13 Movies With Hilariously Inappropriate Product Placement

6. Dr. Pepper - Forrest Gump

Product Placement: Forrest Gump gets to meet the President, and before the hilarious aside in which Gump, with a fully encumbered bladder, tells the POTUS that he's dying for a pee, he tells the viewer, "The best thing about visiting the President is the food! Now, since it was all free, and I wasn't hungry but thirsty, I must've drank me fifteen Dr. Peppers." Why It's Inappropriate: Not even the manufacturers of Dr. Pepper would dare directly suggest you drink 15 bottles of Dr. Pepper in a day. Assuming the bottles are roughly 330ml each, 15 bottles equates to almost 5 liters of the sugary stuff, which going by the nutrition of today's Dr. Pepper drinks would total around 2000 calories and 500g of sugar (the recommended daily intake for men is 120g). In the 1960s, though, the ingredients are likely to have been even worse for you. While adults are typically informed enough to know that indulging in so much of the black stuff is a terrible idea (regardless of whether they do it anyway), children might not be quite so swotted-up on their nutritional information. One hopes their parents will at least instill this in them, and while Gump's hardly smoking or drinking himself into a stupor here, given the family-friendly content of the movie, it would be easy for kids to get the wrong idea. Considering the obesity epidemic sweeping the U.S. in particular these days, scenes like this, even when leading to an amusing punchline, might now end up vetoed by the drinks companies themselves, who will be pressured by shareholders not to be associated with images of gluttony and excess.