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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXKq6wF67AU This ad against] [[Digital Piracy Is Evil|digital piracy]] embodies this trope for the Spanish-speaking cinema audiences. Even worse in some dubbed version where they add dramatic music...
* There's an "Immigration rap" where two guys rap about how to become a U.S. citizen. The best part is probably "Are-you-a drug dee-al-er?" Who says '''[[Implausible Deniability|yes]]'''!?
* In Canada, there was a series of well-made ads with relatively high production values about the hazards of unsafe driving. The impact (pun intended) came from people not expecting to ''see'' the impact; while we don't from inside the car, we do get to see a Mack truck make hash out of one half of the little midsize car. The following ads show the aftermath: physical therapy (for the girlfriend of the driver), a funeral (for the driver's little brother), a trial for the driver of the car... All chilling. Then someone noticed that [[Hey, It's That Guy!|the guy playing the driver is]] the [[Villain Protagonist]] from an older commercial about how to avoid having your car stolen, and people started asking if the car that got smashed was the same one he stole.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5bju8ybvSs& "Thank You Sarah Palin"].
* The Magic Bullet To Go infomercial. While the first had the distinction of colourful, wacky characters congregating over a small machine after a party the previous night, it didn't have Dino. Dino makes his first appearance in the To Go infomercial, and the actor playing him is so bad that it makes every line top-grade Narm fuel. Just [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nmEqSD_MBQ check out] the way he says "Whoa! That is magic." at 3:49.
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-yGTrd4Z7I This old British PSA from the late 1970s] that warned children not to play in electrical substations could either be considered hilariously Narmy or pure horror.
* A fairly well-known healthcare system in metropolitan Detroit has, as of late, become known not for the quality of their medical services, but for their [https://www.beaumonthospitals.com/ horribly over-the-top commercials,] which skip right past ~Scare 'Em Straight~ and into Narm territory. These gems come complete with dim lighting, silently frowning (or gowned and masked) medical staff, pounding [[Scare Chord]] music and a deadly serious voiceover actor reading lines like "Choosing a hospital could be the most important decision you'll ever make" and "It's your heart/eyes/life/whatever... Do you have a Beaumont doctor?" The general effect of the commercials has been to generate an epidemic of spontaneous gluteal detachment secondary to laughter overdose in the viewing population. And then they promptly go get treated somewhere that doesn't sound like a [[Vincent Price]] film gone wrong.
* One [[Digital Piracy Is Evil|anti-piracy]] advert (found at the end of ''[[
** I believe you are refering to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wssfl22Hhp4 this] ad. Remember, "Piracy funds organized crime!"
* The anti-piracy ad [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up863eQKGUI Don't Copy That Floppy].
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{{quote| Narrator: * ominously* If it had legs... maybe you could tie them together... and capture it. But it doesn't... so you can't. ''Boa''.}}
* The ad campaign for the [[For the Evulz|Bionicle Piraka]]. The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZXBDIMBKm4 first ad] is kinda cool, even with ([[Mundane Made Awesome|or because of]]) Thok blowing a presumably Antidermis bubble; but as soon as the [[Hip Hop|painfully gangsta]] announcer opens his mouth, it's hilarious. And even more hilarious is the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1CTPC02n0c Piraka Rap]. The video isn't official, but the music is.
* War Amps, the Canadian amputee organization, had the infamous [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GN9dANKe_Y PLAYSAFE] commercials staring [
* Book commercials in general, or at least the ones that try to adapt the contents to live action. They're often plagued by cheesy narration over [[Special Effect Failure|exceedingly low budget footage]] that make them look more like bargain-bin [[DVD]] movies than [[Literature]].
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spL77iqRl7s This Orangina ad]. Before, it was simply [[Furry Fandom]] [[Fetish Fuel]] ramped [[Up to Eleven]]. But this muscled puma looks silly.
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