# Sponsors, what were they thinking?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sponsors-what-were-they-thinking/80263
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [September 7, 2001, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sponsors-what-were-they-thinking/80263 "2001-09-07T17:12:59Z")
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### Author: ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2001, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sponsors-what-were-they-thinking/80263/1 "2001-09-07T17:12:59Z")

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Eve started a thread a while back on odd commercial sponsors of unlikely programs which I can’t find, but I had to share this one from last night. Flipping hurridly past A&E’s Biography, I noticed that the program was sponsored by K-Y. The biography subject? The TV show “The Love Boat.”