History Main / EnforcedPlug

** Incidentally, ''E.T.'' itself averts the trope by prominently featuring Reeses' Pieces, but never actually naming the product.

* One episode of ''GilmoreGirls'' was devoted to shilling the Sidekick (Seriously, the episode was even ''called'' 'I Get a Sidekick Out of You'.) It's pretty obvious-- Rory's father buys her a Sidekick and spends half the episode going on and on about how amazing it is, all while texting her constantly.

* Four words; The AFLAC {{Trivia}} Question.

* The Philippine Basketball Association teams. There are no "home" stadiums, and all the teams are in the form of ''(Company Name)(Company Product)'' (e.g. Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters)

-->-- '''Wrestling/TripleH''', ''[[Wrestling/WWESmackDown WWE SmackDown!]]''

** Add ''Series/ModernFamily'' to the list, as they just did a Disneyland episode.

* ''Series/{{X-Play}}'' likewise tends to plug an online game rental store numerous times during each show. They try to mix it up to keep it interesting, but after the first hundred times, it's grown very thin.

* Parodied in ''Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby'', where the station covering a NASCAR race cuts to commercial in the middle of a dramatic crash, followed by an actual Applebee's commercial appearing in the middle of the movie--but that's not even the punchline. The punchline is that when the race coverage returns after the commercial, ''the crash is still happening''.

* The latest ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' ChristmasEpisode parodies this, especially early and late in the episode.

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** Later seasons have this plug almost OnceAnEpisode, likely because Subway was instrumental in promoting the show and keeping it on the air.

--> [[Literature/TheWheelOfTime Brandon]]: "This week's Writing Excuses is brought to you by Pants. Pants: You put them on your legs."

* "''Series/TheTwilightZone'' was brought to you by X!" Was generally at the end of the first two series of the show, by the time the third series had come around Creator/RobSterling was shilling Chesterfield Cigarettes (with mild filters, not mildly filtered) to the audience after telling them about next weeks show.

** Is ''that'' who he was? This sort of thing really confuses tropers who live outside the original catchment area of the show...

* The {{YouTube}} channel for ''DinoTime'' is full of comments from obvious sock puppet accounts praising it, even though it hasn't even been released yet.

* ''Series/MythBusters'' has started doing this in commercial break bumpers for recent shows, including short segments where they bust myths like "The new Jetta Foobar Turbo is smelly and noisy, because it is a diesel."

** This has escalated in recent seasons, with Panda Express and other food items. It's always {{lampshaded}} in a [[MoneyDearBoy we have to pay the bills somehow]] kind of way.

* There was a really painful example of this in a recent episode of ''Series/{{Bones}}'', in which the characters apparently decided that the best way to solve their current case was to consult Cesar Milan, TV's "Dog Whisperer." This plug was particularly {{egregious}} because it took up about half of the actual episode. A good DrinkingGame might be to watch this episode, and take a shot every time someone stares at Cesar in contractually obligatory awe.

** Sean Hannity recently started doing this as well on his radio show, usually during the short segment before the top of the hour. Hannity also occasionally uses callers as a segue to talking about his Escalade.

* Parodied in [[http://www.teamfortress.com/macupdate/comic/ this]] ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' Comic.