Newswire || By: || May 7, 2009 02:10 PM EST

Fox Sends Prison Rape Joke to Gay Magazine

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Oh hey, Prison Break. Remember that show? Fox is airing its series finale next week, and to promote this august occasion, the excited network sent a prison rape joke to LGBT magazine The Advocate.

The mailed promotion included a bar of soap (printed with the start and end dates of the series) alongside the press release, "We hope the enclosed bar of PRISON BREAK soap helps lather up excitement for the two-hour series finale airing Friday, May 15." I haven't watched in a while, but clearly, this bar of soap is referring to all the times Dominic Purcell raped Wentworth Miller on-screen. Four whole years, I guess!

Wait, prison rape jokes: not funny. "It's unfortunate that Fox thinks a veiled reference to prison rape is an appropriate part of their marketing campaign for this show," GLAAD's Rashad Robinson told The Advocate. Seriously. It didn't work for So You Think You Can Dance, and it's not going to work now.

· Fox Offends With Prison Break Soap Promo [The Advocate]



Comments

  • David says:
    May 7, 2009 at 2:23 pm

    If they had sent a sharpened toothbrush that'd be sending the wrong message too. Clearly this was the biggest catch-22 a marketing department faced this week.

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