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* Music/NancySinatra's hit song "These Boots are Made for Walin" was credited with further popularising go-go boots in TheSixties.

* ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe1'':
** Real life carnival booths stocking real life Fluffy Unicorns have become a common sight.
** More kids have been eating bananas as a snack since it's the Minions' TrademarkFavoriteFood.
* After the release of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'', there was a frenzy for mermaid-related products and media, something which still continues to this day.
* ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'': Many a PrincessClassic in Western Animation will sport dresses inspired by or homaging Aurora's. A good amount of princess costumes in stores are based off it too.
* Tourist visits to UsefulNotes/{{Norway}} spiked up to 34% after the release of ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'', [[FantasyCounterpartCulture whose lore and setting was inspired by Norwegian culture and geography]] (even though the [[Literature/TheSnowQueen source material]] was written by [[Creator/HansChristianAndersen a Dane]]). The country now hosts ''Frozen''-themed family holidays to drum up publicity for those who are curious about the film's setting.
* After ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'' was released, popularity of red pandas increased rapidly, and many fans flocked to the zoos to see them, and some donated to wildlife centers to help save them.

* The first ''Film/{{Child's Play|1988}}'' movie ''decimated'' the Toys/MyBuddy line of dolls, which had just been released about three years earlier. The line was designed to create a companion doll that appealed to boys, a risky venture in itself; however, the dolls took off to the level of Toys/CabbagePatchKids at release in part due to a catchy EarWorm song. Chucky was in part inspired by the My Buddy Doll, [[https://www.bustle.com/p/is-chucky-based-on-a-real-doll-the-childs-play-villain-has-roots-in-80s-consumerist-culture-18008375 something the original screenplay writer Don Mancini]] didn't reveal until many years later, as a horror look at consumerism marketed to toys. After the movies became popular, sales plummetted due to the very close resemblance Chucky had to the My Buddy doll. A redesign of the doll attempted to get away from the association but the brand never recovered especially as movies continued to come out, and eventually was discontinued in the early 1990s.

* In 2001 a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQo95oI4nXY commercial]] for Audi featured a [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wackel-Elvis Wackel-Elvis,]] a dashboard bobble figure of Elvis Presley wich performs by swinging his hips. The figure was only a prototype for said commercial. But that bobble figure lead to such a high demand that Audi had them manufactured.

* In the '90s, Gap made a commercial for khaki pants showing people dancing the lindy hop. The commercial did a better job of making people all over the USA start signing up for lindy hop lessons than making them buy the pants.

* Music/PyotrIlyichTchaikovsky's ballet ''Theatre/TheNutcracker'', [[AdaptationDisplacement based on a book]], is likely responsible for the association of Christmas with humanoid nutcrackers wearing 19th-century clothing.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXmD5toljpg According to one video,]] Ein of ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' prompted many adoptions of Welsh Corgis after his debut.

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-->--''Series/TheColbertReport''

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* Sales of deodorant Teen Spirit skyrocketed with the release of the Music/{{Nirvana}} song (and its [[Music/{{Nevermind}} accompanying album]]). And plummeted after the song faded away. Far worse than burning out. [[HilariousInHindsight Not that Kurt Cobain knew Teen Spirit was a deodorant.]] He just liked the phrase after it was directed at him by his friend, Music/BikiniKill singer Kathleen Hanna -- he interpreted the phrase as a revolutionary slogan, but Hanna was merely lightly ribbing Kurt for smelling like his girlfriend's deodorant. Apparently he was quite disappointed to discover its origin. It's not nearly as clever as when he thought it was some kind of metaphor.

** The show's {{catchphrase}}s, especially Bart Simpson's, became part of the '90s slang lexicon thanks to how often they were repeated. From "eat my shorts" to "don't have a cow, man" to "d'oh!", having a character quote ''The Simpsons'' is a great way to establish a show as a '90s PeriodPiece. A more long-lasting slang term to arise from the show is "meh", a verbal [[ShrugTake shrug of indifference]] which had its roots in {{Yiddish|AsASecondLanguage}} but was popularized by ''The Simpsons'' and later took on a life of its own on the internet.

** The above, however, wound up inverted for a long time by the AR-15, the civilian version of the M16 rifle, whose status as the US military's infantry rifle was balanced out and then some by the ([[ScrewedByTheNetwork undeserved]]) [[ReliablyUnreliableGuns terrible reputation]] it earned in [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar the jungles of Vietnam]]. Between that and the tightening of American gun laws in the '80s and '90s, civilian interest in the AR-15 was mainly limited to hardcore military enthusiasts (and [[UsefulNotes/TheIrishDiaspora American supporters]] of [[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles the Provisional IRA]], who shipped thousands of "[=ArmaLites=]"[[note]]The [=ArmaLite=] AR-18 was a simpler, less expensive version of the AR-15 that [=ArmaLite=] developed after selling the rights to the AR-15 to Colt, marketed to less developed countries that lacked either the money to import state-of-the-art Western rifles or the manufacturing capacity to build them. Most professional militaries weren't interested, but the Provos were.[[/note]] and ammo to Northern Ireland). This was turned around, however, in the 2000s during UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror. By that time, most of the flaws of the M16 and its short-barreled version, the M4 carbine, had been worked out, while the Federal Assault Weapons Ban expired in 2004, allowing for the widespread sale of semiautomatic rifles in most of the country. The AR-15, identified with American soldiers fighting insurgents in Afghanistan and Iraq, exploded in popularity and became an enduring symbol of American gun culture.

** It raised demand for simple plastic green army men so much that several companies started cashing in on it with [[VideoGame/ArmyMen video games]] and such.

* Faygo would be another obscure, regional soft drink brand from the Midwest if not for the Music/InsaneClownPosse making it their [[TrademarkFavoriteFood Trademark Favorite Drink]], referencing it several times in their lyrics and spraying the crowd at their concerts with it. The band has asked about collaborating with Faygo on a limited-edition product run, but Faygo, knowing the band's raunchy reputation, has always politely refused.

The {{Trope Namer|s}} is the red Swingline stapler prominently featured in ''Film/OfficeSpace''. Swingline didn't make full-size red staplers; the one in the film was a black stapler painted red. Then [[LifeImitatesArt life would imitate art]], as people demanded a red version, and [[{{Defictionalization}} they got one]]. Outside the U.S., [[IHaveManyNames this trope has other names, too]]. Cooking shows are particularly prone to this: the U.K. sometimes calls this the "Delia Effect", after high-profile CookingShow host Creator/DeliaSmith, to the point that her publishers would let the shops know in advance what she was going to recommend. Australia calls it the "Masterchef Effect" for similar reasons.

* Damn near anything in ''ComicStrip/{{Homestuck}}''. At its peak, any piece of real life memorabilia or item it referenced, like Gamzee's love of Faygo soda or John's hatred of gushers, was sure to drive up purchases from real life fans. Double for any obscure movies it referenced, and triple for the actual clothing of the protagonists. The official Homestuck shop made sure to keep real life versions of character outfits on hand, usually simple white Tees with their logos. Special mention goes to Dave Strider, whose sunglasses and red-sleeved shirt variant was a cheap and popular option for cosplayers.