Up To Eleven / Advertising

• RAZOR BLADES. O Gillette, why would anybody need five blades with only either one chin or two legs? ^note  In theory each additional blade shaves the tiny bit of the whisker that the one before it missed. Presumably this means that the more blades you add, the smaller the remaining bit trimmed by the last one... a literal case of cutting it fine.
  • Michael McIntyre once did a bit on Mock the Week on Gillette ending with "For that closest ever shave. In fact, this one's too close. It'll cut off your face like a potato peeler. Buy the previous Gillette razor, we couldn't get it any closer than that."
  • A long time ago, Saturday Night Live, in response to the 'two blade razors' showed a three-blade razor parody commercial. The fake ad looked completely real until the final line: "Because ... you'll believe anything!"
    • Later, they did another commercial parody about "The Platinum Mach 14" — A razor with 14 blades.
  • One-upped by a real razor ad. The 15-bladed Quintippio is a parody, the actual product is an electric razor.
  • Mad TV one-upped SNL and did a skit with the fiction Spishak Mach 20 which had 20 blades and shaved the man to the bone. Watch it here.
  • Here's a 9- and a 114-bladed razor!
  • The Onion did a parody article called Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades shortly after Schick introduced their four blade razor in response to the popular Mach3. This is made extra hilarious by the fact that this is what Gillette actually did a few years later. And they added one more on the back.
  • Rotoshaver - an actual (electric) razor with 9 blades.
  • The Daily Show spoofed the Razor Wars in an interview segment with the commentator's own 16-blade razor...it included four four-blade razors connected at the handles to a rotating motor. The skit ended with the commentator leaning his face in towards the spinning razors...
  • The Economist published this graph◊ estimating the rate razor blade technology's increase into the future. We will soon have razors with infinite blades.
  • The Other Wiki's article on technological singularities used to predict this would happen in 2015, illustrated by a picture of the Schick Infini-T. Then some humorless bastard got hold of the article, obviously.
  • And once again, Irregular Webcomic! plays with it.
  • MAD did a Star-Wars-themed razor parody about a lightsaber razor that actually took off the top layer of skin, but hey, it was cauterized! Closest shave ever!
• "Our Games Go to 11!" was the tagline of defunct publisher Working Designs, known for publishing niche Japanese RPGS in the US with expensive, high-quality packaging (often including lots of feelies).
• The Canadian restaurant chain Pizza Pizza, when it began in Toronto in 1967, decided to adopt a central phone number for all orders once it began expanding in the area. The original number, still in use today, is [phone]... and the chain started using a commercial jingle in which the "1111" is sung as "eleven eleven". As the chain expanded outside the Toronto area and into other parts of Canada, it requested local numbers ending in "1111" in order to match its advertising.
• In one H.H. Gregg Commercial, HH puts an amp to 11.
• A commercial for a Wendy's Sriracha burger featured a brief shot of a dial that went to 11, which is then turned past 11 to "Sriracha".
• A literal example with this advertisement for Mario Party 2.

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