History Main / WeCare

* "Spirited debate. It's the cornerstone of our philosophy here at the Hanso Foundation..." One of many from ''ARG/TheLostExperience''. Players of the game know how evil these guys are.

* The plastic surgeon in the music video for TLC's "Unpretty" has this as their slogan. Needless to say, that particular facility cares more about its bottom line than its patients. For example, a girl is shown having (perhaps botched) breast implants ''ripped out of her while she is still awake'', causing the PinballProtagonist to rethink her plans to get breast implants.

* In ''Film/OnDeadlyGround'', the BigBad is introduced filming a WeCare commercial for his company Aegis Oil, with caribou and seals covered in oil and basically milking it for all it's worth. But the instant the director says "cut," the first words out of the BigBad's mouth are "Fuck! These animals stink!" and he's yelling at his men to get the animals out of there.

* After the BP oil spill, this became reality: ads reminding viewers that they were working to clean up the spill were all over television. What's worse was that an investigation uncovered that the plans they had written out in case of such a disaster heavily prioritized PR over actually cleaning up the spill. In the wake of BP's oil spill catastrophe, a [[http://www.twitter.com/BPGlobalPR fake Twitter account]] popped up, signing off most of its tweets with #bpcares. For instance: "We've created something that will affect your children's children. Can YOU say the same about YOUR life? #nailedit #bpcares"

* The UAC from ''VideoGame/{{Doom}} 3''.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' series: Spoofed to hell and back. There are loudspeakers throughout Pandora, blaring propaganda of the respective gun companies:
** The first game, ''VideoGame/Borderlands1''
** ''VideoGame/Borderlands2''

* The plot of one episode of ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' involved a commercial of this kind for the Goliath National Bank, the employer of Barney and Marshall. The latter at first refused to appear in the ad, because of the GNB's evil MegaCorp status, but eventually changed his mind after [[ItMakesSenseInContext he made one employee very happy by firing him]].

* Old ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' commercial parody[[note]]played by Creator/LilyTomlin in her iconic Ernestine the Operator character[[/note]]: "We don't care. We don't have to care. We're the phone company."

* ''WesternAnimation/SheepInTheBigCity'': Bio-Technical Corporate Concern Limited Company. [[WhatWereTheySellingAgain We have no idea what we sell.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' A RunningGag in the "Coon Trilogy" is that BP commits various atrocities on nature through their oil drilling, to the point that they ''awaken Cthulhu.'' To address these concerns, CEO Tony Haywood makes apology videos set to calm music with visuals of him petting a seal, baking cookies, sitting in a field of dandelions, lying sexily on a rug by the fireplace, etc. Despite this, BP doesn't do anything better and just doubles down on their irresponsible drilling practices.

* ''Series/TheBoys2019''. The Seven are shown making such a video throughout "The Innocents", though it's suggested this is the wrong PR approach when they're trying to get public support for the idea of {{Military Superhero}}es. It doesn't help that Starlight has just publicly revealed that she was sexually assaulted by one of the superheroes appearing in the video. A particularly brutal note is that The Deep is shown supporting a movement to clean up beaches of trash--and it becomes clear that, in fact, all the trash on the beach is planted, and whenever he does another take, they put the trash back before the camera starts rolling again.

* ''Series/TheBoys2019''. The Seven are shown making such a video throughout "The Innocents", though it's suggested this is the wrong PR approach when they're trying to get public support for the idea of {{Military Superhero}}es. It doesn't help that Starlight has just publicly revealed that she was sexually assaulted by one of the superheroes appearing in the video.

* ''Series/TheBoys2019''. The Seven are shown making such a video throughout "The Innocents", though it's actually suggested this is the wrong PR approach when they're trying to get public support for the idea of {{Military Superhero}}es. It doesn't help that Starlight has just publicly revealed that she was sexually assaulted by one of the superheroes appearing in the video.

* The Wolfram & Hart video from the "Harm's Way" episode of ''Series/{{Angel}}''.

* In ''Film/OnDeadlyGround'', the BigBad is introduced filming a WeCare commercial for his company Aegis Oil, with caribou and seals covered in oil and basically milking it for all it's worth. But the instant the director says "cut," the first words out of the BigBad's mouth are "Fuck! These animals ''stink!''" and he's yelling at his men to get the animals out of there.

