Editing List of references in advertisements

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The following is a list of advertisements that involve or invoke the [[Super Mario (franchise)|''Super Mario'' franchise]], but are not for ''Super Mario'' products. For a list of advertisements for the ''Super Mario'' franchise, see [[List of advertisements|List of advertisements]] instead. These advertisements may be on television, other forms of public broadcast, or in print media such as posters and magazines.

The packaging of the Action Replay DSi depicts numerous video game characters, including an altered version of [[Bowser]]'s ''[[Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time]]'' artwork that makes him primarily green and olive yellow, with a red shell lacking spikes, light-brown eyes and hair, a different hairstyle, downward-curling horns, and silver bracers inlaid with red gems.

 

One print advertisement shows a jaguar in the background pouncing towards a running Mario and Yoshi, using [[:File:Yoshi_and_Mario_YC.jpg|their artwork]] from ''[[Yoshi's Cookie]]''.

[[File:Canguro Scarpe Product.jpg|thumb|left|The advertisement showing two children using the shoes to jump and reach a coin]]

Throughout 2016, [http://www.canguro.it/effegi/ Canguro scarpe] (meaning "Kangaroo shoes") broadcasted an Italian advertisement for children's shoes, showing two children playing with a game console on a television set in their family home. The television's screen shows animated children within a [[level]] resembling [[Acorn Plains]] from ''[[New Super Mario Bros. U]]'', with colored platforms and a background resembling the one seen in [[Yoshi Hill]]. The children's ability to jump high and reach a coin within the level is exaggerated by the brightly colored Canguro-branded shoes that they are wearing.<ref>"Cangurokids - Arnetta srl - Via Pompei, 8". (September 15, 2016). [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qh3L21cwUg Cangurokids - Spot TV]. ''YouTube''. Retrieved October 11, 2016.</ref>

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

=={{wp|Got Milk?}}==

[[File:Mario Curious GotMilk.jpg|thumb|TV]]

Mario appears in a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uDQ8mTYUHQ Got Milk? commercial]. In the commercial, two children are playing ''[[Super Mario 64]]'' and trying but failing to jump across a set of blocks from the level [[Wet-Dry World]]. After the children leave, Mario jumps out of the television screen and interacts with various objects in the house (including a soccer ball and a green dog toy) before being flung by a skateboard into the house's refrigerator, where he drinks a large swig of milk, causing him to power up and grow a considerable amount in size. Mario then leaves the refrigerator and jumps all the way back into the game, where he is much larger thanks to the calcium-filled milk helping his bones grow and is shown to be able to easily climb the set of blocks like stairs.

 

 

Mario appears in a [https://youtu.be/xuuhCdk68i4 ''Growth Spurt'' commercial], promoting the iPhone XS and its larger variant. Mario grows bigger and runs through Brick Blocks and Goombas, similar to [[Mega Mario]].

==jobsintown==

[[File:Jobsintown Mario.jpg|thumb|left|The jobsintown advertisement. When the tagline is translated, it means "Life is too short for the wrong job." ]]

The German job search website [http://jobsintown.de jobsintown.de] released a series of advertisements featuring various people uncomfortably working "inside" of automated machines, such as ATMs and vending machines. One advertisement with an arcade machine contained a few references to video games, including lookalikes of [[Mario]], some [[Goomba]]s, a [[Mega Mushroom]], and the [[Ghosts (Pac-Man)|Ghosts]] from the ''Pac-Man'' series.<ref>Tan, Dorothy (July 19, 2013). [http://designtaxi.com/news/359432/Brilliant-Print-Ads-Show-How-Life-s-Too-Short-For-The-Wrong-Job/ad-728x90.html/  Brilliant Print Ads Show How ‘Life’s Too Short For The Wrong Job’]. ''DesignTaxi''. Retrieved March 10, 2017.</ref>

An anti-drug commercial featuring [[Lou Albano]], which aired on Philadelphia's [[wikipedia:WPSG|WPSG]], showed him wearing [[Mario]]'s cap, although the rest of his outfit was different and he introduced himself as "Captain Lou Albano".<ref>{{cite|author=HulkieD's Media Archive|date=December 3, 2008|title=Captain Lou Albano - WGBS Philly 57 "Just Say No" Drugs PSA|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8M8I2SYEiA|publisher=YouTube|language=English|accessdate=February 28, 2016|archive=https://web.archive.org/web/20240827130603/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8M8I2SYEiA}}</ref> The commercial has since become infamous for its closing line, in which Albano claims that "if you do drugs, you go to {{wp|hell}} before you die," potentially as a form of a scare tactic at the time it aired.<ref>{{cite|author=Oryaw|date=December 3, 2016|title=Captain Lou Albano's "Just Say No" PSA|url=https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/captain-lou-albanos-just-say-no-psa|publisher=KnowYourMeme|language=English|accessdate=November 5, 2024|archive=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326215608/https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/captain-lou-albanos-just-say-no-psa}}</ref>

==[[wikipedia:Froot Loops|Kellogg's Froot Loops]]==

A [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN1cUsd8brs TV commercial] for [[wikipedia:Froot Loops|Kellogg's Froot Loops]] involves a man and his wife sitting at a couch after their kids are asleep. After the wife pulls out a box of Froot Loops, the two share a bowl of it while playing ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' on an [[Nintendo Entertainment System|NES]] together.<ref> "AdvertLand". (July 1, 2014). "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN1cUsd8brs TV Spot - Froot Loops - Bring Back The Awesome - Follow your Nose]".''YouTube''. Retrieved October 13, 2016.</ref> A small caption on the bottom of the advertisement states that ''Super Mario Bros.'' is available to download on the [[Nintendo eShop]].

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=={{wp|Kirin Company|Kirin Lemon}}==

[[File:Kirin Lemon commercial 01.jpg|thumb|left|Beginning of the commercial]]

A commercial for Kirin Lemon centers around a man in an outfit similar to [[Mario|Mario's]] travelling through various terrains in [[Super Mario World]]. Several enemies such as [[Bullet Bill]] and [[Mega Mole]] have brief appearances, but the commercial mostly focuses on the man and [[Yoshi]].

 

=={{wp|Kraft Dinner|Kraft Macaroni and Cheese}}==

[[File:MarioKraftMacaroniAndCheeseCommercial.png|thumb]]

Mario is depicted in a Kraft Macaroni and Cheese commercial. The macaroni is shaped like different objects from the series. He performs multiple actions involving macaroni and/or cheese, such as hitting the Kraft logo, which makes slices of cheese appear, or swimming with fish that resemble blocks of cheese. Yoshi and Bowser also make appearances in the advertisement.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One year later<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlulSyBI2aY "Blast Processing! (Sega Genesis Commercial)" on YouTube]</ref>, Sega would make a now-infamous commercial boasting that the Genesis had "blast processing", whereas the SNES didn't. As a show of what blast processing supposedly did, a drag racer with a TV screen strapped to it raced down a drag strip; the TV didn't show any footage, but scenes from various Sega games, including the then-new ''[[wikipedia:Sonic the Hedgehog 2|Sonic 2]]'', were shown as the car drove past. As a show of what happened if one did not have blast processing, a beat-up minivan, also with a TV strapped to it, barely put down the same track; the TV showed ''[[Super Mario Kart]]''.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One Xfinity commercial has a TV briefly displaying gameplay footage of ''[[Mario Kart 8]]''.

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