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The world around us can seem increasingly illogical. So why should it be surprising that our shoddy cable service would cause our house to explode, make us reenact scenes from “Platoon” with Charlie Sheen and force us to attend our own funeral as a guy named Phil Shifley. That’s what happens in this bizarro cable world, where the most innocuous problems like costly service or waiting on the cable guy can have profound consequences. By comically exaggerating the problems of poor service, these ads deftly remind us how infuriating having cable can be — which could all be avoided, of course, by dumping cable and getting DirecTV.