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* SpiritualSuccessor: The hip-hop themed ads for the "Obey Your Thirst" campaign were a continuation of the late-'80s-early-'90s hip hop commercials from Sprite's previous campaign, "I Like The Sprite In You".
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** The "Jooky Junk" ad shows kids winning garbage prizes after buying a large amount of Jooky, including a sock (not a pair of socks, just a sock), a hornet's nest, a hernia belt, a chainsaw, a halibut, and a sea captain.
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** The "Jooky" ad has a pair of teenagers watching a Jooky drink commercial and open their Jooky can, thinking it is literally a party in a can, but nothing happens.
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** Another has a bunch of young guys driving around in a convertible in slow motion, bouncing the car on its wheels to look cool. The car stops, and one guy leaps out of the car and starts dramatically chugging back his Sprite. When he turns the cap, the bottle ''explodes and covers him in soft drink'' -- because all that bouncing shook it up. He does not look good while shrieking and dripping wet.
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** Another ad featured an old man taking a swig of the competition's soda. He jumps up, tosses his cane away and yells, "[[FountainOfYouth I'm young!!]]". Just one of the many things that won't happen when you drink Sprite.
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** The "Sun Fizz" Ad has the titular mascot coming to life while explaining the benefits of his product like in any other commercial. However, the family who bought the Sun Fizz are pants-shittingly terrified by this creature randomly appearing and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere run away from the mascot]] as it gives chase.
** Drinking Sprite doesn't give a young wrestling fan any wrestling skills at all, resulting in Wrestling/{{Sting}} absolutely beating the crap out of him.
** Drinking Sprite doesn't give a young wrestling fan any wrestling skills at all, resulting in Wrestling/{{Sting}} absolutely beating the crap out of him.
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* CerealInducedSuperpowers: Subverted.
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** In the "Grant Hill Drinks Sprite" ad, a boy drinks Sprite on a basketball court after seeing the aforementioned basketball player do so, and then tries to dunk while a voicover says, "If you want to play like the NBA stars..." [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome and he falls on his face]], "...practice."
** In another, a boy drinks sprite before fighting Wrestling/{{Sting}}... and gets a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.
** In the "Grant Hill Drinks Sprite" ad, a boy drinks Sprite on a basketball court after seeing the aforementioned basketball player do so, and then tries to dunk while a voicover says, "If you want to play like the NBA stars..." [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome and he falls on his face]], "...practice."
** In another, a boy drinks sprite before fighting Wrestling/{{Sting}}... and gets a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.
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* AdorableAbomination: The cartoon sun from the "Sun Fizz" ad is treated like this by everybody who sees it.
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* {{Crossover}}: And a pretty left-field one, to say the least. The campaign crossed over with the original ''Anime/{{Voltron}}'' series, putting several notable emcees (Music/{{Common}}, Mack 10, Fat Joe, Goodie Mob, and Afrika Bambatta) in the place of the original pilots, and featuring original music from said emcees.
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* {{Crossover}}: And a pretty left-field one, to say the least. The campaign crossed over with the original ''Anime/{{Voltron}}'' series, putting several notable emcees (Music/{{Common}}, Mack 10, Fat Joe, Goodie Mob, and Afrika Bambatta) Bambaataa) in the place of the original pilots, and featuring original music from said emcees.
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** The ''Voltron'' crossover, which came out at the tail end of the infamous East-West Coast feud, featured several rappers, each representing different regions, trying to take out Zarkon's RoBeast individually, and getting faded each time. It took Afrika Bambatta convincing them to unite as Voltron to finally take it down.
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** The ''Voltron'' crossover, which came out at the tail end of the infamous East-West Coast feud, featured several rappers, each representing different regions, trying to take out Zarkon's RoBeast individually, and getting faded each time. It took Afrika Bambatta Bambaataa convincing them to unite as Voltron to finally take it down.
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* FreestyleVersion: Some of the commercials don't feature any gimmicks, and just have several emcees on set freestyling to beats. Music/{{Nas}}, Grand Puba, and Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, are just a few who did Sprite commercials like this.
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* FreestyleVersion: Some of the commercials don't feature any gimmicks, and just have several emcees on set freestyling to beats. Music/{{Nas}}, Grand Puba, and Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Smooth are just a few who did Sprite commercials like this.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: The hip-hop themed ads for the "Obey Your Thirst" campaign were a continuation of the late-80's-early-90's hip hop commercials from Sprite's previous campaign, "I Like The Sprite In You".
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* MerchandiseDriven: The "Death Slug" ad is about the making of a movie where they cared more about the merch than they did about actually making a good movie.
