The most offensive commercial ever. And it's BAAAACCKK!

[Mr. Laser Beam]

All advertisements (drugs or no) should be required to be like the ads in Crazy People. No loopholes, no tricks, no ing fine print....just absolute God's honest truth.

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And don't give me that First Amendment crap either. Common sense really needs to make a comeback.

 

[Ovation]

We have the First Amendment.

Doesn’t really apply. Ads appear on broadcast TV and radio. FCC regulates all manner of “expression” that, at first glance, might appear to violate the First Amendment. But debating the politics of this further is perhaps best suited to a different forum…no First Amendment protection here.

 

[fireproof78]

Meh. I pay about as much attention phrama commercials as I do smoking or weed commercials. If I am trying a medication I am doing three things: One, asking my doctor. Two, reading about it. Three, asking my mom, a nurse practitioner.

And if an add "offends me" then I'll simply turn it off and not purchase the product.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

And if an add "offends me" then I'll simply turn it off and not purchase the product.

I've already mentioned that "Broccoli" makes me even more likely to go out of my way to avoid Las Vegas.

And as to direct-to-patient ads, there's at least one version of the Cologuard "My Way" spot that's actually entertaining (the version with people who can actually sing), even though "my way" for colon cancer screening is to just take a day off from work, for a "guided tour of my lower intestine" (if you geek out, ask to remain conscious and as lucid as possible, and manage to get a gastroenterologist who doesn't mind narrating, a colonoscopy can actually be fun).

And that's actually more "actuallys" per sentence than you hear in an average interview segment on From the Top.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Why the hell would anyone get Cologuard? They flat-out admit, right in the ad, that sometimes false positives or negatives result. So what's the point?

And that stupid talking cubey thing is really, really annoying.

 

[Timby]

Why the hell would anyone get Cologuard? They flat-out admit, right in the ad, that sometimes false positives or negatives result. So what's the point?

Because colonoscopies are very unpleasant, particularly the prep, and not everyone is healthy enough for one. A 13 percent false-positive is better than zero screening at all.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

A 13 percent false-positive is better than zero screening at all.

True dat.

 

[Tallguy]

I'm at a loss. Why is this ad offensive? Stupid, sure. Not all that funny, certainly. But... Offensive?

 

[Imaus]

Went to Vegas exactly once. We were pulling a little trailler (13ft) on our way to California. We thought it'd be fun to just dip in and check things out, and we didn't realize we ended up going on St. Patrick's Day. People in green dancing in the streets in full party mode. We weren't especially keen to return. The entirety of Vegas feels very kitschy.

I wish Hughes did achieve his dream of turning Vegas into a sort of 'high end' gambling city, of suits and fur-lined dresses, while Reno became the more 'pleb' gambling town, but being five hours NE of LA killed that by pure demographics.

I've already mentioned that "Broccoli" makes me even more likely to go out of my way to avoid Las Vegas.

And as to direct-to-patient ads, there's at least one version of the Cologuard "My Way" spot that's actually entertaining (the version with people who can actually sing), even though "my way" for colon cancer screening is to just take a day off from work, for a "guided tour of my lower intestine" (if you geek out, ask to remain conscious and as lucid as possible, and manage to get a gastroenterologist who doesn't mind narrating, a colonoscopy can actually be fun).

And that's actually more "actuallys" per sentence than you hear in an average interview segment on From the Top.

What made me avoid Vegas was this movie of kids breaking the casinos and getting traunced on by the Casino mafias. No thanks - I already deal with enough organized crime in NY, don't want to suddenly end up with cement shoes in Mead :V

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Because colonoscopies are very unpleasant, particularly the prep . . . .

I don't find the procedure particularly unpleasant at all, as long as I'm conscious and lucid enough to appreciate a literal "vacation up shit's creek," and as long as the gastroenterologist narrates it.

It's all about attitude. So GEEK OUT!

But yes, deliberately giving yourself severe diarrhea to prep for it is rather unpleasant. Then again, so is air travel, especially these days.

