History Main / ParodyCommercial

-->'''Webb:''' Once you cressp, you just can't splessp!

* ''Series/HorribleHistories'' likes to parody well-known (usually British) commercials; its sketches have included "We Sell Any Monk" and "God Compare." It's also had a recurring {{Infomercial}} character called [[NoIndoorVoice The Shouty Man]]. (Their parody commercials really wouldn't be mistaken for out of show ads, though.)

* ''Twisted: The Game Show'', a PartyGame for the UsefulNotes/ThreeDOInteractiveMultiplayer, was done up like a game show and features (extremely short) fake commercials every few rounds. Some of the minigames have the same fake commercials appear on miniature [=TVs=]. Needless to say, most of the products being advertised are ridiculous beyond reason ("It's both a shoe polish ''and'' a toothpaste!")

* Film/{{Dreamboat}}'' features an animated commercial for a hair tonic called Penetroleum. The ad was created by Creator/ColumbiaCartoons UPA]], themselves no stranger to the world of television advertising.

** The first episode advertises a [[AdvancedTech2000 Toastmate 2000]] by [[Franchise/IronMan Stark Industries]]. The toaster being advertised sounds like one of Tony's repulsors enaging when it's turned on, and it has a blinking red light reminiscent of that on the Stark Industries-built missiles that killed Wanda and Pietro's parents.

** CASH, CASH, CASH FOR YOUR BONES! NOT ENOUGH CASH? TOO MANY BONES? CALL CASH BONE! RIBS, SKULLS, SPINES, EVEN CERTAIN TINY EAR BONES! THE LEG BONE'S CONNECTED TO THE CASH BONE!

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** And ''Film/StarshipTroopers'', also made by Paul Verhoeven, gave us the memorable recruiting commercials for the Terran Federation Fleet and Mobile Infantry, [[UnreliableNarrator painting a rosy picure]] of service in the Federation's armed forces. ''[[CatchPhrase Service Means Citizenship!]]''

** "[[Recap/SouthParkS5E8Towelie Towelie]]" featured a mock advert for ''South Park'' merchandise - the "Towelie" towel, featuring a button that can be pressed to hear the character's {{catchphrase}} "You wanna get high?" (Ironically, in a bit of {{Defictionalization}}, an actual [[http://shop.comedycentral.com/South-Park--Towelie-Towel-Towelie_stcVVproductId5989097VVcatId452080VVviewprod.htm Towelie towel]] was produced! -- it doesn't talk, though.)

* The ''Manga/BlackButler'' bonus episode has a parody commercial for Funtom Company dog food and a parody preview for "The Black Sushi Chef" (based off of a parody image in volume 5).
* ''Manga/{{Magikano}}'' and ''Manga/MyBrideIsAMermaid'' (both directed by Seiji Kishi) parodies commercials reminiscent to the way it's done in WesternAnimation to get a joke across. Goes something like this: Have a problem? Then, have we the product just for you! See [[BeforeAndAfterPictures "Before" and "After"]]; ThisProductWillChangeYourLife so well that you've just gotta have it! ButWaitTheresMore: If you call now, you'll get a useless FreePrizeAtTheBottom! And all of this for only 9980 yen! So, what are you waiting for? OperatorsAreStandingBy! Call now! To order, please dial [[RidiculouslyLongPhoneNumber 0000-4155-XXXX-55XX-0000]] today! SideEffectsInclude sneezing, coughing, vomiting, fainting, zit faces, heart attacks and turning into a green-skinned monster and may vary according to its user. {{Unreadable Disclaimer}}s or {{Rattling Off Legal}}s may apply.

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* The Osborne 1 luggable computer had a print ad captioned "The guy on the left doesn't stand a chance," listing its advantages versus an ordinary non-computerized briefcase. The June 4, 1984 issue of ''[=InfoWorld=]'' included a parody of the ad's text, here attributed only to "one of the munitions magazines," which gave the advantage back to the guy on the left by placing an Uzi submachine gun inside his briefcase.

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* ''Series/WandaVision'': Wanda creates [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXluLQh8ZpA&ab_channel=DanielRTSC fake commercials]] built around {{Genre Throwback}}s to classic sitcoms, usually tying in to some MCU entity. The first episode advertises a [[Franchise/IronMan Stark Industries]] toaster, while episodes 2 and 3 features [[Franchise/CaptainAmerica Strucker]] wristwatches and HYDRA bath soap ("find the goddess within"). And all of these commercials also have significance for Wanda: the beeping of the Stark Industries toaster recalls the missile that killed her parents, the ad for [[Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar Lagos Paper Towels]] ("for when [[CrossesTheLineTwice you make a mess you didn't mean to]]!") recalls [[MyGreatestFailure Wanda's greatest failure]], the ad for Yo-Magic yogurt ("the snack for survivors!") {{foreshadow|ing}}s [[spoiler:the goal of [[BigBad Agatha Harkness]] (who seeks to drain and steal Wanda's power and leave her a withered husk)]], and the SideEffectsInclude section on the ad for Nexus antidepressants is directly calling out Wanda for [[FisherKingdom withdrawing into a false reality]] that is only making her problems worse.

