We all know that the Wii has certainly moved beyond the sphere of gaming and into the mainstream as a full-fledged phenomenon. It's sold out everywhere and half your family wants one! The little white console has even shown up on television -- and we're not talking about commercials here, but rather, the Wii's occasional guest bits on various shows. Where have you seen it?Wii Warm Up: Wii on TV
We all know that the Wii has certainly moved beyond the sphere of gaming and into the mainstream as a full-fledged phenomenon. It's sold out everywhere and half your family wants one! The little white console has even shown up on television -- and we're not talking about commercials here, but rather, the Wii's occasional guest bits on various shows. Where have you seen it?
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12-17-2007 @ 9:12AM
Jason said...
"Little People, Big World" on TLC channel.
The family played Wii Sports Bowling in the episode.
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12-17-2007 @ 9:15AM
shep said...
Psych on USA. the christmas episode had one of the detectives bringing over a wii to a co-worker's christmas gathering.
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12-17-2007 @ 1:50PM
JKAntwon said...
That was so cool! I love that show!
it's also showcased in my comic found here: http://touristtrapusa.blogspot.com/
Specific days can be found with the Nintendo label http://touristtrapusa.blogspot.com/search/label/Nintendo
12-17-2007 @ 9:17AM
racecar said...
I haven't really been watching TV lately unless it's college football. But, on a semi-related note, our football team will be getting Wii's (that's right, all 160 players) for winning the conference championship. That is, as soon as they can find them.
-racecar
http://everybodyvotes.blogspot.com
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12-17-2007 @ 12:39PM
pacatak said...
Racecare, I have the same job. have you had success? I have spent a week being laughed at.
12-17-2007 @ 1:42PM
Anticrawl said...
Which one of the two colleges are you talking about? LSU or the "other guys"? I'm at LSU.
12-17-2007 @ 1:52PM
Anticrawl said...
For 160 Wii's you'd need to contact a distributer or Nintendo themselves and figure it out that way.
12-17-2007 @ 9:26AM
Joop said...
Cavemen. One of the guys went on a spending spree and got one, though in a later episode he was addicted to Halo 3.
I know I've seen others, too.
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12-17-2007 @ 9:38AM
samfish said...
I don't have TV...but I do remember that Colbert Report episode.
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12-18-2007 @ 1:53AM
likedonduan said...
LOL! O RYL? No TV. And how can you play Wii with no TV?
12-17-2007 @ 10:08AM
Hame said...
In Britain a comedian did a parody of the Wii and its adverts on his sketch show. He didn't mention it by name, but the controller (a motion-sensing white remote) was clearly the Wii's. Each sketch was for a different game that had some really lame and tedious action (like a game about chopping carrots) that you acted out with the Wii-mote, but with the actors pretending like it was the most amazing and exciting thing in the world.
Tragically I felt the sketches hit the nail right on the head with a lot of Wii games and Nintendo's marketing of them.....
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12-17-2007 @ 10:43AM
Eddie said...
Hmph! So what are you trying to say? That the big N did/does something wrong?
Bad boy... bad bad boy (or girl).
12-17-2007 @ 11:02AM
Wesley Hester said...
There's the classic on the Conan O'Brien Show with him playing Wii Tennis against tennis champ Serena Williams.
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12-17-2007 @ 11:21AM
3cubed minus 3squared plus1 said...
It was on E!'s Top ten show and Run's house.
The best one though goes to the Carson late late night show :).
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12-17-2007 @ 11:21AM
J said...
They were playing Wii Tennis on Weeds, but it seemed overdubbed with old Atari sound effects.
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12-17-2007 @ 11:22AM
Gonzo said...
One of my favorite shows: Showtime's Weeds started off with everyone (not just the kids) playing DS.
This season I noticed they got a Wii only because they had to show it in about a half dozen episodes. I can only conclude that Showtime regularly gets paid product placement bucks from Nintendo. You never see other game consoles on it.
Thankfully they wont be changing the name of the show to Wiids.
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12-17-2007 @ 11:46AM
Derek J said...
Just the other day there was a Wal-mart buyer's guide on TV. It featured a group of culturally diverse moms casually rattling off the top holiday gifts this season.
The whole thing was really disturbing, especially part about the Wii.
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12-17-2007 @ 1:54PM
JKAntwon said...
Reaper the new CW show about a kid whose soul was sold to the devil, so now he's the Devil's bounty hunter catching escaped souls from hell. Him and his friends were playing some shooter. I don't think it was a real game though.
Also my web comic has a lot of cool references: http://touristtrapusa.blogspot.com/
Specific days can be found with the Nintendo label http://touristtrapusa.blogspot.com/search/label/Nintendo
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12-17-2007 @ 2:28PM
Akbar Fazil said...
Boston Legal had it on last week.
The William Shatner Mii was awesome.
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12-17-2007 @ 2:32PM
Jeremy said...
Ha my school at ASU just got their 3-peat.
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12-17-2007 @ 3:21PM
wud_e said...
Saw it on "2 and a Half Men", "It's always sunny in Philidelphia" and that's all I can remember off the top of my head. I work at AMD and we have 3 Lunch Rooms and all of them have Wii Kiosk in them.
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12-17-2007 @ 3:59PM
Max Headroom said...
It was also on an episode of CBS's Cane. You know, "Sugar is the new oil." I don't know which episode. I just remember my dad telling me to come in and look at the TV because Jimmy Smits was playing it, I think.
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12-17-2007 @ 9:42PM
Brandon said...
House & Wilson were playing Wii Sports in the doctor's lounge on Fox's House M.D. a month or so back.
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12-18-2007 @ 4:28AM
madthoughts said...
It was on How I Met Your Mother a few weeks back. Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) and Marshall (Jason Segel) forgo a night at the bar to finish what they dubbed 'Wimbeldon'. At one point Marshall removes his pants, because it lets him move easier during the match.
While there is some exaggerated motions during the game of Wii tennis, it is no more than you might see in your non-gamer friends and family. I give the show some gamer props, however, as they did not forget to include the Wii sensor bar above the television, cord and all.
http://www.tv.com/how-i-met-your-mother/third-wheel/episode/1132242/summary.html?tag=ep_list;title;2
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