Deuce-and-a-Half Guys; Tampax Commercial
Category: Advertising... TV & Radio...
Posted Sunday, January 11, 2004 at 10:01 PM [GMT-6]

"Two and a Half Men" has just won the People's Choice Award for Best New Comedy. Watching this show is a guilty pleasure that I'll cop to. It has absolutely no redeeming social value, other than being funny as all get-out. Charlie Sheen is, in my humble opinion, one of the top three sitcom actors on TV today (and I would say that he's the best, but I really don't want to get into a huge flame war that leads to massive de-linking, threats of legal action and drive-by shootings. I'm still smarting from the last such episode.).

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And, on an entirely unrelated note, except that it's something that showed on the same program, I just saw a commercial where a young lady uses a tampon to plug a hole in the hull of a rowboat.

OK, I realize that Arm & Hammer has done a wonderful job of pitching the multiple practical uses of baking soda (eg. refrigerator detox, dental hygiene, makeshift flux material for TIG welding), and this is a very legitimate market-expansion tactic for many consumer products. But, still...

BTW, I just made up the TIG welding thing.

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Comments

You're watching an awards show? You're frightening me. Please tell me the remote was lost.

Posted by: Scott Chaffin at January 12, 2004 07:56 PM

Hey, don't give me that Mr. Macho Tough Guy act. I know you're married, and I know that when YOUR wife takes over the remote control, you cower like a schoolgirl. Don't try to tell me otherwise.

Posted by: Eric at January 12, 2004 08:15 PM

I did the smart thing and invested in a Tivo and a seperate teevee. We never talk anymore, but there is peace in the valley, and that's what counts. That, and not cowering like a schoolgirl.

Posted by: Scott Chaffin at January 13, 2004 10:03 AM

Yeah, talking is way overrated anyway.

Posted by: Eric at January 13, 2004 10:07 AM
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