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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 [http://www.flakmag.com/music/mj/videos2.html article], "[I]t's a video ''without original Jackson music''" (emphasis his).

* [[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?