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This comedy trope is a kissing cousin of both the Show Within a Show and the Commercial Switcheroo. Typically placed immediately at the end of a segment, it seems like the show you're watching has just cut to the mid-show commercial break. However, it quickly becomes evident (ideally in about the time it takes most folks to start getting out of their La-Z-Boy) that the commercial is actually a fake-out, for an absurd or grotesque product. It may also figure into the plot, especially in shows about people in Show Business who would do anything for a break. When done as part of a Sketch Comedy show, the product can be pretty much anything. When done as part of a more typical comedy, the mock product usually ties into the plot of the show in some fashion. In any case, the commercial itself is a practical field guide to various Advertising Tropes, although this tends to be more pronounced in the case of a Sketch Comedy. Compare/contrast with Show Within a Show, Commercial Switcheroo and Trailer Spoof. Real Trailer, Fake Movie is a subtrope. For more parodic content, see what The Other Wiki has to say about parody commercials. |
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DK Vine has these all over the side of the main page, with parodies of things like Evony, male enhancement ads and travel ads with Donkey Kong Country, Banjo-Kazooie and Conker's Bad Fur Day characters and places standing in for the real world ones. | |
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Beauty Queens is full of parody commercials for products like Breast in Show, "Because, 'you're perfect just the way you are,' is what your guidance counselor says. And she's an alcoholic,'" and TV shows like Captains Bodacious IV: Badder and More Bodacious. | |
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The Who Sell Out by The Who is a Fake Radio Show Album that includes fake commercials (for real products), most of them written by John Entwistle. (It also includes real jingles from Buccaneer Broadcaster Radio London.) | |
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The sadly short-lived Sheep in the Big City would do this frequently, most often with the Oxymoron company. One memorable Oxymoron ad featured the typical Housewife asking the enthusiastic seller what he was doing in her kitchen, and threatening to call the police on him. Another fake ad parodied Olive Garden's "When you're here, you're family" slogan with a restaurant that treated customers as real family ("You never call, I haven't heard from you in weeks! Why would you do this to us?"). "Do you have paper towel absorbent enough to pick up this acid?" "No" Well neither do I, but I do have this extra mint chewing gum" |
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Blend-S: The end of the second commercial break for episode 4 of the anime has a commercial advertising for a new series in Manga Time Kirara called The S-dere Maid and the Weakling Butler, using the same format that Anthology Comic usually advertises for series. But when Dino interrupts the end of the commercial, viewers starts to recall that plot is what Miu has in mind before the commercial break. | |
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Bill Nye the Science Guy usually has parody commercials at least Once an Episode, as the show is structured around looking like, well, a person channel hopping. Examples include advertising planktons as a breakfast cereal, complete with a catchy jingle. | |
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The Gruen Transfer's segment "The Pitch", in which two advertising agencies compete to "sell the unsellable", making commercials for things such as whale meat and holidays to Baghdad. Sometimes subverted, however, in that while most agencies approach The Pitch with a parody ad, not all do; some are actually pretty damn convincing. Twice now, a political party has approached the ABC to buy an ad originally aired on the pitch. (The Australian Democrats and The Greens.) Both times the ABC said no. In another example, an advert promoting mandatory euthanasia was so convincing that an actual Australian right-to-die organisation approached the agency to do a real ad on the issue; the next week, the panel discussed it and almost unanimously agreed that the 'parody' ad was more convincing than the real one. |
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Secret Lives of Mobs: See How Joe's Body Brought Him Fame Instead of Shame◊. HINT: It involves Tzeentch the Dark God of Chaos. | |
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The second episode advertises a fancy Strücker wristwatch. Strücker was the HYDRA scientist whose experiments on Loki's scepter gave Wanda and Pietro their powers. | |
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The sitcom Better Off Ted: Each episode included a fake commercial for the fictitious Veridian Dynamics company, the workplace setting for the show. | |
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Himouto! Umaru-chan R episode 5 opens with an ad for Diamond Service, the company that Umaru's brother Taihei works for. At the end of the ad Umaru drops in to deliver the traditional "Our program was brought to you by this excellent sponsor!" message; Taihei asks if his company is really sponsoring the anime, and a caption appears overhead reading "Nope." | |
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Horrible Histories likes to parody well-known (usually British) commercials; its sketches have included "We Sell Any Monk" and "God Compare." It's also had a recurring Infomercial character called The Shouty Man. (Their parody commercials really wouldn't be mistaken for out of show ads, though, due to them featuring characters in period dress.) | |
