[Content Note: (Teasing) Food Policing]
I have been eating Spaghettios (With Meatballs!) every day at lunch for the past 5 years of gainful employment. My coworkers, when they have noticed this, believe the food to be inherently childish and not appropriate for seasoned adults. (But mostly in a nice, teasing way.)
Last night, Season 3 Episode 1 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer ("Anne") revealed that Buffy Summers eats Spaghettios (With Meatballs!). Clearly the implications are obvious: I am a vampire slayer.
What product placement in books/films/etc. has resonated with you in the past?
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I recall an episode of Buffy in which a character eats a slice of pizza while dancing around and singing, "Anchovies, anchovies, you're so delicious! I love you more than all the other fishes!" Apparently the writer, Jane Espensen, loves anchovies and wishes that more pizza places would offer them as a topping, so she decided to write anchovies into the show to boost their popularity.
Of course you're a vampire slayer. You've been tearing the Cullens apart for a while now.
We had to watch a very old "educational" video in my second year of university. It was 20-30 years old then. We laughed at the hairstyles and clothing more than we actually gained any educational value from it. When the video showed a person using a then-modern TV I realised that it was the exact year and model of the TV my parents still had (still functional, still regularly used) at home.
In the book The Witches of Eastwick (which is ssooooooo much better than the movie, I cannot even say... Although I did write a post on it once :P ) it mentioned that Sukie liked crunchy foods. I like crunchy foods and hate squishy ones, they gross me out. For instance I love nuts, crispily cooked chips, chicken schnitzel, toast, bacon, etc. Pretty much everything crunchy. I kind of hate eating squishy foods. I was excited that it had this whole paragraph about Sukie liking foods that crunched, because I thought it was just me.
SPOILERS for Greg Egan's _Quarantine_:
In this book, which is set in a somewhat dystopic fairly-near future, whenever the protagonist mentions a high-tech product there's a tiny inserted ad next to the mention. (If the book were online these would obviously be hyperlinks.) You eventually find out that his word processor inserts these automatically. Late in the book, the protagonist invents something diabolical and highly dangerous, and when he finally mentions its name, there is a little ad next to it. For some reason I found this tiny detail both entertaining and very chilling.
Saw this on Reddit, and the community here may like:
http://www.overthinkingit.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Overthinking-It-Female-Character-Flowchart.png
I love that chart because "Does she die before the final act" nets you "Michelle Rodriguez". IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE IT'S TRUE.
I realize it's basically a long string of product placement, but the mall scene from the original Blues Brothers now tickles me because of one tiny thing. Right at the beginning of the chase sequence (before the Bluesmobile comes crashing through), a gentleman at a register holds up an Elmo doll (and asks about Miss Piggy, likely a Shout Out to the prison guard, played by Frank Oz). Of course, this can only mean that John Landis and Dan Aykryoid predicted the success of the Tickle Me Elmo doll more than two decades before it happened.
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