History Main / AdvertOverloadedFuture

* In the novelisation of ''Series/RedDwarf'', the mission of the ''Nova 5'' (the ship the crew eventually found Kryten on) was to write a Coca-Cola slogan in the sky ''by blowing up hundreds of stars into supernovas''.

-->-- ''{{Futurama}}'', "A Fishful of Dollars"

* GorskyAndButch did it as a one-shot gag in a StarTrek parody - one of the crewmen comes from a race of Board, who can assimilate any surface into advertising space. Cut to the captain staring at his red and black fleet uniform now turned into Marlboro logo.

* In the novelisation of ''RedDwarf'', the mission of the ''Nova 5'' (the ship the crew eventually found Kryten on) was to write a Coca-Cola slogan in the sky ''by blowing up hundreds of stars into supernovas''.

* In the MegaCorp-dominated future of [[AceCombat Strangereal]], as depicted in ''AceCombat3Electrosphere'', company logos will be slapped onto everything, even the wings and tails of air superiority fighter jets.

* ''{{Futurama}}'' uses and to some extent parodies the trope, as seen in the page quote. In the future, adverts can be beamed into people's dreams [[TechnoBabble in the form of gamma radiation]], effectively filling them with product placement.
* In the ''{{Simpsons}}'' episode "Holidays of Future Passed", it seems they have figured out how to make pop-up ads out of the stars themselves!

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* In ''TheUnidentified'' by Rae Mariz, Katey (aka "Kid") goes to a school that is run by corporations. They monitor the students' activities for market research.

* RayBradbury's ''The Murderer'' features a man futilely destroying the myriad loudspeakers, radios, tvs, etc, which endlessly broadcast commercials at the populace.

* The second episode of ''Series/BlackMirror'', "15 Million Merits" depicts a future where every wall is covered in {{Kinect}}-powered flatscreen TVs playing a nonstop stream of adverts for talent shows, gameshows and porn. They ''can'' be skipped - but doing so costs the viewer money - and while an advert is playing the door to your flat locks itself. Looking away from the TV earns [[SensoryAbuse loud tones and a voice demanding that you RESUME VIEWING RESUME VIEWING RESUME VIEWING]].

* Fritz Leiber's ''The Last Letter'' is this, where citizens are confronted with billboards, radio jingles, mail, and even phone calls which feature nothing but advertisements.
* Bradbury's ''The Murderer'' features a man futilely destroying the myriad loudspeakers, radios, tvs, etc, which endlessly broadcast commercials at the populace.

* Bradbury's ''The Murderer'' features a man futilely destroying the myriad loudspeakers, radios, TVs, etc, which endlessly broadcast commercials at the populace.

The adverts can take the form of {{Blipvert}}s, SexSells, {{Enforced Plug}}s, TheManIsStickingItToTheMan, SubliminalAdvertising, TropeCoTropeOfTheWeek, MayContainEvil and the RidiculouslyLoudCommercial. Often leads in-universe AdNauseam, when the barage of advertising overwhelms the population.

* In the world of ''{{Shadowrun}}, advertising has long since moved off the physical plane and into the virtual. Unfortunately, since the vast majority of the population is wired into AugmentedReality, this means that about 90% of the world as they see it is bombarded with advertising. Companies that can afford spirit-binding magi can even send advertisements ''into the Astral Plane''.

* In {''Transmetropolitan''}, there are advertisements in your dreams.

* In {{''Transmetropolitan''}}, there are advertisements in your dreams.

* Almost all buildings in ''BladeRunner'' feature an animated advertisement that shows a geisha taking some pills that plays constantly.

-->'''Leela''': Didn't you have ads in the 20th century?
-->'''Fry''': Well, sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines and movies and at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and T-shirts and written in the sky. But not in our dreams!
-->''{{Futurama}}'', "A Fishful of Dollars"

* The DavidFirth segments in ''CharlieBrookersScreenwipe'' show a future where the year 2008 is bought by a marketing company which then forces everyone on the planet to end their conversations by linking arms and declaring "This conversation was brought to you by X".

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* ''{{Futurama}}'' uses and to some extent parodies the trope, as seen in the page quote. In the future, adverts can be beamed into people's dreams [[TechnoBabble in the form of gamma radiation]], effectively filling them with product placement.