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Line 2: Advertising examples of [[Refuge in Audacity]]. * [[Hulu]] commercials parodied this trope, with spots featuring [https://web.archive.org/web/20120518011542/http://www.hulu.com/watch/62807/hulu-tv-ads-seths-giggity-goo Seth MacFarlane] (slipping from his normal voice [which is also the voice he uses for Brian the dog] to the voices he uses for Peter, Stewie, and Quagmire), [https://web.archive.org/web/20120530093553/http://www.hulu.com/watch/70859/hulu-tv-ads-the-leary-mission Denis Leary,] [https://web.archive.org/web/20120518011509/http://www.hulu.com/watch/58579/hulu-tv-ads-elizas-a-doll Eliza Dushku,] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20090508080115/http://www.hulu.com/watch/58538/hulu-tv-ads-alec-in-huluwood Alec] [https://web.archive.org/web/20120518011527/http://www.hulu.com/watch/73509/hulu-tv-ads-alecs-number-2 Baldwin] respectively announcing that they are aliens set on turning human brains to mush with TV, with the new [[Hulu]] site as their latest and greatest brain-rot delivery system. {{quote\| '''Hulu Tagline:''' An evil plot to destroy the world. Enjoy.}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20120303191839/http://www.hulu.com/watch/139147/hulu-tv-ads-the-hulu-initiative-part-1-origins A pseudo-documentary even "exposed" the conspiracy.] If TV Tropes is part of their [[Tropes Will Ruin Your Life\|sinister]] [[Mind Control Conspiracy\|plot,]] we're all [[Doomy Dooms of Doom\|doomed! DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED!]] * The Outpost.com Superbowl ads featured them trying to get people to remember their logo through such activities as shooting a hamster from a cannon through the O of their logo (they missed repeatedly), getting a school marching band to form their logo on the field (and then releasing wolverines), and tattooing their logo on the foreheads of children in a preschool classroom. Of course, today [[What Were They Selling Again?\|everyone remembers the commercial, but not the company]]. * [[~~The Burger King (Advertising)\|~~The Burger King]], [[Creepy Awesome\|full stop]]. Special mention goes to the commercial where they flat out admit they're ripping off [[McDonald's]]' latest breakfast something-or-another, by creating a commercial where the King himself breaks into [[McDonald's]]' headquarters to steal the breakfast something-or-another then flee on motorcycle. {{reflist}} [[Category:Refuge in Audacity]] ~~[[Category:Refuge In Audacity]]~~