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Characters go on what they expect to be a wonderful vacation at a luxuriously extravagant hotel or resort. Upon arriving at their destination, they discover that the place is a dingy disaster. The brochure lied about... well, everything. The supposed 5-star "Ultra-Cool Inn" was merely a crumbling cottage filled with cobwebs and has roaches living inside the refrigerator. Sometimes you'll see the characters holding up the advert, and then revealing the actual place behind it. The elements will correspond but will be very different. The swimming pool will be in the same place, but the real one will be dirty brown, with stink lines coming off it. The "claims" usually turn out to be Metaphorically True and the fine print prevents them from obtaining a refund, forcing the characters to suffer through the ordeal. |
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In National Lampoon's European Vacation, the Griswolds discover their London accommodations to be... less than what the Pig In A Poke producers had promised. | |
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The protagonist of Ranma ½ fell prey to this due to vague language, not to deliberate malice. When the prize for a good performance as Romeo was "Win a trip to see China!" he was excited at the chance to return to the Jusenkyo springs to cure his curse. As it turns out, "China" was the first name of Furinkan High's Romeo & Juliet producer. And Ranma got to see him. In the Swedish translation, they told him he could win "en resa till Kina" (a trip to China), but later Ranma found out that what he really won was the homophonic Enres Atiltjina, the producer of the Furinkan High play. Atiltjina's comment? "Thank you for winning me." | |
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A gag in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia has Frank making an ad for Paddy's Pub, based on the premise that lying in the ad is okay because nobody fact-checks on the internet. To that end, the ad claims that the pub is the oldest in America, and has donkey shows, Mötley Crüe, cake, strippers, and cockfighting, and is "packed with celebrities, the fun ones." Needless to say, Paddy's Pub is a cheap, filthy dive bar run by people doing a One-Hour Work Week. | |
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The Simpsons: The 'Sleep Eazy Motel', which due to light failure seemed to be called 'Sleazy Motel'. Kamp Krusty is depicted as lavish and idyllic in the ads for it when the actual camp is a run-down disaster area that uses the campers as sweatshop workers and constantly abuses them. The ad also featured plenty of outright lies, the breaking point being the claim that Krusty the Klown himself would be showing up. (It was Barney Gumble in an ill-fitting Krusty outfit.) The Simpsons Movie seemed like it might be heading for this when the Simpsons head for Alaska and found it filled with oil rigs, Homer's idea of a map is to plaster the poster advertising Alaska to the car windshield. When they get there Alaska is great and actually has the exact same view as the poster. The ads for the winemaking estate Chateau Maison depict it as a large mansion with a well-kept garden, which doesn't much resemble the tiny miserable shack in the middle of a wasteland. Lionel Hutz' advertising as a lawyer. His business cards say "Works on contingency — No money down". When confronted with this by Bart, seeking his legal counsel, Hutz hastily claims that it is just a typo, "correcting" the card with a red marker to say "Works on contingency? — No, money down!" At which point Hutz also notices that the bar association logo on the card is no longer valid, so he quickly tears it off and eats it. One episode features an ad for a sugarcube maker called Mr. Sugar Cube, with the commercial showing tiny, perfectly formed cubes dropping from its dispenser. Homer muses how "that baby changed our lives!" while cutting over to the misshapen, oversized, wadded-up blobs of sugar sitting in a bowl next to him. A soccer match between Mexico and Portugal about to take place in Springfield is heavily-advertised as an exciting match, convincing Homer to take the family to the match. The arena is packed with spectators on the match day, but when the match starts, it pretty much consists of everyone standing still while three members of the same team pass the ball between each other. This leads to a riot between everyone present, even outside of the arena. |
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The Malaysian TV ads for Road to Avonlea implied that Johnny Lee's The Yellow Rose was appearing on the show as the main theme no less. Needless to say, those who have tuned in found that to be very false. In fact, Malaysian TV ads for shows in that era seem to like putting more popular songs over scenes from the show it's advertising to confuse people into thinking the song would be appearing in the show. | |
