# Creepy Heather O'Rouke/Poutergeist Commercial **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 5, 2008, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-heather-orouke-poutergeist-commercial/466576 "2008-10-05T18:09:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2008, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-heather-orouke-poutergeist-commercial/466576/21 "2008-10-07T02:10:27Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > So would I be right to assume that all of you who found it in poor taste to also think it was poor taste for that Elvis-Celine Dion duet thing to air last year? Yep. I thought the same thing back when Nat King Cole has his duet with his daughter. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2008, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-heather-orouke-poutergeist-commercial/466576/22 "2008-10-07T02:36:38Z")
> [@HelloKitty](#): > > Yeah this commercial creeps me out too…but the part that is really creepy is that when the little girl says “They’re heeeere…” her mouth doesn’t seem to match up with what her lips are doing. It looks like footage they are running backwards or something. I noticed that too. I swear, I think they used a scene from _Poltergeist II_, where the tag-line is, “They’re back …” You can sort of see her starting to say that, but then it changes to “They’re here …” ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2008, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-heather-orouke-poutergeist-commercial/466576/23 "2008-10-07T02:38:15Z")
Also, I’m pretty sure for half the commercial it’s not even that kid, but a double. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2008, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-heather-orouke-poutergeist-commercial/466576/24 "2008-10-07T03:13:33Z")
Maybe if they CGI’ed her little mouth to give the pitch, I’d be bothered by it. But it’s just a clip from a movie tacked on to Craig T. Nelson shilling for DirecTV. I don’t think it’s a big deal. ---
**Author:** ![jimpatro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9e5f3/32.png) [@jimpatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimpatro)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2008, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-heather-orouke-poutergeist-commercial/466576/25 "2008-10-07T03:28:27Z")
Another vote for creepy. ---
**Author:** ![diggleblop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@diggleblop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diggleblop)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2008, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-heather-orouke-poutergeist-commercial/466576/26 "2008-10-07T03:36:57Z")
I swear, the other day as soon as I saw that commercial, I said, “man, that was in poor taste, the poor girl’s dead and they picked THAT movie to try and sell something.” Weird that you mention this, because yeah, it is in poor taste. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2008, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-heather-orouke-poutergeist-commercial/466576/27 "2008-10-07T07:01:55Z")
> [@HelloKitty](#): > > Does anyone know what kind of permissions DirecTV needs to get for these commercials? Do they just have to get the company that owns the movie to give permission or do they need permission of the actors? I’m never sure how that stuff works. Yes, they definitely have to get permission from the actor, the actor’s next of kin, or whoever owns the actor’s right of publicity. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-heather-orouke-poutergeist-commercial/466576.md?page=1)