Red Eye (Plus a No Extra Charge Rant!)

So... I should have posted this yesterday but the thought didn't occur to me until I read this:

Just like when we highlighted the show’s ratings in September 2009 (which the FNC advertising department enjoyed as well, taking out full-page ads in the New York Post and others), the ratings for last week show Red Eye beating CNN again. This time, the show had better ratings in the A25-54 demographic than Campbell Brown at 8pmET and Larry King at 9pmET, and tied Anderson Cooper at 10pmET (Monday-Thursday).

Which... is all about Red Eye's third anniversary, celebrated this past Friday.  Sooo... Red Eye, which comes on at 0300 hrs Eastern, beat CNN's prime-time ratings?  Now ain't that something!  Here's Gutfeld's Gregalogue that ran last Friday, in celebration of the third anniversary:

And... AIIIEEE!  Not that ad!  NO!  We're assuming the ads on Fox's embed video are static and further assume what you see is the notorious "PajamaGram" ad... a long-standing object of our irritation and contempt.  So herewith the third annual installment of our rant about and against Pajamagrams (from last year - 2/06/2009):

So… Valentine’s Day is still about a week and a half away… which means at least eight more days of being subjected to this crap:

I’m glad this “special day” is here and will be gone with the sunset this evening. Why? So I won’t be exposed to Creepy Valentines Day advertisements on my teevee every 17 minutes. From these guys. (ed: video of the tacky commercial at the link) You know, the people who tell ya there’s “…only one gift guaranteed to get women to take their clothes off…” with “all that spa stuff that women just love,” the bottom-line being “she’ll think you spent weeks planning it.” Yeah. Right. To say these ads insult male intelligence is only scratching the surface. And were I a woman receiving a V-Day pajamagram, I’d seriously RE-consider the quality of my relationship. That goes for Vermont Teddy Bears, as well… perhaps double. I’ve read both businesses are owned by the same company. Which may or may not be true, but the ads for both products look very similar, so I tend to believe what I hear. About which…

Yet another business to add to my list of places to visit when I begin my post-retirement career as a midnite fire-bomber.

That was YrHmblScrb, ranting on St. Valentine’s Day last year. The supremely irritating ads for VTBs and PajamaGrams began last Monday evening as best as I can determine and tend to run in various late night slots. FNC’s Red Eye seems overrun with the ads, just to cite one example, which presents me with yet another case where my mute button gets the ultimate work-out. The PajamaGram ads are quite tolerable with the sound turned off, though. Nice eye-candy. The VTB ads? Not so much…

The thing that really gets my goat is the ads are the very same ones the companies have been running for the last two or three years. You’d think they would create some NEW ads… every couple of years or so. But nooooo…

Well, at least the PajamaGram people popped for a new ad this year.  But they're STILL lame.  And I still hate 'em, too.