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** Notable Brand Xs include the Cold Ones series of beers; especially the Coldson Lite, who looks like a can of Coors Lite, yet whose name resembles Molson. Interestingly, Molson and Coors have since announced that they were merging together.
** This is doubly subverted with the Tandy computers. Tandy was a real brand, once, but Strong Bad's "Tandy 400" computer resembles nothing ever produced by it. Furthermore, its logo is a multicolored star with a bite taken out of it. In case the parody wasn't obvious yet, this same logo is later seen on obvious Macintosh lookalikes.
** But the exceptions can be pretty blatant. "[https://web.archive.org/web/20131031223632/http://www.homestarrunner.com/floatparade.html Let's sing a song of Pennzoil!]"
*** ...and sometimes it's part of the joke: In sbemail "caffeine", Strong Bad gets Strong Sad on a caffeine rush by "drop[ping] a couple of heaping spoonfuls of Sanka into [his] orange juice." Sanka is, of course, well-noted for being a decaffeinated coffee.
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* Averted in ''[[Penny Arcade]]'', where main characters Gabe and Tycho talk about the latest real-life video games constantly.
* ''[[Misfile]]'' has beer bottles and cans labeled "BEER". The author has stated that he doesn't drink and didn't want to depict any particular brand.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120521075941/http://www.danspulpit.com/God_does_not_believe_in_atheists.html This heavily narmed-up comic strip by Dan Nuckols] has a particularly charming example in which a character is seen reading pornography, but the author doesn't care to name the pornographic publication, nor is he comfortable depicting anything remotely suggestive on the cover. The result is a dull brown magazine with "PORN" written on it in big black letters.
* In ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'' strips 6 and 31, the party sees Durkon as a pack of Band-Aids, and a mind flayer sees Elan as a can of Diet Coke. When these were redone in higher resolution for the book ''Dungeon Crawlin' Fools'', Durkon became "Bandages" and Elan became "Diet Cola".
** In strip 711, Haley buys from cosmetics company Aton (A parody of Avon).
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* In the Czech Republic, in reaction to just about any advertisement for washing powders comparing their product with a "common washing powder", one company actually started making a washing powder of that name.
** Ditto for Russian washing powder with the same name, if it's not the same company.
* There are some generic store-brand beers that [https://web.archive.org/web/20131219092549/http://40ouncebeer.com/extrapicts/generic.jpg just have "beer" on the label.]
* There is also a brand of wine called "Cheap Red Wine", although it is meant as a gag (despite being a completely accurate description of the product).
* There is actually a drink ''called'' Brand X. At only 22% alcohol, it's a cheap knockoff of Brandy.
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