This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
- "Great Scott! I forgot to tell Marty, when he gets Back to the Future, that he needs to get DirecTV HD!"
- They've got a whole series of these, including Ripley in the Power Loader from Aliens, Shatner plugging it on the Enterprise, and a very strange foreign one with Darth Vader, Freddy Krueger, Jason Vorhees (who inexplicably has a chainsaw), a vampire (probably intended to be Dracula), Chucky, a Mummy, Hannibal Lector, and Samara/Sadako I wish I was making this up... The newest one has Kathy Bates reprising her role in Misery, plugging the TV right before she's about to do the infamous hobbling scene...what the (@*&$! are these ad people thinking?!
- That you will by God remember their ad. How's it working?
- They've got a whole series of these, including Ripley in the Power Loader from Aliens
Not this trope; these are all the original actors. (Also, ow ow Conversation In The Main Page.)
Echo: Yul Brynner was alive, but knew he was dying of lung cancer, when he recorded this anti-smoking PSA, to be played after his death. Is this a form of this trope?
Ununnilium: At the very least, it's related; I'd say put it in.
Looney Toons: I just followed that link to the breakdancing Gene Kelly and saw the commercial for the first time. And may I just say that rather than finding it "awesome", I found it profoundly creepy.
Haven: I was kind of hoping the trope title was going to be literally true and I would discover a previously unknown but longstanding tradition in fiction of advertising being a motive behind zombie uprisings. But no.
