Play Doh Launches Terrifying Ad Campaign (PHOTOS)

Via Uggly Doggy comes Play Doh ads from Singapore that want to remind parents that no matter what your kids do with Play Doh, it's always safe. Of course, they are a little twisted.

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Comments

[Deborah Marez-Baca]

09:49 PM on 09/16/2009

Crack open a little tub of Pay Doh and take a whiff. That Play Doh smell is so distictive it brings back a flood of fun kid memories. Go ahead and try it ,you know you wanna.

[MamaKs]

02:01 AM on 10/18/2009

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[hulcys930]

08:35 PM on 09/16/2009

See, this is exactly why I decided some decades back not to become a parent! The problem is that I love things like this.... and have always had a really hard time deciding what is "appropria­te" for children..­..

[myownvoice]

08:13 PM on 09/16/2009

I've got a play dough JOINT LOL

[Black Knight]

01:58 PM on 09/16/2009

Now I have the urge to go out and buy some.

[misszanna]

01:44 PM on 09/16/2009

God, I have the urge to make a play-doh bottle of Beam.

[dadw5boys]

12:52 PM on 09/16/2009

No Play Dough Strip Clubs ?

[jozie]

05:16 PM on 09/16/2009

I was wondering what color PlayDough to use to make a brass pole!

[Buffington]

09:57 AM on 09/16/2009

You've go to be kidding. Where's the Playdoh hooker?

[Gwiwer]

08:01 AM on 09/16/2009

The ads kind of creeped me out a bit the first time I looked through them, but the cleverness of it sort of grew on me. It'll probably turn off a few uptight parents. Regardless­, it's still a pretty effective campaign. It's pretty unusual to see that kind of black humor in an ad campaign for children's toys, but the campaign is aimed at young parents who will largely appreciate the sentiments behind it, more or less.

[bigredsteelworker]

07:17 AM on 09/16/2009

couldn't they just bring the barber shop back?

[Kendall Hawley]

03:02 AM on 09/16/2009

Brilliant!

[myownvoice]

12:54 AM on 09/16/2009

Great marketing to the adults!

[Lee2320]

09:35 PM on 09/15/2009

I hope parents in Singapore have a rather twisted sense of humour, for Play-Doh's sake.

[mikebarden]

09:22 PM on 09/15/2009

Is that what all them guns are made of?

[filo]

08:07 PM on 09/15/2009

Who's the marketing genius who came up with THIS ad campaign.

[mikxel]

03:50 AM on 09/16/2009

The same one who knew it was going into a "things to do" magazine directed at people in their 20's and 30's which includes young parents, who, if they're reading that type of magazine, get the humor.

Being in marketing means understand­ing your target audience.

[GayGrandpa]

07:56 PM on 09/15/2009

I can only imagine that they are trying to sell to artists and not children..­.