Bleep Bloop, CH’s new videogames show, is NOT fucking around.
so this is happening.
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» Interesting article in NY Mag this week about product placement in TV shows
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I find this stuff fascinating. Regarding a deal MadTV cut with Toyota:
‘Showing the Yaris wasn’t sufficient, said the rep. The characters must praise the car’s features…The writers pitched a spoof of a commercial, with a young couple making out in the Yaris, panting about its fuel efficiency. No, said [the client]. Cut the parody bit. The skit should just feature the couple panting over the Yaris. They aired it.’
I can’t wrap my head around the fact that an ad rep believes the second idea is better for their brand than the first. That s/he bought a sketch on a sketch show and then told them to remove the parody. CH has always pushed transparency in our advertising, which is the model 30 Rock (praised in the article for their blatant treatment of product placement) also follows. Consumers aren’t dumb, and sometimes it seems like the people paid to understand this are the only ones who don’t.
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“ Say it ain’t so, Joe, there you go again pointing backwards again. You preferenced your whole comment with the Bush administration. Now doggone it, let’s look ahead and tell Americans what we have to plan to do for them in the future. You mentioned education and I’m glad you did. I know education you are passionate about with your wife being a teacher for 30 years, and god bless her. Her reward is in heaven, right? I say, too, with education, America needs to be putting a lot more focus on that and our schools have got to be really ramped up in terms of the funding that they are deserving. Teachers needed to be paid more. I come from a house full of school teachers. My grandma was, my dad who is in the audience today, he’s a schoolteacher, had been for many years. My brother, who I think is the best schoolteacher in the year, and here’s a shout-out to all those third graders at Gladys Wood Elementary School, you get extra credit for watching the debate.
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Entire transcript of last night’s debate is here. The above is my personal favorite moment. (via katespencer)
SNL should really consider offering Sarah Palin a writing job.
Oct 02
The Fatty Melt: a burger that uses two grilled cheese sandwiches as its bun. I want this so badly.
Holy shit. Someone put this in my stomach.
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David Blaine sucks at stunts; rules at getting himself publicity. My friend Jill went to check out his uber dangerous 60 hour upside-down stunt today and saw him getting a right-side up break. She asked a lady who had been there for a while and she said he gets a break every 25 minutes. Uber lame.
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