The sketches always feature the two sportscasters covering a classic women's sporting event, with gratuitous sponsor messages from a feminine product sprinkled throughout.
But even as is, connected to nothing, the row of gratuitous switches sends the message that you're the type of on-the-go customer who needs a lot of switches.
In part because gold farmers' hunting patterns are so repetitive, they are easy to spot, making them ready targets for pent-up anti-R.M.T. hostility, expressed in everything from private sarcastic messages to gratuitous ambushes that can stop a farmer's harvesting in its tracks.
The message is both gratuitous and cruel, because it is already so omnipresent in our lives.
(There's also some gratuitous blackface at the end. Message to Bollywood: If you can't find black actors, don't write a scene involving gun-toting enforcers from Lesotho).
Vast numbers of people in New York and beyond, even if they may not have admired Occupy or its message, felt they had witnessed a gratuitous exercise of police power.
Facebook's aggression with Messenger looks especially gratuitous when you consider it also owns mobile messaging giant WhatsApp.
A genuinely creative production can get the message to the right people without causing gratuitous offence.
Last year, Bob Deans, then the president of the White House Correspondents Associationn, told his colleagues in an e-mail message that they could still write lively pool reports "without tossing in gratuitous asides or inside jokes that some people might interpret as unprofessional".
To refresh you, Galliano's barrage of abuse at a couple in a Parisian bar included "your dirty Jewish face", "people like you would be dead today – your mothers, your forefathers, would all be fucking gassed" and "fucking Asian bastard", with a gratuitous "I love Hitler" thrown in, just in case we hadn't got the message.
