Friday, September 5, 2008

No Fee, Unless We Get Money For YOU!


Since I work out of the house and I regularly have the TV on during the day, I consider myself to be an expert when it comes to evaluating the various commercials for personal injury attorneys. We have several of them in the Pittsburgh area, and their messages are all basically the same: If anything bad has ever happened to you in any shape or form, regardless of who was at fault, you have BIG MONEY coming your way! Somebody has to pay, regardless of whether it was your own fault, your own clumsiness, or your own stupidity that got you into this conundrum in the first place! Kah-ching!

One of the main ones in the region is Edgar Snyder and Associates. One would think if he was such a great lawyer he would have sued his parents for naming him "Edgar" in the first place. Edgar has so many commercials he may as well start his own TV station and just run them around the clock.

My personal favorite commercials come from Berger and Green. Cyndi Berger appears in many of the commercials, sporting a deer-in-the-headlights look as she tries to sound stern and angry while reading from the teleprompter, desperately trying to convey the message that she's stern and angry, and just can't wait to get money for you (and a generous commission for her). Also, for whatever reason, her hair seems to take on a weird greenish tint on TV.

Larry Green appears in other commercials, which are just over the top, unintentionally hilarious. While he is acting angry and stern, there are often videos playing in the background of massive explosions, crash test dummies, motorcycle stunts gone bad, etc. If anyone managed to survive any of the things that are going on in the background, suing someone is probably the last thing on whatever may be left of their minds. Click here to see a typical commercial of theirs that someone posted on YouTube. Note the flaming car flying through the sky in the background at the beginning of the ad.

I literally laugh out loud when I see commercials for Shenderovich, Shenderovich and Fishman. The Shenderovich brothers are twins, and I don't know if they're actually dwarfs or just really short. For that reason I feel a little guilty about laughing out loud at the commericals, but I just can't help it. These guys have these little wussy voices, and they'll stand with their arms folded and their backs against one another in an attempt to look angry and stern. Priceless!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Along those lines...

http://theburghblog.com/2008/07/02/caring-enough-to-put-a-hot-chick-on-the-sign/

-JI