Is there any better way to spend twenty minutes than by revisiting all the sexist, racist, and simply ill-conceived ad campaigns of yesteryear? I think not. Unfortunately, I’m too lazy to look up every last cringe-worthy ad on YouTube, but the good people at Cracked have aggregated five worthy selections, each one worse than the next.
The Jell-o ad is particularly awful as it happily utilizes seemingly as many Asian stereotypes as possible in under sixty seconds, but then again, there’s no denying the simmering sexism that Folgers serves up to one unlucky housewife. Then there are the toy guns, the asbestos flooring, and the cigarettes — the last of which are hawked by our old friend, Fred and Barney. The creators of these spots are certainly Mad Men indeed…
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