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A Shoddy Knockoff Product is dolled up to look like a popular and/or quality product, but being dolled up is the only work that went into it. You'd be lucky if it even functioned at all. These could very well be used as a target of Convenience Store Gift Shopping, especially if they resemble something that an unwitting/ignorant relative thinks the recipient likes. The Evil Twin of the Well-Intentioned Replacement. While both tropes are about poorly made substitutes, that trope is with the genuine hope of making up for the thing being substituted. This trope is about just plain old ripping you off. Compare Bland-Name Product (to show a popular product in a show without stepping on trademarks), The Mockbuster (the equivalent with works of art or entertainment), Unlicensed Game (an index of Shoddy Knockoff Video Games that have their own pages). Contrast Follow the Leader (there is a clear influence, but it's not trying to make you think it's the actual work it's following), Serial Numbers Filed Off (it's almost the same thing as another, but at the very least changes anything copyrighted by someone else) and Effective Knockoff (when the knockoff is more competent than the original thing it's imitating). Bland-Name Product is when it looks like this in a fictional work, but doesn't come across as such. See also Prop. |
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In one episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Tyriq and Jazz are at odds over a Noodle Incident— Jazz sold Tyriq a fake watch, and Tyriq in turn paid with a fake $20 bill. Will tells them they each should've known better, as the watch had a two-hour warranty, while the "Jackson on the 20 ain't Jermaine." | |
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In one episode of CSI: NY Stella berates a criminal selling knock-off Rolexes that had Rolex spelled with "two Ls and a Z"...right outside the Crime Lab, no less. | |
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On Cheers, Norm's favorite low-price restaurant sold things which were nearly meat, like "Beff" and "Loobster." (Episode 3-19, "Behind Every Great Man".) | |
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Generally subverted in White Collar since Neal is a great forger and he goes to great lengths to make sure that his forgeries are not shoddy and can easily pass off as the real thing. In one episode he has to intentionally make a lesser quality forgery because he needs the FBI to think that the painting has always been a fake and the original was destroyed during World War 2. In another episode a gangster intends to sell knockoffs of rare high priced whiskey and Neal goes undercover as a shady brewer who uses artificial food flavoring to make cheap whiskey taste like the real thing. | |
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The Stupid Adventures of Taco-Man has an episode which revolves around Taco-Man taking out a poorly drawn counterpart of his known as Toco-Man. | |
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The Simpsons In "Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield", Homer goes to a discount electronics store: Springfield Elementary at one time served "Malk" instead of milk. ("Now with Vitamin R!") Superintendent Chalmers takes his "coffee-flavored Beverine" "grey with Creamium". |
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Stuart Ashen specializes in reviewing cheap knock-off products; usually game consoles and toys. The most famous being the POP Stations: A series of cheap and unplayable LCD handheld games made to look like existing video game consoles. A number of the links on this page lead directly to his reviews of how shoddy these knockoffs really are. He has also branched out to fake cellphones and the occasional fake toy. | |
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One episode of Harry Hill's TV Burp expands on a clip from The Apprentice in which Alan Sugar talks about his "Kelvin Kleins" by mentioning all the other hokey gear he buys (he's rich because he buys these cheap knockoffs), including Knikey trainers and Christine Deeyor perfume. | |
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Reddit has a thread dedicated to this trope: /r/crappyoffbrands. Of course, not even that is safe. r/kerchoo, specifically for bootleg Lightning McQueens. |
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In one episode of Teen Titans Go!, the Titans other than Robin are turned into collectible figures and he has to hunt them down. He orders Raven from an online store, only to receive a bootleg who repeatedly mangles her Magical Incantation while the real Raven was in the possession of the Monster of the Week. | |
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Tumblr once featured a list (now defunct) of humorous My Little Pony, The Avengers, and Justice League of America knockoffs. Changes include Mr. Incredible and Shrek as being part of a Justice League knockoff; ponies with gigantic heads; and Batman being referred to as "Morgan Freeman." | |
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In Serendipity, Sara and Eve are vacationing in New York and spot a stall selling knock-off handbags and wallets. Eve is thrilled to buy a "Prado" purse. Sara is quick to remind her that at least her fake actually says "Prada" on it. | |
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Chadtronic has made several videos about knock-off toys and objects. These have featured everything from bootleg Pokémon toys (many of which are very Off-Model and do nothing but light up), bootleg Furby toys, fake/bootleg Pokémon cards (which, Chad notes, seemed to experience a resurgence in the wake of Pokémon GO, as this is what many of the ones in that particular video were themed after), and even a small unofficial bumper car toy with Mario in it. | |
