Dec 19, 2009

The Most Terrifying Words

Channel 10 spent most of this week advertising its Friday night movie feature - The First Wives Club.

It seems to be a regular in the Channel 10 line-up - I wouldn't have thought the station's sub-35 demographic really went for menopausal faux-feminist feel-good flicks, but hey, maybe that's why I'm not a TV programmer.

What got my screeching banshee back hairs right up was the phrase they used at the start of the promo:

Voiceover: For a woman, they're the four MOST TERRIFYING words...

Cut to line from movie of douchebag husband telling a simpering Diane Keaton: I want a divorce.

REALLY, Channel 10? They're they four MOST TERRIFYING words that a woman could actually ever hear? REALLY?

Not "I'm sorry, it's cancer."?

Not "You're going to jail."?

Not "I'll kill you, bitch."?

Not "Your child is dead."?

I think Channel 10 is overlooking the ACTUAL four most terrifying words that a woman can hear, which is in response to asking "What's on Channel 10 tonight?"

"The First Wives Club."

ARGHGHGHGHHGHGRGGHGHGH!!!

(Sorry, I gotsa lotsa rage right now.)

11 comments:

  1. Right on! They should take a leaf out of 7's book and put a Die Hard movie on when they get stuck!

    Yippee-ki-yay!

    Abe

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  2. C'mon Abe,
    Isn't that sposed to be Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker!

    Watching it Thurs night, I love the fact that touch-screens were a new and awesome toy back then. As a young and impressionable 15yo, Die Hard was the first of those mega-action flicks I saw. It left me shaking with fear/rage/something and made a big impression.

    As for First Wives Club, never seen it, no desire to but you definitely have a point GC - there's no way it's always just the bloke who wants out.

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  3. Scariest words a man can hear...?

    "Honey, I hired a movie!"

    Of course, excluding news about testicular cancer, and finding out ur'v got herpies from your mates bucks party who's marrying your wife's sister, or "I want a divorce and I'm taking our house".

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  4. When it comes to movies, one of the most horrifying sentences I can hear is:

    "It stars Diane Keaton".

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  5. The five most terrifying words a man can hear "Does my bum look big?"

    aaaaaaaaaah!

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  6. That's cause chicks need their men and are lost without them. Washing our boxers and bringing us snacks and beers makes them feel complete. It is a genetic imperative. I for one will not fight the gods will in this.

    ::ducking behind the bunker::

    Please don't tell the HLDW that I commented here.

    Thanks,
    Rhino

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  7. Four most terrifying words a man can hear are 'You didn't clear History'

    Or so I'm told.

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  8. I thought when channel 10 was lost for programming time it put on 'Love Actualy'.

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