What is up with all those romantic ads with someone and their SO in two *separate *bath tubs?
If there is romance in the air, I want be in the same bath tub!
Is showing a couple in a large (hot)tub too much for regular TV?
Some previous scholarship on this topic:
http://buyhghtoday.com/cialis/what-is-the-significance-of-2-people-in-2-separate-bathtubs-in-the-cialis-commercials/
[ETA: hmm…it looks like there is a wealth of scholarship on this topic, but all in particular about cialis commercials.]
Well, let’s not forget that the ads are aimed at older customers. At least some of those people grew up in an era when TV rules didn’t even allow characters to be in the same bed together (even fully clothed in pajamas doing nothing sexual). Someone who grew up with that sensibility about sex is probably going to respond better to something that hints at sensuality, relaxation, comfort, intimacy and nudity, but in a metaphorical way.
Easier to film
Hell, it’s easy. The Cialis is working perfectly. There isn’t room in one bathtub for two people plus the result of the Cialis doing what it’s supposed to do.
So – get a bigger bath tub 
That hasn’t been true since the mid-60s and there were TV couples who shared beds long before that. I don’t think the companies are afraid of offending a viewer. In any case someone that squeamish is probably not the target audience for an impotence pill. I love this ad because it’s so absurd - I always think about the couple getting hot and heavy and then dragging two bathtubs out onto the hill overlooking their vineyard - but in any case I can think of two possible reasons for the separate tubs. One is that bathtubs aren’t built for two people. The other is a little closer to your theory: if you put two people in a bathrub and keep the camera at a distance, it could be seen as implying the couple is having sex right at that moment. I don’t think the advertisers want their viewers to get that impression.
The makers of the commercials should do this-----along with an explanation and some graphic shots of the results. Probably double their sales overnight.
Leaky bladders?
My first thought whenever I see those two bathtubs - especially when they’re somewhere like in the middle of an open field in the middle of nowhere - is “where the heck did they get all that water from?”.
My question is: why even one bathtub? Can’t they afford a hot tub like everyone else in California?
I actually think the reasoning went along the lines that water is suggestive, but the two of them in the same water is too explicit, since beds are never shown in ads like these. So, two tubs. One hope he doesn’t scare the horses on the way inside to actually do something, though.
If you put SO in your water filled bathtub it breaks down into H2SO4. Don’t do it!
What horseshit! We geezers may not wax our pubes and blat about our sex lives in public but we aren’t pearl-clutching Victorians. We also laughed our asses off at the double beds on TV way back in dinosaur days the same way you’re laughing at these commercials. What do you want them to show, actual pornography?
I kind of like the double bathtubs. What I laugh at is all the schmaltzy coy dancing in the kitchen, walking hand-in-hand through the woods, sitting on a rock by a pond gazing moonily at each other…:rolleyes: Except the hot old lady dancing the tango with her studly man. That’s kind of cute.
I don’t watch much TV and have never seen this. Is it anything like this?
There once was a man from Dallas
Who bathed after taking Cialis
This caused him such strife
t’was no room for his wife
but only his gigantic phallus
winner.
/thread.
I’m from Dallas
That why I know
About the
Gigantic Phallus
I made the same comment a few weeks ago on this Board.
Post #50 here:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=585616&highlight=Cialis
You have made my day. Many, many thanks!
What a great post. It made me laugh, especially the first line.