History TotallyRadical / Advertising

* A 2014 American Family Insurance Teen Safe Driver Program radio advertisement in Northern Colorado is like totally into this trope by having the female teen narrator use "like" like it were, like, and article. Her friends suggest going to "the mall" as she now has her licence, which is a radical idea... for 1995.

* TheNineties, in particular, were infamous for using this trope with children's advertising. Around the start of the decade (perhaps in response to [[TheSimpsons Bartmania]]), television advertisers were moving away from the cutesy/sentimental advertisements that dominated children's television for so long and, instead, began using TotallyRadical lingo and "EXTREME!!!!!" kids. Many of the following examples perfectly exemplify this.

* An advertisement for the "Slim and Lite" revision of the PSP suggests that players can "put it where they like", which typically means "shove it up their ass". Sony seems to be getting annoyed at their customers.
** Sony's been particularly bad about this with their PSP advertising. At one point, an incredibly poorly-disguised viral marketing campaign attempting to masquerade as a fan website noted of the PSP, "I'd hit that." [[{{Squick}} Does it even have the right ports for that?]]

*** The [[http://screenmag.tv/story/2012/jun/29/9576/ newest campaign]] (July 2012) has reimagined the mascot as a CGI rocker with the voice of BowlingForSoup's Jaret Reddick.

** Also parodied in ''TheSimpsons'' episode "Pranksta Rap", when Bart uses slang words that Lisa (and even Marge) knows aren't used anymore.

* One DisneyChannel ad encouraged people to stay for the upcoming shows, because after whatever was coming next, "Then it's off the heezy with ''TheProudFamily''."
** A promo for a Saturday night rerun block stated that the only thing better than [[ShakeItUp shaking it up]] on live TV is "sharing it with your biffle". Your guess is as good as ours (it ''may'' be a failed attempt to phonetically pronounce "BFFL").
* A short lived McDonalds 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]] [[CriticalResearchFailure what they think it does.]]

* A TV ad for the ''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!"
* The description for this {{Atari}} [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qAadfsJrmM=related ad]] explains everything.

* The phrase "Mickey D's" as a nickname for McDonalds.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCwn1NTK-50 This ad]] for the boardgame Crossfire is an interesting variation. How do corporate advertising geniuses imagine a future that would appeal to the target audience (pre-teens and teens) while also promoting their new product? Why, of course by showing kids in leatherjackets playing the game like a Rollerball/Thunderdome-style deathmatch of gladitorial combat (The loser spins into oblivion), surounded by their cheering fans, while a cool hard rock song is playing in the background. [[http://cinemassacre.com/2009/07/27/board-james-3-crossfire/ The Angry Video Game Nerd even made a video about it (as his alternate persona Board James)]]
* McDonalds' [=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 ''SuperSizeMe'' premiered.

* {{Nickelodeon}}'s infamous "Don't Forget About Breakfast Time" animated rap video. Along with their "democracy" video.

* The Burger King Kid's Club commercials of the mid-90's (again: noticing a common time frame here?) were particularly {{egregious}} examples. Their spokesperson was a [[TotallyRadical cool kid]] with all the necessary "makings" of one (shades, a backwards baseball cap, etc.). The commercials themselves often depicted kids doing everything from playing in rock bands to being disgusted by their relatives just for showing them affection.
* Honey Nut Cheerios, during (when else?) the early/mid-90's, attempted to market their cereal to a younger demographic by ditching the warm and friendly tone of their 80's commercials for a more [[TotallyRadical hip and edgy]] style: they retooled Buzz Bee into an arrogant JerkAss who talked like [[Series/{{Doug}} Roger Klotz]] and challenged people (including [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDDP9OXF354 Sonic The Hedgehog]]) to races, with a bowl of Honey Nut Cheerios as the prize. The retool didn't sit well with audiences, and by about 1995, Buzz Bee was given a much nicer personality akin to the 80's.

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* Despite trying to win over -- presumably -- the kid demographic, consider how anachronistic the Creator/ChuckECheese mascot is with his depiction as a "Sk8r" boy, ''over'' a decade after that fad has run its course with young kids. The mascot originally started as a suspendered, straw-hatted barbershop-type performer, appeared in the 1980s as a skateboarding mouse, went out of style, then swerved right back into relevancy when the Sk8r boy image appeared, and is now fading back out of style -- all without any changes ever being made to the character itself. If the owners just wait long enough, maybe it'll come back into style yet again.

