I was today years old when I learned that J. Peterman wasn’t a fictional person/company from Sienfeld.
Thank heaven some artists refuse to yield to the temptation to make a quick buck.
Didn’t Seinfeld also do a riff on Snapple placement?
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.
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.
I always thought Superman throwing Zod into a gigantic neon Enjoy Coca-Cola ad was more blatant, but that’s just mho.
124 Replies and no one remembers the Dr Pepper machine in the command center in Godzilla 1984?
That movie also had Jennifer Aniston as “bystander,” and Nikki Cox as “dancer,” both uncredited.
Personally I thought the Incest Dragonfruit Refresher was much better than the Iced Whitewalker Vanilla Soy Latte.
There’s a bit where 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.
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.
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!”
Maybe it’s worth it to try to track down a blooper reel.