Top 30 Worst Product Names Ever

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Whoever came up with these product names deserves to be fired...or given a raise. Honestly, we can't decide. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for those product names that sound ridiculous, are fraught with innuendo, or are just plain offensive. Our countdown of the worst product names includes Pocket Fisherman, Burning Love Pouch, IKEA’s FARTFULL Work Bench, Wack Off!, Alien Versus Predator: Child Predator Hands, and more! Which of these product names had you asking yourself, “How did no one catch that?” Let us know in the comments.
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@WatchMojo 3 месяца назад

Which of these product names had you asking yourself, “How did no one catch that?” Let us know in the comments. For more content like this, click here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-U1gSj8C3Tog.html Don't forget to play our Live Trivia (www.watchmojo.com/play) games at 3pm EST for a chance to win cash! The faster you answer, the more points you get!

@Bintexas 3 месяца назад

Since most of these are foreign products whose name only became problematic for the English speaking American markets, how about a list for American prodducts with similar giggle -inducing names in foreign markets?

@geeshep4836 3 месяца назад

Beavis And Butthead Would've Got A Kick Out Of This List.

@zaberfang 3 месяца назад

Americans take those naming conventions by foreign countries way too harshly.

@AR-sz5lm 3 месяца назад

The Lovesac guys knew exactly what they were doing 😂

@Salicat99 3 месяца назад

Just ask a thirteen year old boy to watch the commercial. If they laugh, rebrand!

@martinbones681 3 месяца назад

In all fairness, Ayd's came out decades before the disease was given a similar name with a different spelling. There was no way the company could have known in advance.

@vinylhorror 3 месяца назад

But when the disease was mentioned by name their attempted rebrand of “Ayds Slim & Diet” wasn’t the best direction

@chillfluencer 3 месяца назад

Same is true for all aides. Ice got away unharmed though...

@UltimateDespairado 3 месяца назад

It reminds me of corona Unfortunate how both the beer and the virus share the same name

@malalford 3 месяца назад

Also, Brother p-touch predated touch screens

@mattalan6618 3 месяца назад

@@vinylhorror love me some Diet AIDS

@tobiwalker7145 3 месяца назад

When some of these products were named, public language wasn't as coarse as it's become. In the 1980s, outside the locker room, a sack or a bag was what one carried their produce in. We didn't titter (ha ha!) quite so much over innuendo in polite adult company before Beavis & Butthead.

@DopeyBuckets 3 месяца назад

You guys just had no humor

@higherground9888 3 месяца назад

@@DopeyBucketsNo, they had a limit and maturity.

@thegreatgambeeno 3 месяца назад

I am sure the FCC didn't have a giant list of euphemisms & innuendos that were common so they could censor whatever they felt necessary.

@Sly88Frye 3 месяца назад

I'm surprised you didn't use a clip of Jared in South Park talking about how he used AIDS to lose weight. How he was referring to having people who are health aids and not the disease but people got confused.

@goingrogue2236 3 месяца назад

Probably because it is in no way, shape or form connected to or relevant to the product or reasoning behind the demise of the product.

@KillaD69 3 месяца назад

When I was young, all the kids around the neighborhood would go to Old Man Herbert's house and he'd give us all some of that fresh Cemen Drip. MmmMmm! 🤤

@slowanddeliberate6893 3 месяца назад

Fort Dix 😢

@juanelorriaga2840 3 месяца назад

All the kids love Cemen

@Lamb666 3 месяца назад

Did you enjoy getting Djizz Djinn too?

@Dtgray12 3 месяца назад

Dont eat the popsicles kid

@SPAnComCat 3 месяца назад

THIS IS ONE OF THE FUNNIEST SHIT EVER MADE BY WATCHMOJO!!!🤣

@Mythbustersfan101 3 месяца назад

All of the products listed on this video had inventors with their minds out of the gutter with the most cringey products names.

@atx0025 3 месяца назад

Lovesac makes modular couches now too. And the company is worth half a billion dollars. Didnt do too bad it seems as a company name.

