History HarsherInHindsight / Advertising

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09wBn4ux3N0 Nintendo had some touching commercials featuring Robin Williams and his daughter]] where she asks him if he was mixing her up with the Zelda from the game again. He later killed himself due to a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Williams#Death disease that combines Parkinson's and dementia]]...

* Film/ErnestPWorrell filmed a PSA [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHAVup_WaG0 warning Vern to quit smoking]] before [[DeadlyEuphemism "the groundhogs will be bringin' you your mail."]] His actor Jim Varney's cause of death years later? Lung cancer.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFQ-oxhdFjE This PSA]] on an active shooter situation features one of the shooters depicted in a scenario as wearing a skull face mask, combat gear, and wielding an assault rifle. This is exactly what the person who [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutherland_Springs_church_shooting killed 26 people at a church in Sutherland Springs]] would don.

* Film/ErnestPWorrell filmed a PSA [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHAVup_WaG0 warning Vern to quit smoking]] before [[DeadlyEuphemism "the groundhogs will be bringin' you your mail."]] His actor Jim Varney's cause of death years later? Lung cancer.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_nJDD2xaEs There was a TV commercial for a Flexon]] that showed a building ducking out of the way of an oncoming plane. Due to VERY bad timing, this was actually shown on TV a few days ''AFTER 9/11!''

* Film/ErnestPWorrell filmed a PSA [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHAVup_WaG0 warning Vern to quit smoking]] before "the groundhogs will be bringin' you your mail." His actor Jim Varney's cause of death years later? Lung cancer.

* Film/Ernest P. Worrell filmed a PSA [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHAVup_WaG0 warning Vern to quit smoking] before "the groundhogs will be bringin' you your mail." His actor Jim Varney's cause of death years later? Lung cancer.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_nJDD2xaEs There was a TV commercial for a Flexon]] that showed a building ducking out of the way of an oncoming plane. Due to VERY bad timing, this was actually shown on TV a few days ''AFTER 9/11!''

* There was a TV commercial for a type of flexible eyeglass frame that showed a building ducking out of the way of an oncoming plane. Due to VERY bad timing, this was actually shown on TV a few days AFTER 9/11!

* [=FedEx=] did a commercial where Steve Irwin (of Series/CrocodileHunter fame) was bitten by a snake, and croaked because the antivenom wasn't shipped by [=FedEx=] and didn't get there. Of course, it wasn't a snake that ultimately killed him, but still...

* You've got to feel a bit disgusted that former British and Australian kids star and convicted paedophile Rolf Harris made a public service announcement warning children about ''strangers inappropriately touching them in sensitive places''.

** Of course, the murderer wasn't so much suffering from "Bus Rage"...."Total Nusto" seems more like it.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTitP5_yDUU Lose weight with AYDS!]] Yeah, about that...

* Pretty much any pro-smoking ad falls under this after it was revealed smoking is a leading cause of cancer.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTitP5_yDUU Lose weight with AYDS!]] Yeah,about that...

* [=FedEx=] did a commercial where Steve Irwin (of Series/CrocodileHunter fame) was bitten by a snake, and croaked because the antivenom wasn't shipped by [=FedEx=] and didn't get there. Of course, it wasn't a snake that ultimately killed him, but still...

Made HarsherInHindsight by RealLife Events

* [=FedEx=] did a commercial where Steve Irwin (of Series/CrocodileHunter fame) was bitten by a snake, and croaked because the anti-venom wasn't shipped by FedEx and didn't get there. Of course, it wasn't a snake that ultimately killed him, but still...

* FedEx did a commercial where Steve Irwin (of Series/CrocodileHunter fame) was bitten by a snake, and croaked because the anti-venom wasn't shipped by FedEx and didn't get there. Of course, it wasn't a snake that ultimately killed him, but still...

* After 2012 Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius shot and killed his girlfriend, Nike pulled a poster featuring the track star, which contained the tagline: "I am the bullet in the chamber."

* After 2012 Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius shot and killed his girlfriend, Nike pulled an poster featuring the track star, which contained the tagline: "I am the bullet in the chamber."

* Pretty much any pro-smoking ad falls under this after it was revealed smoking is a leading cause of cancer

* Not too long ago, Greyhound unveiled a series of billboard ads with the phrase "There's a reason you've never heard of 'Bus Rage'", mere weeks before a passenger was '''murdered and beheaded''' aboard a Greyhound bus in Canada.

* [=WaMu=] [[OfficiallyShortenedTitle (Washington Mutual Bank)]] ran ads in the mid-2000s showing that they kept the "stuffy old bankers" penned up where they couldn't get in the way of their innovative financial services. Then they folded in the 2008 banking crisis.

* Not too long ago, Greyhound unveiled a series of billboard ads with the phrase "There's a reason you've never heard of 'Bus Rage'", mere weeks before a passenger was '''murdered and beheaded''' aboard a Greyhound bus in Canada.