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WandaVision: Wanda creates fake commercials built around Genre Throwbacks to classic sitcoms, all of them tying in to various traumatic events in her life. The first episode advertises a Toastmate 2000 by Stark Industries. The toaster being advertised sounds like one of Tony's repulsors enaging when it's turned on, and it has a blinking red light reminiscent of that on the Stark Industries-built missiles that killed Wanda and Pietro's parents. The second episode advertises a fancy Strücker wristwatch. Strücker was the HYDRA scientist whose experiments on Loki's scepter gave Wanda and Pietro their powers. The third episode features a spoof of the 1970s Calgon bath soap commercials for a product called Hydra-Soak ("Find the goddess within!"). It's revealed that the HYDRA experiments ended up greatly amplifying Wanda's existing magical powers, essentially setting her on the path to becoming the mythical Scarlet Witch. The fifth episode has Grey DeLisle narrating an advertisement for Lagos paper towels, the most absorbant paper towel available. In Lagos, Wanda accidentally killed several people, including Wakandan humanitarian workers, in the course of trying to relocate an exploding Crossbones. The UN used this in turn to bring down the Sokovia Accords onto the Avengers. The sixth episode sees a claymation shark approach a red-headed castaway on an island, telling the castaway that he used to always be hungry before he started feeding on Yo-Magic! yogurt ("The snack for survivors!"). This is followed by a timelapse of the castaway slowly withering away to a skeleton. Agatha Harkness seeks to drain and steal Wanda's powers and leave her a withered husk. The seventh episode promotes an antidepressant called Nexus. The segment of the ad listing the side effects is directly calling out Wanda for withdrawing into a false reality that is only making her problems worse. |
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iCarly: The Sack is a dead-on spoof on the many uses of the sleeved blanket Snuggies, but sans the sleeves. Hilarity Ensues. | |
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Grand Theft Auto 2 also has parody ads on the radio: | |
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The episode of Roseanne that parodies fifties sitcoms also features parodies of fifties commercials. | |
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The show that started Nye's TV career, Almost Live!, also loved making fake commercials advertising "new shows on NBC," fictitous "community events," and fake fly by night trade schools. They were also fond of spoofing Kitschy Local Commercials awful enough to reach Memetic Mutation. | |
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The Boys: In "Glorious Five Year Plan", with A-Train rebranding himself as a symbol of social justice and African culture, Vought decides to capitalize on this by creating a new commercial for his Turbo Rush energy drink. The commercial is a shot-for-shot remake of the infamous Kendall Jenner Pepsi commercial, just with A-Train using his super speed to separate the riot police and protesters as they're about to clash and handing a can of Turbo Rush to one of the cops. | |
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The Rick Mercer Report always has one or two an episode, often riffing on current political or business situations. | |
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Streets of SimCity and Sim Copter both featured similar radio commercials for things such as bottled water ("some waters taste, well, watery"), car-mounted weapons, and other Sim games. | |
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Animalympics featured some parody ads, most of which spoofed Olympic endorsement deals. | |
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One segment in Uncle Grandpa featured a parody commercial for a music compilation of Uncle Grandpa singing classic songs. It is a parody of actual commercials like these from The '70s and The '80s. It goes so far as parodying two of the most common methods of purchasing products: Visa becomes Pizza (as in Pizza Steve) and MasterCard becomes MisterGus. | |
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Quite a few segments of the Garbage Pail Kids Cartoon were parody commercials. Some examples include the Automatic Tattler (a robot that tattles on children when they misbehave) and Have a Nice Meal (a small cube that magically turns into whatever food you want to eat when water is added). | |
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The Saints Row series also features plenty of parody commercials on the radio: Saints Row and Saints Row 2 feature commercials for Freckle Bitch's, a chain of fast food restaurants that is an obvious parody of Wendy's. In the first game, a promiscuous young woman talks about the restaurant's offerings almost entirely in double entendres. In the second game, she sounds like an elderly woman and coughs throughout the commercial. Saints Row 2 features two parody commercials for Ship It, a boat dealership, starring Vladimir, an Eastern European man voiced by Jason Zumwalt (aka Roman Bellic). He talks about how useful the boats are for trafficking and threatens to kill the listener's family if he doesn't buy boats from the dealership. Saints Row: The Third has a number of hilarious commercials, including promos for Nyteblayde that pretty much sum up the plot of the show (and the quality of the acting). |
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Animaniacs has had quite a few, such as "The Slapper," "Buttermilk (It Makes a Body Bitter)" and "Branimaniacs." | |
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Of all games, one appears in StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, advertising the albums of the fictional bandnote Actually, Blizzard's in-house band Level 800 Elite Tauren Marines | |
