History Main / OurSloganIsTerrible

* Creator/WeirdAlYankovic's Jackson Park Espresso coffee bears the slogan "Our coffee's so good you'll want to drink it!"

'''Drakken:''' [[EvenEvilHasStandards Truth in labeling laws]], Shego. [[ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder I'm a supervillain, not a]] [[CorruptCorporateExecutive coporate shyster!]]

* Creator/TomPetty claimed his [=SiriusXM=] ''Buried Treasures'' show was recorded at Rick's Airport Recorders, offering the best sound in the Los Angeles Airport area.

* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': Played with in “The Coffee Shop.” Penny’s mom jokingly refers to a pair of coffee shop franchises with slogans that are clearly not official in-universe.
-->She much preferred [Queequeg's] to their chief rivals, Dippy Donuts ("Their motto should be ‘Our coffee’s stronger than a brown crayon dipped in hot water -- but not much stronger’," she liked to joke) and Joe Orton’s (a brew she thought best suited to the Jolt Cola crowd, or as she would quip, "Hammer down a cup of Joe’s").

* The Dudley Moore vehicle ''Film/CrazyPeople'' concerned Moore as an adman who went a bit crazy, telling people "[[BrutalHonesty the truth]]". Real products were used, such as: "Metamucil. It helps you go to the toilet. If you don't use it, you'll get cancer and die." "Jaguar -- sleek and smart. For men who'd like handjobs from beautiful women they hardly know." "Volvo -- they're boxy but they're good." and finally "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQa4HHkhwVg Sony: Because Caucasians are just too damn tall.]]" A scene that features a slew of the aforementioned slogans and others features a rather blunt slogan in a campaign for the Greek tourism bureau: "Forget France. [[FrenchJerk The French can be annoying]]. Come to Greece--we're nicer!"

* The "Ocean Breeze Soap" slogans in ''Film/TheMuppetsTakeManhattan'' - "Ocean Breeze Soap: For People Who Don't Want to Stink"; "Ocean Breeze Soap: It's Just Like Taking an Ocean Cruise [[{{Dissimile}} Except There's No Boat and You Don't Actually Go Anywhere]]" and the winner "Ocean Breeze Soap Will Get You Clean". It gets funnier when one of the other frogs says, "You mean, just tell people what the product does? No ones ever tried that."

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** "Teamwork- it keeps our employees gruntled"
** "Virtual Dynamics- because you can't spell INDIVIDUAL without VIRIDIAN. And U.(pause) And an L."

** And, after the show was preempted for a Presidential Address- "When presidents talk, Americans get hurt."

** "Nut-rific, it does nut taste good!"

* In ''Theatre/OfTheeISing'', the various campaign slogans waved in "Wintergreen for President" range from basic ("Win With Wintergreen") to idiotic ("A Vote for Wintergreen Is a Vote for Wintergreen") to dubious ("Wintergreen--The Flavor Lasts") to cynical ("He Kept Us Out of Jail").

* ''Webcomic/{{Subnormality}}'' - [[http://www.viruscomix.com/page459.html ZAP Protein Snack]]: "Don't buy it - it's a ripoff!!"

* Subverted and discussed in ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}''. Emerald and Mercury enter 'Tukson's Book Trade' pretending to be customers to murder the owner. Emerald asks for different books before she catches one they don't carry and makes Tukson recite the slogan- 'Home to Every Book Under the Sun'. The two point out the catchphrase is untrue, and when Tukson tries to brush it off, Mercury dramatically accuses him of false advertising and they drop the charade.

* The ''{{WesternAnimation/Freakazoid}}'' episode "Mission: Freakazoid!" is sponsored (in-universe) by Anubis Markets (A division of Osiris Foods)-- "For food so good, you can eat it!"

* Every single organization in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' has such a slogan. From Springfield Prison - "If you were a murderer, you'd be home by now!" - to Costington's Department Store - "Over a Century Without a Slogan".

** In "Chum Bucket Supreme", Plankton tries to come up with a slogan for the Chum Bucket. He originally uses 'Chum is Metabolic Fuel', but Patrick changes it to the even more nonsensical 'Chum is Fum', at which point the Chum Bucket business booms.

