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* Subverted with the ever-popular "Jack" mascot of Jack in the Box restaurants was originally...well, a jack-in-the-box. He was [[StuffBlowingUp blown up]], box and all, in a memorable 1980 TV commerical that at the time was supposed to symbolize Jack's attempting to rebrand itself as a more "sophisticated" restaurant. Fifteen years later, after [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks the image makeover had failed miserably]], Jack returned, "thanks to the miracle of plastic surgery", Jack returned as a human with a big plastic clown's head and took his revenge on the advertisers by blowing ''them'' up.

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* Subverted with the ever-popular "Jack" mascot of Jack in the Box restaurants was originally...well, a jack-in-the-box. He was [[StuffBlowingUp blown up]], box and all, in a memorable 1980 TV commerical commercial that at the time was supposed to symbolize Jack's attempting to rebrand itself as a more "sophisticated" restaurant. Fifteen years later, after [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks the image makeover had failed miserably]], Jack returned, "thanks to the miracle of plastic surgery", Jack returned as a human with a big plastic clown's head and took his revenge on the advertisers by blowing ''them'' up.
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* There was a British TV campaign in which an alien from the planet Zarg [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzlXw2mkSVM]] claimed his world was dying and could only be saved by a soft drink called Quosh. Nothing was ever heard from Zarg again, and one can only fear the worst.

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* There was a British TV campaign in which an alien from the planet Zarg [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzlXw2mkSVM]] com/watch?v=HzlXw2mkSVM an alien from the planet Zarg]] claimed his world was dying and could only be saved by a soft drink called Quosh. Nothing was ever heard from Zarg again, and one can only fear the worst.
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* A commercial for Hammerite paint showed four rusty suits of AnimatedArmour marching into a junkyard, there to paint each other with the product -- and at the end, three brightly-painted suits walked out. So are we to assume the fourth was broken down for spares to repair the other three?
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* A commercial for Linzess starts with a man explaining that despite his monthly routine, he's still has issues, and his doctor diagnosed him with IBSC. Right after the man says this, the commercial abruptly changes focus to a woman, and the man is never heard from again.

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* A commercial for Linzess starts with a man explaining that despite his monthly routine, he's still has having issues, and his doctor diagnosed him with IBSC. Right after the man says this, the commercial abruptly changes focus to a woman, and the man is never heard from again.
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* A commercial for Linzess starts with a man explaining that despite his monthly routine, he's still has issues, and his doctor diagnosed him with IBSC. Right after the man says this, the commercial abruptly changes focus to a woman, and the man is never heard from again.
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* Deliberately invoked in a commercial for Orbitz, in which an Orbitz representative stops by three members of a group of four friends, giving them a package of benefits from Orbitz, while the fourth is ignored and gets nothing.
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* There was a British TV campaign in which an alien from the planet Zarg claimed his world was dying and could only be saved by a soft drink called Quosh. Nothing was ever heard from Zarg again, and one can only fear the worst.

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* There was a British TV campaign in which an alien from the planet Zarg [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzlXw2mkSVM]] claimed his world was dying and could only be saved by a soft drink called Quosh. Nothing was ever heard from Zarg again, and one can only fear the worst.

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Added example that Wendell seems to have disappeared without explanation as well and added that the Jack example is actually a subversion.


* The ever-popular "Jack" mascot of Jack in the Box restaurants was originally...well, a jack-in-the-box. He was [[StuffBlowingUp blown up]], box and all, in a memorable 1980 TV commerical that at the time was supposed to symbolize Jack's attempting to rebrand itself as a more "sophisticated" restaurant. Fifteen years later, after [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks the image makeover had failed miserably]], Jack returned, "thanks to the miracle of plastic surgery", Jack returned as a human with a big plastic clown's head and took his revenge on the advertisers by blowing ''them'' up.

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* The Subverted with the ever-popular "Jack" mascot of Jack in the Box restaurants was originally...well, a jack-in-the-box. He was [[StuffBlowingUp blown up]], box and all, in a memorable 1980 TV commerical that at the time was supposed to symbolize Jack's attempting to rebrand itself as a more "sophisticated" restaurant. Fifteen years later, after [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks the image makeover had failed miserably]], Jack returned, "thanks to the miracle of plastic surgery", Jack returned as a human with a big plastic clown's head and took his revenge on the advertisers by blowing ''them'' up.


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**The most recent boxes don't even seem to have Wendell on them.
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* The ever-popular "Jack" mascot of Jack in the Box restaurants was originally...[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin well, a jack-in-the-box]]. He was [[StuffBlowingUp blown up]], box and all, in a memorable 1980 TV commerical that at the time was supposed to symbolize Jack's attempting to rebrand itself as a more "sophisticated" restaurant. Fifteen years later, after [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks the image makeover had failed miserably]], Jack returned, "thanks to the miracle of plastic surgery", Jack returned as a human with a big plastic clown's head and took his revenge on the advertisers by blowing ''them'' up.

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* The ever-popular "Jack" mascot of Jack in the Box restaurants was originally...[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin well, a jack-in-the-box]].jack-in-the-box. He was [[StuffBlowingUp blown up]], box and all, in a memorable 1980 TV commerical that at the time was supposed to symbolize Jack's attempting to rebrand itself as a more "sophisticated" restaurant. Fifteen years later, after [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks the image makeover had failed miserably]], Jack returned, "thanks to the miracle of plastic surgery", Jack returned as a human with a big plastic clown's head and took his revenge on the advertisers by blowing ''them'' up.
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* The ever-popular "Jack" mascot of Jack in the Box restaurants was originally...[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin well, a jack-in-the-box]]. He was [[StuffBlowingUp blown up]], box and all, in a memorable 1980 TV commerical that at the time was supposed to symbolize Jack's attempting to rebrand itself as a more "sophisticated" restaurant. Fifteen years later, after [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks the image makeover had failed miserably]], Jack returned, "thanks to the miracle of plastic surgery", Jack returned as a human with a big plastic clown's head and took his revenge on the advertisers by blowing ''them'' up.

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