BBDO's Latest Ad for Snickers Ice Cream Bars Is a Real Scream

Cover your ears for these 15 seconds

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Can discordant screaming sell ice cream?

Snickers sure hopes so, because that's the angle it's going with this new spot for Snickers ice cream bars. Playing on the "I scream, you scream" rhyme, the ad shows a mom and son, a crab, a tattooed bodybuilder, his tattoo and the boardwalk caricature of a married couple all screaming at one of those ice cream trolleys you see around the beach.



"What the hell is this? This is so surreal," says YouTube user SaltyStuff, which sums this ad up pretty well.

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