In most home pregnancy test commercials, there are usually three variations:
Just wonderin’…
TV Guide made that observation in a Cheers & Jeers column about 5 years ago. My god, I can’t believe I remember that…
Sheeez, where the hell have I been?
I wonder if they filmed that version and kept in the vault somewhere?
Woman: “John, it’s positive! You bastard! You told me you were sterile!”
Man: “Bitch, you told me you were on the pill!!”
I asked a drug rep acquaintance of my father’s once… (same company that makes these commercials)
She said they batted the idea around for a while, but dropped it because it was too controversial. They didn’t want right-to-lifers assuming the couple had decided to abort.
Robin
The EPT home-pregnancy test commercials really are as they tout-- real people finding out if they’re having a baby or not. The couples in the commercials were told that they were filming a documentary. They brought the women in, interviewed them about how a pregnancy would affect their lives, and how they felt about having a baby. They were tested, and their reactions to the results filmed.
The home preggo test I used when I suspected Cranky Jr was on the way came with a little keepsake card. It had a cute little heart-shaped cutout in which you could insert the part of the stick that had the two little lines. I thought, gee, I wanna save a pee-soaked piece of paper?
Of course, I’ve learned that once you have a kid, your attitude about pee and other bodily fluids gets a lot more blase…
a friend and I had a perfect idea for a pro-life commercial once (when high as kites) [we are both pro-choice by the way]
Okay here is the commercial:
You see a woman - and it damn well looks like she is having sex…
she goes: “yes!” “oh yes!” and so on… “I am coming! I am coming!”
Then you can see the film is being rewinded
and she goes "yes! " “oh yes!” “It is coming!”
then the line appears: “we are pro life.”
dodgy
Well, Dodgy, it could be worse. Picture if they have a product to test if she’s faking her orgasm…
“Oh God,oh God,…”
… cut to test…
“sorry, it didn’t turn blue. She’s NOT having an orgasm, you clumsy little man…”
Has anyone but me noticed the increase in types 1 & 3 over type 2? (I know there’s a better way to put that, but I can’t find it at the moment.)
Seems to me that when I first started seeing these ads (oh, lo these many years ago) there were lots of #2, quite a few #1, and only rare #3s. That seems to have reversed, and most of the commercials I see nowadays are #1, with quite a few #3, and only occasional #2s.
Or am I just imagining that?
Not exactly an “Oh, crap!” but there is an EPT radio commercial running around here that features a young-sounding woman talking about how worried she is not knowing whether she is pregnant or not. It’s pretty clear she does not want to be pregnant, and the ad leaves the test result up in the air.
I notice that wedding rings are always prominently featured upon the actors in these commercials; what’s up with that? Puritanism?
The mere phrase “home pregnancy test” sends chills down my spine.
Somehow I don’t think the image of a man standing in the toilet while trying to make the hairdryer reach the water without unplugging is the kind of thing that will sell pregnancy tests.