Market Schmarket

So I was watching the new episode of House last night, and Chase hires a new girl (since Thirteen’s been MIA for the past few episodes, basically skipping off to who knows where to do who knows what. Don’t worry, it’s a perplexing subject that severely confuses me too).  Anywaaaay, this new doctor really isn’t competent at all so House starts picking on her.  And throughout the episode, she remains unable to prove herself.

This all seems really irrelevant but here’s the point: Once the new doctor realizes that she’s not up to par, she asks Chase whether he has BUYER’S REMORSE!  Of course, she’s not actually referring to what we discuss in marketing class when we use this term, as in buying something and then regretting it (because ONE, Chase didn’t buy her and TWO, well…Chase didn’t buy her).

But when I heard her say this, I got really excited and I could almost hear the non-existent, imaginary, non-crazy alarm spastically going off in my head.  Here was one of my favourite shows, using a marketing term that I just learned in class, to describe an emotion in this situation that parallels information that I understand!  I love it when I get reassurance that school actually has meaning in real life (just kidding….sort of).  This was almost as awesome as that Grade 12 Biology Test that had a question that no one else could answer, but I got it right because I remembered House solved a case with it in an episode that involved a magician (turns out hemorrhaging  can be caused by having the wrong blood type infused into your blood stream.  True fact.)

So yeah.  Just wanted to share this cool story.  This just proves: marketing is everywhere.  And not even in a creepy way.