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For similar brand-name awkwardness, see [[Disney Owns This Trope]] and [[Trope Co Trope of the Week]]. Contrast [[Tradesnark]], where the awkwardness is pointed out and played for humor.
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=== Fictional Examples ===
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Part of a running [[Expospeak Gag]] in ''[[Portal (Video Game)|Portal]]''. Aperture Science tends to give everything they produce a convoluted title preceded by their own name, which culminates in this:
{{quote| '''GLadOS''': Did you just toss the Aperture Science [[Buffy
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** Curiously, General Mills does '''not''' do this with their cereals, i.e. you rarely, if ever, hear commercials for General Mills Cheerios, Cocoa Puffs, Trix, etc. This troper cannot recall hearing the house name even mentioned in their cereal commercials, though in the 1960s they used to brand them as "Big G".
*** Many commercials say "General Mills cereal" in their commercial at least once, but refer to the products themselves as merely "Cheerios" or so.
* Most bars have a copy of the very comprehensive Old Mr. Boston recipe book, and ''every one'' of the cocktails calls for "Old Mr. Boston Brand...[''absolutely anything at all'']." This included mixes, beer, booze, ''cocktail stirrers, straining spoons, and '''cinnamon sticks'''''. Many of these products have long since been discontinued, and those that haven't have dropped the "old" from their name, but the blatant product placement remained unchanged in the book's annual (until 2003) updates, because people ''complained'' [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks|when it was taken out]]. Apparently, they found it funny.
* One of the few examples of this trope not seeming ridiculous would be the famous Grey Poupon mustard commercials; most probably because mustard already came in many well-known varieties, and so it only seemed reasonable that a person of wealth and taste would prefer a particular one. It helped that they simply called it "Grey Poupon", and not "Grey Poupon brand mustard".
* "More Ovaltine Hot Please!"
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** Apparently the brand name is [[Berserk Button|"Rich Chocolate Ovaltine"]] even though the "Rich Chocolate" is clearly ''under'' the brand name as a flavor....
* As for NesQuik itself, it was originally named Quik, and Nestlé renamed it as essentially a contraction of "Nestlé Quik". Nowadays the commercials refer to it as "[[Department of Redundancy Department|Nestlé NesQuik]]".
** Apparently nobody mentioned that "NesQuik" sounds like something you get from [[Nineteen Eighty
* An ad for ''Polaner All-Fruit'' featured rich people asking to "Pass the Polaner All-Fruit," around a table. When one of them asks (in a broad Texan cowboy [[American Accents|accent]]) "Could'ya please pass the jelly?" everyone present is shocked by his faux "faux-pas".
* Also annoying are the commercials for Totinos Pizza Rolls, where a bunch of hungry kids will refer to the snack exactly like that. "Hey, let's have Totinos Pizza Rolls." "I LOVE Totinos Pizza Rolls!" Somewhat justified, as children do occasionally use this trope in regular speech.
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