No, I watched it. Never would have guessed it was a GWB head fake. There were a bunch of heads. This is really stupid. To yank the sake of that episode is a bit over the top.
When I first heard about this, I was reminded of all those animated Disney features where some lowly animator took some ..ahem.."liberties" with a scene. They do it just to see if they can get away with it. Show producers going public in an effort to create 'buzz' is stupid. HBO might be lefty, but it's a business.
I’ll bet you think advertising doesn’t work on YOU...and that subliminal ads should be legal - who can see the stuff anyhow, right?