Bottled Cool: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|''"Sorry I'm late. My pool game ran long at the jazz club."''|Joe Camel, [[Futurama]]}}

{{quote|''"Sorry I'm late. My pool game ran long at the jazz club."''|Joe Camel, ''[[Futurama]]''}}

When you're selling people a lawnmower or a vacuum cleaner, you can emphasize the technical superiority of your product: our lawnmower mows the lawn better, our vacuum cleaner cleans... the vacuum better, that sort of thing.

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* Miracle Whip. Yes...Miracle Whip, the pseudo-mayonnaise, is now running an ad campaign styled like this. ''"We're Miracle Whip, and we will not tone it down."''

** It gets better - [[Stephen Colbert]] complained about Kraft dissing mayonnaise and tried to introduce his own counter-ad. Shortly thereafter, Miracle Whip bought ad time during Stephen's show and ran three ads with new narration taunting Stephen by name.

* Dos Equis beer has [[The Most Interesting Man in the World]], who shows what can happen when this trope is played with a wink and a nudge (pure concentrated '''awesome.''')

* Dos Equis beer has [[The Most Interesting Man in the World]], who shows what can happen when this trope is played with a wink and a nudge (pure concentrated '''awesome''').

* Played straight in ads for Smirnoff Ice, which feature model-perfect twentysomething hipsters throwing impromptu raves in unlikely places such as subway cars and abandoned gas stations, with Smirnoff Ice as the drink of choice.

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=== Technology ===

* There's a series of digital camera ads with former "That '70s Show" star Ashton Kutcher disrupting various hip functions, lately a fashion show - there's a thin line between 'cool' and 'tool'.

* There's a series of digital camera ads with former ''[[That '70s Show]]'' star Ashton Kutcher disrupting various hip functions, lately a fashion show -- there's a thin line between "cool" and "tool".

== Parody Examples ==

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=== Live Action Film ===

* ''[[Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy]]'' has Sex Panther by Odeon. It's illegal in nine countries. It's made with bits of real panther, so you know it's good. {{spoiler|It smells like bigfoot's dick}}

* ''[[Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy]]'' has Sex Panther by Odeon. It's illegal in nine countries. It's made with bits of real panther, so you know it's good. {{spoiler|It smells like bigfoot's dick.}}