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[[WMG: The "I'm a Mac" "And I'm a PC" commercials are stealth Windows commercials.]]
Like {{Satan}} in ''Literature/ParadiseLost'', PC gets all the best lines.
further supporting this, John Hodgman could kill Justin Long any day of the week.
* Further supporting this is that fans of the commercials identify more with the nerdy PC and find Mac to be a JerkAss.
** And many of the arguments Apple presents don't make sense or have [[UnfortunateImplications implications the opposite of what Apple intended.]] One brought up Windows's instability and admitted that it's a natural side effect of there being so much PC software and hardware from so many different vendors--and emphasized at the same time that Macs don't have this problem. The Main/FridgeLogic version of this claim: As a Mac user, you have far fewer choices than your PC-using peers because Apple is sure that restricting your options is the only thing standing between your Mac and frequent crashes.
** [[http://hopelessosaka.livejournal.com/94803.html Poll]]. Forewarning: kinda gay. Like, [[FlamboyantGay really gay]].
* And they've gone on double dates with the Vonage chick and the phone company guy, since "Vonage" has the same philosophy. The Vonage harridan's arguments may be ''slightly'' better (though not much), but she is more actively annoying, and so it cancels out.

[[WMG: Cablevision's Pixel commercials are stealth FIOS commercials.]]
Similar to the above Windows vs PC commercials, Cablevision's "Pixel" commercials are usually great advertisements for their primary rival, Verizon. They not only contain wild inaccuracies (thus disillusioning potential customers when they call for service) and are incredibly unfunny, but they also include subtle hints that FIOS is actually the vastly superior service, including one (The infamous "I'm glad I'm pink" commercial) where a disheveled pixel is sent to work for Cable because he wasn't good enough for FIOS. If these commercials don't make you a FIOS subscriber, you're not watching close enough.

[[WMG: The many various British Price comparison website adverts could un-doubtfully be stealth commercials from rival companies too.]]

[[WMG: Under his mask, the Burger King is a skull stripped of skin and much of his flesh.]]
He was inspired to become a burger maker when he survived being snowbound in a small town with no restaurant and no friends by eating his own face; he didn't want anyone to ever suffer the same fate.
* So The King survived Franchise/SilentHill? No wonder he seems so weird.
* There is no mask. One day, his head will part itself at the "jawline," and there will be nothing but teeth inside. Rows upon rows of jagged fangs jutting in every direction.
* In Act 1 Scene 2d of the play "The King In Yellow", the Stranger, when asked by Camilla and Cassilda to unmask at the Grand Masquerade, states that he wears no mask.

[[WMG: The (Burger) King will receive a Yellow Lantern ring.]]
Think about it. How terrifying would it be if he just showed up in ''your'' room with a Whopper. Just when you thought you were safe? (FYI, Yellow Lantern rings are like green, but they operate off fear.)

[[WMG: The Aflac Duck has Tourettes syndrome.]]
Aflac is a insurance company for people with disabilities. The Duck can only say one word. He doesn't even quack.

[[WMG: The Detrol-LA commercial with the teacher was originally written as a (rejected) ''Series/AllThat'' sketch.]]
The teacher has to pee and is desperately trying to make it to the bell without wetting herself, much to the amusement of her MiddleSchool - aged students...

[[WMG: That Orangina ad ([[NightmareFuel you]] know the one) was made by [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom furries]]]]
Daaaaaaamn.
* Hey, we're just furries--most of us aren't ''[[SarcasmMode French]]''.
** VocalMinority, ladies and gents

[[WMG: Four out of five ''Doctors'' prefer Trident.]]
[[Series/DoctorWho The Fifth Doctor prefers celery.]]

-->Quote: "It's got to be good for my teeth."

[[WMG: The original Geico gecko was the current one's "phone" alter ego, as seen in AT&T commercials.]]
The gecko doesn't have AT&T, and so he has no service anywhere. As a result, he doesn't get all the calls that his alter ego was complaining about, and so he likes Geico just fine.

[[WMG: Creator/BillyMays and Creator/VinceOffer are teaming up to take over the world.]]
Two commercial salsemen with [[LargeHam no sense of volume]] and stupid products. Coincidence?
* They're [[{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}} aliens]] taking on human form.
* A minor wrench did get thrown into the works in 2009, but...
** We all know [[http://www.halolz.com/2009/05/29/video-tf2-heavy-sells-kaboom/ Mays will respawn once the server's fixed]]
** And his ads are ''still running!!''

