Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Ad Nauseam

My current sleep DVD is the first season of Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist, which was a show on Comedy Central in the mid-90s. Anyhoo, as I was watching and now listening to the commentary, I realize how much I hate ads. There was a point where they were clever and entertaining, but their pervasiveness into American culture is annoying.

Even on this show which I'm not sure many people watched, they were asked to do product placement. Can their just be entertainment to entertain? Why can't the person be drinking a soda and not have to be a Coke? Capitalism is a necessary evil but it doesn't have to be this bloody annoying.

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