<p>Oh, I am joking about the critters. Of course I know fungus isn’t critters … but there are plenty of folks who will be swayed by the creepy image & will do whatever it takes to get rid of them … including rationalizing the side effects. Too bad.</p>
<p>My vote for worst side effect … sudden, explosive diarrhea! If that’s what it takes to lose the last stubborn 10 pounds, I prefer the pudge.</p>
<p>Kelsmom,
The company that produces Enzyte (of those smiling Bob commercials) just was convicted of fraud and money laundering. [The</a> Associated Press: Enzyte Maker Found Guilty of Fraud](<a href=“http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gk4wBhEIdtWWF7hvr9C3Jl7pZ1XQD8UVNMKG0]The”>http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gk4wBhEIdtWWF7hvr9C3Jl7pZ1XQD8UVNMKG0)</p>
<p>Poor Bob!</p>
<p>…“I thought the worst one was the Cialis ad with Mike Ditka a few years ago - he kept throwing a football thru a tire swing.”…</p>
<p>Not that it really matters, but the Ditka ad is for Levitra…(the company I work for ;))</p>
<p>The problem with viagra and the time limit is the same thing that happens with long airplane flights or car trips: When blood sits still for a while, it starts to clot. Not exactly something you want to happen in certain parts of the body.</p>
<p>I was a big fan of Smilin’ Bob from the Enzyte commercials. The product is a complete fraud, but the ad was quite good.</p>
<p>My favorite visual metaphor for the ED commercials is the guy struggling to “throw a football through a tire”, if you know what I mean. I guess a lot of older men just don’t have the throwing arm they used to.</p>
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That was the creepiest one yet. It was awful!!!</p>
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<p>Funny :D</p>
<p>My 15 year old is amused by the side effect that lasts for so many hours. He isn’t quite sure if he should be impressed or horrified!</p>
<p>When Enzyte’s fraud conviction was announced, there were also many comments around here about profits shriveling, assets deflating, etc… ;)</p>
<p>Kelsmom, he should be horrified, we were taught that priapism is excurciatingly painful - feels good for the first 15 minutes, then Oh No!</p>
<p>Laxmom, I guess the Levitra ad wasn’t too effective, since I couldn’t remember which brand of drug it was! Although as a female I probably wasn’t the intended audience…</p>
<p>I wish there was some way I could tell that to the spammers hawking various potions to me…um, I don’t have one of those, so I don’t need it, thank you…My filters catch most of it, but there’s always a few that sneak in.</p>
<p>4 hours. hmmm…
That’s apparently the block of time Spitzer reserved at the Mayflower last month. Maybe we’ll see his face hawking ED drugs next?
Yeah, I REALLY hate those commercials. Once during a big family gathering for a sports event, an 8 year old family member belted out “Daddy, what’s Cialis?” during the stupid bathtub commercial (even though we muted it!). Oh my.
Well, I kind of like tuning into Brian Williams at 6:30 once in a while but I figured out that the audience is target market for ED and Statins. Yuk. So I tape it sometimes and just fast-forward. Best thing you can do…</p>
<p>All I know is when I see any of the ED commercials, they all just seem to be having such a darn good time - shopping, dancing, hopping in the ol’ matching bathtubs. We don’t do any of those things together in OUR house. Somehow, I just don’t think those medications make the men any more interested in those things than they would be without the medication.</p>
<p>On a more serious note, I wonder if doctors ask their 80 year old male patients how their 80 year old spouse is going to like their newfound virility???</p>
<p>“We don’t do any of those things together in OUR house.”</p>
<p>Especially the one where they are in the kitchen making googly eyes at each other, headed for the bedroom, when the kitchen faucet falls apart and spews water everywhere. Ha, ha, ha… yeah, right. Um…the laughter and playful water fight wouldn’t be what happened next around here…!!! (I bet she’s been asking nicely for him to fix that faucet for quite some time, don’t you think!!!)</p>
<p>Toneranger’s post reminded me of the time our family & D’s friend were playing dominoes. The girls were in 4th grade. All of a sudden D sang out at the top of her lungs, “Trojan man!” H & I were so caught off guard that we almost fell off our chairs laughing … then composed ourselves enough to explain that it’s not an appropriate thing to sing. And that is exactly why I wish those commercials would be limited to later evening hours. I don’t advocate censorship … but I just think SENSE-orship exercised by companies would be much appreciated.</p>
<p>Much like the Prom Dress thread; The Dress is more important than the Date. The ED pills is for The Affect and which is far more important than the Date.</p>
<p>I’m wishing for the drug that gets rid of midlife itchy b*tchy sleepy grumpy crabby pre menopause symptoms ! Come up with a pill that instantly put a middle aged woman in menopause and it would sell billionsof $$$$</p>
<p>Don’t know if this has been mentioned, but I like how the ad mentions something like: when the time is right, you’ll be ready.</p>
<p>I can just imagine this dude, in the middle of their cutesy dish washing together, all of a sudden screams, “Honey I’m ready, hurry up, NOW!”</p>
<p>^^^So they drop the dishes, hurry off to a cosy corner, and then the four-hour thing suddenly kicks in!</p>
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<p>In the SNL parody a couple of years ago the ad said “If you have an erection lasting more than four hours call up your friends and brag about it.”</p>
<p>I don’t know if this was from an ED commercial, but I just about died after hearing a commercial proclaim that the benefits of the product outweigh the risks.</p>