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{{quote|''"Any outdoorsman will tell you the most frustrating part of hunting is when a deer simply FALLS DOWN when shot, and doesn't [[Blown Across the Room|FLY BACKWARD]] into the forest. Those days are over. Anything hit by this baby better PACK A LUNCH, 'cause it is going for a ride!"''
|''[[Team Fortress 2]]'', advertising the Scout's new weapon.}}
This [[Comedy Trope]] is a kissing cousin of both the [[Show Within a Show]] and the [[Commercial Switcheroo]]. Typically placed immediately at the end of a segment, it seems like the show you're watching has just cut to the mid-show commercial break. However, it quickly becomes evident (ideally in about the time it takes most folks to start getting out of their La-Z-Boy) that the commercial is actually a fake-out, for an absurd or grotesque product.
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{{examples}}
== [[Advertising]] ==
* [[Orangina]] has recently{{when}} made [https://web.archive.org/web/20120909185931/http://www.orangina.fr/category/publicites/ a series of commercials] that parody various commercial types - for instance, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVYAN5OlhBc Orangina body deodorant].
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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** ... which is why longtime editor Bill Gaines wouldn't carry ads.
* ''GAMES'' magazine used to run a fake ad in every issue. It was listed in the table of contents with the tagline, "Which of the pitches is full of hitches?"
* ''Computer Games Magazine'' frequently runs ads for [https://web.archive.org/web/20131206190955/http://www.phobe.com/sfi/sigmain.html fictional game studio Schadenfreude Interactive]. Because, honestly, who can resist [[Survival Horror]] karaoke, [[Steel Battalion|Mecha-assisted]] fishing, and racing against elder gods?
* The pornographic magazine ''Hustler'' would carry parody ads, usually to express Larry Flynt's opinions and beliefs.
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* [http://www.egscomics.com/backgrounds.page Wallpaper collection] of ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' includes "Shrink Soda" ads (note that [[The Nudifier|the clothes are unaffected]]). In somehow related DES comics, [[Mad Artist|Tori Vector]] once [http://danshive.deviantart.com/art/Some-Comic-of-Mine-009-81483916 advertised] one of [[Mad Scientist|Amanda]]'s [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|inventions]] (just don't show [[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs|this]] to [[xkcd|Randall Munroe]]).
* ''[[Cyanide & Happiness]]'' in its usual style [http://www.explosm.net/comics/1797/ parodies] overblown commercials.
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* ''[[Sinfest]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20140209162052/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3730 reproduces] more shameless trends.
* ''[[mezzacotta]]'' has a set of fake ads. Such as: "Visit Finländ. [[Understatement|Sömetimes is snöws]].", "[[Tetris|Tet]][[risk]]: [[X Meets Y|the board game of]] strategic [[A Worldwide Punomenon|block]] conquest", etc.
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* This is also a common device on the ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' toons.
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** The Strong Bad Email [http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail149.html candy product] ends with a commercial for the candy bar SBlounchked!, sending up Mentos-style [[Bottled Cool]] pitches.
* A ''real'' commercial example: PayAttention.org puts out political ads with stereotypical images of waving flags, eagles, happy families, or whatever - only to reveal that the candidate being promoted is, say, a bag of leaves.
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* ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le3XKdVM24k TechnicalVirgin.com]'' was a [[No Budget]] parody of the teaching of "sexual abstinence" as a substitute for proper sex education in schools, in which [[Dawson Casting|then 28-year-old]] [[wikipedia:Melanie Martinez (actress)|Melanie Martinez]] appeared as a [[Catholic School Girls Rule|school girl]] delivering [https://observer.com/2006/08/even-mister-rogers-had-a-past-2/ advice] like “One thing I’m not planning on is getting pregnant. That’s why I choose anal sex. I mean, sure it hurts a little, and I wind up walking funny for a day or two. But I think my future’s worth it.” The original was [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/05/arts/television/05pbs.html taken offline] in 2004, when "[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2273573/ Melanie]" auditioned as host of ''The Good Night Show'' (2005) on [[PBS Kids|PBS Kids Sprout]].
** PBS Kids Sprout sacked Melanie Martinez in 2006, causing a huge viewer backlash against the main [[PBS]] network. Her career never fully recovered.
* With the advent of AI-based text- and video-generation tools in early 2023 came the inevitable mock commercials created using them. Some of the first and best known, as of this writing:
▲* This ''[[Cyanide & Happiness]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EMqd5Nznv0 video] has 2 commercials, the first of which is a parody. {{spoiler|a safety feature thwarts her attempt at [[Car Fu]] which gets her killed}}
** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSewd6Iaj6I Pepperoni Hug Spot] - Like family, but with more cheese!
** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlY-iNrqFDo Synthetic Summer Beer(?) Commercial]
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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