* Also from the '70's in Australia, the prosaic slogan from a famous ad for a non-alcoholic beverage called Clayton's - "The drink you have when you're not having a drink". This became so popular (the ad and slogan, not the drink) that "Clayton's" became a standard colloquialism for "ersatz", "fake", or "inauthentic".

* Schaefer Beer's slogan "Schaefer is the one beer to have when you're having more than one" has prompted a lot of jokes over the years--most of them about the implicit suggestion that Schaefer is what you drink if you mainly just want to get blitzed and taste is unimportant.

* The slogan for ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' (the actual one, used for marketing) is "This Game Stinks," as part of an odd campaign involving scratch-and-sniff cards sold alongside the game. They were aiming for ToiletHumor, despite the game itself not having much of that. Yeah, that's probably why the sales went badly.

* Starbix in ''Series/TheHitchHikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' (the breakfast cereal that the ''Guide'' cribbed all that "Space" stuff from the back of) has the slogan "[[IfItTastesBadItMustBeGoodForYou Nasty ... but nourishing]]", a parody of the National Dairy Council's contemporary cream cake adverts, which had the slogan "Naughty. But nice".

* ''Videogame/FallenLondon''

* ''WebComic/TheAdventuresOfDoctorMcNinja'': "[[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/1p2/ We don't hire night janitors]]"

* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' we get to see a septic tank truck that reads "Bob's Septic World - We're full of it!"

** "JoshCO: Makers of funny products and funnier slogans", and their only known product, "The Stab Yourself: Try NOT to stab yourself!"
** "SteaKasTle: We Put Two Steaks in Our Name!" ([[CaptainObvious One is the word "steak". The other is the letter T.]])

* On an episode of ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', Plankton tries to come up with a slogan for the Chum Bucket. He originally uses 'Chum is Metabolic Fuel', but Patrick changes it to the even more nonsensical 'Chum is Fum', at which point the Chum Bucket business booms.

** Don't forget "Stinking Fish Realty. With a name this bad, we've gotta be good."

--> "Made from real spiders. [[IAteWhat Not just the juice]]."

** C&P Boarst Wurst. "It's not the wurst unless it's boarst wurst." Boarst wurst is actually pretty decent by most accounts, if you can get past it [[IAteWhat being made from]] [[BodyHorror cysts that slough off genetically engineered pigs]].

Compare and contrast WhatWereTheySellingAgain, when a slogan or ad is [[{{Irony}} so good that it fails]] by detracting from the more important message "Buy our product." See also OurProductSucks, when this is invoked intentionally for ReversePsychology.

* ''WesternAnimation/CraigOfTheCreek'' has the breakfast cereal Sensible Oats, whose mascot is a very bored looking gorilla with glasses, and the slogan "They're sufficient."

* Schaefer Beer's slogan "Schaefer is the one beer to have when you're having more than one" has prompted a lot of jokes over the years about the implicit suggestion that Schaefer's the beer to drink if you mainly just want to get blitzed and taste is unimportant.

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* The "Ocean Breeze Soap" slogans in ''Film/TheMuppetsTakeManhattan'' - "Ocean Breeze Soap: For People Who Don't Want To Stink"; "Ocean Breeze Soap: It's Just Like Taking An Ocean Cruise [[{{Dissimile}} Except There's No Boat And You Don't Actually Go Anywhere]]" and the winner "Ocean Breeze Soap Will Get You Clean". It gets funnier when one of the other frogs says, "You mean, just tell people what the product does? No ones ever tried that."

* ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'' - in the backstory Earl and Randy went to the Right Choice Ranch for troubled youth, which went through a series of AccidentalInnuendo slogans that imply pedophilia: "Touching Bad Boys Since 1963" - "Bringing Boys To Their Knees Since 1963" - "Forcing Boys To Turn Around Since 1963" - "We Don't Do Anything Inappropriate to The Boys"

* The default slogan for the Liberal cause in ''VideoGame/LiberalCrimeSquad'' is "We Need A Slogan!" Squad members can intimidate Conservatives by shouting the slogan or use the slogan as their FamousLastWords.