'How I Met Your Mother': Why are ads for new movies like 'Zookeeper' popping up in old reruns?

'How I Met Your Mother': Why are ads for new movies like 'Zookeeper' popping up in old reruns?
If you’ve watched syndicated reruns of sitcom How I Met Your Mother lately, you might have been startled to see advertisements for very current movies such as Bad Teacher and Zookeeper in episodes that originally aired as early as 2006, long before those flicks were made. The photos here, for instance, are from the second-season episode titled “Swarley,” which originally aired Nov. 6, 2006 — more than four years before Bad Teacher hit theaters. So… what exactly is going with this phenomenon? EW investigated, and here’s the scoop.

Turns out that 20th Century Fox Television — the studio distributor behind Mother — has been
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