The DirecTV 'Get Rid of Cable' commercials, which first aired in the early 2010s, became an instant cultural phenomenon due to their use of the 'slippery slope' fallacy taken to a comedic extreme. Each ad followed a rigid structure: a minor frustration with cable television leads to an increasingly bizarre chain of events, eventually culminating in a disastrous or humiliating situation for the protagonist. These commercials, featuring scenarios like waking up in a roadside ditch or re-enacting scenes from a bad action movie, provided a perfect template for internet humor. Memes typically replicate this escalating logic to mock everything from bad life choices to niche fandom drama, highlighting how one small mistake can lead to total, illogical catastrophe.