Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog does this in "Sonic's Song", which features a record album by a band called "KIZZ", complete with a similar logo. Another one appears in the episode "The Mobius 5000" with a brand of gasoline called "86", complete with ball logonote Which ultimately leads to the "86 on the chicken" joke..
American Dad! has the department stores C. J. Neppey (J. C. Penney), Big Buy (Best Buy), and CostGo (Costco).
In the Halloween episode, Francine mentions going to Tar-Jays (Target, but playing off the joke of pronouncing the name as if it were French in order to make it sound more upscale) and picking up some Huggies.
A Stardoes appears in "Arthur's Perfect Christmas".
Another episode has a thinly disguised Brosnan-eraJames Bond film with the hero named James Houndnote "James Hound" is also the name of a little known Terrytoons character..
And of course there's Bionic Bunny, who is totally not Superman. (Though he has a different origin story from what little we see of his show; apparently he's a cyborg instead of an alien, making him more a reference to The Six Million Dollar Man) A later episode has a show called Dark Bunny, seemingly a counterpart to Batman.
Teletubbies has been parodied three times on the show. Once as the show "Love Ducks" in season 4, "Vidiboobies" in Season 5, and "Silly Squirrels" (which is a combination of that show and Care Bears). in Season 10. Additionally the same episode to feature the "Vidiboobies" also featured an un-named parody of Rugrats
One of Arthur's favorite shows is The Magic Toolbox, which features the segment "And Now Let's Talk To Some Kids".
In one episode, the Tibble Twins object to watching Pumpkins In Pants.
The opening of "Bleep" features Arthur on the set of The Altos, a parody of The Sopranos.
The episode "Too Much of a Good Thing" in season 19 has Buster addicted to Kit Scout cookies Tuvaluna, their version of the Girl Scouts cookie Samoas. Both are made of coconut, caramel, and chocolate coating and named after Polynesian nations (Tuvalu and Samoa), although Tuvaluna's also includes cashew nuts.
The episode "A Date With The Health Inspector" features the search for the "Xbox Killer". Though dialogue referred to the Xbox by name, the console itself was drawn with a Y-shaped motif on top in place of the X-shaped motif found on real Xboxes.
The episode "Smokin' With Cigarettes" featured Creepy Child Lamilton Taeshawn beating up his grandmother at a local "Walli-Mart." Curiously, Wal-Mart is referred to by name in later episodes.
In "The Fried Chicken Flu" we have Bluto's (Popeyes), Temple's Chicken (Church's Chicken) and Chick-Le-Fay (Chick-fil-a).
Carol and the End of the World usually uses real brands, but one episode shows Eric passed out next to a back of Zay's Chips (Lay's).
In the ChalkZone episode "That Thing You Drew", Rudy Tabootie's favorite comic book artist "Drew Yerface" has a "Beep" in his driveway.
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers doesn't make a lot of use of this trope, but it does have an episode ("The Case of the Cola Cult") partly revolving around a beverage named "Coo-Coo Cola"note Which has been used in other animated productions as well. While there isn't any Coke-like logo seen anywhere, the theme song mentioned that "it's bottled in Pensacola" where the Coca-Cola Company did have a bottling plant at that time.
The opening titles of The Critic once spoofed 2001: A Space Odyssey, with the film's famous monolith turning out to be a vending machine from which early man buys a can of "Pensa Cola".
Dee Dee owns dolls of Darbie and Ben instead of Barbie and Ken.
Dee Dee is also a fan of Pony Puff Princess, a reference to My Little Pony G1. One of the ponies was even voiced by a voice actress who voiced a pony character in one of the cartoons.
In the episode "Doug's Lost Weekend", Doug acquires a "Super Pretendo" video game console.
A background shot in another episode reveals that Bluffington has a "Worst Eastern" hotel.
A Disney episode shows Beebe Bluff with a laptop whose brand wasn't mentioned, but has the logo of a beet (a Running Gag in the show) and a UI that is suspiciously that of classic Mac OS.
In the original pilot, Cosmo and Wanda first appear to Timmy by popping out of his Magic 9 Ball (Magic 8 Ball).
The episode "Foul Balled" features the New York Bankees baseball team. (Oddly enough "It's a Wishful Life" mentions the Chicago Cubs being an actual team in their world too)
Another episode deals with a string of robberies at "Wall 2 Wall Mart"
One episode plot involves Timmy getting a job as a basketball ballboy to pay for a new V Cube (combo of Xbox and Nintendo GameCube) game system.
