Roto-Rooter pimps out a toilet to spruce up its youth image

We weren't aware Roto-Rooter was so set on capturing that key 20-somethings male market of toilet users, but it looks they've really put some though into this pimped out toilet of theirs. Roto-Rooter, which spends more than $30 million a year on yellow page ads, decided to throw a good bit of that cash into this thing, and managed to toss in a HDTV, iPod with dock, TiVo, Xbox 360, DVD player, laptop, bullhorn, bike pedals (we've been looking for a good bathroom set for a while now), beer tap and fridge with this john of theirs. Even the crapper is ultra fancy: it's a Kohler with a super-strength 1.4 gallon flush. The icing on the cake is an On-Star-esque button for emergency Roto-Rooter calls. "I think you're not gonna see your man for a long time if he wins this thing." Ain't it the truth. The contest on Roto's website begins on the 24th of this month.

[Via Xbox 360 Fanboy]

[strider_mt2k @ Jan 11th 2007 5:56PM]

I'm a traditionalist in this area.

All I need is a coffee cup holder and a place for a couple of Niven & Pournelle paperbacks or the latest edition of Air & Space Smithsonian.

[chaosrain @ Jan 11th 2007 6:06PM]

That is so truly disgusting I can't even describe it. Even if you're a neatnik, when you flush, toilet spray finds its way all over the bathroom infecting nearly every surface with fecal coliform bacteria. Now you'll end up with crap befouled electronics equipment? Like the throne isn't tough enough to clean, I've got to get into the nooks and crannies of my crap infested laptop, tv, and swingarms? Barf.

[gxti @ Jan 11th 2007 8:58PM]

So just detach all the goods. You still get a free laptop, HDTV, 360, et al.

[Jamie @ Feb 14th 2008 1:46PM]

Actually, fecal coliform bacteria exists on pretty much everything. When a flush-exposed toothbrush was tested against a control toothbrush, both turned up positive. You transfer the bacteria to your current equipment every time you tap a key.

So let everyone else enjoy the idea of a teched-out bathroom and go back to your bubble.

[Adam @ Jan 11th 2007 6:12PM]

Well it looks like we're headed in the right direction. By the year 2500 we should be in deep doodoo.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/

[Jonathan Keim @ Jan 11th 2007 6:13PM]

I understand where you are comming from chaosrain. But how cool would this set up be! :D

[Tim @ Jan 11th 2007 6:17PM]

I wonder if the laptop has a webcam......

[JRA219psu @ Jan 11th 2007 6:16PM]

In the words of a very strange man named Borat:
"Very Nice"

[Takeo @ Jan 11th 2007 6:39PM]

Who makes those arms holding the LCD and the notebook? I've been looking for something like that for a while. Thanks.

[xVariable @ Jan 11th 2007 6:55PM]

Grotesque. Absolutely, utterly repulsive. A new low of excess and filth for our species, without a doubt.

Who the fuck sits on their toilet long enough to value this? A fucking degenerate, sub-human low-life, that's who. But that's pretty much who Roto-Rooter's target market ism isn't it?

[Jack @ Jan 11th 2007 9:40PM]

@ xVariable

Umm, you are forgetting one thing my friend- internet pr0n.

[BrianB @ Feb 13th 2008 9:27AM]

Try eating a pound of peanuts. See the fun side of bowel movement.

[Keith @ Jan 11th 2007 11:32PM]

I dunno man. Sex, unless it's rape, can hardly be compared to this depravity. I mean, the allusions to sodomy and anal retentiveness (in the original Freudian sense. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anal_retentive ) that this bizarre idea conjures-up is just about as regressive and low-life as you can possibly get as far as I'm concerned.

[Geoff @ Jan 11th 2007 7:06PM]

...and the gutter trash sat, "resplendent" and replete, on his thrown.

"I've finally made it," he said. "Look at me! I'm King of the World!"

[GrandmasterB @ Jan 11th 2007 7:31PM]

Truly disgusting.

Wtf were they thinking?

[jeastman14 @ Jan 11th 2007 8:49PM]

sweet, I love you Roto Rooter guys!

[Oddmanout @ Jan 11th 2007 9:29PM]

And I thought the iPod speaker dock toiletpaper holder that I saw in last weeks Fry's ad was bad...

I mean, sanitation concerns aside, wouldn't it just be easier to put a toilet in the den ?

Or more efficient still, replace those troublesome hardwood floors with a grate like a hampster cage. You'll never have to sweep or flush again...



God lord...I need to move nack to Japan...

[Xenoterranos @ Jan 12th 2007 1:52PM]

If you sit on the can long enough to enjoy those, you'll have hemeroids like oranges hanging out your ass.

[Aaron @ Jan 12th 2007 6:52AM]

"Grotesque. Absolutely, utterly repulsive. A new low of excess and filth for our species, without a doubt.

Who the fuck sits on their toilet long enough to value this? A fucking degenerate, sub-human low-life, that's who. But that's pretty much who Roto-Rooter's target market ism isn't it?"

It's just something funny to promote their business. No one is suggesting you start installing this setup in every bathroom. Lighten up, idiot.

[Jeff Myers @ Jan 12th 2007 9:56AM]

What, no bidet! They really missed an opportunity!

[J. Evans Turner @ Jun 6th 2007 2:36PM]

Uh...doesn't the XBOX 360 already play DVDs?

[teri jo joslin @ Jan 16th 2007 8:22PM]

I think this is so awesome
i am a cafeteria manager at a high school the kids and their familys will know abot roto- rooter now.
You can count on that.
i hope i win.

[Seamless Melody @ Jan 18th 2007 12:07PM]

Surreal, man.
Talk about the ultimate father's day gift.
Just needs some incense or candles or something for those especially "productive" days.