As 2012 comes to a close, it's time to remember the ads that were deemed too risqué, disingenuous or gratuitous to make it to glossy magazine pages or commercial breaks.
These are the most eyebrow-raising ads that were banned around the world this year.
They were kicked off the airwaves for everything from showing naked models to promoting dangerous driving to depicting brain-loving zombies to offending elderly dudes with the implication that an "older man does not receive any [sexual] attention due to his age."
An ad for "Taken 2" was banned in the U.K. by the infamous Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) when it found out Twentieth Century Fox highlighted fake reviews claiming it was a "ten out of ten."
The ASA banned eight American Apparel ads in April (this is one of the only ones sans full nudity) and "told AA not to use similar images which were exploitative of women or that inappropriately sexualized young women in future."
American Apparel got in trouble with the ASA again in December for showing this image (which we censored) on its site. The watchdog explained, "because her breasts were visible through her shirt, we considered the images could be seen to sexualise a model who appeared to be a child."
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