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Subliminal Advertising
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You probably think that because you're reading TV Tropes, we're going to do something subversive when explaining the topic of advertising that you're only supposed to notice subconsciously. You're a little uneasy, because you haven't spotted it yet, and you're worried that those Troper people could be up to... anything. It could leap out at you at any moment, causing you to snort your beverage of choice out through your nose in an embarrassing fashion. Do calm down. Only the most paranoid people... No, only the most insane people would suspect we would in any way hide propaganda in this article encouraging you to fork us money. As always, you have no need to worry. The contributors would never stoop that low. Enjoy your stay! See also Subliminal Seduction and Propaganda Piece. |
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Cromartie High School does this for Takuro Yoshida in episode 3. | |
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CSI: NY: A cigarette company executive in "The Ride-In" complains that one of their competitors had subliminally inserted a naked man into their commercials in order to attract female smokers. | |
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The 1960s TV show Hazel did one about some guys that supposedly created irresistible subliminal ads, in which they ran a film where 'SP' would appear briefly, and the guy speaking to the crowd (who was selling some stock for a company called 'Brazilian') because, at the end of the message, would say, "And Buy Brazilian". So one guy who didn't know he was being marketed to for a stock, was buying Brazilian Nuts. The guys doing this get arrested for it. Which brings us to... | |
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In the Simpsons episode "New Kids on the Bleech", in which Bart, Milhouse, Nelson, and Ralph are recruited by one "L. T. Smash" (actually Lieutenant Smash) to form a Boy Band called Party Posse, the chorus in their music video has three exotic women singing in a made up language ("Yvan eht nioj!"). Lisa figures out the subliminal message by playing the video in reverse, where the lyrics were actually saying "Join the Navy!" The subliminal advertising was part of a three-pronged advertising plan: Subliminal, "Liminal" and "Superliminal", which apparently was shouting at random people. | |
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A subliminal in an episode of Brass Eye got Chris Morris in a spot of trouble; annoyed with Executive Meddling by Michael Grade, someone inserted a flash-frame caption reading "Grade Is A Cunt" into the show. | |
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A Lee Majors Film, The Agency about an ad agency which was running ads for a politician that showed that his competitor for the election had some undesirable quality, like being spawn of the devil or some such equivalent, while their candidate was patriotic and 100% American. This supposedly caused people to vote against the disfavored candidate The ads were run as part of fraction of a second subliminal ads during an unrelated product, like deodorant. This movie pointed out that subliminal ads, despite opinion to the contrary, are not illegal. | |
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In American Flagg!, subliminal messages in the popular In-Universe animated show Bob Violence were responsible for driving Chicago's "go-gangs" crazy and leading to armed attacks on the PlexMall once a week. | |
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In the Columbo episode "Double Exposure", Dr. Bart Keppel is a marketing guru who specializes in this technique. At the beginning of the episode, he even uses his technique to kill executive Vic Norris by feeding him salty foods and then showing him a film containing subliminal images of a tall, cool glass of iced tea. The result is that Norris leaves to go to the fountain in the lobby, where Keppel surprises him and shoots him. In the end, though, he gets Hoist by His Own Petard when Columbo shows him a film containing subliminal images of Columbo searching his office and finding the key piece of evidence against him. When he goes to dispose of it, Columbo catches him in the act. | |
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The "Subneural ad" advance, and associated unit, in Civilization: Call to Power | |
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A MAD story from the 1950s demonstrates several uses for subliminal messages. In one of the examples, quickly flashing the message "Drink Coke" during a romance movie successfully encourages everyone in the theatre (including the movie's lead couple) to buy some Coke. | |
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An episode of NCIS didn't have this as advertising, but it was part of the killer's MO. He'd send the team a video with images cluing them to the site of the next murder flashing up for a split second. | |
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Australia's Network Ten was found to have breached a broadcasting code forbidding this following its coverage of the 2007 ARIA Awards, when the logos for Toyota Yaris, Chupa Chups, KFC, and Olay were rapid-cut into the nomination segments. Media Watch found another example in an episode of Ten's Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? | |