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Dilbert mocks this with ripoff products like "Wibsters Dictionary". | |
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In the 2019 Kim Possible Live-Action Adaptation, Drakken takes one look at the power source Shego had purchased for him online, declares it to be a "cheap knockoff", and tells her to go get the real thing. | |
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A rather unusual version of this trope happens in Manly Guys Doing Manly Things: Canadian Guy is a bootleg or 'unsanctioned regional variant' clone of Commander Badass. It helps that they're Artificial Humans. | |
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Space Thunder Kids and its source material (some of which was also dubbed by Joseph Lai's production company, badly), rips off everything from assorted anime to TRON. Basically, Lai managed to take a bunch of knockoffs and make them even shoddier. | |
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The newspaper comic would (much later) introduce a one-shot character by the name of "Grafield". | |
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In the "You Better Shop Around" episode of Married... with Children, Peg orders Al to go and buy an air conditioner to deal with a heat wave they are experiencing. | |
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In the Discworld tie-in Nanny Ogg's Cookbook, when discussing the real order of precedence at parties, "Someone who has brought a whole bottle of whisky with a name you recognise" is followed by "Someone who has brought a whole bottle of whisky with a name you recognise, but which, on closer inspection, is spelled wrong (this is definitely a sign you shouldn't spill any on the carpet)". | |
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An episode of The Powerpuff Girls was about bootleg versions of the girls. | |
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In one chapter of Alyosha!, Alyosha seemingly wins a PS3 at a carnival game and gives it to her friend Ryunosuke. Upon closer examination, he discovers it's a "P53", a Chinese knockoff with 53 games built into the console. | |
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine: When the squad is invited to a party at Holt's house, they all bring a bottle of the same cheap wine. Upon reading the label, Kevin notices that it's actually not wine, but "Wine Drink". | |
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Fate of the Clans: It's revealed that Servants are inferior copies of who they're supposed to be, each possessing only a fraction of their full power. This is due to the Holy Grail not having the Authority to summon a full Heroic Spirit (Alaya, who created the Throne of Heroes for defending humanity, has the Authority for it). But even being weakened, Servants are still much more powerful than humans, including the Kings. | |
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Miracle Star is an infamous Chinese bootleg of The Amazing World of Gumball made to sell a brand of goat's milk (hence why the show's Watterson family equivalent is a family of goats). It goes beyond a typical mockbuster by copying not only the art style and several characters, but duplicating entire scenes with (slightly different) new characters traced over with slightly choppier animation. It also has poor lip-syncing and such blatant copycat characters as a Bobert who looks more like Bender. While the original show's creator found this quite amusing, Gumball eventually made a rather searing parody of Miracle Star in an episode called "The Copycats". | |
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In Belarus around 2010, one of the most popular television shows was The Theorists, where every single episode was a loosely translated episode of The Big Bang Theory, complete with expys of every single main character from the show. Chuck Lorre called out the series in a vanity card at the end of a Big Bang episode. Fortunately, before Warner Bros. had to sue, The Theorists ended when its stars walked off the job. According to interviews with actors from The Theorists, they had no idea The Big Bang Theory existed or that their show was a direct clone of the hit American show. |
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In Homestuck, although it's mentioned that John is a Ghostbusters fan, his iconic Green Slime Ghost T-shirt is actually a Japanese character◊ totally unrelated to Slimer. | |
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In The Da Vinci Code, this is used to avoid blowing a cover. A rich guy pretends to be a blue collar driver, but forgets to take his Rolex off. When a cop points it out, he says it was a cheap Fauxlex piece of shit he got off the street. | |
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Kamen Rider Drive: Roidmude 027 tries to sell fake versions of Televi-Kun called Tevile-Kun. On the inside is crudely drawn images of Shadow Moon made in crayon. | |
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Phelous started his own series of videos called "Bootleg Zones" with The Phayllus where he reviews bootleg action figures. Downplayed by the second episode, where it is clear that the show extends to reviewing bootleg products that are of decent quality almost matching (or in some aspects succeeding) the originals. Part of the rating system used for the reviews is how well they fare as a substitute for the originals. Inverted with "Miraculous Merchandise Zone" with Phelous, which he notes is "the bootleg of Bootleg Zones", in that it mainly deals with genuine official merchandise. It even got its own purple backdrop from the second episode onward, to better distinguish itself from Bootleg Zone's orange background. |
