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Many shows when we were kids were just drivers for toy sales though. Product placement was also huge and unregulated.

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19 points

True, but I like Transformers so it’s ok

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I don’t remember the people behind Power Rangers using their influence to get me to agree to being put through what amounts to torture for the hope of getting enough money to pay my bills though.

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That’s odd, because I seem remember lots of pro-capitalist messaging on TV when I was growing up.

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We were pressured to buy the toys, but we didn’t have anything on the order of IRL Squid Game.

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