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In an interview with Defunctland creator Kevin Perjurer, Disney Channel executives admitted to secretly marketing Finding Nemo as far back as a year and a half prior to the film's release by inserting "Fish Facts" that would be played during programming breaks in order to make viewers interested in the film. | |
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One of the ways the aliens in They Live! control humanity. You can only truly see what it says by wearing special glasses or contact lenses. | |
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Parodied in DLC for Portal 2, where an alternate-universe Cave Johnson complains about a pair of sunglasses that lets the wearer see all of the subliminal propaganda that the test chamber is covered in, defeating the purpose of it being subliminal. | |
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Parodied in Psychonauts level "Lungfishopolis", where the stage is regularly interrupted by television broadcasts decrying the menace of Goggalor. Each of these are ended with a quickly worded, less audible set of instructions about kidnapping children. | |
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The Amazing World of Gumball: Parodied in "The Money." When Gumball begs his family not to sell out by appearing in a Joyful Burger commercial, Darwin tells him that advertising doesn't need to feel forced, as he takes a sip from a Joyful Burger cup and winks at the camera. Anais concurs with Darwin while discreetly stepping to the side, revealing a Joyful Burger poster on the wall behind her. | |
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Parodied in a memorable Saturday Night Live sketch. Kevin Nealon plays an advertising executive who's been asked to look into Subliminal Advertising. After he does his research, he reports on his findings while quickly slipping in "raise" at certain points. When he finishes, his boss is suddenly compelled to give him a raise. | |
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Dogstar: In "Persuasion", Bob Santino plants subliminal messages in his robog ads to cause people to regard the Dogstar as a threat and try to destroy it. | |
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In Moving Pictures, CMOT Dibbler, with the skewed but determined logic that characterises the Discworld, reasons that if a single picture you don't even see can make people want to buy something, five solid minutes of it must be even more effective. | |
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Parodied in Monty Python's Flying Circus in the Series 3 episode "Njorl's Saga". The title story receives emergency funding from the North Malden Icelandic Society, who proceed to derail it with advertising trying to persuade businesses to invest in Malden (a London suburb). At one point, during a fight scene in which the characters are carrying placards advertising the virtues of Malden for businesses, the words "INVEST IN MALDEN" flash on the screen repeatedly. At first, they only stay for a few frames, but each time they appear, they remain on screen for longer, until finally they flash on screen and stay there until a cut to the next sketch. | |
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Used extensively by the secret agencies of MIND MGMT. There's an entire section of "Ad Men" whose whole job is to develop these. However, they're not used to actually sell anything; they're either used to communicate information to agents, deliver Trigger Phrases, or test for psychic powers in the general populace. | |
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QI has a segment about subliminal advertising, starting with Stephen Fry asking the panel how he could get the audience to vote for him as Pope without even realizing it, and ending with: | |
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Firefly: Inverted in that the subliminal message is not an ad in itself, just imbedded within one - the "instructions" for River to go into Waif-Fu mode are implanted in a Fruity Oaty Bars commercial. | |
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Parodied in Family Guy episode "Mr. Griffin Goes To Washington" when a clip of Lassie contains subliminal advertising of an cigarette company executive telling the viewers to smoke. | |
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The Josie and the Pussycats film revolved around the recording industry hiding subliminal advertising in pop music. The film itself even had at least one: | |
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The Space Merchants makes passing reference to "compulsive subsonics" being used in audio ads until that was outlawed, "but we've bounced back with a list of semantic cue words that tie in with every basic trauma and neurosis in American life today." In The Merchant's War it's made worse with the introduction of "Campbell areas", where anyone who enters one is subjected to remote limbic system stimulation, creating instant addiction to a particular product. The only cure is being subjected to counter-conditioning — basically associating the product with being tortured; the cure has a significant fatality rate. |
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Gravity Falls: Played for laughs in "Boyz Crazy" when Stan tells Dipper that subliminal mind control messages are in music all the time. | |
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