# Whoever originated those "switch off cell phones" bogus movie trailers: You rock! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 14, 2005, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoever-originated-those-switch-off-cell-phones-bogus-movie-trailers-you-rock/312457 "2005-07-14T02:39:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoever-originated-those-switch-off-cell-phones-bogus-movie-trailers-you-rock/312457/21 "2005-07-14T16:19:02Z")
I like them, I usually remember to turn off my cell phone and pager but I have had the “trailers” remind me on the occasions I forgot to do this. I didn’t like the cheerleader one because I find the anachronistic ones more amusing and with the cheerleader one it was just as likely that someone in the audience at the cheerleading competition had a cell phone on. There’s a potential for so many more, a horror movie plot, a spy thriller, an alien monster movie. I wish there were more of them. ---
**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoever-originated-those-switch-off-cell-phones-bogus-movie-trailers-you-rock/312457/22 "2005-07-14T16:33:09Z")
My favorite was a _Run Silent, Run Deep_ parody with a submarine crew trying to hide from a destroyer, only to have their position given away by someone’s cell phone. “That noise! Where’s it coming from?” “It’s… in the audience!” “Shut it off! Shut it…” “BOOM” ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoever-originated-those-switch-off-cell-phones-bogus-movie-trailers-you-rock/312457/23 "2005-07-14T16:36:41Z")
If someone finds it extremely essential that they _must_ have immediate access to a phone to get an important call, what the HELL are they doing in a theater? Heart Transplant Surgeon: Let me know when that donor heart arrives. I just _have_ to see Friday the 13th Part 37 !!! ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoever-originated-those-switch-off-cell-phones-bogus-movie-trailers-you-rock/312457/24 "2005-07-14T17:07:00Z")
> [@watsonwil](#): > > If someone needs to catch a call that bad, they should have the cell phone sitting next to them. The rest of the world does not care that the guy next them likes the song “Can’t Touch This” enough to make it a ringtone! > > And nothing worse than sitting in a restaurant, watching my wife dig through that satchel…err…purse of hers looking for a ringing cellphone! OH THE HUMANITY! :smack: If you think that’s bad wait till it happens in church and the whole congregation waits while you wife searchs for her phone ☹ I now make sure we leave them in the car when we attend mass. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoever-originated-those-switch-off-cell-phones-bogus-movie-trailers-you-rock/312457/25 "2005-07-14T17:35:16Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > If you think that’s bad wait till it happens in church and the whole congregation waits while you wife searchs for her phone ☹ > > I now make sure we leave them in the car when we attend mass. What if you have the ringtone set to a hymn? ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoever-originated-those-switch-off-cell-phones-bogus-movie-trailers-you-rock/312457/26 "2005-07-14T17:56:57Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > I think my favorite is the Cheerleader Movie. Are you saying you think you’re ready to fly with the hummingbirds? ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoever-originated-those-switch-off-cell-phones-bogus-movie-trailers-you-rock/312457/27 "2005-07-14T18:09:38Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > What if you have the ringtone set to a hymn? That would be preferable to having it set to “Baby Got Back.” ---
**Author:** ![critter42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@critter42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/critter42)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2005, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoever-originated-those-switch-off-cell-phones-bogus-movie-trailers-you-rock/312457/28 "2005-07-15T18:12:38Z")
I’ve never seen any of these - is there anywhere they’ve been collected? ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2005, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoever-originated-those-switch-off-cell-phones-bogus-movie-trailers-you-rock/312457/29 "2005-07-15T20:02:37Z")
Never seen the opera one, myself. And the cheerleader is my favorite. There’s gotta be a list somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![medstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@medstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/medstar)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2005, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoever-originated-those-switch-off-cell-phones-bogus-movie-trailers-you-rock/312457/30 "2005-07-15T20:27:25Z")
My favorite is the Native American bogus movie trailer – I do believe that Eric Schweig plays the part of the younger man trying to shush whoever’s in the audience to turn off their phone. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2005, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoever-originated-those-switch-off-cell-phones-bogus-movie-trailers-you-rock/312457/31 "2005-07-16T02:22:55Z")
