Ads Used Be A Lot Creepier Back In The Day, And These 20 Vintage Ads Prove It

While we can look back on the past and say how times were better, with more high-paying jobs, a stabler economy, and higher rates of happiness and health, we can also look back on the past and say that it was a horrifying, hellish place that we should never return. Don’t believe me? Just take a gander at some of the ways they used to market products to people – then come back and tell me the past wasn’t a horrendous place full of suffocating babies, demon clowns, and bizarre ways to make women feel like objects (literally).

1.) I love Fry’s “Chocolate”. “Chocolate” is delicious…!

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2.) “Gee, Ma, that looks like blood. My favorite!”

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3.) Onward, lobsters! To Isengard!

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4.) Here’s a pro tip for you: don’t wrap your small child in cellophane.

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5.) Fifty Shades of Oh Hell No.

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6.) Razors so safe, you should definitely give them to your baby.

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7.) No one. Likes. Clowns.

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8.)  Casey Jones you betta watch yo’ cough.

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9.) I wonder why he’s so obsessed with her hands? …oh.

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10.) Honey, I think this might offend people. But what do I know, I’m just a woman ‘s head sewed onto a tiger body.

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11.) So, is this Dracula, or…?

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12.) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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13.) What?!

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14.) Is this baby just eating a hunk of pork chop?

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15.) This ad brought to you by Nightmares, Inc.

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16.) Evil scientists love exotic pets and Hathaway shirts.

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17.) Well, dogs do enjoy feeling the wind in their fur.

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18.) Peter Pain is someone you don’t want to meet in a dark alley.

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19.) “Hi, I’m Satan, and when I’m torturing souls I love to use McIlhenny’s Tabasco Sauce!”

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20.) Guys, we JUST talked about the whole babies and plastic wrap thing.

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