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* BigBlackout: A man's desire to feel free leads to him going hang gliding, crashing into a power line, causing the grid to go down, causing mass rioting, and looting, leading to the man's father getting punched over a can of soup.
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Inspired by the book [[Literature/IfYouGiveAMouseACookie If You Give a Mouse a Cookie]], the commercials consist of people being disappointed in their cable services, followed by a series of unfortunate events happening, and, long story short, the narrator admonishes viewers to switch to [=DirecTV=].

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Inspired by the book [[Literature/IfYouGiveAMouseACookie If You Give a Mouse a Cookie]], the commercials consist of people being disappointed in their cable services, followed by a series of unfortunate events happening, and, and long story short, the narrator admonishes viewers to switch to [=DirecTV=].
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Inspired by the book "[[Literature/IfYouGiveAMouseACookie If You Give a Mouse a Cookie]]", the commercials consist of people being disappointed in their cable services, followed by a series of unfortunate events happening, and, long story short, the narrator admonishes viewers to switch to [=DirecTV=].

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Inspired by the book "[[Literature/IfYouGiveAMouseACookie [[Literature/IfYouGiveAMouseACookie If You Give a Mouse a Cookie]]", Cookie]], the commercials consist of people being disappointed in their cable services, followed by a series of unfortunate events happening, and, long story short, the narrator admonishes viewers to switch to [=DirecTV=].
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The commercials consist of people being disappointed in their cable, followed by a series of unfortunate events happening, and, long story short, the narrator admonishes viewers to switch to [=DirecTV=].

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The Inspired by the book "[[Literature/IfYouGiveAMouseACookie If You Give a Mouse a Cookie]]", the commercials consist of people being disappointed in their cable, cable services, followed by a series of unfortunate events happening, and, long story short, the narrator admonishes viewers to switch to [=DirecTV=].
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-->"Don't attend your own funeral as a guy named Phil Shiffley."

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-->"Don't attend your own funeral as a guy named Phil Shiffley.Schiffly."

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* AttendingYourOwnFuneral: One person fakes their death and attends his own funeral as a guy named Phil Schiffly.

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* AttendingYourOwnFuneral: One person customer fakes their his death and attends his own funeral as a guy named Phil Schiffly.Schiffly.
-->"Don't attend your own funeral as a guy named Phil Shiffley."
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* MushroomSamba: A man who was stranded in the wild after a car accident caused by his sleep-deprivation, and has to survive, eats wild berries and hallucinates a swarm of butterflies, that he chases into "something highly illegal."

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* MushroomSamba: A man who was stranded in the wild after a car accident caused by his sleep-deprivation, sleep-deprivation due to getting tense from his cable being on the fritz and has to survive, eats wild berries and hallucinates a swarm of butterflies, that he chases into "something highly illegal."



* VivaLasVegas: "When you feel like a winner, you go to Vegas."

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* VivaLasVegas: "When you feel like a winner, you go to Vegas."" You then go on to lose everything you had and have to sell your hair to a wig shop to get money.
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* FakingTheDead: One guy saw [[PunkInATrunk a thing "you shouldn't see"]] which caused him to fake his own death and attend his own funeral as a guy named Phil Schiffly.

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* FakingTheDead: One guy saw [[PunkInATrunk [[PunkInTheTrunk a thing "you shouldn't see"]] which caused him to fake his own death and attend his own funeral as a guy named Phil Schiffly.

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Several of these commercials can be viewed [[http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgw_iKxJQfOhsXYbqKWNCcZ8b-jjJlrvE here]].
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%% Be very careful commenting out Zero-Context Examples. Most of these examples aren't given enough context by the commercials themselves, or said context is covered as an example of another trope.
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* TheCameo: Creator/CharlieSheen makes an appearance in one of the ads.

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* TheCameo: Creator/CharlieSheen makes an appearance in one of the ads.ads, wanting to reenact scenes from ''Film/{{Platoon}}''.



%% * FakingTheDead: Causing him to attend his own funeral as a guy named Phil Schiffly.
%% * InsaneTrollLogic: All over the place.

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%% * FakingTheDead: Causing One guy saw [[PunkInATrunk a thing "you shouldn't see"]] which caused him to fake his own death and attend his own funeral as a guy named Phil Schiffly.
%% * InsaneTrollLogic: All over the place.place. From a man deciding to become a vigilante after a few Karate lessons, to a man forced to become a village fisherman because of a bad reaction to being stung by "something exotic."



%% * OverlyLongGag: Goes hand-in-hand with InsaneTrollLogic.

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%% * MushroomSamba: A man who was stranded in the wild after a car accident caused by his sleep-deprivation, and has to survive, eats wild berries and hallucinates a swarm of butterflies, that he chases into "something highly illegal."
* OverlyLongGag: Goes hand-in-hand with InsaneTrollLogic.The number of steps a commercial takes to reach its endgame vary, and can number up to quite a few.



* RoofHopping: When you become ''[[TheXofY The Fist of Goodness]]'', you run along rooftops.

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* RoofHopping: When you become ''[[TheXofY The Fist of Goodness]]'', you run along rooftops.rooftops, which results in you crashing through a sky roof and into a dinner party.



%% * YouCantGoHomeAgain: Because you were stung by something exotic, and eventually you'll wind up as a fisherman the locals call "Big Fatty-Face".

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%% * YouCantGoHomeAgain: Because you were stung A man is bitten by something exotic, "something exotic" while he is on vacation and quarantined. He is eventually you'll wind up forced to live as a fisherman the locals call "Big Fatty-Face".

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