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* This even seems to happen within commercials, at least in the case of Vitamin Water. Most commercials featuring an athlete endorser will have a reference to another of the endorser's sponsors. For example: the jockey Shaquille O'Neal boxes out is wearing the Radio Shack symbol, and LeBron James references a case called 'Niky v. Oregon' (guess where Nike is based).
 
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* [[Cromartie High School]] does this for Takuro Yoshida in episode 3. How? Figure it out.
 
 
== [[Film]] ==
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== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[Discworld/Moving Pictures|Moving Pictures]]'', CMOT Dibbler, with the skewed but determined logic that characterises the [[Discworld]], reasons that if a single picture you don't even see can make people want to buy something, five solid minutes of it must be even more effective.
 
== [[Live -Action TelevisionTV]] ==
* The 1960s TV show ''[[Hazel]]'' did one about some guys that supposedly created irresistable subliminal ads, in which they ran a film where 'SP' would appear briefly, and the guy speaking to the crowd (who was selling some stock for a company called 'Brazilian') because, at the end of the message, would say, "And Buy Brazilian". So one guy who didn't know he was being marketed to for a stock, was buying Brazilian Nuts. The guys doing this get arrested for it. Which brings us to...
* A [[Fake Commercial]] for the Psi Corps in ''[[Babylon 5]]'' famously ends with a subliminal message: "The Psi Corps is your friend. Trust the Corps."
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