Suburgatory Forums

Wednesday 8:30 PM on ABCBetween Seasons

Episode Discussion: Friendship Fish 2x06 (spoilers)

  • Avatar of TesserT

    TesserT

    [1]Nov 28, 2012
    • member since: 11/13/07
    • level: 69
    • rank: Ponch
    • posts: 6,004
    Please use this thread to discuss episode Friendship Fish (Nov 28 ). Enjoy!
    You must be registered and logged in to post a message.
  • Avatar of torrijos

    torrijos

    [2]Nov 29, 2012
    • member since: 11/09/06
    • level: 16
    • rank: Church Lady
    • posts: 252
    The Windows Tablet marketing was a bit too much.
    You must be registered and logged in to post a message.
  • Avatar of fanboy34

    fanboy34

    [3]Dec 7, 2012
    • member since: 07/04/10
    • level: 10
    • rank: Holy Level 10!
    • posts: 61

    Having no familiarity with that brand, I didn't realize she was spouting a real product name, just heard something about "tablet" which I took as a generic term. Then I re-watched and paid attention to find it pretty embarrassing for all concerned. There was a similar shameless product placement trend on Smallville in the early years, when I used to watch that anyway, and it was cringe-worthy too.


    I don't mind a physical product placement if it's incidental. It's better than looking at cans of prop COLA and laptops with conspicuous blackout dots on their lids. When a character starts talking up a product as dialog it's degrading to everybody involved. 30 Rock has done a few clever spoofy placement things if I recall but it's otherwise been a very bad thing to see.

    You must be registered and logged in to post a message.