1 | '''Basic Trope''': Fictional companies with horrible slogans. |
2 | * '''Straight''': "[[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Alice's Art Atelier]] - [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment we show art]]!" |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': "Bob's [[FunWithAcronyms Bacon and Other]] [[ShoehornedFirstLetter BFoods]] - the most expensive way to get food poisoning!" |
4 | * '''Downplayed''': "Charlie's Chocolate - we serve good chocolate!" It's completely uninspired, but at least it tries to sell the product. |
5 | * '''Justified''': |
6 | ** Alice was under massive time pressure when she had to choose a slogan. |
7 | ** Sean's Swords are sold under the slogan "It's a sword". The swords are BoringButPractical. |
8 | ** Alice couldn't think of a legitimately good slogan, so she tried to find one that's SoBadItsGood instead. |
9 | ** The slogan is from the 1930's and has [[HaveAGayOldTime Gay Old Timed]]. [[note]]They did start a ''make a new slogan'' competition, with a €50000 grand prize.[[/note]] |
10 | * '''Inverted''': Alice's Art Atelier has terrible art, but a very good slogan. |
11 | * '''Subverted''': |
12 | ** An ad for Alice's Art Atelier features the slogan "We show art!", but the ad is revealed to be satirical. |
13 | ** While the slogan may seem horrible due to a specific word to non-native speakers, [[LongRunner it has existed for so long that its meaning has petrified]], immunizing it against HaveAGayOldTime. |
14 | * '''Double Subverted''': The actual slogan is "We have a slogan!". |
15 | * '''Parodied''': |
16 | ** The companies have competitions about having the worst slogan. |
17 | ** "Elise's Music Shop - [[TitleDrop our slogan is terrible]]!" |
18 | * '''Averted''': Either the companies don't have slogans or they have decent slogans. |
19 | * '''Zig Zagged''': There are at least a dozen slogans that may be Alice's slogan. Some of them are mediocre, some are really good, and some are downright terrible. |
20 | * '''Enforced''': |
21 | ** RuleOfFunny |
22 | ** Alice's gallery is a TakeThat to a RealLife gallery. |
23 | ** The authors can't come up with a good slogan for Alice's gallery, and decide that they might as well do something funny with the lack of a good slogan. |
24 | * '''Lampshaded''': "'We show art!'? What kind of lame slogan is that?" |
25 | * '''Invoked''': |
26 | ** Emma, who wants to sabotage Daniel's baguette bakery, suggests the slogan "They're hard and long and they stand straight up", hoping that he won't notice the DoubleEntendre before it's too late. |
27 | ** Alice, who is going for StylisticSuck, intentionally chooses a bad slogan. |
28 | * '''Exploited''': Dan, who understands how important a good slogan is for the success of a business, makes a good slogan, potentially stealing his competitors' customers. |
29 | * '''Defied''': |
30 | ** Alice works hard to think of a good slogan for her gallery. |
31 | ** Someone else points out how bad Alice's slogan is and suggests a better one. Alice changes the slogan to one that's decent. |
32 | * '''Discussed''': "Do you think these companies have bad slogans?" |
33 | * '''Conversed''': "With those slogans, how is it possible for those companies to sell anything?" "Maybe, in the wacky universe of that comic, customers find them charming and funny." |
34 | * '''Implied''': Even though we [[NoodleIncident never get to know what Alice's slogan is]], the characters keep saying it's very, ''very'' bad. |
35 | * '''Deconstructed''': A good slogan makes customers more positive to a company. Alice loses potential guests because of the gallery's bad slogan. |
36 | * '''Reconstructed''': |
37 | ** Alice's gallery gets well knows because of its bad slogan. This makes more people hear of it, which means more guests, creating an InUniverse example of NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity. |
38 | ** Alice's slogan is seen as SoBadItsGood InUniverse. |
39 | * '''Played For Laughs''': All the bakeries in a town use the slogan "The best cakes in town!" |
40 | * '''Played For Drama''': |
41 | ** Alice has a TragicDream of running a great art gallery one day, and the fact that she can't even come up with a decent slogan is yet another sign that she'll never achieve her dream. |
42 | ** The slogan accidentally sounds dirty, but the owners of the business don't realize, and this leads to them getting in trouble. |
43 | * '''Played For Horror''': Sally's Sausages use the slogan "[[ImAHumanitarian Made with Real Humans!]]". Everyone thinks it's just BlackComedy. [[RefugeInAudacity It's not]]. |
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