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Some television channels have laws, or at least rules, that commercials played during an animated series cannot directly promote toys based on the series itself. The viewer is more likely to see such commercials played in a similar time slot during some other show. This does not always relate to other kinds of promotions, such as contests.
This probably results from [[Media Watchdogs|media watchdog]] pressure during the early nineties, when parents became sick of the blatant [[Merchandise
Pragmatically, this is [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|slightly bad business]]; Japanese television certainly has no such rule in regards to [[Anime]], which peddles tie-in merchandise shamelessly.
This extends to showing real products in the show itself, which, interestingly, in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'', led to all the text being wiped off the cards in the American version so they don't look like the real ones.
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