* SkewedPriorities: The studio executives in the "Death Slug" commercial care more about [[MerchandiseDriven the marketing campaign]] for their awful-looking {{kaiju}} movie than about the fact that they don't even have a script yet.
* SpiritualSuccessor: The hip-hop themed ads for the "Obey Your Thirst" campaign were a continuation of thelate-80's-early-90's late-'80s-early-'90s hip hop commercials from Sprite's previous campaign, "I Like The Sprite In You".
* SkewedPriorities: The studio executives in the "Death Slug" commercial care more about [[MerchandiseDriven the marketing campaign]] for their awful-looking {{kaiju}} movie than about the fact that they don't even have a script yet.
* SpiritualSuccessor: The hip-hop themed ads for the "Obey Your Thirst" campaign were a continuation of the
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The "Obey Your Thirst" campaign was a collection of commercials that were a part of popular lemon-lime soda Sprite's ads in the 1990s. It focused on trying to steer consumers away from the bane of materialism as well as expressing that all their soda does is quench their thirst. The campaign was also famous for producing several hip-hop focused ads, featuring several now-legendary emcees in various scenarios, including the last thing anyone expected: an official crossover with ''Anime/{{Voltron}}'' ([[SincerityMode We're not joking, that actually happened]]). The hip hop portion of the campaign lasted well into the 2000s, with the slogan eventually just being shortened to "OBEY".
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The "Obey Your Thirst" campaign was a collection of commercials that were a part of popular lemon-lime soda Sprite's ads in the 1990s. It focused on trying to steer consumers away from a DeconstructiveParody of the bane of materialism as well as of contemporary advertising, expressing that all their soda does is that, while drinking Sprite won't make you cool or give you superpowers, it ''will'' quench their thirst. your thirst.
The campaign was also famous for producing severalhip-hop focused HipHop-focused ads, featuring several now-legendary emcees in various scenarios, including the last thing anyone expected: an official crossover with ''Anime/{{Voltron}}'' ([[SincerityMode We're not joking, that actually happened]]). The hip hop portion of the campaign lasted well into the 2000s, with the slogan eventually just being shortened to "OBEY".
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* DeconstructiveParody: Of advertising tropes, especially of the TotallyRadical sort.
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* BeYourself: One commercial from 1994 had an indecisive young man morphing into several different images to try and fit in, including hip hop, a grunge rocker type and even a preppy. He ultimately decides just to be himself while also pondering [[HereWeGoAgain what meal should he have with his Sprite.]]
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** Another ad has a woman and her two children drinking something called Sun Fizz when the character mascot, an anthropomorphic sun with large eyes, comes to life. This only freaks the family out, who run away screaming (along with their dog) as he gives them chase while genuinely confused as to why their scared of him.
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** Another ad has a woman and her two children drinking something called Sun Fizz when the character mascot, an anthropomorphic sun with large eyes, comes to life. This only freaks the family out, who run away screaming (along with their dog) as he gives them chase while genuinely confused as to why their they're scared of him.him.
** One ad had a teenaged boy wearing a pair of baggy jeans, a puffy coat and boots with loose laces at a mall to be cool. Unfortunately for him, upon getting on the escalator his laces get caught in the slots of the stairs so in trying to free himself, he promptly falls over and both the pants and the coat get eaten up by the stairs, leaving him in just his shirt and his underwear.
** One ad had a teenaged boy wearing a pair of baggy jeans, a puffy coat and boots with loose laces at a mall to be cool. Unfortunately for him, upon getting on the escalator his laces get caught in the slots of the stairs so in trying to free himself, he promptly falls over and both the pants and the coat get eaten up by the stairs, leaving him in just his shirt and his underwear.
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** The ''Voltron'' crossover, which came out at the tail end of the infamous East-West Coast feud, featured several rappers, representing different regions, trying to take out Zarkon's RoBeast individually, and getting faded each time. It took Afrika Bambatta convincing them to unite as Voltron to finally take it down.
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** The ''Voltron'' crossover, which came out at the tail end of the infamous East-West Coast feud, featured several rappers, each representing different regions, trying to take out Zarkon's RoBeast individually, and getting faded each time. It took Afrika Bambatta convincing them to unite as Voltron to finally take it down.
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* FunHatingVillain: Zarkon, ever the playa hater, decides to destroy hip hop in the ''Voltron'' crossover simply because he's "not feeling it". To his credit, he's pretty self-aware about his pettiness.
