Bones: The Gamer in the Grease (2009)
Season 5, Episode 9
1/10
Blatant advert for Avatar
26 September 2013
Warning: Spoilers
Bones has often been very bad about embedded adverts, (especially when it comes to vehicles - Cam talking about how she's using Angela's car because it has more room, Bones telling Booth about how her car can automatic park, etc) - all mini-adverts within the story itself.

This is one of the worst examples of embedded advertising I've seen for a while. It isn't just a scene explaining why this particular brand name thing is a good quality product, but in that the entire sub-plot is an embedded advert for the film Avatar, including several conversations with them literally standing around watching clips of the film and talking about how much they have to see it.

It's annoying, distracting, and not funny at all. Mostly just teeth-gritting.

On top of this ridiculous storyline, there is also the other storyline so negatively showing Autistic people. Once again, Autistic people are shown as empty and lifeless corpses, unable to speak or think or do anything except for one thing they love, in this case a video game. It's really offensive. Bones is particularly bad about showing disability, and it's usually offensive when they try.
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