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* The sitcom ''[[Better Off Ted]]'': Each episode included a fake commercial for the fictitious Veridian Dynamics company, the workplace setting for the show.

* The ''30Rock'' episode "Gavin Volure" has one. Gavin Volure (Steven Martin) tries to justify creating a fake corporation by saying that the commercial never said what the company does. Indeed it's just a random assortment of footage and words.

* ''[[iCarly]]'': ''The Sack'' is a dead-on spoof on the many uses of the sleeved blanket '''Snuggies''', but sans the sleeves. [[Hilarity Ensues]].

* ''[[The Gruen Transfer]]'''s segment "The Pitch", in which two advertising agencies compete to "sell the unsellable", making commercials for things such as whale meat and holidays to Baghdad.

* ''[[The Colbert Report]]'': [http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/224789/april-16-2009/the-colbert-coalition-s-anti-gay-marriage-ad Stephen made his own version of an anti gay marriage ad.]

* [[That Mitchell and Webb Look]], like many sketch shows, have done a couples of these. Notably cressps;

Mitchell: That doesn't ''make any sense''! }}

* [[KYTV]], being a spoof on commercial satellite TV, featured a handful of parody commercials in every episode, as did its predecessor, ''Radio Active.''

* A ''real'' commercial example: PayAttention.org puts out political ads with stereotypical images of waving flags, eagles, happy families, or whatever - only to reveal that the candidate being promoted is, say, a bag of leaves.

* In the [[Whateley Universe]] story "Tales of the MCO", the characters are sitting around watching said television show and [[MS Ting]] it. It has parody commercials for upcoming movies. The Ivory-Merchant production of "Hulk 1809" and the Oliver Stone-directed "Foucault's Pendulum". And fake cereal ads.

* Ursula Vernon got a section in her gallery for this stuff. Behold "[http://www.redwombatstudio.com/wpg2?g2_itemId=233 Red Wombat Tea Co.]".

* The '''Powerthirst''' series of commercials, now [[Defictionalized]].