Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Some Instances Need Removing
, started by dsneybuf on Nov 26th 2010 at 8:31:25 PM
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Should we make a sub trope for Dungeons And Dragons make-alikes? Like the ones in Gravity Falls and Onward?
Deleted the following from the Shadowrun example in Tabletop Games since Averted Tropes are only allowed for Omnipresent Tropes and aversion-only pages.
- Averted in some cases, such as sourcebooks listing purchasable vehicles made by Ford and Chrysler.
I seem to remember there being cans of "Mt. Do" showing up on at least one old sitcom; maybe Full House? Not sure, and Google is failing me. Anyone else remember something like this?
Lee M
Under "Real Life" the link associated with KFC ripoff "KLG" was going to a fake BBC News page, almost certainly a phishing site, so I killed the link.
Currently co-writing a webcomic you can't read about on TV Tropes because the admins mistook it for porn.
I don't know if you think there are enough damn Simpson's examples already but an interesting and fairly prominent one is Laramie Cigarettes being an ersatz Marlboro - from the Simpsons Wiki:
"the logo and package design of Laramie cigarettes look almost identical to that of Marlboro Cigarettes. The name of the cartoon smokes is apparently in reference to the town of Laramie, Wyoming which, like Marlboro, is known for having a cowboy and wild west image."
http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Laramie_Cigarettes
And further to Laramie Wyoming's 'cowboy and wild west image' - The James Stuart film - The Man from Laramie
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048342/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Contrasting, of course with the Marlboro Man http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlboro_Man
The following Zero Context Example has been commented out on the page and copied here. Please don't uncomment it unless you add enough information to make it clear that it's an example of this trope, particularly which product or company it's a reference to.
- Android "Diesel gives you flames".
I've put anime/manga bland name products into alphabetic order by name of show, cleaned it up so names of shows are aligned down the left, i've been adding new references, so wanted to speed up checking and make this page more useful
Edited by Reelya
I'll take this cupcake... ''AND EAT IT!''
Wouldn't Mitsuboshi be three hats, while it's Mitsuhoshi that's three stars?
How — and when — do you tell a philosophy it's adopted? What do you do when it wants to meet its birth adherents?
Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Merge or Repair? Fictional Counterpart vs. Bland Name Product
, started by rjung on Oct 29th 2010 at 8:23:03 PM
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman