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Subliminal Seduction

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Subliminal Seduction	comment	Back in the early days of recorded media, a scourge was alleged to be making its way through movie theaters. Researchers claimed to have proof that a visual image, spliced into the film for an undetectable fraction of a second, would nevertheless lodge itself into the viewer's mind. The victims, told for instance "You're hungry", would then be compelled to go out and buy more popcorn. This quickly expanded in the popular imagination to "compelled to do whatever they tell you to," no matter how bizarre or expensive the compulsion, viewers wouldn't be able to help themselves. In the 1960s and 1970s, as TV sets became more prevalent, this was naturally extrapolated out to TV broadcasts, and assumed to be a routine element of commercials. Teachers on sitcoms would warn their students about the dangers of the practice; of course, the teenagers would then immediately try using it to control their classmates. Hilarity Ensues. Eventually the U.S. Congress actually proposed laws forbidding the practice, although they were never actually enacted. Similar hooplah arose surrounding "backmasking", the practice of deliberately inserting messages into audio recordings that only make sense when the recording is played backward (a.k.a. Sdrawkcab Speech)...an ideal way to hide the real message of the song, it was believed. Throughout the '60s and '70s, rock bands ranging from Led Zeppelin to the Eagles to The Beatles were accused of placing subliminal audio tracks into their music in order to praise Satan, corrupt the innocent, confess the death of a bandmember, whatever. All parents and teachers knew was, it was bad. The only problem is, subliminal advertising doesn't really work. The initial claims have long since been discredited. Later, better-documented studies have revealed that there is a slight psychological effect, but the results are so minimal that existing preferences will completely overwhelm it. As for backmasking, it has a lot to do with the power of suggestion; the gist of it is that you're more likely to hear stuff like, say, "Here's to my sweet Satan" when you play "Stairway to Heaven" backwards, if you're looking for it. And forget about that having any subliminal effect; if you played an intentionally-hidden message backwards you'd just hear the words clearly, and if you play it forwards the mind can't decipher the gibberish. This shouldn't be surprising, seeing as how most listeners will completely miss even the more overt messages of a song. Subliminal Seduction combines the worst aspects of a Discredited Trope and a Dead Horse Trope. The concept is to all practical purposes dead, but lives on in the creative imagination. Audiences see it so often that they still assume it must be real. An example of Everyone Is Satan in Hell In-Universe. The trope gets its name from the 1973 book Subliminal Seduction; Ad Media's Manipulation of a Not So Innocent America by Wilson Bryan Key. Key claimed that his research had revealed a massive conspiracy among American advertising agencies to lace both products and photographic images used in ads with subliminal references to sex, and proceeded to show every example he could find. While very popular at the time, his conclusions were controversial and have long been challenged. Key's evidence was at best questionable — he claimed that every Ritz cracker has the word "sex" embedded on it 12 times, to cite one case — and many of his photographic examples can be interpreted as wishful thinking or paraeidolia. Subliminal Advertising is what happens when marketers try to use subliminal messages to sell products anyway, either seriously or as a parody.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_1099a6ac	comment	Fight Club: Tyler Durden placed subliminal porn images into family films, strictly for his own amusement. Also near the beginning of the movie, Brad Pitt's Tyler is spliced into single frames several times before he is officially introduced.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_110dcdca	comment	A Link Between Worlds: If you reverse Lorule Castle's music, eventually you get the classic Hyrule Castle theme.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_1251e752	comment	In the Clip Show episode, Rebecca's teddy bear also spouts a backwards message. It says "You have too much time on your hands"
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Subliminal Seduction / int_13134b01	comment	Twisted: The Untold Story of a Royal Vizier has a scene where Aladdin tries to subliminally seduce the Princess by whispering "take off your clothes" (something he supposedly did in the movie the play is parodying) after all of his sentences, and asking her to look at a phallic-looking tower. Then he sings a song called "Take Off Your Clothes", which references various instances of Disney using (or being accused of using) this trope in their movies, such as the phallic tower and priest with an erection from The Little Mermaid (1989), the "SFX" dust cloud from The Lion King (1994).
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Subliminal Seduction / int_160b4833	comment	Clone High has JFK fall through the roof of the school and begin gurgling on the ground. The bump before the commercial is played backwards. When the whole scene is played backwards, the gurgling Kennedy urges the audience to nominate Clone High for an Emmy. This episode (Raisin The Stakes: A Rock Opera In Three Acts) contained many parody subliminal messages. Scudworth is your favorite character!
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Subliminal Seduction / int_1ab7f66f	comment	Parodied in Our Dumb Century, in an article discussing how a Bing Crosby record contained the backwards message "Have a swell day, ladies and gents!"
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Subliminal Seduction / int_1beda93b	comment	Sluggy Freelance: In a Saturday filler strip from 2005, the guys are playing a Japanese game that uses Gratuitous English Word Salad in Calling Your Attacks. They say they've just learnt to tune it out, but ZoÃ« notices the game is also saying things like "buy-more-Japanese-imports-KICK!" Hamster NOM, an online game, forces players who play it to become addicted to it. Then the programmer who made it hacks the game and starts a zombie apocalypse to get back at the company that stole the code from him. Fortunately, only animals are zombie-fied. Unfortunately, the main cast has a whole host of animals in their house, and they're ALL playing Hamster NOM.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_1e6653ca	comment	The Neverhood soundtrack has an odd song called "Sound Effects Record #33" which simply consists of a voice naming a list of various strangely-specific sounds, the first of which is "Man Facing Backwards in the Shower Whilst Singing." The sounds of a man singing in what could possibly be a foreign language is then heard amid shower noises, which last for the rest of the song (no other sound effects are actually heard, despite them being named). Reversed, the song reveals a man singing "Kumbaya" in a shower.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_221d6520	comment	In an episode of CHiPs a subliminal message was inserted by a band's agent without their knowledge, found by playing the album backwards at 66.6 RPM.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_22d87fc9	comment	An episode of That '70s Show mocked this. Fez's host family demonstrated how a KISS album had backmasked "Devil love me...Devil lives! It's clear as day!". Fez noted that in his language the message said:
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Subliminal Seduction / int_22e7c6e9	comment	Probe's "Quit-It": The adults in this neighborhood have been Brainwashed by their children to obey their orders by listening to music. The Strawn family has been working in advertising, including the music from the ice cream truck.When Austin checks one of his cassettes, he finds the following instructions, "This is a message for Mr Austin James. You love Mickey, Mr James. You think she's the most beautiful woman in the world. Every time you hear this music, you will think you want to marry her and have lots of kids. Bye for now." Austin considers this technique the most powerful form of mind control ever.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_248d4104	comment	The infamously "pornographic" song "Darling Nikki" from Purple Rain by Prince has a backward-masked sequence that, when played forwards, says "Hello, how are you? I'm fine, 'cause I know the Lord is coming soon. Coming, coming soon."
