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*** 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|Perfume commercials]] 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]].''
** This trope has come full circle now; a savvy viewer can ''always'' tell a perfume commercial because ''it has nothing to do with perfume'', or anything else, for that matter.
* The [[Dreamcast]] adverts are fairly notorious for having nothing to do with anything - all they feature is people with spiral hair, you don't even get to see the console itself. Somewhat of a bitter 'if only' with Dreamcast fans.
* 2008 USA Presidential candidate Mike Gravel ran ads like this; one had him [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rZdAB4V_j8 standing by a lake before tossing a rock in and walking off], another had him lighting a campfire. No one could figure it out. It sure was [[Nightmare Fuel|freaking creepy]], though; [[The Daily Show|Jon Stewart]] remarked that [[The Ring|seven days after you view the ad, you will die]].
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** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z47KUNmmCng&feature=related The] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_0-UDBjcnE&feature=related legendary] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-jGRXTh1eg&feature=grec_index Flat] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGhassFSM9k&feature=related Eric] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLJXRPZYS20&feature=related ads].
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCzsEgUcWfU Kevin the Hamster.] Is it any wonder this one got banned? [[Black Comedy|Still funny, though.]]
* U.S. and European ads for the [[
** The initial run of adverts didn't even feature the name of the product, just the URL www.thisisliving.tv. As a result, many people assumed they were intended to advertise the satellite channel Living, especially as the content of the ads seemed to focus on some kind of [[Soap Opera]].
* Those Sprite commercials where the flowers have mouths, green sumo wrestlers hit each other, and other strange things occur. It doesn't really make you want to drink Sprite.
** Sprite had a series of ads called "sublymonal messages" which was just bizarre, randomly skipping images focusing on odd uses of lemons and limes (or at least green and yellow things).
*** Which is MUCH better than the newer commercial, where people drink Sprite, running into each other, and ''[[Nightmare Fuel|exploding.]]''
*** Heck, the initial commercial using the exploding water concept was even worse: It had a guy doing a backflip on an asphalt basketball court and preparing to ''land on his back'', exploding into liquid only upon contact with the ground!
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* There was a commercial for Mini cooper cars where the car drives into a parking lot and was attacked by living shopping trolleys.
* 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).
* 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.]]
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* [[Neal Boortz]] [http://boortz.com/nealz_nuze/2009/06/is-there-anyone-out-there.html expresses his confusion at the Lexis IS] ads.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZyNBK6M6BQ The third Powerthirst ad] by [[
* [[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!'''"
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