@mattalan6618 3 месяца назад

no but it still sounds a little sexual

@chillfluencer 3 месяца назад

22:20 ... and then 20:45 - you just couldn't avoid it. 🤣🤣🤣

@wolfmidget1 3 месяца назад

Used gimp in school a few times 😆

@RebelliousEra 3 месяца назад

But have you ever Wonderboned a sucker fish?

@brian5o 2 месяца назад

Only if you’re lucky. 😂😂😂

@rab52764 3 месяца назад

In the Midwest, there's a convenience store chain called Kum & Go. Need I say more?

@wildcatslife686 Месяц назад

😅

@goingrogue2236 3 месяца назад

Child Predator hands are just adult sized human hand gloves for kids.

@havanadaurcy1321 3 месяца назад

24:51 *Insert adult film star here*

@melissahealy1950 3 месяца назад

i’m at the barfy burger one that reminds me of a laundry detergent from 🇮🇷 called barf

@erinmalone2669 3 месяца назад

Nad's sugar wax really is a good product. It's nice to be able to have the wax be water soluble so you can rinse off any remaining or over spreading

@danielflores7724 3 месяца назад

I believe all the marketing teams knew what they were Doing

@LoopHoleLeeRoy 3 месяца назад

My grandpa loved AYDS.

@b_well3 3 месяца назад

Does anyone else know Gimp as the stuff you made bracelets with at summer camp, or just me?

@RickyRicardo0282 3 месяца назад

As adults, we should all grow up and realize it’s just a product name. Pretty soon, “In & Out”, “Kum and Go”, or a local restaurant Chinese restaurant called, “Ho luck”, may be banned…I would surely hope only middle school kids would be laughing at this and not us grown adults.

@mercedesdrake9113 3 месяца назад

i see no issues with the name 'pocket fisherman'

@davidjames6879 3 месяца назад

As Refashioned Hippie says (You Tube channel), "...just one 13 year old boy. Just one..." Marketers, please head what adolescent male youth can tell you before actually naming your product.

@AriaSerif Месяц назад

as infamous as the number 666 is... it's actually NOT the number of the beast.

@seantlewis376 3 месяца назад

Heh. I fully expected Ayds to be number 1. The actual number 1 is something I've never heard of.

@CybeleCotter 3 месяца назад

You first need a Wunder Boner in order to then get your Cemen Dip.

@siesiehaycraft4699 3 месяца назад

The Kum...just how?

@AmadeusAlmighty 3 месяца назад

I love the casual Kendrick Lamar cameo

@pyreneesfarm7818 3 месяца назад

Imagine the first prize being a pack of Pocket Fisherman and Wonder boner for a charity giveaway, at you local Ace Hardware store

@danielflores7724 2 месяца назад

@0:50 she said pocket pool 😅

@bobthebear1246 3 месяца назад

I came here for the Ayds. 😎🍿🍬🍫 BTW, Nads was purposely named. Even though it had female origins, the #1 purpose of it has always been for guys to remove their ball hairs. It's been around for over 30 years now, so I'm surprised you didn't know that. 🤔🤨

@randystache78 3 месяца назад

top ten stupid top ten lists from Watchmojo:

@thomashumphrey48 3 месяца назад

What About The Sports Store DICKS?!

@wmdkitty 3 месяца назад

One. Thirteen. Year. Old. Boy. Just one. On the review board. If he giggles at the name, change it.

@CitiznDouchebag 3 месяца назад

Why did you show the Nintendo Switch when talking about the DS?

@danielcodywesson8384 3 месяца назад

" youll definitely turn heads when you have kum in your hair!!" Jesus there's no way someone didnt think that was a weird catch phrase

@motherlove202 3 месяца назад

😂😂🤣🤣

@olympialuna 3 месяца назад

I had to make sure someone else heard that 🤦🏽‍♀️😂

@Salicat99 3 месяца назад

It must be on purpose!

@bowtiesrcool86 3 месяца назад

I heard that slogan, and my first thought was: "Hey! Phrasing!"

@Chuckf66 3 месяца назад

@@bowtiesrcool86 Phrasing! BOOM!

