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{{trope}}
'''Basic Trope''': Someone is having an extraordinarily difficult time doing a simple task with a mundane product.
* '''Played Straight''': At the beginning of the commercial for the [[Thing
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice is banging the brush (the non-bristled side) against her tangled mass of hair like a crazed chimpanzee before the above happens.
* '''Justified''': Alice has some kind of mental or physical disability that makes even the simplest tasks difficult for her. [[Bonus Points]] if the Brush-O-Matic actually ''is'' marketed towards the elderly and/or disabled.
* '''Inverted''': Alice seems to be getting on perfectly fine with her ordinary hairbrush. Her super-high-tech Brush-O-Matic does, [[Show, Don't Tell|we're told]], keep her hair shiny and clean for longer (by [[Here Comes the Science|folliculating its nanokeratoids]]), but it looks like a hell of a lot of hard work to use.
* '''Subverted''':
** Alice is having trouble with her hairbrush, but soon figures it out.
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* '''Averted''': Alice has no trouble brushing her hair with an ordinary brush.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Some people in the commercial have trouble brushing their hair with an ordinary hairbrush, others have no trouble.
* '''Enforced''': [[Viewers
* '''Invoked''': Alice really wants a Brush-O-Matic, so pretends her hairbrush is impossible to use.
* '''Defied''': The marketers of the product don't wish to insult the intelligence or ability of potential customers. They just market the product as a convenience product.
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