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Subliminal Seduction / int_24f295fa	comment	Little Kuriboh throws in a message in The Abridged Movie. During Yugi's "thinly veiled foreshadowing" dream, where Yami and Kaiba duel, Yami loses, and Kaiba is attacked by a gibberish-spouting Anubis, the gibberish, played backwards... "Watch Naruto: The Abridged Series!"
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Subliminal Seduction / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: Parodied in an episode which focuses on Bart joining a Boy Band that gets caught up in the US Navy's evil scheme to corrupt the minds of the youth into supporting and joining the Navy through subliminal messages in the band's lyrics ("Yvan eht nioj! Yvan eht nioj!" — not really the message played backwards, but the message written backwards and the result sung phonetically). Upon being confronted with this, the officer in charge explains that it's part of a three-pronged approach to increase enlistment. Paul McCartney claims that playing his song "Maybe I'm Amazed" backwards reveals a "really ripping" lentil soup recipe. The song itself plays at the end of the episode - -a version that indeed has a lentil soup recipe backward-masked into it (and it's not bad). "Oh, and by the way, I'm alive." Parodied in one of the blackboard segments in the titles: "I will not plant subliminal messagores". And then there was Homer's ad for Marge's political party, which featured several really, really obvious appearances of "NO ON 232" (while Homer moved a picture of Rudy Giuliani around on the screen). Homer being...well, Homer, Marge's party needed a YES on 232, a NO on 242. A literal example of subliminal seduction comes with Artie Ziff's snore-sound converter, in the form of a message aimed at Marge, urging her to leave Homer for Artie. It fails when he sings out "I'm watching you through a camera!" In the middle of "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" by Eurythmics.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_2af4f467	comment	G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero: The episode "Sins of Our Fathers" featured villainous character Destro performing a strange chant to lure away a monster. When played backwards, it is clear that the chant is just Destro's voice actor saying "Anybody listening to this backwards for a secret occult message is a real dweeb." Another episode featured Cobra Commander hiding a secret message in a small town's 6:00 news report, by putting one frame of his message into every 20th frame of the news report.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_2c8f31bd	comment	When Dave the Barbarian and his family form a rock group, Chuckles uses this to turn their listeners into a zombie army.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_2c96ae0e	comment	Hustle: In one episode, the gang have a lorry of empty crates, which they're selling as crates of smuggled cigarettes. One of the crates really contains cigarettes, and has a distinctive logo on it. Apparently, arranging things so that the mark continually sees this logo out of the corner of his eye while driving to the meeting subliminally conditions him to choose that crate to check. In another episode they use a variation on this. Across a period of time, the crew basically stalk the mark while using items (such as coffee cups, newspapers and so on) plastered with a logo for a fake venture they want him to take interest in. When combined with some overheard conversations it works remarkably well.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_2dab4fef	comment	The subliminal popcorn ad discussed in the Snopes link at the top of the page was satirized in the episode Time Chasers when a character's face is flashed on screen very quickly during a time travel sequence:
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Subliminal Seduction / int_2e3e7ac2	comment	In an episode of Justice League Unlimited, the balance is disrupted by a bad guy taking over Hell, causing all the League's magic-users to start writhing in pain. Zatanna, who always speaks her spells backwards, says this if the episode is played in reverse: "All is lost. Faust sits on the throne of hell."
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Subliminal Seduction / int_33dd1d8f	comment	A reversed line in relation to the final boss of Half-Life: Opposing Force that was cut out references this as well, replacing that name with the name of Gearbox's Randy Pitchford.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_33dd1d90	comment	Half-Life 2: If you play the noises that the headcrab zombies make backwards, you can hear muffled voices screaming "Oh God!" and "Help me!".
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Subliminal Seduction / int_34e5ea29	comment	Mr. Show parodied the Judas Priest case in the episode "The Return of the Curse of the Creature's Ghost", where Heavy Metal band Titannica are sued by a fan who attempts suicide after listening to their song "Try Suicide", so they respond by recording "Adam's Song (Try Again)", urging him to try again.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_3802ca35	comment	Rule of Rose, a survival horror game, also has an example of this with the imps that whisper a muffled message throughout the game. When their sounds are played backwards, it is revealed that they are saying "A Bright Red Crayon Just For You!"
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Subliminal Seduction / int_3c01d9e1	comment	Rex the Runt: At the end of one short, a picture of some bizarre looking burger is shown that you have to freeze frame to catch. There is no reason for this other than the show just being weird as usual. In "Adventures on Telly, Part III", the dogs (riding the deflated Earth) zoom past an asteroid with a sign. Bad Bob claims the sign reads "You are now entering a black hole, please drive carefully", while Wendy says it is "Dogs must be kept on a leash." You have to freeze frame to see what it really says. "Neither of those two"
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Subliminal Seduction / int_3defe34c	comment	Discussed on the Conspire radio show from Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned. A caller claims that the Redwood Cigarettes logo depicts a man masturbating & says she constantly catches her children smoking & masturbating. The host seems interested in steering her toward the possible correlation, but she claims that it was their father, not the logo, who they learned the behavior from.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_402e8871	comment	Averted in The War With Mr Wizzle. The students try to change the behaviour of an annoying teacher by playing tapes telling her to be nice while she sleeps. Unfortunately they just make her even crankier because she's not sleeping properly.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_41671603	comment	In-universe example in Batman: Hush: The reason Bruce thought of Tommy Elliot when he needed surgery, even though he hadn't seen him in years, was because of a hidden program in the Batcomputer which randomly flashed Tommy's image every time he used it. As set-up for the Batman RIP Arc, the phrase "Zur-En-Arrh" shows up occasionally as background graffiti. During the arc, it turns out that Batman has been psychologically conditioned not to be able to see it, and by seeing it, is being primed for Dr. Hurt's attack on his psyche.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_436556fe	comment	Parodied in one episode of Raising Hope; Frank put together a slideshow of Jimmy and Sabrina for their anniversary, only for several images of him in a tanktop labeled "Sexy" to keep popping up — at first quickly, but then for several more seconds — at which point he comments "those were supposed to go by a lot faster". No one else seems to really care, though.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_43abaff4	comment	The Exorcist has short flashes of a demonic face during some scene changes.◊
