Return to the main page here. Examples of Uncanny Valley/Advertising include: * A fairly current Carmax ad somewhat intentionally invokes this trope for a point. In it Basically a man stops (presumably) at a strange gas station when in a short while a small group of 1950's Style Stepford smiling gas station attendants start to wash and do the standard old "Full Service" to the car (checking oil, gas, air..etc..). The man becomes visibly unnerved by this and demands for them to stop but they don't. Now frightened the man runs out and accidentally bumps into a equally odd milkman who while some of his milk bottles (also in fifties style) are smashed to the ground all he can react with is "Oh Dear" in a equally Stepford like fashion. Finally the man runs (possibly into the bowels of Hell
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