1 | * Tony Jr., who was on the first Frosted Flakes boxes with his father Tony (who replaced Katy the Kangaroo). He disappeared in 1956, only to come back as a BrickJoke in 1977 as the mascot of Frosted Rice. |
2 | ** When Frosted Rice moved over to be a product of the Rice Krispies line, Tony Jr. again disappeared. |
3 | * Subverted with the ever-popular "Jack" mascot of Jack in the Box restaurants was originally...well, a jack-in-the-box. He was [[StuffBlowingUp blown up]], box and all, in a memorable 1980 TV commercial that at the time was supposed to symbolize Jack's attempting to rebrand itself as a more "sophisticated" restaurant. Fifteen years later, after [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks the image makeover had failed miserably]], Jack returned, "thanks to the miracle of plastic surgery", Jack returned as a human with a big plastic clown's head and took his revenge on the advertisers by blowing ''them'' up. |
4 | * [[AerithAndBob Bob and Quienno]], the other two chefs of Cinnamon Toast Crunch; the most common and accepted of EpilepticTrees is that Wendell killed them. |
5 | ** The most recent boxes don't even seem to have Wendell on them. |
6 | * There was a British TV campaign in which [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzlXw2mkSVM an alien from the planet Zarg]] claimed his world was dying and could only be saved by a soft drink called Quosh. Nothing was ever heard from Zarg again, and one can only fear the worst. |
7 | * Deliberately invoked in a commercial for Orbitz, in which an Orbitz representative stops by three members of a group of four friends, giving them a package of benefits from Orbitz, while the fourth is ignored and gets nothing. |
8 | * A commercial for Linzess starts with a man explaining that despite his monthly routine, he's still having issues, and his doctor diagnosed him with IBSC. Right after the man says this, the commercial abruptly changes focus to a woman, and the man is never heard from again. |
9 | * A commercial for Hammerite paint showed four rusty suits of AnimatedArmour marching into a junkyard, there to paint each other with the product -- and at the end, three brightly-painted suits walked out. So are we to assume the fourth was broken down for spares to repair the other three? |
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