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Subliminal Seduction / int_44715363	comment	The original Yu-Gi-Oh! manga used this during the first Yugi-Pegasus duel (which, remember, happened through a VHS tape), with Pegasus splicing in split-second frames of monsters he wanted Yugi to play so he could "psychically predict" Yugi's moves. However, Pegasus fully expected Yugi to catch on and call it out (which he does); the real purpose was to make Yugi drop his guard, because Pegasus really does have psychic powers.note The anime, considering this whole double-bluff a little too confusing and/or time-consuming, drops the whole angle and just has Pegasus openly using his magic Shadow powers from the get-go.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_4522fd1	comment	Whateley Universe: Eisenmadel 1 Summer of my German Heritage (Part 1) has "Subliminals in the [Public Safety] seminar, video and audio.": Video: Audio:
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Subliminal Seduction / int_468bebb0	comment	In the Discworld book Moving Pictures, awkward entrepreneur Cut-me-own-Throat Dibbler figures that if people can be subtly influenced by showing an advertisement for a fraction of a second, they would be influenced a hundred times stronger if the ad was shown continuously for a full five subliminal minutes. Fortunately, his nephew Sol Dibbler not only has more common sense, but catches wind of this scheme. Unfortunately, it means the finished movie has no interruptions to prevent the mass hypnosis of viewers by the Things from the Dungeon Dimensions.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_49acec0	comment	This is the preferred method of fraud university hired therapist Allie Parker's "psychological profiling" in Ray P.Muniz's Sci-Fi novel The Impairment. To briefly elaborate instead of assisting her patients and helping them overcome their problems, she makes them devote their every day lives to the problems by a manner of hypnosis induced both by a "trigger phrase" or words and an item of value or solace to them, all to slowly drive them to join up with her cohorts. She does this to both main protagonist Kyle Griffin and his friend Mark Rivera.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_4b6bb97a	comment	According to Blue Stahli himself, his music contains messages telling you to do inappropriate things with cowboy hats.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_4f57b33a	comment	In Tokyo Mew Mew a la mode, the Saint Rose Crusaders use subliminal messages on TV and in random text messages to turn the public against the heroes.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_4fdde19e	comment	Trick or Treat: The horror movie takes the urban legend about Satanic messages hidden in music and runs with it. The movie is about a heavy metal star who was into black magic (and died in the middle of a magical ritual) who put a backmasked summoning spell on his next-to-be-released album. The hero, a put-upon headbanger (played by the guy who played Skippy in Family Ties), gets the only prerelease copy of the album. Playing the album backward in short bursts gives the nerd headbanger advice for defeating the jocks and preps at his school who torment him, but the album keeps wanting to be played backwards in its entirety — and when he does, the dead metal star is summoned in demon form from Skippy's stereo speakers and runs amok. The plot is a little tongue in cheek rather than pure New Media Are Evil — the radio DJ is played by Gene Simmons and Ozzy Osbourne cameos as an anti-metal evangelist. The hero's radio DJ friend discourages a young heavy metal fan from trying to hear backmasked lyrics on records. Why? Because he insists that it's nothing more than a scam by record company executives to make kids ruin their albums playing them backwards, so they'll have to buy more. (This would've been a subversion of the trope, had the records in question not really contained hidden incantations invoking demonic forces.)
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Subliminal Seduction / int_50bcf7a6	comment	Two examples from Homestuck, in-universe and out: On Alpha Earth, the Betty Crocker company seems to have putOBEYsubliminal messaging in everything with the brand name — and considering it'sCEASE REPRODUCTIONa multi-global corporation, it's got a lot of merchandise. This is part of the schtick of The Felt's album, what with the characters this album is based on having forms of time manipulation powers and all. Reversed versions of each song can be found here. Exemplified with the palindromic "English", and taken to its logical conclusion with "Rhapsody in Green" (where reversing the track reveals the actual song).
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Subliminal Seduction / int_5320ab5e	comment	The initial research model was the basis for a Columbo episode, in which a murderous film-maker lures his victim out into the lobby for a drink of water via strategic inserts. It's actually a really clever, well-done ep, considered among the best...once you overlook the teeny little hitch that its 'cutting-edge' science turned out to be totally made up. Columbo later uses the same technique to get the murderer to reveal where he hid the silencer he'd used.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_547f6bce	comment	The horror movie takes the urban legend about Satanic messages hidden in music and runs with it. The movie is about a heavy metal star who was into black magic (and died in the middle of a magical ritual) who put a backmasked summoning spell on his next-to-be-released album. The hero, a put-upon headbanger (played by the guy who played Skippy in Family Ties), gets the only prerelease copy of the album. Playing the album backward in short bursts gives the nerd headbanger advice for defeating the jocks and preps at his school who torment him, but the album keeps wanting to be played backwards in its entirety — and when he does, the dead metal star is summoned in demon form from Skippy's stereo speakers and runs amok. The plot is a little tongue in cheek rather than pure New Media Are Evil — the radio DJ is played by Gene Simmons and Ozzy Osbourne cameos as an anti-metal evangelist.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_58808436	comment	Done in the opening of Higurashi: When They Cry. The first opening reversed sounds an awful lot like the second opening. The second opening returns the favor. The repeated phrases mean "You cannot escape."
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Subliminal Seduction / int_59fb8a3b	comment	Shamelessly spoofed on The Young Ones where "liminal" (i.e. just long enough to be half-registered by the conscious mind) images entirely irrelevant to the plot (if there was a plot that episode) would be sneaked in, apparently just to stoke the viewers' paranoia.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_5c622d7f	comment	Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening: Those "whispering voices" that you hear in the background music of the Mission Start screen? Some fans have found out that playing said music in reverse brings out lyrics from "Devils Never Cry" and "Divine Hate".
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Subliminal Seduction / int_5c783167	comment	"Sucker" by Self ends in an Affectionate Parody of the above example: It has a backmasked sequence that sounds nearly identical to the one in "Darling Nikki", but changes the message to "Hello, how are you? I'm fine, 'cause I know that breakfast is coming soon" (It's from an album called Breakfast With Girls, and the next song on the album is the title track).
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Subliminal Seduction / int_60570997	comment	An early arc of S.S.D.D. had Norman first attempt to embed a subliminal message to spread anarchy and chaos in a webcomic, which didn't work too well. So he tried to put it in a TV ad, but Kingston accidentally swapped the tape with the message with one of Richard and Anne's sex tapes so all the ad did was give people boners.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_6250d2c3	comment	In an early College Roomies from Hell!!! arc, Dave embedded a subliminal message in his shirt in a failed attempt to get Margaret to like him.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_63230cb	comment	In Dragon Ball Z Abridged Kai Episode 2, when Freeza tries to make his wish, Porunga responds with "Or maybe you learn to speak goddamn Namekian!"...at least, according to the subtitles. If you reverse the audio, instead he says "Fuck you, I'm a dragon!"
