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** The mundane product depends on something that isn't available (like gas) in Alice's (all electric) home to be easy to use.
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** Alice's bad hair day culminates in her [[BaldWomen ripping out all her hair]], thus making the Brush-O-Matic [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption completely useless to her.]]
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** Alice's bad hair day culminates in her [[BaldWomen ripping out all her hair]], hair, thus making the Brush-O-Matic [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption completely useless to her.]]
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'''Basic Trope''': Someone is having an [[MajorMinorInconvenience extraordinarily difficult time doing a simple task with a mundane product]].
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'''Basic Trope''': Someone is having an [[MajorMinorInconvenience extraordinarily difficult time doing a simple task with a mundane product]].product.
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** The camera pans out to show the woman next to her, Betty, using an ordinary hairbrush perfectly easily, and giving Alice slightly worried looks as she continues to struggle with the basic task. Then they're introduced to the Brush-O-Matic, which Betty is delighted with... but Alice looks like one of the monkeys in ''Film/TwoThousandAndOneASpaceOdyssey'', driven into a confused Luddite rage by this new piece of arcane technology. "The Brush-O-Matic: it's not for morons."
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** The camera pans out to show the woman next to her, Betty, using an ordinary hairbrush perfectly easily, and giving Alice slightly worried looks as she continues to struggle with the basic task. Then they're introduced to the Brush-O-Matic, which Betty is delighted with... but Alice looks like one of the monkeys in ''Film/TwoThousandAndOneASpaceOdyssey'', ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'', driven into a confused Luddite rage by this new piece of arcane technology. "The Brush-O-Matic: it's not for morons."
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** Alice, after five seconds of frightfully staring at a hairbrush, gently nudges it, and her hair suddenly sets on fire. The Brush-O-Matic is just a normal hairbrush being sold for $500 while being claimed as "the world's only non-lethal hairbrush!"
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* '''Downplayed''': Alice shown brushing her hair, but envying the way other girls can get their hair into braids.
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* '''Downplayed''': Alice is shown brushing her hair, but envying the way other girls can get their hair into braids.
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* '''Conversed''': "Why do all these people have trouble using a friggin' hairbrush?!"
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* '''Conversed''': "Why do all these people have so much trouble using a friggin' hairbrush?!"
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* '''Justified''': Alice has some kind of mental or physical disability that makes even the simplest tasks difficult for her. The Brush-O-Matic is marketed towards the elderly and/or disabled.
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* '''Justified''': '''Justified''':
** Alice has some kind of mental or physical disability that makes even the simplest tasks difficult forher. The her.
** Alternatively, the Brush-O-Matic is marketed towards the elderly and/or disabled.
** Alice has some kind of mental or physical disability that makes even the simplest tasks difficult for
** Alternatively, the Brush-O-Matic is marketed towards the elderly and/or disabled.
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* '''Justified''': Alice has some kind of mental or physical disability that makes even the simplest tasks difficult for her. BonusPoints if the Brush-O-Matic actually ''is'' marketed towards the elderly and/or disabled.
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* '''Justified''': Alice has some kind of mental or physical disability that makes even the simplest tasks difficult for her. BonusPoints if the The Brush-O-Matic actually ''is'' is marketed towards the elderly and/or disabled.
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** The question asked in the commercial is something along the lines of "Do you have a drawer full of hair brushes but prefer to brush your hair with a broom?"
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* '''Parodied''': Alice's bad hair day culminates in her [[BaldWomen ripping out all her hair]], thus making the Brush-O-Matic [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption completely useless to her.]]
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* '''Parodied''': '''Parodied''':
** Alice's bad hair day culminates in her [[BaldWomen ripping out all her hair]], thus making the Brush-O-Matic [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption completely useless to her.]]]]
** The camera pans out to show the woman next to her, Betty, using an ordinary hairbrush perfectly easily, and giving Alice slightly worried looks as she continues to struggle with the basic task. Then they're introduced to the Brush-O-Matic, which Betty is delighted with... but Alice looks like one of the monkeys in ''Film/TwoThousandAndOneASpaceOdyssey'', driven into a confused Luddite rage by this new piece of arcane technology. "The Brush-O-Matic: it's not for morons."
** Alice's bad hair day culminates in her [[BaldWomen ripping out all her hair]], thus making the Brush-O-Matic [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption completely useless to her.
** The camera pans out to show the woman next to her, Betty, using an ordinary hairbrush perfectly easily, and giving Alice slightly worried looks as she continues to struggle with the basic task. Then they're introduced to the Brush-O-Matic, which Betty is delighted with... but Alice looks like one of the monkeys in ''Film/TwoThousandAndOneASpaceOdyssey'', driven into a confused Luddite rage by this new piece of arcane technology. "The Brush-O-Matic: it's not for morons."
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* '''Exaggerated''': Alice is banging the brush (the non-bristled side) against her tangled mass of hair like a crazed chimpanzee before the above happens. Alternatively, she yanks at her hair so hard with it that she scalps herself.
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* '''Exaggerated''': '''Exaggerated''':
** Alice is banging the brush (the non-bristled side) against her tangled mass of hair like a crazed chimpanzee before the above happens. Alternatively, she yanks at her hair so hard with it that she scalps herself.
** Alice is banging the brush (the non-bristled side) against her tangled mass of hair like a crazed chimpanzee before the above happens. Alternatively, she yanks at her hair so hard with it that she scalps herself.
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** Bob gets his [[MemeticMutation dick stuck in a ceiling fan]].
