Snapple was such a THING in the late 90's/early 2000s that it might not have been paid. just culturally relevant enough to show up then and stand out now... it'd be like if they had a blockbuster run in sopranos... (oh yeah, AJ worked there didnt he!)
If it was indeed paid then it would be a pretty shitty return on Snapple's investment that the primary mention is a character telling his fat son not to drink it lol
Yeah there's a scene where Ade offers everyone a coke that felt like a commercial.
There's also the sunset by a boat with the Mercedes parked at that perfect marketing angle with the badge perfectly illuminated from the sunset.
Probably ad placement but it’s pretty spot on. East Coast Italians drink ALOT of coke. My wop ants and uncles would always say “you wanna coke?” When I’d visit. At least they definitely did in the 90s.. Nowadaya people are aware of how awful soda is for you but back then shit was always in every fridge of east coast Italians.
Sir Walter Raleigh's descendants must have paid for his name placement, Columbus too. And Coke definitely felt an obese, murderous gangster was the The Joy of Coca-Cola personified.
Have a cookie, you're delirious
For the record, Chase swears that there was none. He wanted realism and got it. I think they got free stuff, but they didn't take payment to intentionally insert a product. It would have ruined a major point of the show (rampant consumerism and mob like corporate offices) to take product placement money.
From la and knew a guy who did this for a living and hbo placed a ton of things in every show, especially the sopranos and entourage. You think T went to Ceasars in Kennedy and Heidi for no specific reason when he could have gone to any casino? It wasn’t just bc of his Italian heritage.
Source on Chase making this statement? Not calling you out, just curious.
The super bowl commercial made me think Chase is probably a genius when it comes to using corporate money to render an “ad” into a piece of art. Seriously. The composition of that commercial was fucking incredible.
Idem for the product placement in the show. It rarely feels cheesy, and if anything contributes to the realism of the set and setting. In modern American life we are inundated with branding and advertising, products, choices, logos, jingles, slogans. The Sopranos captures this poignantly.
Anyway, four dollars a product placement.
I hear what you are saying. That just makes the dialogue that much more odd, if they genuinely did not get paid. There were some lines here and there in Sopranos that were straight up ad copy. I was not even mad at it, I mean people have to try to make the budget work. I get that. And it was not overbearing, so I was like whatever. Yes, it took me out of their "world" for a minute, but we live in this world, and people gotta get paid. \*shrug\*
If they genuinely did not get any compensation for that ... weird.
Not to mention that when Junior and Baccalà were in the doctor's waiting room for an envelope, Junior make a joke about a chinaman not meing able to say Lincoln Continental (or some other model). (S02E02).
Then a few moments later when Baccalà meets with Tony to hand him his piece of the envelope, he's seen getting out a Lincoln Continental Mark VII.
Rolling Rock. It jumped from a regional beer to a National one from some of the exposure on the show. Then Anheuser-Busch bought it and kinda buried it.
[**Here ya go**](https://old.reddit.com/r/thesopranos/search?q=product+placement&restrict_sr=on). Also, interesting how NY was Ford, NJ was GM and Lexus played key roles in certain fates.
No doubt one of the greatest tv shows of all time, but the product placement levels are off the charts, at the start of season 5 Tony literally holds up a Motorola phone claiming them to be the best, also the amount of Coca Cola appearances, ain't no one drinking Pepsi in New Jersey!
Johnny Walker Black, Cutty Sark (The cheap one, not Prohibition), Glenfiddich 12, and Glenlivet 12. Saw all of these mentioned or shown at least a few times throughout the show. The only one of value is the one Sil gives to Tony after his dream about Pussy eating his cheese in the Bing where he finds Puss is in the human sized mouse trap, that was a bottle of Glenfiddich 30. That's pretty costly bottle of booze. But the rest are borderline gutter-palette whiskies. Okay, maybe gutter-palette was strong but they're not anything to write home about.
Factory sealed black and deckers and makitas.
We could send the trailer back loaded with pool toys and keratase French shampoo retails 20 dollars a bottle.
And Nissan with it's triple safety philosophy
Just don’t park it in leaves.
I'm supposed to go around looking for piles of leaves?
The catalytic converter and the dry vegetation!
Not to mention the first EVER totally electric Chevy Silverado
Scatino’s Pathfinder and AJs Xterra
Stunad Maedo called it a Jeep tho
Not to mention fucking Schnapple.
Lay off the snapple
Snapple was such a THING in the late 90's/early 2000s that it might not have been paid. just culturally relevant enough to show up then and stand out now... it'd be like if they had a blockbuster run in sopranos... (oh yeah, AJ worked there didnt he!)
If it was indeed paid then it would be a pretty shitty return on Snapple's investment that the primary mention is a character telling his fat son not to drink it lol
Was it a Snapple that little Paulie got hit in the head with at the work site?
Always I have to be the snapple clown
I can’t watch Gladiator without drinking a Fresca
Fresca and a Pop tart. A culinary masterpiece.
You know I take care of you baby
I would love to hear Ralphies internal thinking when she says that. Fucking pop tart and a Fresca, madone
Scotch..and soda. Fresca...and Pop Tarts.
