Hey I’m kind of passionate ,so here it is…
I watched a show on Discovery called “PitchMan” Not sure why. Well SalesMan Billy Mays (You know the Oxy Clean Guy) was doing his thing , At the end of the show there was an obituary for Billy Mays,who died in June. Well I was kind of put off by the fact I was watching the show in November, Bit Creepy !!!
But what really Shock’s Me is the fact on a daily basis I can watch this guy try to sell me junk on TV. I mean I know this guy was a leech on society, but Come On !!! Enough, Let this guy go already , pretty irresponsible and pathic & yet another way the media shows it’s true self.
—Jeff Barkley
This article appears in Dec 10-16, 2009.
Why does that shock you? They paid him to make the commercial, unless there was a “right to air revoked upon death” clause in the contract he signed they have every right to keep screening it. They should keep screening it anyway, their ads are twice as powerful now that he’s dead… financially it’s the smart thing to do. Unless you know him personally I don’t see why any of this would be weird to you.
I guess they shouldn’t show anything where a member of the cast has died. How moronic. I’d rather listen toBilly Mays than that SlapShot (or whatever it is) idiot, Vince.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpJGZ9RHAvU
I thought the poster may like this. It’s Billy Mays auto-tuned. It’s slightly beautiful. 🙂
Well, obviously TV should never air anything that has someone who has since died in real life. Never ever because that’s exploitation of the dead. No more old Christmas movies. No more Michael Jackson videos. No more Law & Order reruns with Jerry Orbach.
If the alternative is the slap-chop guy then I’d rather watch Billy Mays
Ya, and Batman (the dark night) should have been squashed! What were they thinking? Showing the work of a dead actor…..he even won an award didn’t he?
I think I saw some kind of special where Mays’ kid was interviewed at the end and was proud of his dad and I would think he would be proud that his father’s work is living on. So even if you knew the guy I don’t seee why it bothers you…..
Agree with Pavillion on this one! Why don’t we take all dead people off of TV and then we wouldn’t have to watch all of those old reruns, classic movies, listen to classic music.
BITCH=FAIL
I’d like to see Vince SlapShot the old goats in the Snuggie or the Magic Ear commercials – they have to be the biggest bunch of tossbags on TV
as miles clarified, it’s a slap-CHOP… not a hockey term.
same thing slap chop slap shot hockey players goofball food smasher
Fawlty, you mean the cock shot.
Google it, I can’t get the link because of work’s firewall.
how about “the plastic piece of crap that will end up at the flea market in the new year”?
It’s “Let Me Google That For You”. It’s great – when someone asks me to find them something on the ‘net, I go to LMGTFY, type it in the search bar, and email the resulting link.
It takes them to the site, types in the search parameters I set, and gives them the results. I usually only have to use it on somebody once…
Slap Shop – Slap Chop, it’s still fucking annoying.
“You’re gonna love my nuts.”