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1* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ3rndjje30 This ad for MLB 12: The Show]] depicts the Chicago Cubs winning the World Series and all of Chicago celebrating, even the Pope himself, before eventually cutting to a sobbing Cubs fan in his room with a [=PS3=] controller, indicating it was part of the game. On November 3rd, 2016, that day would become a reality.
2** Also doubles as HarsherInHindsight, considering the Cubs finished the 2012 season losing 101 games -- their worst record in 46 years.
3* The "Phones-4-You" ad campaign goes from being a mildly successful attempt at MemeticMutation to being pretty hilarious once you've played ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear Solid 4|GunsOfThePatriots}}'', where the weapons merchant has a hand-gesture catchphrase for the slogan 'EYE HAVE YOU'.
4* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQVZkGS8NfY This 1982 ad for Pepto-Bismol]] features a then-unknown Jeff Daniels as a college student talking to his parents about a lot of students with diarrhea and how the doctors gave the college's group Pepto-Bismol! The ad even features his mom saying at the beginning: "Diarrhea down here?" This was 12 years before Jeff Daniels' most well known moment in ''Film/DumbAndDumber''.
5* At the time it aired, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w61vieuH1kw a [=McDonald=]'s commercial]] featuring Music/{{NSYNC}} and Music/BritneySpears playing "spin the bottle" had a rather light-hearted punchline, whereby the bottle stops on Justin Timberlake, not Britney. A few years later, Lance Bass came out as gay, and it gives the ad a whole new meaning.
6* The [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid Big Boss]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqLZkZEYKHo Grill]].
7* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agT2GVNQjao A drug PSA]] showed Pee-Wee Herman (Paul Reubens) talking about how dangerous crack was. Reubens would later go on to play a drug dealer in the movie ''Blow''. Then again, he had already been in some ''Cheech and Chong'' movies, which are about drugs.
8* Creator/DavidKaye. ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' Megatron. Enzyte commercial announcer. Enzyte was charged with fraud.
9* After an ''Encyclopedia Britannica'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO2D_sxXAWM commercial]] had its run, they decided to make [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxwin9XFbnQ a direct follow-up to it]]. And the very first line said was, "[[VideoGame/MetroidOtherM Remember me?]]" To add, both were made by Creator/StanFreberg, who was the voiceover talent. The onscreen talent? Freberg's son.
10* The "ComicBook/LexLuthor [[AndThatsTerrible stole]] [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/40cakes_4996.jpg forty cakes]]" meme takes a new meaning with an UK advert for Innocent Smoothies, which shows a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hd_BmPfxIo&feature=player_detailpage#t=47s bakery named "Luthor's Cakes"]].
11* A 1996 ''This is [=SportsCenter=]'' ad featured Karl Ravech and Keith Olbermann interviewing former Senator Bill Bradley for a job. The last line of the commercial has them questioning whether he'd spoken in front of an audience. Bradley says he gave the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention. Olbermann replies, "We meant a ''large'' audience." One that a decade later he himself would try to tap.
12* T-Mobile made a series of anti-AT&T commercials, [[AlternateCompanyEquivalent very closely modeled]] after Apple's infamous "I'm a Mac and I'm a PC" ads. Mere months later, T-Mobile was almost absorbed into AT&T.
13* Alltel Wireless also ran a series of ads spoofing their competition, with takeoffs of AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint "employees" featured (and the Verizon character often the butt of the jokes) -- until merger talks between Alltel and Verizon heated up. The Verizon character was quietly dropped late in the campaign -- shortly before Alltel itself was dropped into Verizon.
14* Lebron James appeared in a State Farm commercial where he dreamed of playing for the Cleveland Browns. The team they were playing? The MIAMI Dolphins.
15* Platform/SegaSaturn [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-lCJr0yVo8 vs.]] [[Platform/PlayStation "Plaything"]]. The MediaNotes/ConsoleWars would determine which one was worthy. It was the [=PlayStation=].