@boyguapito1 3 месяца назад

_”You’ll definitely turn heads when you have KUM in your hair.”_ 😂

@KMD-o8x 3 месяца назад

DEFINITELY TURN HEADS

@ferociousgumby 3 месяца назад

"There's Something About Mary" - hair gel scene comes to mind!

@christigmc 3 месяца назад

My husband used to teach middle school music. Now elementary. A student, female, needed a string replaced on her cello. The G note. She told her dad she needed money for a G string and that my husband would help her put it on. The dad flipped for a few minutes and was about to call her school. Luckily he asked her if this had something to do with her cello. The student was extremely puzzled like “duh what did you think I was talking about.” Since then my husband has told his students to call strings (letter) note string. There’s also a part on violins, violas and cellos called the F hole. My husband calls it the F letter hole to prevent trouble.

@themasterofw4295 3 месяца назад

Damn that was a close one the dad was smart to clarify.

@thegreatgambeeno 3 месяца назад

A friend with a 6 string guitar needed an emergency string after his broke, the lowest string, tuned to G. It's about a 70 gauge string. I pulled a string off my bass that's a 65 gauge, my D string. I handed it to him and said "put my D in your G-string slot" and he lost it.

@desperadox7565 3 месяца назад

🤣

@BlackVulpine 3 месяца назад

22:18 “Number 3…” nope, you know what, I’m gonna say that. That killed me 😂

@karaokebackgroundplaylists9878 3 месяца назад

22:17

@raffivartanian1718 3 месяца назад

Fun fact, in Sydney, Australia there is a car rental company called ANIS car rental. The comedy writes itself as you can imagine

@donutarmageddon7975 3 месяца назад

"When I'm Down Under, I'll only ride in an Anis!"

@raffivartanian1718 3 месяца назад

@@donutarmageddon7975 “At ANIS car rental, we pride ourselves on our cleanliness! We want you to have confidence that you’ll have the cleanest ANIS in town!”

@donutarmageddon7975 3 месяца назад

@@raffivartanian1718 I think we have their advertising needs covered 😆

@raffivartanian1718 3 месяца назад

@@donutarmageddon7975 absolutely! If only I could have made the first dealerships grand opening…..

@mattalan6618 3 месяца назад

@@donutarmageddon7975 or when i need to make a fast getaway after Dingos ate my baby

@alwaysrecycles365 3 месяца назад

Pocket Fisherman is legit. I caught fish with a vintage one last summer. Fun and unique, great for small pond fishing

@pyreneesfarm7818 3 месяца назад

I know truck drivers who like to fish, but with little extra room in the sleeper, they carry a pocket fisherman. There are many time you can find a pocket fisherman in some god old boys tool box SO FAR, no one has admitted to having a wonder boner in the back seat of an SUV, but we do ?wonder? don't we!

@DragonGoddess18 3 месяца назад

"Ayds candy...no drugs" Oh boy. Too many of these are making me laugh

@rosea9737 2 месяца назад

My mom would sometimes let me eat a few ayds...

@OscarMPG1 3 месяца назад

You should rename the video " Top 30 Most Hilarious product names" because I couldn't stop laughing

@1Avatar 3 месяца назад

I think I tinkled a bit

@WatchMojo 3 месяца назад

@willvgo2950 3 месяца назад

@@1Avatar You laughed so hard you made cola?

@NYChica23 3 месяца назад

Definitely...this video proves that my sense of humor has not progressed past 12 year old stage, especially once this got to #3, because even if the narrator didn't go there, my mind certainly did

@OscarMPG1 3 месяца назад

@@NYChica23 exactly.

@dreamguardian8320 3 месяца назад

That Pee Cola reminds me of the scene in Dumb and Dumber, where the police man drank urine from a bottle thinking it was beer.

@jocklazer4 3 месяца назад

12:13 “you’ll definitely turn heads when you have k.u.m in your hair”💀

@malalford 3 месяца назад

A famous rugby league player had a Greyhound named Nads, so when he raced, everyone would scream GO NADS. Rip Terry Hill

@davephillips9389 3 месяца назад

LOL the voice actress for K.U.M. was not a clue when it took a week of recording to finally get one without some laugh from someone.

