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* A Geico commercial "Do people use smartphones to do dumb things?" featured three office workers goofing off with stupid smartphone apps. One of those apps, the Brostache, became a real app available for download.
* Alexandr, the main character from the [[Compare the Meerkat]] campaign, wrote an autobiography.
== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Kujibiki Unbalance]]'' was originally a [[Show Within a Show]] of ''[[Genshiken]]'', but was eventually made into a real series with an altered premise. When the characters within the original watched the real series the changes were incorporated ''back'' into the show!
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* The quirky American ice cream manufacturer Ben & Jerry's has made [[Saturday Night Live]]'s infamous Schweddy Balls into a flavor. (They're rum balls, if you need to know.)
* Allegedly, during the run of the original ''[[Knight Rider]]'', Pontiac was deluged with requests for a Knight Rider edition Trans Am. Potential liability kept it from happening officially, but to this day there's a decent market for conversion parts of varying fidelity to the show to make KITT replicas. Some people have even worked to integrate various computer AI/bots into them, though naturally none is anywhere close to what was seen on the show.
* For the the long running comedy ''[[The Office]]'' novelty items branded with the name and logo of fictional paper company ''Dunder Mifflin'' have been available for years, however in 2011 Staples announced it would begin to sell actual Dunder Mifflin branded paper products in its stores
** Also, Replicas of Michael's iconic "World's best boss" mug are sold by NBC as official merchandise.
** Dwight Schrute's bobble head figure of himself can be bought as well as bobble heads of the whole main cast.
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* In the 2015 series ''Servant of the People'' Volodymyr Zelensky played a man who became President of the Ukraine in a freak victory resulting from a rant on political corruption. In the 2019 election, Volodymyr Zelensky ran for President of the Ukraine for real as a joke, creating a political party named after the show and using its logo in the process. In a freak victory he won with over 70% of the vote as a result of frustration with current political corruption.
* In 2018, [[HGTV]] bought the house which was used for exterior [[Stock Footage]] of the Brady home in ''[[The Brady Bunch]]'', and a team of their designers completely replicated the interior sets from the show within it as a fully working house.
* ''[[Sesame Street]]'' exists as a local street in a few communities. "WCFE Mountain Lake PBS, 1 Sesame Street, Plattsburgh NY 12901" is a real address, as is "WCVE Community Idea Station, 23 Sesame Street, Richmond VA 23236". There was also one block of a longer New York City street which was renamed to Sesame Street because it served a museum which covered the show.
* ''[[Gilligan's Island]]'' exists as a real island in a few places, including [[Puerto Rico]]
* While ''[[The Beachcombers]]'' was shot in and around the real town of Gibsons, B.C,, the restaurant "Molly's Reach" wasn't a real restaurant - the show's producers had just put the shop sign onto the building where they stored props, in order to be able to get some exterior shots. After the show ended, the building was turned into an actual restaurant called "Molly's Reach".
*The [[Partridge Family]] was created as a TV show and created as a popular band both around the same time, but there's very little overlap between the cast of the two - just one person appears in both, leaving the concept that the TV cast are the popular musicians fictional. Apparently the network did want to find a family which fit the mould for real and, when they could not, this was invented from whole cloth and simultaneously defictionalised to create a band.
== Music ==
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* Offical replicas of the cool jackets worn by [[Danger Days|The Killjoys]] from The [[My Chemical Romance]] music videos are being sold in their online store.
* [[Prince's Associates|Apollonia 6's]] album was released about two months after the group's appearance in the [[Purple Rain]] film.
== Newspaper Comics ==
* The "Lisa's Legacy" breast cancer walk featured in ''[[Funky Winkerbean]]'' has become [http://www.cleveland.com/healthfit/index.ssf/2009/10/post_6.html a real event].
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* The ''[[Li'l Abner]]'' comic featured an annual event called Sadie Hawkins Day, an event where women would chase men down and forcibly marry them. To this day, schools often hold Sadie Hawkins Day dances in which female students are expected to invite boys instead of the usual arrangement. This, despite the fact that ''Li'l Abner'' went out of print over thirty years ago.
