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Enforced Plug
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A plug is where a work or individual mentions a product in order to promote it. An Enforced Plug is a plug that is contractually required. As such, an Enforced Plug will usually be delivered awkwardly or ham-handedly. They’re often delivered at the end of the show or after a segue. The writers might actively resent having to write the plug and try to make it as ridiculous as possible. Parodies are common, but they can run afoul of a variant of Poe's Law; actual Enforced Plugs are often so ridiculous that you can’t tell if it’s a parody or not. This was a ubiquitous practice in the Golden Age of Radio Drama. It was also common in the earliest generation of TV shows, many of which had started on radio. These days, it serves as one of many ways to conduct Viral Marketing. The plug can be for a sponsor’s product, or a product offered by the show’s producer, which can include tie-in merchandise, theme parks, or other shows. A subtrope of Product Placement and a supertrope of Product-Promotion Parade. Compare Now, Buy the Merchandise. |
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The Thursday Next series has a lot of seemingly out-of-nowhere references to something called the Toast Marketing Board. One Of Our Thursdays Is Missing reveals that this is because when the written Thursday, who “plays� the first-person narrator of the Thursday Next books, briefly visited the real world, she took a big check from the Toast Marketing Board in exchange for inserting references to it into the series. | |
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The Marvel Comics 2 makes frequent mention of Universal’s Islands of Adventure theme park in Orlando, which has a whole section dedicated to the Marvel Universe. | |
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While Escape from Vault Disney! is the rare podcast that has no traditional sponsors, Tony will occasionally halt the show midway to plug something one of his friends is involved with, usually either a charity event or the yearly FuMPFest, a comedy music festival partially ran by frequent guest The Great Luke Ski. | |
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On America's Funniest Home Videos, many clips randomly feature Disney character or franchises, and the grand prize is always a trip to a Disney park. | |
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One episode of Gilmore Girls was devoted to shilling the Sidekick, a contemporary mobile phone. It was a painfully obvious plug; Rory’s dad buys her a sidekick and spends half the episode going on about how amazing it is and texting her constantly. But since he’s The Scrappy, he was probably the worst possible choice to promote the phone, which had bombed hard by the time the episode aired. | |
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Bones has been known to do this; characters will frequently pause the action to extol the virtues of whichever car they’re driving, one episode was essentially an episode-long plug for Avatar, and the episode “The Finger in the Nest� infamously shows the characters giving up and asking Cesar Milan, TV’s “Dog Whisperer�, to solve the case for them. | |
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Chuck has frequent plugs for sandwich chain Subway; in later seasons, it’s almost Once an Episode, as Subway was instrumental in promoting the show and keeping it on the air. This led to the plugs becoming almost a Running Gag. It was even almost lampshaded in “Chuck vs. the First Killâ€�, where Morgan is asked to bribe his boss with his “favorite thingâ€� and gets him a Subway chicken teriyaki footlong — but his real favorite thing is just donuts. | |
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Psych has had a few jarring Product Placements. One gets the impression that Shawn Spencer’s writer didn't particularly like advertising Dunkin’ Donuts and did his best to make sure it was jarring, random, and blown off by other characters. This practice escalated in later seasons, mostly with food products and chains like Panda Express, usually lampshaded as a means to pay the bills. | |
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X-Play tends to plug an online game rental store numerous times during each show. They try to mix it up to keep it interesting, but after the first hundred times, it’s grown very thin. | |
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The Simpsons: In "Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife", the family participate in a reality show, which involves Marge lives with a British man in Connecticut. Lisa visits her on a FOX-sponsored flight by Frito-Lay. | |
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Eureka was hit badly with Enforced Plugs in its third season. The only way the writers could explain the constant, obvious, jarring references to Degree for Men deodorant was to have the new leader of Global Dynamics reach a sponsorship agreement with the in-universe company that produces the in-universe Degree for Men product. | |
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In Extras, Coldplay frontman Chris Martin makes an appearance on Andy Millman’s sitcom after expressing “interest� to him and his producer (read: he wants to shill Coldplay’s new “greatest hits� album). Andy argues that having a random celebrity appearance would be an obvious plug and make no sense. The producer completely ignores Andy and accedes to all of Martin’s demands. Martin appears on the show wearing a T-shirt with the album cover on it, and Andy is forced to ask on camera when it would be released. Critics savage the show and blame Andy for trying to “prop up his lame duck of a sitcom.� | |
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MythBusters would do this in commercial break bumpers in later seasons, including short segments where they bust myths like “the new Jetta Foobar Turbo is smelly and noisy because it’s a diesel.� | |
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A recurring scene seen multiple times in the earlier seasons of Cardfight!! Vanguard is characters mentioning in a more or less casual way that the last card that was just played comes from the latest Booster Set, stating the set's name out loud. The most blatant case is in a early episode of the Asia Circuit arc, when Aichi and Kamui are shocked by seeing that Rekka already has a full Angel Feather deck the day after the launch of the set introducing the clan. | |
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On one episode of Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Wayne Brady stops a “Hollywood Director� scene-within-a-scene to hold up an imaginary can of Coca-Cola next to his face while turning to smile at the camera. | |
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The Nissan Versa in Heroes started out as creative and original product placement, but later cars degenerated into this trope. | |
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Parodied in one Looney Tunes short starring Daffy Duck as a sadistic radio quiz show host and Porky Pig as the victim contestant. Every few minutes, Daffy would randomly plug “Eagle Hands Laundry�, to Porky’s increasing annoyance. | |
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Walt Disney Presents typically showed a 30-second trailer for Disney's latest theatrical release after the credits. One episode, "Disneyland Goes to the World's Fair", had Walt mentioning one of his sponsors, Eastman Kodak, during a segment about history of photography and as having a pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair (right next door to Disney's "it's a small world" attraction). |
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In-universe, The Cat in the Hat, pauses the movie to shill Universal Studios’ theme parks. | |
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Atop the Fourth Wall spoofed this, with Linkara’s robot double pointing out a plug, and Linkara snapping, “Shut up, hippie! He gave me a discount!� | |
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The producers of Roseanne didn’t take too kindly to being forced to do a two-part Disneyland episode. So they immediately followed it up with an episode entitled "Springtime for David" — where one of the characters gets a job at a second-rate German-themed theme park named Edelweiss Gardens, and gets brainwashed into their army of perpetually happy park mascots. | |
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The Shadow parodies how the original radio shows would often stop the action to do this....by having the Big Bad ask the hero where he got his tie. | |
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Most home improvement shows are sponsored by a national hardware store chain (such as Sears for Extreme Makeover: Home Edition), and the hosts will always find a way to show that all the tools they’re using to remodel and restock the house are from that chain of stores. They’re usually not very subtle. | |
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Murder in HR is sponsored by Gympass, a corporate fitness/wellness solution, and it's frequently mentioned by characters in the podcast. In one notable scene, a character working for a company's HR, tells a long story about his company adopting it and how great it's been for everyone. | |
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In one episode of Arrested Development, Burger King spontaneously takes over the show. This leads to characters involuntarily blurting out Burger King plugs mid-speech, the camera jump-cutting to a Burger King restaurant, and the narrator openly extolling the virtues of Burger King. And in one scene, two characters go to Burger King to try and convince them to buy an Enforced Plug on their Show Within a Show. | |
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Parodied and lampshaded in the Assassination Classroom anime. When Fuwa tries to encourage her friends to buy the latest volume of a certain Shonen Jump detective series, the scene cuts to a gigantic ad for Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro, Matsui's previous work, while a message encouraging the viewer to pick up the 12-volume compilation scrolls through the background. This does not go unnoticed by her friends. | |
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In The Truman Show, the protagonist’s entire waking life is secretly a TV show being produced and filmed in real time. Since there are no commercial breaks, Product Placement is done during the show; this is accomplished by having the actors playing his family and friends delivering plugs in his presence (or by focusing on In-Universe advertising, such as when the businessmen brothers bail Truman up outside his office building next to a prominently-displayed poster for Kaiser Chicken). An inappropriate and out-of-place plug is eventually one of the things that cues Truman in to the fakeness of his life. | |