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Last Place Comics gives us several examples: "Fruity Zoops", which are apparently a currency for a race of donut-shaped people. "Pickle Too Slippery" is an advertisement for something (we never learn what) with a spokesman with the power to stop time speaking. And then there's attachable speed lines and wearable shock lines. |
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In the Whateley Universe story "Tales of the MCO", the characters are sitting around watching said television show and MSTing it. It has parody commercials for upcoming movies. The Ivory-Merchant production of "Hulk 1809" and the Oliver Stone-directed "Foucault's Pendulum". And fake cereal ads. | |
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And Starship Troopers, also made by Paul Verhoeven, gave us the memorable recruiting commercials for the Terran Federation Fleet and Mobile Infantry, painting a rosy picure of service in the Federation's armed forces. Service Means Citizenship! | |
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This idea was at the core of Sesame Street. Its creators realized TV commercials were more memorable for their target audience than either school or the children's programming of the day, and that there was a specific set of "useful things" that could be taught effectively in a mock commercial. Everything else the show has become known for evolved out of that note This entry was brought to you by the letter T and the letter V and the number 6. | |
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Making matters worse, Geico frequently runs an ad during the show that is disguised to look like a Portlandia sketch and even features the waitress character from the pilot episode. | |
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Both MADtv (1995) and Saturday Night Live have employed this concept for years, advertising bogus products in order to make fun of various Advertising Tropes or make fun of a current event (such as the cold opening on the Jonah Hill episode from season 33 where disgraced governor Eliot Spitzer [Bill Hader] advertises a new law firm that deals with sexual court cases, such as injuries from faulty vibrators, U.S. customs seizing German porn, and slip and falls in gay bath houses). For SNL, "Happy Fun Ball" is probably the best-known; MADtv (1995), meanwhile, featured a plush toy called "Tickle Me Emo", an angsty, stereotypically emo version of Elmo from Sesame Street ("You don't understand what I'm going through!"). Other sketch shows, like Fridays, In Living Color!, WB's Hype, and SCTV have done fake commercials, though it can be safe to say SNL and MADtv (1995) have the most memorable parodies. Bass-o-matic is a strong contender for "best-known SNL parody commercial". It's also one of the first. "Hi, I'm Sam Waterson... Robots are everywhere... Somethin's always cookin at the Cluckin' Chicken! The Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer sketches were presented with a listing of fictional sponsors ("Brought to you by Dog Assassin. When you can't bear to put him to sleep, maybe it's time to call Dog Assassin!") Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball. Inverted by the rare spoof commercial to spawn a real product. A 1990 SNL spot pitched the "Chia Head," a sort of Chia Pet treatment to replace lost hair. Five years later, Joseph Enterprises, the novelty's maker, began selling actual Chia Heads modeled after various cartoon characters... and later a version in "tribute" to Barack Obama. When Gillette razors invented the dual blade razors, SNL spoofed them with their ad for triple bladed razors, because you'll buy anything! Twenty years later, real razors now offer models with as many as seven blades. New Shimmer. Is it a floor wax or a dessert topping? "Get a Nike(y) Turkey, and PUMP IT!" (parody of Reebok Pumps) The TBS show ''Tush', which was modeled loosely on SNL, routinely did a parody commercial or three per show. An early commercial parody poked fun at the United States Navy's "Not Just A Job, It's An Adventure" campaign, showing the less-than-glamorous side of military service: peeling potatoes, doing laundry, painting ships, scrubbing toilets, etc., followed by the slogan, "it's not just a job, it's $96.78 a week." "Einstein Express: When it absolutely, positively has to be there the day before yesterday." |
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Just like the movies, RoboCop: The Series has at least one of these per episode. It's one of the main comedic draws of the show, usually advertising deadly Commander Cash toys, but oftentimes other things as well. | |
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The Grand Theft Auto series is rife with these spoof commercials: An ad in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas from Cluckin' Bell, a fictional KFC and Taco Bell look-alike, which stresses how processed and disgusting their food is, as well as the inhumane manner in which the chickens are treated. Grand Theft Auto III features an advertisement for Eris Running Shoes, an obvious Nike look-alike, which stresses the alleged worker abuse in their factories in southern Asia. Grand Theft Auto 2 also has parody ads on the radio: |
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The Order of the Stick has one in the last panel of strip #711, which also pokes fun at the comic's own art style. | |
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A regular feature on Martin/Molloy, despite it airing on commercial radio. Many were one-offs, but Tony and Mick became so enamoured of some the characters/products involved that they returned multiple times, such as 'The Martin/Molloy Pay TV Network'. | |
