Monday, October 13, 2008
Product Placement.......on SOUTH PARK?!
I know that I wrote my last blog on product placement, but after I wanted south park this week I wanted to cry. South Park is really one of my favorite shows of all time. I had missed all the episodes in the 12th season, the most recent season, because I had been so busy so I decided to download them off of iTunes and watch them. I did not get far into the show until I saw many innocent of products being pushed in the show. This just made me mad. Its south park! Do they really need to do this?! I remebered back when they had a whole show about Cartman, one of the main characters on the show, spending the whole episode trying to get a Nintendo Wii. But this just felt different, almost as though they were trying to hard. I really like Matt and Trey, the creators of the show, and I can not believe they would allow this to happen. I know that their thought process was probably along the lines of, oh people trust us, so they'll trust the product. At least for me, it definitely did not work like that. Whats next....Family Guy promotion something ?!?
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I think it takes advantage of little kids, a lot of kids are educated by this type of show. To hand it to tray and matt, this type of advertising is perfect... if you look at that turretts episode u can see advertisment for starcraft2 in the background of the mall.
thats blizzard again, retouching on their wow episode. Its amazingly perfect and goes to the heart of the target market... people with free time thus disposible income.
me included.
They've started to do it with music too. that stupid poker face song when they advertised that guitar band game, or when that cop goes undercover as a stripper/whore and starts to do a striop dance that same song comes on.
i wonder what the endorsement prices are.#
at the end of the day im not complaining, good on them for their success... im just making sure the viewer is aware, thats all. southpark is slowly becoming a way to pay the bills, not pure entertainment.
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