[Spotless Mind]

The Vampire Diaries has cracked me up pretty consistently with its shameless product placement. Every single episode they'll be texting on new phones or talking about new apps that get shown off in EXTREME CLOSE-UP.

[Razgriz-Specter]

Masterchef

[LakeEarth]

I'm going with Dr. Oz, and similar shows. I never watch it, my parents turn it on, and all I see is advertisement disguised as his actual medical opinion.

[Gagaman]

The anime film Roujin Z was funded by Sony and their logo is EVERYWHERE in that. Barely a scene goes by where you don't see it.
At one point they even slap the Sony logo on the robot/machine/old mans bed that is the main plot point of the movie, in a place where it wasn't before.

Most blatant example:

[Maklershed]

I just watched National Treasure 2 yesterday and man that whole movie is like one giant product placement for a hundred different things - cars, computers, phones, drinks, food, etc

[andymcc]

Masterchef

without a doubt. walmart steaks? get the fuck out

[Interfectum]

Masterchef

Haha yeah I had to laugh when I saw that.

[JoeMartin]

[mackattk]

Cast Away. Fedex.

I actually give cast away a pass for this. Since it actually worked really well with the movie.

[Scythe27]

Probably posted already, but the Community episode where the new character is actually named "Subway". Seriously wtf.

[HammerOfThor]

Masterchef

This. I can't stand the Walmart product placement in this show.

Also, Total Makeover: Weight Loss Edition.

[Bisnic]

Fringe is a bit ridiculous with season 3 & 4 with the Spring placements. One have to wonder how they will do it with the 5th season considering its like 24 years later. Maybe they'll just invent some future Sprint logo with only a few small differences with the current one.

[beje]

Most Spanish shows were "hey, you slipped some story and dialog between my product-placement advertisement". It got so blatant that they had to legislate to regulate it. Before it, completely random and unnecessary family scenes around a breakfast table full to the rim of products with the label directly looking at the camera was very common.

[shantyman]

I was made fun of for this thread:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=359799

[kai3345]

Probably posted already, but the Community episode where the new character is actually named "Subway". Seriously wtf.

really?

thatsthejoke

[Smeghead]

Walt and Jesse fight in breaking bad .

Nice how 2 copies of Rage just happen to fall into shot when they crash into the shelf. Doubly annoying when in an earlier episode Jesse was playing Rage with a faux light gun.

Not sure about shameless, but it was definitely jarring how they tried to sneak it in and it totally ruined the scene from then on.

[stilgar]

Probably posted already, but the Community episode where the new character is actually named "Subway". Seriously wtf. [IMG]http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120827184139/community-sitcom/images/thumb/7/78/DEOID_Introducing_Subway.png/1024px-DEOID_Introducing_Subway.png[IMG]

Actually this is more a parody of product placement that product placement itself. Which it is, though.

[web01]

Not a TV show but I noticed the ingame poster ads in Rainbow Six Vegas 2 were getting updated long after the game was released.

[Cipherr]

yeah I remember making a thread about that last year when it first happened, so ridiculous. edit: found it

Wow this right here is just to much. Goddamn. They go BACK and stick CG ads in reruns now?

[malingenie]

Probably posted already, but the Community episode where the new character is actually named "Subway". Seriously wtf.

Total parody. But Subway did shell the big bucks for this so it begs the question: Does disguising product placement through parody constitute product placement? My opinion? yes. But still funny.

[Scythe27]

really? thatsthejoke

Yeah clearly a parody, but even so it's still blatant product placement. Maybe if they used a knock off brand instead it would have been less painful to watch.

[mrklaw]

Total parody. But Subway did shell the big bucks for this so it begs the question: Does disguising product placement through parody constitute product placement? My opinion? yes. But still funny.

if you parody product placement, any money from such product placement should go to charity. There has been plenty of 'wink wink' product placement skits going back to wayne's world. We get it now, you're not being clever you're still pocketing the money.