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* '''Exaggerated''': Alice is banging the brush (the non-bristled side) against her tangled mass of hair like a crazed chimpanzee before the above happens.
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* '''Exaggerated''': Alice is banging the brush (the non-bristled side) against her tangled mass of hair like a crazed chimpanzee before the above happens. Alternatively, she yanks at her hair so hard with it that she scalps herself.
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* '''Parodied''': Alice's bad hair day culminates in her [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption ripping out all her hair]], thus making the Brush-O-Matic [[BaldWomen completely useless to her.]]
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* '''Parodied''': Alice's bad hair day culminates in her [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption [[BaldWomen ripping out all her hair]], thus making the Brush-O-Matic [[BaldWomen [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption completely useless to her.]]
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*'''Deconstructed''': People don't buy the product because it's "obviously for imbeciles.'
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* '''Enforced''': ViewersAreMorons; let's sell our product to them!
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* '''Enforced''': ViewersAreMorons; let's sell our product product, which is designed just for the disabled or otherwise unable people, to them!
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* '''Downplayed''': ???Alice shown brushing her hair, but envying the way other girls can get their hair into braids.
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* '''Played Straight''': At the beginning of the commercial for the [[ThingOMatic Brush-O-Matic]], Alice gets her hairbrush stuck in her hair and screams.
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* '''Played Straight''': '''Straight''': At the beginning of the commercial for the [[ThingOMatic Brush-O-Matic]], Alice gets her hairbrush stuck in her hair and screams.
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* '''Parodied''': Alice's BadHairDay culminates in her [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption ripping out all her hair]], [[FridgeLogic thus making the Brush-O-Matic completely useless to her.]]
* '''Lampshaded''': "Is brushing your hair with an ordinary hairbrush difficult?"
* '''Averted''': Alice has no trouble brushing her hair with an ordinary brush.
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* '''Parodied''': Alice's BadHairDay culminates in her [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption ripping out all her hair]], [[FridgeLogic thus making the Brush-O-Matic completely useless to her.]]
* '''Lampshaded''': "Is brushing your hair with an ordinary hairbrush difficult?"
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* '''Reconstructed''':
* '''Lampshaded''': "Is brushing your hair with an ordinary hairbrush difficult?"
* '''Averted''': Alice has no trouble brushing her hair with an ordinary brush.
* '''Averted''': Alice has no trouble brushing her hair with an ordinary brush.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Is brushing your hair with an ordinary hairbrush difficult?"
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'''Basic Trope''': Someone is having an extraordinarily difficult time doing a simple task with a mundane product.
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'''Basic Trope''': Someone is having an [[MajorMinorInconvenience extraordinarily difficult time doing a simple task with a mundane product.product]].
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incorrect usage.
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* '''Lampshaded''': "Is brushing your hair with an ordinary hairbrush BeyondTheImpossible?"
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* '''Lampshaded''': "Is brushing your hair with an ordinary hairbrush BeyondTheImpossible?"difficult?"
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* '''Inverted''': Alice is having trouble performing brain surgery.
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* '''Inverted''': Alice is having trouble performing brain surgery.
seems to be getting on perfectly fine with her ordinary hairbrush. Her super-high-tech Brush-O-Matic does, [[ShowDontTell we're told]], keep her hair shiny and clean for longer (by [[HereComesTheScience folliculating its nanokeratoids]]), but it looks like a hell of a lot of hard work to use.
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** Alice is having trouble with her hairbrush, but soon figures itout.out.
** An advert shows Alice struggling with some incredibly basic household chores... and turns out to be an advert for a nursing home.
** "If you find ordinary hairbrushes a chore... then this probably isn't for you. If anything, it's more complicated. But if you're a human being of normal intelligence, you need a '''Brush-O-Matic!'''"
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** Alice is having trouble with her hairbrush, but soon figures it
** An advert shows Alice struggling with some incredibly basic household chores... and turns out to be an advert for a nursing home.
** "If you find ordinary hairbrushes a chore... then this probably isn't for you. If anything, it's more complicated. But if you're a human being of normal intelligence, you need a '''Brush-O-Matic!'''"
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* '''Invoked''': Alice breaks her arm, and needs to brush her hair.
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* '''Invoked''': Alice breaks really wants a Brush-O-Matic, so pretends her arm, and needs hairbrush is impossible to brush her hair.use.
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* '''Discussed''': "Do you hate adverts that assume you're a complete moron? You need [=TiVo=]!"
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* '''Played For Laughs''':Laughs''':
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* '''Played Straight''': At the beginning of the commercial for the [[TropeOMatic Brush-O-Matic]], Alice gets her hairbrush stuck in her hair and screams.
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* '''Played Straight''': At the beginning of the commercial for the [[TropeOMatic [[ThingOMatic Brush-O-Matic]], Alice gets her hairbrush stuck in her hair and screams.
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* '''Parodied''': Alice's BadHairDay culminates in her [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption losing all her hair]], [[FridgeLogic thus making the Brush-O-Matic completely useless to her.]]
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* '''Parodied''': Alice's BadHairDay culminates in her [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption losing ripping out all her hair]], [[FridgeLogic thus making the Brush-O-Matic completely useless to her.]]
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* '''Exaggerated''': Alice is banging the brush against her tangled mass of hair like a crazed chimpanzee before the above happens.
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* '''Exaggerated''': Alice is banging the brush (the non-bristled side) against her tangled mass of hair like a crazed chimpanzee before the above happens.
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