Shweta's+Revised+Pet+Peeve+Essay!+(read+it,+it+is+even+better+than+before!)



Curse you, commercials, for spoiling my relaxing TV time by showing me pointless advertisements. Curse you for your interminable ongoings of how your product is the best. Just give up: your advertising tactics will never sell anything! Do our generation a favor and tune back to the TV show I was watching that was interrupted by __you!__ Even when I was a small and innocent child, I never liked the breaks in between "Dora the Explorer" and "Blue's Clues". In fact, as the years have gone by, I feel that you, commercials, are getting dumber by the minute. I mean, who likes watching the guy wearing a red-haired, braided wig in a Wendy's commercial dance across the screen?! It's not even funny. It's just plain stupid.



I understand that commercials are used for advertising, but will it really help if you are showing the same, never-ending commercial for five months? Take car commercials, for example. Every car commercial talks about the same things: the mileage, the money you would be saving, and the luxurious space, while the car on the screen just rotating around and around. //Blah blah blah. Yawn!// Honestly, do you really enjoy watching that over and over again? On top of that, if you ever watched a movie on TV, there are commercials every ten minutes. Just the other day, I was watching "Harry Potter" on TV. Because of the amount of advertisements, it was on for a total of four hours when the real movie without commercials is anly a little more than two hours! If you like commercials, then think again. Seriously.

Let's think about the last time you laughed after watching a commercial, shall we? Did you laugh because the commercial itself was funny, or becauseit was the most unrealistic, vomitrocious, idiotic, and/or foolish thing your eyes have ever seen? Sometimes I feel like hollering at the TV and telling it to murder those commercials until my show comes back on. A line must be drawn. Just not with Wendy's fake hair, please.

Dear Corporation of Public Broadcasting:

I appreciate the time and effort you have taken out of your day to address my aggrivation. Time and time again, I would be watching TV and would be abruptly interrupted by a series of enduring commercial breaks. I strongly believe that we should excise these nonbeneficial advertisement breaks once and for all, for the outcome will affect all of America in a positive way.

First off, commercials have forgotten their purpose of why they are broadcasting in between TV shows. Commercials are used for advertising a product or issue to a variety of people across America, NOT to whip your head the other way when you see a man wearing a red, braided wig on a Wendy's commercial. Nowadays, we are watching more and more commercials resembling this Wendy's advertisement. Thus, I am positive that millions of Americans would agree with me that these commercials are becoming an ambarrassment to our nation, for nothing beneficial is coming out of them. This problem can be solved immediately by taking away these disruptive commercials and replacing them with the continuation of TV shows/programs.

Moving on, not only have commercials been wasting time making irrational advertisements, but they are also waisting large amounts of money. Today in this economy, about 75% of Americans are saving money to feed their families, to pay their taxes, and to be able to live in a house. But what are commercials doing and how much money goes towards broadcasting a commercial on TV? This year, during the Super Bowl, I found out that a thirty- second commercials costs approximately two million dollars! I think this is an unreasonable amount of money that could have went to greater causes and needs.

Finally, commercials are a nonprudential advertising tactic. What is happening is that commercials are //trying// to capture their audience (the TV viewers) by making them laugh and making a cheerful mood. However, viewers like me are actually extremely exasperated and disgruntled by these interminable commercials that are repeating themselves a myriad times. Because of this, only about one out of fifty people actually buy the product or go to the place advertised on TV, let alone affected by it. I understand that companies want to use commercial breaks to advertise, but a much better approach would be to put ads in newspapers and magazines or billboards. For this reason, commercials should be ejected from TV now.

Knowing all this, do you still believe we should continue to allow commercials to be broadcasted on television? If we continue showing these disruptive advertisements, our nation will become so vexed, that they will not turn on their TV all together. As legal citizens of the United States, I advise you to take out commercial breaks, which will do much good for our country. Barack Obama said that "It is time for a change". Let's take his advice and do the right thing by ending these unecessary commercials once and for all.

Sincerely, Shweta Modi