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* There's a laundry detergent advertised in Canada that brags about its "acti-lift technology". |
* There's a laundry detergent advertised in Canada that brags about its "acti-lift technology". |
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* It gotten to the point where they slip it into Real Estate adverts. A ad for a real estate development in Taichung, Taiwan, mentions its brand new Design for Oxygenated Living—i.e. you can open the windows and let fresh air in. |
* It gotten to the point where they slip it into Real Estate adverts. A ad for a real estate development in Taichung, Taiwan, mentions its brand new Design for Oxygenated Living—i.e. you can open the windows and let fresh air in. |
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⚫ | * A German [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8W0CxWYkbo advert] for Alpecin caffein-based anti-baldness shampoo: It features a sciency-looking guy in a very tidy laboratory attesting to the product's effectiveness by playing with the length of a sine wave (representing the growth phases of a man's hair as a function of his age) on a computer screen.<ref>Understanding the original German provides little further information and makes it no more credible</ref> He's wearing a white coat so he clearly must know what he's on about. |
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== Live-Action TV == |
== Live-Action TV == |
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* Mocked repeatedly on ''[[Target Women]]'', especially in the skin-care installment. |
* Mocked repeatedly on ''[[Target Women]]'', especially in the skin-care installment. |
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{{quote|"As you can see, it passes through the epidermis, dermis, seven non-existent layers of skin and right down to the marbles."}} |
{{quote|"As you can see, it passes through the epidermis, dermis, seven non-existent layers of skin and right down to the marbles."}} |
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⚫ | * A German [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8W0CxWYkbo advert] for Alpecin caffein-based anti-baldness shampoo: It features a sciency-looking guy in a very tidy laboratory attesting to the product's effectiveness by playing with the length of a sine wave (representing the growth phases of a man's hair as a function of his age) on a computer screen.<ref>Understanding the original German provides little further information and makes it no more credible</ref> He's wearing a white coat so he clearly must know what he's on about. |
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== Real Life == |
== Real Life == |