* EA's [[http://kotaku.com/5010047/skate-2-teaser-might-be-doing-it-wrong initial teaser]] for ''Skate 2'' announced "We're dropping the deuce." While this can be read as "releasing #2", its slang meaning is "taking a shit". This was probably intentional, which makes one wonder how they felt about the product.

* EA's [[http://kotaku.com/5010047/skate-2-teaser-might-be-doing-it-wrong initial teaser]] for ''Skate 2'' announced "We're dropping the deuce." While this can be read as "releasing #2", its slang meaning is "taking a shit". This was possibly intentional, which makes one wonder how they felt about the product.

* Honey Nut Cheerios, during (when else?) the early/mid-90's, attempted to market their cereal to a younger demographic by ditching the warm and friendly tone of their 80's commercial in favor of a more [[TotallyRadical hip and edgy]] tone. So they retooled Buzz Bee into an arrogant JerkAss who talked like [[Series/{{Doug}} Roger Klotz]] and challenged people (includingp [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDDP9OXF354 Sonic The Hedgehog]]) to races, with a bowl of Honey Nut Cheerios as the prize. The retool didn't sit well with audiences, and by about 1995, Buzz Bee was given his original personality back.

* In 1968, Columbia Records ran a notorious ad in ''Rolling Stone'' showing a bunch of picket sign-toting young radicals in a jail cell with the caption "But The Man 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.)

* Parodied in a series of Volkswagen commercials which would end with a grey-haired, thickly accented Peter Stormare "un-pimping" someone's ride...which is a fancy way of saying "trashing it in spectacularly hilarious fashion."

* There was a hilarious(ly awful) Duncan Yo-Yo commercial made in 1995 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!" ... Really?

* The commercials for Kellogg's Frosted Mini Wheats that ran in the early-mid 1990's, which showed conflict between the kids' love of the frosting (with bad "heavy metal" music in the background) and the adults' love of the whole wheat (with boring "adult music" playing in the background). Noticing a chronological pattern here?

* [[http://www.bvcu.org/Teen.htm This credit union website aimed at teens.]] Pretty much everything about it.

* The similar Icee cold drink at some point replaced its [[http://www.iceedistributors.com/iceebear.gif old bear logo]] with a [[http://www.oocities.org/televisioncity/4369/ICEE_bear.gif snowboarding one]], and its current slogan (at least at Burger King franchises that sell it as of 2012) is "CHILL WITH UR FAV FLAV."

* {{Nickelodeon}}'s infamous "Don't Forget About Breakfast Time" animated rap video.
* To some, advertisements for YoungAdult novels can fall into this, especially those done by Fierce Reads. Take, for example, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiSWgzz9dJU this]] oppressively {{narm}}y ad, complete with the most banal attracting phrases and a stereotypically pop song about the joys of reading.

* The Burger King Kid's Club commercials of the mid-90's (again: noticing a common time frame here?) were particularly egregious examples. Their spokesperson was a [[TotallyRadical cool kid]] with all the necessary "makings" of one (shades, a backwards baseball cap, etc.). The commercials themselves often depicted kids doing everything from playing in rock bands to being disgusted by their relatives just for showing them affection.

* Despite trying to win over -- presumably -- the kid demographic, consider how anachronistic the ''ChuckECheese'' mascot is with his depiction as a "Sk8r" boy, ''over'' a decade after that fad has run its course with young kids. The mascot originally started as a suspendered, straw-hatted barbershop-type performer, appeared in the 1980s as a skateboarding mouse, went out of style, then swerved right back into relevancy when the Sk8r boy image appeared, and is now fading back out of style -- all without any changes ever being made to the character itself. If the owners just wait long enough, maybe it'll come back into style yet again.

* The commercials for Kellogg's Frosted Mini Wheats that ran in the early-mid 1990's, which showed conflict between the kids' love of the frosting (with bad heavy metal guitar playing in the background) and the adults' love of the whole wheat (with boring "adult music" playing in the background). Noticing a chronological pattern here?

* McDonalds' [=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 McDonald's food and restaurants becoming the centerpiece of the world.

* McDonalds' [=McWorld=] kid-targeted campaign from the early to mid 90's, which had the theme of "a world run by kids".

* "It's ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda'' and it's really rad! Those monsters from {{Gannon|Banned}} are pretty bad! [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNtuK4CU3ko Octoroks, Tektites and Leevers too, but with your help our hero pulls through!]]"

* McDonalds [=McWorld=] campaign from the early to mid 90's.