I swear, most daytime TV advertising can be boiled down to "Screw you, loser. You suck. Buy our product. It won't make you not a loser, but it's a step in the right direction." Unless, of course, it is a product aimed at retirees, in which case the message seems to be "Screw you, loser. You're DYING."
My personal favorite right now is the one for a pill for gout, which features a guy walking around carrying a GIANT BOTTLE OF URIC ACID with him everywhere he goes. Even after he starts taking the pill, the bottle shrinks, and fits into his satchel, but he still carries it with him everywhere he goes.
Screw you, loser. You're dying.
My personal favorite right now is the one for a pill for gout, which features a guy walking around carrying a GIANT BOTTLE OF URIC ACID with him everywhere he goes.
That commercial irritates me. I yell at the screen. WHY does he have high uric acid? Why don't they try to fix the problem instead of the symptom?
The two that just drive me 'round the bend are a) a commercial for denture adhesive (they're all like this, really), featuring people PROMINENTLY CHEWING WITH THEIR ENORMOUS TEETH! STOP MAKING ME THINK ABOUT YOUR ENORMOUS TEETH! and b) a commercial for nasal sinuplasty (opening your nasal passages with a balloon) featuring people who can somehow act with their NOSES! STOP MAKING ME THINK ABOUT YOUR NOSE!
wrod, to most of the ad stuff. Although I've cut daytime TV out in favor of blogging mostly.
In other commercial news, a friend is opening a local pie company. She has a pie of the month club and first line of the page
In times like these, who doesn't crave the security of knowing where your next pie is coming from?
Now who can argue with that?
In times like these, who doesn't crave the security of knowing where your next pie is coming from?
That's good marketing. *I* don't know where my next pie is coming from! Nooooooooo!!!!!
I wish I never heard that one possible cause of gout is drinking pee. Now I can't look at my mom's friend who has it without imagining him in some really kinky scenarios.
Oh how I feel the daytime TV pain. (The TVs here are on all the time and my team has no control over the channel or volume.)
And honestly, there isn't a single ad I can think of that doesn't make me want to boycott their product. Dixie plates? ON THE LIST.
Dixie plates SHOULD be on the list. Dixie is owned by the evil Koch brothers.
