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Unfortunately, sometimes [[Truth in Television]]. Not just for vacations, either.
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== [[Advertising]] ==
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* Lane's honeymoon in Mexico in ''[[Gilmore Girls]]'' turned out like this. <s>So did the rest of her marriage</s>.
* In the ''[[Dinosaurs]]'' series, when the Sinclair family visits Wesaysoland.
* One ''[[Are You Being Served? (TV)|Are You Being Served]]'' episode had the entire staff forced to take their vacation time simultaneously and at a Grace Brothers approved resort. As Mr. Rumboldt read off the tourist descriptions, he showed a slide show of the resort's features; the first one matched the hype, but none of the rest did. ("The beach is only twenty minutes away." "By ''jet?''")
* The "holding up the advert" variant is used with Todd's much-crappier-than-expected apartment in ''[[The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret (TV)|The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret]]''.
* A flock of priests go to have a drink at their local "Tea Bar". The half-broken neon marquee reveals that the building is actually a "Strip''tea''se Ca''bar''et", and the priests are quite (pleasantly) shocked with their visit. Such is the ''[[Benny Hill Show]]''.
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** Lionel Hutz' advertising as a lawyer. "Works on contingency.{{spoiler|?}}No{{spoiler|,}}money down". At which point he ''eats'' the Bar Association logo.
* The contestants on ''[[Total Drama Island]]'' were told that they would be staying at a luxury resort, not at an abandoned campground in Northern Ontario. {{spoiler|Subverted when we see that they ''do'' eventually go to the resort -- after they're voted off.}}
* This happens to the [[Scooby Doo|Scooby gang]] in ''The Secret of Shark Island''. Not only did the brochure fail to mention the run-down hotel and general dereliction of the island, it also forgot to talk about the [[Everything Is Even Worse With Sharks|shark-infested waters]]. {{spoiler|[[Scooby
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