When I first heard that TSA thing I was convinced it was an Onion style prank. Simply because, terrorists don't need to surgically implant anything, if they do what prisoners do and just hide things in their arses, it's totally undetectable, and they could ridiculously easily smuggle bombs onto airplanes any time they want.
It's just baffling, I can't imagine what the TSA are after. Unless they're wanting to give people bigger and bigger doses of radiation or something.
Here's why I don't mind retro product placement. As torrent sites flourish more and more people are going to download shows - both current and vintage - and miss the general ads in those shows. They are also less likely to buy the shows on DVD.
This causes a major revenue loss for the shows that has to be made up somewhere - if you want television shows to continue to be made. It also encourages television studios to go after torrent sites.
On the other hand, if you do retro product placement you gain a revenue source that can sustain the show - and can even help generate income for the studio when people download the show (because you know they track that shit as much as they can and will use the download numbers as part of their overall bill to the advertiser.)
Of course, one of the themes of How I Met Your Mother is the unreliability of memory and narrative, so retroactive product placement is entirely in keeping with it.
In fact, hey, that's what's happening - by 2030 they can put product placement into people's memories, and that's why the DVD on the shelf shows up when Ted is remembering the events!
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It's just baffling, I can't imagine what the TSA are after. Unless they're wanting to give people bigger and bigger doses of radiation or something.
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This causes a major revenue loss for the shows that has to be made up somewhere - if you want television shows to continue to be made. It also encourages television studios to go after torrent sites.
On the other hand, if you do retro product placement you gain a revenue source that can sustain the show - and can even help generate income for the studio when people download the show (because you know they track that shit as much as they can and will use the download numbers as part of their overall bill to the advertiser.)
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I hope we haven't run out of serious journalists.
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Product Placement
In fact, hey, that's what's happening - by 2030 they can put product placement into people's memories, and that's why the DVD on the shelf shows up when Ted is remembering the events!
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