@FritzforSheriff 3 месяца назад

Your #1 reminds me of when I lived in Japan. There were definitely some interesting translations. I bought gift bags that said “Respiration,” which I found out was supposed to be, “Breathe.” My favorite was the spiral notebooks that had different subjects on each with the tagline, “Each notebook is differently subjected. It is hoped that you will do better in school.” 😂

@kimberlypatton205 3 месяца назад

I remember , as a child in the 60’s, my mother always kept a box of AYDS in the refrigerator… they were totally gross tasting.

@danielobrien1571 3 месяца назад

Are you a lady with stunningly long hair? I adore women who grow theirs that way, describe it please?

@UnrealGamesProfessor 3 месяца назад

So did Jared Fogle

@THEMamaVicky 3 месяца назад

I tried those chocolates 🤢

@danielobrien1571 3 месяца назад

@@THEMamaVicky Are you a lady with stunningly long hair? I adore women who grow theirs that way, describe it please?

@CptnWolfe 3 месяца назад

You need to leave the house @danielobrien1571

@trinaq 3 месяца назад

Haha, obviously, whoever thought of these product names clearly didn't check to see if they sounded awkward or had creepy implications!

@mariawhite7337 3 месяца назад

Oh no, the wonder boner KNEW what they were talking about. 100%. Some of them knew that it was weird and banked on people buying it for the loll's alone.

@ARIXANDRE 3 месяца назад

Jesus, Lord...I almost passed out laughing. 😂

@MasterOfViewership 3 месяца назад

To be fair, the Wunder Boner does work quite well

@Bintexas 3 месяца назад

That’s what she said. 😉

@lp-xl9ld 3 месяца назад

One would HOPE...

@MasterOfViewership 3 месяца назад

@@Bintexas I wasn't trying to be funny. That's another overused joke that stopped being funny ages ago. It actually did make de-boning fish cleaner, faster, and easier

@Bintexas 3 месяца назад

@@MasterOfViewership i bet you are a lot of fun at parties. 🙄. Yeah, it is a silly and trite joke. Better than a pedantic scold

@MasterOfViewership 3 месяца назад

@@Bintexas I am. People always enjoyed me being around, but the joke is still overused and no longer funny

@scottbakanumba1heathen313 3 месяца назад

Cemen dip - not your average Tzatziki.

@malalford 3 месяца назад

Sounds tasty. Potato, garlic and walnut

@mistiinseattle 3 месяца назад

Ayds were popular LONG before AIDS disease was ever heard of

@zaphod100 3 месяца назад

Johnson Reel is worse than Pocket Fisherman

@PS-yw9pf 3 месяца назад

ポカリスエットは？

@4bibimimi 3 месяца назад

I fought nads was an acronym standing for new Australian depilatory system or something like that. Didn't stop me from buying it, just be mindful it doesn't work when it gets too warm.

@WayneShulson 3 месяца назад

If I had heard about Hello Kitty Pussy Wind, I would have bought them, wrapped them up and sneakily put them under my friends (Women & men) Christmas Trees,with only their Names typed on the name gift Tag. My Mom who would be 97 this Year would have Peed herself laughing. 😂😂🤣

@Your.Uncle.AngMoh 3 месяца назад

"Nad's" comes from the founder's daughter, whose name is Nadia. There's an ærosol product in Australia to help reluctant car engines to start that's called "Start Ya Bastard". Liquor shops were often unable to sell Corona during the pandemic and they had to sell it at a discounted price.

@thekris4378 3 месяца назад

The Fingers Marie makes sense when you realize that there’s a ladyfingers type of cookie. But yes, that should also I have a better name.

@JDM12983 3 месяца назад

You won't say the name of the dip; but will say the name of the "kitty" product? >

@earlleeruhf3130 3 месяца назад

How does Nad's remove body hair without the Pain! Seriously I want to know!

@bernardwathen9349 3 месяца назад

CUM Books is a chain of bookshops specialising in religious books & gifts. Some have coffee shops attached, in South Africa. ( acronym for Christelike Uitgewers Maatskappy)

@Fayanora 3 месяца назад

Some company names are questionable too. Kum N Go convenience stores, for one.