16* [[http://www.x-entertainment.com/messages/629.html An article]] on X-Entertainment points this out about [[Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial a Reese's Pieces commercial starring an alien]].
17* Creator/{{Sega}}'s very [[TakeThat attack-oriented advertisement campaign]] with arrogant claims and insults directed at Creator/{{Nintendo}} in TheNineties led to many instances of this trope:
18** The Game Gear commercials poked fun at the Platform/GameBoy's graphical limitations. Everyone forgot about the Platform/GameGear's existence before Nintendo even announced the Platform/GameBoyColor.
19** "Genesis does what Nintendon't." One decade-and-a-half later, Sega decides to release a special version of the Genesis [[http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/sega-zone-the-genesis-with-a-wiimote-nobody-asked-for/ with Wii-mote inspired controllers.]]
20** "Genesis does what Nintendon't" doesn't mean anything anymore now that the Wii's Platform/VirtualConsole service has Genesis games. A few years later, the Platform/Nintendo3DS is announced to have plans for Platform/GameGear games on its own Virtual Console. It didn’t happen, but the Platform/NintendoSwitch has a collection of Sega games on its virtual console and since Platform/GameBoy and Platform/GameBoyAdvance were added later, Game Gear games could happen.
21** Also, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCQRcinZYH8 one infamous Sega CD commercial]] has become this. "You still don't have a Sega CD? What are you waiting for, Nintendo to make one?!" Nintendo was actually the last console maker to get into using optical media (though despite a common misconception, Gamecube and Wii discs aren't [=CDs=]--they're more like [=DVDs=]).
22*** In a way, Nintendo had the last laugh on this one. They actually did attempt to contract with Sony to develop a CD-ROM add-on for the SNES. The deal went sour, resulting in Sony developing the device into a [[Platform/PlayStation stand-alone console]] which went on to become a significant factor in Sega's exit from the console market altogether.
23* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-adG9pcRhrA One old]] "Creator/CartoonNetwork Responds" bumper had them respond to a Creator/JimCarrey fan who asked them for a picture of him. They told said fan they'd never show anything with Jim Carrey in it. Fast forward to their shift to live-action programming, and they eventually would show both ''Film/TheMask'' and ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas''.[[note]]They seem to at least vaguely remember said bumper, though - while [[{{Sequelitis}} terrible sequels to Jim Carrey movies which don't feature Jim Carrey in them]] are aired as often as anything else, CN's only shown ''The Mask'' and ''Grinch'' one time each.[[/note]] What's also damning about that ad is the majority of the characters listed in it are no longer shown on the network.
24* Another [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6juEOmOaYVk Cartoon Network]] promo. The time, early 2000s. Cartoon Cartoons were the Kings and Queens of the Network, Scrappy Doo and his fellow Hanna-Barbera cartoons forced out to be shown less in favor of Cartoon Cartoons. The time, late 2010s, Warner Brothers has released a little over half of their Hanna Barbera offerings to DVD, and very few of the Cartoon Cartoon offerings. It's almost as if one seems to attract a bigger audience for perpetual re watching and the other doesn't. Hmm so Creator/CartoonNetwork which one did people more want to rewatch? Looks like Scrappy had a point after all.
25** It got even harsher. In 2017 WB re-released most of the store editions of the HB shows with brand new discs manufactured. In 2019 WB re-released several CN originals to remove the Turner name from them. The ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' Season One sets were left overs of the first run with press material still in printed from 2007! ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' Season one re-release were the 2007 sets with a new slip cover and some allegations some were broken down parts of complete series collections. Some didn't even get these at all. And yes, by comparison even Scrappy freakin' Doo appeared on new discs. That's some burn.
26* Continuing on with this trend. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4On14MnZEs0 This]] ad is one of many to utilize [[WesternAnimation/TheKwickyKoalaShow Kwicky Koala]] as a punching bag. While not as damning to Hanna Barbera as a whole, the implication being no one would want to watch reruns of Kwicky Koala. Of course Cartoon Network would indeed start showing more and more reruns of their original cartoons over and over. Now fastforward to now again where Kwicky Koala and other short lived Creator/HannaBarbera cartoons can all sell well and fine on dvd, while dvds for more prominent Creator/CartoonNetwork shows like ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' are still stalled due to them not selling so hot. Who's pounding the bed in frustration now CN? Certainly not Kwicky Koala's fans.
27* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h97Pa-SQ0RQ This]] ball really does keep rolling. Again a Hanna Barbera [[WesternAnimation/DinoBoy character]] is shown to be not happy about how much less work he's gotten since it "got crowded". Back then he had to show the new guy around before getting the boot to maybe being shown on Creator/{{Boomerang}}. Now realize how this commercial could be switched with Edd as the old veteran showing another new guy around, and so on and so on. What goes around comes around and oh yeah. Ugh now can get all of his "work" on your dvd player while again Double D's "work" is still only partially available.
28* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfJBOfaBLmI The famous CN parking lot ad]] is also funny in another way in hindsight. The primary joke being the cartoons can't find parking spots because the network keeps adding more and more shows to the lineup. Back then the network had dozens of different shows airing throughout the week. Nowadays with their lineup so limited the modern characters have their pick of multiple parking spots.
29* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OovlCx_lrK4 This CN ad]] is also harsh but for different reasons. Eddy here disrespects Captain Planet which is in itself funny, but has become harsher given the internet divide between Cohen-era CN fans and Samples-era CN fans. Regardless of what they like or dislike either ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' or ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'' most Cohen era fans know exactly who they are. But it has become apparent there is a lot of CowboyBebopAtHisComputer in regards to older shows among Samples-era fans. As such it's not hard to see this ad also represent these two fanbases arguments over the last two decades.
30** As of 2019 all of these Cartoon Network examples are now even more hilarious given that new owners AT&T just basically handed them over to Warner Bros. The separate Turner culture that helped spawn commercials like these about their old characters just got handed to the people who have kept them alive since then.
31* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ2N0kZgOXY This 2007 Honda Civic Hybrid ad mocking the Toyota Prius "Yes" campaign]] is hilarious enough on its own, but not long afterwards, Honda reintroduced their Insight hybrid as a five-door hatchback which looked a hell of a lot like the car they were making fun of before.
32* [[http://responsiblemarketing.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/camel-moredoctors.jpg More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette]]
33* In some old Windows 95 commercials (such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw-GGT6900s this one here]]), Microsoft used a 2 by 2 grid of squares that were colored the same way as the Windows flag in order to demonstrate certain features, though it wasn't their official logo. 17 years later, Windows 8 shows up with a more tablet-oriented UI. [[http://i.s-microsoft.com/global/ImageStore/PublishingImages/logos/hp/logo-lg-1x.png Guess what their logo turns into?]]
34* The Brazilian arm of Fiat made [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERDj5OKH0eI an ad]] related to the 2013 Confederations Cup, entitled "Come to the Street", described as "the biggest bleacher of Brazil". Given that at the same time [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_protests_in_Brazil huge protests emerged in the country]], the revolted people embraced it as an anthem. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3lCMiUAJ90 "Come to the Street"]] became their motto (along with "The Giant Awoke", taken from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLU95q0BgQA a Johnnie Walker ad]]) and was stamped and sung everywhere.
35* Creator/SarahMichelleGellar did an ad for Burger King complaining that rivals do not have as much meat, she was about six at the time. Today [[PetitePride she has less meat]] than some girls at the same age she did the ad.
36** Also, the rivals in Gellar's Burger King commercials included [=McDonald's=]. Thirty years later, Gellar would play an advertising executive on ''Series/TheCrazyOnes''. Guess who [[UsefulNotes/McDonalds their first client]] was.
37* In a Dutch ad for distance education service LOI, well-known lawyer Bram Mozkowicz is involved in a - very minor - traffic collision, and is stunned by the other party's legal knowledge. In 2014, an automobile police chase in Amsterdam came to an abrupt halt when the perpetrator's car crashed into Mozkowicz's Aston Martin, with Mozkowicz inside. (Thankfully, nobody was hurt.)
