# Sponsorship slip-ups. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 31, 2005, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sponsorship-slip-ups/306185 "2005-05-31T05:27:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sponsorship-slip-ups/306185/1 "2005-05-31T05:27:48Z")
Just watching a repeat of the _Simpsons_ spelling bee episode. The B-story on that episode, of course, is Homer’s addiction to KrustyBurger’s limited-time-only “Ribwich.” “It’s not about who got rich offa who or who got exposed to tainted what…” After the scene where Homer samples his first half-a-dozen Ribwiches (complete with _CSI_/_Requiem for a Dream_ -style macroshots of the fat and chemicals hitting his circulatory system,) they show the first commercial. For [KFC’s latest offering](http://www.kfc.ca/displayMenu.asp). Mmmmmmm. 😃 The floor is now open to similar stories of less-than-optimal product positioning. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sponsorship-slip-ups/306185/2 "2005-05-31T18:35:04Z")
Linda Ellerbee in her book _And So It Goes_ tells of a time when she was responsible for producing a newsbreak for her network. There had been a terrible plane crash with hundreds of fatalities so she devoted the entire two minute segment to it. In the middle of a movie about people trapped on a plane that was about to crash. The segment was followed immediately by an American Express commercial in which Karl Malden intoned that the absolute worst thing that could happen to one on vacation was to lose one’s luggage. ---
**Author:** ![Electrical\_Storm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ac8455/32.png) [@Electrical\_Storm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electrical_Storm)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sponsorship-slip-ups/306185/3 "2005-05-31T18:45:46Z")
Possibly for the endless Corona ads during Simpsons episode in which Barney tries to quit drinking. :smack: And it’s a very elaborate episode as far as showing what a sloppy drunk Barney usually is. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sponsorship-slip-ups/306185/4 "2005-05-31T19:19:45Z")
Right after “60 Minutes” did a segment on Marilyn Monroe’s barbituate overdose debate “murder or suicide” , they aired a commercial for Nytol sleep medicine. Switchboard lit up like a frigging Xmas tree. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sponsorship-slip-ups/306185/5 "2005-05-31T19:27:35Z")
I was watching a Hitler Channel documentary on concentration camps: this segment covered the early stages, where the Nazis first machine-gunned Jews, then gassed them in trucks, then finally began working on a plan for effective mass-murder. Cut to Mercedes-Benz commercial: “Germans have always been very proud of their engineering skills . . .” I fell off the sofa laughing. ---
**Author:** ![whatsittoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@whatsittoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whatsittoya)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sponsorship-slip-ups/306185/6 "2005-05-31T20:23:48Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > I was watching a Hitler Channel documentary … I like that, where do I sign up for this channel? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sponsorship-slip-ups/306185/7 "2005-05-31T21:03:51Z")
> [@whatsittoya](#): > > I like that, where do I sign up for this channel? 😛 It’s a popular nickname for the History Channel, actually. It seems like every other show is a WWII documentary.