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Kung Pow! Enter the Fist has some blatant and self-referential Taco Bell product placement: | |
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Cat Women of the Moon. The Captain allows each member of the crew of Earth's first rocket to the Moon to make a brief radio broadcast. One of them praises the engine lubricant they used, then reveals to the others that he took a kickback from the company that produces it to make the plug. | |
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In Evolution, the alien invasion is stopped by Head and Shoulders shampoo, and the film ends with the main characters doing a commercial for the product — but it’s full of Bad "Bad Acting", and one of the characters even holds the bottle back-to-front. | |
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Like most other talk shows, The Daily Show frequently sees guests whose purpose on the show is just to promote their latest publication or project, and like most other talk shows, Jon will naturally end each interview by plugging it. Unlike most other talk shows, the more self-aware the guest is about this, the more likely the plug will be lampshaded (and the conversation itself will go Off the Rails). | |
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Parodied in the Freakazoid! episode "Mission: Freakazoid". The show opened with the announcer saying, “This episode is brought to you by Anubis Markets, a division of Osiris Foods. However, this will in no way affect the contents of today's story.� But the story was periodically interrupted with Anubis Markets ads, and at the end, all the characters turned to the camera and delivered an extended ad for Anubis Markets (“Food so good you can eat it!�) | |
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Mac and Me, a 1988 E.T. knockoff, saw what E.T. had done with Reese’s Pieces, subtly but prominently working the brand into the film. Mac and Me had no delusions of subtlety, however, being a virtual two-hour advertisement for McDonald’s and Coca-Cola. | |
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“The Twilight Zone (1959) was brought to you by [product]!� was often heard at the end of the first two seasons of the show. By the time the third season had come around, Rod Serling was shilling Chesterfield Cigarettes (with mild filters, not mildly filtered) to the audience after telling them about next week’s show. | |
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When Two Best Friends Play tore apart the Xbox One launch title Fighter Within and its Kinect controls, Machinima tacked a 10-second Xbox One ad onto the beginning of the video. | |
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The Great War: Many episodes are sponsored by outside parties, typically military history themed video games. Host Indy Neidell usually gives them their requisite Shout-Out during the Please Subscribe to Our Channel segment at the end of the videos. | |
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American Dad! lampshaded an Enforced Plug for Burger King. Stan and Steve discuss about how to expose the truth about peanut butter in a National Treasure Whole-Plot Reference at a Burger King restaurant, and Steve asks him why they were at a Burger King. Stan tells him that the laws of TV economics have changed. It might refer to Burger King’s status as one of the show’s original sponsors. | |
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In a similar vein to Mac And Me, My Little Bossings was largely panned for having its stars shill for whichever brands they were endorsing at the time without any sort of subtlety or justification. Though somehow the audiences and Vic Sotto himself didn't seem to mind, as long as the audiences are entertained and it made millions at the box office, never mind the Broken Aesop that ensued in its simultaneous showcase of Filipino virtues and commercialism. | |
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Smallville is infamous for its product placement, leading to awkward dialogue where every mention of a car or phone is a plug of some kind, and a character is nicknamed "Product Placement Pete" for his frequent delivery of these plugs. Its most infamous episode in this respect is “Hero�, where the aforementioned Pete gains superpowers and goes Ax-Crazy by chewing tainted Stride gum; the plug essentially took over an entire episode, although it didn't exactly paint the product in a great light. | |
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Stargate SG-1 had an episode where the team was part of a race In Space, which was intercut with shots of two commentators, who at the end of each scene would awkwardly segue into an advertisement for an in-universe product. | |
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The Jack Benny Program was fond of lampshading its Enforced Plugs; after all, it frequently called itself “The Grape Nuts and Grape Nuts Flakes Program, starring Jack Benny!â€� Among the ways it did so: Announcer Don Wilson would interrupt sketches to shill the sponsor’s product, to the characters’ annoyance. In later years, when the program was sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes, Don would get the Sportsman Quartet to shill the product in song Once an Episode — always against Jack’s will, and usually with his shouted protests in the background. The Looney Tunes short based on the show parodies this practice. Don wasn’t averse to mistreating his plugs himself: And some episodes also lampshaded the enforced nature of the plug. For instance, from this sketch spoofing The Hound of the Baskervilles: |
