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== Advertising ==
* [[Apple]] ran [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8 one of the most infamous Dada ads of all time] in 1984, featuring a rather heavy-handed Orwellian caricature of their competitors (or something).
** It seems the ad was made just for the pun at the end. "1984 won't be like ''[[
*** Not at all. While the ad was Dada, the message wasn't: you don't have to be a government to own a computer.
* [[Perfume Commercial]]s have made this practically a cliche. It probably kicked off with a string of commercials in the late Eighties and early Nineties for the perfume Obsession. This was even lampshaded in ''[[The Golden Girls]].''
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* In Australia, there was a few ads that were made '''''intentionally''''' boring by showing one scene of someone smoking. The scene was actually probably less than a minute long but seemed like 3 minutes. In the end, we got the text "Smoking is very interesting". This is unusual for Australian PSAs because most of our PSAs tend to be a tad more [[Scare'Em Straight|direct]].
* Vodafone has a new add touting its new smartphone, it features people with fuzzy masks at a wedding for no clear reason. Whenever it comes up, people who see it wonder what it's trying to sell.
* [[Michael Jackson]]'s 1995 double album ''HIStory'', which featured one disc of greatest hits and another of new material, had a nearly four-minute long trailer made that ran in movie theaters. The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c93o05SrWzE trailer] turned out to be a short film in which masses of people welcome Jackson into a city as, apparently, a benevolent ruler and unveil a colossal statue of him. At no point is the actual product shown, described, or heard from, as its makers chose to use music from ''[[The Hunt for Red October]]'' instead. As Sean Weitner commented in a Flak Magazine [https://web.archive.org/web/20030304005841/http://www.flakmag.com/music/mj/videos2.html article], "[I]t's a video ''without original Jackson music''" (emphasis his).
* A certain Australian Toyota ad does this. Though we are told what the ad was for (a new sports car), that does not justify the anthropomorphic ninja cats kung-fu fighting against each other. [[Rule of Cool|Then again, maybe it doesn't need to be justified.]]
** [http://www.motorward.com/2011/09/video-toyota-prius-family-ad-is-creepy/ This ad], however, needs some justification for why Toyota believes an expedition to the deepest point in the [[Uncanny Valley]] will help them sell a car. And before that, they had an ad proclaiming that their new car [[Captain Obvious|is a car]], and a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E15PE7iGT0U Corolla campaign] inexplicably partnered with [[Vocaloid|Hatsune Miku]]. Maybe they just want people to forget about the "help the accelerator pedal has fallen and it can't get up" fiasco?
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== [[Stand-Up Comedy]] ==
* [[Ron White]] uses this trope in one of his comedy routines. He says perfume ads have become too complex for simple men like himself. Then he describes an over-the-top Dada Ad which ends with a man on fire and sensual woman saying, "I would know him in the dark." The punchline is, "What's the trick? He's ''on fire!"''
== [[Web Comics]] ==▼
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20081211145416/http://www.instantclassic.net/story.php?comicID=29 Parodied] in the prologue of Brian Carroll's web comic ''Instant Classic''.▼
== [[Web Original]] ==
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZyNBK6M6BQ The third Powerthirst ad] by [[Picnicface (series)|Picnicface]]. While the other two were fairly straight [[Testosterone Poisoning]]-driven tirades, this one...well...''Drink Powerthirst! Shoot the clouds! Hit Jesus! Strap him to a bull! JESUS RODEO, DEAD JESUS RODEO!''
* [[I'm a Marvel And I'm a DC|Lars M. Dusseldorf]] made a commercial for the 2011 Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo featuring random dancers, a song with lyrics that constantly repeated, "C2. E2.", and such phrases as, "Are C2 and E2 lost in a world without meaning? No. C2E2 is '''life!'''"
▲== [[Web Comics]] ==
▲* [https://web.archive.org/web/20081211145416/http://www.instantclassic.net/story.php?comicID=29 Parodied] in the prologue of Brian Carroll's web comic ''Instant Classic''.
* ''[[Cracked.com]]'' has articles about [http://www.cracked.com/article_17574_7-insane-ads-that-have-no-clue-what-theyre-selling.html 7 such ads] and [http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-obnoxious-ads-that-donE28099t-even-try-to-sell-their-products/ 6 more].
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