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One Are You Being Served? episode had the entire staff forced to take their vacation time simultaneously and at a Grace Brothers approved resort. As Mr. Rumboldt read off the tourist descriptions, he showed a slide show of the resort's features; the first one matched the hype, but none of the rest did. ("The beach is only twenty minutes away." "By jet?") | |
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A DVD set was released on Valentines Day 2017, claiming to be "The Complete Collection" of Beavis and Butt-Head. The problem? The discs are identical to the three "Mike Judge Collection" sets, the separately-branded "Volume 4", which contained every episode of the brief 2011 revival, and The Movie. In total, that only makes for under 70% of the series, losing music video segments, certain banned episodes, and segments that Judge himself dislikes, to the extent that he prevents MTV from releasing them. | |
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Happens on Martin with Martin and Gina's vacation getaway. To make matters worse, they fell out with their best friends, Beta Couple Tommy and Pam, who ended up staying there too. They made up just in time to fight a dog-sized rat. | |
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A running gag in Frank and Ernest involves the guys, in one form or another, advertising something. Frank points out that the ad is entirely false, and Ernest explains how all the supposedly good stuff he wrote about is really bad. | |
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A private version happens in an early story in For Better or for Worse when the family uses a friend's cottage and finds it a wreck, but they make the best of it. When they get back from their comically unpleasant stay, their friend asks how they liked the TV and the jacuzzi, which were definitely not at the cottage they used. To that, Elly roars at John "You idiot! We went to the wrong cabin!!" | |
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The mobile developer Playrix has become notorious over time for falsely advertising their games. Probably the most notorious and blatant cases are the ads for Homescapes and Gardenscapes, which show either Austin's family's mansion or garden in utter disrepair or Austin and Katherine in an extreme environment such as a frozen wasteland or a deserted island. In both scenarios, a set of tools is given to fix the problems or help Austin and Katherine along the way. The on-screen hand inevitably selects a wrong tool that causes an explosion, flood, etc. or ends up harming the duo, and text reading "FAIL" pops up shortly after. In actuality, the games are simplistic match-3 puzzles similar to Candy Crush. These ads were enough of a nuisance, in fact, that the United Kingdom's Advertising Standards Authority banned two Facebook ads for both Homescapes and Gardenscapes that were ruled to not accurately represent their real gameplay and warned Playrix to ensure the ads for their games accurately represented their actual gameplay. As a result, randomly in game, gameplay resembling what the ads present shows up as a minigame. | |
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Dilbert and Dogbert went on a trip to Clyde Canyon, which turned out to be a ditch. Subverted when, as they left, another hiker asked them, "Why were you hanging out in that ditch? Beautiful Clyde Canyon is just over that ridge." | |
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Rocko's Modern Life: Played with in the episode "Snow Balls", where Rocko and Heffer are lured into visiting a ski resort. The signs and billboards for the resort say that everything is only $5; Rocko and Heffer believe this means that everything (ski rentals, accommodations, etc.) is $5, but soon learn that every thing is $5 (meaning everything they do or use is $5 each). "Sucker for the Suck-O-Matic" had Rocko buying a new vacuum cleaner he saw on TV. When he gets it, the vacuum cleaner delivered to him looks nothing like what was shown in the commercial, which is huge as a truck and has a mind of its own. |
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The contestants on Total Drama were told that they would be staying at a luxury resort, not at an abandoned campground in Northern Ontario. Subverted when we see that they do eventually go to the resort — after they're voted off. | |
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A flock of priests go to have a drink at their local "Tea Bar". The half-broken neon marquee reveals that the building is actually a "Striptease Cabaret", and the priests are quite (pleasantly) shocked with their visit. Such is The Benny Hill Show. | |
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An episode of The Suite Life of Zack & Cody that saw Maddie temporarily Put on a Bus had Sister Dominique showing her a camp brochure with a waterfall and various other natural wonders...then the camp turns out to be horrible (they once had leech cobbler as a meal and are across the road from a slaughterhouse). | |
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In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix the "powdered dragon claw" that Harold Dingle was selling was actually toxic dried doxy droppings. | |