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On the Columbo, a key piece of evidence is sometimes a cheap knockoff wristwatch being planted by the Murderer of the Week. In "Death Hits the Jackpot", the watch was actually bought by the victim Fred when he sold the authentic original (a gift from the killer, Leon) for rent money. However, when Leon plants Fred's body in his bathtub to make it look like he accidentally slipped and drowned, the cheaper watch catches Columbo's attention because it's not waterproof, raising the question of why Fred would take a bath with it. | |
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There is a skit on This Hour Has 22 Minutes called "Dollarama Cooking" (after a real-life Canadian dollar store chain) where the meal is prepared with "Faux-tatoes" from "Prince Edgar Isle" and the pan handle breaks before anything is put onto the pan. Ironically, the real Dollarama sells brand-name food products in addition to their in-house brand. | |
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The protagonist of the Shivers (M. D. Spenser) novel Weirdo Waldo's Wax Museum has a father who is so cheap that he only buys these, with named examples being Darbies, Stony WalkKids, and Game Guys (which have a game called The Luigi Brothers.) | |
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Space Hamster has done several videos on bootleg video games, including Super Mario Bros. games for the Sega Genesis. Humorously, one of the three happens to be a reskin of a game that was itself a bootleg of a Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers game. He also tackles Sonic the Hedgehog, The Legend of Zelda, Donkey Kong, Star Wars, and Harry Potter bootlegs in later videos. | |
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In Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Detective Goren is trying (as usual) to force a confession out of a killer and needs to force him to admit that his father wanted little if anything to do with him. To do this, he exploits his fondness for finely, immaculately detailed scale model cars (for which the suspect had spent a considerable amount). The trope applies when Goren shows him the kit of a car his father did buy as a gift: a cheap dime-store model that was meant more for children and novice model-kit builders. Goren informs the suspect that the gift wasn't given out of the goodness of his father's heart, but to get him to shut up and go away. | |
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The SerfBoard in the The Sarah Jane Adventures story "The Man Who Never Was", a shoddy laptop computer whose maker attempted to sell it with the help of alien-slave-controlled hypnotic technology. | |
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Rapidity, a knock-off of Beyblades. Made by a Chinese bootleg toy manufacturer, Hongyi. The alloy used in metal parts leaks acidic fumes if heated even slightly, like being left in a car or even a sunny windowsill on a hot day. Beyond that, all metal and plastic parts are much harder and more brittle, leading to possible breakage and resulting in injury. They also seem to be the primary source of "brandless" metal face bolts and tips during the Metal Saga era, which also were sharp edged and ill-fitting, meaning they could damage legitimate parts as well. Slightly subverted for the subsequent bootleg company SB's line of dirt-cheap Beyblade Burst knockoff toys. While the sets come with miscolored parts/parts that were not as advertised on the box, reviewers have claimed the knockoffs were near identical to the actual toys (such as knockoffs of rubber parts actually being made out of a similar rubber), the only difference being their Beyblades are ever-so-slightly lighter in weight. Another thing worth noting is how fast they produce their knockoffs, with new products released just within weeks of the original item's release. |
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In the Discworld Roleplaying Game adventure Watch Academy VI: Hogswatchnight, the hot Hogswatch toy in Ankh-Morpork this year is a biothaumic monstrosity called a Burfy. The players are encouraged to think CMOT Dibbler is involved, when actually he's trying to make knockoff Burfies. | |
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Vampire: Undeath, a ripoff of Vampire: The Masquerade which contained many poorly thought-out rules and Rouge Angles of Satin. After a scathing review of it hit RPGNet forums, the ensuing consequences included a very long thread detailing it and other proposed games by its creator Mykal Lakim, Lakim angrily denying accusations of plaigirism (along with threats of a Frivolous Lawsuit) and the threat of a not-so-frivolous lawsuit by White Wolf. | |
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In Fate/strange Fake, Lord El-Melloi II concludes the ringleaders behind the True and False Holy Grail Wars in Snowfield want to do this, cheapening the miracle of the Third Magic into mere magecraft by mass-producing Holy Grail Wars. | |
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An episode of Arthur featured a product called Woogles, which you could squeeze, stretch, bounce, and customize. Woogles had a cheap knockoff called Poogles, which looked like a potato and couldn't do anything. | |