38* During the 2014 [[UsefulNotes/TheWorldCup FIFA World Cup]], Singapore ran a public service campaign on problem gambling; one [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRValgHDvxE advertisement]] showed a group of children discussing who would win. It then cuts to a depressing shot of a sad young boy hoping for Germany to win, as his dad bet all of his son's savings on them. Depressing ... until [[CurbStompBattle Germany beat Brazil 7-1]], and eventually won the whole thing.
39** Which, to give them some credit, they replied to with [[http://www.ncpg.org.sg/en/PublishingImages/1000x311_homebanner_new.jpg even more depressing ad]]
40* In 2002, Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} ran a Advertising/{{Nickmas}} bumper that was a parody of ''WesternAnimation/FrostyTheSnowman'' with [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants Patrick Star]] playing the snowman. Three years later, ''The Legend of Frosty the Snowman'' comes out with Creator/BillFagerbakke, Patrick's voice actor, playing Frosty.
41* A Nickelodeon bumper from 1980 (long before it had its signature orange splat logo, or even its silver ball logo) featured a mime reading a magazine with "Nickelodeon" as the title, a decade before Magazine/NickelodeonMagazine began publication.
42* During his time with the [[UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation NBA]]'s Charlotte Hornets, star power forward Larry Johnson did a commercial as part of the Converse "Grandmama" series where Johnson (as Grandmama) was stuck in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT_3YaOQcXo three-point land and needed to get to the low post]]. Partly because of a 1993 knee injury, Johnson would later develop into a decent outside shooter for someone in his position; with his most famous individual play coming at the end of game 3 of the 1999 Eastern Conference Finals between the New York Knicks (which Johnson had joined in 1996) and Indiana Pacers when Johnson hit a three-pointer that became known as a "four-point play" due to Johnson being fouled and sinking the free throw for the winning points in the 92-91 victory en route to the last-seeded Knicks winning the series in 6 games and going to the NBA Finals.
43* Similar to the Sega vs. Nintendo ads listed above, Apple once regularly ran ads such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6PoLiXCA40 this one]] making fun of the Intel processors used in [=PCs=] while touting the superiority of the [=PowerPC=] chips that Macs used. Fast forward to the mid-2000's, and Apple announces that they're switching their computers from [=PowerPC=] chips to Intel ones. From the start of the Intel transition to the present, Apple's promotional material has continuously sang the praises of Intel's [=CPUs=], [[NiceJobBreakingItHero which was somewhat necessary because of the rabid hatred for Intel that they had cultivated among their fanbase.]]
44* A Advertising/{{Geico}} commercial had the caveman playing against Brian Orakpo in Scrabble. The caveman's shirt resembled the colors of Tennessee Titans, who Orakpo would sign for next.
45* One of the first European slogans for Sony's Platform/PlayStation was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIyEqpYnEaU Do Not Underestimate The Power Of PlayStation]]. Coincidentally the console took the video game industry by storm despite people within Sony, video game journalists and consumers claiming that ItWillNeverCatchOn before release.
46* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w6lLEXQTs8 This]] 1981 commercial for Polaroid starring Franchise/TheMuppets has Gonzo lamenting that no one wants a picture of his face. While it should be a TearJerker, it becomes delightfully ironic if you remember that [[http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/muppet/images/2/27/Tms-season4.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20090914162710 Gonzo was going to be on the cover]] for the [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes/LiveActionTV stalled]] ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' Season 4 DVD...
47* An Italian toy company named Giochi Preziosi has a collectibles division named [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCimxHPea5Vu0dGI4evOVWdA Preziosi Collection]]. Each of it's commercials end with a white ghost mascot swinging his arms and pointing them as he sings the company's jingle. A few years after the first ad with said tag aired, ''Anime/YoKaiWatch'' would have an opening credits sequence where a white ghost character who looks similar to the company's mascot does a similar dance along with other characters.