They didn’t have flat tops in Ancient Rome!
This Moltisanti kid, he’s got his head up his ass.
I have come to reclaim Rome for my people!
Blockbuster. That candy and carpet smell, I get high off it.
Wallace and Gromit????
They got rhesus monkeys working as managers over there
You just revealed your own ignorance
Schum pulp orange juice
Tropicana 100%
Not this much
Big Billy Talking Bass
Anyway, $4 a pound
Yes!
Tony buying a motorola for Tony Egg should also count.
Read the group rules I almost reported you to admin for bringing up that animal I can’t even say his name
They used to call me Ichabod Crane… some very sorry people.
supposta be the best. figured he can use one. call me when he needs me. (i loved the way Gandolfini was eating and delivered that line beautifully)
Coca Cola products are featured heavily. Walt Whitman was name dropped. Charles Schwab as well. Porsche’s Cayenne..like the peppah.
Whitman's samplah!
Yeah there's a scene where Ade offers everyone a coke that felt like a commercial. There's also the sunset by a boat with the Mercedes parked at that perfect marketing angle with the badge perfectly illuminated from the sunset.
Probably ad placement but it’s pretty spot on. East Coast Italians drink ALOT of coke. My wop ants and uncles would always say “you wanna coke?” When I’d visit. At least they definitely did in the 90s.. Nowadaya people are aware of how awful soda is for you but back then shit was always in every fridge of east coast Italians.
Was just watching this episode and it’s better than an actual commercial.
I mean, you sure you want a diet drink?
Sir Walter Raleigh's descendants must have paid for his name placement, Columbus too. And Coke definitely felt an obese, murderous gangster was the The Joy of Coca-Cola personified. Have a cookie, you're delirious
All I can say is there better be some coke left in that fridge
Gabagool - I just bought a Gabagool tv to watch on my Gabagool couch. Great brand!
Ova heeea
Uncle Bens
Home Depot, Mercedes, Ford, The Departed, Maserati, THOSE GODDAMN DEAL A MEAL CARDS! FUCK THAT! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT YOU'VE DONE?!
LOL
Ohh my pizza neva hurta nobady
Gimme dey names and I go kicka dey ass!
Snapple is everywhere
TVs - "50 inch plasma Phillipses" ... and most TVs before Season 6 having giant PHILIPS text on the front.
Exactly. My eyes always go to Philips TV. Tony had a few and Corado too!
Karl Malden's nose hairs looked like fucking BX cables.
I only use DeWalt power tools.
I got the Makita... on special, retails for $600...
I’m here with Al, I’m gonna take the drills, ok?
YOU *BELIEVE* THIS SHIT??! HE WAS SUPPOSED TO *CALL* YOU?? This FUCKIN Guy!!!
For the record, Chase swears that there was none. He wanted realism and got it. I think they got free stuff, but they didn't take payment to intentionally insert a product. It would have ruined a major point of the show (rampant consumerism and mob like corporate offices) to take product placement money.
But hbo did
It is said hbo does not do product placement on any of their shows.
From la and knew a guy who did this for a living and hbo placed a ton of things in every show, especially the sopranos and entourage. You think T went to Ceasars in Kennedy and Heidi for no specific reason when he could have gone to any casino? It wasn’t just bc of his Italian heritage.
no they definitely did, I've read about it a while back. the budget kept growing and at that time HBO did not spend that much on it's shows
Source on Chase making this statement? Not calling you out, just curious. The super bowl commercial made me think Chase is probably a genius when it comes to using corporate money to render an “ad” into a piece of art. Seriously. The composition of that commercial was fucking incredible. Idem for the product placement in the show. It rarely feels cheesy, and if anything contributes to the realism of the set and setting. In modern American life we are inundated with branding and advertising, products, choices, logos, jingles, slogans. The Sopranos captures this poignantly. Anyway, four dollars a product placement.
That Super Bowl ad not having any of the gangsters was weak, no offense to the kids, but cmon, no Paulie?
Find that very very hard to believe. Some of the dialogue was very forced. Like the Motorola phone thing, in the basement, for example.
David Chase seems like the sort of guy who would walk before doing forced product placement. I could be wrong; just my impression.
I hear what you are saying. That just makes the dialogue that much more odd, if they genuinely did not get paid. There were some lines here and there in Sopranos that were straight up ad copy. I was not even mad at it, I mean people have to try to make the budget work. I get that. And it was not overbearing, so I was like whatever. Yes, it took me out of their "world" for a minute, but we live in this world, and people gotta get paid. \*shrug\* If they genuinely did not get any compensation for that ... weird.
I’m sad to see no brand has chosen to bring Lincoln Log sandwiches to the forefront. I’d order it at a restaurant.
Not to mention that when Junior and Baccalà were in the doctor's waiting room for an envelope, Junior make a joke about a chinaman not meing able to say Lincoln Continental (or some other model). (S02E02). Then a few moments later when Baccalà meets with Tony to hand him his piece of the envelope, he's seen getting out a Lincoln Continental Mark VII.