--> '''Zarkon:''' You haven't experienced ''real'' playa hating, until you've felt the wrath of King Zarkon! ''(EvilLaugh)''
--> '''Zarkon:''' You haven't experienced ''real'' playa hating, until you've felt the wrath of King Zarkon! ''(EvilLaugh)''
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The "Obey Your Thirst" campaign was a collection of commercials that were a part of popular lemon-lime soda Sprite's ads in the 1990s. It focused on trying to steer consumers away from the bane of materialism as well as expressing that all their soda does is quenching their thirst. The campaign was also famous for producing several hip-hop focused ads, featuring several now-legendary emcees in various scenarios, including the last thing anyone expected: an official crossover with ''Anime/{{Voltron}}'' ([[SincerityMode We're not joking, that actually happened]]). The hip hop portion of the campaign lasted well into the 2000s, with the slogan eventually just being shortened to "OBEY".
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The "Obey Your Thirst" campaign was a collection of commercials that were a part of popular lemon-lime soda Sprite's ads in the 1990s. It focused on trying to steer consumers away from the bane of materialism as well as expressing that all their soda does is quenching quench their thirst. The campaign was also famous for producing several hip-hop focused ads, featuring several now-legendary emcees in various scenarios, including the last thing anyone expected: an official crossover with ''Anime/{{Voltron}}'' ([[SincerityMode We're not joking, that actually happened]]). The hip hop portion of the campaign lasted well into the 2000s, with the slogan eventually just being shortened to "OBEY".
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* CelebrityEndorsement: Possibly the most famous of the ads featured Detroit Pistons star Grant Hill and the best remembered of them had his agent trying to convince him to branch out into made-for-TV dramas, writing a book (''Polite Like Me'') and having a pop music career. There were two alternate endings that aired concurrently: one where he rejects him saying how he would "never do something like that" [[HypocriticalHumor right before he offers him a Sprite]] and one where he legitimately turns him down, only for the agent to then ponder "Maybe I'll call [[Creator/ShaquilleONeal that big guy in L.A.]]; [[TakeThat he'll do anything!"]][[note]]Shaq had an endorsement deal with Pepsi at the time.[[/note]]
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* CelebrityEndorsement: Possibly the most famous of the ads featured Detroit Pistons star Grant Hill and the best remembered of them had his agent trying to convince him to branch out into made-for-TV dramas, writing a book (''Polite Like Me'') and having a pop music career. There were two alternate endings that aired concurrently: one where he rejects him saying how he would "never do something like that" [[HypocriticalHumor right before he offers him a Sprite]] and one where he legitimately turns him down, only for the agent to then ponder "Maybe I'll call [[Creator/ShaquilleONeal that big guy in L.A.]]; [[TakeThat he'll do anything!"]][[note]]Shaq anything!]]"[[note]]Shaq had an endorsement deal with Pepsi at the time.time, and had also branched out to movies, books, and music, with mixed success.[[/note]]
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* WireFu: All of the fight sequences in the "5 Deadly Venoms" commercials.
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* CelebrityEndorsement: Possibly the most famous of the ads featured Detroit Pistons star Grant Hill and the best remembered of them had his agent trying to convince him to branch out into made-for-TV dramas, writing a book (''Polite Like Me'') and having a pop music career. There were two alternate endings that aired concurrently: one where he rejects him saying how he would "never do something like that" [[HypocriticalHumor right before he offers him a Sprite]] and one where he legitimately turns him down, only for the agent to then ponder "Maybe I'll call [[Creator/ShaquilleONeal that big guy in L.A.]]; [[TakeThat he'll do anything!"]]
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* CelebrityEndorsement: Possibly the most famous of the ads featured Detroit Pistons star Grant Hill and the best remembered of them had his agent trying to convince him to branch out into made-for-TV dramas, writing a book (''Polite Like Me'') and having a pop music career. There were two alternate endings that aired concurrently: one where he rejects him saying how he would "never do something like that" [[HypocriticalHumor right before he offers him a Sprite]] and one where he legitimately turns him down, only for the agent to then ponder "Maybe I'll call [[Creator/ShaquilleONeal that big guy in L.A.]]; [[TakeThat he'll do anything!"]]anything!"]][[note]]Shaq had an endorsement deal with Pepsi at the time.[[/note]]
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The "Obey Your Thirst" campaign was a collection of commercials that were a part of popular lemon-lime soda Sprite's ads in the 1990s. It focused on trying to steer consumers away from the bane of materialism as well as expressing that all their soda does is quenching their thirst. The campaign was also famous for producing several hip-hop focused ads, featuring several now-legendary emcees in various scenarios, including the last thing anyone expected: an official crossover with ''Anime/{{Voltron}}'' ([[SincerityMode We're not joking, that actually happened]]).
