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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4kHmbZTvyI This Kinder Surprise ad from the 1980s.] Horrified an entire generation of ovoid-shaped-chocolate-product-eating kids in Western Europe.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lL6hkpJveM&feature=related ThisBritish ad from 1986 for Mr Soft mints.] Now we know where Liam Gallagher from Oasis got his distinctive walk from.
* The toenail fungus monsters in those [https://web.archive.org/web/20081119085148/http://www.familyfootcare.biz/ffc_graphics/photo-product_lamisil.jpg Lamisil ads]! You know, the ones that [[Squick|zealously peeled up people's toenails and dove headlong into the nail beds]]?
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== [[Literature]] ==
* The picture book ''Hair in Funny Places'' is intended to reassure kids about to go through puberty. With pictures of a young girl's insides being taken over by grotesque furry monsters representing hormones.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120810105047/http://www.laurenharman.com/alice/illust/kallay.htm These examples] of ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'' illustrations by Dusan Kallay fail to show the childhood-devastating terror that were those disturbing pieces of art, best described as "Dali meets Bosch".
* ''The Nursery Alice,'' apparently illustrated by a morbid Impressionist having a very bad acid trip. How it came to be in the children's section is beyond comprehension.
* Tim Burton's ''The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories'' has a whole array of weird characters who are kids with strange abilities or deformities, such as Stain Boy (whose only superpower is to leave a nasty stain), the girl who turned into a bed, the pincushion queen and Jimmy the hideous penguin boy. (It's telling that Burton showed Danny DeVito his illustration of Jimmy to give the actor an idea of how they would be approaching the character of The Penguin in ''Batman Returns''.)
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