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Adventures in TV Criticism: Capture the swag, Part 2

Looking back at more odd promotional items I've been sent over the years

Adventures in TV Criticism: Capture the swag, Part 2

Last week, I went roaming around my house to take pictures of some of the many, many, many swag items I found. Many of you told me you enjoyed the trip down memory lane — even if the comments mostly turned into a referendum on Joe Pantoliano's origin story for the word "swag" versus other historical uses — so here's Part 2.

Adventures in TV Criticism: Capture the swag, Part 1
A look at the weird promotional items that networks send out

The Office souvenir up above is actually one of two swag desk nameplates I still have in the home office. The other was to promote NatGeo's Genius miniseries, and it simply reads "Alan Sepinwall is a Genius."

This Jeremy Bearimy The Good Place clock has been hung on different spots of my home office wall. It needs a new battery to run, but I keep not bothering to change it, because I can't tell time in Bearimy, regardless.