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Karekore the Half Blood: A middle-aged man named Yasuda decided to create a YouTube channel copying the Karekore. He hired a black man and a model as stand-ins for Cidy and Hisame. Hisame showed him the knockoff channel but Kage didn't care. The channel eventually lost popularity due to people getting tired of their repetive content. As a result, the two people Yasuda hired left him. | |
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Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl: Team Rocket takes advantage of the Pokétch craze by churning out counterfeit Pokétches, which turn out to have mind control properties over the town's Pokémon. Dawn gets a real Pokétch at the end of the episode. This wasn't even the first time they tried their hand at counterfeiting. A previous episode had them making fake gym badges out of bottle caps. |
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Seinfeld: In "The Chicken Roaster", Elaine buys George a (genuine) $8,000 sable hat on the company's account. After George promptly loses it, she has to quickly find a replacement to avoid getting in trouble with the company accountant, and resorts to getting one from Bob Sacamano for $50. It turns out to be made from nutria: | |
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In Zootopia, the movies being sold by Duke Weaselton are labeled "pre-theatrical release", "completely authentic", and "non-infringing entertainment". He's got Wranglednote With the principal character looking like a combination of Rapunzel and Maximus, the protagonist girl and the horse sidekick from Tangled., Wreck-It Rhino note Particularly notable since one of the promotional posters for the movie had Neff, a purple rhino, in place of Ralph◊., Meowana, and Pig Hero 6. He's even got movies that hadn't come out yet, like Girafficnote A reference to the later-cancelled film Gigantic. . . which incidentally makes Duke's claim about the movie even funnier in hindsight, and Floatzen 2. | |
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Parodied repeatedly in the tie-in books to The Colbert Report, I Am America (And So Can You!) and its sequel, America Again; the former has a warning on the back full of badly-mangled English implying the book is a knockoff from "Glorious Peoples Republic of China"; the latter has a supposed warning stating that if the gold leaf had rubbed off the ink, which was replaced by cadmium and you need to call a HAZMAT team. The latter also has a bit involving "The Jorker, archenemy of Bantma", which are apparently the Chinese knockoffs of The Joker and Batman. | |
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Slightly subverted for the subsequent bootleg company SB's line of dirt-cheap Beyblade Burst knockoff toys. While the sets come with miscolored parts/parts that were not as advertised on the box, reviewers have claimed the knockoffs were near identical to the actual toys (such as knockoffs of rubber parts actually being made out of a similar rubber), the only difference being their Beyblades are ever-so-slightly lighter in weight. Another thing worth noting is how fast they produce their knockoffs, with new products released just within weeks of the original item's release. | |
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On Better Call Saul, the signature con of Jimmy and his buddy Marco back in the day involved Marco pretending to be passed out drunk in an alley. When Jimmy came by with the mark, he'd convince them to steal Marco's wallet. Meanwhile, Jimmy would "discover" the nice Rolex watch Marco is wearing and take it for himself. The point is for the mark to offer up the wallet plus some of their own money in exchange for the supposedly much more valuable Rolex, which is really just a cheap knockoff. | |
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In the Kamikaze Girls novel, the protagonist's father sells knock-offs like "Versach" and "Univerkal Stadium" products, and at one point she mocks him (in the narration, not to his face) for thinking that changing the brand name slightly will keep him from getting in trouble for it (which he does). Her daughter follows his steps to buy more lolita dresses and accessories. | |
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Garfield and Friends had "The Genuine Article", where there is a knockoff Garfield named Gabriel. Even the names of the characters are similar! For example, Odie is now Ollie. The newspaper comic would (much later) introduce a one-shot character by the name of "Grafield". |
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A bootleg Russian comic featured Batman, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Predator, and a T-rex. Apparently, the writers were aware that each Expy was pretty bad, so the writers decided to have quantity if they couldn't have quality. | |
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Girl Genius: Bunstable tried to replicate the Jägerdraught that the Heterodynes use to create their Jaegermonsters. By his own admission, it is a miserable failure; the drink transforms him into a stronger form, but only temporarily, he requires an increased dosage each time, if he stays like that for too long he'll become psychotic, and when it wears off he is left in an imbecilic state. He offers to serve Agatha if she transforms him with the true Jägerdraught, but unfortunately she hasn't learned how to make it yet. And she probably couldn't have anyway without the waters of the Dyne. | |
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Jobby the Hong found that the Figma Snow Miku he ordered ended up being one, as evidenced by how many of its joints were broken straight out of the package. | |
