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Also expect the "before" to be something you never thought of as a problem before, or is only a problem if you're the kind of person who should not be out in public without a government-appointed handler. Particularly, when the product is a time-saving kitchen gadget, the 'before' shot shows a level of utter incompetence that's often jarring -- for more on this, see [[Too Incompetent to Operate A Blanket]].
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* Pick an [[Infomercial]]. Any informercial.
* Pick one of those "As Seen On TV" type ads. Such as the lady who, in supposedly hot weather, steps right into her car and ''puts her hands on the steering wheel''. You deserve to have your hand burned, lady.
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* RCN commercials in the DC Metro area are exactly like this, comparing other companies to a 1950s era of unreliability in terms of TV, phone and Internet connections (complete with black-and-white versus RCN's high-color happy fun land of speedy connections). Very annoying when you see them at EVERY. COMMERCIAL. BREAK.
** These commercials vaguely ring a bell, but I have no idea what RCN is.
** A cable provider; '''every''' cable or satellite provider tries to compare other ways of getting TV to be incredibly complicated to install, with customer service that is presented as harder than the American tax code to talk to a competent person to fix their problem. [[Cable
* "Well, either you're closing your eyes / To a situation you do not wish to acknowledge / Or you are not aware of the caliber of disaster indicated / By the presence of a pool table in your community." Professor Harold Hill, [[The Music Man]].
* ''Every'' commercial that has ''ever'' included the question "Has this ever happened to you?", and the often-parodied old-fashioned vaccuum cleaner salesman.
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** Proactiv, the acne treatment, uses this in their before/after images. Before, the picture is taken like a passport photo: full-frontal, no smile, dull expression, either with fluorescent lighting or not enough lighting. The after images always have the head tilted slightly to one side, adding a little more personality, with a happy expression and with better lighting.
* One infomercial for a magnetic pen medallion tried to demonstrate how difficult and inconvenient normal pens are. One part of the advertisement attempted to demonstrate how "impossible" the action of ''putting a cap on a pen'' was.
** Well, in their defense, the tip ''was'' [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|slightly slippery]].
* Snuggies are sold under the principle that normal blankets [[Too Incompetent to Operate A Blanket|are too hard to use]].
** And also under the principle that hooded sweatshirts do not exist at all. And under the principle that "one size fits all" will work for something that's got sleeves AND legs. There's going to be a lot of extra cloth somewhere... And you're going to trip on it.
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