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This page features ads that are "[[Serious Business]]." It should be noted that in many of these ads, the fact that people are taking to product so seriously is the intended joke.
* There's a Brazilian beer ad where we have the captain of a sinking ship trying to salvage four passengers. They ask if they can take their beer box with them. After the captain informs there will not be enough room for them and the box, they send him and all other survivors away, just so they can stay with the beer box. ''While they stand on a freaking sinking ship''. Cut to the guys sitting on an iceberg ([[Convection, Schmonvection|unexplainably next to a tropical coastline]]) with a seal which they use to make the beer chill faster. If this isn't [[Serious Business]], then I guess these guys had hung around with [[The Simpsons (animation)|Barney Gumble]] before.
** [[Fridge Logic|What kind of ship has enough room for a case of beer but not four people?]] You'd think people on a sinking ship would be pretty understanding about having to sit in the engine room or in the mess hall...
*** If they're on a sinking ship, they're probably escaping into life boats, which are quite small, so there conceivably wouldn't be room for four people and a beer box.
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* Bridgestone Tires made commercials with a Mad-Max-esque world where a man would rather leave his wife behind than give up his Bridgestone Tires.
* Parodied in a series of commercials for Allied Discount Tires, a statewide tire chain in Florida. The pitchman, standing in front of a green-screen image of an Allied Discount Tire outlet, would state it outright that buying tired was nothing special: "You don't ever come into a tire store and say 'My neighbor has some real nice tires!' Tires don't do nothin' for your social status. You go, they go, you stop, they stop. They don't mean nothin'. You come in, you won't find no coffee or donuts. Hell, you might not even find a place to sit down!? But what you will find are tires, cheap!".
* A recent{{when}} deoderant commercial features several jobs such as the secret service, a surgeon, and a fireman at work and saying "when you're under pressure, you're deoderant is too weak" implying that smelling good should be placed above saving lives.
** Or that a person trapped in a burning building would turn down a rescuer with a mild body odor.
* Clearly, Nissan wants to believe that when selling a new car, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMT_OQEiLIU&feature=player_embedded donuts] are [[Serious Business]].
* UPS combine this Trope with [[Unstoppable Mailman]]; they even [[Lampshade Hanging|
* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJHpUvK934s No! Not my Corn Pooooooooooooooooooooooooops!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!]"
* Let's not a forget Head and Shoulders. Someone would spot the man/woman of their dreams and upon seeing him/her scratch their head, would completely pass him/her by.
** The newest{{when}} ads still use this concept. Characters with dandruff are scared out of their minds of scratching their scalp for fear of being shunned.
* Inverted with the line "I've fallen and I can't get up!" from [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQlpDiXPZHQ the LifeLine emergency medical pendant commercial], which was subject to [[Memetic Mutation]]. According to [[Bill Bryson]]'s ''At Home'', 85% of people who die in stair-related injuries are over 65, ''because they fall and they can't get up''. When the slogan became the property of the similar Life Alert company, they used it in a much less campy manner. They were not above cutting a deal with Hallmark to use the phrase in sound-based greeting cards, though.
* The [[Sega Saturn]] was [[Segata Sanshiro]]'s way of life. If you didn't play it, he ''beat the living crap out of you''.
* Blizzard's commercials for their 2018 ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' expansion shows players alienating other players simply because they favor the opposing faction. The best is [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0nREe8B1qI probably this one], where two young parents - one an Alliance player, the other a Horde player - are each trying to persuade their infant son to their side.
** What is truly ironic is, ''Battle for Azeroth'' seems to have ''united'' actual players more than ever, but not in the way Blizzard would have liked. What almost all of them agree on is the scorn they have for the sloppy plot and storytelling, character developing, mechanics...
* Several commercials for the Visa Check Card in 1997 showed people who were so serious about needing ID before accepting a check as payment that they wouldn't do so even when the customer's identity was pretty obvious. In one, [[Bob Dole]] needed one to pay with a check in his home town. In another, [[James Bond]] needs one in a spy-exclusive nightclub that requires a retina scan, voice scan, and fingerprint scan simply to get into. In yet another, [[Shirley MacLaine]] meets a woman who was her best friend in ''multiple'' past lives; she still needs an ID before accepting her check.
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