I feel like community is the only show to do it right. The product placement wasn’t subtle, they didn’t try to hide it from you. They incorporated it into the story, and anything that was an “ad read” came from subway itself, not any of the characters. They even allow for some nice tongue in cheek jokes about the product placement in future episodes as well.
Of course I’d rather not have any product placement, but if you’re gonna do it, it should be like that.
Chuck: the Subway scenes. Wow product placement.
Community: Every Subway storyline (especially the Britta relationship)
I feel like community is the only show to do it right. The product placement wasn’t subtle, they didn’t try to hide it from you. They incorporated it into the story, and anything that was an “ad read” came from subway itself, not any of the characters. They even allow for some nice tongue in cheek jokes about the product placement in future episodes as well.
Of course I’d rather not have any product placement, but if you’re gonna do it, it should be like that.
Also the Dean and his Honda problem.
Subway was the worst! I completely forgot about Chuck doing it, but they’ve done it in so many others. It’s Always Sunny has some bad ones…