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* ''[[Pennies From Heaven]]'' is all about this trope, starring Steven Martin and Bernadette Peters, in a comedy about how during the Depression, movies just portrayed everyone as rich, happy—and DANCING.

* The publicity ad for Shell Beach in ''[[Dark City]].'' It is one of the few happy and bright images in the entire movie, where the city is [[Captain Obvious|dark]] and run down. It gets truly dissonant because while the main character and his uncle remember growing up and living there, no one knows how to get there. Turns out {{spoiler|the [[Reality Warper|reality warping]] aliens have implanted [[Fake Memories]] of the place in everyone, ''it never existed!''}}

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== [[Live-Action TV]] ==

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* The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial "The Armageddon Factor" opens with a [[Patriotic Fervor]] speech between young lovers that turns out to be a soap opera being shown on a war ravaged world.

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* [[Auf Wiedersehen, Pet]] featured this in its first title sequence with one of the characters walking towards the dole office in front of Satchi & Satchis famous 'Labour isn't working' poster.

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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

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* ''[[Shadowrun]]'' adventure ''Double Exposure''. One illustration had a billboard for Project Hope, with a happy family and the words "The Bravest Future". Under the billboard some Project Hope goons are giving a man a bloody beating.

== [[Video Games]] ==

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== [[Western Animation]] ==

* ''[[WALL-E]]'' does this with holographic billboards on Earth, and uses them to detail the movie's backstory. Pixar then took it [[Up to Eleven]] by giving Buy-N-Large its own functional website, which expands on said backstory and is packed with black humor/social commentary worthy of [[The Onion]].

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== [[Live-Action TV]] ==

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* The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial "The Armageddon Factor" opens with a [[Patriotic Fervor]] speech between young lovers that turns out to be a soap opera being shown on a war ravaged world.

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* [[Auf Wiedersehen, Pet]] featured this in its first title sequence with one of the characters walking towards the dole office in front of Satchi & Satchis famous 'Labour isn't working' poster.

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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

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* ''[[Shadowrun]]'' adventure ''Double Exposure''. One illustration had a billboard for Project Hope, with a happy family and the words "The Bravest Future". Under the billboard some Project Hope goons are giving a man a bloody beating.

== [[Real Life]] ==