* ''Series/{{The Boys|2019}}'': In "[[Recap/TheBoysS03E04GloriousFiveYearPlan Glorious Five Year Plan]]", with A-Train rebranding himself as a symbol of social justice and African culture, Vought decides to capitalize on this by creating a new commercial for his Turbo Rush energy drink. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxV9EUaIjAA The commercial]] is a shot-for-shot remake of the infamous Kendall Jenner Pepsi commercial, just with A-Train using his superspeed to separate the riot police and protesters as they're about to clash and handing a can of Turbo Rush to one of the cops.

* ''Fanfic/YuyaVision'' has commercials based off of events in Yuya's life and even ones from Art/OmegaMart.

* Fanfic/FlamingFrost: Tigerstar does this to bribe Jaypaw and Lionpaw into training in the Dark Forest. Although Spottedleaf interrupts the first one with Jaypaw, it works on Lionpaw.

* At one point, ''FilM/TheSixthSense'' cuts to a fake cough syrup ad. The main character throws a shoe at the television to turn it off.

* Both ''Series/{{MADtv}}'' and ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' have employed this concept for years, advertising bogus products in order to make fun of various AdvertisingTropes or make fun of a current event (such as the cold opening on the Jonah Hill episode from season 33 where disgraced governor Eliot Spitzer [Bill Hader] advertises a new law firm that deals with sexual court cases, such as injuries from faulty vibrators, U.S. customs seizing German porn, and slip and falls in gay bath houses). For SNL, "HappyFunBall" is probably the best-known; ''Series/{{MADtv}}'', meanwhile, featured a plush toy called "Tickle Me Emo", an angsty, stereotypically emo version of Elmo from Sesame Street ("You don't understand what I'm going through!"). Other sketch shows, like ''Fridays'', ''Series/InLivingColor'', ''WB's Hype'', and ''SCTV'' have done fake commercials, though it can be safe to say ''SNL'' and ''Series/{{MADtv}}'' have the most memorable parodies.

-->'''Webb:''' (''spits out the food'') Oh, god! They're horrible!

* Series/FatherTed had a spoof ad for a priests' chatline that was a dead-on parody of a real-life ad for a gay chatline.
* Just like the movies, Series/RoboCopTheSeries has at least [[OnceAnEpisode one of these per episode]]. It's one of the main [[BlackComedy comedic draws]] of the show, usually advertising [[MyLittlePanzer deadly Commander Cash toys]], but oftentimes other things as well.

** ''VideoGame/SaintsRow1'' and ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'' feature commercials for Freckle Bitch's, a chain of fast food restaurants that is an obvious parody of Wendy's. In the first game, a promiscuous young woman talks about the restaurant's offerings almost entirely in [[DoubleEntendre double entendres]]. In the second game, [[PlotRelevantAgeUp she sounds like an elderly woman]] and coughs throughout the commercial.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': Our intrepid heroes have been [[TrappedInTVLand sucked into television-land]] and must battle the biggest bads in television history. The battleground is a commercial for Zinthos, which may or may not be a [[TheCorruption corrupting]], poisonous, blue [[Film/{{Gremlins}} gremlin]].

* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' has a commercial for The Reach's Reach sports drink. It's full of StylisticSuck and is almost unbearably upbeat and happy. G. Gordon Godfrey, an in-universe newscaster, even has a cameo. The drink is intended [[spoiler:to make you lose all willpower and be fully addicted to the drink forever over prolonged consumption]]. Don't you want to [[{{Tagline}} Reach For A Reach]]?

** Thompson's Teeth: The only teeth strong enough... to eat '''other teeth''' with!

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Histeria}}!'' ran plenty of commercial parodies, each one centering around a historical event (i.e. a record album called "The Greatest Hits of the 1860s") or person (i.e. Raggedy Lyndon Johnson and Squeeze Me Nixon).

* [[http://www.egscomics.com/backgrounds.page Wallpaper collection]] of ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' includes "Shrink Soda" ads (note that [[TheNudifier the clothes are unaffected]]). In somehow related DES comics, [[MadArtist Tori Vector]] once [[http://danshive.deviantart.com/art/Some-Comic-of-Mine-009-81483916 advertised]] one of [[MadScientist Amanda's]] [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot inventions]] (just don't show [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs this]] to [[Webcomic/{{xkcd}} Randall Munroe]]).

* ''Film/CSATheConfederateStatesOfAmerica'', a parody film depicting what it would be like if the South had won [[UsefulNotes/AmericanCivilWar the war]], had commercial breaks throughout the mock documentary that showed commercials that would have appealed to that country at the time, involving slavery more often than not. About half of them feature products with racist names and/or mascots that [[AluminumChristmasTrees really existed]]... in the North... ''after'' the Civil War.

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