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A type of [[Stylistic Suck]].
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▲== [[Comics]] ==
* ''[[The Far Side]]'': I cuss, you cuss, we all cuss for asparagus! ▼
* [[Marvel]]'s Roxxon Oil corporation, in the 1989 "Marvel: A Year in Review" (which was written as an in-universe magazine), had a big ad where in parody of the Exxon Valdez spill, their slogan was "There's plenty more where that came from."
* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in [http://garfield.nfshost.com/2001/03/17/ this] ''[[Garfield]]'' strip.▼
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* ''[[Turnabout Storm]]'' has [[Ace Attorney|Phoenix]] blaming the slow business on the stupid slogan his assistant Maya came up with for his law office: ''"Wright & Co. Office: Defending you like it's nuttin' baby!"''. Later on this becomes [[Trapped in Another World|the least of his problems]].
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== [[Film]] ==
* In [[Bill Murray]]'s ''[[Scrooged]]'', his television network has the cringe-inducing Christmas slogan "Yule love it!"
** A bit of [[Truth in Television]] mixed with a touch of [[Take That]]; [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]'s slogan during the 1985-1986 season (when ''Scrooged'' was being filmed) was "You'll Love it!". Lack of punniness aside, it wasn't much better.
* ''[[Idiocracy]]'': "Brawndo. It's got electrolytes!"
** "Carl's Jr. Fuck you, I'm eating."
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== [[Live
* The Wesayso Corporation on ''[[Dinosaurs]]'': "WESAYSO: We'll do what's right, if you leave us alone," "WESAYSO: We don't like to have our feelings hurt" and "WESAYSO: We know where you live."
* A sketch on ''[[That Mitchell and Webb Look]]'' featured an advertising company which specialized in creating slogans that simply described what a company did in a slightly irritating way.
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* ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' "Conquistador Coffee" sketch. An ad writer comes up with campaign slogans such as "Conquistador Coffee brings a new meaning to the word vomit" and "The tingling fresh coffee which brings you exciting new cholera, mange, dropsy, the clap, hard pad and athlete's head. From the House of Conquistador". And, from an unrelated [[Parody Commercial]]: "Buy Whizzo Butter and go to Heaven!"
* ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'': "Nut-rific, it does nut taste good!"
** Most (if not all) of ''Saturday Night Live'''s fake commercials (and sometimes, the station
* ''[[My Name Is Earl]]'' - in the backstory Earl and Randy went to the Right Choice Ranch for troubled youth, which went through a series of [[Accidental Innuendo]] slogans that imply pedophilia: "Touching Bad Boys Since 1963" - "Bringing Boys To Their Knees Since 1963" - "Forcing Boys To Turn Around Since 1963" - "We Don't Do Anything Inappropriate to The Boys"
* A faux commercial on the BBC comedy ''The Goodies'' has a spot for Bristo's gravy in which "Tie Me Kangaroo Down" songwriter Rolf Harris (Graeme Garden) comes home for dinner at his mum's (Tim Brooke-Taylor), takes a bite of his dinner with the gravy and keels over dead. The tagline: "Bristo's...gets rid of Rolf Harrises fast!"
* In ''[[30
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▲* ''[[The Far Side]]'': I cuss, you cuss, we all cuss for asparagus!
* Buffalo, NY car dealer "Mike Barney Nissan" has the slogan "[http://www.mikebarneynissan.com/current-ad.html Awesome Cars, Great Dealership... Lousy Jingle]".▼
▲* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in [http://garfield.nfshost.com/2001/03/17/ this]{{Dead link}} ''[[Garfield]]'' strip.
