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Just in time for Independence Day cookouts, Ballpark promotes its frankfurters with ads that show human arms bursting from teenagers’ stomachs. Read more about the campaign here. I was a kid when the first Alien movie came out, and the whole gut-ripping thing was new and scary then, so this counts as one of the childhood fears I could potentially encounter at Cold Stone Creamery, which bases its current ads on such youthful terrors.

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