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As featured on Not Always Right, there's a bar out there that advertises "Free beer, topless bartenders, & false advertising." | |
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The "holding up the advert" variant is used with Todd's much-crappier-than-expected apartment in The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret . | |
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In Carry On Abroad, a group of British holidaymakers are off for a cheap package holiday on the island of Elsbels at the Palace Hotel. However, the Palace Hotel is still under construction and eventually is completely destroyed by a big rainstorm. | |
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In Absolutely Fabulous Eddie and Patsy go to France and make the best of a tiny, dirty little cabin, ignoring, or more accurately not understanding, the suggestion of the groundskeeper that they should move up to the mansion where rooms are waiting for them. | |
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Rerez calls out the Game.com for this with its version of Sonic Jam, comparing the slow and dodgy actual gameplay to the much faster footage that was shown in their commercial - the commercial footage is clearly a heavily doctored clip from a prior Sonic game that released on the Game Gear. | |
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Downplayed in the Sabrina: The Animated Series episode "Working Witches": Salem wins the big prize of a radio context, which consists of a new camcorder, a large stock of chocolates and a big collection of CDs. While the camcorder matches the promise, the chocolates are long expired and covered in mold and the CD collection is actually one thousand copies of the same compilation of Tibetan monk hymns. | |
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The Great Muppet Caper's dilapidated "Happiness Hotel". To the hotel's credit, though, the people living in the hotel are indeed happy... Although this says more about the Muppets than the hotel. They cheerfully admit this: | |
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Arthur: There's a flashback scene in which the titular character recalls D.W. wanting to go to a place called "Santa's Igloo," after seeing a billboard and a commercial advertising "Santa's Igloo: Share a sundae with Santa and his friendly reindeer!" The commercial showed Santa and his reindeer flying over a sunny igloo beach. When the family actually arrives at that location, they find a completely mundane house decorated with a fake igloo facade, with a man partially wearing a low-quality Santa Claus suit who demands to know whether they brought any sundaes to share with him. "How can you share a sundae with Santa, if you don't bring a sundae to Santa?" Another episode had the new Dark Bunny video game, being hyped as the state of the art. It turns out to be a very crappy Super Mario demake. There's an episode where no part of the family's beach vacation goes according to plan. When they ask the hotel clerk about the advertised beach view, she sighs and looks wistfully at the neighboring building, telling them they're a few years too late. |
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In the Victorious special "Locked Up", Yerba is this. For clarification, the Yerba website depicts a beautiful country with white sandy beaches, but this turns out to be a scan of a picture hanging on the wall in a local hotel. The actual Yerba is a 3rd world hellhole with an easily angered dictator for a ruler. | |
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Garfield and Friends: In episode 34: "Housebreak Hotel", a pet hotel promised a luxury stay. When Jon left, Garfield discovered that the sleeping accommodations were stacked cages in rooms, and the food was worse than raisins. In episode 53: "Wonderful World", the titular amusement park is discovered to have fallen into disrepair... much to the eventual ire of the founder... In episode 73: "Rainy Day Robot", a robot, advertised as being able to bring about any weather on command, never actually causes rain to fall from the sky, although a number of other things do... including 27 pianos. Earlier, in the Garfield in Paradise special, their accommodations fail to live up to expectations: |
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Many ads for Dragon Ball Z: Sagas described it as a Wide-Open Sandbox (its most frequent slogan was that it would go "everywhere"). This is, simply put, not true; the game is a linear beat-em-up. | |
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The complete series of ChalkZone was released in October 2014 as an Amazon-exclusive Manufacture-On-Demand DVD. However, the set actually omitted one eleven-minute segment, The Smooch, because of music licensing issues regarding the Baha Men's cover of the song "Coconut". The episode and music video it was paired with, Power Play and All the Way to the Top, were included, and the credits of the episode were untouched, acknowledging the missing segment. Nickelodeon does not plan to go back and clear the rights for the song. | |
