Saturday, July 04, 2009

Aleve TV commercial

Seems to me that TV commercials are mostly unbelievable. Most are quite unbelievable - e.g. elves baking cookies, talking cars, that sort of thing. But many are subtly unbelievable.

Saw a TV commercial for Aleve. The set up is the aisle of a nameless pharmacy, drug store, etc. It looks unnaturally crowded with people. And by crowded, I mean three people standing close to one another. (I don't recall going to any store and huddling with random strangers in the aisles - instead, everyone gives each other a pretty wide berth.)

One of the persons starts talking to himself after picking up a non Aleve brand and reading the instructions, muttering something about having to take a lot of pills to help relieve arthritis pain. A woman standing no less than two feet away from him, picks up a different non Aleve brand, and says to no one in particular (even though there are two total random strangers standing close enough that she can stick her tongue in their ears at the same time without moving) something about having to take something like 80 pills over the next ten days.

I don't watch a lot of TV so I never got a DVR - I don't even know what one looks like. I like the idea of skipping commercials. But if I was able to skip commercials, this blog would be even more lame than it already is.

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