48* Creator/GeneWilder starred in and narrated [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9brGyeXVh7E this Tootsie Roll commercial]], about a candy maker who dreads leaving the Tootsie Roll factory, because of candy thieves. Three years later, he starred in ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'', as a candy maker who actually never leaves his factory.
49* In 1999, Creator/KidsWB was hosted by the members of Music/BarenakedLadies for what was to be called "Naked Day", a promo for which featured [[WesternAnimation/{{Histeria}} network censor Lydia Karaoke]] advising the viewer to wear clothes in spite of the name. Incidentally, the network received complaints about the name, forcing it to be changed to "BNL Day".
50** Wait... [[WesternAnimation/{{WallE}} BnL]] day?
51* This [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLSsswr6z9Y 1993 ad]] for the Advertising/GotMilk campaign runs on the premise that only an obsessed nerd would know who shot Alexander Hamilton. As of the release of the popular Broadway musical ''[[Theatre/{{Hamilton}} Hamilton]]'', few people today would find that a difficult question.
52* This [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr_bizbxTiU Dutch ad for an English language school]] (NSFW for language) becomes funnier when the girl on the back right grew up to be porn star Anjelica Ebbi.
53* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1dJZLdqTFU A Coca-Cola commercial promoting the 2017 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament]] has a group of Kentucky fans forced to take refuge at a rival Kansas fan's house due to a power outage while the two teams are playing each other. After both teams' eliminations in the Elite Eight by North Carolina and Oregon, respectively, students of both of the winning colleges heavily mocked the commercial on Twitter.
54* The unfortunately named [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayds "Ayds"]] diet pill from the 1970s to the 1980s has led to much [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBkVuT5pw1g retrospective]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP_uiiRAZqs hilarity]] from its commercials. Not coincidentally, it was withdrawn from the market soon after awareness of the AIDS epidemic became more widespread.
55-->'''Announcer:''' Question: Why take diet pills when you can enjoy Ayds?
56* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRqypM7jb5Y NBC's second "Ted Lasso" advertisement for their Premier League coverage]] ended with fictional coach Ted Lasso being offered a job at newly-promoted Leicester, who were expected by many to be relegation strugglers. Cue the laughter when Leicester won the league in 2016.
57* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIE8xk6Rl1w This]] Apple commercial predicts the [=iPhone=] with Siri in ''1987''.
58* A 1980's American Express ad features a businessman getting in trouble in France, after hitting his head and saying "[[Film/{{Timeline}} I am a spy]]."
59* The [[Advertising/TheCrashDummies Vince and Larry]] [=PSAs=] (the crash dummies encouraging seat belt use) had one where they promote an album of songs they supposedly recorded. (All of the songs seem to themed around injuries from a car accident.) This was before we heard from the band Music/CrashTestDummies. (Their lyrics tend to be rather dark as well.)
60* During its 2002 Kids Choice Awards, Nickelodeon aired a commercial where some of Nicktoon's biggest stars at the time [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfFFM2bLPZY would duke it out against each other]] [[{{Animesque}} anime-style]]. Five years later, a show called ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' came along. And five more years later, [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-03-11/u.s.s-nickelodeon-tv-channel-adds-dragon-ball-z-kai this happens]].
61* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MPbJaGWbrs This 1964 ad]] for President's Johnson's reelection campaign features a buzzing phone labeled "White House", claimed to only ring in times in crisis. It asks the viewer to vote for Johnson, who has "proven himself responsible" to answer the phone on such occasions. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yr7odFUARg Sounds familiar?]]
62* During the 2004-2005 [[UseFulNotes/NationalFootballLeague NFL season]], franchise Philadelphia Eagles quarterback, Donovan [=McNabb=], was featured on a series of Campbells soup commercials. His team made it to the Superbowl that season where he threw up during the game out of nervousness. The jokes that most people made after the game, where the Eagles lost to the New England Patriots, was that [=McNabb=] ate too much Campbells soup.
