By Josh Gordon10 Clever Product Placements That Would Ruin Our Favorite TV Shows
The following are ways brands could ruin our favorite show with albeit clever, yet unjustified, product placement. Advertisers beware, hell has no fury like a TV show audience scorned by terrible product placement!
Game of Thrones – Burger King
Welcome to Burger King’s LandingⓇ, where your whopper comes with a choice of chicken fries or a bowl of brown.
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The Bachelorette – tindr
Sadly, the quality of potential mates are pretty bad already– only tindr could make them worse. This Swipe Right RoseⓇ is presented by tindr.
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Downton Abbey – Microsoft Surface Pro 3
It’s going to take some clever writing and some major suspension of disbelief to try to attach the aristocratic Crawley family to inferior technology. Everyone knows the Crawleys are Apple fanboys.
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Empire – Tidal
Cookie is not putting up with making her show only available to Tidal subscribers. That’s just not how Cookie rolls.
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Naked and Afraid – The Gap
It’s difficult enough to survive 21 days in the wilderness without food or shelter, but this show can’t survive with casual wear.
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The Last Man On Earth – Facebook
Status update: Phil Miller doesn’t have any friends, or other people on the planet, but now he can post with .gifs!
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Scandal – Cialis
The last thing we need is more mess for Olivia Pope to clean up. The President might be ready, but the time is not right.
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Orange Is The New Black – Dollar Shave Club
For better or worse, it just got easier to get razors at the Litchfield Penitentiary. This stabbing brought to you by Dollar Shiv ClubⓇ.
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The Walking Dead – fitbit
There must be some zombies who still have their fitbit on, introducing The Walking Dead Step TrackerⓇ.
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Better Call Saul – Sudafed
There is nothing worse than a brand spoiling the ending! Naam, maybe meth is worse.
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Did I miss your favorite show? Or have you thought of your own clever product placements to ruin a show? Let me hear it in the comments.