The Family Guy episode "Halloween on Spooner Street" gives us this exchange near the end:
Stewie: Brian, you took me out on my first Halloween tonight, and you showed me an exciting time. And for that, I'm going to let you pick out some candy from my bag. Brian: Oh, thanks. Stewie: And keep in mind we can't use any brand names, due to advertising concerns. Brian: Right, okay, I'll have a Mr. Wiffle bar, a Kooky Nut Pop, some Gyminyms, uh, a Zip-Zap, a Choco-Buddy, uh, a $64000 Bar, a Not-A-Finger, and a Dawkin's Peanut Butter Disk. Stewie: God, I hate television...
Similar dialogue appears in "Cool Hand Peter":
Peter: Boy, I feel like I haven't eaten in a week. Hey, if we pass a McDaniel's or a Burger Queen, let's hop out. Quagmire: Oh, that's right. We're on television. Joe: Oh, I'd love a flame-broiled Bopper! Quagmire: So frustrating. We all know what we're talking about!
Later:
Joe: I put in a call from the McDaniel's payphone while you guys were getting that nine-piece Chicken McFingers and those Diet Conks and those Fresh Fries. Quagmire: Oh, come o- Th-they don'town French fries!
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: "Bloo's Brothers" has Mac and Bloo excited about getting tickets to the "Ice Charades". Lampshaded in the lyrics to the Ice Charades theme song:
Oh, Ice Charades, you're so icy and fun! Oh, Ice Charades, it's not the "capade" one!
There are many "futuristic" versions of real trademarks that have no relation to the plot. They include MmmTV, 8-Twelve, loudspeakers from Sonya, Admiral Crunch, Archduke Chocula, 7^11 (Open 28 Hours), πKEA! (Enjoy your affordable Swedish crap!), (Kid)Nappster, Iffy Pop popcorn, Mom's eyePhone and Taco Bellvue Hospital: Normal, healthy baby? Supersize it for 79 cents!
Patient: How's my tumor, doctor? Chihuahua in Doctor Clothes: ...Grande.
The "Box" Network which cancelled Planet Express (whose neon "B" on their building logo once glitched to look like an "F") is demonized after Futurama was cancelled by the Fox Network. Their tirades against Box also introduce us to Carton Network.
Futuristic product placement is even used in the closing logo, which reads "30th CENTURY FOX TELEVISION" (or "30th TELEVISION" in syndication), which was replaced by "30TH TELEVISION ANIMATION" in the Hulu era of the series.
The Goofy short titled No Smoking features the brand "Phylis Morrison", likely a spoof of Philip Morris.
Aside from multiple fake brands that don’t parody a specific one, such as Beeblyboop Electronics and the frequently appearing peach-flavored Pitt Cola, these products appear several times in Gravity Falls:
Gideon imprisons a shrunken Mabel in a bag of Gummy Koalas in "Little Dipper".
Most of the "loser candy" from the Halloween Episode "Summerween" is this in-universe, including Gummy Chairs and Mr. Adequate Bars.
The episode "Dungeons, Dungeons, and More Dungeons" is about the titular Dungeons & Dragons stand-in.
In "The Last Mabelcorn" Dipper and Mabel look for a board game to play from a closet that includes Battlechutes & Ladderships, Necronomiconopoly, and Don't Wake Stalin (they eventually go with the JumanjiShout-Out What Could Go Wrong?).
In the two part episode, The Stingers Hit Town, one scene involves Jem and the Holograms being honored at the "Rock Hard" Cafe.
The music video to "Designing Woman" is set in a shoe store and features several knockoff shoe brand names. Such examples include "Shebak", "CA NIKE", "Raddidis", and "TUNA".
One episode of Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures had Race breaking into a building using a Nisa (Visa) credit card. And then there's CNNN. "As close as it can get" is right...
The show's characters, particularly Stumpy and Pretty, use a social networking site called Fakebook, an obvious parody of Facebook.
On occasions, they play a game called "Me-Me-Nopoly" (Monopoly).
One episode had the gang use "Gogol-Maps"note The French word "gogol" can be translated to "dummy". This show is originally French., a parody of Google Maps.
Designer brands in the show's universe include Chamel (for Chanel) and Loubouctin (for Louboutin).
A number of scenes take place in Luly's Cafeteria. The restaurant and its logo are a blatant pastiche of Luby's, but odds are that viewers who haven't been to Texas have probably never heard of it.
They also have the Mega-Lo-Mart, which has driven out independent businesses, including Hank's favorite fishing supply store (but their batteries are sure a good deal).
In the episode, "Death Picks Cotton", the cast eats at a Benihana knock-off called Tokiyaki.
Subverted and later played straight with Whataburger, a popular Texas-based fast food chain that is often name-dropped and visited by the cast throughout the series. A later episode near the end of the show's run inexplicably changes the name to "Want-a Burger".
In The Littles episode "The Wrong Stuff", at least one of the microchips in the space shuttle's computer is made by "Sany".
The Magic School Bus: In the episode "Meets Molly Cule", Dorothy Ann mentions a product called "Mr. Soapy", which might be the show's equivalent to Mr. Bubble.
