll be counting down our picks for "Another Top 10 Funniest Banned Commercials."

For this list, we’re looking at commercials that are hilarious for a ton of different reasons, either for being weird, offensive, or even just plain stupid; but the one thing they all have in common is that, somewhere in the world, they were pulled from screens. Even if they aired for a while before being banned, they’re still fair game.

We’re used to ads being a bit risque, but this one was just a few inches over the line for Burger King. On a late-night subway ride, a man and a woman, seemingly alone, start flirting with each other. She makes eye contact, he laughs, and it culminates with her giving him an impromptu pole dance. It’s at that point she realizes there’s been a third guy in the carriage all along, silently observing, which makes her immediately stop what she’s doing. When the voice over asks, “wish your chicken was bigger?” the full meaning of this inappropriate ad is realized.

Nobody likes going to the gym at the same time as an imposing group of self-absorbed super models—at least, that’s what Planet Fitness would have you believe in this ad. While people do get self-conscious at gyms, Planet Fitness exploits this common fear to the extreme by showing an ad set in a girl’s locker room with one woman clearly feeling uncomfortable and inadequate as a group of “lunks” repeatedly talk about how “hot” they all are. Though it’s saying that this kind of behavior isn’t acceptable at Planet Fitness, the ad wasn’t acceptable to the FCC, getting it banned.

Ah, another dick joke. The crux of this commercial is that the girl in the ad owns a Land Rover, and because she owns a Land Rover she’s able to get to impossible-to-reach areas of the world and befriend previously undiscovered tribes, bringing back artifacts to display in her home. When she brings a guy home, he’s impressed by her tribal horn, though when he blows into it, he spots a picture and realizes that it’s not a horn; it’s a codpiece, and he just put it in his mouth. Gross.

Every Doritos commercial has the same message explored in a new and entertaining way: Doritos are irresistible. In this particular ad, a guy is sitting on a park bench eating a bag of his chosen brand of deliciousness as an attractive girl jogs past. She tries to get a Dorito but he’s run out, so instead she licks the powder from the side of his face. The next day he hatches a scheme to trick a girl into giving him some oral sex, which he does by covering his crotch in Dorito crumbs. It doesn’t work out like he planned.

A young daughter visits her mother in prison. The mother is resigned to her fate, telling her daughter she’s going to be in there for a long time, at which point the camera angle changes and we see she’s not in prison; she’s trapped in her own bathtub, cleaning for hours on end while her daughter is left all alone. The tagline is, “Don’t spend your life cleaning,” but some felt it was just a little too far to liken cleaning to incarceration, so the ad was pulled.

All the girls want a man who wears AXE body spray. That's the message AXE has been driving home for years, even more so in this banned ad. When their son comes home to visit, his parents are initially thrilled as he introduces his girlfriend Cindy, but when they go to close the door a parade of women emerges. To the shock of his parents, the son introduces them one by one, and they all come piling into the house—though weirdly enough, none of them seem to mind being just another notch in this guy’s bedpost.

It’s not surprising that an ad about a housewife who moonlights as a dominatrix when her husband goes to work got banned, but it remains hilarious to watch. She promises him that she’ll have the house all cleaned up and dinner prepared when he gets home, and proceeds to order her various excitable clients to scrub the floors, do her laundry, and then cook dinner, all while she wears leather underwear and brandishes a whip. It’s made even funnier by her telling her husband that she “slaved all day”—she sure did.

Nintendo is a company with a family-friendly image, which is why this ad for the Gameboy Micro was so out of the blue. Taking the angle that Nintendo products are impossibly addictive, the ad is set in the fictional “Nintendo Recovery Center.” A maze is set up for a lab rat, with cheese at one end and a Gameboy at the other. The rat immediately goes for the Gameboy, but it gets weird when it starts to aggressively hump it. An embarrassed scientist attempts to hide this with his clipboard, but doesn't exactly succeed.

This ad was banned because many women actively objected to it, for obvious reasons—but that doesn’t necessarily mean there isn't a chuckle in there. The morning after a one night stand, a guy is woken up by someone’s leg rubbing against him. When he feels the hair on it, he rolls over and sees he’s in bed with another VERY hairy guy, wearing women’s pajamas and speaking with a girl’s voice about how she’s “a little prickly.” The objectionable message: avoid “dudeness” by using Veet Wax Strips, because surely no one is turned on by female body hair.

Everybody knows that when girls have sleepovers they have pillow fights; that's just a fact. But, when this pillow fight is judged to be “too weak,” we’re introduced to Helga, who didn’t get the memo that the whole point of fighting with pillows is to avoid serious injury. Helga shows us the “too heavy” approach by mercilessly destroying the others with pillows while they beg her to stop. And it’s not the first time Bud Light have had an ad like this banned, as one showing a guy setting fire to his girlfriend’s lawn to spell out her name was also pulled from screens.

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