Hey, Back Again With Another One Of My Commercial Posts! This Time It Is A Special One!, The Post Is A “Commercials That Are For Another Product, But It’s The Actual Ad!”, Let’s Go To This List!
- A series of Tesco Mobile ads in the UK centered around a group of people wishing for "a world where strangers... become friends" etc., before cutting to a simple person on a white background asking simply for a cheap monthly rate with a free phone.
- A Progressive Insurance commercial even interrupts one of their other commercials.
- Another one advertises the services as an insurance-based amusement park called "Progressive Park." then cuts to show the Progressive team standing in an empty parking lot saying it was probably a bad idea.
- This one takes place at a restaurant called Portabella's, but when the waiters clearly resemble the Progressive actors, the diners realize they might be in a Progressive commercial. This may count as an inversion, since it starts off talking about Progressive but ends with a jingle for the Portabella's restaurant.
- One campaign appeared to sell a series of Flo action figures to talk about how Progressive helps small businesses.
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- GEICO ran a fake-trailer for a reality show called Tiny House before revealing itself as a GEICO ad. The trailer was well done, and real reality show premises can be just as stupid, so it was quite convincing.
- In this one where Tony Little is selling a glider exercise machine but his "good news" for the audience is said irrelevant news.
- Another GEICO ad appears to be an ad for a superglue called "Wonder Glue", that is until the salesman says it won't save money on car insurance.
- This one starts out as an advert for a breakfast cereal called "Kwazy Crisps", until the mascot (a green Chester Cheetah Expy) says that it won't save ANY money on Car Insurance.
- And this one appears to be an advert for a fleece fashion line, until one of the models says it won't save you money on car insurance.
- This one begins as an advertisement for a treatment to prevent hair loss, until the doctor mentions that he saved money by switching to Geico.
- A commercial in 1999 seemingly advertised an incredibly terrible-looking movie called "Blow'd Up". We then cut to a horrified man watching this on television, going on E*Trade (an online, self-serve stock brokerage), and selling all of his shares of stock in the studio.
- In another commercial, it starts as an ad for a medicine called Nozulla, but as soon as the commercial starts listing its terrifying side effects (such as projectile vomiting, large eyeballs, And a condition called "hot dog fingers" ), the man sells his stock in the company behind Nozulla.
- A 2022 Super Bowl ad starring Anna Kendrick Starts out as a commercial for Barbie's Dream House, but then Kendrick reveals that Barbie found it with the Rocket Homes app, and secured a mortgage with Rocket Mortgage in a competitive housing market, with other dolls bidding for it.
- Sprite frequently pulled this trick during their "Obey Your Thirst" ad campaign, usually by starting out as ads for non-existent, drinks, such as "Jooky" and "Sun Fizz”
- In one Trix commercial from the mid-'90s, the Trix Rabbit disguises himself as a human, and actually manages to obtain a box of Trix. He then goes to the fridge to put milk on it, and discovers that he doesn't have any. It's actually a "Got Milk?" commercial.
- A few other commercials used this formula, appearing with another product usually used with milk, only for a lack of milk to cause some sort of issue. For example, the Pillsbury Doughboy helps a family make delicious cookies, only for them to turn on him because he put an empty milk carton back in the fridge. There's also the invention of the Oreo which reveals that it got its name from a Mondegreen of, "I don't know," when an employee ran out of milk and had to speak with his mouth full.
- This advert starts off as an advert for washing powder, before being interrupted by an advert for the soft drink "Quosh".
- A video from Vat19 advertises folding chairs as if they were a brand new invention. Turns out they're actually advertising the Christmas themed sweaters the actors were wearing throughout the ad
- Alka-Seltzer had one very famous ad about a meatball commercial being shot where the actor repeatedly blew his line "That's a spicy meatball!", if some other blooper didn't spoil the shot. Since he had to take a bite from those spicy meatballs on each take, he soon needed some Alka-Seltzer before he could continue.
- The irony here is that most people started looking for Mama's Meat Sauce and couldn't find it anywhere while completely ignoring the Alka-Seltzer.
- Another PSA shows an ad for phones Promoting The many gifts that'll come with it, including a phone cradle, speakerphone, headset, "and a great new nickname at school! (LOSER!)"