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During the blind auditions, the various international versions of The Voice will often go on location to profile a contestant. When they do this outside the US, the lead-in to these profiles will just be various shots of the contestant and their hometown. In the US, though, it’s mostly shots of Carson Daly’s Kia Sorrento as he drives it to the location. The US version is also taped at Universal Studios Hollywood, and near the end of each season, there’s usually a segment showing the finalists enjoying the park. | |
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Seinfeld was no stranger to product placement; most often the product was just in the background. When it wasn’t, though, it was always done in a strange way where the product wasn’t shown quite as favorably as a blatant plug would. For instance: Jerry would randomly and blatantly offer other characters a Snapple; they would always decline. Kramer and Jerry are watching a surgery and accidentally drop a Junior Mint into the patient with none of the surgeons noticing, which inexplicably and miraculously saves his life. A Kenny Rogers’ Roasters restaurant opens across the street from Kramer, but the light from its massive sign shines into his apartment, bathes everything in a red glow, and keeps Kramer from sleeping. |
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The Colbert Report often parodies this trope, as Stephen Colbert shamelessly plugs random products on his show. He interrupted a segment about health care to plug Sierra Mist, and he once spent an entire week on location in “Chili-delphia, the city of brotherly crunch,â€� in an effort to plug Doritos. That last segment reveals that Colbert is usually not even paid for the plugs — he tries to fix that but quickly accepts a deal in exchange for a lot of Nacho Cheese Doritos. A Running Gag in Jeff Goldblum's occasional speechifying appearances over 2009-10 was his shoehorning in a plug for Law & Order: Criminal Intent, which he was toplining at the time, near the end of each speech no matter what it was about (President Obama killing a fly during a TV interview, nasal spray, his own passing, etc.). |
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Parodied in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby: NBC is covering the climactic race, and it can’t resist showing why it stands for “Nothing But Commercials�. The network cuts to a commercial in the middle of Ricky Bobby and Jean Girard’s cars crashing (followed by an actual Applebee’s ad in the middle of the movie). But even after the race coverage returns, the crash is still happening. This scene could also be seen as a Take That! towards NBC (which, at the time, had been known for airing excessive amounts of commercials during NASCAR races). | |
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In Bubble World, even before she learns the truth, Freesia grows annoyed with the plugs for Tracey’s Coffee. | |
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In The Leet World, after winning the first season, the counter-terrorists return in Season 2 with advertising contracts with WolfCorp, resulting in Westheimer and Chet occasionally inserting plugs for fictitious companies like “Sir Spice-a-Lot’s Chicken� and “Koala Cola� into conversations. | |
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Every episode of Sporadic Phantoms has a ridiculous advertisement for something from the Animorphs universe. The first episode has one for Dealin' Dan Hawke's car sales, and the trio complain that it goes against their environmentally-friendly values, but they need the money. | |
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On 30 Rock, the writers for the Show Within a Show are asked to plug a General Electric product and suddenly start talking about how great Diet Snapple is. | |
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Later episodes of Monk had ridiculous and incongruous plugs. One late episode had the characters investigating a crime in a remote backwoods town but staying at a conveniently located and immaculately-kept motel, which was particularly jarring as this is the classic setting for a Hell Hotel. | |
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At DDT White Flight in Nagoya 2011 there was Umemura Personal Computer School Sponsored Match between Danshoku Dino and Masa Takanashi | |
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CollegeHumor has done this, most blatantly with Trojan condoms. One short (an animated Valentine’s Day one starring Cupid) was so egregiously rife with the Product Placement for Trojan that nearly all the comments on the video were complaints about it. | |
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Writing Excuses has a regular plug around the 7 to 8 minute mark. When they lack a sponsor for a particular episode, they are either shill their own books (the other ‘casters hum in the background when this happens) or resort to comedy, including “Buy Dan Bacon� and “Pants�. | |
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Kogorou Mouri from Case Closed has never shown to be interested in manga, so it is especially suspiciously uncharacteristic of him when he suddenly mentions Psychic Squad (a manga also published by Shogakukan) out of nowhere when discussing Teleportation with his daughter and her friend. | |
