Before and After Pictures: Difference between revisions

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== Advertising ==

* Those weight loss ads we used to have on the wiki used this. Except the lady in the before picture was white, and the lady in the after picture was black. Wow, so they throw in a free tan?

** There are various weird ads floating around the wiki featuring this effect. It's as if the advertisers stopped trying to make their ads reasonably plausible, and instead took [[Refuge in Audacity]]. Examples include: Different eye colours, different skin color, different ''gender'', and one even featured a ''pregnant woman'' in the Before picture.

* A hair-restoring ad shows one where the "before" picture is looking downwards and wearing a shirt with a very loose neck, and the "after" picture is looking straight at the camera, wearing a turtleneck. Not sure what the shirt part was about, but the difference in shirts was too extreme to be coincidental.

 

* In the very first chapter of Girls Saurus, a hulking monster confesses her love to the title character only to beat him to a pulp when he recoils from the horror. Guess who he meets 1 month later after her diet? [https://web.archive.org/web/20150622094627/http://www.mangareader.net/1194-41831-34/girls-saurus/chapter-1.html]

 

== Comic Books ==

* In a ''[[Gaston Lagaffe]]'' comic, when Gaston answered an ad for a model for a hair regrowth potion ad. They took the "after" photo, shaved him, then took the "before" one.

* In one of [[Donald Duck]] stories it was combined with [[In-Universe]] example of [[Viewers are Morons]] - "before" was a duck (one of Donald's friends) while "after" was a human.

 

== Jokes ==

* There is a Russian joke about two busted drug dealers who are earning their pardon by dissuading people from taking drugs. The first one shows them a picture with two circles: a small one and a one three times larger - and telling them the circles represent relative sizes of their brains before and after drug abuse. The second one uses the same picture but with swapped circles and tells his interviewees that the circles represent the [[Black Comedy Rape|relative sizes of their arseholes]] [[Double Standard Rape (Male on Male)|before and after the drugs]] [[Prison Rape|get them into jail]].

 

* ''Honey, We're Killing the Kids'' is a reality show that teaches families how to live healthier lifestyles. Each episode starts with the parents being shown pictures of their kids artificially aged, and told "this is what your kids will look like in thirty years with their current lifestyle." The subjects are fat and have bad skin—and ugly clothes, messy hair, and slack, stupid facial expressions. At the end, after learning how to exercise and eat healthier food, the parents are shown new pictures of their artificially-aged kids—and this time they're smiling, made-up, and dressed well in addition to being thinner.

* Really like this in You Are What You Eat which takes overweight people and changes their diet and lifestyle. At the start they put him under a light (thus creating shadows), in unflattering underwear and looking very unhappy. At the end they're in new clothes with some sort of filter over the lens and of course, they're very happy.

* An old ''[[The Honeymooners|Honeymooners]]'' sketch on ''The Jackie Gleason Show'' has Ralph winning a trip to Europe in a write-in contest sponsored by a diet food company, with the catch that he has to send in "before and after" photos of himself to prove he actually uses their product. He attempts to use Ed Norton as a stand-in for the "after" picture, with predictable lack of success.

* On ''[[The Odd Couple]]'' Oscar (in a fat suit) was hired by Felix as a last-minute replacement for the before half of a before-and-after shoot, after "the fattest man in the world" refused to do it.

* In the ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' [[Parody Commercial]] for Trim-Jeans, obviously different actors are used for the "before" and "after" shots.

* ''[[Community]]'' had an episode where they put up a before and after of a space simulator. Inverted in that the before of the simulator is the nicer of the two.

 

== Newspaper Comics ==

* [http://www.dilbert.com/fast/1989-07-15/ This] Dilbert comic.

** Also [http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2005-11-19/ this one].

 

== Western Animation ==

* An episode of ''[[The Flintstones]]'' has Fred getting work as the "before" picture in one such ad. After Wilma complained to them about the humiliation, they saw potential for more publicity, and offered to make Fred a wager - if he did so on air - that they would pay him $1,000 if he could lose 50 pounds in a month. [[Diet Episode]] ensues.

* ''[[Goof Troop]]'' did an episode about this. [[Hilarity Ensues|Hilarity ensued]].

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