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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!
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* 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 Rock|Thirty Rock]]'', the Sheinhardt Wig company has the slogan "Not Poisoning Rivers Since 1997."
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
* Buffalo, NY car dealer "Mike Barney Nissan" has the slogan "[http://www.mikebarneynissan.com/current-ad.html Awesome Cars, Great Dealership... Lousy Jingle]".▼
* 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".▼
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* 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!"
== Webcomics ==
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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 "[http://www.mikebarneynissan.com/current-ad.html Awesome Cars, Great Dealership... Lousy Jingle]".
▲* 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".
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