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** Also, "NASADA" is a fictional counterpart to NASA in ''Power Rangers in Space'', though NASA seems to also exist at other times in the franchise.
*** One of Japan's space agencies is NASDA, so couldn't "NASADA" be NASA + NASDA?
* In the original ''[[
** In series 1 of the 2005 revival, Rose is shown as working in a department store called Henriks (alternately spelled Hendriks in other shots), another fictionalised variant of Harrods. The logos for the two companies are extremely similar.
* CTU in ''[[
** Not to mention Starkwood, which is a shameless copy of Blackwater (the private military company).
* Similarly, Blackthorne in ''[[The Unit]]'' is also an obvious stand-in for Blackwater.
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* Unnamed fictional counterparts to Premiership teams have appeared a number of times in UK drama.
* ''[[Slings and Arrows]]'' is set around the New Burbage Festival, a [[Shakespeare]]-oriented theater festival which is thinly veiled version of the Stratford Festival of Canada.
* "Calsci", the fictional university in ''[[Numb3rs]]'', is basically [
** "Pacific Tech" plays the same role in the movie ''[[Real Genius (Film)|Real Genius]]'', with a number of inside jokes from Caltech.
** "Pacific Tech" also appears in the 1953 ''[[War of the Worlds]]'' film and the television series based on it.
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* Ben Browder's character in ''[[Farscape (TV)|Farscape]]'' was an astronaut for IASA - the replacement for NASA. (NASA was happy to let the show use their name, but wanted to review the scripts; ridiculous, as they were only relevant for the first ten minutes of the entire series. Hence, IASA was born. As Browder says, "IASA, You-asa, My Ass-a."
* ''[[CSI (TV)|CSI]]'': "A Space Oddity": ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'' has been replaced by a fictional show called ''Astro Quest''. Aside from being a bit over the top, the show is exactly ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'' with the serial numbers filed off -- we're even treated to plot synopses for episodes, which mimic the plots of Trek episodes, down to the dialogue. Reenacted by the Lab Rats.
* ''[[Drake and Josh]]'', ''[[Zoey 101]]'', ''[[I Carly]]'', and any other Dan Schneider comedy uses a whole lot of fictional counterparts to [[Bland-Name Product|brand names]], bands, TV Shows, [
** ''[[I Carly]]'' : The numerous Pear computers, pearpods, etc. as a stand-in for Apple.
* ''[[Zoey 101]]'' : The jPhone instead of the iPhone, as well as more of those Pear computers common to all Dan Schneider Nickelodeon shows.
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* Cancer Man/CSM from ''[[The X-Files (TV)|The X-Files]]'' smoked Morley cigarettes, a stand-in for Marlboro.
** Morley cigarettes first appeared in an episode of [[The Twilight Zone]] in 1963, [[William Shatner]]'s character in 'Nightmare at 20,000 Feet', has a pack.
** Morley's have since been used in a couple of dozen shows, movies and comics according to [
* ''[[Spooks]]'' does this a lot. One episode featured Not Robert Kilroy Silk joining Not The BNP.
* Oceanic Airlines on ''[[Lost (TV)|Lost]]''.
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*** He's hardly the first. Michael Jordan and Pele were treated similarly when they asserted control over their image.
* In ''[[Deus Ex Invisible War (Video Game)|Deus Ex Invisible War]]'' there are two coffee shops, Queequeg's and Pequod's. Starbuck is the first mate in Herman Melville's Moby Dick, Queequeg is the harpoonist and the Pequod is the ship.
** Which is actually rather a subtle [[Shout
* ''[[Escape From Monkey Island]]'' features "piratised" versions of some well-known chains, like "Starbuccaneers" and "Planet Threepwood".
* [[Mother 3 (Video Game)|Mother 3]]: The band DCMC is the Fictional Counterpart of AC/DC.
** [[Earthbound (Video Game)|Earthbound]] has the Runaway Five, which may not seem to be a Fictional Counterpart; however, in Mother 2, they were known as the Tonzura Brothers. They dressed in black suits, hats and sunglasses. [[The Blues Brothers|Just like these guys.]]
* Throughout the ''Nancy Drew'' series of PC games, a brand of chocolate bar called 'Koko Kringle' is enjoyed by various suspects and background characters. When Nancy finally gets to eat one in game #17, the unwrapped bar has its name embossed on its surface, closely mimicking the brand names on Hershey bars.
** Koko Kringles could also be considered a [[Shout
** Danger by Design, at least, has a tin of "Pricsy Colors", whose tin closely resembles that of some Prisma color boxes.
* The ''[[Space Quest]]'' series of games tends to require a trip to "Monolith Burger" (the SQ universe's McDonald's) in order to complete the game.
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** In the books Mama gets exasperated at the way that Sister keeps begging for the newest accessories, in a subtle [[Take That]] to Mattel.
* ''[[Dan Vs]]'' "The Salvation Armed Forces" has both the eponymous organization and Greatwill.
* In the ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' episode "A Fistful Of Energon", Sari and Bumblebee are said to be off visitng, sorry, on a [[Blatant Lies|"fact-finding mission"]] at [
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