# Parody commercial in video game **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [November 12, 2013, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parody-commercial-in-video-game/673704 "2013-11-12T06:12:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![stanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@stanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stanger)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2013, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parody-commercial-in-video-game/673704/1 "2013-11-12T06:12:08Z")
I have only played a handful of modern video games, but in one of them a radio played a commercial for a Viagra-type product called ENGORGE. It was done straight, but was hilarious, and every time they said ENGORGE, it was done in a loud booming voice with a lot of echo. I thought it was a commercial you can listen to on the car radio in Grand Theft Auto IV, but I can’t find it in any listing of commercials in the game or anywhere else. Anybody got a clue what this is from? ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2013, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parody-commercial-in-video-game/673704/2 "2013-11-12T06:30:33Z")
Borderlands. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2013, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parody-commercial-in-video-game/673704/3 "2013-11-12T06:31:17Z")
[This, maybe?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXuE2LZ_W9s) If not, I would suggest YouTube as a possible search area. ---
**Author:** ![Black\_Bisector](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ce73a5/32.png) [@Black\_Bisector](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Black_Bisector)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2013, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parody-commercial-in-video-game/673704/4 "2013-11-13T01:07:20Z")
To continue the idea to other games, Mass Effect 2 had a bunch of these, which were sometimes hilarious. Here are the Elcor Hamlet Commercials: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/uIfx32iAjzU/maxresdefault.jpg "Mass Effect 2 - All Elcor Hamlet Commercials") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIfx32iAjzU) ---
**Author:** ![Carl\_Corey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Carl\_Corey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carl_Corey)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2013, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parody-commercial-in-video-game/673704/5 "2013-11-13T01:29:34Z")
Mass Effect 3 had one: “For a fresh spreadable alternative, try McSorley’s Cloaca Magarine–made from free range organic verren!” For those wondering, a verren is an unholy combination of lizard and wolf. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2013, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parody-commercial-in-video-game/673704/6 "2013-11-13T03:11:54Z")
Mass Effect 3 (and maybe the others) also had parody trailers for their “Blasto” series of action films. Imagine a monotone giant jellyfish reciting Arnold-esque lines. ---
**Author:** ![Arrogance\_Ex\_Machina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrogance_ex_machina/32/192_2.png) [@Arrogance\_Ex\_Machina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrogance_Ex_Machina)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2013, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parody-commercial-in-video-game/673704/7 "2013-11-13T04:43:01Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > Borderlands. To be more exact, Borderlands 1 DLC: The Secret Armory of General Knoxx. The female assassin you are working with conceals her messages within those ads. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2013, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parody-commercial-in-video-game/673704/8 "2013-11-13T04:43:12Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > Mass Effect 3 (and maybe the others) also had parody trailers for their “Blasto” series of action films. Imagine a monotone giant jellyfish reciting Arnold-esque lines. “Has a Prothean descended from Heaven? Because this one would enjoy Enkindling that.” ---
**Author:** ![stanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@stanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stanger)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2013, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parody-commercial-in-video-game/673704/9 "2013-11-17T11:23:20Z")
Ah, I had forgotten the radio messages from Borderlands 1 DLC. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2013, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parody-commercial-in-video-game/673704/10 "2013-11-17T12:51:30Z")
The Champ at this kind of stuff were the old You Don’t Know Jack games. I used to love to listen to the end credits for that stuff.