06.27.07

Heroes

Posted in Uncategorized at 7:02 pm by Sarah

I love this series, and was just reading up on the wikipedia entry ( I missed one or two crucial episodes and their guide is fantastic). Anyway, they included this..a pathetic law suit if ever…

“Emerson lawsuit
On October 2, 2006, Emerson Electric Company, an appliance market competitor of NBC’s owner General Electric, filed suit in federal court against NBC. The suit was in regards to a scene that appeared in “Genesis”, the pilot episode, where a character reaches into an active garbage disposal unit—labeled “In-Sink-Erator”—to retrieve a ring, and severely injures her hand in the process. Emerson claims the scene “casts the disposer in an unsavory light, irreparably tarnishing the product” by suggesting serious injuries will result “in the event consumers were to accidentally insert their hand into one.”

Emerson had asked for a ruling barring future broadcasts of the pilot, which was previously available on NBC’s Web site and has already aired on NBC Universal-owned cable networks USA Network and The Sci Fi Channel. It also sought to block NBC from using any Emerson trademarks in the future.[32]

On February 23, 2007, the case against NBC was dropped. NBC Universal and Emerson Electric reached an agreement to settle the lawsuit outside of court. [33]

The episode in question was briefly unavailable in the iTunes Store, but an edited version was shortly made available for download.”

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