Things I Hate About TV: Extremely blatant product placement

December 28th, 2007 | Category: Daytime, Industry

A few days ago I happened to catch an episode of the NBC soap opera Days of our Lives that my wife was watching. Hey, don’t look at me that way! My wife is a fan of the show. Oh, certain, I used to watch it during the Shane/Kimberly/ Patch/Kayla/Frankie/Jennifer heydays of the late 80’s, but it doesn’t do anything for me now. Really, I’m serious!

Anyway, the scene I walked in on was one within Chelsea Brady and Nick Fallon (I got those names from my wife, I swear!). It seemed that Chelsea was depressed about

one thing or another and Nick had the solution to cheer her up. They went to a nearby computer, where Nick began to pull up pictures, on the Wallgreens photo site, of the couple during happier times. When Chelsea asked how he did that (because she is obviously technically non-savvy) Nick responded that he just uploaded the pictures to the Walgreens.com and, I believe, he added some end tagline like ‘It’s just so simple.’

Holy. Freakin. Crap.

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Original post by Richard Keller

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