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Saints Row: The Third has a number of hilarious commercials, including promos for Nyteblayde that pretty much sum up the plot of the show (and the quality of the acting). | |
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Black Butler: The bonus episode has a parody commercial for Funtom Company dog food and a parody preview for "The Black Sushi Chef" (based off of a parody image in volume 5). | |
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Captain Proton and the Planet of Lesbians has advertisements for unsafe products like asbestos, benzedrine, lead paint, and radio-active health water. | |
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C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America, a parody film depicting what it would be like if the South had won the war, had commercial breaks throughout the mock documentary that showed commercials that would have appealed to that country at the time, involving slavery more often than not. About half of them feature products with racist names and/or mascots that really existed... in the North... after the Civil War. | |
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MAD frequently does the print version of this, satirizing magazine ads. Things got interesting in this respect once the magazine started carrying real ads... which is why longtime editor Bill Gaines wouldn't carry ads. | |
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The Nostalgia Critic has begun doing this occasionally in his new set of reviews (post-Review Must Go On). | |
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The Powerpuff Girls (1998) had a fake commercial in the middle of "I See a Funny Cartoon In Your Future" promoting "The Pickle Patch". In it, the Mayor of Townsville is once again eating pickles, saying he's addicted. Ms. Bellum suggests him to try the Pickle Patch, and go cold turkey. The Mayor being the Mayor, however, he eats a cold turkey sandwich with the patch on it. | |
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Escape Velocity has a few commercial messages. Most are simple variations on "Brought to you by MegaCorp," but there are some sillier ones, like: | |
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The Ren & Stimpy Show featured several mock-adverts, amongst other between-toon-bumpers, between toons. The most famous 'product' advertised was Log, from Blammo - a solid chunk of wood which could be endlessly accessorised ("Action Log! Space Log! Anatomically Correct Log!") and was apparently great for a snack. And fits on your back. It's Log, Log, Log! This may have been the inspiration for Phineas and Ferb's Brick, from Har D Har, which replaced P&F's original idea - the Perry the Platypus Inaction Figure "It does nothing!" |
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In the film version of The Moon is Blue, Patty appears on television in a singing commercial for beer. | |
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An ad in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas from Cluckin' Bell, a fictional KFC and Taco Bell look-alike, which stresses how processed and disgusting their food is, as well as the inhumane manner in which the chickens are treated. | |
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Borderlands: Radio ads for Engorge, a male enhancement pill, in the DLC The Secret Armory of General Knoxx. You don't get to hear much of them, because your contact, Athena Pierce, is using them to mask her transmissions from the Crimson Lance, but what you do get to hear is extremely over-the-top and hilarious. | |
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A remake of Spectre (1991), Spectre VR CD, has cutscenes featuring parody ads bashing Microsoft (called MacroSoft in the game). | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Sound: What sounds like a typical advert for a brand of bread or butter eventually turns out to be an advert for... petrochemicals, complete with a voice cutting in to proclaim "BUY MORE PETROCHEMICALS!" | |
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Mass Effect 2 is chock full of these - ads for everything from a production of Hamlet with an all-elcor (heavyworlder aliens with a Starfish Language) cast to plastic surgery on asari head-tentacles ("Your scalp is so beautiful! Mine's so gangly and asymmetrical") to indentured servants ("Indenture Tech. You've been a slave to your employees for far too long. Shouldn't it be the other way around?") The creepiest ones are like Facebook ads taken to their logical stalker-ish extreme - face-recognition ads that call your character by name as they walk by and incorporate details of their life presumably drawn from databanks ("Commander Shepard! It has been (robot voice) two years (normal voice) since your last paycheck.") Many of them are hilarious. | |
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Ursula Vernon's podcast The Hidden Almanac ends each episode with sponsor messages, usually one from the show's major sponsor (Red Wombat Tea Co.) and one from a sponsor of the week, such as the Silent Nightclub or Suzy's Seasonal Assassins. A common joke is for a sponsor message to be a response to the previous episode's sponsor message, such as when an episode sponsored by the city library ("Have you gotten lost in a book lately?") was followed by an episode sponsored by a company selling edible bookmarks ("Lost in a book? Already eaten your shoes? Now you can use your bookmark as a handy source of protein"). Some of these, such as the rivalry between Bob's Discount Car Lot and Steve's Used Cars, have turned into long-running story lines. | |
