<P> `` The Puppy Episode '' and DeGeneres 's attendant coming out generated enormous publicity before the show aired . Right - wing groups like the American Family Association pressured ABC to drop the storyline and Ellen sponsors not to advertise ; two occasional advertisers , J.C. Penney and Chrysler , decided not to buy time during the episode . Another sponsor , Wendy 's , decided not to advertise on Ellen again at all . Despite these losses of potential advertisers , ABC turned away ads from two LGBT - oriented sponsors , the Human Rights Campaign ( HRC ) and lesbian vacation company Olivia Cruises . Jerry Falwell called DeGeneres `` Ellen Degenerate '' , to which DeGeneres responded , `` I 've been getting that since the fourth grade . I guess I 'm happy I could give him work . '' GLAAD organized `` Come Out With Ellen '' house parties across the United States and HRC created `` Ellen Coming Out House Party '' kits that included invitations , posters and an Ellen trivia game . HRC had initially planned to send out about 300 kits . Deluged with requests , they ended up sending out about 3,000 . ABC affiliate WBMA - LP in Birmingham , Alabama , citing `` family values '' , first sought ABC 's permission to move the episode out of prime - time to a late - night slot . When ABC declined the request , the affiliate refused to air the episode at all . Local LGBT organization Pride Birmingham arranged for a satellite feed of the episode and rented a 5,000 - seat theatre for a viewing party , with about 1,000 people attending . Local activists circulated a petition requesting that Abilene , Texas - area affiliate KTXS - TV not air the episode but were unsuccessful . </P>
<P> `` The Puppy Episode '' and DeGeneres 's attendant coming out generated enormous publicity before the show aired . Right - wing groups like the American Family Association pressured ABC to drop the storyline and Ellen sponsors not to advertise ; two occasional advertisers , J.C. Penney and Chrysler , decided not to buy time during the episode . Another sponsor , Wendy 's , decided not to advertise on Ellen again at all . Despite these losses of potential advertisers , ABC turned away ads from two LGBT - oriented sponsors , the Human Rights Campaign ( HRC ) and lesbian vacation company Olivia Cruises . Jerry Falwell called DeGeneres `` Ellen Degenerate '' , to which DeGeneres responded , `` I 've been getting that since the fourth grade . I guess I 'm happy I could give him work . '' GLAAD organized `` Come Out With Ellen '' house parties across the United States and HRC created `` Ellen Coming Out House Party '' kits that included invitations , posters and an Ellen trivia game . HRC had initially planned to send out about 300 kits . Deluged with requests , they ended up sending out about 3,000 . ABC affiliate WBMA - LP in Birmingham , Alabama , citing `` family values '' , first sought ABC 's permission to move the episode out of prime - time to a late - night slot . When ABC declined the request , the affiliate refused to air the episode at all . Local LGBT organization Pride Birmingham arranged for a satellite feed of the episode and rented a 5,000 - seat theatre for a viewing party , with about 1,000 people attending . Local activists circulated a petition requesting that Abilene , Texas - area affiliate KTXS - TV not air the episode but were unsuccessful . </P>
wendy 's famously pulled all of its adams from which tv sitcom in 1997
wendy 's famously pulled all of its adams from which tv sitcom in 1997
Ellen
Ellen