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Subliminal Seduction / int_6513077f	comment	Used in episodes 8-10 of Dog & Scissors. Kirihime keeps getting attacked by random people, though she easily defeats them all. Hami reveals in episode 10 that she hid a subliminal message in her book to attack the long haired lady with scissors, hence why she kept getting targeted. She does note that it doesn't work on everyone, such as Sakura, or her father. Kirihime then uses this on Kazuhito for comedic effect. After reading her latest work, his front paws start moving on their own towards her, despite his attempt to resist it.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_6644f858	comment	One Sherman's Lagoon strip features a character trying to convince Sherman to believe the Paul Is Dead conspiracy, and he points to a backwards message in a Beatles song as evidence. "It sounds like a recipe for cranberry sauce." "Maybe it's the sauce that killed Paul!"
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Subliminal Seduction / int_691be369	comment	The X-Files: "Blood" implies that the people compelled to kill were sent subliminal messages, though it's possible that they had just hallucinated them because of the drugs that were used in the community. "Wetwired" deals with subliminal messaging on cable television driving people to murder. Mulder finds that he is immune to this subliminal messaging because he is red/green colorblind, and the messaging is heavily reliant on that. Scully, on the other hand, is temporarily brainwashed, convinced that Mulder is one of the men who abducted her and has been lying to her from the beginning. This almost ends tragically as she pulls a gun on him in her mother's home. Scully insists that Mulder never trusted her, and Mulder replies with "You are the only one I trust." The episode is disturbing, since it is about the furthest extreme that Mulder and Scully stray from The Power of Trust in the entire series. That's how powerful Subliminal Seduction is.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_69fa7496	comment	In the Donald Duck story "Paperino e la voglia irresistibile", Donald falls prey to Uncle Scrooge's prototype subliminal advertising. The advert causes him to become single-mindedly obsessed with getting a bottle of drink, with blatant disregard for any property damage he might incur on his way. Donald's nephews turn the tables on Scrooge by showing him a prepared tape which convinces him to give them a thousand dollars each, thus giving him a lesson.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_6e11257f	comment	The story writing for the historic Icelandic tome "Njorl's Saga" gets picked up halfway through by the North Malden Icelandic Saga Society. After momentarily lapsing into a P.R. film for business investment in North Malden, an action scene unfolds with "INVEST IN MALDEN" occasionally flashing on the screen (along with knights carrying signs shilling for Malden.)
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Subliminal Seduction / int_7291539d	comment	Batman: Arkham City contains a very easy-to-miss example. If you get Catwoman's Non-Standard Game Over by leaving Batman to die, the credits play for a couple of minutes before the game itself rewinds back to before you made the choice. Just before the rewind stops, you can hear high-pitched backmasked speech; reversing it and slowing it down reveals the Joker saying "Thanks for the entertainment, Bats!"
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Subliminal Seduction / int_74a4c704	comment	The theme songs to Kingdom Hearts and its sequel are both supposed to have backwards messages, but only the second song, "Sanctuary", does it intentionally. The lyrics say "I need more affection than you know, I need true emotions, I need more affection than you know, so many ups and downs." The reference, at least, to "true emotions" probably refers to the antagonists of the game. See here for reference. Notably, the forward line, "My heart's a battleground," when played backward is "I hate emotion," demonstrating the internal conflict with "I need true emotions."
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Subliminal Seduction / int_74f7210c	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask has you playing certain songs backwards to do different things (the Song of Time Reversed slows down the progression of time by half; and the Double Song of Time pushed half of a day forward in time). The Creepypasta Ben Drowned features a reversed Song of Healing nicknamed the "Song of Unhealing". The Wind Waker: The seemingly babbling sounds of the ChuChus are voices from two Japanese men arguing, but the speeches were sped up and in reverse. Skyward Sword's main theme, the "Ballad of the Goddess," is the series' Recurring Riff "Zelda's Lullaby" in reverse. Similarly, the theme of the Big Bad's second phase in reverse sounds akin to Ganondorf's. There's a very good reason for both cases. A Link Between Worlds: If you reverse Lorule Castle's music, eventually you get the classic Hyrule Castle theme.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_755b343f	comment	Halo: The original trilogy music tracks "Mausoleum Suite", "Dread Intrusion", "Black Tower", and "Gravemind" all contain backmasked speech, as collected here. Not all of the speech is decipherable, though. eg. in the third part of "Mausoleum Suite", the voices are just backmasked gibberish. This is also how they got the Elite language in the first game (most subsequent games have them speaking English instead thanks to Translator Microbes). The Elites' phrases are Johnson's phrases played backwards. For example, the famous "Wort wort wort" said by the Elites is "Go go go" played backwards and a couple octaves lower in pitch. In Halo 2, the music heard at the entrance to the control center on "The Great Journey" is a reversed version of "High Charity".
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Subliminal Seduction / int_76686539	comment	In Mass Effect: The battle theme for the first battle against Saren whispers the words "listen to Sovereign" while you are fighting. Subliminal communications (including infrasound and other, more discreet methods) are among the tools the Reapers use to Indoctrinate individuals, often without the victims being consciously aware until it's far too late. (As the example above indicates, they're not above using soundtracks, either.) It's implied that the Foghorn from Hell sound they emit while attacking is also intended to subliminally influence people, although it causes terror and panic rather than obedience.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_76e34319	comment	In the 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand review — by inserting short clips into the animation that vanish before you can properly read them. The specific image in the review is of Yahtzee with his arm around a black guy, with the message "not racist." pointing at Yahtzee with an arrow.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_77164bc	comment	In an episode of The Brak Show, Thundercleese sings "The Robotic Hymn of Doom". Played backwards, the lyrics are "Why are you listening to this song backwards? You could have been on a date with a girl."
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Subliminal Seduction / int_77e22425	comment	One Pinky and the Brain short has Brain become a country singer so that he can implant subliminal messages in his records. Just when he is on the verge of switching his message from "listen to my single constantly" to "I am your ruler", Pinky annoys him into lashing out verbally, accidentally changing the command to "forget you ever heard about me". This results in his scheme and music career collapsing, and Brain needing to come up with a new plan for tomorrow night.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_7bff7264	comment	This is also how they got the Elite language in the first game (most subsequent games have them speaking English instead thanks to Translator Microbes). The Elites' phrases are Johnson's phrases played backwards. For example, the famous "Wort wort wort" said by the Elites is "Go go go" played backwards and a couple octaves lower in pitch.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_7c038c18	comment	Phineas and Ferb: Parodied in the episode "Undercover Carl". After Carl shows a recording of Phineas' iconic catchphrase, he plays it backwards in a completely random order to Mayor Monogram and somehow gets "Let's help Doofenshmirtz to destroy the Tri-State Area." Naturally, this gets Monogram worried, kicking the events of the chapter.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_7d20ef2c	comment	Bloom County: A strip once featured a random media watchdog badgering Milo to listen to a Billy Joel song backwards to discover its hidden "evil message." Milo does so, and promptly recounts the message, "No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney." ("A Satanic riddle!!") In another strip, when the local rock band's DeathTongue's latest record is played backwards, the message urges the listener to attend church and tithe. "Devilbunnies! I snort the nose, Lucifer! Banana, banana!"