63* A 1997 print ad for Nokia phones boasted, "Ten years from now, people will still say 'cool phone.'" Ten years later, the [=iPhone=] came out that would render Nokia-style phones obsolete. On the other hand, the Nokia phone's incredibly sturdiness compared to newer smartphones prompted it to MemeticBadass status in the early [=2010s=].
64%% * Clinton wasn't the first President to [[http://med.stanford.edu/ohns/tobacco_ads/images/for_your_health/inhale/large/inhale_13.jpg not inhale.]] All of [[https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=hp&biw=1595&bih=752&q=reagon+cigerette+ads&gbv=2&oq=reagon+cigerette+ads&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_l=img.3...1310l7942l0l8096l20l20l0l10l0l0l253l1376l0j5j2l7l0.frgbld.#hl=en&gbv=2&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=ZmxvT-KhI-HK2AWooojxAQ&ved=0CEEQvwUoAQ&q=reagan+cigarette+ads&spell=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=1&biw=1595&bih=752 Reagan's cigarette ads]] qualify (and a lot of other tobacco product ads on the [[http://med.stanford.edu/ohns/tobacco_ads/images/for_your_health/inhale/large/inhale_01.jpg subject of inhaling.]])
65* Land-O-Lakes dairy products were frequently abbreviated to "LOL" on receipts and signs some time before the text speak meaning of "Laughing Out Loud". You may LOL if you see LOL CHEESE on your receipt these days...
66* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IsDYNPPwiU This]] late-2000s NoTalkingOrPhonesWarning from Sprint focuses on a fictional movie about a hedgehog, with serious debate among the creative team about making a big last-minute change to the title character's design (specifically, [[HalfDressedCartoonAnimal whether he should wear pants.]]) Life would imitate art with ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020'' and its redesign of the title character's model ''after the first trailer had already dropped'' due to the terrible public reception.
67* A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3CcKvU4NXg Gushers commercial]] sang about a boy with a blue Gusher in his eye. The placement and color of the Gusher has him resembling [[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} a certain infamous skeleton.]]
68* [[https://youtu.be/cEN00wMFB2A In this Korean TV ad]] for the Platform/PlayStation4, a husband tries to lie to his skeptical wife that the new [=PS4=] that a technician installed in their living room is actually a [=WiFi=] Router called "Plash Speed". Then came the Platform/PlayStation5, which many joke look like a [=WiFi=] Router.
69* In the 90's, Cartoon Network once held a Franchise/{{LEGO}} giveaway sweepstakes, the gimmick being Scooby-Doo and Shaggy terrified at the sight of so many LEGO sets. It would be nearly two decades until the Scooby-Doo franchise itself becomes a LEGO licensee as well.
70* A Gilette ad promoting ''Film/ManOfSteel'' asked [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EmF0d9cXYAA7d9M?format=jpg&name=small how Superman shaves.]] After Creator/HenryCavill returned to play Superman in ''Film/JusticeLeague2017'', but couldn't shave the mustache he grew for a role in ''Film/MissionImpossibleFallout'', it seems the answer is, "They just edit his facial hair out."
71* In the very early 2000s, some Disney [=DVDs=] [[https://youtu.be/Zj_XAIPqf7s had]] [[https://youtu.be/fNZrm-gza2o promos]] for the all-new Disney California Adventure. In them, the citizens of Disneyland were trying to get a look at their new neighbor, with [[Franchise/ToyStory Buzz Lightyear]] spying on the park and relaying the details to his friends (including Woody and [[WesternAnimation/ABugsLife Flik]]), while dissuading them from going over to the park themselves. Flik and his friends would soon get their own section of the park, ''A Bug’s Land'', which lasted more than a decade. Woody and Buzz would get a midway ride at DCA in 2011, and with the retheming of Paradise Pier, their [[Creator/{{Pixar}} many unborn co-workers]] would all but take over the place!
