“Do you offend?”
Women seem to be a rich market for peddling shame-correcting products. I suspect it is at least partly a cultural thing – in a non-patriarchal society, feminine shame would be a more challenging sell.
My nephew loved singing that jingle when he was about 4 or 5.
And now I’m leaving this here:
Boom! Tough actin’ Tinactin!
I’m kinda late to the thread, but I can’t let this pass without acknowledging the excellence of this pun. Raucous applause, sir.
And @MandaJo - very well-said. I’ve never really understood those guys who are utterly revolted by all things menstrual, but will happily discuss and compare the volume, length, and odor of their farts. I mean yes, period blood is gross; but no more than feces, sweat, snot, pus, semen, or any of the other byproducts of our bodies.
I agree that drug commercials should go. I’ve noticed something about them, though that I find sort of interesting. The people in these commercials live such active, interesting, and unusual (to) me, lives. I’m pretty healthy for my age and weight, and my life is sort of boring.
Then you need to start taking drugs to make it more interesting.
This is probably true.
Watching some of those, I find myself almost wishing I had one of those diseases (instead of my current health problems) so I could just take the medicine and start having that sort of life.
I’m reminded of a standup comedy routine, from years ago, where the comedian (a guy, I think) said that, when he was growing up, he wanted to use Kotex (not knowing what Kotex were), because the TV ads showed how much fun you could have when using it: you could go swimming, you could ride a horse, etc.
What I notice is the…generic-ness of them. If you omit anything in the commercial that specifically mentions the product, the visuals could be used for any drug. Happy people doing happy things, and whatever they got, whether it’s COPD, shingles, HIV, psoriasis, chronic depression, the commercial would work.
I really like the ones that say one of the side effects may be death. Death. . .is a side effect. And how did they determine that? By having people die after taking it.
We haven’t seen them market medicine for intestinal worms yet.
Well said in turn. Bravo!
But you skipped a few … 
I watch (too many) Youtube videos, and get a number of 5 or 15 second ads that say “ask you doctor about ”. No mention as to what it might be for. I’m going to start writing them down for when I get my physical in December:
Doctor, should I take drug1? No, you don’t have eczema.
Should I take drug2? Only if you have crippling period pain.
Should I take drug3? Etc.
Still trying to figure out how to make pills small enough for their mouths.
They should start advertising for a placebo.
Placebos are getting stronger, so they can charge more money now.
Not for people, anyway. I’ve definitely seen it for use in dogs.