Or do pharmacutical commercials really confound the intellect? I'm sitting here, minding my own buisness watching Oprah, when like a bolt from on high, this strange 45 second montage of a woman wearing some kind of dermal patch while swimming in pools, taking showers, running after taxis, eating salads and talking on the phone comes on.
I didn't have it turned up, so I have no clue what this travesty was about. I'm guessing birth control, but really, that's only because the patch was placed on her abdomen, near her vagina. It could be appetite suppressants, for all I know.
I've seen others where people are dancing in fields of flowers, while a calm and soothing voice enunciates how "Side effects may include watery bowels and dementia"...
This makes no sense to me.
Posted by Capped In Mic (Member # 709) on :
This happened to me as well.. my brother and I used to constantly see Claritin commercials, showing people running and playing in a field, flying kites with pills and stuff floating in the background
ABSOLUTELY no reference to why they needed Claritin, except that it helped them 'enjoy life again.'
We went for about two years of saying 'try some Claritin' to each other as a catchall reference to some novelty cure-all drug.
The kicker is that the commercials alway end with 'ask your doctor if this is right for you'.. one day i finally asked a doctor if it was right for me, and he said 'do you have allergies' and i was all like 'no' then he said 'no, its not right for you'
what a letdown.
pharmaceutical companies are retarded. its a fact of life that America wants a drug to solve every problem in their lives, and thats kinda retarded too.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
There is a pill for that....
Posted by E. Cartman (Member # 256) on :
Yeah, the red one.
Posted by Free ThoughtCrime America (Member # 480) on :
Saw that coming.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Better living through chemistry, damn it!
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Erm... It's nothing to do w/ the companies. It's the law. As I understand it, they're only allowed to advertise prescription drugs if they either
1. don't say what the drug is for, or 2. list every single side effect that was catalogued during tests.
This is why we get commercials like the old Claritin commericals, where you have no idea what's going on. However, it seems that, recently, the companies have been taking the second option. So we get to hear about nausea, rashes, diarrhea, sudden death, and so on.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Yes, the red pill can cause sudden death....
Posted by Vice-Admiral Michael T. Colorge (Member # 144) on :
Hmm, has anyone seen the latest Viagra commercial? Now that is funny... using racing as a way to sell a sex drug.
Posted by newark (Member # 888) on :
Free Thoughtcrime America,
The ad is for birth control.
The ads are not well liked in the medical community for obvious reasons.
Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :
I suppose you guys could go all Canadian on the pharmaceutical companies and ban the annoying fuckers. How 'bout our repressive communism, eh?
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Wait, they can't even say what the drug is for? No "helps relieve the symptoms of hay-fever", or "helps lower congestion", or "stops piles, dead!"?
Crazy.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Well, they can, but only if they report all of the side-effects. If they don't do that, then, no, they can't say what it's for.
Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
My uncle bought a hat for the Viagra/Mark Martin car, wears it a lot. He claims it's for "Team Woody"...
I pointed at him and laughed at his stupidity Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
How about the Vagisil commercials??? Those tell me to much about the woman, especially when the same woman is on the douche commercial before hand...
This leads me to believe that that woman smells bad and itches....
Or the herpes drug commercials....
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
quote:Originally posted by Sol System: Better living through chemistry, damn it!
A quote from Brave New World: "A gramme is better than a damn!"
Sorry I just finished reading that book. And the little rhymes are kinda hard to keep out of your head. And it seemed kinda appropriate to the situation...
Posted by Free ThoughtCrime America (Member # 480) on :
The herpes commercials are satanic in their level of rank bullshit. There is no possible way to decipher what the images are supposed to mean, unless riding bikes in the mountains has some significance to curing herpes I wasn't informed of.
I have an observation, though: In the commercials, only beautiful people have herpes. If you'll notice, there are no uglies walking around using claritin (or whatever it is for herpes, or perhaps worse, genital warts). Remember that next time you go bar hopping...
Posted by Nimpim (Member # 205) on :
"Or the herpes drug commercials...."
There's a herpes drug out on the schtreet? This I gotta try!!! Let it all hang out!!
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"In the commercials, only beautiful people have herpes."
So? Think about it. Who are the people having the most random sex?
Posted by E. Cartman (Member # 256) on :
Erh, prostitutes?
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Indeed, attractiveness is no gauge for sexual activity, either in quantity or quality.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
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