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In Commander Kitty, Mittens makes use of a cheap iKnow knockoff to make himself look like one of Zenith's Tagged minions. | |
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In Disney comics, the Horde of the Violet Hare may have a silly name, but they're surprisingly dangerous and dark. Not so for their knockoffs-slash-"rivals", the Legion of the Chartreuse Tortoise, whose only goal is to get whatever Macguffin the Horde is looking for at the time, have members who are ridiculously bad at keeping their membership a secret, and have so little funding that they have to borrow a friend's phone to contact the heroes. | |
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NCIS: Tony buys an iPod for $30. Kate spots that it's actually an L-pod and has nothing inside the casing. | |
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"Mr. Monk Takes Manhattan": Randy Disher proudly shows off the new watch he bought from a guy who knew a guy. When Sharona dismisses it as junk, he insists that it can give him the time in multiple time zones. "It's 5:30 here, in Denver, it's 3:30, Los Angeles, 12:17; and in Paris, France... time has stopped." | |
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Toy Academy: Played for Laughs. Commander Hedgehog, the leader of Toy Academy, is a high-quality action figure made of the finest plastic, and he has jointed hands and a variety of accessories. One other character is a bootleg Commander Hedgehog toy named Commandant Hedgepig, although he's simply called "Bootleg" most of the time. He's made of a cheaper plastic, and his hands are molded rather than articulated, so he's stuck holding a plunger and a frying pan in contrast to Hedgehog's cool space weapons. However, it's later Played for Drama when Bootleg attempts to Kill and Replace Commander Hedgehog as leader of the school. It seems that Bootleg is envious of him. | |
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In the world of Fate/Apocrypha, after the theft of the Greater Grail, Darnic spread word of the mechanics behind it, prompting the start of a slew of Subcategory Holy Grail Wars, none of which were remotely close to the true power of the Grail. None have managed to summon more than five Servants at a time, and at least one Subcategory Lesser Grail detonated. In Fate/strange Fake, Lord El-Melloi II concludes the ringleaders behind the True and False Holy Grail Wars in Snowfield want to do this, cheapening the miracle of the Third Magic into mere magecraft by mass-producing Holy Grail Wars. |
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In One Piece, SMILES are somewhere between this and a Flawed Prototype. The intent was to create an artificial replica of the Zoan category Devil Fruits that could be mass produced. What they got was a knock-off where 90% of the fruits give you no powers and curse you with Super Drowning Skills and an inability to express any emotion bar smiles and laughter. As for the "successful" 10%? They get you to roll on a Superpower Russian Roulette where your results are "watered-down version of Zoan animorphism", "a permanent animalistic mutation that grants you useful powers", "a permanent animalistic mutation that grants you powers — but not the Required Secondary Powers", "a permanent animalistic mutation that is useless and/or disfiguring", and "permanently gaining a sapient animal as either a conjoined twin or a limb replacement". Whilst some truly fortunate SMILE users do get useful mutations or shifting abilities that can be useful, even the so-called successes are largely deformed and/or useless. | |
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Knockoffs for trading card games like Pokémon, YuGiOh, and Magic: The Gathering are entirely too common. The knockoffs often have odd errors in the info printed on them, or are missing special touches like holograms, foil, or shininess on cards that are supposed to have them. And then there are the hilarious ones with "Blind Idiot" Translation character names and in the case of attempts to capitalize on the Pokémon GO craze, straight up mobile game screenshots that aren’t actually even playable as any kind of game. | |
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Parodied in Coming to America, in which Mr. McDowell lives in perpetual terror of the McDonald's lawyers coming down on him for his fast-food restaurant McDowell's, which — aside from a few cosmetic changes — is a blatant McDonald's rip-off. | |
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Lampshaded in Futurama, when Fry is duped by a back alley organ trader who tries to convince him that Z-Ray eyes are even better than X-Ray eyes. | |
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This is one of the running gags associated with both China and Hong Kong in Hetalia: Axis Powers. | |
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Prongles are a knock-off of Pringles potato crisps, with an extreme sports-loving warthog mascot and a suspiciously similar slogan ("Once You Pop... That's Great!"), cooked up by the creators of Cards Against Humanity as a promotional gimmick. | |
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The first episode of Dilbert had a Scrabble Babble bit and Dilbert took a look at the dictionary, which was full of random misspellings and even missing words; when Dilbert wonders "What kinda stupid dictionary is this?" he turns it over — "Wibster's?!" Naturally, this was a product of Dilbert's company. | |
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One particular The Boondocks story arc involved Granddad getting Huey a "Phony Funstation" as a present. He then tries to justify it by saying it came with a free griddle. | |
