Crikey, how much TV do you watch? :eek:
Maybe it’s a Canadian thing, but here the first two are on heavily during the Family Feud–Wheel of Fortune block in the early evening.
The third is shown a lot on H2, for sure. The fourth is just … on, at all hours of the day! :mad:
EDIT: The second one at least is from the state of Georgia, so it can’t be just a Canadian thing.
No, I didn’t ask you when these commercials aired or on what networks but actually what were the commercials for? What were they selling. I just found your description of the commercials very vague and unidentifiable.
Jeeze, doesn’t everybody know that cancer, diabetes, and heart disease can be cured with GNC brand fish oil?
CMC fnord!
Some hairdressers (I’ve blotted the name out of my memory), a marine amusement park, Bud Light, and some breakfast treat, I think. Can’t be anymore specific than that, since I just switch them off now when they come on.
The OP seems to be under the impression that TV is an entertainment industry, and the commercials are there to support the entertainment. In fact, it’s an advertising industry, and the programs are there to keep us watching between commercials.
Proof to the mods that we really, really need a good rolleyes smiley.
But doctors don’t want you to learn that one weird tip that was discovered by a local housewife while she was earning $582 a week working from home.
To hear the newage types speak, they caused cancer, diabetes and heart disease. So, the advertisers are shifting markets to account for the needs of their viewers. The system is operating as planned.
:dubious:
It depends on what channel and what show you’re watching. Sports channels, you get The Most Interesting Man In The World pushing beer. Shows of interest to families (mostly women) feature commercials for cleaning products, water parks, and back to school sales. MTV - commercials for acne, shampoo, makeup. On all channels, commercials for cell phones and I-dunno-what-electrical-doodads.
What I want to know is how come the local housewives who discovered that thing in the UK, Spain, France, Germany and Sweden happen to be quintuplets.
See what socialized medicine does?
Maybe he could find a humiliating way to draw attention to it. 
Actually, I think that “warning” was thrown in to help the product sell.
Just don’t roll them too far back in your head, or they might get stuck that way. 
I’m diabetic and I do pay attention to the ads for Victoza, etc.
So tv ads are a better source of advice than your doctor, who is probably aware of miracle drug X and would suggest it if it were a good fit for your needs?
Or do the tv ads make you smarter than him/her, in which case you probably need a new doc, not a new drug?
Or does your insistence on getting the miracle of X just get them to prescribe it to get rid of you, since it’s no better or worse and if your insurance pays for it nobody cares if the real winner is the maker, who was going broke turning out a commodity drug?
Only two countries permit DTC ads for pharma. One of them has the most fucked up health system in the industrialized world. I think that’s telling.
Whatever. We don’t all have to be interested in the same things.
This is a fairly popular sentiment, and I just don’t get it.
Commercials for feminine hygiene products feature attractive young sporty women doing fun sporty activities. They’re smiling, running, jumping, and wearing form fitting clothing. What’s not to like?
The only reason to be put off by commercials for feminine hygiene products would be some personal ick factor regarding an entirely natural, necessary, and healthy human bodily function- the kind of ick factor that anyone over the age of thirteen should have outgrown.
Two little boys go into the grocery store. One is eight years old and the other one is five years old. The eight year old grabs a box of tampons from the shelf and carries it to the register for checkout.
The cashier asks, “Oh, these must be for your mom, huh?”
The eight-year-old replies “Nope, not for my mom.”
Without thinking, the cashier responded “Well, they must be for your sister then?”
The eight year old quickly responded, “Nope, not for my sister either.”
The cashier had now become curious “Oh. Not for your mom and not for your sister? Who are they for?”
The eight year old says, “They’re for my five year old little brother.”
The cashier is surprised “Your five year old little brother?”
The eight year old explains: “Well yeah, they say on TV if you wear one of these, you can swim or ride a bike and my little brother can’t do either of them!”
It’s not a matter of what either one of us is “interested in,” unless your interest is in the hot actor or car in the ad.
Drugs are like every other product, advertised for one and only one reason: because they are profitable for the maker. SmithKline isn’t desperate to make your life better, they’re desperate to get you to browbeat your doctor into switching you to their high-profit product from the commodity drug that’s just as effective but barely pays their light bill.
OK. You watch what you want and I’ll watch what I want. Keep rolling them eyes. But let me get your doctor on the line in case they stay like that for more than four hours. 