Paradise Found

When I watch TV I am always trying to rationalise what I am looking at and work out whether it really makes any sense. Obviously some channels and shows (Fox, CSI) are so wildly out of this world that I just have to switch off my “TV Filter“, but with other channels and shows it is always on, trying to sieve out the sense from the nonsense. I often wonder if other people do the same…

Anyway, recently a couple of things have been picked up by my filter, namely:

• The Whirlpool Duet washing machine – the advert says that this machine will wash 16 pairs of jeans in a single load. Now unless you are an Irish Catholic with at least 15 kids, or you live in The World of Denim, what are you doing with 16 pairs of jeans? And why would you want to wash them all at once?
• Cold Case on CBS – this show really puzzles me. All that talk about crime on the streets today, and they have a show about a team of cops solving 30-year old murder cases. Now, in my mind you must be some sad loser of a detective if they can’t trust you with the current stuff. I guess it must be some sort of demotion, and you probably have to have a penchant for 60s and 70s music to get on the team. Although I guess if it means you get to work with Kathryn Morris it couldn’t be all bad.
• AT&T’s more bars in More Places Campaign – now forgive me for being obtuse, but is trying to cleverly put items in the background (skyscrapers, surfboards etc.) so they look like bars on a cellphone just a crappy exercise in some twisted PR exec’s mind? Especially when you know that what people really want is more bars in more places, serving up pints of Guinness or shots of Johnnie Walker Black. The one that really bugs me at the moment is the one where the father goes away and keeps sending pictures from his phone back to his wife and daughter. In one frame the wife and child are looking at her phone while she has 5 evenly spaced loaves of french bread in a shopping bag behind her. My immediate thought was “Hmmm…dinner party whilst her husband is out of town… I bet he doesn’t know anything about that dinner party. And never will if he keeps giving her advance notice of his arrival home.”

  I can see it now –

  Wife to lover: “Get out of the house now, my husband is arriving back early”
  Lover: “How do you know?”
  Wife: “Because the fool just sent me a photo of our front gate from his picturephone!”