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Stepford Consumer
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In advertising, customers are routinely shown to be extremely and conspicuously ecstatic about the product, no matter how mundane — or in fact boring — it is. This works in all formats: visual forms of advertisement may show people grinning inanely, laughing and jumping for joy, radio spots may have people cheering and going woo-hoo in the background because they saved pennies on a bubblegum purchase, got a free sandwich with their car or are just generally pleased with the overall product because, you know, it's just so good. The trademark stupid grin fits well in the psychological profile of someone who is Too Incompetent to Operate a Blanket and in touch with The Power of Cheese. Sometimes it can give off Happiness Is Mandatory vibes or alternatively sexual overtones when the ficticious customers seem really turned on by something that's usually considered unerotic in Real Life, unless you're into that kind of thing. Often happily married to Magically Delicious. See also Stepford Smiler. Obsessive Spokesperson is when this is taken to extremes. As this is an Omnipresent Trope in advertising, there's no need to list straight examples here. Feel free to list this trope on the pages of works where it occurs. |
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Supernatural: Averted for laughs when the main characters are trapped by a Reality Warping Trickster and forced to live out an advertisement for herpes medication. | |
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Batman: The Animated Series: One of the Joker's schemes involves making a commercial. Even with the Joker's usual level of trademark Laughably Evil enthusiasm, the commercial barely seems out of place. | |
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