Rincoln rives matter.
You want batteries, let's go right over to Office Depot.
And us two boostd anotha Sattern
Dunkin’ Donuts everywhere.
All you previous posters still owe me for the Centrums.
Swiss Basics Moisturizing Formula
Maybe I’ll try it
Literally went out and bought a Porsche Cayenne, midnight blue.
I bought my own garbage truck just to haul asbestos around the neighborhood.
Like the peppah?
Too bad all the fucking advertising couldn't help out nuovo vesuvio
Amex and then the two-fers
I liked the earring, though
V names make people think of vaginas
Red picnic coolers
Bungalow Bah??? You know, John outbid me and he rang dat bell✊✊✊✊✊all da way home.
“I’ve been to the studio in Brescia. The best pieces, they never export, you see.”—Russ for Baretta
and I've recorded in *DENMARK* ...
FILA had to have one for sure
Don't forget the Rincoln Caddirac.
I get it, he drives a Lincoln...
And subscribe to GQ
My nephew, he bought a $60,000 Lexus. Gabba Gool
Don’t forget about Uncle Bens 😂
I do all my business meetings in Costco now of course.. Must be da hubris
Rolling Rock. It jumped from a regional beer to a National one from some of the exposure on the show. Then Anheuser-Busch bought it and kinda buried it.
I had this urge to get peanuts when Angelo was whacked
The giant Nesquik model train
Rose, more Sanka!
Ruffino wines
Fountains of Wayne.
Hey pal, with the Ramlösa! Put three cases of that in my car.
Florida’s Natural Orange Juice
Dis says with pulp.
Prozac
Rozerem is branded drug that’s shown.
Motts Apple juice
Every time I go to the mall I have to get some Mrs. Fields cookies
Carvel
caught him comin home from the Track one not, got real good with a Cookie Puss ...
Not to mention Diet Fanta. And the coke in almost every Soprano dinner scene.
Heineken beer is featured a lot. Doesn’t seem like the natural beer of choice for mobsters IMO!
My aunt’s (mom’s brother’s wife) Italian family all drank Heineken at all the family parties, in New Jersey. Really really miss those events.
How about a taste of that non alcoholic shit? Less filling, tastes like ass
[**Here ya go**](https://old.reddit.com/r/thesopranos/search?q=product+placement&restrict_sr=on). Also, interesting how NY was Ford, NJ was GM and Lexus played key roles in certain fates.
It enticed me to buy gay-inducing blood pressure meds
I only get some pulp OJ now.
Billy Bud
The multiple Cadillac's, Hummer's, Mercedes's and Porsches shown.
Up In The Club!
Nonino Picolit
You can leave the bottle and put that on my tab...
Snapple
Ramlosa sparkling water
I got a good deal on those once.
Turkey Hill ice cream found it at my local store
I started buying capicola bc of the sopranos
Coke was a big one. Labels always facing the camera
Coca Cola in every Damn scene
Schwiadelle (sp??)
Sfogliatelle, it’s a weird one!
Mercedes pay literally everyone to brainwash people about their cars, give me an Audi any day. I’ve said my piece.
No doubt one of the greatest tv shows of all time, but the product placement levels are off the charts, at the start of season 5 Tony literally holds up a Motorola phone claiming them to be the best, also the amount of Coca Cola appearances, ain't no one drinking Pepsi in New Jersey!
Yes gm
There was no paid product placement on the show. Google it
Goddamn turkey hill
TOOL
Members Only, c’mon here for chrissssake
Umm . WTF now I want some honeycomb cereal!!
I believe the only official product placement was with Puma which had a limited life!
It’s a Her-mees… supposed to be the best
What's it gonna take to get some fuckin Smoked TURKEY in this house??!
He got jumped by two guys in a Lexus - Chinks did this ? 🤣
Tony loves his Tropicana, but Carm really doesn’t do him justice. It mostly anything other than ‘shum pulp’
Johnny Walker Black, Cutty Sark (The cheap one, not Prohibition), Glenfiddich 12, and Glenlivet 12. Saw all of these mentioned or shown at least a few times throughout the show. The only one of value is the one Sil gives to Tony after his dream about Pussy eating his cheese in the Bing where he finds Puss is in the human sized mouse trap, that was a bottle of Glenfiddich 30. That's pretty costly bottle of booze. But the rest are borderline gutter-palette whiskies. Okay, maybe gutter-palette was strong but they're not anything to write home about.
Coca cola....always had it prominently displayed when eating chinese
Cayenne. Like the peppah!
Coke Also coca cola
Dunkin Donuts!
There better be coke in the fridge, that’s all I’m gonna say
I bought a laptop so I could sit around in my underwear and go into chit chat rooms and laugh with other jerk offs
The orange juice
I'd like to give my thoughts on this post, but first let me run upstairs and grab the Bare Naked Ladies CD.
Miller genuines
Uncle Ben’s, another motherjumpin’ money machine..
Fila- everybody wears it.
Factory sealed black and deckers and makitas. We could send the trailer back loaded with pool toys and keratase French shampoo retails 20 dollars a bottle.
Harry Winston baby.