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In one Red vs. Blue PSA, Sister tries her hand at real estate. Almost all of the properties she sells are given this sort of treatment, with the exception of the last place in Canada; It's as good as she promised, but the area is full of white supremacists whom the Canadians are too polite to kick out. | |
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In Bewitched, Darrin and Samantha go on holiday to a "beautiful cabin" Larry has in the hills... which turns out to be a decaying, crumbling mess. When a storm sets in, Sam magics it into the cabin that was described. Trouble starts when Larry then shows up... | |
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Advertisements on YouTube for the mobile game Elf Buddy straight-up feature creatures and characters from the Pokémon anime and video-games—and even rip off other franchises, like showing an "SSR" Diancie dressed as Saber from Fate/stay night and even performing her signature Sword Beam. While the app store page only features original creatures, the description does use the term "pokedex". | |
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In Toy Story 4, the character Duke Caboom is an action figure of a motorcycle stunt rider (a Captain Ersatz of Evel Knievel) who is traumatised by the fact that his first owner quickly threw him away in disgust on discovering that he wasn't really capable of doing the cool stuff that his TV adverts implied that he could. | |
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Futurama: Hermes and his wife go on a holiday to "the spa planet", which turns out to be a forced labour camp, complete with perky fitness instructor/slave driver. Inverted in "The Series Has Landed"- Fry is eager to visit the moon for the first time, only to end up visiting a large theme park with cheesy attractions. He hijacks a lunar rover to break out and see the "real" moon, which ends up almost killing him. |
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Game Theory has a video about false mobile game ads here, where MatPat discusses how their developers can get away with this false advertising so often. In short: though this kind of false advertising is indeed illegal, the government typically only pursues cases of it when the violation is actually placing people at some kind of serious risk. Since most of these games are free (well, free up to a point), usually the worst outcome of a false mobile game ad is the person having their time wasted when they download the app, realize it's not what the ad showed, and then close and uninstall it. Consequently, they are considered a very low priority. | |
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This happens to the Scooby gang in The Secret of Shark Island. Not only did the brochure fail to mention the run-down hotel and general dereliction of the island, but it also forgot to talk about the shark-infested waters. Appropriately, as it turns out. | |
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The advertisements for Love Nikki - Dress Up Queen are so absurd that the fandom has collected them into a list, ranked according to their weirdness. Even the "less weird" ads are wildly inaccurate, showing gameplay similar to that of a dating sim when the actual game is more of a fantasy RPG. The more weird ads are completely indecipherable nonsense. | |
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The beginning of Luigi's Mansion. The picture shows a nice inviting house complete with the sun in the sky, pleasant scenery, and even rainbows. The actual mansion is a menacing looking Haunted House complete with tombstones on the lawn and Dramatic Thunder. The situation is repeated in Luigi's Mansion 3, only this time with a luxurious hotel, though that time at least the villains use a very convincing glamour over the building. | |
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FoxTrot has Andrea swearing that next time, she's gonna be the one in charge of vacation plans. This comes after the revelation that there's going to be a mock hurricane ("I wondered why everything was velcroed to the walls"). Roger is still clueless: "Uh, honey, your eye twitches like that when you're happy, right?" | |
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The Season 1 DVD for SpongeBob SquarePants, despite claiming to be complete, was actually missing the pilot episode, Help Wanted, due to music licensing issues with the song that plays when SpongeBob makes Krabby Patties, Livin' in the Sunlight by Tiny Tim. Nickelodeon did, however, rectify this by including the episode on future releases of the show, most prominently the Season 3 DVD as a bonus feature, and with the song included. The twelfth season DVD, while also claiming to be complete, lacks an episode called "The Kwarantined Krab", which didn't air in the US due to its subject matter of the characters finding themselves in quarantine. |