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Men of a Certain Age has Chevrolet as a major sponsor, and the plot of one episode revolved around creating a commercial for Chevrolet’s latest model. It started as a straight plug, but it then devolved into a series of zany viral spots on Terry’s recommendation. | |
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When Kings Island Amusement Park first opened in Cincinnati in 1973, several shows started plugging it. The Brady Bunch and The Partridge Family each had episodes that amounted to 30-minute plugs for the park. And a few episodes of Let's Make a Deal offered a trip to Cincinnati as a prize, alongside daily passes and concession stand vouchers for the park (which was, at the time, really the only reason to visit Cincinnati). | |
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In A Christmas Story, Ralphie has spent weeks getting enough Ovaltine proof-of-purchases (despite hating Ovaltine) to get the Secret Decoder Ring and find out the secret message on the Little Orphan Annie radio show. Once he's got the ring, he finds out that the secret message is an advertisement for Ovaltine. | |
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The West Wing pulled it off much more subtly (and hilariously); when asked to do a Thanksgiving-related plug, they had the president call up Butterball's advice line, pretending to be an ordinary citizen. | |
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Both Wayne's World films parodied the Product Placement phenomenon. In the first film, Wayne objects to selling himself out while simultaneously showing off a series of real-life products and mugging for the camera.note Rather metaliciously, this was necessary in order to secure funding to finish production. . The second film has a similar scene parodying a memetic ad from the 1970s where he randomly and inexplicably extols the virtues of Cassandra’s laundry detergent. | |
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21 frequently paused the game so the game show host could talk about the product. | |
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Several episodes of Shark Tank have plugs for T-Mobile shoehorned in extremely awkwardly, with all the subtlety of a car alarm. See for yourself. | |
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In 2015, ESPN aired a montage of college football highlights to shill The Force Awakens; the Big 12 Conference politely reminded ESPN that NCAA rules prohibit student athletes from appearing in commercial promotions. | |
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Beakman's World threw one in as a gag when discussing electrical plugs: | |
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Home Improvement: The Show Within a Show Tool Time is sponsored by the in-universe company Binford Tools. Tim will stand behind Binford's products, and has no problem promoting them on his show. However, in one episode, Tim is told to plug a new product that he thinks is terrible, and is torn between his honesty and his obligations. He eventually trashes the tool on-air and even puts his boss on the spot by roping him into it. However, a positive spin is still put on it, by saying that Binford prides itself on making only the highest quality tools, and that when a tool doesn't pass the test, it doesn't go to market. They then proceed to destroy the prototype. | |
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Hot Ones: Each episode always ends with host Sean Evans inviting the guest to look into a camera and "tell everyone what you've got going on." Due to his vague wording, many guests don't understand that they're supposed to plug their product, forcing Evans to prompt them more overtly. | |
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A Prairie Home Companion would have fake commercials parodying this trope, as evidenced by their usual appearance after a Trauma Conga Line-type story. A character would be on the brink of death when the story segues into a plug for Bebop-a-Rebop Rhubarb Pie or Powdermilk Biscuits (in the big blue box!). | |
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The Argentinian kid soap Floricienta had in almost every episode some more or less explicit plug for whatever Disney Channel Argentina was airing at the time, usually using the main character's two younger brothers as the pluggers. Examples include them looking at their almost-complete collection of Disney and Pixar DVDs to choose a film to watch and ultimately setting on The Incredibles or when one of them gets a Power Rangers: Dino Thunder live stunt show in the house as a birthday gift. | |
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A particularly poignant example is in the Duckman episode "Short, Plush and Deadly". Duckman is running away in terror from a monstrous Fluffy and Uranus across a Rope Bridge while carrying an injured Cornfed. But then Duckman stops and notices that there is a pack of Mentos on the bridge. He pops one in his mouth, and then grins in approval at the camera as Mentos: The Fresh Maker shows up on the screen. The action scene then screeches back into gear as Fluffy and Uranus abruptly show up and corner Duckman on the bridge. | |