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Subliminal Seduction / int_84782a62	comment	Parodied in A Bit of Fry and Laurie where a woman is suing a rock star for backmasking, more or less. Her lawyer explains that while "come on baby, set yourself on fire!" might seem like an innocent pop lyric, if you play it backwards it says "ryif no flesroy tes". And if you play that backwards it says "set yourself on fire". So she did. The rock star ends the trial by singing a song called 'Drop All Charges.' She does drop the charges, and also asks the judge for "permission to get out of his face" — part of the lyrics to the 'Drop All Charges' song.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_8a3a1edd	comment	An episode of Saved by the Bell featured one teacher giving the students a lesson on subliminal messaging by playing music for a week with a hidden message for her students to bring her flowers and treats. Naturally, Zack uses this tactic to try to end Mr. Belding's interfering with his scams and to get Kelly to invite him to the upcoming "girls ask out guys" dance. Of course, people heard the tapes who weren't supposed to, Zack's scheme is exposed, and Hilarity Ensues.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_8b01d1f5	comment	On the original release of his solo album Amused to Death, Waters includes a backwards message as a Take That! to Stanley Kubrick who wouldn't let him use a sample from 2001. The sample was eventually cleared for the 2015 remaster, and the backmasked message was replaced accordingly.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_8c87469c	comment	Skyward Sword's main theme, the "Ballad of the Goddess," is the series' Recurring Riff "Zelda's Lullaby" in reverse. Similarly, the theme of the Big Bad's second phase in reverse sounds akin to Ganondorf's. There's a very good reason for both cases.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_8d817ccb	comment	In Season 3 of Lost, some characters have to rescue a prisoner that is being forced to watch a brainwashing tape while loud music plays. The video is already eerie enough (with messages like 'God loves you as he loves Jacob'); however, fans discovered if the music in the scene is played backwards, the message "Only fools are enslaved by time and space" appears.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_90ab7fe1	comment	In an episode of Recess, the protagonists try to get other kids to start accidentally calling their teachers "mama" and "daddy" to stave off the infamy from Spinelli doing it. Gretchen's method involves a tape of "Mama. Daddy. Mama. Daddy." being played at ultra-high speed over the PA system. It doesn't work. (Correctly.)
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Subliminal Seduction / int_91396606	comment	WarioWare: Touched! is famous for containing a (supposed) subliminal message. Selecting gothic character Ashley's theme in the jukebox and running the record faster than normal distorts the words, which supposedly forms phrases like "I have granted kids to hell" and "I work in a kitchen". Both are probably coincidence. A backwards message video for Ashley's theme he saw that interpreted one part as "Ear! Shut up!"
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Subliminal Seduction / int_91bfaf94	comment	In the 2002 American adaptation of The Ring, the corpses of Samara's victims are shown for a split second at two points in the movie.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_976efc02	comment	Mystery Science Theater 3000: The subliminal popcorn ad discussed in the Snopes link at the top of the page was satirized in the episode Time Chasers when a character's face is flashed on screen very quickly during a time travel sequence: In another episode, during the Invention Exchange, Joel presents a more practical use for this trope: leaving reminders for yourself.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_97e27637	comment	Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro: The Electronic Drug is an visual and audio footage released online by HAL that stimulates the brain functions of the viewer, causing them to pursues whatever they want right now, consequences be damned. It also pushes them to perform super human stunts due to their great desire to do a certain action. Like a real life drug, it also makes the viewer develop an addiction that causes them to watch the drug over and over again until they fall completely under the control of HAL.Later, Yuya Higuchi, having fallen under the control of HAL, created a stronger, faster-acting version of the drug that guaranteed mind control in a few views.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_99f8c7fb	comment	Have I Got News for You: The BBC topical panel quiz briefly flashed up "VOTE CONSERVATIVE" just before an election. There were complaints, leading them to briefly flash up "HUMOURLESS BASTARDS" the following week.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_9c33b8ab	comment	A Sliders episode involves a Corrupt Corporate Executive putting subliminal messages in ads to induce compulsive shopping behavior in mall customers, then, when they inevitably ran up a sizable debt, effectively put them in indentured servitude. Rembrandt starts to obsessively buy Christmas gifts for everyone he can think of.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_a2add1d3	comment	Splatoon 2 manages to use an odd variation of this as Foreshadowing. All of the music tracks in the single-player campaign (which were composed by the Octarian military themselves in-universe) have faint female singing at one point or another. You'd think this is just the Octoling soldiers, but when played backwards, these turn out to be Callie's vocals from different songs in the first game.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_a2dee471	comment	The Wind Waker: The seemingly babbling sounds of the ChuChus are voices from two Japanese men arguing, but the speeches were sped up and in reverse.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_a52def46	comment	The Kerbal language from Kerbal Space Program was created by taking random Spanishnote the game's original creators are from Mexico clips recorded by various employees, and playing them backward and slightly sped up.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_a5a0dd85	comment	In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, children are fed subliminal messages during sleep that are meant to reconcile them to their social class. Beta children, for instance, are fed messages like "I'm so glad I'm a Beta. Being an Alpha would be ever so hard, and I'm not stupid like a Gamma or a Delta."
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Subliminal Seduction / int_a96a7ada	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh! Youtuber Hard Leg Gaming made a parody of this genre which consists of him reading "supreme confidence affirmations" in his Ojama Lime voice (the joke being that "confidence" and "Ojama Lime" go together about as well as oil and water, so the affirmations rapidly deteriorate into Lime spouting total nonsense).
