At the risk of sounding a bit … radical, imagine the worst movie you’ve ever seen in terms of product placement. Think about how those products were presented in the movie you’ve watched. Consider, for a long while, how uncomfortable, awkward, and intrusive those ads might have been.
To borrow a phrase from pop culture and Bebe, those movies “ain’t got nothin’ on Goldenrod City.”
So to this day, I actively try not to pay much attention to mascots. All of them are blatant attempts at luring people into buying products through the nefarious front of a cute, animated face.
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Okay, maybe I like Hello Skitty a little. But that’s just because she’s cute.
The Pokédex According to Bill 