Rabid Fujoshi
It's because the description is all over the place.
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The Other Troper
One problem I have is why is this limited to shaving products ads? This can apply to loads of products that claim extreme science is used to make them.
I'm on the internet. My arguments are invalid.
I see the Awesomeness.
I'm with Dragon. No sense restricting this to shaving products. I might be willing to wall off tech commercials though.
Fight smart, not fair.
I agree with Dragon too. I cant think of other examples offhand, but they belong here, with or without a rename. This trope is about (relatively) simple activities advertised through a fallacious "appeal to science." It's not about razors getting more blades or parodies of that trend.
The Other Troper
Cars often get this, or vacuum cleaners.
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Rabid Fujoshi
Feels like the distaff counterpart to Clarke's Law for Girls' Toys. Anything marketed to guys runs on bleeding-edge technology!
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I, for one (?), think Shaving Is Science is a great name for a trope about cars or vacuum cleaners* advertised through a fallacious "appeal to science."
edited 11th Jan '12 10:58:17 PM by rodneyAnonymous
Becky: Who are you? The Mysterious Stranger: An angel. Huck: What's your name? The Mysterious Stranger: Satan.
I see the Awesomeness.
Hm, I would say it's not quite distaff to Clarke's Law for Girls' Toys. That's directed at young girls. Generally when I see stuff aimed at women, I see much more "all natural" over "magical". Compare shaving ads aimed at men to ads aimed at women (the closest to magical being comparisons to goddesses).
Fight smart, not fair.
Okay Guy
Would anyone object to Science Sells as a possible title or redirect?
Put me in motion, drink the potion, use the lotion, drain the ocean, cause commotion, fake devotion, entertain a notion, be Nova ScotianHm, the parallel to Sex Sells is imperfect, that may be "a general aura of sexiness surrounding the product, even if that makes no sense", not an explicit appeal to a particular sex act. It's okay, though.
Becky: Who are you? The Mysterious Stranger: An angel. Huck: What's your name? The Mysterious Stranger: Satan.
Okay Guy
Ah...we don't need more snow clones at the moment anyway.
edited 12th Jan '12 1:33:15 PM by DrStarky
Put me in motion, drink the potion, use the lotion, drain the ocean, cause commotion, fake devotion, entertain a notion, be Nova Scotian
One Winged Egret
It's been a while since I've watched ads, but don't shampoo ads appeal to science too? Even ones directed as women?
Yeah Shaving Is Science tends to be directed at men, but it's unisex.
Becky: Who are you? The Mysterious Stranger: An angel. Huck: What's your name? The Mysterious Stranger: Satan.
I see the Awesomeness.
It's not a bad snowclone tho. The name is based on a common term, and we're basing a pun off of it, which we do frequently. Science Sells seems to work okay to me.
Fight smart, not fair.
I don't see anything wrong with this trope. It's about the concept of needing constantly advancing technology just to shave.
If we want a Science Sells trope, why doesn't someone just YKTTW it?
edited 11th Mar '12 6:44:23 PM by abk0100
Too narrow. Shaving Is Science could apply to any advertisement that appeals to science. (Support broadening definition, oppose renaming, btw.)
edited 11th Mar '12 6:39:35 PM by rodneyAnonymous
Becky: Who are you? The Mysterious Stranger: An angel. Huck: What's your name? The Mysterious Stranger: Satan.
We have the shampoo and toothpaste side of it at Here Comes the Science. Maybe the two could be merged?
Tsundere pet.
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Here Comes the Science is "a little animated close-up of the effect said product is supposed to have on you". It's a different thing. (And needs a rename.)
Calling in favour of redefine.
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick
Starring. Let's enact the repair, please.
"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - Fighteer
I see the Awesomeness.
Hm, let me take a stab at it.
While some adverts may try to sell their product with sex, some by showing their product descending from the heavens in a beam of pure bliss as you struggled assembling your blanket, this style of advertising focusing on making the mundane product appear to be the end result of a rocket ship and sports car.
Focusing on treating the product as a finely crafted tool with decades of research put into every friction bump and greeble in order to impress people is the most common. Expect this type of advertisement to take place in some kind of lab or possibly a giant scientific experiment device that looks like some sort of particle collider.
The advertisement will generally have two parts that denote this, the first where the product is forged from the anvils of Hephestus himself, unbreakable and unstoppable in its scientific prowess of ability to satisfy the need for which you buy it. Followed shortly by Here Comes the Science.
Ravenous Sophovore
That works for me.
Waiting on a TRS slot? Finishing off one of these cleaning efforts will usually open one up.
Doesn't seem any different than Here Comes the Science. Why not just make it a redirect?
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It seems like a lot of people don't have a good idea of what this trope is about. What's it's supposed to be is "razor commercials that make it seem like razors are extremely high-tech", but a lot of people seem to think it means "razors having ever-increasing numbers of blades", or any sci-fi-ish method of shaving.