Dear Twentieth Century Fox:
You know, I’ve always enjoyed The Simpsons.
But god, please, if the marketing barrage doesn’t stop soon I swear I will never, ever watch it again.
The marketing alone is bad enough, but the whoring of the characters out for co-branding with so many other companies — from 7-11 to Burger King to television channels — is enough to make me change the channel or walk out of a store to be free of it.
The irony of having television’s biggest satire of mass marketing and culture go overboard doing the same kind of marketing they parody is not lost on me… it’s just really annoying.
Love,
Gene
Heh, KRUSTY-O’s are available at the local 7-11 now…
i almost peed myself when I saw them, but i agreee, the ads are starting to become as obnoxious as Geico!