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* A print ad for the third edition of ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' took a relatively tame jab at [[MMORPG|MMORPGs]], while simultaneously [[Self-Deprecation|poking fun at itself]]: "If you're going to sit in your basement pretending to be an elf, you should at least have some friends over to help."
** A similar one said "At least this way you'll ''know'' the hot elf chick is a dude."
** Interestingly, a
* About a week or so before Activision's "[[Wacky Racing]] with real cars" racing game ''Blur'' hit store shelves, they started to air [http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2010/05/blur-commercial/ an ad that shamelessly mocks] the [[Trope Codifier]] [[Mario Kart]], with a cutesy Toad [[Expy]] named [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Brock Lee]] wanting to use the real-life cars in ''Blur'', and decking another cutesy creature for saying that "racing's not about winning, it's about making friends", [[Fridge Logic|even though the game in question has strong online features and in fact is brutally competitive even against the computer]]. The tagline for the ad is ''Blur: Race Like A Big Boy.''
** Ironically, ''Blur'' is rated E10+ .
* Ads for ''[[Crash Bandicoot]]'' on the original [[PlayStation]] had a guy dressed as Crash show up at Nintendo headquarters with a megaphone, to taunt "Plumber-Boy". [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTi5EaocGaY "You're hurting my elbow!"]
** When Crash started appearing on Nintendo consoles, ''[[Nintendo Power]]'' had a faux-interview with Crash in which this trope was [[Lampshaded]] with Crash saying something to the effect that his antics in the commercial were "Nothing personal, it was all business related."
* One web advertisement for the MMORPG ''Fiesta'' poked fun at the advertisements for ''[[Evony]]'', which attempted to lure in clickers with a woman with [[Sex Sells|oversized breasts in a revealing outfit]], complete with [[Rouge Angles of Satin|bad grammar]] ('Play discreetly on your browser FREE' and so on). You may have seen these ads
** A few other games have taken other shots at these ads. ''[[Adventure Quest Worlds]]'' had one, and [[Pop Cap]] made an [https://web.archive.org/web/20090801095310/http://www.offworld.com/2009/07/evony-agony-popcaps-plants-vs.html absurdly funny one] for ''[[Plants vs. Zombies]]'' where the "girl" in question is a zombie.
** The online card game "Alteil" also gets in on the fun, showing one of the card illustrations captioned with "She's actually in our game, my Lord."--the various breast women used to advertise ''Evony'' aren't in ''Evony'' at all.
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* Subaru. Snuggies. A crowbar. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKBbgH2AU0Q Brilliant.]
** Poor, poor Lap 'n' Snack. It got [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA3jEuqf3rI the axe].
* VW once released three ads that mocked the [[Pimp My Ride]] stereotype, named Vee Dub, or alternatively "Unpimp ze auto". They feature Swedish actor Peter Stormare as a German Engineer, who 'unpimps' heavily customised cars- a Ford Focus, a Honda Civic and a Mitsubishi Eclipse- by obliterating them totally and replacing them with stock VW Golf cars. The commercials can be viewed [https://web.archive.org/web/20120701101242/http://www.leftlanenews.com/vw-strikes-again-un-pimp-my-ride-videos.html here].
* After PETA complained about [https://web.archive.org/web/20100818104528/http://video.yahoo.com/watch/8080743/21388992 Dodge's Evel Knievel chimpanzee TV commercial], Dodge remade it with...an [https://web.archive.org/web/20100818021940/http://video.yahoo.com/watch/8080526/21388260 invisible monkey].
* An Indian example: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoU32Wd2kP0 This ad for Bajaj Discover] shows two children pretending to ride their bikes. It's a screaming shot at the Hero Honda Splendor, for long a massively successful commuter bike, shown inferior to the Discover on multiple counts. And without the branding.
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* An advertisement for a "Love Checker" app for cell phones often changes the names of the two fake people, but they always have "3%" chance of success. One of the name pairs for that commercial? [[Selena Gomez|"Selena"]] and [[Justin Bieber|"Justin"]].
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