Absurdist Comedy Parks & Recreation’s Absurd Apple Product Placement
Maybe it’s all part of the NBC show Parks & Recreation’s farcical plotting that an Indiana Parks & Rec office would be equipped with Apple Macs.
But you never know. So I got in touch with Annie Baugh, Business and Customer Service Manager for the Columbus, Indiana Parks & Recreation Department. Her reply was as expected:
“We currently do not use Mac’s here at our Parks and Recreation offices.
All of our computers are PC’s.”
But that’s just one regional office. So I reached out to Steve Waltz, Executive Director of the Indiana Park & Recreation Association:
“I would venture that Apple Mac is not a standard computer for parks and recreation in Indiana. Computers purchased usually reflect that which the total municipal entity is purchasing from a quote for such. In 20 years of working in parks and recreation myself, I have never used this brand of computer.”
Then again, maybe it’s just another example of auto-pilot Apple placement that makes it increasingly difficult to take the “added reality” approach to defending product placement.
After the jump, a bonus helping of painfully-sarcastic workplace comedy featuring even more absurd workplace Mac placements.
Ah, Scrubs. I’m not even going to bother confirming that hospitals don’t use Macs.
For real, my dad’s a doctor and his office is equipped with Macs. Their whole operating system is on a Mac: logging patients, diagnosis database, Photobooth to make those surgical scars extra revolting.
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