As I sit trying to coax my wife’s computer into compliance, I’ve got the TV on. It gives me something to watch while scans are running, updates are installing and unnecessary bits of Windows are deleted.

Right now, I’m watching a TBS feature called “TV And A Movie.” They show a movie, and intersperse it with promotional bits for beauty products.

This time, they’re showing a children’s film called Zathura. It’s a good movie, but it makes absolutely no sense in the context of a makeup regimen. The only characters are two pre-adolescent boys, a scruffy male astronaut and a bunch of nasty, dinosaur-looking aliens. There is a teenage sister, but she spends most of the movie cryogenically frozen on the floor of a bathroom.

Where exactly is the beauty role model in that bunch? And why exactly are we trying to sell overpriced shampoo to this audience? Somebody at TBS really needs to lay off the blow.

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