Is there anything more annoying than a commercial that pops up on the bottom of your television screen while you’re watching a movie or a show? You can see this marketing debacle all over network TV, but the biggest offender these days has got to be TBS and their shameless promotion of the Bill Engvall Show.
Forget about just sitting back and watching an episode of Family Guy any more. The marketing geniuses at TBS actually PAUSE the show to allow Bill Engvall to talk for 15 seconds about his new show. Then the bastards have the unmitigated gall to say, “Back to the show,” before the show unpauses and we get literally 2 seconds of crap before going to commercial. If TBS was ever looking for a way to get their fans to hate them – they found it!
This is a horrible trend and I hope some television executives get a chance to read this post because this BS has to end…now!
Oh Good God!!!! I caught this a few times the other week watching Family Guy and I just about threw my remote at the screen! Can you imagine the nerve on these people?! This is just as ridiculous as when TNT advertised the shit out of “The Closer” during the NBA Playoffs and would put actors from the show in the front rows, and when you’re at a Laker game and you have Jack Nickolson, Denzel Washington, Matt Damon, etc., and they show those guys and then end their “celebrity reel” package with a secondary character from “The Closer” and hype it up like it’s an Oscar-winner, you just want to shoot yourself!!!