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Breakaway Advertisement
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Remember the phrase "I've fallen, and I can't get up!"? Now do you recall what product it was originally used to sell? Did you know that the old computer game Sopwith was a multiplayer game used to showcase a networking program? That's what this trope is, when a slogan, phrase, mascot, or showcase becomes more famous and/or even outlasts the product it was created for. A song this happens to is a Top Ten Jingle. Examples |
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Cool Spot, a platformer based on a fairly successful series of US 7-UP commercials in which anthropomorphized red spots from cans would run around while their owner is asleep. On a similar note, Fido Dido, another character from the same brand (owned internationally by PepsiCo, which used him for Slice advertisements in the US), went through this, appearing in the bumpers of CBS' Saturday-Morning Cartoon block and getting his own comic strip and books. |
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The line "So round! So firm! So fully packed! So free and easy on the draw!" was a slogan from radio ads for Lucky Strike cigarettes back in the '40s, but it then got picked up by radio personalities and Looney Tunes characters like Pepé Le Pew for describing members of the fairer sex. Most Looney Tunes fans today can tell it's a '40s cultural reference, but few would know what it's from. | |
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Cavemen, the ABC TV Series, derived from the GEICO Cavemen advertisements. Needless to say, it didn't translate well to the sitcom format and not only failed critically but was marred by the 2007 writers' strike and failed to last a full season. | |
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The titular character of Di Gi Charat was originally the mascot for Gamers, a Japanese store selling merchandise aimed at otaku, and the first series prominently featured the store. It became so popular that the show, as well as the character herself, broke away from its' advertising origins. | |
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Pets.com: Their hand puppet's appeal infamously outlasted the lifespan of their company (which admittedly wasn't that long to begin with) and now shills for cheap car loans. He's also no longer voiced his original puppeteer, comedian Michael Ian Black, who has found better things to do with his time. | |
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The Pebbles cereals were originally meant to promote The Flintstones, but became so popular that the cereals' run outlasted the show it was meant to promote, to the point where they are still being made to this day. | |
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Hi-C's "Ecto-Cooler" flavor was produced to promote the TV series The Real Ghostbusters. The stuff tasted good, and Hi-C kept producing it for years after the show ended, complete with Slimer on the label. They eventually removed him and changed the name to Shoutin' Orange Tangergreen, then Crazy Citrus Cooler, note according to Dinosaur Dracula, these two used the same exact UPC code as Ecto Cooler' and showed up on grocery store receipts under that name. before discontinuing the flavor completely in 2007 and then briefly bringing it back nine years later as a tie-in for the rebooted film. | |
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One of the earliest internet memes was the Dancing Baby. Originally just a demo for a piece of animation software, the clip itself became wildly popular, especially after it appeared on the TV series Ally McBeal as a manifestation of the title character's fear that she was running out of time to have a baby before menopause. | |
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C. W. McCall was a truck driver in commercials for Old Home Bread in the early 1970s whose flirty adventures with a truck-stop waitress named Mavis were told through a talk-singing Country Rap. A single based on the soundtrack was so successful in the markets where the bread was sold that the advertising executive who sang in the commercials, Bill Fries, assumed the C.W. McCall persona and (with the help of Chip Davis, who wrote the music and later formed Mannheim Steamroller) had a real-life musical career capped by the smash hit "Convoy." | |
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The characters in Bump in the Night were originally created for promos for ABC's Saturday-Morning Cartoon block in 1993. | |
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The noted Jim Varney character Ernest P. Worrell was originally created as an all-purpose advertising mascot in Nashville. Then he went to camp and saved Christmas, and people took notice. | |
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The Micronauts comic (also by Mantlo) also outlasted the toy line that inspired it by several years. The character Bug, very loosely based on the Galactic Warrior action figure, is still around in Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy title, since he's different enough from the toy that inspired him that Marvel can claim to own him outright. | |
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Luigi's Mansion was originally just a tech demo for the GameCube, but was eventually made into a game. Said game, while originally disliked for not being a traditional Mario game, eventually became so popular that it would spawn sequels of its own. | |
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The California Raisins were originally made as characters in a Sun Maid commercial, but they became so popular that they spawned oodles of merchandise and tie-ins, including a video game, a TV special and a Saturday-Morning Cartoon about them. | |
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M.C. Kids was a McDonald's themed platform game for the NES, with original playable characters and the McDonald's mascots in supporting roles. | |
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Yo! Noid, created during Domino's "Avoid The Noid" ad campaign, was a heavily localized version of a Japanese game, Masked Ninja Hanamaru, which had absolutely nothing to do with Domino's Pizza (or pizza in general, for that matter). | |
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