History Main / VeryFalseAdvertising

--<'''Innkeeper''': What's in a name? Hmm?

* ''TheGreatMuppetCaper'', quoted above.

* In the [[Victorious]] special "Locked Up", Yerba is this.

* In ''[[{{Ptitleoa7pkmr8}} National Lampoon's European Vacation]]'', the Griswolds discover their London accommodations to be... less than what the [[GameShow Pig In A Poke]] producers had promised.

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* Averted with the Hollister Co. brand of clothing. While Hollister is a city in California, it betrays the brand image by being nowhere near the coast and is in fact in Northern California. Also the brand is named after fictional founder John M. Hollister.

* One ''AreYouBeingServed'' episode had the entire staff forced to take their vacation time simultaneously and at a Grace Brothers approved resort. As Mr. Rumboldt read off the tourist descriptions, he showed a slide show of the resort's features; the first one matched the hype, but none of the rest did. ("The beach is only twenty minutes away." "By ''jet?''")

A gag in comedy. The characters go on vacation, but they find out the brochure pretty much lied about... well, everything. It promised them that the "Ultra Cool Inn" would be a luxury four-star hotel, but instead they find a crumbling cottage with a dangling, faded sign reading "Ultra Cool Inn", which is filled with cobwebs and has roaches living inside the refrigerator. Quotes/VeryFalseAdvertising

-->''"Hey! I can say anything about this junk and these chumps will buy it!"''
-->-'''Minerva Mink''', ''{{Animaniacs}}'' [[http://www.minervaminkspondsidehaven.com/comics/32page4.jpg comics]]

A gag in comedy. The characters go on vacation, but they find out the brochure pretty much lied about... well, everything. It promised them that the "Ultra Cool Inn" would be a luxury four-star hotel, but instead they find a crumbling cottage with a dangling, faded sign reading "Ultra Cool Inn", which is filled with cobwebs and has roaches living inside the refrigerator.

* The protagonist of ''[[RanmaOneHalf Ranma 1/2]]'' fell prey to this due to vague language, not to deliberate malice. When the prize for [[SchoolPlay a good performance as Romeo]] was "Win a trip to see China!" he was excited at the chance to return to the Jusenkyo springs to cure his curse. As it turns out, "China" was the ''first name'' of Furinkan High's ''Romeo & Juliet'' producer. And Ranma got to see him. In the Swedish translation, they told him he could win "en resa till Kina" (a trip to China), but later Ranma found out that what he really won was Enres Atiltjina, the producer of the Furinkan High play. Atiltjina's comment? "Thank you for winning me."

* The protagonist of ''[[RanmaOneHalf Ranma 1/2]]'' fell prey to this due to vague language, not to deliberate malice. When the prize for [[SchoolPlay a good performance as Romeo]] was "Win a trip to see China!" he was excited at the chance to return to the Jusenkyo springs to cure his curse. As it turns out, "China" was the ''first name'' of Furinkan High's ''Romeo & Juliet'' producer. And Ranma got to see him.

* [[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5288734.ece In a recent, real-life example]], a British leisure park in the New Forest advertised a "British Lapland" complete with real log cabins, huskies, reindeer, a Christmas market, nativity scene and a tunnel of light. In reality, once visitors paid the £25 entry fee, they found that the log cabins were B&Q garden sheds, the nativity scene was a poster on a billboard in a field of mud, and the tunnel of light was actually a handful of lights stung across some dead trees. Stallholders in the "market" weren't paid, and Santa was reportedly beaten up by angry visitors. On top of all that, the owner of the place had a NeverMyFault attitude about the whole thing, blaming it on "crowd manipulation" and claiming that the staff had "carefully planned" the place out, as if he was the victim. And apparently the people behind "British Lapland" even had the gall to try it again!

-->-Fozzie, ''TheGreatMuppetCaper''

-->-Minerva Mink, ''{{Animaniacs}}'' [[http://www.minervaminkspondsidehaven.com/comics/32page4.jpg comics]]

* In a recent, real-life example, a British leisure park in the New Forest advertised a "British Lapland" complete with real log cabins, huskies, reindeer, a Christmas market, nativity scene and a tunnel of light. In reality, once visitors paid the £25 entry fee, they found that the log cabins were B&Q garden sheds, the nativity scene was a poster on a billboard in a field of mud, and the tunnel of light was actually a handful of lights stung across some dead trees. Stallholders in the "market" weren't paid, and Santa was reportedly beaten up by angry visitors.
** [[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5288734.ece Here's an article about it.]]
** And apparently the people behind it had the gall to try the same trick twice!
*** Not to mention the NeverMyFault attitude that the owner of the place put up, blaming the entire thing on "crowd manipulation" and that the staff had "carefully planned" the place out, making out like the park was the victims.
* The majority of frozen meals- complete with the opportunity to compare the tantalizing gourmet repast on the box picture with the puny, viscous, nuked mess on the inside.
** [[http://foodirl.com/ Here's a blog]] that does just that.

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* In a recent, real-life example, a British leisure park in the New Forest advertised a "British Lapland" complete with real log cabins, huskies, reindeer, a Christmas market, nativity scene and a tunnel of light. In reality, once visitors paid the £25 entry fee, they found that the log cabins were B&Q garden sheds, the nativity scene was a poster on a billboard in a field of mud, and the tunnel of light was actually a handful of lights stung across some dead trees. Stallholders in the "market" weren't paid, and Santa was reportedly beaten up by angry visitors.
** [[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5288734.ece Here's an article about it.]]
** And apparently the people behind it had the gall to try the same trick twice!
* The majority of frozen meals- complete with the opportunity to compare the tantalizing gourmet repast on the box picture with the puny, viscous, nuked mess on the inside.
** [[http://foodirl.com/ Here's a blog]] that does just that.

* The mid-eighties RobinWilliams vehicle ''Club Paradise'' involved the protagonists intentionally opening such a hotel. HilarityEnsues. [[SoBadItsHorrible Or not]].