History TakeThat / Commercials

*** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL09kITpdyk This]] SNES ''VideoGame/{{Star Fox|1}}'' commercial featured a Take That against Sega's early 90s slogan, "Welcome to the Next Level".

* VW once released three ads that mocked the PimpMyRide stereotype, named Vee Dub, or alternatively "Unpimp ze auto". They feature Swedish actor Peter Stormare as a German Engineer, who 'unpimps' heavily customised cars- a Ford Focus, a Honda Civic and a Mitsubishi Eclipse- by obliterating them totally and replacing them with stock VW Golf cars. The commercials can be viewed [[http://www.leftlanenews.com/vw-strikes-again-un-pimp-my-ride-videos.html here]].

* On a similar tack, there was an Esurance commercial narrated by Creator/JohnKrasinski that stated that Esurance didn't need a mascot to sell insurance. Definitely a TakeThat to rivals Geico (the gecko), Progressive (Flo), and Aflac (the duck); but [[SelfDeprecation also one for themselves]] -- up until a few years ago, they had a popular mascot of their own named Erin Esurance that they're hoping you'll forget.

* Shortly after coverage of the first game in the 2016 [[UsefulNotes/{{Baseball}} World Series]], the local Creator/{{FOX}} affiliate in Cleveland aired a brief message stating "We’d like to take a moment to thank the Cleveland Indians for their historic run. We’re also thankful the Creator/{{TBS}} announcers aren’t calling the World Series.”

* When [=DirecTV=]'s contract with Creator/{{Viacom}} expired in 2012, they dropped 26 Viacom-owned channels. When they dropped those channels, Viacom decided to make a commercials warning their fans of the dropped channels. When they made that commercial, they made it a parody of [=DirecTV's=] "When You..." ads. When they parody those ads, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urKVsEYJYts this is the result]].

* When [=DirecTV=]'s contract with Creator/{{Viacom}} expired, they dropped 26 Viacom-owned channels. When they dropped those channels, Viacom decided to make a commercials warning their fans of the dropped channels. When they made that commercial, they made it a parody of [=DirecTV's=] "When You..." ads. When they parody those ads, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urKVsEYJYts this is the result]].

* When [=DirecTV=] threatened to drop 26 Creator/{{Viacom}}-owned channels, Viacom decided to air a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urKVsEYJYts commercial]] that parodied [=DirecTV's=] "When You..." ads.

* The commercial for the first ''Nonstop Nicktoons Weekend'' in 1993 took a shot at the then-new Creator/CartoonNetwork. Granted, Cartoon Network was mostly just Hanna-Barbera reruns at the time.

* After PETA complained about [[http://video.yahoo.com/watch/8080743/21388992 Dodge's Evel Knievel chimpanzee TV commercial]], Dodge remade it with...an [[http://video.yahoo.com/watch/8080526/21388260 invisible monkey]].

** Taco Bell ads have gone as far as to paint [=McDonald's=] as a [[https://vimeo.com/125236359 communist state,]] including a Playland-esque slide and clown guards. Those who eat Taco Bell are rebellious "Breakfast Defectors" who choose something new instead of sticking to the same old routine: biscuit tacos.

* When an infamous incident at a Chicago airport about a passenger being forcibly taken out in a United Airlines plane occurred, and when Oscar Munoz, United [=CEO=], commented that "those [Gulf] airlines aren't airlines", Emirates, one of the flag carriers of the UsefulNotes/UnitedArabEmirates, made this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEevyPse3f8 ad]] in response and even quoted the [=CEO=]'s own exact words and proclaiming they are a "real airline".

*** And speaking of Sony's problems, Microsoft's UsefulNotes/XBox360 campaigning during UsefulNotes/{{P|layStation3}}S3's launch was pure Take That glory. Highlights were crashing Sony's live broadcast launch party held on a ship by parking another ship in the background with a large XBox360 poster on the side, and Microsoft employees offering chairs for people queuing up for game stores on launch day, each chair decorated with an advert for a website where you could read Microsoft's sympathies for people having to wait in rain when they could have just played a 360 ages before.

* When an infamous incident at a Chicago airport about a passenger being forcibly taken out in a United Airlines plane occurred, and when Oscar Munoz, United [=CEO=], commented that "those [Gulf] airlines aren't airlines", Emirates, one of the flag carriers of the UsefulNotes/UnitedArabEmirates, made this ad in response and even quoted the [=CEO=]'s own exact words and proclaiming they are a "real airline".

* The commercial for the first ''Nonstop Nicktoons Weekend'' in 1993 took a shot at the then-new Creator/CartoonNetwork. Granted, it was mostly just Hanna-Barbera reruns at the time.

* Shortly after coverage of the first game in the 2016 World Series, the local Creator/{{FOX}} affiliate in Cleveland aired a brief message stating "We’d like to take a moment to thank the Cleveland Indians for their historic run. We’re also thankful the Creator/{{TBS}} announcers aren’t calling the World Series.”

* Scotties has a bus stop ad series with a crying face captioned with two different hypothetical TearJerker scenarios (for example, [[https://adsoftheworld.com/media/print/scotties_broken_heart_broken_phone "Broken heart" and "Broken phone"]]. [[https://adsoftheworld.com/media/print/scotties_hillary_wins_donald_wins One particular ad]] that came out around the 2016 election had the double-barreled potshot of [[SadisticChoice "Hillary wins" and "Donald wins"]].

** Taco Bell ads have gone as far as to paint [=McDonald's=] as a [[https://vimeo.com/125236359 '''communist''' state,]] including a Playland-esque slide and clown guards. Those who eat Taco Bell are rebellious "Breakfast Defectors" who choose something new instead of sticking to the same old routine: biscuit tacos.

** More so after Apple released the iPad Pro with a keyboard attached. This time it is Cortana on the Surface Tablet reminding Siri that she is still limited by a tablet processor and the portable operating system instead of the desktop version, so she can't run desktop apps like Microsoft Office, and that the iPad also does not have a track pad or external prots to add on devices.