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The "Obey Your Thirst" campaign was a collection of commercials that were a part of popular lemon-lime soda Sprite's ads in the 1990s. It focused on trying to steer consumers away from the bane of materialism as well as expressing that all their soda does is quenching their thirst. The campaign was also famous for producing several hip-hop focused ads, featuring several now-legendary emcees in various scenarios, including the last thing anyone expected: an official crossover with ''Anime/{{Voltron}}'' ([[SincerityMode We're not joking, that actually happened]]). The hip hop portion of the campaign lasted well into the 2000s, with the slogan eventually just being shortened to "OBEY".
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* HeroicSacrifice: PlayedForLaughs in the "Sun Fizz" commercial. As the family is running from the creepy sun character, the mother trips over a vacuum cleaner. The son notices and screams out "Mom!" only for her to yell out "RUN!" The commercial then ends.
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* HeroicSacrifice: PlayedForLaughs in the "Sun Fizz" commercial. As the family is running from the creepy sun character, the mother trips over a vacuum cleaner. The son daughter notices and screams out "Mom!" only for her to yell out "RUN!" The commercial then ends.
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* StockFootage: The ''Voltron'' commercials uses stock footage of King Zarkon from the original anime, with new audio from Creator/KevinMichaelRichardson (who had [[TheOtherDarrin replaced]] Jack Angel as the voice of Zarkon in ''WesternAnimation/VoltronTheThirdDimension'' around that time).
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* TheBoxingEpisode: Parodied with the KRS/Shan commercial, which is set up like an actual boxing match, ring girls and all, but features them BattleRapping instead.
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** Played straighter with the hip-hop ads, where the rappers work in Sprite plugs during their verses.
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* CurbStompBattle: Two notable examples:
** One famous commercial has a young boy facing off against Wrestling/{{Sting}}, and drinks a Sprite, hoping that it would give him wrestling skills. He predictably ends up getting ragdolled by the larger wrestler.
** The ''Voltron'' crossover, which came out at the tail end of the infamous East-West Coast feud, featured several rappers, representing different regions, trying to take out Zarkon's RoBeast individually, and getting faded each time. It took Afrika Bambatta convincing them to unite as Voltron to finally take it down.
** One famous commercial has a young boy facing off against Wrestling/{{Sting}}, and drinks a Sprite, hoping that it would give him wrestling skills. He predictably ends up getting ragdolled by the larger wrestler.
** The ''Voltron'' crossover, which came out at the tail end of the infamous East-West Coast feud, featured several rappers, representing different regions, trying to take out Zarkon's RoBeast individually, and getting faded each time. It took Afrika Bambatta convincing them to unite as Voltron to finally take it down.
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* CelebrityEndorsement: Possibly the most famous of the ads featured Detroit Pistons star Grant Hill and the best remembered of them had his agent trying to convince him to branch out into made-for-TV dramas, writing a book (''Polite Like Me'') and having a pop music career. There were two alternate endings that aired concurrently: one where he rejects him saying how he would "never do something like that" [[HypocriticalHumor right before he offers him a Sprite]] and one where he legitimately turns him down, only for the agent to then ponder "Maybe I'll call [[Creator/ShaquilleONeal that big guy in L.A.]]; [[TakeThat he'll do anything!"]]
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* BattleRapping: The Music/KRSOne[=/=]MC Shan ad featured the two longtime rivals battling it it out on the mic, in a reference to their numerous battles during the "Bridge Wars" in the late 80s.
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* BattleRapping: AffectionateParody: Music/KoolKeith's commercials were a send up of ''Film/FiveDeadlyVenoms'', with Keith himself ([[spoiler:actually Music/MillieJackson in disguise]]) as the Sixth Venom, and featuring Eve, Roxanne Shanté, Mia X, Angie Martinez, and Amil as the Five Venoms.
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** The Music/KRSOne[=/=]MC Shan ad featured the two longtime rivals battling it it out on the mic, in a reference to their numerous battles during the "Bridge Wars" in the late80s.80s.
** While all of the Venoms had battle verses, only Roxanne Shanté and Kool Keith directly rap battled one another during their fight.
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** The Music/KRSOne[=/=]MC Shan ad featured the two longtime rivals battling it it out on the mic, in a reference to their numerous battles during the "Bridge Wars" in the late
** While all of the Venoms had battle verses, only Roxanne Shanté and Kool Keith directly rap battled one another during their fight.