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Subliminal Seduction / int_aa9366f9	comment	"The Poet And The Pendulum," the first track on Nightwish's Dark Passion Play, opens with backmasked verses from the end of the song.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_acb92fd0	comment	Father Ted tried to use this to convince the inexplicable Chinatown on Craggy Island that he wasn't a racist. Unfortunately, he only had a slide projector, so he just clicked back and forth as quickly as he could from a slide of himself to one with "Not a racist" written on it.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_ad69db83	comment	Eerie, Indiana: In "The ATM with a Heart of Gold", Simon punching his name in on Mr. Wilson's Dial pad becomes 7-4-6-6-6 which is supposed to be the number of the beast after 74. "The Broken Record" plays with this; a young boy named Tod McNulty who is frequently put-down by his verbally abusive and overbearing father starts getting into an alt-rock band called the Pitbull Surfers who are accused of putting subliminal messages into their music. When Tod's personality starts changing to be closer to that of his heroes — including standing up to his father — his father begins to become obsessed with the subliminal messages that are seemingly corrupting his son, leading to him storming into a music shop and playing one of their records backwards to prove it to the main characters. Much to his mortification and horror, however, what is heard when the album is played backwards is a repeating litany of his bullying and verbal cruelty to Tod. In "Zombies in P.J.s", the Donald, who is heavily implied to be a demon, uses subliminal advertising in television commercials to induce the Eerie townspeople into buying everything at the World O' Stuff while they are sleepwalking. In this state, the Donald has them sign contracts for their souls.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_b0fc9724	comment	A recurring Saturday Night Live character performed by Kevin Nealon in the 1980s featured a parody of this trope. "Mr. Subliminal," as the character came to be known, initially appeared as an advertising executive named Phil Maloney who would use subliminal cues and messages in his own speech to influence the people around him. Later Nealon would apply the device in his role as anchor on the "Weekend Update" segment, where he would lace his "official" editorials with ironic and often biting commentaries.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_b3f687d1	comment	FoxTrot Parodied when Jason plants 'BUY ME' messages into flipbooks he's selling for $20 each. Paige and Peter fall for them (Peter even pays TWICE for his flipbook). Another time Jason put a subliminal message into a magic eye pattern. He got his father to give him money.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_b4fe32c9	comment	Several episodes of Invader Zim include a semi-transparent image of GIR covered in blood for a single frame.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_b5a2b326	comment	The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind created its growling sounds for its fictional creatures by backmasking a cat yowling. Also, in the game's data files, there's a sound not used in the game, called "funny.wav." Played forwards, it's just the game's normal "Critical Damage" sound, but played backwards, you get "Sam has no pit hair."
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Subliminal Seduction / int_b5b4b976	comment	In one episode, the gang have a lorry of empty crates, which they're selling as crates of smuggled cigarettes. One of the crates really contains cigarettes, and has a distinctive logo on it. Apparently, arranging things so that the mark continually sees this logo out of the corner of his eye while driving to the meeting subliminally conditions him to choose that crate to check.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_b6b24d18	comment	Used in an episode of The IT Crowd, when Douglas Reynholm shows a video to Jen about the company... also, him being naked. Subverted in that it backfires horribly for him; Jen and everyone else who sees it see exactly what's going on and are, not surprisingly, freaked out.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_b8b584cf	comment	One Zits arc had Jeremy purchasing a subliminal seduction tape to use on his girlfriend Sara. It of course doesn't work, but Sara, having been tipped off to the scheme by Hector, plays along in order to watch Jeremy squirm.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_ba18d690	comment	Vete A La Versh. A parody of Ocarina of Time has a sign that says "Obligatory Subliminal Message. Errm......Sex."
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Subliminal Seduction / int_ba7203f7	comment	The outtro of Information Society's cover of Gary Numan's "Are Friends Electric?" has the backmasked message "Obey your parents. Do your homework. Winners don't do drugs," in a voice similar to a broken-down robot accompanied by a whirring mechanical noise.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_bb3fde3d	comment	The Danny Phantom episode "Pirate Radio" revolves around an instrumental written by Ember McLain that, when played backwards, contains the message "leave your kids, come to the cruise" and is used in a mind control plot.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_bbe06161	comment	The irritating squawk made by the Doozers from Creatures 2 turns into a crowd shouting "HELL NO WE WON'T GO!" when played backwards and slowed down. The voices are employees from Creatures Labs.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_bd1137ca	comment	The "Fnords" from the Illuminatus! trilogy. However these are somewhat different in that they're not even remotely hidden. Fnord. Instead, we've all been mentally programmed since grade school not to notice them on a conscious level, which in turn causes a general "sourceless" feeling of uneasiness and confusion, making us easier to manipulate.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_bdb947ab	comment	Agent Carter. The "Black Widow" trainees are shown learning to speak English from watching Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. When Peggy Carter finds the training room, she runs a few frames through the projector and finds the words INSTALL FEAR.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_beac6ffb	comment	Majora's Mask has you playing certain songs backwards to do different things (the Song of Time Reversed slows down the progression of time by half; and the Double Song of Time pushed half of a day forward in time). The Creepypasta Ben Drowned features a reversed Song of Healing nicknamed the "Song of Unhealing".
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Subliminal Seduction / int_c1120877	comment	Klaus Schulze's debut album Irrlicht features a heavily filtered recording of an orchestra rehearsal played in reverse. In turn, the entire B-side track, "Exil Sils Maria", was transferred to the record backwards.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_c19c6efa	comment	In Minecraft, the noises made by calm Endermen consist of "here", "hiya", "what's up?", "this way!", "forever!" and "uh oh!" played backwards, sometimes with the pitch changed.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_c2cda646	comment	Josie and the Pussycats (2001) is the best film EVER!!! (jointhearmy)
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Subliminal Seduction / int_c43df4d8	comment	The Doctor Who episode "The Sound of Drums" features the Master persuading the population of the United Kingdom to vote for him as Prime Minister with a subliminal message carried over a mobile phone network, and then in "Last of the Time Lords" uses it to dull any thoughts of resistance to his regime. Later, in Series 8-10, her theme actually does contain backmasked lyrics. Played forward, they sound like nonsensical chanting. Played backward, they contain spoilers, such as a mention of hearing drums.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_c4778e4b	comment	The Mythbusters once tested a subliminal mind control device; it worked about as well as the bicycle helmet with a crystal screwed in.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_c4a22754	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series: Little Kuriboh throws in a message in The Abridged Movie. During Yugi's "thinly veiled foreshadowing" dream, where Yami and Kaiba duel, Yami loses, and Kaiba is attacked by a gibberish-spouting Anubis, the gibberish, played backwards... "Watch Naruto: The Abridged Series!" In the Clip Show episode, Rebecca's teddy bear also spouts a backwards message. It says "You have too much time on your hands"
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Subliminal Seduction / int_c5556066	comment	Parodied in Little Nicky (quoted above), where the title character reveals a Satanic backwards message on a song by the soft-rock band Chicago. On the other hand, Ozzy Osbourne "always came straight with his messages".
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Subliminal Seduction / int_c6cba714	comment	In Exmortis 2, there's a CB radio, on which two stations are active. One contains people screaming before the channel goes dead, while the other continuously relays a message being spoken backwards. If reversed, it turns out to be Vlaew proclaiming warnings like, "Your destruction at the hands of Exmortis is inevitable", or "Pitiful pawns of the Earth realm, you have been chosen for extinction."
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Subliminal Seduction / int_c72021c5	comment	In Deus Ex, in the VersaLife offices on the Hong Kong level, over the programmers heads are screens that repeatedly flash single words in black and white, such as, "OBEY", "TRUST", and "LOYALTY."
