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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''"First, there is the sequence where someone is shown trying to unsuccessfully impale the cap of a normal pen, which suggests not only a lack of familiarity with pens, but also the visual-spatial reasoning ability of a pot-smoking chimp."''
|''[[Cracked.com]]'' [http://www.cracked.com/article_15768_as-seen-on-tv-10-most-laughably-misleading-ads.html "The 10 Most Laughably Misleading Ads"]}}
There are people in this world who take incompetence to an art form. You know who we're talking about; people who [[Major Minor Inconvenience|cannot be trusted to use scissors, cut themselves to ribbons when they try to use a potato peeler, and cannot even use a blanket without help]]. How can such utterly incompetent people make a living in this world?
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*** [[Too Dumb to Live|And if that's still too hard for you...]]
* A minor example: An ad for Swiffer dusters shows a person using an ordinary feather duster... by pounding it up and down on various surfaces, kicking up an unbelievable cloud of dust. Has any one in history used a feather duster in this fashion? Except to film a stupid commercial or get back at a neat freak?
* The Flash Dustmagnet is basically a flexible feather duster that allows you to dust around things. Invaluable since, as the advert shows, the only alternative is to clutch the entire contents of a shelf to your chest with one hand; while waving a conventional duster ineffectually in the vague direction of the shelf with the other. ▼
* The Brazilian Polishop is infamous when it comes to this trope. We got people who can't use a toothbrush, to people who can't peel a fruit without throwing the fruit through the nearest window, to people who can't PUT A DISH OVER A COMMON TABLE.
* There's a pic that made the rounds on gaming forums a while back: It was from a Best Buy, where the employees had affixed stickers to all the copies of ''Call of Duty 4: [[Modern Warfare]]'' for Xbox 360 that cheerfully offered to "Let us install it for you!"
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* Commercials for Bake Pops showcases people that can't operate ''cake'' but somehow can put cake on a stick with no problem.
* In the ad campaign for Subaru's 2010 Outback, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKBbgH2AU0Q one commercial] plays the aforementioned Snuggie commercial... until [[Commercial Switcheroo|a man takes a crowbar to the screen]] and drives off in his Outback, accompanied by the words, "Maybe you should get out more." They eventually created a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA3jEuqf3rI follow up] featuring a [[Parody Commercial]] called "Lap 'n Snack", for those who ''can't ballance a bowl on their knee''. It even had its own [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKYuqbTOY2k full commercial] and [http://www.facebook.com/lapnsnack Facebook page]!
* There's a product out there called the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh0UvrR8UM4 Broccoli Wad]. [[I Thought It Meant|Despite its name]], it's really a band that you put on your dollars. Why someone would want to use it instead of a wallet or a purse is never quite explained - the only reason given is that it's "easier than a wallet" and that "wise guys don't carry their money in a wallet".
* A commercial for AFN.net showed how convenient it is to use compared to the general internet, since it features conveniently organized information, while the man trying to use the internet in general was distracted and ended up looking at LOL cats. Of course, the man using the general internet might have been more successful had he not been banging his fists randomly on the keyboard...
▲* The Flash Dustmagnet is basically a flexible feather duster that allows you to dust around things. Invaluable since, as the advert shows, the only alternative is to clutch the entire contents of a shelf to your chest with one hand; while waving a conventional duster ineffectually in the vague direction of the shelf with the other.
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