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The television equivalent of vi@gra spam

When I go home from lunch I’m amazed how the commercials are always lowest common denominator stuff.

  1. Personal injury lawyers - Target audience: Anyone looking to launch a frivolous lawsuit. Sleazy goateed lawyer, “I may not look like a lawyer, but it helps me sneak up on them.”
  2. Various “institutes” like ITT Tech - Target audience: The future medical transcriptionist, paralegal, or electronic repairman who makes education decisions based on television commercials.
  3. Patent your invention! - Target audience: Suckers and dreamers with big get rich quick ideas. These patent businesses are usually scams. This inventor I heard on NPR said it’s a lot more important to get your product to market.

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  • John
    Injured? Turn that wreck into a check! I'll fight for your rights! Hehehe I had to specifically promise my father I wouldn't become a PI attorney. I think he is going to hold me to that promise also.


    Hutz: All right gentleman. I will take your case. But I will require a thousand dollar retainer.
    Bart: A thousand dollars. But your ad says "no money down".
    Hutz: Oh, they got this all screwed up. [Writes on the ad to change "Works On Contingency. No Money Down" to "Works On Contingency? No! Money Down!"]
    Bart: So you don't work on a contingency basis?
    Hutz: No! Money down! Oops, I shouldn't have the Bar Association logo here either. [Hutz then literally eats the ad]
  • Phil Hartman, you are missed.
  • Derrick
    But David Komie is a lawyer.....I'm pretty sure we live in the same city if this is the guy you're talking about. haha
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