Basic Trope: Someone is having an extraordinarily difficult time doing a simple task with a mundane product. * Played Straight: At the beginning of the commercial for the Brush-O-Matic, Alice gets her hairbrush stuck in her hair and screams. * Exaggerated: Alice is banging the brush (the non-bristled side) against her tangled mass of hair like a crazed chimpanzee before the above happens. * Justified: Alice has some kind of mental or physical disability that makes even the simplest tasks difficult for her. Bonus Points if the Brush-O-Matic actually is marketed towards the elderly and/or disabled. * Inverted: Alice seems to be getting on perfectly fine with her ordinary hairbrush. Her super-high-tech Brush-O-Matic does, we're told, keep her hair shiny and clean for longer (by