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Subliminal Seduction / int_c720f71e	comment	You can find "backwards message" videos on YouTube for hundreds, possibly even thousands of songs, for everything from Led Zeppelin to the theme song to Spongebob Squarepants.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_c74f2d3c	comment	Diablo contains the satanic message (at least in the game files): Eat your vegetables, and brush after every meal. (backwards, of course)
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Subliminal Seduction / int_c7aa3c5c	comment	Doom II: Play the demonic gurgles made by the Final Boss backwards and you'll hear "To win the game, you must kill me, John Romero." The part of the boss that must be hit to kill it is John's head on a stake as can be seen with the no clipping cheat. This was also done in the Id/Ravensoft collaboration Heretic; the vocalisations of the Disciples of D'Sparil, and of D'Sparil himself, are all reversed English phrases such as "Destroy the Heretic".
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Subliminal Seduction / int_ca5d97f1	comment	Monty Python's Flying Circus: The story writing for the historic Icelandic tome "Njorl's Saga" gets picked up halfway through by the North Malden Icelandic Saga Society. After momentarily lapsing into a P.R. film for business investment in North Malden, an action scene unfolds with "INVEST IN MALDEN" occasionally flashing on the screen (along with knights carrying signs shilling for Malden.) And in another sketch, where someone is undergoing persuasion to quit the Masons, we see what he's seeing as a voice-over asks "do you want to stop being a Mason?". The image he's looking at is repeatedly replaced for brief intervals with an image of a naked woman alongside a large "YES". When the sequence is over, he of course answers "no".
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Subliminal Seduction / int_cac1f314	comment	The ALF cartoon caused a minor stink when a single frame containing no less than three American symbols (the American flag, the Statue of Liberty, and text reading "America") was found slipped into one episode during a space battle. The animators apparently put the frame in as a gag and had no idea it would be seen as a subliminal message.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_cb2db091	comment	Sir Terry Pratchett has mused, in one of the Johnny Maxwell books, as to what might happen if you played a record by Christian star Cliff Richard backwards. If backwards masking is such a strong tool in the hands of Satan for provoking evil and loathing, then its use by a saintly Christian performer such as Sir Cliff might result in spreading the word of God, with people attending church and worshipping with no clear idea as to how they ended up there. Someone on The 700 Club actually tried to prove this back in the early '80s by playing a tape of the hymn "Behold the Lamb" backwards and seemingly getting the words "Lamb of Glory".
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Subliminal Seduction / int_cd866b61	comment	In Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work, the Des Rever Records corporation places literally seductive backmasked messages in their recordings, which you can actually hear in-game if you play the golden record in their headquarters backwards. At the end of the game it gets mentioned that their plan ultimately failed because none of their customers knew how to play CDs backwards.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_d03ce8d5	comment	Done in a few episodes of The Chaser's War On Everything, usually mocking the viewers who would bother to watch in slow-motion and read it.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_d2050b4c	comment	In Prince of Persia: Warrior Within, the Dahaka of Time occasionally yells backmasked phrases at you while chasing you. If you use the game's built-in "reverse time" feature during these phrases, you can actually hear what he's saying.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_d494343b	comment	Iron Maiden's album Piece of Mind contains, between the songs "The Trooper" and "Still Life", a backwards recording of Nicko McBrain doing an impression of Idi Amin (or, technically, an impression of comedian John Bird's impression of Idi Amin): "'What ho,' said the thing with the three bonce. Don't meddle with things you don't understand." The band put this in the album on purpose to Troll the Moral Guardians who accused them of being Satanists because of "The Number of the Beast".
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Subliminal Seduction / int_d5166b43	comment	In Halo 2, the music heard at the entrance to the control center on "The Great Journey" is a reversed version of "High Charity".
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Subliminal Seduction / int_d5c2a7a3	comment	The ghosts of Thief speak like this. The backmasked words are bits of Victoria's speech in a cinematic where one of the hero's eyes is forcibly removed.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_d5ddd6c1	comment	PokÃ©mon: The Series: In the English dub of "The Whistle Stop", there's a secret message in James' muffled shouting; played backwards, it's Eric Stuart shouting "Leo Burnett and 4Kids are the devil!" Eventually 4Kids admitted to, ironically, creating the Leo Burnett part as a jokey shout-out to his use of subliminal messaging. The 4Kids part was a more straightforward Take That!; Eric Stuart had just been cheated out of advertising royalties.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_d9c602eb	comment	Parodied (of course) on an episode of South Park, where it's revealed that all Broadway musicals use this to get women to give men blowjobs. In practice, it's just the actors inserting the word "blowjob" into every other line.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_dc25de3f	comment	Portal: The game has GLaDOS tipping over her prerecorded messages almost intentionally. An example in test chamber 10 has a portion of a sentence about momentum scrambled at different speeds AND reversed, but backmasking and tweaking the speed of the audio reveals the whole message: "To reiterate our previous warning, this test requires mastery of the principles of portal momentum." GLaDOS also does this intentionally in the second game, where a sped-up version of her "explanation" for a test chamber turns out instead to be a passage from Moby Dick. There's a reason why it's not about the test, later in the game.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_e5c5bc22	comment	In the GURPS horror setting The Madness Dossier, human language itself has been implanted with subliminal cues and commands that predate the current version of history. Someone who knows the secret can trigger these cues to elicit specific actions and reactions from a person. The idea that subliminals donâ€™t work is largely a lie spread by the heroes of the piece, Project SANDMAN, to reduce the risks involved in messing with this stuff.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_e5da0fa0	comment	Myst contains an easter egg mixed into a message from Achenar saying something in the language of the Tree-Dwellers. Part of that message is actually real words, played backwards. When reversed, he says, "Rush Limbaugh understands..."
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Subliminal Seduction / int_e7795776	comment	In Celeste, the second movement of the "In the Mirror" suite from the Mirror Temple is a reversed version of the preceding song, "Quiet and Falling", and also incorporates a backmasked monologue by composer Lena Raine in the character of Madeline, describing her struggle with depression.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_ea4f62db	comment	In Family Guy the tobacco executive responsible attempted to do so in real time, but so obviously as to be impossible to miss. Are you smoking yet?
