List of fictional media

This is a list of fictional media (films, magazines, television shows, etc) from various real media.

Advertising

Slogans

From Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

  • "A gram in time saves nine'"
  • "A gram is better than a [...]."
  • "Community, Identity, Stability'"
  • "Ending is better than mending."

From the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett

  • "A Spare Hand When Needed" - We R Igors
  • "For the news you only hear about" - The Ankh-Morpork Inquirer
  • "Recycling Nature's Bounty" - Harry King waste recycling (after his wife had a word with him)
  • "Taking the Piss since 1961" - Harry King waste recycling (originally)
  • "The Truth Will Make You Free" (or sometimes "Fret") - The Ankh Morpork Times

From the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams

  • "If you've done six impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe?" - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  • "Share and Enjoy" - Sirius Cybernetics Corporation, Complaints Division The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  • "Your Plastic Pal Who's Fun To Be With" - Sirius Cybernetics Corporation, describing androids The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

From Metalocalypse

  • "Explosion Sauce, it's good on its own!"- Explosion Sauce
  • "Murderknobs, doorknobs for a new world." - Murderknobs
  • ''"Nickels is money too, guys!" - Pickel's Nickels
  • "Tastes like chicken, if chicken were a candy." - Willard Wonky Hand Candy

From Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

  • "Big Brother is watching you"
  • "War is peace, Freedom is slavery, Ignorance is strength"

From Saturday Night Live

  • "Do what we say, and nobody gets hurt." - Texxon
  • "The donuts of champions" - Little Chocolate Donuts
  • "For when the metal ones decide to come for you... and they will." - Old Glory Insurance, which offers coverage in the event of robot attack
  • "If you can find a better set of tires, screw you, pal!" - Screw You, Pal tires
  • "Life goes on. Texxon is there. Because Buckwheat would have wanted it that way." - Texxon
  • "Make Sweeping a Family Affair"
  • "The only thing greater than a dog's sense of smell is it's sense of irony" - Dissing Your Dog
  • "Something's always cooking at the Cluckin Chicken" - Cluckin Chicken
  • "Our Age Is Showing" - parody of an NBC's promotional campaign

Miscellaneous

  • "A lawn savant, who'll lop a tree — no one beats Marquis de Sod!"- the jingle (to La Marseillaise) of the [...] lawn service Marquis de Sod, from Thomas Pynchon's Vineland
  • "All the News in Fits of Print!" - the slogan of The Daily Punctilio in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events.
  • "Because Accidents Happen" - Skaiser Permanente, MADtv
  • "Be there in a flash" - MADtv]
  • "Breasts Ther're Like Boobs But Classier" - Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
  • "Catch Here!" (parody of NBC's 1983-1984 promotional campaign "Be There") - promotional campaign for NewsChannel 7, Lizzie McGuire
  • "Chickity China the Chinese Chicken, ya have a drumstick and your brain starts clickin (or stops tickin)" - Chickity China, Barenaked Ladies, One Week
  • "Doesn't Your Family deserve 10% Less Anal Leakage?" - Cholestra, MADtv
  • "Don't You Wish Your Cat Poop Had a Little Zen Sometimes?" - Zen Litter Box, MADtv
  • "Do Something Amazing" - Strange, Boomerang
  • "For all you'll ever need."™ - The Goliath™ Corporation, Thursday Next novels
  • "For people who don't want to stink" - Ocean Breeze soap, The Muppets Take Manhattan
  • "For Real" - presidential campaign, Tanner '88
  • "Get them before they get you" - Nuke 'Em, Robocop
  • "Huskeroos lets you be you!" - Huskeroos clothing in Weeds
  • "If it's a boot, it's a Blackbury" - Blackbury Boots, Johnny and the Dead
  • "It Stinks so Good" - Strange, Boomerang
  • '"It's the female touch" - Chicken pies, Chicken Run
  • '"KGBH, in fantastic medium wave" - KGBH Radio, GTA2
  • "Nothing Says Get The Hell off my Front Porch Like a Winchester", - Winchester shotgun,MADtv''
  • "Ocean Breeze will get you clean" - Ocean Breeze soap, The Muppets Take Manhattan
  • "Our business is life itself" - Umbrella Corporation, Resident Evil series.
  • "Removing snow's a breeze with one blast of Summer Wheeze" - Summer Wheeze,Frosty Returns''
  • "Rippin and Dippin, Carin and Sharin" - Twisted Crust Pizza Complete-za MADtv
  • "See you later" - Fedex. MADtv
  • "So much ink if will blow your mine" - Super Dynamite Pen, MADtv
  • "The tuna with a heart" - Schooner Tuna, Mr. Mom
  • "They're just roomier!" - Huskeroos clothing in Weeds
  • "We bring you joy, we bring you strife!" - jingle used for ICS in The Running Man movie
  • "We do chicken right-on!" - General's Chicken, parody of KFCs slogan in Undercover Brother
  • "We make ice cream fun" -King of the Hill''
  • "We put U before the BS." - slogan used for the UBS network on America 2-Night
  • "We report. You believe." - parody of Fox News slogan on Australian comedy CNNNN
  • "We're Channel 6, Just Catch Us Now!" - parody of NBC's 1982-1983 promotional slogan "Just Watch Us Now", The Simpsons
  • "We scare because we care" - Monsters Inc.
  • "What the eye doesn't see. The buyer doesn't know".'' Fast Forward (L'iar-Deskonke)
  • "Why be you when you can be new?" - Robots
  • "You can shine no matter what you're made of." - Robots
  • "You Know You Want It" - Eruption, The 40 Year-Old Virgin

Publications

Newspapers

Comic books

Comic strips

Magazines

Radio shows

  • The Bill and Marty Show - The Simpsons
  • Chris in the Morning - Northern Exposure
  • Danger Woman - TaleSpin
  • Delicious Dish - NPR's show, Saturday Night Live
  • Gabbin' About God - The Simpsons
  • Gus - MADtv
  • Jerry Rude and the Bathroom Bunch - The Simpsons parody of The Howard Stern Show
  • The Iodent Hour - Annie
  • Moleman in the Morning - The Simpsons
  • Pressing Issues - radio show from VCPR in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
  • Witching Hour - Harry Potter, parody of Woman's Hour
  • Verbal Tea - ''The Simpsons

See also

  • List of fictional brands
  • List of fictional companies
  • List of fictional books
  • List of fictional musical works

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