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** And then, there are some food ads that invert that and have the parents being jerks to their kids by scaring the life out of them with either horrifying stories or (irrational) threats of punishment if they touch the product being advertised. Possibly even more disturbing in that the kids are usually around kindergarten age or so and therefore, too young to realize it's merely a tall tale.
*** In the recent Jello "Chocolate Temptations" ads, the parents aren't telling them a tall tale; one ad features a mother who pretty much tells her daughter (albeit passive-aggressively) that she'll take away her [[Companion Cube|stuffed bunny]] because she took one of mommy's temptations. Another ad features a cute little rhyme telling of "... Olive, [[Hypocrisy|who lacked self-control]]/she took mommy's temptations/[[Disproportionate Retribution|now she's polishing coal]]".
*** There's [http://youtu.be/W8-m014al-s another] where a mom is in a tent with two kids and tells them about the "Choco Beast" who goes after kids who steal Mommy's Chocolate Temptations, but they don't have anything to worry about, right? Cue the dad making monster noises outside and shadows on the tent, causing the kids to run inside screaming so he and mom can enjoy it by themselves. Holy traumatic childhood memories, Batman! [https://web.archive.org/web/20131009035414/http://www.customerservicenumbersblog.com/2011/03/jello-temptation-monster-commercial.html Quite a few parents (and others) were] [[Dude, Not Funny|not amused]].
** In contrast to their own "Chocolate Temptations" ads, Jello also runs a series in which people are caught after stealing somebody's snack because they develop 'pudding face' -- an abnormally wide grin that distorts their face. Despite this evidence, the thieves are ''always'' [[Karma Houdini|left unpunished]], with the unfortunate implication that if you buy this product, everyone around you will want to steal it, and it's your own fault if that happens because you weren't watching it closely enough.
* Kraft has a similarly themed campaign for another of their products: macaroni and cheese dinners. In these ads, kids complain about the various deceptive techniques their parents use to keep them from enjoying their dinners, such as distracting them so they can steal bites right off their plate, sending them to their room without supper on false or trumped-up charges, or only serving mac and cheese while they're out of the house. Because teaching kids that their parents will lie, cheat and steal about food is a good way to foster family togetherness, right?
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*** And even if the woman were actually overweight and not just [[Hollywood Pudgy]], there would still be the implication that overweight people can't wear any of the clothes she mentions.
** There's an ad for Jenny Craig featuring [[Star Wars|Carrie Fisher]] where she says "Thank you for helping me feel pretty, one more time". She's a woman who has overcome drug abuse and depression, and apparently it's not worth it unless she sheds some weight in order to feel "pretty".
* A Kleenex ad campaign had some issues. Their "Get Mommed" campaign featured [
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZN6TqqE-yI This] TV ad for a company selling corrective eyewear. It's bad enough that at the end the girl avoided her ugly partner after she got glasses, but then the company [http://www.eo-executiveoptical.com/advertisements started issuing print ads] showing the same couple getting married and having a child, with the girl still having poor eyesight. The unfortunate message — never mind that the guy was a great boyfriend, husband, and father... he was still ugly, and the girl would've ''never'' ended up in a relationship with him had she gotten glasses.
** Speaking of which, a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCkwjSWe8B8 TV Ad for Sears Optical] is a [[Double Subversion]] as it features [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife|a similar couple]] with the man asking [[What Does She See in Him?|how he got a girl like her]] and the woman replying "I'm the lucky one." The fact that the voice over immediately asks "Missing something?" may imply that he's the one that needs glasses since he accidentally cut off her hair (He was trying to cut off the tag of her dress. But given that the offer is for ''two'' pairs of glasses at a single price (Implying one for each of them) suggests that not only would the man not have accidentally cut her hair, but the woman wouldn't be dating him if they both had a pair of glasses.
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