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Abusive Advertising
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Most commercials try to sell their product by making it look appealing, desirable, and a must-have. Such commercials try to be friendly and informative, appearing to have your best interests at heart. Then there's these. With Abusive Advertising, there's no question whether you'll buy this product. You will, and if you don't, there will be dire consequences before you end up buying it anyway. Whether a mascot coming to beat you up or divine misfortune to wreck your day, the customer is promised a nasty end if they don't haul their butt to a store right now. This type of advertising is usually tongue-in-cheek, as obviously companies can't legally attack people to make them buy their product. So to show it's all just a joke, such ads are deliberately over-the-top so that they won't be taken seriously. The real aim is for the commercials to stick in the customers' minds, even if it depicts them getting beaten to a pulp. Compare Appeal to Force, Disproportionate Retribution, Public Service Announcement and The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You. Can occur when an Obsessive Spokesperson takes a particularly harsh approach. Inverted Trope of Our Product Sucks. Often a form of Space Whale Aesop. |
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The Simpsons: Nelson Muntz runs for Class President on the platform of "Vote for me or else." In "The Haw-Hawed Couple", Nelson gives his fellow students invitations to his birthday party while saying "Come to my party or die." In "Marge Be Not Proud", an ultra-violent fighting game called Bonestorm is marketed with ads in which a Badass Santa fires the game's cartridge into a console with his BFG, then implores children to tell their parents "Buy me Bonestorm or go to Hell!" Marge is horrified when Bart obliges. |
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Robocop 2: As if we didn't needed more evidence of how much OCP is scum, we get an ad for their communications division that has a businessman (apparently an architect) cry about how he cost his firm a lucrative contract because he chose a cheaper alternative that crapped up their data transmissions and then blow his brains out with a pistol. | |
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Rick and Morty has two examples, both involving cereal; the first is "Strawberry Squiggles", which has a commercial involving an expy of the Lucky Charms leprechaun being disemboweled and eaten by two creepy children, and "Eyeholes", whose mascot The Eyehole Man will beat the crap out of you if you try to eat the cereal. As Jerry learns the hard way, this one is not just a wacky commercial gimmick. | |
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In one Dilbert strip, a television advertisement threatens the viewers to make them buy its tires: | |
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Scrooged: Frank Cross' advertisement for his pet project, a live special of A Christmas Carol, is a barrage of In-Universe Realism-Induced Horror (drugs, terrorism, nuclear war) and then "watch the special — your life may depend on it!". The other executives walk out of the room sickened and one of them (Eliot Loudermilk) goes as far as call it "the Manson Family Christmas Special!" and tries to convince Frank to not air it (Frank immediately fires him for that).It's mentioned later in the film that the network is going to be sued because the ad scared an old woman to death. | |
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The infamous Daikatana ad campaign, which simply promised in large, bold letters: "John Romero is about to make you his bitch." | |
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In a 2007 ad for Burger King tying in with the release of The Simpsons Movie, Krusty the Clown literally begs the viewer to eat at Krusty Burger rather than Burger King. | |
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On My Name Is Earl, Earl goes to see Didi to make up for Number 86 on his List of Transgressions: "Stole a car from a one-legged girl." It turns out that in between the time Earl slept with Didi and then stole her car (and her prosthetic leg) and the moment he showed up at her door in an attempt to make up for it, Didi had gotten herself a new boyfriend. She starts lobbing coffee mugs at Earl, and her unnamed boyfriend comes out to see what all the commotion is. When he sees that it's Earl, he starts chasing after Earl, picks up a sign that says "Vote!", and starts beating the crap out of him with it. Earl takes this as a sign from Karma that he's not meant to do Number 86, but rather another list item: "Cost Dad the election." | |
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The Voodoo Mad gave us this hilariously over-the-top example: | |
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The 1988 2000 AD Christmas Annual had a National Lampoon parody cover◊ with Judge Anderson and Johnny Alpha threatening the Mighty Thargg and saying "Buy this comic, or we shoot the Betelgeusean!" | |
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Many guests on Caged Heat Radio make jokes at the listener's expense but Kevin Sullivan and Steve Corino in particular threatened bodily harm on those who did not tune in. | |
