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* [[Ghost in the Machine]]
* [[Let's Meet the Meat]]
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* Ads for the
▲* Ads for the dish detergent add in JetDry feature a talking JetDry/Detergent dispenser as part of a dishwasher.
* Long used in commercials for Parkay spread, where a tub of the margarine would contradict a housewife and insist that it was butter until she would taste and say "butter!", at which point the tub would smugly announce, "Parkaaaaaay!".
* Recent{{when}} Mothers Against Drunk Driving ads targeted at drug-impaired driving involved stoned and confused characters being lectured by otherwise inanimate objects (such as a t-shirt) regarding their condition.
* A set of commercials for orange juice had a talking sandwich advise people opening the fridge to drink orange juice instead of going for their intended snack. The usual response of viewers was "If your leftovers are talking to you, [[It Came From the Fridge|your fridge is
* It appears that recent{{when}} Dr Pepper ads use talking soda cans. The mouth is the hole where the soda would come out in real life.
** They're singing, actually. In the voice of Flavor Flav.
* Tide is running ads, and possibly a contest, called "The Talking Stain."{{when}}
* [[AMV Hell]]: The "Because I Got High" clip
* Video game example: In the ''[[Banjo-Kazooie]]'' series, NPC characters are usually a sentient version of an inanimate object, with googly eyes. This includes (but is by no means limited to) musical notes, honeycombs, hives, oranges, jigsaw pieces, Leaky the Bucket, Cheato the Cheatbook, Loggo the Toilet (!) and even the Banjo-Kazooie cartridge.
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* A Gillette commercial features a razor blade talking to a guy and telling him that he should replace the blade when the indicator strip changes colour.
* In the beginning of Robert Winchester's "[[Siblings|Half-Beard]]" flash cartoon, Rob has a conversation with his beard when he faces the necessity of shaving again. When he tells it to stop screaming in pain, it obliges.
* The third episode of ''[[Ranma ½: The Abridged Chronicles]]'' featured a talking bucket of water. Well, it was the narrator speaking through the bucket of water, but he cried out "my spine!" as Ranma jumped on the bucket anyways.
* A recent{{when}} Quizno's commercial features a seductive, deep-voiced oven convincing an employee to advertise a new sandwich in unmistakably come-hither fashion.
{{quote|'''Oven:''' Scott, I want you to do something . . .
'''Scott:''' [[Noodle Incident|Not doing that again.]] I burn.
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* [[K-On the Abridged Series|"Okay, now the gloves are talking?]] [[I Call It Vera|Does everything Yui name]] [[K-On the Abridged Series|talk?"]]
* Disney's ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]''.
* ''[[Harry Potter]]''. Just don't trust anything if you can't see where it keeps
* Sometimes Chevron airs commercials with claymation cars that talk to each other.
* ''[[Pee-
* And old ad for ''Alka-Seltzer'' had a man and his stomach being interviewed about heart burn. At one point, the man says he likes pepperoni pizza, at which the stomach
* Following fairytale conventions, the [[Unreliable Narrator]] puts words in the mouths of trashcans, scissors, buckets, etc. in ''[[Rule of Rose]]''.
* ''[[The Amazing World of Gumball]]''; lampshaded once when Gumball tells a regular looking wall to get out of his way only for it to grow a face and respond to him, albeit saying he couldn't move because he was a wall.
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