History Main / DoNotAttempt

* In TheRant of [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1242 this]] ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' strip Dan starts out advising against attempting to perform a sleeper hold but then goes on to include flying around and being a dragon as some of the things not to try that are depicted in the comic.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpPuQQpC43U A Mercedes-Benz C-Class commercial]] lampshades this, featuring attorneys in the desert reading off the usual "professional driver on a closed course" and "always drive responsibly" disclaimers while getting dust blown in their faces from the unsafe driving going on around them.

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[[JustForFun/DescribeTopicHere Describing a topic without understanding a trope is dangerous.]] [[SelfDemonstratingArticle Do Not Attempt.]]

[[DescribeTopicHere Describing a topic without understanding a trope is dangerous.]] [[SelfDemonstratingArticle Do Not Attempt.]]

* In the {{Omake}} chapter of ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'', "The Stakes Valentine's Day" has Ronove, the Demon Butler, baking Valentine's Day Chocolate. He suggests adding the seed of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_trumpet devil's trumpet]] and the blossom of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brugmansia angel's trumpet]]. At which point, to his mild amusement, the writers warn the viewers in [[SicklyGreenGlow green text]] that these things are poisonous to humans.

* The older commercials for the telecommunications company Vonage featured people doing ''{{Jackass}}''-style stupid things, followed by a text that said. "People do stupid things. Paying too much for phone service shouldn't be one of them." They always had a this disclaimer at the bottom of the screen. Vonage is still around, but they have since replaced these with more...mature and reserved commercials.

* The older commercials for the telecommunications company Vonage featured people doing ''{{Jackass}}''-style stupid things, followed by a text that said. "People do stupid things. Paying too much for phone service shouldn't be one of them." They always had a DoNotAttempt disclaimer at the bottom of the screen. Vonage is still around, but they have since replaced these with more...mature and reserved commercials.

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* There's an ad for yogurt where the woman is in the grocery store and has several individual containers of yogurt in her cart. She looks at them, glances around surreptitiously, and then sticks a carton up to her mouth and slurps it all down. In the tiny white fine print at the bottom of the screen it says "Please Pay For All Items."

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3udHeeiRqGI 2017 Sprint Mobile commercial]] shows man faking his own death by pushing his car off the cliff (in front of his kids) to get out of his Verizon contract. A usual fine print "do not attempt" appears on the screen during car fall, but there is another one - when his son asks "Isn't that illegal?" fine print appears "Yes. Extremely illegal."

* There's recent ad for yogurt where the woman is in the grocery store and has several individual containers of yogurt in her cart. She looks at them, glances around surreptitiously, and then sticks a carton up to her mouth and slurps it all down. In the tiny white fine print at the bottom of the screen it says "Please Pay For All Items."

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpPuQQpC43U A recent Mercedes-Benz C-Class commercial]] lampshades this, featuring attorneys in the desert reading off the usual "professional driver on a closed course" and "always drive responsibly" disclaimers while getting dust blown in their faces from the unsafe driving going on around them.
* A commercial for a new medicine for kids ten-and-under with ADHD included this warning: "do not drive or operate heavy machinery while using this medicine".

* A jingle in a recent Ace hardware store advertisement touting paint sample kits.

** It was subsequently parodied in DCTV's "Happy [[Film/StarTrek Red Matter]] Ball" sketch.

* Leliana of ''VideoGames/DragonAgeOrigins'' was TheBard (essentially the game's code for spy/assassin) and she was betrayed, captured, tortured and (heavily implied) raped for it and tried to leave that life behind. By ''[[VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition Inquisition]]'' she is a super bard/TheSpymaster, conflicted, jaded, and can be asked about it. Leliana may even offer to teach you, which leads to a completely unromanticized portrayal of bard life with her strongly hinting not to become one.

The ad shows a man walking out of his house, diving off a cliff, and parachuting into his car.

Compare DontTryThisAtHome, which differs from this trope in that it is about fundamentally ''real'' if dangerous stunts, whereas this trope concerns activities that are ''clearly'' not demonstrating real features or uses of the product but are there to serve the RuleOfFunny or the RuleOfCool (driving your SUV underwater, towing a freight locomotive with your pickup, etc.) Also compare DoNotDoThisCoolThing, when a warning rings hollow.

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* The commercial described in the first non-quoted line in this article ("The ad shows a man...") actually exists. It's a Land Rover commercial.

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* The ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' commercial parody "HappyFunBall" spoofed this trope by offering "the toy sensation that's sweeping the nation!" The bulk of the "commercial" was then spent disclosing increasingly strange and worrisome information, including a caution that if the core was exposed the active ingredients should not be "touched, inhaled, or looked at", as well as giving the famous warning "Do not taunt [[http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/clips/happy-fun-ball/229058/ Happy Fun Ball!"]]

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Compare DontTryThisAtHome, which differs from this trope in that it is about fundamentally ''real'' if dangerous stunts, whereas this trope concerns activities that are ''clearly'' impossible but serve the RuleOfCool (driving your SUV underwater, towing a freight locomotive with your pickup, etc.) Also compare DoNotDoThisCoolThing, when a warning rings hollow.

Compare DontTryThisAtHome, which differs from this trope in that it is about fundamentally ''real'' if dangerous stunts, whereas this trope concerns activities that are usually enhanced by editing and effects for a particular look and which are not necessarily "real" no matter how much so they appear (driving your SUV underwater, towing a tractor trailer with your pickup.) Also compare DoNotDoThisCoolThing, when a warning rings hollow.