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.
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”
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 !!!
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?
Are you saying you think you’re ready to fly with the hummingbirds?
That would be preferable to having it set to “Baby Got Back.”
I’ve never seen any of these - is there anywhere they’ve been collected?
Never seen the opera one, myself. And the cheerleader is my favorite.
There’s gotta be a list somewhere.
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.
Here’s the cheerleader one.
“I thought you were an athlete.”
“I AM an athlete!”
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.
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.
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?