Sunday Burst of Weird and AWESOME!

Oddities and Awesome abound!

:: Ken Levine posted this, and it’s absolutely hilarious, one of the funniest bits of product placement in a teevee show ever. (I think it’s unintentionally funny, though.)

My favorite bit of product placement ever comes in Superman: the Movie. After Pa Kent has died and young Clark has found the green crystal, Ma Kent is up at dawn getting breakfast ready in the kitchen, and we see her hand plunk a box of Cheerios down on the table, just so its label catches the sunlight. Hilarious…especially in the end credits, when there is actually a screen credit reading “Cheerios by General Mills”.

In general, I tend to actually prefer it when people on teevee or movies use real products. I always found it more distracting to see cola cans that were obviously Pepsi cans, but with “Pepsi” replaced by the word “Cola”. I find that almost as distracting as any time someone recites a phone number. Hearing “555-xxxx” is glaring on the ears, but after years of hearing “555” prefixes, whenever a more daring movie uses a real-sounding prefix, that stands out too. I now think that movies and teevee shows should never have characters saying phone numbers out loud. At all.

:: My friend Aaron sent me this photo of a business whose building is obviously an old Pizza Hut. I should go around and take photos here of former PH’s that are now something else. There are a lot of former PH’s in Buffalo.

:: I’d love to try a bite of this. But no more than a bite. Wow, my heart stutters when I just look at the pictures.

More next week!

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