[[WMG: The Hulu alien adverts are real]]
It's just a case of extreme RefugeInAudacity. Because they exposed their own plan, nobody will believe that they are, in fact, aliens hoping to melt brains and destroy the world. There's no other reason for a site as addictive and time-consuming as Hulu to exist.
* If another alien species attempts to expose their plan, they will fail miserably due to their lack of understanding of human humor.
* [[WMG/TVTropes A site]] [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife as addictive and time-consuming as Hulu?]] [[TomatoInTheMirror Oh, no...]]
* Does this mean we can't watch ''Series/RescueMe'' anymore?

[[WMG: Quizno's wants to go out of business]]
Possibly the [=CEOs=] will get ludicrously rich off golden parachutes. Or maybe it's just a SpringtimeForHitler scheme, only with genuinely good product. This explains the stomach-churning 'monkeys' ads and the recent 'Talking oven in S&M sex relationship with boy employee'.

[[WMG: [[Creator/VinceOffer Vince Offer]] is [[Manga/DeathNote Kira]].]]
He killed off Michael Jackson via heart attack with his Manga/DeathNote to distract the public from the death of his rival, Billy Mays, whom he also killed off with his Death Note. This is all part of an elaborate scheme to make himself the God of Advertising.
** That, or Vince Offer is the Yozuka/Yozuba/whatever to the real Kira, Zac Efron, who is about to end his ObfuscatingStupidity. [[IncrediblyLamePun Vince Offer is going to be offed.]]

[[WMG: This may be crazy but...]]
I think commercials are trying to get us to buy the stuff in the commercial.
* What? You'll never get anyone to believe that!
** Isn't it obvious? what better way for companies to advertise their products by showing them on a short TV skit and have someone talk about it? Some people might say it's just ProductPlacement but I'll show them! I'll show them all!
*** They spend a lot of money on focus groups and psychologists to figure out common human responses to various stimuli, then embed their commercials with appropriate stimuli for what they're trying to sell. For example, they want people to associate big cars with power and dominance, so they set up the ad to suggest the people driving it are powerful and dominant. In this way they circumvent your rational decision-making process, disenfranchising you from your human right to make your own choices free of coersion.
*** Packaged in with that are reasons for the consumer to feel worthless if he doesn't buy it. They get to modify culture through omnipresence - commercial ads are all around everyone constantly. But everyone is told that they are "strong and independent enough" to remain unaffected by them. Even the children watching cartoons!

[[WMG: The burger king, smilin' Bob and the chocolate guy from the axe ads are ''all'' the same person.]]
Think about it.

[[WMG: Trix Cereal is like crack cocaine for rabbits.]]
The rabbit in the commercials is a major junkie. The kids are trying to help him by keeping the stuff away from him.
* I don't think Cocoa Puffs even ''needs'' any sort of explanation...
** Don't be silly. It's Cocoa Puffs that are comparable to an illegal substance (Crystal Meth, to be exact), and the Trix Rabbit is just a tragic hero. That, and Cinnamon Toast Crunch is covered with crack cocaine.

[[WMG: The Burger King is [[MemeticMutation Epic Fail Guy]].]]
...Yeah.

[[WMG: The Kool-Aid Man is really a pedophile]]
Think about it. He busted down walls when parents were usually not around, after he stopped that he basically hosted huge parties full of Kool-aid (Whose to say some of those weren't spiked?), and now he's trying to improve his image by stalking kids with their parents to show their folks that he's better than soda.

[[WMG: The German K-Fee [[ScreamerPrank Screamer]] Commercials are actually [[FoundFootageFilms Found Footage films]] of an unfolding [[ZombieApocalypse Zombie]] [[ApocalypticLog Apocalypse]].]]
And the normal people that you see in these commercials are either people that are currently [[TooDumbToLive too far away from any civilised contact to know this]], or in the case of the beach and surfing ads, [[EscapeFromTheCrazyPlace have just evaded]] or [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere are still evading the Apocalypse]] as it comes closer to their current location.
As a [[LastNoteNightmare Last Note Nightmare]], although the fates of the people ON camera stand as a mystery, it is [[FridgeHorror apparently almost certain]] that [[InUniverseCamera none of the camera-men]] [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou made it]].

[[WMG: Ad companies make their money by designing ads that fail.]]
OK, how many times have you seen a commercial and said, "I could make a better commercial than that." Corporations pay huge firms piles of money to make the worst ads. Why? Because when the ads fail to generate business, the company goes back to the advertiser, and they do it all over again! Ad companies run their proposals through the corporate representatives, so they can just say, "Hey, we gave you what you wanted, didn't we? Not our fault it didn't work."
* According to a professor I had in an Advertising class you might not be far off from the truth.
* They're probably not all designed to fail. Instead, they only put effort into a few of them. What better way to get more money off of a successful ad campaign then by having 4 o 5 more no-effort ad campaigns that you still get paid money for? Ad companies have just enough success that businesses can't afford not to pay for ads, while at the same time ad companies put in the bare minimum amount of work.