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MobéBuds could be considered one for Happy Tree Friends. It's pretty much the same thing (down to episodes being shot scene-for-scene), but with cell phones. In London. Aside from also copying characters from other works, the most different thing about it would probably be Wikky, the show's version of Flippy; but the only reason why he's different is that he rips off Flippy's schtick but not his entire character, therefore making him a major case of Fridge Logic due to Wikky lacking an obvious reason for his behavior. | |
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In Full Metal Panic! Another, the Soviet Union produces a scaled-back export version of the Shadow Arm Slave, dubbed the "Monkey Model" (see Military below). | |
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The Amazing World of Gumball has the "Game Child", a shoddy knockoff of the Game Boy which was made in "Chainor". Also parodied in "The Copycats", which (rather aggressively) pokes fun at Miracle Star, an actual Chinese knockoff of Gumball mentioned elsewhere on this page. | |
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All in the Family: In the 1973 episode "Hot Watch", Archie buys a designer Omega watch from a street salesman for $25, a great bargain for a watch that might be worth $300. Designer watch? Omega? A bargain? Nope – it's a cheap, poorly made watch that breaks within minutes, but Archie – and Mike, who is concerned that the watch might have been stolen – don't find out the truth until a jeweler points out that the watch is actually an Onega. | |
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In What If Goku Married Bulma?, the heroes decide to trick Frieza by having Porunga make a set of fake Dragon Balls. These are depicted as "Dorgon Bolls" with off-center stars. | |
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On the early Saturday Night Live sketch "Consumer Probe", Dan Aykroyd played a sleazy toy businessman named Irwin Mainway, who was shown trying to defend his company's dangerous products. One episode focused on his company's Halloween costumes, which jumped aboard the latest fads with horrendous products such as "The Invisible Pedestrian" (an all-black outfit and ski-mask. "NOT FOR BLIND KIDS"), and "Johnny Human Torch" (a bunch of oil-soaked rags stapled to a shirt and a lighter). | |
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Roger in FoxTrot frequently gets nailed by this. During the digital pets craze, his daughter Paige wanted a Tamagotchi. He thought a Tamagrouchy was close enough. It wasn't. | |
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The "Blockblister" sketch in The Amanda Show. A video store operated by Italian immigrants who sell poor quality videos being homemade spoofs of Hollywood films (Austin Powders, Wizard of Voz) with them acting in it. | |
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Sonic Gear, a fan site dedicated to Sonic the Hedgehog merchandise, has a section dedicated to Sonic bootlegs, including games, plush, clothing, and home decor. Some are creepy, while some are bland and some are hilarious to look at. | |
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Robot Chicken had the World War Z parody sketch "World War B (as in blocks)", which was one big parody of the various LEGO imitators that arose from its patent having expired. The survivors were LEGO minifigures and the zombies were Kre-O. | |
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Five Nights at Freddy's: The Dark Fate is an infamous Russian bootleg of Five Nights at Freddy's: The Stories and to some extent Five Nights at Freddy's: Forgotten Events. It goes beyond a typical mockbuster by copying not only the characters, but duplicating entire scenes with (slightly different) new characters. It also has such blatant copycat characters. | |
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In an episode of Spin City, noted cheapskate Paul gives Claudia a "Rolex" as a gift: | |
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In Ben and Me, after Amos' alterations to the latest Poor Richard's Almanac cause a number of ships to run aground and nearly result in a riot, Ben points out that the almanac clearly isn't an authentic one. He claims it's a hoax and urges his customers to insist on the genuine article in the future. | |
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There's a bootleg of Blokus called The strategy game for the whole family (the original game's tagline). The game itself is fine; the manual, not so much. | |
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BattleTech multiple in-universes examples: The Inner Sphere-built Rakshasa Humongous Mecha is an inferior copy of the Clan-built Timber Wolf / Mad Cat. While the Rakshasa is actually a competent 'mech in its own right, the clumsy-looking clone pales in comparison to the high-tech Timber Wolf, which carries significantly more firepower, runs cooler in combat, and is more durable, earning the Rakshasa an (often undeserved) bad reputation. Similar to the situation with the Timber Wolf and Rakshasa comes the Inner Sphere Battle Armor Suit, a knockoff of the Clan Elemental Battle Armor. The Inner Sphere Battle Armor Suit is less durable and carries less firepower than the Elemental, but it did have one advantage- it was relatively cheap to produce, making it a popular seller among Inner Sphere factions before they switched over to producing more specialized and effective Battle Armor. Downplayed with the Mad Dog, a Smoke Jaguar-made knockoff of the Timber