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/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 22d 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