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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9adXo8fIVhM In this Cap'n Crunch commercial,] a martial arts instructor is knocked over and sees pieces of Cap'n Crunch spin around his head.
* In the late 80s/early 90s, the Swedish Chef of [[The Muppets]] fame had his own breakfast cereal, Croonchy Stars. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrSGAZNMQOA This commercial] features the circling stars version of this gag while showing the Chef making a batch of Croonchy Stars in "the Muppet Test Kitchen".
{{quote|'''Narrator:''' It seemed impossible, but then
* Cookie Crisp makes people have cookies for breakfast, but people say cookies are not for breakfast, but then say that cookies are for breakfast. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=a6EO2zVsIfs This] commercial uses bird sound effects when the teacher gets her taste of Cookie Crisp.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVSVeepDEHs&feature=related This] [[McDonald's]] commercial used bird sound effects when Birdie crashed after she failed to land.
{{quote|'''Birdie''': Now who's gonna teach me how to land?}}
▲== Anime & Manga ==
* In [[Dr. Slump]] the characters comment on that: "Wait, it's American, we're Japanese", and shoo out the birds, who swear as they fly away.
* In ''[[Sakura Taisen|Sakura Taisen: Ecole de Paris]]'', Erica gets stunned several times; each time she gets a "halo" of little fluttering angels, and remarks on them.
* Mahoro's circling birdies in ''[[Mahoromatic]]'' apparently are real, as they can be seen by other characters.
** Although they appear when she's asleep, and continually multiply until she wakes up, leading to some... awkward situations when Suguru decides to observe her when she's dozing off.
*** That may have been ''
** At one point in the second season, Mahoro's birdies are seen to re-enter her head when she wakes up. Only five this time, though.
** Near the end of the manga, it is explained that {{spoiler|Matthew (actually named "Arcadia Matthew Faye Ray") is an artificial intelligence, the birdies are part of her "sleep program", and that Mahoro was patterned after Matthew and/or the creator of Matthew, "Mahoro Matthew Faye Ray").}}
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