* Slogan of 105.9, the classic rock radio station in Chicago: "Of all the radio stations in Chicago... we're one of them." ▼
* "Love food? Think Arby's!" was this, right? I mean, it HAD to be this...▼
* The webpage banner for the ''[[Pokémon]]'' fansite [http://www.pokecommunity.com The PokéCommunity] commonly displays a sentence (or a ''slight'' variation of it) above the forums, which states "We Are STILL Working On A Better Slogan." Cue several new users eagerly sending in submissions of possible new slogans to the higher-ups on the site staff. <ref> If one reads the site's [http://www.pokecommunity.com/faq.php?faq=pokecommunity_faq#faq_slogan FAQ section], one will learn that "We Are STILL Working On A Better Slogan" [[Don't Explain the Joke|IS the website's slogan.]]</ref>▼
* The launch ad campaign for the 2012 Toyota Yaris: [[Captain Obvious|"It's a car!"]]▼
* A local Atlanta furniture dealer, Sofa King, has billboards touting "Our prices are Sofa King low." Think about that a second.▼
* Atlanta sports talk radio station WCNN (680 "The Fan") had a series of spots for morning host Christopher Rude's show "The Rude Awakening" which touted him as "the least interesting man in Atlanta radio" (apeing Dos Equus beer's Most Interesting Man In The World). Among the attributes: "He doesn't look for Waldo...Waldo looks for him," "When he takes his shirt off, kittens die" and "His vomit is used as soup in fine French restaurants."▼
* Carlton & United Beverages ran an advertising campaign for Carlton Draught lager, with the slogan "Made From Beer". ▼
** The ad campaign parodied old-fashioned Australian beer advertising of the '70's and '80's, using cliche images such as draught horses working in golden fields and phrases such as "Pulled By Horses".▼
* Also from the '70's in Australia, the prosaic slogan from a famous ad for a non-alcoholic beverage called Clayton's - "The drink you have when you're not having a drink". This became so popular (the ad and slogan, not the drink) that "Clayton's" became a standard colloquialism for "ersatz", "fake", or "inauthentic".▼
== [[Theatre]] ==
* In ''[[Of Thee I Sing]]'', the various campaign slogans waved in "Wintergreen for President" range from basic ("Win With Wintergreen") to idiotic ("A Vote for Wintergreen Is a Vote for Wintergreen") to dubious ("Wintergreen--The Flavor Lasts") to cynical ("He Kept Us Out of Jail").
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{{quote|Scrab cakes: it will cost you an arm and a leg!
Soulstorm Brew, new recipe: twice the bones, twice the taste, twice the price! }}
* In ''[[Megatraveller]]'', SMIRC (The Spinward Marches Interplanetary Raiding Corporation, aka organized ''space pirates'') have the slogan "We have what it takes to take what you have!"
* In ''[[Saints Row 2]]'' a radio commercial for Ship It decides on this thanks to using a Slavic criminal named Vlad as a spokesman who attempts to "encourage" buyers with phrases like "If you love human trafficking as much as I do, you're going to need a boat" ("What do you mean human trafficking is illegal? How do these ugly men have wives?") "You will come buy boat at Ship It or I'll have your family killed"
** "Ship It - bad at marketing, great at boats!"
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* ''[[Subnormality]]'' - [http://www.viruscomix.com/page459.html ZAP Protein Snack]: "Don't buy it - it's a ripoff!!"
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* French canadian Francois Perusse's radio skits ''Les Deux Minutes du Peuple'' frequently feature those. Notable example includes community radio CDKC (loosely translates from french to "broken CD") that uses a different one with every station ID and the man calling various businesses over the phone, each one [[Hurricane of Puns|answering with their slogan.]]
** "CDKC, one antenna, one listener. And sometimes just one antenna."
== [[Real Life]] ==
▲* Buffalo, NY car dealer "Mike Barney Nissan" has the slogan "[
▲* Slogan of 105.9, the classic rock radio station in Chicago: "Of all the radio stations in Chicago... we're one of them."
▲* The webpage banner for the ''[[Pokémon]]'' fansite [http://www.pokecommunity.com The PokéCommunity] commonly displays a sentence (or a ''slight'' variation of it) above the forums, which states "We Are STILL Working On A Better Slogan." Cue several new users eagerly sending in submissions of possible new slogans to the higher-ups on the site staff.
▲* The launch ad campaign for the 2012 Toyota Yaris: [[Captain Obvious|"It's a car!"]]
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▲* Atlanta sports talk radio station WCNN (680 "The Fan") had a series of spots for morning host Christopher Rude's show "The Rude Awakening" which touted him as "the least interesting man in Atlanta radio" (apeing Dos Equus beer's Most Interesting Man In The World). Among the attributes: "He doesn't look for Waldo...Waldo looks for him," "When he takes his shirt off, kittens die" and "His vomit is used as soup in fine French restaurants."
▲* Carlton & United Beverages ran an advertising campaign for Carlton Draught lager, with the slogan "Made From Beer".
▲** The ad campaign parodied old-fashioned Australian beer advertising of the '
▲* Also from the '
* In 1992 fast food chain Rax used the slogan "You can eat here". The chain would file for bankruptcy months later.
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