Ascended Meme / Advertising

• If you watch TV late at night, you can see the ordinary Vince Offer Slap Chop commercial has been replaced by this wonderful gem, though, presumably due to rights issues, the bits from Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo are sadly replaced with some new footage of break-dancers.
  • And the other Vince Offer commercial for ShamWOW towels has been replaced by this.
• The Snickers commercial wherein a football player gets a concussion and thinks he's Batman was referenced by Tampa Bay Rays player Will Rhymes after he got nailed with a pitch.
• For a long time, the M&M/Mars company ignored the urban legend that green M&Ms are an aphrodisiac. In 1997, they embraced it, introducing the sexy "Ms. Green" character, with the slogan "what is it about the green ones?" In 2008, they began selling bags of all-green M&Ms for Valentine's Day.
• Netflix began using the tagline "Watch Responsibly" following the running joke about users Archive Bingeing on seasons of certain shows at a time.
• The HeadOn headache medicine. The original commercial's repitition of the slogan ("HeadOn! Apply directly to the forehead!") in the commercials annoyed enough people that complaining about it/making fun of became a thing. Cue a year or so later, they had incorporated making fun of the original commercial's reputation for being irritating into the new version.
• For the release of Internet Explorer 9 in 2012, Windows actually started an ad campaign that acknowledged the rampant jokes about Internet Explorer's uselessness, calling it "The Browser You Loved to Hate" and featuring tongue-in-cheek testimonials from people who couldn't believe that IE9 was actually fast and reliable.
• Ever since TV Land acquired the right to reruns of Walker, Texas Ranger, all the commercials they use are basically Chuck Norris Facts, to the extent of "When does Chuck Norris watch Walker, Texas Ranger? Whenever he feels like it. However, you can catch it now on TV Land!"
• After Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" became a huge hit, Teen Spirit deodorant used the title as a catchphrase in a commercial.
• At the 2010 Super Bowl, Volkswagen ran an ad riffing on the long-standing "Punch Buggy" game (where you punch someone every time a VW Beetle goes by and shout out the color). The ad finishes with Stevie Wonder of all fucking people pulling this on Tracey Morgan. However, they messed it up by having the people in the commercial do it for any Volkswagon, and not just the Beetle.
• On August 26, 2020, the Sunkist Twitter account posted this image of Sunkist, The Perfect Dog in honor of National Dog Day.
• In December 2020, Burger King made a Burger King version of "Carol of the Bells," based on this video parodying the song with Burger King.
• The Jake from State Farm campaign started as a reenactment of a one-off commercial from several years earlier that had become popular on the internet.
• McDonald's has adopted some of the casual nicknames people have used for it into its corporate branding, like Mickey D's and, in Australia, Macca's.
• In July 2007, a bunch of Chilean high school students uploaded a Parody Commercial, full of Innocent Innuendoes, promoting an energy drink called Tula (local slang for penis). It became a meme, and, in March 2019, almost 12 years later, the drink was actually launched into the market.

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