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OmegaBR posted:It very much felt like they were changing their minds about her going to school and we can all see why. That or Eagleton has a vet school maybe. It'll be interesting to see how they play the introduction of new, maybe permanent cast members. But it'll be great to see how each copes, that's for sure!
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Shock Trooper posted:I can't believe Chris Bosh didn't get to share any scenes with April. If you've ever seen Aubrey Plaza's twitter... I really enjoyed this episode and am looking forward to the Pawnee/Eagleton merger. Also, learning about Aubrey Plaza's actual meeting with Chris Bosh made my day.
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The product placement is getting unbearable. Its like its 20% of the plot now.
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Monteunicorn posted:The product placement is getting unbearable. Its like its 20% of the plot now. It's not like Donna had a contrived line like "No, let me take the video with the amazing camera ON MY NEW NOKIA LUMIA 1020... POWERED BY MICROSOFT WINDOWS!"
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Oct 4, 2013 23:32
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Yeah the only thing I noticed was the Windows tablet thing and shows have been doing that for ages. Christ, how many shows have people on Macbook Pros or iPads? Too many to count I'd think. Didn't bother me more than usual for US TV 
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Oct 4, 2013 23:42
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kami posted:What besides the Microsoft bothered you? I noticed that Tom was using a Surface and Donna was holding a Lumia 1020 but then again I'm a tech nerd. Even in this thread earlier someone assumed it was an iPad. first episode OH WE ARE just taking pictures with our Amazing Cameraphone On Vacation COuld be You!! Lumia 925 avalible now. Oh I am just casually holding my Lumia 1020 in the golden ratio for all my scenes, I have a few pictures I took here notice the quality on the Surface RT, Clickcover optional. Oh look Lenovo Yoga 13,6" im using it to check out my mail facebook and twitter! Check out Hewlett Packard laptops, sleek and sophisticated. This is from two episodes, its almost as bad as watching "The Internship" (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Oct 4, 2013 23:47
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Monteunicorn posted:first episode OH WE ARE just taking pictures with our Amazing Cameraphone On Vacation COuld be You!! Lumia 925 avalible now. Oh I am just casually holding my Lumia 1020 in the golden ratio for all my scenes, I have a few pictures I took here notice the quality on the Surface RT, Clickcover optional. Oh look Lenovo Yoga 13,6" im using it to check out my mail facebook and twitter! Check out Hewlett Packard laptops, sleek and sophisticated. None of that happened
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Monteunicorn posted:first episode OH WE ARE just taking pictures with our Amazing Cameraphone On Vacation COuld be You!! Lumia 925 avalible now. Oh I am just casually holding my Lumia 1020 in the golden ratio for all my scenes, I have a few pictures I took here notice the quality on the Surface RT, Clickcover optional. Oh look Lenovo Yoga 13,6" im using it to check out my mail facebook and twitter! Check out Hewlett Packard laptops, sleek and sophisticated. It's you, you're Tom IRL
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Oct 5, 2013 00:28
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It's pretty obvious the products they use, but it's no more blatant than any other program. I think people just tend to accept iPad as the standard tablet and iPod as the standard music player, so anything else will be more obvious (particularly a brightly colored Lumia.) Remember, The Office actually had Staples as a major plot device more than once, and that was alongside Easy Button commercials.
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Oct 5, 2013 00:57
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Jesus, I thought he was talking about the HBO reference before the meltdown. HBO joke was even better because Kristen Bell is actually on a Showtime show.
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Oct 5, 2013 01:14
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Midnight City posted:Jesus, I thought he was talking about the HBO reference before the meltdown. I thought it was a clever line considering you couldn't just substitute "cable TV" for the punchline considering HBO's famous tagline is: It's not TV, it's HBO. It was also a great way to show how completely out of touch the town is. Pakled posted:Pawnee probably isn't the fourth fattest town in America anymore! They were down to 9th by the end of last season.
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Oct 5, 2013 01:30
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Boywhiz88 posted:They were down to 9th by the end of last season. Well, they're even lower now.  On that line of thought, I wonder if the demographic changes in Pawnee brought about by the annexation of Eagleton would cause them to lose some state or federal subsidies.
