Product Advertizing

In The Chicken Roaster episode alone there was not only Kenny Rogers Chicken, but mention of Water Pic, Listerine, Mennen, Kramer put tomatoe juice on Rice Krispies, and a Yatzee game was on the bookshelves. I like reference to real products, whether intentioned or not, as it makes seem a more real "slice of life." Mary Jo "You know...sometimes when I think you are the shallowest man I ever met, you manage to drain a little more out of the pool" Jerry

There was an article in the Wall Street Journal awhile ago about this. The products are not there "by chance". Those companies pay big money to have their products shown and even more to have them mentioned.

Mary Ellen

Seinfeld should not promote something as offensive as barbequed chicken flesh. Factory chicken farms are like concentrations camps. Seinfeld endorses haulocausts for animals? Shame on Seinfeld!!!

"Most people keep their brains between their legs, don't you find?" - MORRISSEY

I happen to enjoy eating chickens. Usually I prefer to buy live chickens. Then I throw them into boiling water just to hear them scream. I also eat the barbequed, roasted, grilled, fried, sauteed, boiled and broiled flesh of many other animals. It's delicious!!!

By the way, who let Morrisissy in the newsgroup? QUIT TRYING TO IMPOSE YOUR PERSONAL MORALS ON OTHERS!!! :)

I don't think that most people find it too offensive. If you find it offensive, do something besides waste your time here. Write the show! If he continues to offend you, stop watching the show. But please don't assume that it is a general offense to people. Also, shame on you!! Why don't you stop comparing these things to the death of so many Jewish people?

Daron

"I got confused- I killed a horse I can't help the way I feel." - Morrissey

But Seinfeld is good to trees because Kramer used "fake" wood wallpaper! hehehe....if you boycott every show which has something to do with, no matter how small, some kind of act which has harmed an animal, (ie. people sitting around a table, or in a coffee shop, eating some kind of animal product) then obviously you won't be watching too much TV.

Get a life! If chickens were such a higher order of living things then they'd be the ones driving cars and flying aeroplanes and splitting atoms!

I say: Let us all feast on barbecued chicken and gorge ourselves silly!

On 26 Mar 1997, Daron Gardner wrote:

I say: Let us all feast on barbecued chicken and gorge ourselves silly!

I'll toast that with some Bosco

Granted, but have you ever tasted Kenny Rogers chicken? It's awesome!!

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Aside: The Kenny Rogers chicken I've tried was nasty. It had no flavor whatsoever and some of the pieces hardly had been cooked. We nicknamed the place "Kenny Rogers Salmonellers". The place was always empty (probably due to customer base attrition from salmonella) and shut down a few months ago.

Back to the original subject:

Note that Jerry himself was never shown eating the chicken, holding any of Kenny's products or directly endorsing it (such as "I love this chicken"). Only Newman and Kramer did the directly handling and loving of the chicken. (That almost sounded dirty, didn't it?)

I understand that the price of the advertising is related to how much the characters directly interact with or mention the product. For example, a scene in which Jerry is pouring Cheerios into a bowl will cost General Mills more than a scene in which Cheerios is sitting on a shelf in the background.

The famed Snapple product placements must've cost plenty. They featured multiple characters using the product and mentioning by name (repeatedly). That was the peak of Snapple's popularily, IMO, and the company seems to be going belly-up without Jerry constantly offering it to everyone.

All I can say is, you got a raw deal. (hardly cooked? raw deal? Hello?) I swear by Kenny (Rogers, not Banya, no, BANIA!), every time I've had his chicken, it's been 'falls off the bone' tender, and very tasty. I've been known to polish off an entire chicken on a good day.

Yes it did, but I can relate to the 'loving of the chicken'. *wink* It hardly matters who did the loving, Jerry, or others, the fact remains that this product was shown in tremedously positive tight, even going so far as to include the 'It's the wood that makes it good' slogan (Which, BTW got one of the biggests laughs in the episode). The fact that the show is named for Jerry implies that he agrees. Else there should be a disclaimer (The views and/or opinions expressed in this broadcast...yatta yatta yatta... Thanks and enjoy the show, Jerry.)

You are absolutely right about the cost of placement, but too be honest, I don't see Snapple going belly up. It's still right there on the shelf in every convenience store I've been in. Maybe they've lost a bit of market share, but that's due to competitors jumping into the bottled tea/juice market.

At least Kramer realized the importance of farm fresh eggs as opposed to "sweatshop eggs" in "The Little Jerry"!

"If we're not supposed to eat animals, why are they made of meat?" -bumper sticker