For its entire 8-year run, The Andy Griffith Show was sponsored by General Foods, maker of Post cereals and many other fine products. Naturally, the sponsor would have been very displeased if their competitors’ products or logos had appeared on the show. But it did happen at least once. In Opie’s Newspaper, when Opie and Howie are in the garage, trained noticers will observe a Cheerios carton complete with the General Mills “Big G” logo on it, and also a Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes carton. The Coors beer truck seen in Goober Goes to an Auto Show is another well-known example. Coors wasn’t supposed to be sold on the east coast at that time, at least according to Smokey & the Bandit. Paul Mulik
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