While it sounds contradictory, it is actually sensible. The “six is greater than one” is for seasonal allergy medication. As such, there is low risk to health, so blocking several factors makes sense.
Meanwhile, the other product is for a blood thinner, where warfarin, the current standard, is very dangerous and has to be closely monitored to keep you from dying. It’s actually used as rat poison. In that instance, only targeting one select factor and controlling it is much better, because you are much less likely to have unintended croakage. The new blood thinners don’t require constant blood monitoring the way warfarin does.
My dog sheds like crazy. When I take her out in the backyard I pull chunks of hair off her so it won’t end up in the house and so the birds can use it in their nests. She sometimes objects to this and gives me a dirty look. Today I pictured that hair-replacement commercial with awestruck Peter Brady saying “This is my hair. This . . . is . . . my . . . hair.”
Slightly off-topic but since I brought up the subject in the first place… My wife and I stopped at the Walgreens drive-thru the other night to pick up a few of my prescriptions, one of which was a Cialis refill. But there was a problem with the insurance on that one. The pharmacist said sometimes he could get it to go through by lowering the count, so he tried sending it back through a few times with fewer and fewer pills. Finally my wife pipes up “Maybe they want you to get the single pack!” snerk
More of a commercial trope than a specific one (although I heard an ad today that spurred my thought) but I hate this:
Customer: I need a crate of Gizmos!
Customer Service: I can do that.
Customer: And I need them shipped to Whosville!
CS: I can do that
Customer: And I’ll need them there tomorrow by ten!
CS: I can do that!
Customer: And I need a date for my friend’s wedding/I need to know how to fix grout/I need to know which shirt to wear/I need some other asinine request completely unrelated to your profession
To which the Service Rep either laughs and demurs or else gives some sort of suggestion. Any commercial with this makes me just wonder WTF is wrong with the customer and earns a “I hate this commercial” sticker.
‘One Way Or Another’ as music for a Swiffer ad! I actually kinda like this one. Why NOT? The crazy 80’s are long gone, Blondie is 70, we all have to clean our floors…
ABC News online has a story about a toxic chemical spill shutting down an area highway.
The sponsor (whose ad airs before you can see the accompanying video) is the TruGreen lawn care company (previously known as ChemLawn before it, uh, greened up). The ad shows a TruGreen employee using a gigantic mosquito-fogging spray device.
Somehow I don’t think that’s the sort of exposure the company intended.
Volkswagen commercial showing the car rocking in the wilderness with steamy windows then being traded in by the owners with a new baby for a larger model. They go through a Beetle and Jetta and some smaller crossover SUV, each time steaming up the windows and making new babies.
I’m no prude and fully aware that people boink in cars (perhaps not as often as they did when cars came with sofas in back) but each time they show that car a-rockin’ and then immediately show some other guy driving off in it, I’m thinking “Ewwww”.
Actually, I love that commercial. It’s cute, the song they put it to has now made my iTunes list (Dean Martin, singing “The Birds and the Bees”), and the fact that at the end the VW is rocking because the kids and the dog are going wild in it gives you enough pause to wonder if the linkage you’ve been making in your mind is truly valid.
There’s a Dominos Pizza spot playing now that seems to be trying to make the case that franchise owners are decent, honest folks like you and I. One wonam proclaims, “I used my college savings to buy my store!”
What the fuck are college savings?!?!
The brokest I’ve ever been was that time right after graduation.
Also, in case you haven’t heard, Papa Johns workers are part of a family now.
There’s a Ruby Tuesday commercial running right now that features a girl singing about the various offerings at this establishment. At one point, she’s singing about “chicken and salmon,” but her singing style is so fast and breathy that it sounds like she’s saying “sh*ttin’ that salmon.”
Then again, this is a chain that seems to think rice pilaf should include melted orange cheese, so that might actually happen.
I actually kinda like this one. Why NOT? The crazy 80’s are long gone, Blondie is 70, we all have to clean our floors…
