There is a TV commerical for Charter Communications that is slowly driving me insane.

The premise of the commercial is that if you switch your telephone service provider to Charter Communications, you'll save so much money you'll laugh all the way to the bank.  It features a man who laughs all the way along his journey to his financial institution.

And what an annoying laugh it is.  It sounds like Pavarotti after he's sucked down half a tank of helium; it's so completely fake and it's obvious that the guy ISN'T really laughing, he's just putting it on.

The sound of it is akin to nails on a chalkboard.  Annoying as heck, it sets my nerves on edge and makes my teeth grit whenever I hear it.  I hear it at various times throughout the day and at least a couple opf times in the evening when I'm watching TV.  I even heard it in my sleep - Dave was watching TV in bed and I was in the early throes of slumber where the line between what you're dreaming and what's real is blurred.  I heard it and dreamt that I was in an old fashioned lunatic asylum, in a straightjacket and hearing the tortured, manic laughter of my fellow inmates (in reality I had simply got myself entangled in the bedsheets and was hearing the Charter commerical on TV).

Try as I might, I can't seem to rid myself of that laugh.  I've tried to tune it out, but have only succeeded in making myself uber-sensitive to it.  If it comes on the TV in the living room and I happen to be back in the bedroom, I can hear it in excruciating detail.  Even if I'm not watching TV but happen to be in the room doing something else (like right now, I'm sitting on the couch in the living room, working on a essay for school on my laptop)...I hear it and it sets me on edge.  I have to get up and walk away as soon as I hear the opening jingle, and if I'm unlucky enough to not be in a position to get up quickly or leave the room, I'm subjected to the entire thing and have to work really hard at not screaming and covering my ears.

Damn you, Charter!  You're ruining my television viewing pleasure, you bunch of bastards!  Could you not have come up with a better laugh for your commercial?  I guess your plan is working, though...after all, I AM familiar with the commercial and the product.  Yes, your dastardly marketing plan has worked!  You've got my attention....but you're slowly driving me insane!

Damn you Charter!  Damn you all to hell!!!!!!!!!!!