r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Remote_Bookkeeper_46 • 23d ago

Unskippable ad The most blatantly obvious Amazon Prime ad I’ve ever seen right in the middle of my show

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u/readdator2 23d ago

my head cannon is that Subway and Honda didn't even pay them for that--it was all done for the love of the game

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u/Dull_Opportunity_193 23d ago

Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia received cease and desists for their inclusion of some products earlier in their run (first five seasons). I dont remember what they were and I dont have 44 hours to re listen to the podcasts right now :(

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u/ksdkjlf 23d ago

They found out the hard way you absolutely do not mess with the corporate lawyers at Kitten Mittens

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u/Money_Housing_2938 23d ago

Well first of all, filibuster 

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u/DagothNereviar 22d ago

They had a lot of Budweiser neon signs in their bar in Season 1, with Anheuser-Buschs permission. After the first episode aired, they got a call from Anheuser-Busch telling them to remove all their products from their show lol.

They had to digitally remove them. If you watch Season 1, you'll see a lot of signs that just say "BEER" on them in the background

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u/metallic_smellsayyid 21d ago

But Charlie turns on the Coors sign every morning to let people know they got ice cold Coors at the bar?

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u/Dragon_Small_Z 23d ago

I always assumed that's what it was. Did they actually get sponsored?

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u/CanadaRocks09 23d ago

I always assumed the Subway one was just a joke with permission to use the company name. The Honda one was a well done call back, but it goes over the top to provide actual details and place merch that I hope they made some money out of it! Regardless, the phrasing was done so well that it felt like characters were actually brainwashed to buy into the sales pitch more than just product placement. IMO a job well done!

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u/Funmachine 23d ago

They were both sponsored. Subway returns in the season 5 finale too (with Jared!), it's just part of the business. It's like Dave & Busters in It's always Sunny. It's a Network thing, the show doesn't really get anything out of it other than the producers know they'll be good sports.

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u/Dr_Henry-Killinger 23d ago

Dave and Buster's in Barry is the best lol

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u/souledoutV2 23d ago

"Trucking all the way to the Dave and the Busters"

Lmao

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u/MeaningLeft2970 23d ago

John Oliver mentioned during his Last Week Tonight segment about Subway, that he was in several Subway sponsored bits during his time on Community. Highly suggest watching the segment. Subway gets air time on a lot of shows, even having Korean dramas set in Subway restaurants.

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 23d ago

The subway plot in community was hilarious. When he goes out for a fist bump and only Abed does and gives him an “Eat Fresh!”

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u/-DoctorSpaceman- 23d ago

Nah it’s just how Subway does things. Here they are again in Chuck (only clip of it I could find was from this video).

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u/floppypancakes9 23d ago

I don't think it even clicked to me that that was supposed to be a sponsorship my first time watching, I thought they were just doing a bit about a guy named subway trying to brainwash everyone lol. It seemed like a very community thing to do

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u/annoyedgrunt420 23d ago

Yeah they definitely paid but wanted control over the story, Dan Harmon just kept saying no until they let him do whatever he wanted. There’s a clip of him talking about this on a panel on YouTube.

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u/Ezwa 23d ago

I think they talk about it in the commentary track too.

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u/topdangle 23d ago

yes they got sponsored. community was actually very expensive to produce and those sponsorships helped it keep going. they just managed to get away with making the stories hilarious because they wouldn't agree to notes from the sponsors.

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u/Officialedmart 23d ago

they absolutely did. those are straight up commercials even if theyre funny

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u/KingInTheFarNorth 23d ago

For the Subway episode I thought they were just making fun

But for the Honda Episode they had every piece of Honda merch under the sun including multiple vehicles and Community just didnt have that kinda budget

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u/IdontcryfordeadCEOs 23d ago

If you believe that you must be a level 7 susceptible

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u/readdator2 23d ago

that's moon man talk.

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u/SomethingIWontRegret 23d ago

head cannons are always a mindless blast.

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u/PhiCloud 23d ago

I assumed this too - it feels like a vague reference to Jared Fogle more than an ad.

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u/3Grilledjalapenos 23d ago

If you watched the show when it was broadcast you were bombarded with commercials for each in the ad breaks. They were sponsors, but signed off on the treatment on the show. That’s why the marketing company was the villain, not Subway.

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u/Kidwa96 23d ago

It's funny because they glazed Lays chips for no reason at all.