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VH1’s Acceptable.TV let viewers vote on which fake shows lived or died. Its spoof of competition reality TV is a reminder of how ripe the genre was for mockery.

In World War II the U.S. Treasury hired Disney to persuade Americans to pay their taxes on time. The result is one of the strangest, and most effective, cartoons of the war.

The frying egg, “I learned it by watching you!” and a Harlem mural. Anti-drug campaigns of the 1980s and ’90s were unforgettable. Whether they worked is another question.

He slowed down, spread his arms and thumped his chest before the finish line, and still set a world record. The 100 meters that made Bolt a global star.

Black-and-white dancers selling canned sloppy joe. The ad is a time capsule, and the sandwich has a messier history than its name lets on.

A man in a lab coat put marbles, golf balls and an iPhone into a blender. It sold a lot of blenders and became one of the first great viral ad campaigns.

Leading by a mile in the first Olympic women’s snowboard cross final, she grabbed her board on the second-to-last jump and fell. Her redemption took four more Olympics.