FREAKY AD MOMENTS OF 2007, Vote #11: Snickers’ knickers, Pioneer’s laughing eyes

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Freakiest Advertising Moment of 2007: Round 1, Vote 11.
  See all previous votes here.
  Here’s the full 64-team bracket.

  Here are contenders 41 through 44.
  41. Snickers’s fake lingerie site. “New Zealand’s only lingerie brand designed specifically for the male figure” turned out to be a spoof Snickers site—featuring a male model who “had the nuts” to wear women’s underwear.
  42. Captivity’s torturous ad campaign. The movie’s ad campaign showed star Elisha Cuthbert being abducted, tortured and killed.

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