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** Honeycomb commercials from [[The Eighties]] featured large people (including some famous professional wrestlers) breaking-and-entering into the Honeycomb Hideout, demanding a big cereal to match their stature. They were rewarded, not with an arrest warrant for trespassing or a frightened hideout-owner shooting the intruder, but with a song assuring them that Honeycomb is not small, no no no.

*** [[The Onion]] used to have an article parodying this, wherein Bill Gates crashed into the Honeycomb Hideout and demanded, "I'm the head of a biiiiig software company! And I want a biiiiiiig cereal!"

** A straighter example was Op. MUNCHIES. The kids and their villains spend the episode at the supermarket fighting over the last box of Rainbow Munchies cereal.

* Kellogg's Crunchy Nut adverts, unusual in that they're targeted at adults, which portray Crunchy Nut eaters as addicts desperate for a fix.

* There's a new ad circulating for Tony Hawk sports gear (mostly bikes) which feature kids on a tour of the factory suddenly break formation, hop on something with wheels and ride it out the door, much to the chagrin of their [[Straw Loser|"lame"]] tour guide. Nevermind the fact that this is robbery, nevermind the fact that "don't touch anything" is a perfectly legitimate request when you're on a tour, mostly for this exact reason, nevermind the fact that this dude was nice enough to give them a tour of his fracking factory. Stick it to the man! Also the economy, ethics and everything your mother ever taught you.

* In a "Pepsi-Cola" ad students ransacked their teacher's stash of Pepsi-Cola and wouldn't confess, so the teacher threatens to kick them all out of school. One brave soul stands up and says "[[I Am Spartacus|It was me]]". Following the logic of the moment, another student stands up, as if to follow his comrade's example, and says..."That was him." All the other students proceed to tell on the first one as well.

* There is a Starburst commercial which has a guy eating some Starburst when he sees his friends in the park. The candy tells him they'll want him to share... but what if they weren't his friends? It then tells him to throw his friend's ice cream, dump their things onto the grass, and rip their clothes.

* [[Inverted]] in a series of ads for a line of jello marketed to adults. The parents come up with various ways to punish their children for stealing their snacks, such as terrorizing them with a 'Chocobeast' or a thinly-veiled threat presented as a tale of a little princess whose favorite things disappear forever. One commercial is simply an [[Imagine Spot]] where the boy pictures being turned out onto the street over stealing the dessert.

* This trope was parodied in an episode of ''[[Robot Chicken]]'', where cereal mascots re-enact ''[[Scarface]]''. They make a living smuggling sugar -- which they inhale. At one point, the "Stix Bunny" says, "Do you know how rich I'm gonna get selling all this cocaine- I mean, sugar! I meant to say, sugar. Okay?"

** [[Robot Chicken]] also parodied the Flinstones' "Pebbles" commercials: "Dammit Fred, all I wanted was some of your fucking cereal!"

* In the same vein as the above, ''[[Ratchet and Clank Future A Crack In Time]]'' has a computer voice brainwashing a local community to do Nefarious' bidding, with lines like "Dr. Nefarious is ''wonderful''." One line in particular is "If you were down to your last stick of gum, and Dr. Nefarious asked for it, you would give him the gum."

* In an article for [[The Onion]] (which article, sadly, is no longer available), Bill Gates crashed into the Honeycomb Hideout and demanded, "I'm the head of a biiiiig software company! And I want a biiiiiiig cereal!"