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The trivia computer game You Don't Know Jack played parody commercials at the end of each game. These were so popular that one of the games in the series (The Ride) even included an audio CD of some of the more memorable parodies. In newer revisions of the game, the parody is brought to the start of the game as it ties in to a new game mechanicnote Wrong answer of the day, where getting an answer wrong will score you points. The parody-ad is a hint as to which question you must answer wrongly. | |
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The Colbert Report: Stephen made his own version of an anti gay marriage ad. | |
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Saints Row and Saints Row 2 feature commercials for Freckle Bitch's, a chain of fast food restaurants that is an obvious parody of Wendy's. In the first game, a promiscuous young woman talks about the restaurant's offerings almost entirely in double entendres. In the second game, she sounds like an elderly woman and coughs throughout the commercial. | |
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Saints Row 2 features two parody commercials for Ship It, a boat dealership, starring Vladimir, an Eastern European man voiced by Jason Zumwalt (aka Roman Bellic). He talks about how useful the boats are for trafficking and threatens to kill the listener's family if he doesn't buy boats from the dealership. | |
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This may have been the inspiration for Phineas and Ferb's Brick, from Har D Har, which replaced P&F's original idea - the Perry the Platypus Inaction Figure "It does nothing!" | |
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The Simpsons comics have had quite a few fake ads over the years. Each one usually has had a small something give it away, such as "THIS IS NOT AN ADVERTISEMENT" appearing in small print above an ad of Frosty Krusty Flakes (in place of the standard "ADVERTISEMENT"), an ad for Krusty's Three-Fingered Fireworks stating the offer is not valid in the following states and goes on to list all 50 state abbreviations of the USA, or some having an "This offer void after September 1968" disclaimer or similar. | |
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The Goodies had a spoof commercial break in between the two halves of each episode, with Tim Brooke-Taylor's send-ups of Heinz adverts then current on British TV being a Running Gag. | |
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Each episode of The Aquabats! Super Show! has one of these, usually advertising something silly from Gloopy (P). | |
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Short Ribbs has done too many to list, but they include Fad trash bags, Creepy Crawlers Motel 7, "Blisterine" and a spoof of coffee ads, in which Patty Maloney and a cross-dressed Billy Barty drink coffee that apparently is made from garden soil. | |
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Girl Genius features Spark Roast Coffee, with the slogan "Perfection in every cup", outdoing Nestle's "Coffee's perfect mate" that probably inspired it. Note that the advertised product has perfection in every cup. In that a good gulp makes people, indeed, clearly perceive perfection. With all senses. In everything. For hours non-stop. |
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Teen Titans (2003): Our intrepid heroes have been sucked into television-land and must battle the biggest bads in television history. The battleground is a commercial for Zinthos, which may or may not be a corrupting, poisonous, blue gremlin. | |
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A Beany and Cecil episode featured Cecil in a commercial for "Herrings...the only smoke gefiltered to my distaste!" | |
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The 30 Rock episode "Gavin Volure" has one. Gavin Volure (Steven Martin) tries to justify creating a fake corporation by saying that the commercial never said what the company does. Indeed it's just a random assortment of footage and words. | |
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KYTV, being a spoof on commercial satellite TV, featured a handful of parody commercials in every episode, as did its predecessor, Radio Active. | |
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The three films of the Robocop series featured fake commercials breaking up the storyline, including one for an ultra powerful sunblock to exposit that the ozone layer had been destroyed in the film's reality, although the sunblock itself could be harmful to the health if overused. And Starship Troopers, also made by Paul Verhoeven, gave us the memorable recruiting commercials for the Terran Federation Fleet and Mobile Infantry, painting a rosy picure of service in the Federation's armed forces. Service Means Citizenship! |
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The video for "Dangerous", by Big Data, features advertisers pitching an ad to the executives of an athletic shoe company. The ad starts out fairly normally, with attractive women jogging while wearing the company's shoes, but then it gets violent. | |
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The third McBusters video has a faux commercial break where we are shown an ad for McBusters Cereal, which is really just burger and fry fragments with enormous marshmallows. | |
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Do you think today's wrestling is too politically correct? Are you tired of seeing super kick, after super kick, AFTER SUPER KICK...well ANX hears you, and that's why in 2016 they're vowing to make wrestling great again. What, 2016 is too far gone? Don't worry, as long as Kenny King is great and Rhett Titus is great they can and will make wrestling great, even if it kills them. | |
