Sunday, March 01, 2009

Poor planning...or excellent product placement?

**Viewer discretion advised - the following blog may contain subject matter that may be icky or perhaps funny. You be the judge.

I was watching "Bones" this morning. "Bones" is one of my new favorite shows, and it is on in syndication constantly on TNT. It is about a forensic anthropologist and an FBI agent who work together, with other Jeffersonian Institute Science people, to solve murders with what remains of bodies. It also has new episodes on Fox, but enough about how I love the show and everyone should watch.

The episode was about a man found in a bathtub filled with chlorine bleach and drain cleaner/un-clogger. The man's skin was beginning to fall off, bones were being eaten away, even the top of his head came loose from his scalp. All gross, yes?

Well, the characters then went on to describe how the drain-o/liquid plumber product was so corrosive, that it was eating away everything. How they only had soft pieces of bones and skin to figure out what had happened to the man in order to solve his murder.

Then...the first commercial break, and who was the sponsor?

"This episode, brought to you by Liquid Plumber."

Ew.

1 comments:

Patty said...

I was reading a news account online of a woman disappearing from a cruise ship and presumed dead and the Google Ad was for, of course, cruise vacations. Not as wonderfully macabré as yours, but close.