- An anti-Ecstasy PSA was designed to look like a prescription drug ad, with a person walking through a field of flowers in soft focus while the narrator listed side effects, concluding with "Ask your doctor why Ecstasy is not right for you."
- Around 2000, The Truth ran several anti-smoking PSAs that began as commercials for some kind of "way out" product (for example, a brand of soda called "Splode" that contained 100 times the carbonation of the average soda brand, or a new zit cream called "Rid-a-Zit", or a car hire service called "Tru Ride", or a sports shoe called "H-Bomb"). The product would then cause some kind of death (usually of the Stuff Blowing Up), and a message would flash on screen saying "Only one product kills more than a third of the people who use it. Tobacco."
- Both the Teen Mommy Darci and the Action Teen Father start off as doll commercials, before it's revealed that they're actually PSAs discouraging teen pregnancy.
- In 2017 in the UK, Save the Children made a PSA that starts out like a car commercial, until the end when it is revealed that what is being advertised is actually a bomb.
- This at first seems like a commercial for an action figure, known as "reporter man", but it's quickly revealed to be a PSA for "Reporters Without Borders".
- This advert initially looks like the trailer for a new action film called "The Betrayal", but it's actually a road safety PSA.
- A 2016 radio commercial for Wendy's Bacon Mozzarella Cheeseburger seems to start of as a commercial for a luxury French jewelry store. Midway through the announcer loses the French accent and says what the commercial is really for
- There was a commercial for a new sitcom called "Zombie Dad" on Canadian sci-fi cable channel Space. It actually looked pretty fun, until it ended up being a network ad for Space saying you don't have to watch such awful shows.
- British channel Dave ran adverts for Dave Gorman's Modern Life is Goodish which started as adverts for products like chocolate or shampoo only for Gorman to walk on-set and begin arguing with the announcer, disputing their claims about the product.
- WNET, the PBS member station for New York City, has an internet and subway ad campaign featuring various fake reality show trailers, ending with the tag "The fact you thought this was a real show says a lot about the state of TV. Support quality programming." (Public television stations in the US are mostly funded by donations from corporations and the general public.)
- When YTV got the rights to The Penguins of Madagascar, they had some promos for it that started as promos for other shows or a deodorant commercial, only for the penguins to suddenly freeze it and dance on the screen, to the narrator's annoyance.
- There are commercials for BigSpot.com, a site that allows users to take surveys on products, that start out as commercials for some hilariously bad product before saying "Wow. That was bad. Wouldn't you like to tell them that? Now you can." One has a product called "Yo Yo Yo!" that yo-yos for you and has some girl saying suggestively, "Can I play with your yo-yo?". Another is a commercial for a "Carmsleeve" to cover your arm if you like to have your arm hang out of the window of your car. Yet another has something called "Flava Time", a watch or ankle bracelet that adds flavor to your food. A fourth is the Neck Basket, which is Exactly What It Says on the Tin, and it has a sequel in the Waist Basket. A sixth is for a sprout-flavored breakfast cereal. A seventh is for a "Proposal Pillow" to kneel on while you propose to your significant other.
- A K-Mart radio commercial starts out with various people talking about being reluctant to go out due to having a "gas problem", obviously making the listener expect it to be for some sort of drug that prevents flatulence. Instead, it's advertising a promotion where customers can save on gasoline by shopping.
- T-Mobile's 2016 Super Bowl Ad appears to be an ad for Verizon, a continuation of its "rolling red balls" ad from January 2016, until Steve Harvey comes out and (in reference to his Miss Universe error in December 2015) says "I need to apologize, those are last year's numbers!" Of course it is actually an ad for T-Mobile.
- This Barclays advert promoting digital safety starts out as an advert for a robot toy named Supercon, before Supercon himself reveals that he's just a big scam and warns people to always buy from a secure website.
- A rare print example - at first glance, the photograph on the right appears to be an advert for an expensive watch, but it's actually a continuation of the advert on the left, for a laptop.
- Another print example - the image on the left is like an advert for perfume, but it's really a lead-in to the advert for ATV Offroad Fury on the right.
- There was a commercial that looks like it's for a performance car. We see a young man driving the car while cutting back and forth with two of his friends talking about the man's new ride. Finally, one of the friends asks what his ride has under the hood. The other replies "Nuclear reactor." The car finally stops on a dock next to a submarine. It's a recruitment ad for the Navy
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