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Unintentionally Hilarious Product Placement on Soap Operas (VIDEO)

by Ryan McKee, posted Nov 15th 2010 6:30PM
Over the weekend, Kristen Schaal, comedian, actress and now Twitter trend-setter, posted video links over this weekend to awkward examples of product placement in 'Days of Our Lives.'

Now made aware of this unintentional hilary, Twitter users have started finding and linking over bad examples of soap opera advertising under the tag #soapoperaproductplacement.

Few TV shows and big budget movies are completely void of product placement these days. '30 Rock' characters even make clever winks and nods toward the camera when they're forced to schlep a product.

However, 'Days of Our Lives' takes things to another level. The characters actually pitch the product as if they're actually in a commercial. "Chex Mix, what's Chex Mix?" says one character during a picnic. "It's so good. It's like a million different flavors in your mouth," another character replies.

Yes, that is just one taste of bad soap opera product placement. Keep reading below for more.





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Amy

Days of Our Lives is hilarious, but the editing of this article is the real atrocity.

December 01 2010 at 2:40 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Melissa

I prefer my product placements to be more subtle.

November 19 2010 at 1:27 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mal

Shameless! Completely shameless...

November 18 2010 at 8:02 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
the captain

What, is she going to put salad dressing on the Chex Mix?

November 17 2010 at 11:58 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Leroy

And I thought the Subway stuff on Chuck was getting out of hand. This is hideous.

November 16 2010 at 12:41 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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