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CritterSitter: It is a shame to hear all our old hits used in some lame commercials. Most of the younger generations don't even know where the lyrics come from. Is there no longer any originality?
I hate all those commercials, too. Obviously, the music is to catch the Boomers' attention. Whenever my teenaged daughter hears an old classic song used in a commercial, she'll say "I notice they're targeting your age group again!"
I have yet to see ONE ED commercial that is not a source of embarrassment to MEN. The worst is the take on "Viva Las Vegas" with the group of middle aged men singing the praises of Viagra in an empty bar. It's so pathetic and degrading --I just don't get IT.
I haven't seen the Viva Viagra commercial you're referring to but I'm sure glad erections only last a couple of hours for me now on that blue pill. Guess a doctor needs to deflate or something after four hours?? ..would sure hate to be rushed to the hospital with my, you know what, strapped to my leg so as not to create a scene.
Viagra has been around for 10 years. Is there anybody out there that does not know the brand? Maybe those cavemen from Geico... But I doubt cavemen would suffer from ED. Pfizer is so desparate to maintain market share they have to resort to what they do best- sell the dream. The other ED treatments are as good or better than the little blue pill.
PFE Sidebar: The company has bought and subsequently strip mined so many companies because they can't innovate themselves. Their top flight management can't effectively manage the pig. So sad... They have ruined so many lives of the employess they "adapted to scale" while giving their yes men/women senior management huge incomes. Jeff Kindler, their CEO is nothing more than a lawyer turned hatchet man. He did a real bang up job running Boston Market- and using those skills to get the empire through their patent cliff. Anybody holding/buying this stock needs to smell the coffee- they have a pipeline to know where. Enough said.
Not to hijack the thread, as ED commercials are just banal.
However, I get a kick out of those sleep aid commercials with Abe Lincoln, the talking groundhog (or whatever he is), and the deep sea diver.
The one where the groundhog accuses Abe Lincoln of cheating at chess makes me chuckle. ("He cheats..." "Honest Abe?"
I love those sleep aid commercials! They always make me laugh a little.
About viagra. I work in a pharmacy and for the past month, every time I grab viagra off the shelf to fill an Rx, that stupid song is always in my head. It's annoying and stupid, and I always find myself hoping that I won't be that cheesy at 60something. But hey, the tune's catchy, and isn't that the ultimate marketing goal--to make you remember?
I hate all of these drug commercials, viagra, any of them. Its getting worse. I just got home from picking up my script for diabetes meds. Now on the pamphlet that explains the med I am on is an attachment. The attachment tells me about Januvia as an even better drug for Diabetes than I am now taken. Just like the drug commercials on TV it tells me to ask my Doctor about is Januvia right for me. I am very concerned about the drug advertisements in this country, as well as this bull of asking our doctors if a drug is right for us. It is the doctors business to tell us what drug is right or wrong for us.
Don't care for the ED commercials any more than I care for any other ridiculous commerical. That's why I love the remote control! I mute it or change the channel.
You have to admit though, whether one hates the commerical or not, Pfizer accomplished the goal of getting consumers' attention and have them discussing the product - which in turn may result in sales.
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Humiliating..............
