Don't Try This At Home, Kids

"Heroes" is puzzling me. I can't decide how many more episodes I want to give it, considering how many of the characters are either boring or actively annoying, and how difficult it is to believe that tiny changes in DNA can give you a double that lives in mirrors and kills people, and that they already told me the heroes will save the world. It is intriguing, though, in a frustrating fashion.

But I think Emerson, manufacturer of the In-Sink-Erator garbage disposal, is taking it way too seriously. For one thing, in the scene where Claire stuck her hand into the still-running disposal (don't worry, she heals better than Wolverine - though I don't know if she could take a bullet to the brainpan, squish - though her bones do break, she doesn't seem to feel any pain) I don't know about you, but I wasn't actually looking at the screen, let alone reading the brandname of the disposal unit. But the company is afraid we were, and claims the show didn't have permission to show it, and they're suing.

The lawsuit further stated that the scene "casts the disposer in an unsavory light, irreparably tarnishing the product" by suggesting that the appliance "will cause debilitating and severe injuries, including the loss of fingers, in the event consumers were to accidentally insert their hand into one."

Um... yeah? Of course.

What, is Emerson claiming you can stick your hand into a running In-Sink-Erator and not get hurt?