Remember, Mr. Judge, if you’re going to call other people stupid, you really have to get the Greek right.

And if you’re going to make a movie claiming our culture is becoming ever more stupid and coarse, the funniest joke in the whole thing shouldn’t be a sex toy attached to the hood of a beat-up old Ford Festiva.

What about the terrific “evolution” (devolution?) of Fuddruckers hamburger restaurant in the movie “Idiocracy”?

What about, in the same movie, Starbucks becoming a chain of brothels?

By the way – I happened to be watching The Spy Who Loved Me today, and, like most Bond movies, it contained a few placements (all confirmed by ‘thank yous’ in the credits): Sony monitors, Seiko digital watches, Lotus sports cars, and Wetbike (a sort of motorcycle/jet ski hybrid). I had assumed that the closeup of a microfilm container with ‘Minolta’ embossed on it was a placement too, but they weren’t thanked in the credits. I’ve always thought that the Bond movies were the best examples of product placement enhancing a film. Ironically, they couldn’t convince Rolex to lend them a watch for Dr No; the Submariner featured in the movie was Cubby Broccoli’s personal property.

I doubt Fuddruckers paid for that product placement or if they did they should sue Mike Judge.

To this day, I only think of the Fuddruckers name as it changed over time in a stupid world.

“Zookeeper” may be for kids, but I will definately look for it either streaming or on DVD, product placement or not.

The best (i.e. weirdest) product placement I ever saw was in an anime called “The Girl Who Leaped Through Space”, where, despite it being 10,000 years in the future and some of humanity’s space colonies being lost cities like Troy, Pizza Hut still exists. And can be used to bribe enemy agents to switch sides.

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