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Flipnote Warrior: After a stressful nightmare sequence, the animation suddenly does an obviously fake sponsor eyecatch featuring Nintendou and Bandei. | |
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A Face in the Crowd has a montage showing the Browning, Schlagel & McNally agency's new TV campaign for Vitajex featuring Lonesome Rhodes. Most of the commercials play up the Sex for Product angle. | |
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Futurama likes to do this on occasion just before the show starts, and has "advertised," among other things, Glagnar's Human Rinds, Molten Boron, and Torgo's Executive Powder in this manner. Walrus Juice: Ride. The. Walrus! Thompson's Teeth: The only teeth strong enough to eat other teeth! CASH, CASH, CASH FOR YOUR BONES! TOO MANY BONES? NOT ENOUGH CASH? CALL CASH BONE! RIBS, SKULLS, SPINES, EVEN CERTAIN TINY EAR BONES! THE LEG BONE'S CONNECTED TO THE CASH BONE! According to the DVD commentaries, these are usually put in when an episode runs a few seconds short. However, Torgo's Executive Power was a major running gag throughout Bender's Big Score, unlike the other one-shot commercials. The Saturday-Morning Cartoon parody "Saturday Morning Fun Pit" had a Strawberry Shortcake parody called Purpleberry Pond repeatedly interrupted by commercials for Purpleberry Puffs breakfast cereal (apparently Segregated Commercial rules don't exist in the 31st century). By the end it was almost impossible to tell where the commercials were stopping and the episode was starting. (And, for added misleading advertising, the Purpleberry Pond characters were continually talking about how healthy purpleberries were, while the cereal was Chocolate-Frosted Sugar Bombs.) |
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The Weird Al Show did this in just about every episode, with ads like "Sport Shoe - you don't deserve to wear them", "Silly Choice Dinners" that had rubber bands as a side item, and an ad for a pizza company that never puts their pizzas in a box to save time. | |
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The Angry Video Game Nerd made one for Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing. | |
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After she beat Ivelisse Vélez for SHINE's Title at SHINE 21, Leah Von Dutch planned to open the LAHM House Of Champions, an awesome Hawaiian mansion where you could learn to be as awesome as her. But she needed your help to get it finished! Dutch agreed to say hi to you when you bump into her at a show for the starting donation of $1000, just as long as you didn't touch her. $50,000 got you an autographed picture of her looking at your face book page. $55,000 dollars a night earned you a stay at a motel down the street from the mansion once it was finished! It wasn't to be, the successive onslaught of Su Yung, Amazing Kong and Nevaeh ensured she would not get that title shot. | |
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Father Ted had a spoof ad for a priests' chatline that was a dead-on parody of a real-life ad for a gay chatline. | |
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YuyaVision has commercials based off of events in Yuya's life and even ones from Omega Mart. | |
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The first episode of Six Feet Under included some parody adverts for mortuary products. | |
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The Amanda Show had at least one an episode. | |
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Frilly Shirt includes a number of parody vintage commercials, particularly for the author's own Patented Leopard Oil. | |
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Robot Chicken had a skit consisting of a commercial for a fictional video game titled Codename: The Abortionator, which advertised such features as being able to kill your parents, urinate on the homeless and the option to make love to your hot cousin or your hot cousin's mentally disabled friend. The end of the commercial states that the game is rated E for Everyone. | |
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Barbie (2023): After Stereotypical Barbie hits her lowest point, the film cuts to a cheerful commercial for a "Depression Barbie", complete with anguished facial expressions, sweatpants all day, and watching the BBC's Pride and Prejudice seven times until she falls asleep. | |
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A Prairie Home Companion does these regularly, for a range of products including Bee-Bop-A-Ree-Bop Rhubarb Pie and Powdermilk Biscuits. This is part of the Genre Throwback to the old radio variety shows that had prominent sponsorships. To wit: the show's house band is even named after a fictitious brand of shoe. | |
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Young Justice (2010) has a commercial for The Reach's Reach sports drink. It's full of Stylistic Suck and is almost unbearably upbeat and happy. G. Gordon Godfrey, an in-universe newscaster, even has a cameo. The drink is intended to make you lose all willpower and be fully addicted to the drink forever over prolonged consumption. Don't you want to Reach For A Reach? | |
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Just before the midway point of PONIES The Anthology II, we get a series of clips putting various real commercials to the characters of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. | |
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The music video for Foo Fighters' song "Big Me" gives us "Footos: the Fresh Fighter" as a parody of Mentos ads. | |
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Every episode of Roland Rat: The Series had a parody commercial for something like a My Little Warthog toy with realistic smell, or a brand of chocolate that would prevent people stealing them because "They melt in your hands, not in your mouth!" | |