[[WMG: Commercials are an EvilPlan used to lure us away from the truth]]
Which is, those products actually contained [[NightmareFuel things you don't want to know]].

[[WMG: Commercials are just a facade. The real advertising lies inside....]]
[[spoiler:Subliminal Propaganda]].

[[WMG: The companies actually believe what they put out as commercials]]

[[WMG: Several Saturday Night Live parody ads were mistaken for real products and enterprising companies quickly made said products real]]

* I hope this one's true, because I'd love to try Big Fat Bean sometime. I mean, why eat a bunch of little ones when you can have a single big one?
* I hope so too. I would pay inordinate sums of money for a floor wax/dessert topping.
* Ass Don't Smell looks like a quality product as well.

[[WMG: The new Old Spice guy is watching you.]]
** "Look at your television. Now look at the IR sensor. Look back at me, that's not a camera. Did you read 1984? I'm running this country backwards. Now I'm rich. Now you're rich. No you're not, because I'm in charge of everything. Old Spice."

[[WMG: The Old Spice Guy is a Timelord.]]

Yeah, you knew it was coming. The horse is his TARDIS. When he regenerated into Ray Lewis, he realized that bringing a horse into Baltimore is a [[FlameBait bad idea]]. (He then goes back in time, to fill the plot hole. He's a ''Time Lord'', after all. He's the Time Lord Your Time Lord Could Smell Like.)

[[WMG: The Trix Rabbit is trapped in an IronicHell.]]

In life, he stole Trix all the time. Now he can't get any. It's like Tantalus.

[[WMG: Flo is a fledgling deity of customer service.]]

She is chipper and perky 24/7 and always gets the sale; in other words she is the perfect sales rep. The strange, white place where she sells insurance is her personal domain over which she is lady and mistress, which is why you never see any other employees. With enough people worshiping her Genki Girl nature, she will eventually ascend to full-godhood, unless her rival Erin E-surance gets the better of her first.
* Nah, Erin fell victim to {{Chickification}}.

[[WMG: Chester the Cheetah is actually a Satan figure.]]

He slowly but surely corrupts people by helping them get revenge via cheetos, starting with petty jokes to teach them that EvilFeelsGood while most likely invoking EvilTastesGood at the same time. The people in those commercials are making a DealWithTheDevil by following Chester's advice, and all they have to do is put cheetos up some guys nose.

[[WMG: The kids in Trix commercials are being fined for animal cruelty, and the kids in the Lucky Charms commercials are facing harrassment charges.]]
"Hey, what are you doing later? Let's withhold food from that rabbit." "Nah, I can't. I'll be too busy stalking a leprechaun in order to steal his cereal."

[[WMG: The infamous Carhart jacket "[[MagicallyDelicious wolf tooth]]" commercials will be taken to the inevitable conclusion...]]
Of protecting the wearers from zombie bites.

[[WMG: The kid from the Toyota Highlander commercials is getting paid under the table by the UAW.]]
Or the producer/director is. Or they're getting paid off by a rival auto maker.
[[WMG: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYEXzx-TINc Mikey doesn't really like it.]] ]]
He Hates it, he hates everything.
[[WMG: Literature/TheGirlWhoLovedTomGordon isn't just a baseball fan.]]
She grew up to drive a cab. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04GdjuvoIIQ A Boston cab]]. And she ''really'' likes Tim Thomas.

[[WMG: The Trix Rabbit will sue the company.]]
Being the mascot, it stands to reason that the Trix Rabbit would own a significant percentage of the company, or at the very least have royalties. The Trix Rabbit will realise that simply trying to trick the kids isn't working, and take legal action. Unless the kids get [[TakeThat the lawyers of the]] ChurchOfHappyology on their side([[TakeThatScrappy which will lead to said religion being sued]]), the Trix will almost definitely win. The charges against them: FantasticRacism for saying that Trix is for kids and not rabbits, and not giving him any royalties for being their mascot. His attourney? Bugs Bunny, who's offended by the company's [[FantasticRacism anti-lepite attitude.]] The prize? A 50-foot restraining order from the kids, and the kids [[LaserGuidedKarma have to finance his breakfast Trix cereal.]]

[[WMG: The Cheesehead guy from the State Farm ads with Aaron Rodgers fell off the wing of the plane.]]
You know the guy. He always ended the ads[[note]]"State of Imitation I" through "State of Turbulence I"[[/note]] by knocking on a window and calling out, "Rodgers! Discount Double Check!" Last we saw of him, he was clinging to the wing outside the window of the plane Rodgers and the "Da Bears" guys were riding in. He hasn't been seen since...

[[WMG: The woman from the "come snuggle with Mama" Sears Optical ad doesn't actually need glasses.]]
She just happens to own a pet raccoon named Kitty, which she lets sleep on her bed.
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