9. Xbox - Life To Death In 30 Seconds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrVTH5R-INw First up, using the slogan 'Life Is Short' is a strange way to persuade people that they should spend more time sitting in front of their TV playing Xbox. But the illogical slogan wasn't the reason this Xbox commercial was banned in the UK. No, that was probably more to do with its harrowing depiction of a baby shooting out of a woman in labour, crashing out the window, then rapidly ageing all the way through to dotage in about 30 seconds before smashing into a coffin - dead. It's kind of hilarious in a dark sort of way, but I can also understand why such a visually striking reminder that our time here on Earth is very much finite isn't something the average TV viewer should be forced to watch.
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