@davevanfunk8917 3 месяца назад

Japan has had some dubious brand names: Glicko Pocky (pock marks anyone), Creap (powdered cream), and Calpis (a fermented milk drink, which was later named Calpico)

@LokiDWolf 3 месяца назад

Several of these I literally LOL'd! I mean, to be so unaware of how a title sounds is just amazing to me! This list was so much fun!

@chickencookie1990 3 месяца назад

Ok but Nad's = Nadine, aka the daughter. Just mention that next time

@mattalan6618 3 месяца назад

then it wouldnt be funny

@catgoat6471 3 месяца назад

Yes, but also b@77 sack.

@alexhaladay4345 3 месяца назад

that "iBeat Blaxx" is by far the worse in the list. how did no one catch that?

@chartreux1532 3 месяца назад

@alexhaladay4345 As a German, who follows American Culture and News etc and speaks fluent English and works with a ton of Americans since over 10 Years. i get the upset by Americans. But it's really really silly for Americans to see that Name from a foreign Country where even English Language Movies are dubbed into German to this Day to assume anything Racist. To me that Example seems more like a Case of "Ameri-centricism" in which Americans see a Product or whatever from a different Language and automatically connect it to their Language and Culture and then demand it should be changed because it's offensive to them and their Culture especially. I give you an extreme Example from Austria, there is a Last Name in Austria called N*ggas. This Name existed way before that Word even existed, so in Austria and Bavaria there are Businesses called something like "Woodwork Company N*ggas" which they have on their Vans etc. LUCKILY Americans didn't find out about these yet, because if they get upset about "Blaxx", this will blow their Mind and probably destroy some lower class blue collar Family Companies existing since over 100 Years just because the Word means something different in English than it does here. Just something to think about Prost & Cheers from Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps

@NICKPORTER8855 3 месяца назад

12:13- OH MY GOD HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!! It makes it so much funnier with the British accent.

@nickothewarrior13 3 месяца назад

Cemen dip is crazy

@heathern6737 3 месяца назад

LoveSac.... first time I heard of it I thought it sounded like something a guy would nickname his privates. Booty Goo.... almost as bad as a product my workplace sold.... Butt Paste. Burning Love Pouch.... sounds like something a guy awkwardly tells his doctor about.

@jamesjimbob71 3 месяца назад

am i missing something what's wrong with pocket fisherman

@slowanddeliberate6893 3 месяца назад

Wieners in the underwear 💀

@Saddonghussein 3 месяца назад

Im not from the us so I had no idea

@slowanddeliberate6893 3 месяца назад

Catching fish with the "rod" in your pants...

@Saddonghussein 3 месяца назад

That's it? That's really dumb, I was hopping for something more funny or cleaver@@slowanddeliberate6893

@AquaBlue77 3 месяца назад

I was confused too, but now that another one who relied on this reminded me that a fishing pole is also called a "fisheing rod", and what it can taken as, I get it.

@TornSparrow1974 3 месяца назад

I honestly didn't see what the big deal was for the Crea Mass until you showed the container. Then, duh!! XD

@mattalan6618 3 месяца назад

yeah after that it becomes blatantly obvious

@thenextbondvillainklaussch3266 3 месяца назад

In Australia Nads is short for Gonads , or your Nuts ..... so basically this was intentional , because literally everyone joked about it on release , and therefore , got tonnes of Free publicity via Teenagers making jokes 24/7 about it. Thats how i learned about it in High school lol

@KSE828 3 месяца назад

I don’t understand what’s wrong with “pocket fisherman.”

@KMD-o8x Месяц назад

I think it's "stealing from a fisherman"

@whitewolf3051 3 месяца назад

Did no one at Reeboks seriously think to look up incubus in a dictionary, encyclopedia, or even the internet?

@thegreatgambeeno 3 месяца назад

I always wondered the same about the band

@marlonbrando33 3 месяца назад

Yes yes they did no way they didn’t know the meaning

@michaelfritz5816 3 месяца назад

Booty, also means treasure. So, treasure goo?