** A Sadie Hawkins Day dance was actually a plot point in one episode of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''.
== Professional Wrestling ==
* The original character Suicide, originally designed for the ''[[TNA Impact]]'' video game, started appearing at real life events in late 2008.
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** The same is true of Jushin "Thunder" Liger, named (and kind of modeled) after an anime series from the late 80s.
* Arguably, the whole concept of [[Kayfabe]].
== Radio ==
* [[wikipedia:Band Waggon|Band Waggon]], a BBC Radio comedy from the 1930s, featured a fictional cleaning product called Askitoff (slogan: Askitoff Will Take It Off), named after the star, Arthur Askey. Askey was prohibited from taking advantage of this new brand name by his BBC contract, but this didn't stop an [https://web.archive.org/web/20130827062453/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,760943,00.html unofficial product] reaching the marketplace within weeks.
* [[wikipedia:Radio Norwich|Radio Norwich]] used to be a spoof radio station which employed [[I'm Alan Partridge|Alan Partridge]]. In 2006, a real commercial station named 99.9 Radio Norwich was launched (and still exists as of 2012).
== Tabletop Games ==
* ''The Imperial Infantryman's Uplifting Primer'', an [[Fictional Document|ever-so-helpful handbook]] given to members of the [[Redshirt Army|Imperial]] [[Badass Normal|Guard]] in ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'', is actually available for purchase. It's filled with the amount of propaganda, disinformation, and blatant lies that you'd expect for the setting ("while sneaking up on the enemy, recite the [[With Catlike Tread|Litany of Stealth]] to reduce your chances of being heard"). Also the lengthy "Blessing of the Bomb", to be recited after pulling the pin of a grenade but before throwing it to ensure accuracy.
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** ''Dawg'', the Xenofiction RPG invented by B.A. of ''[[Knights of the Dinner Table]]'', has also been published in real life.
== Theatre ==
* Anatevka is a small [[Judaism|Jewish]] community in modern-day [[Ukraine]]. The name originated with ''[[Fiddler on the Roof]]''; the defictionalised Anatevka Jewish Refugee Community is in Kyiv Oblast, just far enough west to be outside Kyiv's city limits. (Ten miles further north are Irpin and Bucha, two of the civilian settlements heavily damaged by [[Russia]]<nowiki/>n warfare during Putin's 2022 invasion.)
== Toys ==
* In 1968, [[Hot Wheels]] came up with their first original car design, the [http://hotwheels.wikia.com/wiki/Twin_Mill Twin Mill], which became available one year later. 33 years later, [http://www.popsci.com/cars/article/2002-01/1400-horsepower-hot-wheels-car a life-sized Twin Mill was built]. And not only a mere prop, but a fully driveable automobile, actually propelled by that [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|pair of supercharged 502cui Chevy Big Blocks with something between 700 and 900bhp each]].
* One couple converted their van into a life-size [[Transformers|transforming robot]].
== Video Games ==
* The special Edition version of ''[[Fallout|Fallout 3]]'' came in a lunchbox designed like the one in the game (An item that in-game is used to build land mines), and came packaged with 1 limited edition bobblehead, which can be collected in meatspace as well as in the game world.
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131024071630/http://www.gourmetgaming.co.uk/ Gourmet Gaming] is a blog dedicated for this, Defictionalizing food from various video games, with varying ([[Food Porn|but well presented]]) results
* [[Gears of War|Chainsaw bayonets]], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ljd_hUxCfI as seen here].
== Web Animation ==
* ''[[Homestar Runner]]''
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** Is that a re-de-fictionalization?
* Genki Rockets, the virtual in-house band of Q Entertainment (''[[Rez]]'', ''[[Child of Eden]]'', ''[[Lumines]]'', etc.), have two real albums.
== Web Comics ==
* A good half of the products in the ''[[Megatokyo]]'' store were actually items worn by the characters in the comic. Piro comments in the first ''Megatokyo'' book how no one was really sure what Largo's "cool thing" purchase was. Dom comments "When we do, it'll be on our online store in less than two weeks. God bless America."
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