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In Return to Monkey Island, Guybrush and Elaine need Stan to "punch up" Elaine's flier encouraging the use of limes as a scurvy preventative (in Guybrush's case, to get some very gullible but science-wary scurvy pirates to relax their quarantine). By "punch up", Stan apparently means "make up outrageous lies to make limes seem like they're made of pure magic". | |
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In The Simpsons: Bart Simpson's Escape from Camp Deadly, the cutscene before the last level implies that the advertising for the titular camp promised much better activities than the Summer Camp From Hell that the Simpson kids are suffering through. | |
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The opening of Potionomics is a letter to the protagonist from the officiator of her uncle's will, stating that their inheritance is a potion workshop that they'll have to claim in person or else forfeit, adding that it should be a profitable venture due to its location at a hub for adventurers. The letter is then put down, revealing that the workshop is actually completely run-down and infested with rats and cobwebs, causing the protagonist to faceplant onto the counter. | |
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A majority of Eddy's scams in Ed, Edd n Eddy fall under this, when they're not trying to carelessely kill the Cul-de-sac kids they offer things like tacos made out of dirt and paper plates or Crappy Carnivals. | |
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The Golden Girls episode "Vacation" has Dorothy, Blanche, and Rose take a holiday on a tropical island, only to discover that their "luxury hotel" is a run-down, mosquito-infested dump with no working air conditioner, terrible food, and no ocean view from every window as promised in the brochure. Dorothy (Bea Arthur) sums it up nicely: | |
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Evony popularized the very sleazy tactic of marketing browser games using pictures of scantily clad women who typically are nowhere to be found in the actual game and trying very hard to convince the viewer that the game is pornographic even when it's anything but. Its successor, Evony: The King's Return employs the similarly overused "rod puzzle game" advertising that came to prominence in the late 2010s, which in-game only appears in the first portion of the game. Later ads play on player frustration at the number of games using this type of ad that turn out to be anything but by touting itself as the only real game of this type. Which it isn't. And which anyone familiar with the "You make me horny, my lord" ads will see through immediately. In 2022 or 2023, Evony started using the "attempting to shoot someone by ricocheting the bullet off the walls and naturally failing miserably" format, though it at least doesn't claim to be the only real shooting puzzle game. | |
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Those Games is built on the premise of taking all those non-existent minigames that mobile game ads use and making them playable... and challenging! | |
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In February 2024, a Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory-inspired event, titled Willy's Chocolate Experience, was held in Glasglow, Scotland by a company named House of Illuminati, with advertisements for the event claiming to include things like an enchanted candy garden, live performances, lots of candy, and a tunnel clearly modeled after the tunnel from the movie, with tickets costing £35 per person. Sounds like an exciting time especially for the kids, right? Wrong. As it turned out, all of the artwork on the event's website and advertisements were generated by AI, and when ticket buyers reached the warehouse it was being held in, they and their kids were quickly met with anything but a world of pure imagination, with a mostly barren, haphazardly-decorated room with little to do, kids only getting a pitiful amount of candy and half a cup of lemonade or limeade, and other underwhelming attractions that failed to live up to the expectations of attendees. Event-goers were so upset that the police were called, and the event would close early with refunds being promised for attendees. | |
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Homestar Runner Seen on the postcards in the Strong Bad Email "vacation". Strong Bad claims that there's nothing great about "The Great Mound", remarks that "Fabulous Downtown Pantsburg" isn't as fabulous as it appears on the postcard, and discovers "That Clock (Look at it Go!)" doesn't actually run and is stuck at 2:55. Inverted with the postcard of "Historic Over There", which Strong Bad claims actually appears in real life to be painted entirely in sepia tones, complete with brown sky and pavement. In "extra plug", Strong Bad orders a pair of "'Lectric Boots" that are allegedly "solid state" and "whisper quiet". The boots are actually covered in energy-sucking incandescent bulbs which are definitely not "solid state", and the cooling fans produce "an obnoxiously loud hum" that is anything but "whisper quiet". |
