HOW did you leave TVTropes after only an hour? Did a goat bite your power cord?
You know who hated this phenomenon? Stan Freberg.
I heard him speak (at Seattle’s cool fall fest, Bumbershoot) on his life in Advertising. He said he got into the field not as an Ad Guy, but as an Outraged Consumer…
After watching an ad “scientest” demonstrate “Excess Stomach Bile”.