72** In the first ad, Buzz compliments a “nice limo.” The apparent reference, ''Ride/SuperstarLimo'', would go down as the most unpopular and unsuccessful ride in the park, closing within the year and replaced by... a ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' ride!
73* A Domino’s Pizza ad from late 2020 depicted UsefulNotes/{{NASCAR}} driver Denny Hamlin stopping at a Domino’s restaurant to pick up a pizza in his stock car and fire suit. The 2021 Daytona 500, three months later, would have a six-hour delay due to inclement weather[[note]]NASCAR races cannot be performed in the rain due to the lack of treads on the tires.[[/note]], during which fellow driver Ross Chastain got drive-thru food while still in his fire suit.
74* An ad for ''VideoGame/TyTheTasmanianTiger'' featured three competitors -- [[Franchise/SpyroTheDragon "Dragon"]], [[Franchise/CrashBandicoot "Bandicoot"]], and [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog "Hedgehog"]] -- bandaged up after being hit with Ty's boomerang. Then Ty walks in and spooks them into flatlining. The ad is amusingly ironic now that Ty hasn't had a new (non-port) game since 2013 while all three of his competitors are continuing franchises with more mainstream popularity.
75* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gxQRM3y1Hw A 1988 ad ]] promoting the VHS release of ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet4TheDreamMaster'' took on a Christmas theme and had Robert Englund, in character as Freddy Krueger, making a quip about "Freddy's nightmare before Christmas" - this being five years before ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'' was released. Later in the ad, Freddy dons a fake Santa Claus beard and makes a pun about "Santy Claws" while brandishing his iconic clawed glove - in ''Nightmare Before Christmas'', Santa is mistakenly referred to as "Sandy Claws", so citizens of Halloween Town expect him to have claws.
76* In early 2000s there was a Gamefly store commercial where customers walked to a store that only had games such as Let's Count Sand, Bean Farmer Extreme and Let's Wait In Line or Nada 3. Ten years passed and Steam was filled with games such as Garbage Truck Simulator and Line Ninulator. And three games called Nothing.
77* [[https://youtu.be/jPWAirq-OQ4 A short ad]] for the 1999 Oslo Gay and Lesbian film festival in Norway features a Main/{{Disneyesque}} Literature/TheFrogPrince parody that has a princess kiss a frog that turns into another princess who she then kisses. Just 10 years later, Creator/{{Disney}} themselves would adapt ''The Frog Prince'' into an [[WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog animated film]] (though it's purely a heterosexual romance in Disney's film).
78* During Super Bowl LVI, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWMnbJJpeZc FTX aired an ad]] with Creator/{{Larry David}} brazenly dismissing various inventions and ideas (Like the Wheel, the Declaration of Independence, the Lightbulb, and the Walkman) before dismissing FTX, with the ad stating: "Don't be like Larry." While it was a pretty funny ad when it aired, it became absolutely hilarious [[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-11/ftx-com-goes-bankrupt-in-stunning-reversal-for-crypto-exchange when FTX not only filed for bankrupcy]],[[https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/13/sam-bankman-fried-ran-ftx-as-fraud-from-the-start-sec-charges.html but was also revealed to be a fraud]], specifically a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme Ponzi Scheme]], proving that Larry really did have a reason to be skeptical.
79* A series of Brazilian advertisements for the candy bar [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milkybar Milkybar]] from the 90s featured, as the product's mascot, an animated Milkybar with a blue wrapper, sneakers, and a red baseball cap which he wore backwards. Decades later, the design has become uncannily reminiscent of Boyfriend from ''VideoGame/FridayNightFunkin''.
80* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhbliUq0_r4 This]] Greenpeace PSA, about Toys/{{LEGO}}'s partnership with Shell, features a DarkReprise of "[[WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie Everything is Awesome]]," with the PSA itself being titled "Everything is NOT awesome." Come ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie2TheSecondPart'', and "Everything's Not Awesome" becomes an actual song of a similar nature. [[spoiler:At least for its first half, anyway]].

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