@zaberfang 3 месяца назад

I mean unless you have a very dirty minds, pocket fisherman isn't that bad.

@mistiinseattle 3 месяца назад

I am still trying to figure out what is wrong with it

@donutarmageddon7975 3 месяца назад

The look on my step-dad's face when I gave him one for father's Day was priceless.

@mattalan6618 3 месяца назад

@@mistiinseattle yeah i dont see the undertone for that one either. cause when i think of the product i think of a portable fishing rod tat easily fits in your pockets or a tackle box

@dirtyfrench2926 3 месяца назад

"Pocket Fishing" is slang for reaching down your pants and playing with your rod...

@mattalan6618 3 месяца назад

@@dirtyfrench2926 sounds like a Saturday night for Diddy then

@joermnyc 3 месяца назад

Reebok, “Hey this band has a cool name, Incubus… let’s put it on a shoe!”

@whitewolf3051 3 месяца назад

Did no one at Reebok ever think to look up what the word meant?

@timothymorris157 3 месяца назад

Between the Wunder Boner and Ayds i can’t help but laugh my ass off about how funny and unfortunate those product names are. 😂🤣

@Riutanharju 3 месяца назад

Corona is also a brandy in Finland.

@astrohateseverything 3 месяца назад

This entire list is making fun of the fact that foreign countries don’t speak English lol

@hoggy2much999 3 месяца назад

I am surprissed you missed the following: Jussi Pussi type of bread from Finland Pschit Cola from France Super Piss Car De-Icer from Finland Golden Gaytime Ice Cream from Australia

@victorhernandez8723 3 месяца назад

The Wunder Boner’s function makes me more uncomfortable than it’s name.

@admirals818 3 месяца назад

Tiddy Bear didn't make the cut.

@blight234 3 месяца назад

Ever heard of a canned soft drink called “Kick-A-Poo” ?

@mattalan6618 3 месяца назад

i have. and i have tasted it. it tastes literally like shit

@einat1622 3 месяца назад

Kudos to the people who did computer research on these.

@pauljones2510 3 месяца назад

Douche means shower in many languages.

@theasinclaire52 3 месяца назад

Barfy Burgers makes me think of "You Can't Do That On Television".

@kevinW826 3 месяца назад

Same here.

@brian5o 2 месяца назад

That or Double Dare.

@Mangolite 3 месяца назад

AYDS faced the unfortunate ongoing event of its product line ending due to unforeseen circumstances. While SARS and Corona are also continuing health issues, the products associated with these terms managed to maintain their product lines, as their names have no correlation to the diseases themselves. In contrast, AYDS's association with weight loss, its main selling point, ultimately led to its downfall.

@LeslieKwan 3 месяца назад

Barfy Burgers reminded me of Barthy Burgers from You Can't Do That On Television

@eddieesco9582 3 месяца назад

12:06 The KUM hair care advert is straight out of GTA😂

@frankbrodie5168 3 месяца назад

I dunno.. Maybe it's me. But I'd buy EVERY ONE of these products. Just for the joy of going into a shop and asking for them by name. But then, I am that dollshead that when I have to go to the doctors for a blood test, I walk up to the receptionist and cheerily announce "I'm here to see the vampire!" Gets a laugh... er.. Never..

@EleanorPeterson 3 месяца назад

"As she was the admiral's daughter, her naval base was always full of seamen."

@sonnyfabich2226 3 месяца назад

Wack Off?? Oh yeah? YOU get deployed out into the desert or into the jungle for several months and then tell me afterwards you didn't have a 'wack off' moment! LOL

@fishkakat7700 3 месяца назад

🎶 If you see a faded sign at the side of the road that says 15 miles to the LOVE SACK!!!🎶

@jamesconroy7030 3 месяца назад

How could they do a piece about something called "Barfy Burgers" without adding a You Can't Do That On Television reference?

@bethdumont9020 3 месяца назад

Sars is short for sarsaparilla in Australia - where we shorten EVERYTHING.. And I do mean EVERYTHING. I got told about some parents who decided to name their newborn son Brian - on the grounds it couldn't be shortened. Guess what? Yup - got shortened to Bri!