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I honestly think MS didn't get their money's worth with the product placement. Like others I assumed Ron was shouting into an iPad- if you don't see the interface then a tablet is just a screen. The phones and such struck me as generic.
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OmegaBR posted:It's pretty obvious the products they use, but it's no more blatant than any other program. I think people just tend to accept iPad as the standard tablet and iPod as the standard music player, so anything else will be more obvious (particularly a brightly colored Lumia.) Dunder Mifflin is a REAL PAPER COMPANY! It's an actual paper company that exists in real life! You are literally surrounded by "product placement" every second of every day of your life. I do not understand the problem. Having some made up box of cereal marked "FROOTY GLOPS" takes me way out of whatever scene it's in than if it was just a box of fruit loops. When I see a close up of, say, Tom's phone and it shows the actual iPhone interface, it's normal because I see it EVERY DAY! But when you see something like the made up bullshit they have on Dexter I'm taken right out. And part of the comedy IS the products themselves. Like the HBO joke, or the part where they keep Vining Ron Vining himself trying to get off the grid. It was like in This Is The End, the jokes about the Milky Way are funny specifically BECAUSE it's about a Milky Way, not "a candy bar  ". Gettin mad about gettin mad about product placement
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Maxwell Lord posted:I honestly think MS didn't get their money's worth with the product placement. Like others I assumed Ron was shouting into an iPad- if you don't see the interface then a tablet is just a screen. The phones and such struck me as generic. I knew they weren't using Apple products but I honestly had no clue what they were using. And I'm definitely not less knowledgeable about these things than the average American or person watching this show. People bitching about product placement is pretty much the last thing I expected to read about when I opened this thread. I'd be shocked if any of you complaining were genuinely happy people in your day to day lives. If you were you wouldn't even bat an eye at this. edit: Macaluso posted:And part of the comedy IS the products themselves. Like the HBO joke, or the part where they keep Vining Ron Vining himself trying to get off the grid. It was like in This Is The End, the jokes about the Milky Way are funny specifically BECAUSE it's about a Milky Way, not "a candy bar Agree with everything you said. No stand-up comedian who has a clue what they're doing would talk about a "bag of candy" instead of "Skittles" and none of them would hesitate to substitute one product for another one whose name either sounds funnier, better, or both. (e.g. "Skittles" is a better choice than "M&M's", for a number of reasons) It adds to the comedy, it doesn't take away from it. It's done all the time but almost nobody will ever notice if you do it right. Mercaptopropyl fucked around with this message at 02:26 on Oct 5, 2013 |
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Macaluso posted:Dunder Mifflin is a REAL PAPER COMPANY! It's an actual paper company that exists in real life! You are literally surrounded by "product placement" every second of every day of your life. I do not understand the problem. Having some made up box of cereal marked "FROOTY GLOPS" takes me way out of whatever scene it's in than if it was just a box of fruit loops. Wasn't there a huge argument in the This is the End thread about that loving Milky Way? Jesus that was annoying to read but so funny to watch.
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Boywhiz88 posted:Wasn't there a huge argument in the This is the End thread about that loving Milky Way? Jesus that was annoying to read but so funny to watch. That was one of the dumbest discussions i've ever seen. The Milky Way wasn't even product placement, the filmmakers did not receive any money for its inclusion in the film, they chose to use it. Some people are idiots that can't get past the fact that characters in fictional films and TV use and talk about real products.
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I'm inconsistent with my product placement hate. Sometimes a car will pull right into the screen with a big Lexus logo in your face or something and I'll be annoyed. Other times like on an episode of New Girl last season one of the characters is modeling for a car ad and a lot of people complained about watching a commercial in the middle of the episode but I wasn't bothered at all because it made sense for the character and the scene was funny. edit: and I didn't even notice any product placement in this weeks P&R
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Microsoft's bloated marketing budget is the only thing keeping this show on the air retards.