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A twisted variation in Batman (1989): "New and improved Joker products! With a new secret ingredient: Smilex!" | |
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Parody commercials are a staple of Less is Morgue, where the mid-episode ad breaks are all inspired by the bizarre, often intrusive sponsorships you're likely to hear on a regular podcast. So far, these have included Zeus selling condoms, Satan selling condos, an ad for a cannibal restaurant, and an ad for an unethical mobile game about making unethical mobile games. | |
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The Commercial Album by The Residents is a Concept Album where each and every song is about a minute long because the band felt that pop songs and commercials could be combined into one for a bigger financial benefit. Each song on "The Commercial Album" is therefore only about a minute long, much like a radio advertising spot. Listeners are instructed to play them three times in a row to get the feeling of a typical pop song, if they want that experience. | |
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On "The Further Adventures of Nick Danger", Lieutenant Bradshaw gives a commercial for Loosener's Castor Oil Flakes "with real glycerin vibrafoam! It doesn't just wash your mouth out—it cleans the whole system, right on down the line." | |
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In Monty Python's Flying Circus, the animated links included memorable parody commercials for such products as Whizzo Butter (now with 10% more less, and completely indistinguishable from a dead crab). Crelm Toothpaste (with the miracle ingredient Fraudulin) shows up in two different episodes, once as part of a Commercial Switcheroo that starts with American Defense and moves on to Shrill Petrol, and the second time with Sex for Product testimonials from fire-breathing dragons. Episode 5 has a parody of the old Charles Atlas ads. | |
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At one point, The Sixth Sense cuts to a fake cough syrup ad. The main character throws a shoe at the television to turn it off. | |
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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood ends with Rick Dalton, dressed as his Bounty Law character, shooting a commercial for Red Apple Cigarettes. After the camera cuts, he spits out the cigarette and vents his frustrations. | |
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Funky Squad would have genuine ads from The '70s mixed with the 'stars' promoting various fake products with a Values Dissonance twist, such as hair spray "with added hydro fluro carbons". | |
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Round the Horne had these in profusion. Staid BBC announcer Douglas Smith would go seriously off-script to shill the miracle product Dobberoids (rejuvenation for the tired horse). When called to heel by Kenneth Horne, Smith would anxiously point out that a BBC salary is too pitiful and meagre for a man to live on, and the opportunity to make a bit on the side by slipping in some covert advertising was simply too good to miss. | |
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The Chaser's War On Everything One of The Chaser's favourites is the mock commercial. Often, they're shown next to each other, for a fake ad break. The network the show aired on doesn't have commercial breaks. | |
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Due to their lack of TNA bookings, The Motor City Machine Guns ran a pitch offering their services, which amounted to using your stuff, to anyone willing to pay $2000 dollars an hour for them. Oh, Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley would throw in two free Shamwows to those who called in early! | |
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Beginning with the release of the Natural Disasters DLC, Cities: Skylines has radio stations that feature humourous ads from the in-game commercial companies that talk about their products and services in a manner similar to Grand Theft Auto, during intermissions from the in-game music being played. | |
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South Park has done this at least three times: During "Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo", a parody commercial appeared offering a Mr. Hankey toy which consisted of various Mr. Potato Head-like plug-ins that the kids could use to "dress up" a home-made Mr. Hankey. Of course, you get a home-made Mr. Hankey by fishing it out of the toilet. "Cherokee Hair Tampons", which featured a couple of Native American Mexican hucksters hawking "natural health products", had a commercial advertising "natural tampons" made from "real Cherokee hair". "Towelie" featured a mock advert for South Park merchandise - the "Towelie" towel, featuring a button that can be pressed to hear the character's catchphrase "You wanna get high?" (Ironically, in a bit of Defictionalization, an actual Towelie towel was produced! — it doesn't talk, though.) Very ironic, in this case: The showrunners created Towlie for the sole purpose of having a character so stupid that it couldn't be conceivably turned into mindless merchandise. Abusing Poe's Law for fun and profit. "Chinpokomon" featured two mock advertisements. The first was the "Wild Wacky Action Bike", a bicycle with both front and rear handlebars, advertised as "almost impossible to steer". The second product was the "Alabama Man", an action figure of a stereotypical redneck who spends his time drinking beer, bowling, chewing tobacco, and beating his wife ("When Wife asks him where he's been, just use the action button and Alabama Man busts her lip open! 'Shut up, bitch!'"). After a focus group consisting of Cartman, Stan and Kyle dismiss both as "gay", the researcher says, "Oooh, dear. Well, let's keep trying. How about this?" Cut to real commercials. "Free Hat", which was a criticism of altering films, featured an advertisement in the middle for a remastered version of the very first South Park episode, with "new and exciting digital effects". |
