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{{examples|Examples and various cases that are exemplifying the trope}}
* [[Department of Redundancy Department/Advertising|Advertising using media to promote products to you on media]]
* [[Department of Redundancy Department/Film|Filmed Movies Using Film]]
* [[Department of Redundancy Department/Literature|Literature Stories Written In Books By Authors]]
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* [[Department of Redundancy Department/Western Animation|Western Animation Moving Pictures Made In The West]]
* [[Department of Redundancy Department/Real Life|Real Life Non-Fictional World Of 3-D]]
 
== Advertisements using TV to promote products to you on television ==
* Almost any asthma medication ''has'' to use the phrase "like an inhaled corticosteroid" at least 5 times within the commercial. Sheesh, we GET IT!
* Nationwide Insurance's new{{when}} mascot: The World's Greatest Spokesperson In The World!
* [[The Monkees]]' Kool-Aid [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFDzQZZc-4A commercial] from 1970, in which Micky Dolenz exclaims, "Hey, let's make some new sugar-sweetened Kool-Aid with the sugar already in it!"
* DOMESTOS: KILLS ALL KNOWN GERMS DEAD
** Likewise, on the other side of the pond, "Raid: Kills Bugs Dead".
* There's a school in south Florida called CBT College. The "C" stood for "College". The College of Business and Technology College. Way to ruin your credibility before the commercial even starts...
** See also UOIT - the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. They've been trying to drop "institute" as redundantly redundant to "university" by rebranding as OntarioTech University, Oshawa... but officially?
** See also UMUC - the University of Maryland University College.
** See also the University of California system where the college name is usually an acronym (like UCI or UCSD). You will see on the campus website statements like UCI University (university of California university) or "California's UCI"
*** Or the crown jewel of them all, [http://www.criminologyprize.com/dynamaster/file_archive/071015/809e6fe2524d66f5ab5092b3dc9386c8/Symposium2007-eng-www.pdf California's UCI University]{{Dead link}}
* The label on [https://web.archive.org/web/20160729025344/http://www.bestplasticcleaner.com/2polish.jpg this product], a polish for acrylic, reads ''FINE SCRATCH REMOVER: Removes Fine Scratches''. You know, in case it wasn't absolutely clear.
* Taco Bell once touted a new menu item in a TV commercial as a "grilled carne asada steak". Since "carne asada" translates as "grilled steak", they essentially were advertising a "grilled grilled steak steak". Delicious.
** They've also described part of their Bacon Cheesy Potato Burrito as [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLjB2sZ2tA0 "bacon topped with bacon".]
* [[Head On]]: Apply Directly to the Forehead.
** [[Head On]]: Apply Directly to the Forehead.
*** [[Head On]]: Apply Directly to the Forehead.
** "[[Lampshade Hanging|Advertising/HeadOn, I can't stand your commercials,]] [[Placebo Effect|but your product is amazing!]]"
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMrg0KArRvo Ronseal Quick-Drying Woodstain] protects and is rain-proof in about thirty minutes. Which means in about thirty minutes, your wood's rain-proof and protected. So if you've got wood to stain, and you want it to dry quickly, use [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMrg0KArRvo Ronseal Quick-Drying Woodstain].
** [[Catch Phrase|It]] [[Trope Namer|does]] [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]].
* A commercial for Boston Pizza has a man suffering from "turkey brain" after eating too many Christmas leftovers. He describes his symptoms as "the confusion, the sluggishness, the excessive napping, the confusion..."
* An ad campaign that began in 2011 encourages you to "Take a Cheetos break With Cheetos".
* A Vevo banner ad on Youtube advertising Lady Gaga's performance on "Saturday's [[Saturday Night Live|SNL]]".
* "If you don't have an iPhone, well... you don't have an iPhone."
* "In Mexico we speak Spanish, mostly because it's the language we speak."
* A Target commercial showed a music teacher singing about all the clothes his students will need for the new school year. Denim was on it 4 times.
* A 1980s print ad for Elephant brand floppy disks promoted the need to make backups by explicitly referring to the Department of Redundancy Department, "and what goes on when it goes on!"
* A magazine advertisement for a ''[[Duel Masters]]'' card-pack series (specifically, "Survivors of the Megapocalypse") states "Attack with the Billion-Degree Dragon and watch your opponent run like someone who is under attack and is frightened by that attack!"
 
== Anime Cartoons from Japan and Manga Comics from Japan ==
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