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This Bud's for ...John.
Dec. 9th, 2008 03:35 amA lot of people have commented on how when we see John Sheppard drinking labeled beer (example: in "The Shrine") it's Budweiser, and they'd have thought that he'd have had better taste than that having been raised rich and traveled around the world some, etc. What they are failing to take into account is that Joe Flanigan, he who plays John, is the son of the (now retired) VP of the company that makes Budweiser.
This is partially due to Joe describing his dad as a farmer, I'm sure. He does own a farm. It's just that Joe hasn't totally gotten over that "painfully shy" thing that was the whole reason he got into acting in the first place, and, in case you hadn't noticed, tends to be close-mouthed about his private life to some degree whenever he can get away with saying less than the whole truth. It's easy to omit things when you're just showing up for a short interview segment in a morning talk show, for example.
Anyway, given that when we see John in civvies it's inevitably Joe's clothes that he wore to work that day (again, in "The Shrine", that evil panda T-shirt he's wearing as PJs is what Joe showed up to work in that day); given that the picture of a little boy with Evel Kneivel on John's nightstand is actually Joe as a kid; given that the skateboard and the surfboard are Joe's -- just, never be shocked when little details have to do with Joe, or are, at least, his doing. For example, the guitar? John has a guitar because Joe thought he was the kind of guy who could play guitar. Joe started learning to play the guitar in case it came up (and by his own admission, he sucks. Especially as compared to Jason.)
tl;dr The Budweiser product placement is out of respect to Joe's dad.
Also it's cheap and easy to get to the set. And probably wouldn't get them drunk filming (she said with typical Canadian beer-related arrogance, despite not drinking...)
This is partially due to Joe describing his dad as a farmer, I'm sure. He does own a farm. It's just that Joe hasn't totally gotten over that "painfully shy" thing that was the whole reason he got into acting in the first place, and, in case you hadn't noticed, tends to be close-mouthed about his private life to some degree whenever he can get away with saying less than the whole truth. It's easy to omit things when you're just showing up for a short interview segment in a morning talk show, for example.
Anyway, given that when we see John in civvies it's inevitably Joe's clothes that he wore to work that day (again, in "The Shrine", that evil panda T-shirt he's wearing as PJs is what Joe showed up to work in that day); given that the picture of a little boy with Evel Kneivel on John's nightstand is actually Joe as a kid; given that the skateboard and the surfboard are Joe's -- just, never be shocked when little details have to do with Joe, or are, at least, his doing. For example, the guitar? John has a guitar because Joe thought he was the kind of guy who could play guitar. Joe started learning to play the guitar in case it came up (and by his own admission, he sucks. Especially as compared to Jason.)
tl;dr The Budweiser product placement is out of respect to Joe's dad.
Also it's cheap and easy to get to the set. And probably wouldn't get them drunk filming (she said with typical Canadian beer-related arrogance, despite not drinking...)
