# Small TV Coincidences **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [June 3, 2021, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-tv-coincidences/943538 "2021-06-03T13:08:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 47
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2021, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-tv-coincidences/943538/47 "2021-06-13T18:26:02Z")
I started a thread like this nearly 20 years ago but it didn’t go anywhere. > [@What a weird time for that commercial!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-weird-time-for-that-commercial/148378): > > I hope I’m not in the wrong forum for this. I just heard a rather unfortunate placement for a promo of [Hunger Point](http://us.imdb.com/Details?0335163), which is a movie about eating disorders. Right before that was a spot about some drug company looking for underweight teens to test a new supplement. Yeah, I know this was purely by chance but my brain had a bit of trouble shifting gears that quickly. That wasn’t the first time I encountered that sort of coincidence, I remember having just finished watching an episode of “Quinc… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-tv-coincidences/943538)._