History TotallyRadical / Advertising

* An ad for an electronic diary for girls has one girl saying "And you can plug in your UsefulNotes/MP3 for ''major tuneage!''

* Creator/{{Sony}} was particularly bad about this with their UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable advertising.

* ''Advertising/AbsolutelyRoseStreet'' is a 1994 {{infomercial}} meant to advertise the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis' 32X add-on. It has a very mid-1990s South California aesthetic. Max, the "cool" hot-shot main male with a backward baseball cap and earrings, is the most blatant example.

* "It's ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda'' and it's really rad! Those monsters from Gannon are pretty bad! [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNtuK4CU3ko Octoroks, Tektites and Leevers too, but with your help our hero pulls through!]]" ''For the Nintendo Entertainment System, Your parents help you hook it up.'' [[note]]"Hook up" back then simply meant to connect the console to your television set. [[HaveAGayOldTime The phrase wouldn't pick up its sexual connotations for another decade or so.]][[/note]]

* "It's ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda'' and it's really rad! Those monsters from Gannon are pretty bad! [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNtuK4CU3ko Octoroks, Tektites and Leevers too, but with your help our hero pulls through!]]" ''For the Nintendo Entertainment System, Your parents help you hook it up.'' [[note]]"Hook up" back then simply meant to connect the console to your television set. The phrase wouldn't pick up its sexual connotations for another decade or so.[[/note]]

* "It's ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda'' and it's really rad! Those monsters from Gannon are pretty bad! [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNtuK4CU3ko Octoroks, Tektites and Leevers too, but with your help our hero pulls through!]]" ''For the Nintendo Entertainment System, Your parents help you hook it up.''

** Parodied in [[https://youtu.be/toah4rguQMw this PSA.]] Smokey tries his hand at this as rapper "Smokey B," but couldn't continue because he didn't feel comfortable spreading his message that way. So he takes off his rapper outfit, dons his traditional hat, and gives his message the way he knows best.

* There was a hilarious(ly awful) [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohr0bZ_WWFQ Duncan Yo-Yo commercial]] made in 1994 that showed two different kids: One was a stereotypical {{Nerd}} sitting on a chair in his living room playing a Sega Genesis (with [[PacManFever Atari 2600 sound effects]], of course) and a stereotypical [[TwoDecadesBehind cool kid]] with a backwards baseball cap "enthusiastically" playing with a Duncan Yo-Yo. The commercial ends with the kid saying, "You want speed, action and excitement? Get a Yo-Yo!"

* In 1968, Creator/ColumbiaRecords ran a notorious ad in ''Rolling Stone'' showing a bunch of picket sign-toting young radicals in a jail cell with the caption "But TheMan can't bust our music." For extra hilarity, the albums shown in the ad are all ''ClassicalMusic.'' (Wendy Carlos' early electronica ''Switched-On Bach'' was a bit more far out then.)

* There was a hilarious(ly awful) [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohr0bZ_WWFQ Duncan Yo-Yo commercial]] made in 1994 that showed two different kids: One was a stereotypical HollywoodNerd sitting on a chair in his living room playing a Sega Genesis (with [[PacManFever Atari 2600 sound effects]], of course) and a stereotypical [[TwoDecadesBehind cool kid]] with a backwards baseball cap "enthusiastically" playing with a Duncan Yo-Yo. The commercial ends with the kid saying, "You want speed, action and excitement? Get a Yo-Yo!"

* {{Invoked|trope}} for humor by Sprint with their 2013 commercials featuring Creator/JamesEarlJones and Creator/MalcolmMcDowell. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RWkizigO50 Totes magotes!]]

* Spoofed with the Sprite soda "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-uzCahwWpU What is Cool?]]" commercial from 1994, where a teenage boy on the street wonders how he should try to be like one of the "cool" stereotypes, with amusing results.

** A short lived banner ad, apparently intended to appeal to the "urban demographic" (read: black people) had the brilliant dialogue: "Double cheeseburger? I'd hit it". [[YouKeepUsingThatWord That does not mean]] [[AccidentalInnuendo what they think it does]].

** The [=McWorld=] kid-targeted campaign from the early to mid 90's, which had the theme of "a world run by kids". The commercials depicted very stereotypical kid-instigated changes, with the big one being [=McDonalds=] food and restaurants becoming the centerpiece of the world. Mind you: This is a good decade before ''Film/SuperSizeMe'' premiered.

** A short lived banner ad, apparently intended to appeal to the "urban demographic" (read: black people) had the brilliant dialogue: "Quarter pounder for $1…I'd hit it". [[YouKeepUsingThatWord That does not mean]] [[AccidentalInnuendo what they think it does]].

* A TV ad for the ''VideoGame/GameGenie'' in the late '80s featured a pair of Bill-and-Ted-soundalikes and opened with the phrase "Yo video game dudes, talk to me!"