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theflyingexecutive posted:Microsoft's bloated marketing budget is the only thing keeping this show on the air retards. WRONG. Parks and Rec is what's keeping Microsoft from just collapsing. Its positivity is the center of Redwood morale. Without Parks and Rec, they will cease to exist. Wandle Cax posted:That was one of the dumbest discussions i've ever seen. The Milky Way wasn't even product placement, the filmmakers did not receive any money for its inclusion in the film, they chose to use it. Some people are idiots that can't get past the fact that characters in fictional films and TV use and talk about real products. I wonder how those people functioned for Breaking Bad, especially considering that almost NO ONE gave them money for specifically mentioned or shown products. They just wanted to avoid the bullshit trope of "CIRCLE-Os" cereal.
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I actually thought this was a fantastic episode in a sleeper-hit kind of way. Very few scenes were slow or poorly written, almost every gag was funny, every character except Andy and Jerry got to be themselves writ large in a hilarious way...I agree that April's abrupt decision was the most awkward part, but even that wasn't that bad. I think this episode will stand up on re-watch as one of those eps that might not have crazy memorable quotes, but is a solid 8/10 in every single scene.
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Oct 5, 2013 04:18
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STOP BITCHING ABOUT PRODUCT PLACEMENT.
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This was a good episode. I've been really happy with it all, but I do feel Donna felt a bit forced, just a caricature of her normal self. I hadn't been following the threads much, but when Ann leaves, were they going to bring in new characters, or are we just down two people after this?Aatrek posted:STOP BITCHING ABOUT PRODUCT PLACEMENT. Sorry Aatrek, I don't want to buy your goddamned starship. Jesus.
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Aatrek posted:STOP BITCHING ABOUT PRODUCT PLACEMENT. 
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The most amazing thing about this episode was the meeting table at Eagleton with the live succulents planted in the center. And the glass globes of plants hanging in front of the window! So beautiful...
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Macaluso posted:Dunder Mifflin is a REAL PAPER COMPANY! It's an actual paper company that exists in real life! ... I assumed you were joking but the rest of your post seems to indicate you were serious. In which case: no.
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Well you can buy actual Dunder Mifflin paper so close enough
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Stop bitching about product placement unless it looks like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQYwFND7rHE
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the posted:Stop bitching about product placement unless it looks like this  I loved Ron Swanson explaining his Ebony subscription, and Leslie's Powerpoint opening bulletpoints of just "You hosed up. Ha Ha". And I'm always glad to see Lucy Lawless, too. We just need more of the Swanson family in general.
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the posted:Stop bitching about product placement unless it looks like this hahahahahhahah wow. That led me to here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfHuZ5qrYX4 I don't know which is worse. I can understand someone ordering 5 sandwiches, but I can't see a situation where someone says, "Bing it," and someone pulls out their Windows Phone. CaptainHollywood fucked around with this message at 18:16 on Oct 5, 2013 |
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The Bing one is much worse. At least the Subway one engages in a bit of gentle mockery of a fast food brand focusing advertising on weight loss.
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CaptainHollywood posted:hahahahahhahah wow. That led me to here Even using Bing I feel like most people would just say "Google it".
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Subway has a lot of fun with product placements. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaQqj2PmBh4
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Nevvy Z posted:Even using Bing I feel like most people would just say "Google it". One of my favorite things to do is pretend that Microsoft has just given up and walk around saying "hey you guys, next time you Google, Google it on Bing!"
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TheAngryDrunk posted:Subway has a lot of fun with product placements. Hey, it's the hot mom from Modern Family?! 
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the posted:Hey, it's the hot mom from Modern Family?! Yeah, before she was hot. 
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the posted:Stop bitching about product placement unless it looks like this Look, not everyone can be as subtle about it as T'aquil. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fvOg13V5mI
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TheAngryDrunk posted:Yeah, before she was hot. I think it's just that haircut. It kind of looks like a bad toupee. hcreight fucked around with this message at 21:15 on Oct 5, 2013 |
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404GoonNotFound posted:Does Kristen Bell age at all? Ever? Tiny women are magic. My best friend is 4 foot 11 and looks pretty much exactly like Kristen and she literally looks like she did when she was 15 even though she's 26 and has had a kid. She gets mistaken for a child an awful lot.
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