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She-Hulk: On the cover of the first issue of The Sensational She-Hulk She-Hulk addresses the reader, saying that if her book gets cancelled she'll destroy all your X-Men comics. Then on the last issue she demands you turn over your X-Mens for destruction. | |
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Similar to the above, an episode of My Gym Partner's a Monkey has Bull Sharkowski doing this when he runs for student body president. | |
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The parody saga Downton Wars was made as part of a fundraiser for the Chilterns MS Centre, so viewers are asked to donate money. At the end of The Evil Butler Strikes Back, the Dowager threatens the audience if they don't donate with a booming "I wouldn't do that if I were you!" | |
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Several Bloom County Sunday Strips had a television set which presses up against viewers' faces while broadcasting commercials berating them for not having bought the product already. When they run away in terror, it chases them down. | |
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The Goodies: The TV pranksters divided the show with parodies of British TV advertising; a classic was their send-up of processed fish manufacturers Bird's Eye, who at the time were advertising via a child-friendly clown character, an avuncular sailor called Captain Birdseye used to harness pester power. The spoof advert followed the same lines of a genial fatherly ship's captain with a crew of clearly happy children who loved being on board ship. But the sinister last lines were: In the same episode ("It Might as Well Be String", parodying the advertising industry), Bill and Graham explain that housewives have finally gotten wise to the Blatant Lies of advertising, so they have to resort to blatant threats instead. In another advert, a housewife refuses to use the advertised cleaning agent, so Bill and a couple of thugs rough her up until she relents. |
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Around election time in Tropico 4, the in-game radio station Tropico News Today sometimes runs the advertisement "People are demanding elections, and El Presidente demands your vote! Vote El Presidente — or else." | |
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One Spirou cover◊ shows someone holding a pair of scissors open around the paw of a Billy the Cat plushie, with a Cut-and-Paste Note stating "Buy this magazine or we cut Billy the Cat". | |
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Mutant League: The faux commercial the show begins on has some. | |
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Rugrats opened one episode with an ad for Reptar Cereal, in which a child refuses to eat the cereal in question, only to have Reptar smash through the wall and devour it bowl and all in front of the screaming child and mother. | |
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On Muppet Babies (1984), the babies play at running for president. Piggy made an election ad about why they should vote for her, ending with "and if you don't... You'll be sorry!" | |
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"Vote for Zim or I'll destroy you.'' | |
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Robot Chicken "PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT, OR I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU!" And now, a message from the Bees... |
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This is another aspect of bad advertising - a sort of odious moral blackmail - held up for derisive deconstruction on name-and-shame-those-crap-adverts website Ad Turds. | |
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For two strips in Pearls Before Swine, Rat gets a job writing advertisements for a doorknob maker. His first one says that "God won't love you and you'll probably go to hell" for not buying their doorknobs, and for his second, he gets more direct. | |
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We Happy Restaurant features a machine that brainwashes people from everywhere across time and space and forces them to come to your restaurant and eat your horrible food. | |
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Family Guy: In "Road to Rupert", Brian looks at a gorilla doll and says that if you buy one, they save a real gorilla in the wild...and if you don't, they'll kill one. ("Boy, these guys are really playing hardball"). | |
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In Transmetropolitan the Mafia has apparently become a legitimate company selling cheap Makers. Their ads say "Buy Godti Makers. Or you'll be sleeping with the fishes... And I'll be sleeping with your wife." Spider was given a Godti maker as part of his first staff apartment, the AI wasted a lot of resources making drug simulators for itself and he tried to throw it away. But someone left a severed horse head in his bed. | |
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The Critic had the titular character's electronic cardboard standie that repeated one phrase over and over. "Buy my book! BUY MY BOOK! BUY MY BOOK!!!" A tad bit too abusive though, as they were removed from stores after a clerk shot himself. | |
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