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* Both ''[[Mad TV]]'' and ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' have employed this concept for years, advertising bogus products in order to make fun of various [[Advertising Tropes]] or make fun of a current event (such as the cold opening on the Jonah Hill episode from season 33 where disgraced governor Eliot Spitzer [Bill Hader] advertises a new law firm that deals with sexual court cases, such as injuries from faulty vibrators, U.S. customs seizing German porn, and slip and falls in gay bath houses). For SNL, "[[Happy Fun Ball]]" is probably the best-known; ''[[Mad TV]]'', meanwhile, featured a plush toy called "Tickle Me Emo", an angsty, stereotypically emo version of Elmo from Sesame Street ("You don't understand what I'm going through!"). Other sketch shows, like ''Fridays'', ''[[In Living Color]]'', ''WB's Hype'', and ''[[SCTV]]'' have done fake commercials, though it can be safe to say ''SNL'' and ''[[Mad TV]]'' have the most memorable parodies.

** "Hi, I'm Sam Waterson... [http://www.hulu.com/watch/2340/saturday-night-live-old-glory Robots are everywhere...]"

** [[The Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer]] sketches were presented with a listing of fictional sponsors ("Brought to you by Dog Assassin. When you can't bear to put him to sleep, maybe it's time to call Dog Assassin!")

** Inverted by the rare spoof commercial to spawn a ''real'' product. A 1990 SNL spot pitched the "Chia Head," a sort of Chia Pet treatment to replace lost hair. Five years later, Joseph Enterprises, the novelty's maker, began selling ''actual'' Chia Heads modeled after various cartoon characters... and later a version in "tribute" to [[Barack Obama]].

* [http://www.egscomics.com/backgrounds.page Wallpaper collection] of ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' includes "Shrink Soda" ads (note that [[The Nudifier|the clothes are unaffected]]). In somehow related DES comics, [[Mad Artist|Tori Vector]] once [http://danshive.deviantart.com/art/Some-Comic-of-Mine-009-81483916 advertised] one of [[Mad Scientist|Amanda]]'s [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|inventions]] (just don't show [[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs|this]] to [[Xkcd|Randall Munroe]]).

* ''[[Cyanide & Happiness]]'' in its usual style [http://www.explosm.net/comics/1797/ parodies] overblown commercials.

* ''[[mezzacotta]]'' has a set of fake ads. Such as: "Visit Finländ. [[Understatement|Sömetimes is snöws]].", "[[Tetris|Tet]][[risk]]: [[X Meets Y|the board game of]] strategic [[A Worldwide Punomenon|block]] conquest", etc.

 

* In the [[Whateley Universe]] story "Tales of the MCO", the characters are sitting around watching said television show and [[MSTing]] 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.

* [[Banana-nana-Ninja!]]'s Feast Master story arc has Sudoku giving an infomercial-style riff about the Omni-Functional Kitchen Gadget on a colosseum big-screen.

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

* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4EEn6KmFUc Lucky Candy commercial] [[Easter Egg]] at the end of [[Bowser's Kingdom]] episode 5.