As stealth advertising aficionados, we’d be remiss not to revisit this old chestnut.  IT’S . . .

(picspam by sparkagrace)

. . . the Friends Pottery Barn episode, a.k.a. “TOW the Apothecary Table!”

The plot: Rachel buys an apothecary table from Pottery Barn, only to find out that her then-roommate Phoebe hates the company.  Hilarity ensues as Rachel fills the apartment with Pottery Barn products, pretending to have found them at a flea market.

Key lines:

Ross: I still can’t believe she hates Pottery Barn!

Rachel: Ross, get over it! It’s not like she hates you.

Ross: Yeah, but Pottery Barn!

Hilarity aside, perhaps the worst part of the episode comes when Phoebe abandons her well-established aversion to mass manufactured goods – “I am mad!  Because this stuff is everything that is wrong with the world!  And it’s all sitting up in my living room and all I can think about is how I don’t have that lamp!”and buys the lamp.

Pottery Barn: 1

Consumers: 0




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