Wolf. Built around the same basic concept and carrying the same primary weapons, the Mad Dog isn't as good as the Timber Wolf (it's fifteen tonnes lighter and has much less armour and not as many heat sinks), but it fulfills roughly the same role at two thirds the price and — crucially — the Jaguars liberally gave away the production rights, unlike the Wolves who maintained a monopoly and only had a single factory producing the Timber Wolf. The 'knockoff' thus became a Clan workhorse and near omnipresent in all Clan armies, while the original remained an Awesome, but Impractical symbol of Wolf superiority. Manufacturers in the Draconis Combine was also infamous for this when the Inner Sphere began to produce OmniMechs of their own. The controversy came about when they sold OmniMechs that could only use pods that were sold by said manufacturers to other nations, while models that were compatible with salvaged Clan equipment were exclusive to their home nation. The manufacturer's excuse was that they were still working out the bugs in the pod interface, but the Clan-compatible 'Mechs were out at around the same time. Manufacturers in the Free Worlds League (The only other nation at the time to be working on Omnitech) proceeded to return the favor, selling Omni versions of less popular 'Mechs like the Blackjack or Firestarter, also with the same compatibility issue, although the Omni versions were still relatively decent units. During the Jihad, the Word of Blake dusted off the remaining intact old plans from the Star League's Space Defense System, but only managed to make a somewhat inferior copy in the form of the Casper II and Casper III systems. Still quite deadly, but nowhere near as good as the original SDS. |
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In an episode of Yes, Dear, it's mentioned that the engagement ring Jimmy gave to Christine was a very obvious fake. For one thing, the "diamond" was full of black spots, which Jimmy claimed was because it was a rare and valuable "Leopard Diamond". This results in a Brick Joke when, in The Tag of the episode, Jimmy is watching a home shopping channel and they are actually selling a Leopard Diamond. He calls Christine into the room, but after the channel mentions the (very high) price, he quickly calls out again: "Never mind!" | |
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With the return of the ceiling fan to popularity in the late 1970's-early 1980's, most quality models (such as this Hunter Original) were made in the USA, had long-lasting motors and parts, were relatively quiet, and could cost well over $250-300 new (roughly $1,000 on today's market). Enter the $29.95 offering from "Family Handyman" magazine, complete with the advertisement literally "daring you to tell us the difference"... well, listen for yourself... and enjoy the yellow plastic while you're at it. Subverted with Classic Fan, Commander Electric, and a few other companies that made replicas of the Original, some of which used the same sort of oil bath motor as the real thing. |
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One Ghostbusters (IDW Comics) story arc involves the Ghostbusters having to deal with a sleazy knock-off ghost hunting team called the “Ghost Smashers�, who cut numerous corners and just blow up ghosts instead of capturing them. Their slipshod practices end up causing the remnants of those “dispelled� ghosts to try and reconstitute, only to merge into one humongous super-ghost. | |
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Pokémon: The Series: Pokémon: The Original Series: In the episode "Fortune Hunters", Cassidy and Butch counterfeited an actual Pokémon fortune telling book and apparently did such a poor job of copying it that many Pokémon types fortunes in the counterfeit book don't match with the real one. Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl: Team Rocket takes advantage of the Pokétch craze by churning out counterfeit Pokétches, which turn out to have mind control properties over the town's Pokémon. Dawn gets a real Pokétch at the end of the episode. This wasn't even the first time they tried their hand at counterfeiting. A previous episode had them making fake gym badges out of bottle caps. |
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Mike Mozart of Jeepers Media once reviewed a bunch of knockoff iPods. The reality of these things annoyed him a great deal. He strongly recommends the official iPods in this case. | |
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In the Cabin Pressure episode "Limerick", Martin buys what he thinks is a genuine Patek Philippe watch from a shady salesman in Hong Kong. He eventually discovers that he was tricked into buying a Shoddy Knockoff. (The clue is when it plays the theme from The Simpsons as an alarm.) | |
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In South Park, a game at a Crappy Carnival offers Terrance and Phillip dolls as prizes, which Kyle desperately tries to win. After making A Simple Plan to raise $5,000 to spend on the game, he finally gets his hands on some, only for them to turn out to be crude fakes which fall apart easily. | |
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One episode of The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat featured a Corrupt Corporate Executive who sold cheap knockoffs of Felix's magic bag. At first, the only noticeable difference was that the copies were black where the original is yellow and vice-versa. However, they used cheap materials to replace expensive ones because the boss said the customers would never know and to replace materials the spies failed to identify while analyzing the original bag because nobody would care. Despite knowing the knockoffs would be dangerous, they mass-produced the black bags. | |
