Ludicrous Number of Product Placement Plugs on Leno Show

By Friday October 2, 2009

This is an example from ONE SHOW. Unwatchable.

Via the Live Feed.



37 Comments
  1. RTaylor says:
    10/2/2009 at 10:14 am

    John you’re just jealous. Think of all those big checks rolling in. Two years of this and you could buy a vineyard and retire.

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  2. Mr. Glum says:
    10/2/2009 at 10:20 am

    I can’t watch it. No link.

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  3. Improbus says:
    10/2/2009 at 10:22 am

    My decision to get rid of cable tv was the right one. If I can’t stream it or download it I don’t need to watch it.

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  4. pedro says:
    10/2/2009 at 10:28 am

    Better product placement scheme since the price is right

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  5. GigG says:
    10/2/2009 at 10:39 am

    I don’t think all of those are product placements but so the hell what if they are?

    As more people zap through commercials with TiVo and download commercial edited out versions they are left with few options.

    1. Charge the viewer directly.
    2. Make cheap reality shows.
    3. Product placement.

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  6. ECA says:
    10/2/2009 at 10:43 am

    PRIME TIME is more expensive then LATE NIGHT..
    we are talking 4-10 times as much in the time slot.

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  7. Paul says:
    10/2/2009 at 10:47 am

    For some reason this doesn’t grate on me as much as much as it does in Heroes. (I don’t know why I keep giving that show a chance.) This season the product placement is so blatant and corny.

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  8. Benjamin says:
    10/2/2009 at 10:56 am

    #4 Just got into Heroes when I saw season one in the discount bin at the used DVD place. I don’t watch regular TV. Never really notice product placement, except with Hiro insisted on a certain model of car.

    I don’t think the Wendy’s bit was flattering to Wendy’s so that should count as product placement.

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  9. Radiotube says:
    10/2/2009 at 10:59 am

    Jay’s niche in comedy is to tug at the American cultural icons, which is why he brings up things people are familiar with in their daily lives. I don’t think it is intentionally done except maybe that Bing BS he did… that has Microsoft money all over it. (did you notice the Google search window in the browser when he was doing that bit? LOL!

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  10. The0ne says:
    10/2/2009 at 11:15 am

    He’s always does this like #9 said. I don’t see anything wrong here, not to the extreme to consider “news.”

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  11. MikeN says:
    10/2/2009 at 11:17 am

    Expect more of this with people using bittorrent and other illegal downloads. Movies are going to decline even more when people think the product should be free.

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  12. Chris says:
    10/2/2009 at 11:29 am

    So any mention of a product, restaurant, etc. is a “plug”? Weak John.

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  13. Carcarius says:
    10/2/2009 at 11:30 am

    Leno will be off the air by the end of the year. I was never a fan of his, but regardless of my lack of interest to catch even one of his shows I will not watch it simply because he stole ideas from Top Gear with the celebrity lap times. Pathetic.

    Leno was on Top Gear last year and possibly asked to use their idea in exchange for allowing them in his car garage.

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  14. SimonSezz says:
    10/2/2009 at 11:42 am

    Yes it is product placement… if the company’s intention is to have Leno ridicule the product! It’s so easy to make a video take things out of context by just cutting the words you want no one to hear.

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  15. Mister Ed says:
    10/2/2009 at 12:25 pm

    Isn’t that the pot calling the kettle black?

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  16. David says:
    10/2/2009 at 12:28 pm

    Aside from the Bing promo, most of these jokes don’t seem very flattering. Are you sure they’re paying for this kind of mockery?

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  17. James says:
    10/2/2009 at 12:53 pm

    Big brands are part of our culture. If you want to hear sneaky, paid (I’m convinced) product placement then listen to Leo Laporte.

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  18. sargasso says:
    10/2/2009 at 12:55 pm

    #1. Owning a vineyard, isn’t retirement.

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  19. chuck says:
    10/2/2009 at 1:22 pm

    Ridiculous product placement, and it’s not funny.

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  20. audion says:
    10/2/2009 at 1:23 pm

    #1 wins, I think.

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