I’m just upset that Bob has a big-ass grin, but no PIPE!!!
Hmm. I guess I thought his pained smile was a combination of things.
If a simple little pill puts an end to a year’s worth of blueballs, heck, why shouldn’t he grin like a douchebag? Besides, I think this guy’s absolutely got to smile; after all, based on what we know about shoe size, he’s walking around with a frickin’ Mag-Lite in his pocket.
It’s one thing to have to shield your eyes when a buddy gets off the school bus with only a potted plant from Home Economics to hold in front of him. But let’s say I went to a barbecue and spied some freak sidling up, jabbing out at me through his Haggar slacks, only his puss looks like he just sat on a cactus. I’d be terrified. The shit-eating grin, at the very least, makes me feel like he’d be attentive to my needs.
In other words, despite the disparaging words of the lovely MsRobyn, I’m shocked more women aren’t flaming this ad, strictly for its implication.
Trust me, that is not where my screen name comes from! :o
It’s kind of delicious that the Religious Right can’t rail against the discussion of boners on TV, ever since Bob Dole did the Viagra commercials. (And what a strange symbol of male sexuality he was.)
“What the hell is this, some kind of a tube?” 
I thought his “pipe” was the whole point…
“I’m gonna tear them a new corn chute!”
I actually kinda like the Enzyte commercials. At least they don’t take themselves as seriously as all the other “male enhancement” products.
I can’t stand Viagra, with it’s roster of big stars (Bob Dole, Rafael Palmeiro, etc.) trying to convince us to “ask your doctor for a free sample.”
And there’s another brand (Levitra? can’t remember now) that goes for the overt symbolism approach, with a middle-aged man throwing a football through a swinging tire in his back yard. At first, he keeps missing, but after taking the product, he finds the hole perfectly every time. Get it? Get it?
After that sort of crap, the Enzyte commercials are refreshingly lighthearted.
I think I only saw the one with the Japanese business men. Pretty corny. Reminds me of the Viagra ad, I think it was, where that guy is walking around the office and all of his coworkers are like “Hey, you get a hair cut?” and “Did you loose weight?” . Of course, if I were in charge of that add, he’d just turn around and say “No, you’re just noticing my enormous boner.”
Actually, that middle-age man is Mike Ditka, the former coach of the Chicago Bears football team.
I think MAD TV parodied this and had the guy walking around his office in all kinds of uncomfortable situations (bumping into other people in the elevator, knocking pictures off of a desk as he walked by, etc.)
Ditka does Levitra ads, but that’s not him throwing the ball through a tire. That’s some no-name doofus.
Fuck me, is that what that’s for? I just always assumed it was an arthritis drug or something like that, because that’s what aging football players/coaches are inevitably promoting…
As dantheman points out, Ditka is in a different ad. The guy in my ad is some generic, square-jawed guy with a wife who looks about 15 years younger.
Obviously, you’re not a follower of J. R. “Bob” Dobbs, High Epopt of the Church of the SubGenius.
Or maybe I was just making a penis joke.
Yeah, and the next thing you’ll try to tell me is that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, but I ain’t buyin’ it, buddy.
Well, you can’t expect people to just give you a cigar.
The commercials don’t bother me…they can cause akward moments of silence when they come on around friends and family, but sometimes they’re funny. The people in those commercials always look sweaty though. What’s with that?
I dunno, are these commercials any better/worse than commercials for pills that supposedly make your boobs bigger? (bloussant)
Forgive me for being dense, but whenever discussions of Viagra like products or their ilk come up, I have a hard time telling whether or not people have a problem with just the commercial itself, or the fact that drugs exist that help men having trouble with getting erections?
Have men become so emasculated by society that they aren’t allowed to have erections anymore?
Enzyte is for your COCK!?!?!
I thought those were spleen enlargement pills?