That and the triviality and the absolute mindlessness of it.
At least they should be clever about it.
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My favorite Allen Sherman song: The Ballad of Harry Lewis Your top three novelty songs - #46 by rowrrbazzle
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My own discovery, which I think was a bit clever, but at the same time I am deeply ashamed of it. William Blake set to "music"?
Visionworks.
Two women in a desert, separated by a canyon. “Hey, need new glasses?” shouts the first. “Try Visionworks.”
“How can you see me squinting?” asks the other.
“I can’t; I’m just telling everybody.”
Um … telling who? There’s nobody else there.
There is a new Tide ad with two of the Mythbusters co-stars. Nice to see them getting work. But there are kids and Tide is still using their fucking candy like pods. All they have to do is make them look less colorful and tasty- to kids anyway. But they refuse.
. Between 2012 and 2013, poison control centers reported over 7,000 cases of young children eating laundry pods, and ingestion of laundry pods produced by P&G had resulted in six deaths by 2017.
The health risks posed by the ingestion of Tide Pods—particularly by children—have been noted by several media outlets,[4][5][6] which have referenced the visual similarity the pods have to candy as a reasoning behind their consumption.[4][7][8][9] Tide’s laundry detergent pods follow a trend of “food imitating products”, in which makers of consumer products design their cleaners and personal hygiene products to “[exhibit] food or drink attributes.”[3] John Allen, an anthropologist at Indiana University described Tide Pods as “sort of like a cross between candy and a chicken nugget,” acknowledging them as “bite sized, processed, colorful, with a non-threatening texture.”[3]
Then there was a Dishwashing detergent ad- Gain iirc, with the same dangerous type pods.
Their parents could also tell kids don’t eat the damn things they’re poisonous.
I learned by age 3, I could not eat any candy.
Even when my older siblings were puffing on candy cigarette gum.
Kids can be taught. Fairly simply.
Of course there’s always outliers. If one lives in your home don’t buy them or lock em up.(Not the kid, the dangerous edible looking poisons)
I think Flintstones vitamins are next on the chopping block. What? 60 years, or something, they’ve been a thing. Took awhile.
IOW…pods aren’t going anywhere. People who do laundry and dishes love them for ease of use. Savings by not using too much. Environmentally? No telling what they’ve done by less chemicals in water systems. Yep. Here to stay.
This Tide pod challenge has basically left us for the Cinnamon challenge and many more. New ones come every week. Some go viral, some don’t. Kids will forever dare each other.
I save my outrage for College kids getting hazed. Or over drinking, driving and killing themselves or others.
Bullying. Violence on Campus. And so so many things.
Tide Pods can be solved by me at home. I got it covered.
In other Tide ads, the Mom (who knows laundry, because nobody else is likely to), doesn’t miss a trick to promote Tide:
“Mom how do I get these stains out?”
“Pretreat with Tide.”
“Can I get rid of these stains?”
“You will with Tide.”
How many families have more than one detergent on hand at any given time? There’s no need to specify Tide; just make sure that viewers have a photo of the product and name at the end.
If these conversations ever took place in a real home, I’d be very surprised.
I prefer less overpriced brands of laundry detergent, and do like the pre-measured pods/pacs, for reasons including much less mess in my laundry area. Since the only occupants of the house are mentally competent adults (the cats can’t get at the cleaning products, since how they’re stored requires thumbs for access), no safety issue. I’m partial to All Free & Clear, since my husband intensely dislikes scented laundry products.
You do not have to make them look like candy, they can be plain white, like others.
I actually use Persil.
I wouldn’t say any look much like candy. Well, there is that one Mexican candy, I think.
It’s not that it looks like anything, it was a challenge. If the first dumbass teen who dared someone had another brand in his home laundyroom it would be XYZ pod challenge.
The first kid who drank ammonia or made a bubble bath with Comet cleaner didn’t think it smelled good. They just had access to it.
Little kids CAN be kept away from these things by putting them away. Adding child proof lids and using the lids.
Cupboard locks.
Teenagers are gonna be teenagers. It’s in them to test limits. You can mitigate some but not all of it.
Whether Tide Pods look like candy didn’t even occur to them.
I don’t think they look like candy to begin with and I’ve never seen plain white ones. Not for laundry, not for dishes. Do teenagers eat them as a challenge ? apparently so, and there’s really no way to stop that, Do little kids eat them ? maybe. Little kids sometimes drink cleaning chemicals , too. Some of them even look like orange drink. Not really difficult to keep that stuff including the Tide pods away from little kids.
Whoa - let’s not get ahead of ourselves.
the plain white ones are usually unscented.
And there’s no flavor.
The person across the canyon.
I can remember being a kid, and at no point would I have been able to eat things like Tide pods, or drink bleach or eat a whole bottle of aspirin. Don’t these kids have taste buds for Christ sake?
Not only have I seen them, I use them.
That cite says they look like candy.
Are you reading what you reply to? In just a few years six kids died, and 7000 were admitted.
Have you seen a kid eat? 
Yes - want to point out where it gives the ages of the kids? A two year old might think it’s candy , maybe even a five year old. A ten year old doesn’t think it’s candy. Did you read what you are replying to? “
“Young children”might include anyone under 12 or it might be anyone under 5 . Different solutions for different ages.
No, it does not have that nor their names. 
Exactly. She’s going around, talking to random people about Visionworks; the rest are non-televised adventures.
I still use liquid laundry detergent, but I did switch to dishwasher detergent pods years ago - specifically, Cascade. For people who have used both, do the laundry detergent pods smell as harsh as the dishwasher detergent pods?