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== Uses In Real Advertising ==
* The [[Trope Namer]] comes from the commercials advertising [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huo7h53G0IM "Snuggie Wearable Blankets"], which begin by showing a woman who simply could not make a standard blanket work. As said above, originally the blankets were created for wheelchair users who quite literally couldn't use a regular blanket, at least not safely. However, when able-bodied individuals find their blankets triumphing over them, it becomes logically painful. The best part of the commercial is that the "blanket" she's too incompetent to use is actually a decorative throw - in other words, it's about ''three feet long''. No wonder she can't get warm. This was satirized in this [[Gag Dub]] video for the "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h05ZQ7WHw8Y WTF Blanket]".
** Apparently you can buy them for your ''dog''! The commercial even has a small dog in a snuggie wearing glasses and reading a newspaper. Apparently they're trying to tap that incredibly small [[Rocky and Bullwinkle|Mr. Peabody]] niche of glasses-wearing anthropomorphic dogs.
* ''[[Cracked.com]]'' offers a few more examples in "[http://www.cracked.com/article_15768_as-seen-on-tv-10-most-laughably-misleading-ads.html As Seen on TV: The 10 Most Laughably Misleading Ads]". Who'd have thought that ''capping a normal pen'' could be so hard? The commercial cheats by using a cap that is so chewed up that it's unusable.
* Practically every food processor TV spot begins by showing us someone who shouldn't be allowed near a knife trying to use one.
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