Spoiler: Not an actual spoiler; just not for the scatologically squeamish!

Besides, the shape my anus is in (the result of being chronically too busy to relieve my bowels, combined with a general tendency towards constipation), the old "occulted blood" screenings were always one false positive after another for me (fresh blood does tend to make it hard to check for occulted blood), and fresh blood might also spoil the results of a stool DNA test.

 

[cardinal biggles]

Seriously, man. TMI.

 

[cooleddie74]

 

[1001001]

I don't find the procedure particularly unpleasant at all, as long as I'm conscious and lucid enough to appreciate a literal "vacation up shit's creek," and as long as the gastroenterologist narrates it.

It's all about attitude. So GEEK OUT!

But yes, deliberately giving yourself severe diarrhea to prep for it is rather unpleasant. Then again, so is air travel, especially these days.

Spoiler: Not an actual spoiler; just not for the scatologically squeamish!

Besides, the shape my anus is in (the result of being chronically too busy to relieve my bowels, combined with a general tendency towards constipation), the old "occulted blood" screenings were always one false positive after another for me (fresh blood does tend to make it hard to check for occulted blood), and fresh blood might also spoil the results of a stool DNA test.

 

[Mister Spock]

I don't know if it ever made it to the US, but there was an advert for XBox in the UK, years ago, where a woman gives birth, the baby flies straight out the window, aging through childhood, puberty, adulthood then finally old age before crashing into a grave. Ending on the caption 'Life Is Short. Play More'.

Quickly banned as it was deemed offensive and upsetting to parents who'd lost children to cot death.

 

[Owain Taggart]

Not really what I'd call offensive, but the recent iPhone commercial set onboard a subway makes my skin crawl. I find it visually unpleasant and very off-putting.

 

[auntiehill]

Not really what I'd call offensive, but the recent iPhone commercial set onboard a subway makes my skin crawl. I find it visually unpleasant and very off-putting.

I find most everything about iPhone and Apple in general somewhat off-putting.

 

[Kor]

I wish Hughes did achieve his dream of turning Vegas into a sort of 'high end' gambling city, of suits and fur-lined dresses, while Reno became the more 'pleb' gambling town, but being five hours NE of LA killed that by pure demographics.




What made me avoid Vegas was this movie of kids breaking the casinos and getting traunced on by the Casino mafias. No thanks - I already deal with enough organized crime in NY, don't want to suddenly end up with cement shoes in Mead :V

I'm not too familiar with the details, but I recall hearing that the huge mob influence in Vegas ended years ago. And some people claim that it was more enjoyable in those days, than today's corporate/commercialized Vegas.

Kor

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Lately, I've noticed an ad that uses the song, "Happiness Is." Not "Happiness," from You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown; I'm talking about the Evans and Parnes song, that was a hit for Ray Conniff, back in 1966.

I haven't yet noticed what they're even selling. Simply because just hearing the song gives me a really bad earworm, and because that tune, used as a Kent cigarette jingle, is permanently etched in my mind. (You can find videos of the ads on YouTube; the one I found was a timecode "window-burn" with a few seconds of countdown leader.) Which is to say that the very idea of advertising cigarettes offends me (how can sucking on a burning poisonous plant be worth getting addicted to sucking on a burning poisonous plant?!?) . . . but still, it somehow doesn't offend me as much as the "Broccoli" Las Vegas ad offends me!

I wonder what the new ads using the song (in its original, non-jingle form) are selling.


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I think it might have been an Etsy spot.

 

[Owain Taggart]

^ Speaking of out of place music in commercials, a few years ago, there was a commercial using the Magnum P.I theme to possibly sell makeup. It felt so out of place as to be whiplash inducing.

 

[auntiehill]

^ Speaking of out of place music in commercials, a few years ago, there was a commercial using the Magnum P.I theme to possibly sell makeup. It felt so out of place as to be whiplash inducing.

I remember that. It was a bizarre choice of music for an eye makeup ad