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* A Lee Majors Film, ''[[The Agency]]'' about an ad agency which was running ads for a politician that showed that his competitor for the election had some undesirable quality, like being spawn of the devil or some such equivalent, while their candidate was patriotic and 100% American. This supposedly caused people to vote against the disfavored candidate The ads were run as part of fraction of a second subliminal ads during an unrelated product, like deodorant. This movie pointed out that subliminal ads, despite opinion to the contrary, are not illegal.

* The ''[[Josie and the Pussycats (film)|Josie and The Pussycats]]'' film revolved around the recording industry hiding subliminal advertising in pop music. The film itself even had at least one:

* One of the ways the aliens in ''[[They Live]]'' control humanity. You can only truly see what it says by wearing special glasses or contact lenses.

 

* An episode of ''[[NCIS]]'' didn't have this as advertising, but it was part of the killer's MO. He'd send the team a video with images cluing them to the site of the next murder flashing up for a split second.

* ''[[QI]]'' has a segment about subliminal advertising, starting with [[Stephen Fry]] asking the panel how he could get the audience to vote for him as Pope without even realizing it, and ending with:

 

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