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Sponsored programs are quite common in some countries such as the Philippines, where they essentially serve as thirty-minute commercials for the companies involved. Notable examples of these include Jollitown and Tropang Potchi, sponsored by Jollibeenote A Philippine fast-food chain in similar vein to McDonald's and Columbia International Food Productsnote A confectionery company in the Philippines respectively. | |
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On Keep Beach City Weird, when experiencing some Writer's Block, Ronaldo resorted to being one of many sponsors for Guacola, an avocado soda he spat back up the second he had it. The best Ronaldo can say is that "technically, it is edible" and has supplementary use as mortar or to clog a drain. There's also mention of the company being a subsidiary of an industrial adhesive maker and in a lawsuit with 17 states. | |
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An episode of Sealab 2021 parodies the trope with numerous, gratuitous, increasingly jarring plugs for “Grizzlebee’s�, a fictional amalgam of casual family restaurants such as Chili’s and TGI Friday’s. The entire episode turned out to be an episode-long plug for the movie Tinfins. | |
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An episode of the Canadian reality series Kenny vs. Spenny had the two lead characters facing off in a contest to see who could win the most money. Magnificent Bastard Kenny thinks up the idea of selling airtime on the show and earns over $5000 in sponsorship deals. Unfortunately, his contract with the producers requires that all ad revenue be shared equally between Kenny and Spenny, which negates any advantage from the scheme. | |
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My Brother, My Brother and Me has gone through a few sponsors at this point, but the longest-running is their partnership with online sex toy shop Extreme Restraints. While enforced, the plugs fit remarkably well with the show’s tone and content, enough that when Extreme Restraints allowed their partnership to lapse, the fans demanded the ads back. | |
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In Demolition Man, set 20 Minutes into the Future, Taco Bell is now the only restaurant left in the entire country (and possibly the world). Oddly, when shown outside the U.S., it’s Pizza Hut instead. | |
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On Top Gear, Jeremy Clarkson needed to drive a car owned by Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason; he would only let Clarkson drive it if he plugged Mason’s book. Product placement and advertising are banned on The BBC, so Clarkson drove around trying to “subtly work� references to Pink Floyd and the book into his car review. | |
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The December 5, 2019 episode of Jeopardy! had a category built around the recently-debuted Disney+ show The World According to Jeff Goldblum, featuring video clues read by Goldblum himself. | |
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Halfway through Return of the Killer Tomatoes, the director announces that they don’t have enough money to finish the movie, so the actors suggest that they start doing plugs to get more money. From that point on, the movie is strewn with blatantly obvious advertisements, until the protagonist finally irritably asks, “Do we have enough money to finish this turkey yet?� | |
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In one very memorable episode of I've Got a Secret, Harpo Marx was the guest star, his secret being to pantomime various common phrases (for example: he puts jam on a light bulb and pretends to eat it, so he’s having a “light lunchâ€�). For his last phrase, he took out a copy of his book Harpo Speaks with a hole drilled through it, took the missing piece, and put it in the hole — he’s “plugging his bookâ€�. | |
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Serial saw MailChimp getting a lot of mileage out of their plug for the email newsletter service, to the point that "#MailKimp"note a reference to a section of the ad where a person has trouble pronouncing the service's name became a meme among fans (though the archived versions now include ads for Audible instead). | |
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Burn Notice tends to do this with its cars; it’s very easy to tell which automaker is sponsoring the show at any given moment. It also leads to scenes where the crew uses a super-Hyundai to bust into something and Sam and Fi pause the action to talk about how great a car it is. | |
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Sabrina the Teenage Witch did a Disney World episode specifically to promote the opening of Animal Kingdom and its Lodge resort (the latter of which wouldn’t open for another three years). | |
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Fibber McGee and Molly tended to lampshade the trope to pieces. Midway through each episode, the McGees would encounter announcer Harlow Wilcox, who would quickly shift discussion of any topic to extolling the virtues of Johnson’s Self-Polishing Glo-Coat floor wax, or whichever new household cleaner SC Johnson came up at the time. Fibber or Molly would usually groan and go “Here We Go Again!�. | |
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The Muppets had a Disney World special, titled The Muppets at Walt Disney World, where Statler and Waldorf complained as they usually do — but about the place having nothing to complain about. | |
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