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Subliminal Seduction / int_ebffc81f	comment	In Mage: The Awakening, one of the Free Council grimoires is a metal album that implants knowledge of a few rotes, along with a spell that causes the subject to defy authority.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_ec25a849	comment	Disney's Doug: During an investigative-journalism trip to the makers of Nic-Nacs (a product that's meant to parallel tobacco products), Doug is shown an "informative" film laced with these. Of course, they're just long enough to be noticed and read by the real-life audience; it even cuts to a separate music cue.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_ec28245c	comment	The first ending theme of Dragon Ball Z includes a particularly funny backwards line in the beginning of the song where a person thanks the composers for their hard work while arranging the song.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_ec80dae4	comment	Yahtzee plays with this trope: In the 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand review — by inserting short clips into the animation that vanish before you can properly read them. The specific image in the review is of Yahtzee with his arm around a black guy, with the message "not racist." pointing at Yahtzee with an arrow. Yahtzee does this half his episodes, with these having 'blink-and-you-miss-it' frames saying something or other.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_ed113c02	comment	In Saints Row IV, the simulation version of Steelport is full of ominous messages plastered across signs and billboards, in a direct Shout-Out to They Live!. They range from ordering the President to give up to mocking them for the reckless death and destruction they've caused.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_f1c1d87a	comment	Fiddle around on the menu screen of Manhunt after beating it on the hardest difficulty and a voice says something backwards. Turned around, the voice says, "Daddy didn't see what would happen if she left me. Mommy would've cared, but she was never there." Then the voice recites a series of buttons. Input that sequence in reverse and you get God Mode.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_f255951b	comment	Alan Wake's American Nightmare has Heavy Mithril Fake Band Old Gods of Asgard's "Balance Slays the Demon." It has a small section with reversed, sped up lyrics. Play it the right way round and you get "It will happen again, in another town. A town... called Ordinary."
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Subliminal Seduction / int_f3ef0f86	comment	In Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony, Artemis persuades his opponent to choose Taipei 101 as a meeting place by dropping words into the conversation. That it works seems far-fetched, except that the man is already intimately familiar with the location and calls it "his second home".
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Subliminal Seduction / int_f4345923	comment	Parodied in a Bob & Ray skit as far back as 1960: An enterprising ad man thinks hard into the microphone while the B&R show is on the air and asks listeners to call in if they received any messages. One guy does call in to say that he's getting a message to come for dinner... which turns out to be from his very impatient wife.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_f4b0e573	comment	Mortal Kombat: Deception has a few backwards-talking characters in Konquest Mode. Along with containing a few in-jokes and the obligatory "Why are you decoding this?" line, one of the backwards lines hilariously subverts the whole sinister agenda thing you see with backwards message all the time with "Drink milk. Get plenty of sleep. Listen to your parents. Do your homework."
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Subliminal Seduction / int_f53fe2fa	comment	In the more recent series of Mission: Impossible, the team get the villains to hire one of them posing as a nightclub singer by leaving subliminal messages in her backing music.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_f5c936a3	comment	Staying through the credits for Cloverfield gets you a few final seconds of audio, with the main characters who survived the movie still begging for help, followed by a quick burst of backmask. Dedicated viewers managed to record the sound and play it backwards within a day of the film's release. The final message of the movie? "It's still alive!" Similarly there is a still image from the original King Kong (1933) flashed briefly during the helicopter scene. For the record, Word of God says the monster is dead.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_f74b5f80	comment	The Babylon 5 Documentary Episode "And Now for a Word" contains a commercial for the PsiCorps; the commercial has text frames reading, "TRUST THE CORPS" and "THE CORPS IS YOUR FRIEND", inserted for just long enough not to run afoul of the laws mentioned above.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_f8acc9ea	comment	Control features another song by the Old Gods of Asgard, "Take Control", which has three backwards messages. The first one seems to be a reference to the Foundation DLC. The second and third together give the solution to a hidden puzzle in the Alan Wake themed AWE DLC.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_fa36403a	comment	In the Atari Lynx version of Rampage, one of the gag newspaper headlines shown at the start of the level read "There are no (Buy a Lynx) subliminal messages (Or two) in this game (Buy a Lynx)."
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Subliminal Seduction / int_faf84cd	comment	Play as a Malkavian in Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines and use the Dementia skill in dialogue and soft whispers can be heard telling you hidden plot points. i.e. the boardwalk slasher can be spoken to in the Surf Diner, appearing as an unassuming man, but refuses to talk to you even after using the skill, and the whispers tell you vaguely that he is the boardwalk slasher.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_fdbace96	comment	Gravity Falls: The opening theme for the series contains a backwards whisper which varies depending on the episode. It usually explains how to decode a message in the credits, but the episode "Not What He Seems" has the whisper "Stan is not what he seems", "Weirdmageddon Part 1" has Bill Cipher saying "I'm watching you nerds!", and "Weirdmageddon Part 2: Escape From Reality" has Bill saying "I'M WATCHING YOU" much more angrily. The final episode, "Weirdmageddon Part 3: Take Back the Falls", has the whisper say "Goodbye Gravity Falls," because it's the end of the show. The speech of one of the Flavor Pups in Mabel's Smile Dip hallucination in "The Inconveniencing" (implied as being either gibberish, or German), sounds like he's saying "must distrust Grunkle" when played backwards. The issue was brought up directly in the episode "Boyz Crazy", where Robbie finds a song on a CD that, when played backwards, turns out to say "you are now under my control, your mind is mine". He uses it on Wendy and she breaks up with him when she finds out — because mind control message or no, it wasn't his own music like he said it was. Parodied in "Dreamscaperers": the scene where Li'l Gideon summons Bill Cipher has Gideon chanting ominous-sounding gibberish right before Bill appears. Played backwards, the gibberish sounds like... Gideon repeatedly saying the phrase "backwards message". In "Dipper's Guide to the Unexplained: The Tooth", the Island Monster's incoherent shouting reveals a hidden message when played backwards: "You have awoken me from my slumber! Enter my mouth, children! Enter your destiny!" The scene in "The Stanchurian Candidate" where Bud Gleeful asks Gideon not to use any more spooky spells and Gideon promptly uses one has some ominous-sounding gibberish chanting as part of said spell. The chanting turns out to be "spooky evil spells, spooky spells, spooky spells!" when played backwards. The most significant backwards message is in the final episode where right before being defeated, Bill says, "A-X-O-L-O-T-L, my time has come to burn! I invoke the ancient power that I may return!"
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Subliminal Seduction / int_fe6cdec	comment	A Twitter joke (attributed to Dave Grohl): "If you play a Nickelback song backward, you'll hear messages from the Devil. Even worse, if you play it forward, you'll hear Nickelback."
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Subliminal Seduction / int_ffa85c82	comment	Used as a bit of a plot point in Spy Kids. Juni's favorite show employs several characters in costume speaking gibberish, but when the tape of the show is played backwards you can clearly hear their cries for help. In this case, they're using it to hide a secret message for those inclined to look for it, rather than influence anyone subliminally.
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Subliminal Seduction / int_fff2d31b	comment	In Grendel, part of Orion Assante's scheme to get other countries to join his One World Order is subliminal messages in his propaganda broadcasts.
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