Refuge in Audacity/Advertising
Advertising examples of Refuge in Audacity.
- Hulu commercials parodied this trope, with spots featuring Seth MacFarlane (slipping from his normal voice [which is also the voice he uses for Brian the dog] to the voices he uses for Peter, Stewie, and Quagmire), Denis Leary, Eliza Dushku, and Alec Baldwin respectively announcing that they are aliens set on turning human brains to mush with TV, with the new Hulu site as their latest and greatest brain-rot delivery system.
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Hulu Tagline: An evil plot to destroy the world. Enjoy. |
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- A pseudo-documentary even "exposed" the conspiracy.
- If TV Tropes is part of their sinister plot, we're all doomed! DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED!
- The Outpost.com Superbowl ads featured them trying to get people to remember their logo through such activities as shooting a hamster from a cannon through the O of their logo (they missed repeatedly), getting a school marching band to form their logo on the field (and then releasing wolverines), and tattooing their logo on the foreheads of children in a preschool classroom. Of course, today everyone remembers the commercial, but not the company.
- The Burger King, full stop. Special mention goes to the commercial where they flat out admit they're ripping off McDonald's' latest breakfast something-or-another, by creating a commercial where the King himself breaks into McDonald's' headquarters to steal the breakfast something-or-another then flee on motorcycle.