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* FreestyleVersion: Some of the commercials don't feature any gimmicks, and just have several emcees on set freestyling to beats. Music/{{Nas}}, Grand Puba, and Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, are just a few who did Sprite commercials like this.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: The hip-hop themed ads for the "Obey Your Thirst" campaign were a continuation of the late-80's-early-90's hip hop commercials from Sprite's previous campaign, "I Like The Sprite In You".
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: A common theme throughout many of the ads:
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The "Obey Your Thirst" campaign was a collection of commercials that were a part of popular lemon-lime soda Sprite's ads in the 1990s. It focused on trying to steer consumers away from the bane of materialism as well as expressing that all their soda does is quenching their thirst. \n The campaign was also famous for producing several hip-hop focused ads, featuring several now-legendary emcees in various scenarios, including the last thing anyone expected: an official crossover with ''Anime/{{Voltron}}'' ([[SincerityMode We're not joking, that actually happened]]).
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* BattleRapping: The Music/KRSOne[=/=]MC Shan ad featured the two longtime rivals battling it it out on the mic, in a reference to their numerous battles during the "Bridge Wars" in the late 80s.
* {{Crossover}}: And a pretty left-field one, to say the least. The campaign crossed over with the original ''Anime/{{Voltron}}'' series, putting several notable emcees (Music/{{Common}}, Mack 10, Fat Joe, Goodie Mob, and Afrika Bambatta) in the place of the original pilots, and featuring original music from said emcees.
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** Another ad has a woman and her two children drinking something called Sun Fizz when the character mascot, an anthropomorphic sun with large eyes, comes to life. This only freaks the family out, who run away screaming (along with their dog) as he gives them chase while genuinely confused as to why their scared of him.
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** Another ad has a woman and her two children drinking something called Sun Fizz when the character mascot, an anthropomorphic sun with large eyes, comes to life. This only freaks the family out, who run away screaming (along with their dog) as he gives them chase while genuinely confused as to why their scared of him.him.
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* ClassicallyTrainedExtra: The three actors in the one commercial, while playing tough basketball players in the [[ShowWithinAShow ad within an ad]], end up being these, with the one man even dramatically telling the director (who admonished him for holding the can upside-down) "Don't talk to me like I'm a child! ''I'' played ''Hamlet'' at ''Cambridge!"''
* HeroicSacrifice: PlayedForLaughs in the "Sun Fizz" commercial. As the family is running from the creepy sun character, the mother trips over a vacuum cleaner. The son notices and screams out "Mom!" only for her to yell out "RUN!" The commercial then ends.
* HeroicSacrifice: PlayedForLaughs in the "Sun Fizz" commercial. As the family is running from the creepy sun character, the mother trips over a vacuum cleaner. The son notices and screams out "Mom!" only for her to yell out "RUN!" The commercial then ends.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: A common theme throughout the ads:
** One commercial had a young man excited that basketball star Grant Hill drank Sprite and believed that he would be as great as a player as him if he did too. Instead, he both falls and misses getting the ball into the hoop completely when he tries to dunk.
** Another famous spot has a young boy in a "Make-a-Wish" like program get to wrestle with Wrestling/{{Sting}}. While he takes a sip before he takes on the wrestler, hoping the soda will allow him to be his match, he inevitably ends up being [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomped]] as his videotaping parents enthusiastically watch on and are struck at how "real looking" it is.
** Another ad has a woman and her two children drinking something called Sun Fizz when the character mascot, an anthropomorphic sun with large eyes, comes to life. This only freaks the family out, who run away screaming (along with their dog) as he gives them chase while genuinely confused as to why their scared of him.
!!Image is Nothing! Thirst Is Everything! Obey Your Tropes!:
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: A common theme throughout the ads:
** One commercial had a young man excited that basketball star Grant Hill drank Sprite and believed that he would be as great as a player as him if he did too. Instead, he both falls and misses getting the ball into the hoop completely when he tries to dunk.
** Another famous spot has a young boy in a "Make-a-Wish" like program get to wrestle with Wrestling/{{Sting}}. While he takes a sip before he takes on the wrestler, hoping the soda will allow him to be his match, he inevitably ends up being [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomped]] as his videotaping parents enthusiastically watch on and are struck at how "real looking" it is.
** Another ad has a woman and her two children drinking something called Sun Fizz when the character mascot, an anthropomorphic sun with large eyes, comes to life. This only freaks the family out, who run away screaming (along with their dog) as he gives them chase while genuinely confused as to why their scared of him.
