Last night (Monday, August 10) A&E (I think) was showing an “Intervention” rerun. During the commercial breaks the show “Three Sheets” was being advertised. Fail.
If you don’t know… each episode of “Intervenion” is about a drug addict and their family. The first part is about the addict, showing them using (yes, shooting up / drinking / smoking / etc. and under the effects of drugs and/or alcohol) and the family tells how much harm the addiction / addicted person has done to themselves and the family, the second part of the show is where an intervenion is staged and the addict (hopefully) goes off to a treatment center. It really can be a tear-jerker, especially to someone who has dealt with addiction in themselves and/or their family <raises hand>. This show makes getting all f**ked up look definitely un-appealing.
“Three Sheets” is a show about… getting all fked up (on alcohol). “Three sheets to the wind” is a euphamism (in the U.S.) for being drunk. This show makes getting all fked up look definitely appealing.
It was an odd, and slightly disconcerting, juxtaposition.
I was watching a history channel documentary a few years back on the Holocaust (back when it was still the Hitler channel). Anyway, they were talking about the building of Auschwitz, and the design and functioning of the crematoria and gas chambers.
Then it went to commercial, and the first commercial was a Volkswagen ad that started “Germans have always been known for their engineering…”
I thought this was going to be about the other ad once referenced on this MB that took place on a history channel-type special on the SA. The ad was UPS: “What can Brown do for you?”
It’s never occurred to me that it might be illegal to show someone using illegal drugs on tv. Can that possibly be true? I’ve seen plenty of documentaries and true life shows in which people do illegal things, including shooting up and smoking weed.
Oh, and I wouldn’t call the advertising in the OP a “fail”. Intervention (like COPS) is a popular show to watch while getting high. I suspect that’s the same audience they were hoping to capture with Three Sheets.
Well, yeah, but at some point you have to draw the line, no? Like, you can’t go around filming a serial killer without notifying the police (Man Bites Dog notwithstanding :)).
I believe there was some TV movie or other about the kapos cleaning the bodies out of the gas chambers after a batch of Jews were murdered at some concentration camp.