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Title: Product placement
Post by: The Pyramids on July 23, 2005, 10:56:16 AM

I think 'Feud' was just reruns this month.

Was that Pizza Hut logo on one of yesterdays shows behind the podiums a new, unwelcome feature from late this past season?

(I can ask the same about the checkered flooring but that was okay, esp. if it is a preamble to larger set changes).

Title: Product placement
Post by: StevensM on July 23, 2005, 12:05:53 PM

There was a Pizza Hut Day a while back that featured a prize of a year's worth of pizza, I think.  It was part of just a special episode/episodes, not a permanent set change.

I also seem to recall that the set changes were left up for a few episodes after the Pizza Hut promotion ended.  It was probably one of those episodes that you saw.

Title: Product placement
Post by: aaron sica on July 23, 2005, 12:36:14 PM

Did Karn threaten to double the toppings? :)

Title: Product placement
Post by: DrBear on July 23, 2005, 05:27:51 PM

It's interesting, but hardly worth getting anyone excited. Just watch the black and whites and you'll see product placement that puts this to shame.

Title: Product placement
Post by: GS Warehouse on July 23, 2005, 09:48:11 PM

[quote name=\'aaron sica\' date=\'Jul 23 2005, 11:36 AM\']Did Karn threaten to double the toppings? :)

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Title: Product placement
Post by: MCArroyo1 on July 23, 2005, 10:24:33 PM

[quote name=\'DrBear\' date=\'Jul 23 2005, 04:27 PM\']It's interesting, but hardly worth getting anyone excited. Just watch the black and whites and you'll see product placement that puts this to shame.

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[/quote]Yeah, I'd wait until the commercial time was reduced to 2 minutes or so, like back then.

Title: Product placement
Post by: uncamark on July 25, 2005, 03:59:39 PM

[quote name=\'MCArroyo1\' date=\'Jul 23 2005, 09:24 PM\'][quote name=\'DrBear\' date=\'Jul 23 2005, 04:27 PM\']It's interesting, but hardly worth getting anyone excited. Just watch the black and whites and you'll see product placement that puts this to shame.

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[/quote]Yeah, I'd wait until the commercial time was reduced to 2 minutes or so, like back then.

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One could go both ways on this subject.  A logo on the set or a bottle of Stopette silhouette on John Charles Daly's cards (or Garry Moore handing a contestant a carton of Winstons, for that matter) is nothing compared to when I was at the MT&R and viewing the really needy, really desperate "Strike It Rich" contestant hanging on to her box of Fab detergent for dear life.  Now that's creepy.