Wildly Inappropriate TV Ads We Definitely Shouldn’t Have Seen

The ad breaks were chaos and the Ofcom elves were asleep.

The 90s/00s ad breaks were CHAOS. Looking back, it’s actually wild what they used to show on TV when we were kids — usually wedged right between an episode of SMTV and the Andrex puppy.

• Pot Noodle — proudly calling itself the “slag of all snacks.” Imagine that on CBBC today?!
• The Tango Slap — so infamous it literally got banned in schools. Everyone was doing it on the playground.
• Lynx / WKD / Carling — entire campaigns that were basically horny fever dreams.
• Baby Wee dolls — nothing says teatime telly like a doll aggressively peeing into a potty.

We just sat there cross-legged on the carpet eating fish fingers like this was completely normal.

Daisy says… “Babes, they actually let a bright orange man slap people on national TV to sell fizzy drinks. And we wonder why our generation’s unhinged.”

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Confess: What’s the most inappropriate ad you remember sneaking onto kids’ TV?