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Protegent Antivirus, a knockoff antivirus software that gets widely accused of being a virus. Notorious for their YouTube videos, all of which feature their mascot, Totally Not Whyatt, either rapping terribly or showing animated people the antivirus and what it does. | |
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Homestar Runner mocked this in the Strong Bad Email "licensed", in which Strong Bad has officially unlicensed Strong Bad merchandise, and objects to Bubs selling legit-looking "unlicensed unlicensed" merchandise. The unlicensed unlicensed merch Bubs sells doesn't seem shoddy at first glance, but includes a pinata that turns out to be full of broken glass instead of candy. | |
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The Godfrey Ho Ninja Movies, being edits of old, previously non-ninja films with a few scenes of what are sometimes the most ridiculous looking "ninjas" ever seen. And all to cash in on the craze for ninja movies at the time. | |
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Family Guy The show references the Lego/Mega Bloks example: And then there's the store brand imitation Frosted Flakes featuring Terry the Tiger. |
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Martini in Olive, the Other Reindeer sells knockoff Rolexxx watches. Olive was suspicious about it at first, but ended up buying one of these anyway, with predictable results. The Big Ben is also a Rolexxx. | |
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Legends of Tomorrow: Played for laughs. Ray ends up working at "UpSwipez," a dating app that is exactly the same as Tinder except you swipe up and down instead of right and left. The founder insists that it's far more intuitive. It's treated as a shameless, low-quality ripoff... but everyone grudgingly admits that it is more intuitive. | |
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JonTron spent one video reviewing Disney Bootleg games, culminating in an entire website of shoddily made (and sometimes horrifying) Frozen (2013) flash games. | |
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One episode of Sgt. Frog had Keroro hoping to get his hands on an old knock-off Gundam model kit called "Dangale" ("Gundumm Action Robot Team" in the Funimation dub). Dangale is actually based on a real-life line of Gundam knock-offs called Gangale, or Gungal. As with Dangale in the show, Gungal models are actually sought after collector's items because they're so rare. | |
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In an episode of Sabrina the Teenage Witch, the eponymous protagonist tries to materialize some roller blades after her aunts won't buy her ones. When she does, they turn out to be knockoffs. She is then told that rules of magic forbid wizards and witches to use their powers to create original-branded products. This is seen later again, when she's babysitting a kid and invites her boyfriend, so she makes some snacks and soft drinks appear and her boyfriend is mystified by his "Popsi" can, and "Hey, Over Here!" instead of Yoo-hoo. | |
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Pokémon: The Original Series: In the episode "Fortune Hunters", Cassidy and Butch counterfeited an actual Pokémon fortune telling book and apparently did such a poor job of copying it that many Pokémon types fortunes in the counterfeit book don't match with the real one. | |
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The Millennium vampires in Hellsing can do a decent impression of a vampire to an untrained person: they have Super-Strength enough to wield heavy weapons one-handed, are sturdy enough to shrug off small arms, can turn humans into zombified minions by biting them, and frequently possess extra powers like Super-Speed or magical gifts. But the "true" vampires we see are on another level. Alucard is obviously not normal for a vampire, but even the far younger Seras was visibly stronger than Millennium vampires when she was just a fledgling, and when she became full-blooded, she was able to lift multi-ton war vehicles, create shadowy appendages, and regenerate from massive injuries, treating them as practically a nuisance. Towards the end of the series, it's revealed that they're based on an attempt to recreate Mina Harker based on her corpse—meaning they're not even based on an actual vampire. They're a bad copy of a bad copy. | |
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Tomorrow's Pioneers. A Jihadi children’s show with a knockoff Mickey Mouse that teaches young kids terrorism, while trying to make America look like a chicken. | |
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Kochikame: A chapter begins with a police officer showing his new Porsche to the main characters. They were skeptical about it costing only a million yen. It turns out be a Daihatsu with a Porsche exterior. They went to the dealer, who happens to sell faux high-value cars with economy car interiors using names such as, "Porschu", "Furrari", and "BNW". | |
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One episode of The Goldbergs has Adam take care of a Cabbage Patch Kid as part of a class assignment. Unfortunately, his mom accidentally causes it to be snatched by a dog while taking it to the park for a walk, forcing her to buy one on the black market as those dolls are so popular that they're hard to find in stores. The doll is revealed to be a hideously-faced "Lettuce Crop Child". | |
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