Splurt Soda (a Squirt Expy) seems to be popular in futuristic Jamaica in Major Lazer.
The Merrie Melodies short "She Was An Acrobat's Daughter" has a "Fertilizer"(Wurlitzer) theatre organ.
In Metalocalypse, Nathan Explosion has a dream about working at Dimmu Burger, both a parody of Burger King and a shout-out to real life metal band Dimmu Borgir.
Molly of Denali: In "The Worm Turns", Molly, Tooey, and Trini look up if giant ice worms are real on a fact-checking site called Snoops.com, an obvious parody of Snopes.com. The giant ice worms later turn out to be a hoax.
Muppet Babies has a Pretendo in the episode "It's Only Pretendo".
In ¡Mucha Lucha!, the Flea's parents run a donut shop called Slammin' Donuts.
In My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, the in-universe game Ogres & Oubliettes are an obvious parody of Dungeons & Dragons. It originally appeared in the comics as a game played by Shining Armor in his youth, and Spike and Bic Mac have taken it up by the time of the show, as seen in the episode "Dungeons & Discord".
Many of Nicktoons TV's earlier station IDs featured late-1990s and early-2000s Nickelodeon IDs with the "Nicktoons" name put in.
The Owl House has a number of occult-themed products appearing as background imagery, such as "Sin-a-Bon" (Cinnabon) and "Hex Mix" (one letter off of Chex Mix).
Phineas and Ferb: Over the credits of "Phineas' Birthday Clip-a-Thon", we hear Candace saying "Mom!" repeatedly, to the tune of the theme song. At the end, she says, "Mom! Phineas and Ferb are digitally tuning my voice!" (rather than AutoTuned.)
Pinky and the Brain are occasionally seen watching television; one of the brands used is Zony.
In the 2010 version of Pound Puppies, Mrs. McLeish entered her puppy into the Northminster Dog Show after being challenged by her rival.
The Powerpuff Girls had Malph's grocery store, referring to Ralph's. It's the West Coast arm of the Kroger chain. Also serves as a shout-out to Ralph Malph, Donny Most's character on Happy Days.
In "Total Rickall," Rick is remembering a barbecue he hosted. He mentions that he's like Tom Cruise in "Cuisine" instead of Cocktail. Played with because he keeps asking if "Cuisine" is the right name, though he never gets an answer.
In "Auto Erotic Assimilation", when Morty and Summer are scared of being killed by an advancing mob, they chant "there's no place like home" from "the Dorothy and the tiny people movie."
"Ricksy Business" contains this exchange alluding to Little Richard and the opening line to "Tutti Frutti":
Rick: It's like that old song, "blomp blomp-a noop noop a-noop noop noop". You guys know that song? From Tiny Rogerts? You never heard of it? You know, the black effeminate guy from the '50s? No-nobody? A-all right, whatever.
Rock, Paper, Scissors: In the episode "Key Limes", as part of Sandpaper making an action movie sequence to get some key limes for a pie, the production studio is named Pain O' Mounts Pictures a parody of the studio, Paramount Pictures.
Also mentioned, Kelly brings her older brother to a Shipley's Donuts look-alike donut shop only to deliver some donuts to the police station before resuming his job as a female superhero.
Referenced on the show is a un-named department store at the Megadale Mall (as much as a girly-ified McDonald's-themed restaurant, known as McRobin's, as a cross between McDonald's and Robin (you know, the sexy-looking heavyweight girl) from Pilotwings 64).
The Coca-Cola Company, a corporate sponsor of SheZow, had the official names of "Kelly", "Maz" and, of course, "SheZow", shown on their "Share a SheOke with" Coke bottles (the word "SheOke" is a nod to the "Coke" product brand).
Screwy Squirrel and Meathead stop during a chase so they can drink Coo-Coo Cola in "Happy Go Nutty." The words are even written in the logo style of Coca-Cola.
Simpsons podcasts generally refer to this phenomenon as a "palport," short for "parallel import." In context, the term is used to call attention to "post-classic" seasons' habit of obscuring brand names for no discernible reason without creating a joke in the process, such as most of the examples below.
In "Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield", Homer Simpson knows that he can trust the "Sorny", "Panaphonics", and "Magnetbox" brand TVs that you find in an outlet store. Then again, he's an idiot and Bart was complaining how they were brand-name ripoffs.
A sci-fi film series called "Cosmic Wars"... which is odd, because the show has made many references to Star Wars.
In "Lisa the Tree-Hugger", they also have Kentucky Fried Panda, named like a mash-up of Kentucky Fried Chicken and Panda Express.
