Yeah, Caleb* is kinda done up as well.
Makes you wonder about the kids that aren’t on insta or tik tok. Where are they?
Either private, which I would be if my parents did that to me. I’d live in a cave somewhere far away.
Or are they 
perhaps euphemistically “not with us” anymore?
(* Caleb and his pal Alec are probably near 30yo, guessing)
You have managed to make it far worse.
I feel bad for whatever illness Caleb has, but damned if he doesn’t have a slappable face.
My new hate are the drug commercials with the “doctors” from central casting. They’re invariably females in their 20s and reasonably to quite attractive (DILFs, if you will). They’re always in their lab coats, often with a stethoscope around their neck. They go on about how great Wonderpill is and how they recommend it to all their patients. Enough!
The Shriners Hospitals commercials aren’t as bad, in my opinion, as the ones from St Jude Children’s Research Hospital. As ProPublica reported four years ago, St Jude is sitting on a fat multi-billion-dollar endowment and raised more than the next nine children’s hospitals combined. Plus there’s probably another children’s hospital closer to you, so why not give them your money?
Legally, there are two ways that drug commercials are allowed to go. If they say what it’s supposed to do, then they’re also required by law to list all of the side effects and the rest of the fine print. So either they have a vague feel-good ad that at most sort of subtly hints at what it’s for, or they have one that says what it’s for and also lists all of the side effects. Different choices make sense for different commercials, and they’ll often have multiple ads of different types.
For some reason, I get a lot of commercials advertising for pediatricians, or maybe it’s a hospital or insurance company that has a lot of pediatricians on staff or in network and they’re advertising how you can pick the one you like best, or whatever. All of the doctors they show in the ad are trying very hard to look cutesy and relatable to kids and so on. I mean, yeah, being relatable to children is a valuable trait in a pediatrician, but it takes a distant second to being good at curing children’s diseases and injuries. If all you have is cutesiness, then maybe you should have been a kindergarten teacher instead of a doctor.
Are they the ones that pick the most damaged, most deformed, most “I have to look away that’s disturbing!” kids in the system, and exploit them as sympathy generators?
Because yes that’s worse that the Shriners. At least they are Adwroabwle.
Don’t do that. They have brittle bones. The only thing worse than punching a child is punching a child with brittle bones.
Catchy!
One of my coworkers decided he had plaque psoriasis, so he did ask his doctor about the drugs on TV. Turns out he really does have plaque psoriasis, and the drugs helped him! He now tells everyone at work about this. He has also accused me of having plaque psoriasis (I have a red birthmark on my right arm - sort of like a strawberry birthmark, but flat).
Agreed!! At least St. Jude finally ended the one with that godawful off-key lullaby.
It goes back to… just after high school? A friend would say ‘adabbadeeba!’ as part of his imitating stupid people.
Speaking of generic, I find it grating that these oh-so-creative advertising copy writers are unable to find any better way, or any other way at all, to bridge the gap between “relatable individual talking to you on TV” and “generic range of population cases” than the phrase “my moderate-to-severe halitosis/hemorrhoids/heebejeebies/etc”. Does this person not know the severity of their own condition?
I keep seeing this over and over and OVER. Perdue chicken commercial, lady makes chicken parm for family that ‘they may or may not deserve’. And her kids are thrashing around in a giant fish tank splashing out water like it’s a kiddy pool! If those were my kids, they would be sitting in their rooms without any chicken parm, chicken nuggets, or anything else all evening.
The New Yorker used to fill the last half inch of a short article with “Words Never Uttered”.
That became my rallying cry at the ad agency: “Look, if NO ONE would ever say these words in real life, don’t you think someone (ok, everyone) will notice that and dismiss our commercial as dishonest?”
There’s an Alka Seltzer commercial that really annoys me. It’s date night. Oh, no, you have a cold or the flu. Take some AS and feel great. Now get out there and spread those viruses! We learned nothing from Covid.
Yes, that ad- and many similar ads are pet peeve of mine also. I think I even mentioned that ad here once. But yeah- stay home until you are no longer a disease vector.
Just saw a prescription itch cream ad that uses Black Box’s Everybody, Everybody rather prominently. Except they have completely removed the Larry Blackmon sample-- OW! Hmmm, I wonder why.
This is not a commercial, but the box description.
New cracker item called “Pretzelized Snacks”.
These are rectangular crackers from pretzel dough. Great.
The box says “Two favorite snacks in one!” Hmmm?
“Our pretzel crackers unite the salty, golden shell of a pretzel with a bite-sized snacking cracker to bring you the best of both worlds in one crunchy bite.”
Ok, suggests a pretzel and a cracker are different things.
“Crunchy pretzel outside, real cracker inside.”
Um, what? It’s not like there are two textures like with the Ritz pretzel crackers with two sides.
To me, a hard pretzel is a type of cracker. Am I wrong?
A pretzel is a mostly one-dimensional strand of dough (perhaps twisted into interesting shapes). A cracker is mostly two-dimensional, and can be used as a substrate for various toppings.
Yep, you can stack other flat stuff on a cracker easily. I usually call that breakfast (or homemade Lunchables) Stacking stuff of any shape on a pretzel is more difficult.
However, both can be used as a transfer device for a variety of sauces of varying viscosities, much like chips.
Huh. To me it’s crunchy toasted dough. Are pita crisps crackers? Their usually warped or split - 3 dimensional.
Even if shape is a determinant, how does it make sense to say “cracker inside”?