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In Cartoon Network's What A Cartoon! Show short "Podunk Possum: One Step Beyond", the toon opens on a picture of a marble-columned chicken coop from a deed that Podunk purchased. He lowers the deed and the actual property includes a run-down wood shacky chicken coop with holes, and weird things going on... | |
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This is the opening hook of several Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons games. You are lured to town with the promise of easy living on a farm, only to find that the property you bought is a run-down near-ruin. Much of the game involves you (the player) turning the farm into the place you were promised. | |
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Magazine ads for Garfield: Caught in the Act claimed it was his first time appearing in a video game. This isn't true—there were at least seven other games starring Garfield released beforehand. It could be argued that Caught in the Act was the first to actually be worth playing, though. | |
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A mild example from Family Guy: Don Knotts in Too Many Ostriches. | |
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The cover art of Hyper Street Fighter II: The Anniversary Edition claims that it includes the animated Street Fighter II movie "in its entirety". While it does include the movie, it is obviously not the full product, notably cutting the Chun-Li shower scene in such a poor way that you can clearly tell certain parts have been removed. The jumps in the music are VERY blatant. | |
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Seen on the postcards in the Strong Bad Email "vacation". Strong Bad claims that there's nothing great about "The Great Mound", remarks that "Fabulous Downtown Pantsburg" isn't as fabulous as it appears on the postcard, and discovers "That Clock (Look at it Go!)" doesn't actually run and is stuck at 2:55. Inverted with the postcard of "Historic Over There", which Strong Bad claims actually appears in real life to be painted entirely in sepia tones, complete with brown sky and pavement. | |
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One episode from I Love Lucy's Hollywood story arc places the Ricardos and the Mertzes in rural Ohio; after making a pitstop at a rundown roadside diner where the lone proprietor only serves stale cheese sandwiches, they leave. Afterwards, Lucy drives down the road, while Ricky, Fred, and Ethel sleep, finding a billboard, promising good accommodations and wonderful food if you turn left onto the next road - Lucy does so, only to take everyone right back to the same rundown diner, where the proprietor admits he was waiting for them, saying that he put up that billboard himself to make everyone travel in circles. Not surprisingly, his only cabin is bare-bones, the full bed's mattress dips down to the floor, and passing trains shake the entire cabin violently. | |
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And you can probably make a drinking game out of every time an ad for Rise of Kingdoms: Lost Crusade appears that is demonstrably false. The actual game is another base building map game, but the commercials often feature animated features that flagrantly aren't there. | |
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Read the app store reviews for Evertale, and over 90% of them are complaints about being advertised a Creepypasta pastiche of Pokemon, only to find on downloading that it's an incredibly generic, fanservice-ridden JRPG gacha game with monster-catching elements (that has long since overshadowed by the gacha heroes) and little to no horror elements whatsoever. | |
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In Gravity Falls, this trope is how Grunkle Stan does business. It's not that his products or services are good in any way, it's just that he's skilled at selling himself. In "Headhunters" Stan advertised free pizza in attending the grand opening of his wax museum, which there wasn't. In "A Tale Of Two Stans", we see how Grunkle Stan's first hokey scams went. The first was a stain towel that would supposedly clean stains instantly, but instead the cheap dye he colored them with made stains worse. Next was a brand of band-aids called "The Rip Off". |
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Happy Heroes: In episode 10, Doctor H. and the Supermen go to a four-star hotel after seeing an ad for it in a brochure. Turns out the Taj Mahal-looking hotel in the ad does exist, but it's teeny-tiny. They're actually staying in tents in the middle of nowhere, with the "four-star" part coming from a group of four stars in the night sky. In episode 25, the Supermen are not pleased with Mr. Lightbulb when they find out that the Mr. Kiwi drink he's selling is not actually full of vitamin C as the advertising claims and that it's just colored sugar water. |
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In Dharma & Greg, a bed'n'breakfast which promised a stately veranda, a breathtaking view of the sunset, and a whole host of other things, turned out to be a trailer behind a guy's house. | |
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