Great Adverts in Fiction

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'Vista Rose' from The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X28E-6VoLNA&feature=youtu.be&t=1m50s

'The Stuff' from The Stuff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dLtSNlzanU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7wdKEQCX3E

'Soul Glo' from Coming to America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irFrB5LMRkM

'Silver Shamrock' from Halloween III
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7-uC0LDllM

emil.y, Sunday, 12 June 2016 15:10 (nine years ago)

'Mr Sparkle' from the Simpsons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiAaEPcnlOg

emil.y, Sunday, 12 June 2016 15:12 (nine years ago)

Trying to think of adverts in literature as well, but can only come up with the not-by-Hemingway "For sale: baby shoes, never worn". Am sure someone like Vonnegut must have had pictorial ads w/in their books at some point, right?

emil.y, Sunday, 12 June 2016 15:16 (nine years ago)

What is a home without Plumtree’s Potted Meat?
Incomplete.
With it an abode of bliss

Cry for a Shadow Blaster (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 June 2016 15:23 (nine years ago)

feel like there are some funny ones in gaddis's JR (which I've been meaning to post about over on ilb) but don't have it to hand

wins, Sunday, 12 June 2016 15:24 (nine years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2Ro_t9_Svs

The Brexit Club (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 12 June 2016 15:37 (nine years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_0Z90NSq90

The Brexit Club (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 12 June 2016 15:37 (nine years ago)

that Cluckin Bell is very Family Guy like

Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Sunday, 12 June 2016 15:41 (nine years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UPniOAMx94

Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Sunday, 12 June 2016 15:45 (nine years ago)

Damn, of course Ulysses, of course.

Haven't listened through all of the GTA ones (there's over an hour of them) but some of them are great.

Robocop one made me remember Total Recall:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lak6Nf-aSvQ

emil.y, Sunday, 12 June 2016 16:01 (nine years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FnAV1XbfKE

Foster Twelvetrees (Ward Fowler), Sunday, 12 June 2016 16:09 (nine years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD01G-ws8NI

The Brexit Club (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 12 June 2016 16:47 (nine years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTrAVpK9blw

The Brexit Club (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 12 June 2016 16:49 (nine years ago)

<3 log <3

emil.y, Sunday, 12 June 2016 16:59 (nine years ago)

Adverts - or more accurately 'blipverts' - were part of the plot of Max Headroom:
(contains flashing images)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJP-Ilw_xaY

get on (down) / to the funky (sound) / of (snoball), Sunday, 12 June 2016 17:05 (nine years ago)

Must be lots of good Simpsons ones but only hank williams Jr's canyonero song comes to mind

wins, Sunday, 12 June 2016 17:14 (nine years ago)

adverts in Viz were frequently my favourite bits in the magazine but that feels like a derail, a long derail potentially, so i'm just saluting their magic and moving on

The Brexit Club (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 12 June 2016 17:24 (nine years ago)

Similar to the radio station ads in GTA:SA, these are the ads from Streets of SimCity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn8j4kmnbJw

get on (down) / to the funky (sound) / of (snoball), Sunday, 12 June 2016 17:32 (nine years ago)

I always loathed the infantile humour of rockstar games back in the day but I haven't played a game in like a decade

wins, Sunday, 12 June 2016 17:52 (nine years ago)

Roscoe's ads from Tapeheads

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnBZMngx97o

Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 12 June 2016 17:56 (nine years ago)

Putney Swope ads

Ethereal Cereal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLF1Erk1_rQ

Fan-A-Way 'lectric fans:

Lucky Airlines (very NSFW):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KioFuZl-ghg

Face-Off Pimple Cream (w/Shelley Plimpton):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-D-0_jX1O0

Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 12 June 2016 18:09 (nine years ago)

Fan-A-Way for real this time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KioFuZl-ghg

Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 12 June 2016 18:10 (nine years ago)

OOPs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjrXVjpAXjE

Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 12 June 2016 18:11 (nine years ago)

Philip K Dick's novels - especially 'The Zap Gun' - feature a lot of adverts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZNzz4SaTYk
...custom engineered replicant tailored for your needs
...let's put our team up there etc..

get on (down) / to the funky (sound) / of (snoball), Sunday, 12 June 2016 19:07 (nine years ago)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CjHFLyaWYAESyUQ.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CjHFLz9WkAM184C.jpg

johnny crunch, Sunday, 12 June 2016 19:28 (nine years ago)

Hang on... David Markson? The David Markson currently also featuring on the canonical covers thread with Wittgenstein's Mistress

I wanna whole Dior hand (ledge), Sunday, 12 June 2016 21:44 (nine years ago)

?

I wanna whole Dior hand (ledge), Sunday, 12 June 2016 21:44 (nine years ago)

what is life without plumtree's potted meat?

incomplete.

Treeship, Sunday, 12 June 2016 21:45 (nine years ago)

oh sorry, i see someone already got that one.

Treeship, Sunday, 12 June 2016 21:46 (nine years ago)

Hang on... David Markson? The David Markson currently also featuring on the canonical covers thread with Wittgenstein's Mistress

― I wanna whole Dior hand (ledge), Sunday, June 12, 2016 10:44 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the very same (I had the same confusion)

wins, Sunday, 12 June 2016 21:47 (nine years ago)

Crikey, he certainly did a Scott Walker.

I wanna whole Dior hand (ledge), Sunday, 12 June 2016 22:12 (nine years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEMlvjJ9uxo

fight milk!

wins, Sunday, 12 June 2016 22:23 (nine years ago)

https://youtu.be/NvXHSDgv4g8?t=3510

no lime tangier, Monday, 13 June 2016 04:58 (nine years ago)

https://youtu.be/Meam4ixHR3s

blazed carrot (rip van wanko), Monday, 13 June 2016 05:16 (nine years ago)

'Cosy Moments will not be muzzled!'

🐸a hairy howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Monday, 13 June 2016 08:24 (nine years ago)

Lol

Cry for a Shadow Blaster (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 June 2016 10:39 (nine years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gArU-BAO7Kw

a 47-year-old chainsaw artist from South Carolina (Phil D.), Monday, 13 June 2016 12:08 (nine years ago)

everybody needs a billion!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wP4j5ZcURA

ejemplo (crüt), Monday, 13 June 2016 12:59 (nine years ago)


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