>>154180223
Is Boost Mobile even still around? I love how dated some of the episodes of ATHF have become. Like the PDA one.

>>154180223
Where you at dawg?

>>154180938
They got bought by Dish during the Sprint-TMobile merger and even ran some cell towers for a while, but eventually they gave up and sold their spectrum to AT&T and became an MVNO

>>154180938
ATHF was of the time in SUCH a major way that it became a period piece les than 5 years after it stopped airing.

>>154180223
I do remember there being a lot of Boost Mobile ads at one point, but it still seems like such a strange thing to make fun of for an entire episode. I'm surprised they were even allowed to make it without paying royalties or something.

Could they have made a product placement deal that was real just to form an episode about annoying product placement, and make some extra money?

>>154181652
they never made fun of the company, just marketing folk in general.
so they could spin it as "free advertising to the gen x'ers in a hip way they will love".

That fucking ad in the middle of the episode has been lodged in my memory for two decades.
>LET'S MAKE AND RECEIVE CELLULAR PHONE CALLS WITH BOOST MOBILE

>>154182833
Adult Swim also used to play that part as a legit ad during commercials for a while too.

>>154180938
no but the business model of cheap prepaid phone carriers and the associated stereotype of urban'" customerbase is ubiquitous enough that even if you didn't know Boost was real you'd get the joke regardless. it's easy to take it as a fake company alluding to something like Cricket or Metro PCS.