[SamVimes]

Did you guys complain about "It's a wonderful restaurant" in Arrested Development too?

[eXistor]

I'm watching the original Twilight Zone episodes and after an episode Rod Serling comes on screen to talk about the premise for the next episode. In season 3 he does the same as always, but after he's done he pauzes for a bit and then blatantly starts advertising Chesterfield Cigarettes. First time I saw it I was laughing my ass off.
Lemme see if I can find a clip.

/edit: here's one, the very first clip is the kind I mean (though this one is for Oasis brand cigs), the rest are just commercials it seems.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyNrAtZu22s

[Mudkips]

really? thatsthejoke

The problem is it's NOT a joke.
NBC shows are terrible for their product placement bullshit. A self-deprecating product placement bit is funny exactly once. I've seen the following template about 309676047 times on NBC:

Tina Fey: Hey Tracy Morgan, hand me that <product>
Tracy Morgan: Oh hey TINA FEY here's your <product> isn't it great?!
Tina Fey: Haha, yeah it's so great, and we're pimping it on our show, *wink*.
Alec Baldwin: What's going on guys? My neckfat hasn't had enough camera time so I'm popping in for no reason.
Tracy Morgain: Hey Mr. Baldwin Tina's just showing us how great <product> is! ISN'T MY VOICE ANNOYING?
Alec Baldwin: It sure is, Tracy, it sure is.
Tina Fey: What is? His voice is annoying or <product> is great?
Alec Baldwin: Why, <product> is great, of course!

[Henchmen21]

This thread just made me realize how bad and in your face product placement has become. What's the point of commercials if they're just going to blatantly hock their shit during the show anyway? Might as well go back to the 40s/50s way of having the stars turn to the camera and openly sell junk.

I'm watching the original Twilight Zone episodes and after an episode Rod Serling comes on screen to talk about the premise for the next episode. In season 3 he does the same as always, but after he's done he pauzes for a bit and then blatantly starts advertising Chesterfield Cigarettes. First time I saw it I was laughing my ass off. Lemme see if I can find a clip. /edit: here's one, the very first clip is the kind I mean (though this one is for Oasis brand cigs), the rest are just commercials it seems. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyNrAtZu22s

Yeah that's how all old b&w stuff used to sell things.

[echoshifting]

if you parody product placement, any money from such product placement should go to charity. There has been plenty of 'wink wink' product placement skits going back to wayne's world. We get it now, you're not being clever you're still pocketing the money.

I like this idea.

[Jarmel]

Fringe and its Sprint smart phones.

It's definitely Fringe.

[TimeKillr]

I remember seeing an episode of Bones where they spend a good 2 minutes discussing how great her new car is, how the gas mileage is awesome and it can park itself! Cool!

I never wanted to barf so much when watching TV.

Actually, strike that.

The Masterchef "these DELICIOUS Walmart Grade A Quality steaks!". It's so fucking funny, especially it's always the same dude who says it - I imagine Gordon and Lex Luthor have too much self respect to pimp that Walmart shit out.

[Duane Cunningham]

There was some awful FOX sitcom a while back where two characters were having a conversation about an email being sent wrong or something, but every place where the word email should be in their conversation, they instead said MICROSOFT OUTLOOK DOCUMENT. Over and over. It was crazy.

[aronnov reborn]

Master Chef this season is driving me nuts with Wal-Mart. the zoom in on the wal-mart logo a couple episodes back for whatever reason pissed me off.

[faceless007]

if you parody product placement, any money from such product placement should go to charity. There has been plenty of 'wink wink' product placement skits going back to wayne's world. We get it now, you're not being clever you're still pocketing the money.

Uh, what would be the point of that? The reason for product placement is to pad the show's budget. If they donate the money to charity then they have the same budget as if they didn't do it in the first place.

[LukasTaves]

You think these examples are bad?

I give you Brazilian soup operas:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i13JV...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIapc...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDzKmnHZngM