# Most awkward product placement **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** commercials-ads\ **Created:** [October 10, 2022, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awkward-product-placement/973020 "2022-10-10T16:47:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2022, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awkward-product-placement/973020/121 "2022-10-13T03:18:51Z")
> [@simster](#): > > in Sienfeld, they brought in [J.Peterman](https://jpeterman.com/) as a recurring character and had Elaine working for him. I was today years old when I learned that J. Peterman wasn’t a fictional person/company from Sienfeld. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2022, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awkward-product-placement/973020/122 "2022-10-13T22:12:03Z")
Thank heaven some artists refuse to yield to the temptation to make a quick buck. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/8lgLYGBbDNs/maxresdefault.jpg "Wayne's World - Product Placement") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lgLYGBbDNs) ---
**Author:** ![WhyKickAMooCow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9fc29f/32.png) [@WhyKickAMooCow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyKickAMooCow)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2022, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awkward-product-placement/973020/123 "2022-10-14T10:39:03Z")
Didn’t Seinfeld also do a riff on Snapple placement? ---
**Author:** ![caligulathegod](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caligulathegod/32/9685_2.png) [@caligulathegod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caligulathegod)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2022, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awkward-product-placement/973020/124 "2022-10-14T21:54:43Z")
How about Marlboro in Superman, Superman II? Not only the obvious crash into the truck during the fight with the Phantom Zone criminals, but apparently they paid to have Lois chain-smoke throughout the movies. Obviously, that part might be apocryphal, but the crash into the truck even stuck out to me as a 9 year old seeing it back in the day. > **[Superman’s sordid history of marketing cigarettes … and then battling smoking](https://theloungeisback.wordpress.com/2013/12/22/the-history-of-cigarettes-and-product-placement-in-superman-movies/)** > > Just watched Man of Steel and had to absolutely crack up at the nonstop product placement through the whole movie — man, I really hadn’t noticed product placement in a movie in years. M… ---
**Author:** ![zbuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2022, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awkward-product-placement/973020/125 "2022-10-15T03:24:39Z")
> [@caligulathegod](#): > > How about Marlboro in Superman, Superman II? As right as that story is about how despicable cigarette advertising in Superman was, it doesn’t mention the fact that Superman actually tells Lois that she shouldn’t smoke and that thankfully she doesn’t have lung cancer “yet.” And then she immediately stubs out the cigarette. If there was a Philip Morris exec watching that, I guess that would be a bit awkward. > [@caligulathegod](#): > > Obviously, that part might be apocryphal, but the crash into the truck even stuck out to me as a 9 year old seeing it back in the day. I always thought Superman throwing Zod into a gigantic neon Enjoy Coca-Cola ad was more blatant, but that’s just mho. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2022, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awkward-product-placement/973020/126 "2022-10-15T12:35:36Z")
124 Replies and no one remembers the Dr Pepper machine in the command center in Godzilla 1984? ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2022, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awkward-product-placement/973020/127 "2022-10-15T13:25:59Z")
That movie also had Jennifer Aniston as “bystander,” and Nikki Cox as “dancer,” both uncredited. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2022, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awkward-product-placement/973020/128 "2022-10-16T02:18:44Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Nobody’s thought to mention the awkward product placement of Starbucks on _Game of Thrones_. > > Odd, that. Personally I thought the Incest Dragonfruit Refresher was much better than the Iced Whitewalker Vanilla Soy Latte. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2022, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awkward-product-placement/973020/129 "2022-10-16T02:49:20Z")
> [@zbuzz](#): > > I always thought Superman throwing Zod into a gigantic neon Enjoy Coca-Cola ad was more blatant, but that’s just mho. There’s [a bit where](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g9rLC2O1JNk) we get a big fine shot of Martha Kent carrying a box of Cheerios so the audience gets a great view of it, and then we see her carefully placing it to face the audience as if we were looking right at an all-American breakfast by standing inside the house and facing the window. And then we see her from the other side — as if we’re on the _outside,_ looking _in_ through the window — and the prominent box of Cheerios has flipped around to helpfully keep facing us. There’s blatant, and then there’s _trying weirdly hard._ ---
**Author:** ![zbuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2022, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awkward-product-placement/973020/130 "2022-10-16T10:55:18Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > There’s [a bit where](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g9rLC2O1JNk) we get a big fine shot of Martha Kent carrying a box of Cheerios so the audience gets a great view of it I never noticed that one. I noticed Superman getting thrown into the Marlboro delivery van and Zod getting thrown into the Coke sign. Too bad no one threw Martha into the Cheerios box, then I probably would have noticed it. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2022, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awkward-product-placement/973020/131 "2022-10-16T13:15:55Z")
Lets not forget all the advertising for Cadre Cola in _Running Man_. At the end, they even have the baddie fly through a billboard for Cadre Cola and Arnie say, “Ah, that hits the spot!” ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2022, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awkward-product-placement/973020/132 "2022-10-16T18:28:39Z")
> [@zbuzz](#): > > Too bad no one threw Martha into the Cheerios box, then I probably would have noticed it. Maybe it’s worth it to try to track down a blooper reel. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awkward-product-placement/973020.md?page=6)