After watching Lost, we were channel hopping for a few minutes when we came across CSI:NY, now I like CSI (I refuse to call it CSI:Las Vegas, It’s just CSI people!) and CSI:Miami is tolerable at times, but CSI:NY really bugs me, I don’t know why but it just does… Maybe it’s just like CSI:Miami in that David Caruso isn’t playing Horatio Caine, he’ll always be John Kelly from NYPD Blue, Gary Sinise isn’t Mac Taylor, he’s freaking Lieutenant Dan! He will always be Lieutenant Dan…
Anyways, during the aforementioned episode of CSI:NY, one of the investigators cell phones rings, well Blackberry really but moot point, and it’s the new Coldplay single “Talk” as the ringtone… No biggie I thought, until the actors actually mention it on screen, it went something like this:
Sheldon Hawkes: New ringtone there?
Danny Messer: Yeah, it’s the new Coldplay single, the girl picked it out.
GAH! FUCKING GAH!!!
OK, that’s bad enough, thanks to sell out actors Coldplay (one of the biggest bands in the world (arguabley)) has managed to get some serious pimpage… But wait, it was not over…
During the ad break, what appears but an ad that went as follows:
TWICE!
Now I can take the product placement like the HP printer in the show and what not, but to forceably stuff this down our throats twice was taking it too far… It’s not even the best choice for a single off of “X&Y”, but screw paying $2.49 plus tax, I’ll give you it for free…
Coldplay – Talk
As a side note, I just love HDTV now, I’ll watch anything as long as it’s broadcast in HDTV… CSI:NY, Good Morning America, you name it…
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5 responses to “Talk About Overloading Advertising…”
I can only watch the orginial CSI, no spin off shows for me buddy. As for channel hoping after Lost…you can’t change the channel! Invasion has to the next creepiest show on TV now (next to Lost), and I love it. Wednesday nights my TV is locked onto ABC until the news comes on. Then I turn it off and go to bed.
Alas, we missed pretty much all of Invasion, I’ve seen a few episodes, but it didn’t eactly rock me…
Now Alias is back there, the Lost/Alias 1-2 punch is a welcome return (even if Alias is being canned)
I HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE product placement. Hate it! Despise and loath it all the same breath. Hate it so bad, that if I were watching, and that double whammy “stuffing it down our throats” happened I would either turn the channel or turn off the tv.
So’d I get my point across about how I feel about product placement?
Yeah, just a little…
Ya know I really don’t care for very much.
Just wanted to point that out.