Here’s the [cheerleader one](http://www.pumpupthemovie.com/). “I thought you were an athlete.” “I _AM_ an athlete!” ---
**Author:** ![lorinada](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5e925/32.png) [@lorinada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorinada)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2005, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoever-originated-those-switch-off-cell-phones-bogus-movie-trailers-you-rock/312457/32 "2005-07-16T03:24:59Z")
I don’t think they’re showing those around here…unless I just wasn’t paying attention. Which is possible since I go to a movie to see a movie, not commercials. I usually spend that time whispering with my companions. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2005, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoever-originated-those-switch-off-cell-phones-bogus-movie-trailers-you-rock/312457/33 "2005-07-16T04:15:24Z")
> [@lorinada](#): > > I don’t think they’re showing those around here…unless I just wasn’t paying attention. Which is possible since I go to a movie to see a movie, not commercials. I usually spend that time whispering with my companions. These don’t typically play with the commercials–they usually come on right after the last preview but before the Feature Presentation starts. That’s what’s so effective about them: at first glance, they play like yet another Coming Attraction, until the punchline. ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2005, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoever-originated-those-switch-off-cell-phones-bogus-movie-trailers-you-rock/312457/34 "2005-07-17T08:29:48Z")
> [@wolf\_meister](#): > > If someone finds it extremely essential that they _must_ have immediate access to a phone to get an important call, what the HELL are they doing in a theater? > > Heart Transplant Surgeon: Let me know when that donor heart arrives. I just _have_ to see Friday the 13th Part 37 !!! Doctors and others on call can’t predict if they’ll be needed at all. Parents who have left children behind might need to be told of emergencies. There are lots of people who don’t subscribe to the idea that carrying a cell phone is a horrible inconvenience in that it allows people to call them. I’m one of them. But turn it to vibrate in the theater. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@The\_Hook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hook)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2005, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoever-originated-those-switch-off-cell-phones-bogus-movie-trailers-you-rock/312457/35 "2005-07-17T20:33:42Z")
> [@Cardinal](#): > > Doctors and others on call can’t predict if they’ll be needed at all. Parents who have left children behind > might need to be told of emergencies. There are lots of people who don’t subscribe to the idea that carrying a cell phone is a horrible inconvenience in that it allows people to call them. I’m one of them. > > But turn it to vibrate in the theater. I’ve never heard conversations like this in my theater: “_da-ding-dee-ding-da-dee-ding-ding_ Yello? What’s that? There’s a stranger with a chainsaw outside the house? Your little sister crawled through the doggie entrance and got stuck and is covered in peanut butter and all the wild animals are poking at her? You’re having an asthma attack? Tom called from the office and one of my patients needs an emergency procedure only I can perform? Mommy’s giving birth? Okay, look, the movie’s going to be over in about an hour. I’ll call you soon, 'k? Buh-bye.” No. They are all pointless and empty conversations. You _can_ take a cell phone with you. If, for some reason, the vibrating function is a dummy on your phone and you were duped on purchase and you could receive an important call, take it outside. That’s what’s annoying. The stuff that happens _inside_ the theater. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2005, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoever-originated-those-switch-off-cell-phones-bogus-movie-trailers-you-rock/312457/36 "2005-07-17T23:23:34Z")
> [@The Hook](#): > > Your little sister crawled through the doggie entrance and got stuck and is covered in peanut butter and all the wild animals are poking at her? 😃 Oh my achin’ sides… This line made my day. Of course from now on, when I see one of these bogus trailers and the part where the ringtone intrudes comes up, I’m probably going to flash on this line and start cackling uncontrollably, thus contributing a far greater distraction than the cell phones themselves. Thanks, **The Hook**. Or is it just “Gramercy, **Hook**?” Or “_Merci beaucoup_, **The**?” How do you address someone whose name starts with a definite article? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoever-originated-those-switch-off-cell-phones-bogus-movie-trailers-you-rock/312457.md?page=1)