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MARZENA: Transhuman Ambrosia has a whole chapter dedicated to this, we got Tresisda vs Spartan (Dragon vs iWin OS), Famous entrepreneur J-Mark Applebaum and his digital son Barry telling you that Tresisda cares about family, and Santa Claus turning velociraptors into long dead rockstars using the new Tresisda Sunglasses. | |
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The very first DC Comics issue of The Powerpuff Girls (Cartoon Network Starring #1) was an issue length commercial for Mostess Snack Cakes, a spoof of some of the genre's serious superheroes shilling for Hostess in 70s comics. | |
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A regular feature on The John Dredge Nothing To Do With Anything Show, often for K-Tel products. | |
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This is also a common device on the Homestar Runner toons. Senorial Day cuts between two different Parody Commercials, both focusing on the "holiday sales events" of car (?) dealerships. The Strong Bad Email "candy product" ends with a commercial for the candy bar SBlounchked!, sending up Mentos-style Bottled Cool pitches. "Family Resemblence", a bonus email included on one of the Strong Bad Email DVDs, featured Pom Pom and his hypothetical family doing a commercial for Jurvy Skat, "the classic game of Oh-No-You-Don't", that riffs on ads for family board games. The Blubb-O's commercial parodies many devices used in fast food commercials. "Coach Z's 110%" is a mock infomercial for a fitness training video series pitched by Coach Z. |
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Bells Are Ringing opens with an ad for Susanswerphone, the answering service the heroine works for. This ends with a Description Cut to the Susanswerphone offices, which are considerably less glamorous than the ad. | |
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At one point in Freaked, a Show Within a Show breaks for an ad for Macheesmo, a canned cheese product that's marketed in an aggressively macho manner. | |
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The Fast Show had some of these, mostly featuring Cheesy Peas. | |
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Stay Tuned, about a couple Trapped in TV Land, naturally features several of these, such as one for the non-alcoholic children's drink "Yogi Beer" and "MaxHell" cassette tapes in a direct parody of Maxell's "Blown Away Guy" campaign. | |
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StacheBros has a parody commercial for 1-UPs, in which Wario advertises a new brand of drugs with the ability to resurrect people. | |
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Who Back When: For a brief period, Ponken would stop the show for an ad break, only to announce that Who Back When is brought to you by... Who Back When. A few Bonus Episodes have featured trailers for fake Doctor Who audiobooks, featuring Doctor sound bites and the screen names of people who provide reviews for the show on iTunes. |
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Histeria! ran plenty of commercial parodies, each one centering around a historical event (i.e. a record album called "The Greatest Hits of the 1860s") or person (i.e. Raggedy Lyndon Johnson and Squeeze Me Nixon). | |
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Flaming Frost: Tigerstar does this to bribe Jaypaw and Lionpaw into training in the Dark Forest. Although Spottedleaf interrupts the first one with Jaypaw, it works on Lionpaw. | |
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Full Frontal with Samantha Bee had parody commercial breaks during the 2020 Election episode. One parody car commercial boasted how great their cars were for driving out of the country into the Canadian border. Another advertised commemorative plates with Republicans' faces on them, with a voiceover by Will Arnett. Yet another advertised a scented candle that smelled like men for women alone in quarantine. | |
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The Babylon 5 episode "And Now For a Word", done as a series of interviews and reports from a visiting journalist, features an ad from the Psi Corps, complete with Subliminal Seduction. | |
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Major League has the Cleveland Indians doing their version of American Express's "Do You Know Me" ad, ending with Willie Mays Hayes sliding into home plate saying, "Don't steal home without it." | |
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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines had radio commercials for, among other things, a restaurant called Frickin' Chicken ("That's some f***ing good chicken!") and a sitcom about a banker whose late wife comes back as an ATM. These were also advertised in billboards around town. | |
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ProtonJon has a stream alert that is a made-up advertisement for the Glitchen Gun, which causes glitches in video games. The game displayed in the mock-up ad is randomly chosen, and the list of possible games shown is based on games that have glitched on stream. According to him, it is also inspired by a parody commercial from the BBC, advertising the Kitchen Gun. | |
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