Tylenol Commercial 


Thanks to Tivo, I don't see too many commercials, but tonight I was semi-paying attention and out of the corner of my eye saw this screen completely filled with a pore-revealing close-up of some woman shot by a semi-drunken baboon. It was for Tylenol. The woman went on to explain that she gets a lot of headaches "almost every day" and that she used to just take whatever was laying around to alleviate the pain. But then she learned that aspirin could cause problems with her stomach - problems she couldn't even feel! And she says - "I'm not OK with that." So she started taking Tylenol and now life is all peaches and clean toilets.

What strikes me as really freaking strange about this is that she says she gets headaches almost every day. But somehow this concerns her not one whit. It's the theoretical damage to her stomach that gives her sleepless nights. That brain tumor keeps growing in her frontal lobe, but at least her stomach is A-OK!

Just nobody tell her about the damage to her liver that could be occurring by taking the stupid Tylenol every damn day. She wouldn't be OK with that.

I personally nominate this for the dumbest commercial of the year.

Update: Check it out! An actual copy of the commercial. (2.0 MiB, Quicktime) 

 

Posted: Mon - August 22, 2005 at 09:33 PM          

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