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Note that any basic science course will tell you that correlation doesn't always mean causation, but some of these are some pretty interesting coincidences. When demand appears for something that's never been produced much less demanded until its fictional presentation... it's hard not to attribute a cause and effect.
[[Defictionalization]] is when the makers of the piece of media create their own tie-in merchandise based on this concept. If the show is built around this effect, it's [[Merchandise
The equivalent for other works is the [[Colbert Bump]], and if it happens to songs, it's likely [[Revival By Commercialization]].
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** There has even been talk in the city council to make the local high school dress code match the one seen in the series.
** In turn, the girls became official honour residents of the city.
* Likewise, the Hiwaka Shrine from ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' also exists and is a tourist spot for fans. Crown Game Center also ''used'' to exist but has since gone out of business and been replaced by a [[
* The classical-music industry in the Asia-Pacific region has reasons to thank ''[[Nodame Cantabile]]''.
* In a ''[[Gintama (Manga)|Gintama]]'' filler episode, it was announced that the series was unexpectedly being canceled because the studio Sunrise had gone out of business. Following this, "Sunrise" became the most-searched item online in Japan.
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* Names for babies becoming more popular after use in a piece of media happens all the time:
* "Madison" as a first name was almost nonexistent when the movie ''[[Splash]]'' was made; it's currently the fourth-most-popular girls' name in America.
** What makes this particularly worth noting is that when the mermaid [[Line
* A similar example is the name "Kayleigh" which appeared in a 1985 hit single of the same name by the British [[Progressive Rock]] band [[Marillion]], which was created out of the name of an ex-girlfriend of singer Derek "Fish" Dick who was named Kay Lee. It soon became a popular name for girls in the United Kingdom.
* Millions of baby girls were named Alice after [[Lewis Carroll]]'s [[Alice in Wonderland|book]] came out.
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* ''[[Sideways]]'' led to increased American sales of Pinot Noir, the wine favored by the main character. At the same time, Merlot sales declined in America because he doesn't drink it, and says so in one scene.
** Ironically, this actually caused the average quality of both wines in the American market to switch places. Merlot had previously been overproduced to the point that it was regarded as rather déclassé by wine aficionados, hence Miles' dislike for it. In response to the change in demand, the market was flooded with mediocre Pinots, while the average quality of Merlots increased as fewer were produced.
** Maddox, of [[The Best Page in The Universe]], hates this trope, and directs his rant on the subject at ''Sideways'' specifically. He figures that, if you're [[Viewers
* In the special edition commentary of [[Napoleon Dyamite]] it was mentioned that the blue unicorn t-shirt Napoleon wears in the movie had been discontinued when the film came out but thanks to the popularity of the film the shirt was reproduced.
* The ''[[Alien (Film)|Aliens]]'' Power Loader. Inquiries were made to purchase the things but since they don't exist and the prop wasn't real...
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* ''[[Top Gun]]''. After the airing, sales of Ray-Ban Aviators and bomber jackets skyrocketed. It also increased the number people enlisting the Navy and Air Force, but that at least was intentional: why do you think the film was [[Backed By the Pentagon]]?
** Back to the Cool Glasses. Ditto for the Gargoyles sunglasses worn by [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] in the first ''[[Terminator]]'' movie, though not to as great an extent.
** Also for the (again) Ray-Ban Wayfarers. During the 50s they were vaguely popular, then Audrey Hepburn wore them in ''[[Breakfast At
** [[Tom Cruise]] made Wayfarers popular a few years before ''[[Top Gun]]'' in ''[[Risky Business]]''.
** [[Will Smith]] helped sales of Ray-Ban RB 2030 - Predator 8 Wrap shades after ''[[Men in Black (Film)|Men in Black]]''.
*** Ray-Ban tried to do it again with the anachronistic shades worn by Smith in ''[[Wild Wild West (Film)|Wild Wild West]]''. It didn't work nearly as well.
** ''[[The Matrix]]'' films have driven sales of the different styles of sunglasses worn by the various characters.
* Surprising non-inversion (given some of the other "water tragedies" listed above): Sales of tickets on Seabourne cruises spiked after ''[[Speed 2 Cruise Control]]''. Before the movie came out, Seabourne was asked [[What Were You Thinking?|what they were thinking]], allowing a movie about people not having much fun on a cruise take place on their company's ship. Seabourne representatives just said it was free publicity. They were right.
* The movie ''[[Contact (Film)|Contact]]'' apparently created quite a bit of publicity for the SETI program. Even ten years later, it's usually how people know of it. This was probably intentional, given Carl Sagan's support for the program.
** This seems questionable, since SETI was also featured in ''[[The Arrival]]'', ''[[Independence Day]]'', and the second season premier of ''[[The X Files]]'', all of which came out before ''Contact'' and were probably seen by many more people.
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** Much like the red Swingline, the ''Christmas Story'' Special Edition Red Ryder was released, which conformed to the features listed in the movie (including the compass in the buttstock).
* [[Shirley Temple]] set several trends for girls. The curls obviously were a fad. She also wore a [[Pretty in Mink|white rabbit coat]] in one film and the popularity of such coats exploded for upper class girls.
* According to the movie's trivia section over at [[
* When Michael Douglas used a (now comically large) mobile phone in the 1987 film ''[[Wall Street]]'' it established the mobile phone as an essential business accessory, leading to the modern popularity of mobile phones. Nice Guy Eddie's enormous car phone in ''[[Reservoir Dogs]]'' (1992) may have helped too.
** ''[[Wall Street]]'' also increased the sales of a certain type of horizontally striped shirt. They were sometimes called "Gekko shirts" after the film's [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] (although their popularity may have been prompted by the common [[Alternative Character Interpretation]]).
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** The video release of which ran out in minutes.
** Forget the video, demand was such that there was a huge lead time in receiving a ''paper'' copy of the instructions from the BBC. (Bear in mind, this was before internet access was widespread.)
* On ''[[Kim Possible]]'', Ron Stoppable's sidekick/pet naked mole rat has led to kids wanting one for their very own. Common sense provides it's not really a [[Speech
** A mother in Finland once wrote an article stating that ''[[Kim Possible]]'' [[Girls Need Role Models|encouraged her daughter]] [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|to take up cheerleading]] [[Took a Level In Badass|and martial arts lessons]]. A poster on a forum commented a similar thing happened with ''[[Power Rangers]]'' (see above).
* The ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' sparked a pet turtle craze as mentioned above. Sadly, parents and children alike had no idea how to properly care for them, to say nothing of the fact that the kid would in theory be well into his 70's or older before his pet bit the dust. As a result, many turtles really did wind up in sewers in the 90's. But on the lighter side, TMNT also caused a surge in the popularity of pizza.
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