* Spoofed in the Literature/{{Discworld}} novel ''Discworld/GoingPostal'':

* Spoofed to hell and back in both ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}''. There are loudspeakers throughout Pandora, blaring propaganda of the respective gun companies.

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EvilInc is catching a lot of flak for bad environmental practices, price-fixing, mistreatment of employees, and all kinds of CorruptCorporateExecutive-ness. So what do they do? Make a Public Relations Ad showing how much good they do, and just how much they really care about the Earth/Little Guy/Mom and Apple Pie/what have you. We really do, honest!

* Spoofed in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII:'' pay attention to the radio, and you'll see a Eris Running Shoes ad claiming that nope, their factories ain't sweatshops, no sir, hell no. Then you hear some kids saying "It's cool! We get to play with knives!", "My friend stitched his hands together the other day!", and "Yesterday, I made a dollar!".

* Many {{Public Relations Ad}}vertisements.

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* [[http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/1994-08-04/ This]] ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' strip.

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* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc.'' "We scare because we care." Unlike in most cases of this trope, they actually ''do'' care. The problem is that some of the higher-ups care ''too'' [[WellIntentionedExtremist much]].
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* Played with Hank Scorpio in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. His compassionate nature and the new job he hired Homer for seem too good to be true. [[spoiler: He genuinely is a BenevolentBoss who truly does care for his employees. He also happens to be a [[Film/JamesBond Bond Villain]] trying to take over the world.]]

* In ''Film/OnDeadlyGround'', the BigBad's company, Aegis Oil, is filming a WeCare commercial with caribou and seals covered in oil and basically milking it for all it's worth. But the instant the director says "cut," the first words out of the BigBad's mouth are "Fuck! These animals ''stink!''" and he's yelling at his men to get the animals out of there.

* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' Goth Corp's Slogan was "The People Company". The CEO Ferris Boyle (Voiced by MarkHamill) tried to expel Mr Freeze's wife after he found out that Freeze was using company equipment to cure her fatal disease, an act which killed her and caused Freeze's condition.

* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc.'' "We scare because we care." Unlike in most cases of this trope, they actually ''do'' care. The problem is that they care ''too'' [[WellIntentionedExtremist much]].

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* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc.'' "We scare because we care." Unlike in most cases of this trope, they actually ''do'' care. The problem is that they care ''too'' [[WellIntentionedExtremist much]].

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-->'''Humphries''': When this crisis is over, we will go back to our regular prices. Until then, remember, [[YouAreNotAlone we're all in this together]]. Schooner Tuna. The tuna with a heart.

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--> ''"They had even instated an 'Employee of the Month' program to show how much they cared.'' That was how much they didn't care."

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* Old ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' commercial parody[[note]]played by LilyTomlin in her iconic Ernestine the Operator character[[/note]]: "We don't care. We don't have to care. We're the phone company."
** The same bit in ''Film/ThePresidentsAnalyst'' from 1967, where TPC (which literally stood for "The Phone Company") controlled virtually everything, and didn't care who knew it.

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* [[http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/1994-08-04/ This]] ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' strip.

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** After the BP oil spill, this became reality: ads reminding viewers that they were working to clean up the spill were all over television. What's worse was that an investigation uncovered that the plans they had written out in case of such a disaster heavily prioritized PR over actually cleaning up the spill.
* In the wake of BP's oil spill catastrophe, a [[http://www.twitter.com/BPGlobalPR fake Twitter account]] popped up, signing off most of its tweets with #bpcares. For instance: "We've created something that will affect your children's children. Can YOU say the same about YOUR life? #nailedit #bpcares"

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* Parodied in ''{{Series/Dinosaurs}}'' with the "We Say So" corporation.

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* Skewered in ''TheOnion'' article entitled [[http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28569 ''GE Ad Trumpets Company's Government-Ordered Environmental Cleanup'']]

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* Spoofed in the Literature/{{Discworld}} novel ''Discworld/GoingPostal'':

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* [[SheepInTheBigCity Bio-Technical Corporate Concern Limited Company.]] [[WhatWereTheySellingAgain We have no idea what we sell.]]