Bones has really snuck some rampant advertising in.

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Do you think the actors are embarrassed? Yesterday's show Bones said "Look I'm not tail-gating--adaptive cruise control". She was driving a prius. It then showed a couple of exterior shots of her driving around the capital. Then she spoke into her voice activated GPS. Later on in the show Sweets uses his iphone as a flashlight and says "I have other apps too, I can get song names..." and is cut-off. I presume on the next show they'll start talking about finance options. I find this weakens and whores the show. It's bad enough there are 17 minutes of commercials but now this.

Probably because I fast forward those 17 minutes. Fvck commercials.

Oh, near the end of the show for no reason the Prius started accelerating and when Bones hit the brakes nothing happened. Bazinga!
 
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I prefer product placement to commercials plus I DVR everything I want to watch so I get they have to pay for content somehow
 
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I thought it was pretty funny when Olivia was showing off her Ford car's voice commands/phone in Fringe. Then again, Fringe and 24 are already completely blatant about every car being a black Ford.
 
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Lonyo

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The Avatar episode of Bones was the worst.
This one was fairly moderate.
 
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White Collar also had a Ford spot in the show. "Blind spot indicator!"

You'd think they'd be able to blend it into the show better, but it comes off as blatant advertising.
 
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misle said:
White Collar also had a Ford spot in the show. "Blind spot indicator!"

You'd think they'd be able to blend it into the show better, but it comes off as blatant advertising.
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Yeah, I noticed that the other day too. I had to LOL when it happened. Honestly, for the reason that they're fucking up shows I like I would NEVER buy their products.
 
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I can never make up my mind if Bones is hot or not...sometimes I'm like...whoa..she's insanely hot...and then at other times I'm just like meh....
 
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I agree, it can seriously cheapen a show...but if done well, I don't notice it and if it pays for the making of the show, then I'm all for it.

gorcorps said:
Internet is free?!?! Not everybody has a dumb neighbor w/ unprotected wifi, so regardless of how you watch you're paying for it.
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Are you serious? How do you think your paying AT&T for your DSL line pays a content provider anything??? Have you really thought through this?
 
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rcpratt said:
I thought it was pretty funny when Olivia was showing off her Ford car's voice commands/phone in Fringe. Then again, Fringe and 24 are already completely blatant about every car being a black Ford.
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I thought they dropped ford. Anyway nothing says g-man like a convoy of black chevy suburbans. seeing a group of black navigators just made me think theres a pimp comin' through.

terminator:sarah connor chronicles had long pornographic shots of dodge pickups.

i'm all for in episode advertising as long as they don't make it too obvious - like a character emphasizing the company name or a feature listing lol.
 
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Doodoo said:
I can never make up my mind if Bones is hot or not...sometimes I'm like...whoa..she's insanely hot...and then at other times I'm just like meh....
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She needs to eat some freak'n meat. Her sister is much hotter.
 
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Not big on Bones. She can look ok but other times just doesn't do it for me. I like the asian chick though and also their boss is _very_ well maintained and wears ridiculous dresses at work.

I really don't want directors going out of their way to hide a car's brand but when a huge logo is thrust in my face in center-screen I wonder if they're more interested in the show or trying to pimp their client's product.
 
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Not big on Bones. She can look ok but other times just doesn't do it for me. I like the asian chick though and also their boss is _very_ well maintained and wears ridiculous dresses at work.

I really don't want directors going out of their way to hide a car's brand but when a huge logo is thrust in my face in center-screen I wonder if they're more interested in the show or trying to pimp their client's product.
 
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bignateyk said:
I prefer product placement over ads. Assuming it's not too distracting...
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There was an episode of The Closer where they were blatantly advertising the T-Mobile G1. The phone had a huge "G1" on the back of it (which it normally doesn't have) while the actors were showing off all the things it can do.
 
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misle said:
White Collar also had a Ford spot in the show. "Blind spot indicator!"

You'd think they'd be able to blend it into the show better, but it comes off as blatant advertising.
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I didn't see Bones last night, but I've noticed that with White Collar. Every time they're in that car, it's just an ad for Ford.
 
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misle said:
You'd think they'd be able to blend it into the show better, but it comes off as blatant advertising.
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This is what makes it so annoying. Drawing attention to shit like this in a TV show is just as annoying as drawing attention to it in real life.

You know that guy. He gets a new car and says "hey check out this thing I can do with this thing I just got that you don't have". 10 minutes later he comments about the same god damn thing!
 
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