And it's gratuitous. On one of the very rare occasions when I heard a TV show (it was in a laundromat, my washing machine is busted) they said "p-eye-ss" when they didn't even need to.
I once heard a speech by Tom Landry (former Dallas Cowboys head coach). Many of his circuit speeches had much more to do with life, often with zip about football.
Landry was lamenting this same crassness cascading into the movies. He had a simple question: Why? What he said was the movies would, in every case, have been just as watchable without it, in many cases better. So true.
These days it's TV that is being or has been ruined.
It's amazing. It's as if all creative things in the medium have been lost, writing, directing, acting. And why? Market? I suppose. Some of the most popular shows would be zero minutes long once you make them worthy of viewing by people with respect for "self."
Perhaps in the end it is good for me that things have so evolved. There was a time in my past when I spent nearly every waking moment hypnotized by the TV. These days I can't see the point. Maybe it took that evolution to finally get through this fog where I live my life. I know I won't be changing the productions any time soon, so I just stopped watching.