Sunday, January 2, 2011

Talledaga Nights II

A year plus later I still love me some Will Ferrell.  And on occasion, yes, some Shake and Bake.  Hope the second day of our New Year is awesome for you!
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Talledaga Nights (first posted 9/7/09)
Yesterday I caught a bit of Talledega Nights on TV. There were enough commercials in the actual movie to supply me with blog material for a year. I've seen the movie before (in the theater believe it or not!) but I was taking a pregnancy test the next morning and was pretty sure I was knocked up so I concentrated on the big screen not at all. (Molly was born T minus 36 weeks later). But I digress. One of my favorite parts of the movie is the dinner scene; the whole family sitting down to a delicious meal of Dominoes, Taco Bell, KFC, etc. Only Peyton Manning has endorsed more products! And of course Will Ferrell's character drives the Wonderbread car. But what company gets the most bang for their buck? Shake and Bake baby! The best "placement" was a product we don't even see! I wish I knew Shake and Bake's involvement in the making of the movie. How does that work? Did the producers contact them? Did the conversation go something like this?


Producers: "We'd like to feature your product in our new movie."
S & B: "Really? You want to feature Shake and Bake? The scrumptious chicken coating?"
Producers: "Yes. It will cost you 5 million dollars for the product placement."
S & B: "Um. This is awkward. We only bring in $25,000 a year."
Producers: "Huh. Is that right?" (muffled talk in the background) "Well, for $2,000 we'll just mention the product a few times but nobody will actually see any Shake and Bake chicken."
S & B: "Did you know we also offer Shake and Bake for pork now?"
Producers:"Tell you what. Send a few boxes of your product over to the set and we'll just work it into the movie free of charge."
S & B: "Deal."

Before you watch, know there is swearing and making out ahead.  Scoot kiddos!

2 comments:

Renee Ricks said...

Hahahaha! A certain family member, who surely has not seen this movie, made mention of the little baby jesus on Christmas during the blessing & the hubs & I about burst out laughing. Very timely Jules!
Happy New Year!
Renee

Jules said...

Ha! I know! I sort of feel like it's sacriligious to find this so funny, but really little baby Jesus is flippin' awesome!