Monday, April 16, 2012

Do we really need... Commercials for (insert prescription pill name here)





I don't think I would have anything to write on this subject if the commercials weren't so completely ridiculous.

Commercial starts.  A field fades in, and there is a woman frolicking about and smelling flowers.  The camera goes to a close up of her face, and she exclaims that hemorrhoids are no longer an issue for her because of Prolexica ( <- I made that up...  actually, I made the whole thing up).  What does the field, the frolicking, and the flower sniffing have to do with hemorrhoids?  And why hasn't the field been turned into a mega-mall yet?  Not to mention the scarier-than-all-hell warnings at the end!  Prolexica has been known to cause cancer, over active bladder, and death - if you experience any of these, call your doctor.  Do not use Prolexica if you wake up, sleep, consume liquids, consume solids, or drive.

The only pill commercials that seem remotely related are the ones for boner-pills.  Those usually have guys walking around happy.  In all fairness, I really just wanted to write "boner-pills".  Go ahead, open your word-processing software up and write "boner-pills".  Kind of addicting.

So, maybe I can deal with prescription pill commercials... but let's at least have commercials that are related to the problems the pills are alleviating!

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