And in "Treehouse of Horror XXI" (see the "Quotes" tab), the names of the board games that Bart and Milhouse look over are Taffyland, Drops and Risers, Consternation, Ravernous Ravernous Rhinos, Mouse Catch, Battleboat, Funopoly, Crate of Apes, Yahtzu, and Tiddlywonks. Plus a scene from a Clue-like game: "Colonel Ketchup, I say it was you that killed him in the parlor with the letter opener."
Homer orders these toppings for his ice cream cone: Snickels, Gooey Bears, Charlottesville Chew, Nice & Many, Kat Kit, Hershel's Smooches, Mrs. Badbar, and Milk Dudes.
"Million Dollar Maybe" features the Funtendo Zii, as well as the couch gag for "Lisa Goes Gaga".
Many of their stores are parodies of real-world stores, with a few name knock-offs: Sprawl-Mart, CostMo. Oddly their store Try-N-Save has a similar sign design as a Chicago business Buy-N-Save which may have been established a couple years later.
"Hungry Hungry Homer"
Bart: Ow! Why did I get this LEGO shirt? Marge: Don't you mean Blocko shirt? Bart: Right, right. Blocko shirt.
Parodied in the episode 'Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life', the family travels and drives by McDonald's, Walmart and 7-11, with Bart saying "I've never heard of any of these places."
And again in "22 Short Films About Springfield", where police officer Eddie talks with Lou and Chief Wiggum about a McDonald's he went to in Shelbyville.
"In the Name of the Grandfather" has Oirish knockoffs of IT companies like Mick-rosoft, Hewlett-Fitzpackard and Cisc'O Systems, in a scene where Lisa is talking about how Ireland has risen to the forefront of technology.
Maggie's plotline in "The Nightmare After Krustmas" involves an Elf on the Shelf stand-in called Gnome In Your Home. Meanwhile, Homer gets a juicer for Christmas and uses it to blend N&N's candy, a Kat-Kit bar, and Fruit Loops cereal.
Subverted with Focusyn in "Brother's Little Helper", which seems to be a stand-in for Ritalin until the end of the episode where Marge says she's getting Bart off of Focusyn... and back on Ritalin.
South Park goes as close as it can get to real brands, with names like "HBC" (NBC), "Harbucks Coffee", "Wall-Mart", and "J-Mart", as well as the "Okama Gamesphere", a pastiche of the Nintendo GameCube. Due to the occasional Product Placement deal, however, some episodes have featured stuff like the PSP or the Nintendo Wii...plus, you know, World of Warcraft.
The "Fantastic Easter Special" episode features a CONY television set.
And of course, Cheesy Poofs, originally intended to be Cheetos Puffs.
The episode "Stanley's Cup" does refer to the actual Pepsi Center (now known as Ball Arena), plus the National Hockey League's Colorado Avalanche and Detroit Red Wings. However, the team uniforms use the town names instead of the logos◊, Reebok (NHL's uniform provider) is disguised as "CLK", and the scoreboard has generic logos. (Amusingly, South Park Studios has long provided its talents\characters to an NHL team, the Los Angeles Kings.)
In "All About Mormons", Gary and his family are shown playing a board game called LIVING, a parody of Hasbro's The Game of Life. Kyle, Stan and Kenny are also shown playing this game in "Cartman Sucks".
Played with in Steven Universe; Steven's current home game system is a DOLPHIN, which in real life was the production codename for the Nintendo GameCube. The system itself is hooked up to a SUMY-brand television. Word of God, however, is that this series takes place in an Alternate History to our own, so these may be actual names, rather than knockoffs. The characters are also seen watching videos on TubeTube, and posting "cheeps" (which correspond to actual tweets on an official Character Blog).
Street Football: In one episode, Eloise makes a web search at Geeglo.
In Super Mario World, the giant television in "Rock TV" is made by Koopasonic (spoofing Panasonic).
Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation has Fowlmouth dragging his date Shirley to a movie theater with a sound system by "THUD", a division of "Mucasfilm Ltd."note "The audience is now deaf."
One of the stores advertised in establishing shots of Beverly Hills Mall is "Kacy's".
In one episode, the spies pose as reporters for a (made up?) magazine called "Geography International".
In another, one scene has "Armando" (Armani) and "Bucca" (likely a parody of Gucci) stores.
In the Transformers: Animated episode "A Fistful of Energon," Bumblebee and Sari are absent due to spending the day at "Five Banners Roller Coaster Kingdom."
The Weekenders has an amusing incident of this. The main characters wanted to go see a sci-fi movie about cosmic battles a long time ago, but were disappointed when they realized they read the movie's title wrong and instead saw a two-hour long documentary about escalators: Stair Wars.
An advertising poster for "Coca Curla" can be seen in the Woody Woodpecker cartoon "Solid Ivory".
The New Woody Woodpecker Show (1999 Fox Kids series) has "Butterscottie Finger-Pies" and they can be seen at "Lash and Nash's Cash and Dash".
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