History Main / KitschyLocalCommercial

* In ''The Merry Wives Of Maggody'', the salesman who contributed the bass boat to the golf tournament is first seen filming one of these. He ''meant'' for it to feature a bad pun about seeing red, but the bull rented for the filming kept wandering off.

* Used as a WorldBuilding tool in ''{{Fallout New Vegas}}'', load screens are almost entirely poster ads, billboards, and paper paraphernalia of pre-war Nevada. The ads are generally of mediocre quality at best, one shows a 50's style Strongman lifting weights with the caption, "Build Mass With Sass! Sunset Sarsaparilla"

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G6yVIHvsIE Morrie's Wigs commercial] from "Goodfellas"

* Morrie's Wigs commercial from "Goodfellas"

* Music/WeirdAlYankovic's ''Film/{{UHF}}'' features a few of these, including one for Spatula City (they have spatulas, and that's all!)

* The DonaldDuck comic story "Paperino e lo spot a basso costo" has Donald and Fethry Duck working in an agency that makes zero-budget ads, made up mainly of random StockFootage and Fethry's BadBadActing. When they accidentally end up making an advert for a big-budget shovel factory, they come out with a SpecialEffectsFailure-laden campy ad with a terrible script about an AlienInvasion thwarted by shovel-whacking. The ad still ends up attracting thousands of customers.

* WeirdAl's ''Film/{{UHF}}'' features a few of these, including one for Spatula City (they have spatulas, and that's all!)

* The family Bros. Bar-B-Q in ''[[{{Film/Friday}} Friday After Next]]'' is an example. It tastes so good, makes you want to slap your mama. Willie actually slapped his mama. Craig's said you might have missed it because they only have enough money for a 15 second spot.

* ''MyNameIsEarl'' occasionally features these kind of ads.
* Sonia on ''TheBrothersGarcia'' makes a truly terrible commercial for her at-home beauty salon all by herself, prompting the rest of the family to secretly create a much better one.

* Al Bundy's 555-SHOE ad, on Married...With Children.

* ''{{Angel}}'': Cordelia makes a commercial for Angel Investigations, but they never have it aired. Doyle is the on-air "talent," and he's very uncomfortable on camera.

* ''Use Cars'': first they [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqlJvGvtOvY#t=2m33s hijack a TV transmission]] of an EmergencyPresidentialAddress to hawk their rival's cars (thus getting him into trouble). In another live commercial their model loses her dress. Later a legitimate (bad) commercial says that they have "styles" of cars but the audio is altered by people working for the rival to say "miles" instead; the lot is then sued for false advertising, since they don't have a mile of cars.

** Al Harrington of Wacky Waving Inflatible Flailing Arm Tube Men Emporium.

* WeirdAl's ''{{UHF}}'' features a few of these, including one for Spatula City (they have spatulas, and that's all!)

* The Massey Motors commercials in ''RaisingHelen'' had even more problems than a normal cheesy local used car dealership commercial because of Mr. Massey's refusal to be "dishonest" and the fact that his toupee would blow off.

* ''MyNameIsEarl'' occasionally features these kind of ads for local businesses.

* The ''Ghostbusters'' commercial, before they got big, could probably count as this.

* Several of the recurring sketches on ''SecondCityTelevision'' were actually commercials for businesses local to the fictional Melonville area where the SCTV station was said to be based.

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* The Mayor's commercial for Sardine Land in ''CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs''. The animators went the extra mile to make it look as cheap as possible, even faking the worst blue-screen effects possible in a medium that doesn't even require it.
* In ''ToyStory2'', the commercial for Al's Toy Barn.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Homer's first "Mr. Plow" ad. Aired at 2am and starring Grandpa as "Old Man Winter."

* ''TheSimpsons'': Homer's first "Mr. Plow" ad. Aired at 2am and starring Grandpa as "Old Man Winter."

* In the first post - Adam West ''{{Batman}}'' movie, Jack Nicholson as the Joker makes one of these to announce "Joker Brand Cosmetics, with Smilex"; complete with him posing with carboard cutout models, shopping in a fake grocery store, and doing a side-by-side comparison with a "Brand-X".

* ''{{Angel}}'': Cordilia makes a commercial for Angel Investigations, but they never have it aired. Doyle is the on-air "talent," and he's very uncomfortable on camera.