Somebody Screwed Up With That Commercial
I don’t watch much TV. I do occasionally catch something my wife is watching while reading, though. That’s how I noticed a bit of a screw up with a commercial for I Found the Gown.
My wife was watching this the other day. It’s a show about people shopping at a bridal store that sells sample models at a discount. Amidst other smaller segments, the main bit of the episode rotated around a girl who WANTED a particular dress, but even on discount it was about a grand more than her mother’s budget.
Would she get it? Would they discount the dress enough? What would happen?
Clearly, they were trying to build suspense. They’d have a little more, playing back and forth over whether or not she’d get the dress, and either then go to commercial or switch to one of the smaller segments. The whole episode was like this. Clearly, this girl was the suspense focus of the entire episode.
However, during each commercial break they showed a commercial for the show itself. As part of the commercial, the girl was in that very dress in question screaming: “I found the gown!” For the uninformed, this is what they say when they agree to buy. Thus, every single commercial break during the attempt to build suspense over whether or not she’d get her dream dress advertised the outcome. She was getting the dress, no suspense involved.
Somebody screwed up with when they decided to show that commercial.
This isn’t the first time I’d seen this sort of thing happen. My wife briefly got into A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila early in its run. Every episode hinged on a bit near the end where one contestant was eliminated from the running, the rest continuing to have a chance to date Tila Tequila.
Well, one episode I happened to look up from my book at had all the contestants standing in front of Tila. She was about to choose. Then, commercial break. During the break, there was a commercial for the next week’s show. I could see what contestants were in the next weeks show, and which one wasn’t. Suddenly, there wasn’t any suspense anymore.
Seriously, somebody has to watch out for this crap. These shows seem like garbage to me to begin with. If they’re going to so carelessly ruin what little suspense they manage to generate, why bother?
