Sit right down and right a letter

Open Book ^ | October 21, 2006 | Amy Welborn

[NYer]

....excuse me while I dash one off to ABC.

Katie just got home from going to some haunted cave thing with a friend. She flipped on Turner Classics. The tail end of Gilda. She switched to ABC - showing Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Watched a few minutes. Commercial break.

For this. An ad that rather explicitly describes what NuvaRing, the great new contraceptive does and how it works.

During a Harry Potter movie?

From the website:

How does ABC determine which commercials to air?

All commercials and promotional announcements for ABC's programming are reviewed by our Department of Broadcast Standards and Practices to ensure compliance with company guidelines. We also impose scheduling restrictions on some commercials to make certain that they air only within programs appropriate to their target audience.

Here's the feedback page, if you'd like to join in. It will take 2 seconds.

(I've also been concerned about some of the commercials aired during Lost - all the more reason to tape n' view later.)

And Katie could not help but note the irony of the commercial that directly followed the one for NuvaRing -

Pampers.

[NYer]

While not restricted to Catholics, I'm relieved to know that I am not alone in protesting the commercial advertising on MSM. Recently, I watched one commercial where a young, good looking, woman steps into an elevator sporting a sexually suggestive expression on her face. The man in the elevator casts an admiring glance. What is she remembering? Why Betty Crocker Instant Bakes (or whatever it is called), or course. But the one commercial that gets me fuming is set in a beautiful field where two lovers are embracing (suggesting what's next). That commercial is for a product to reduce the flare up of genital herpes. C'mon folks! This is insane! Someone with genital herpes should not be passing it around to unsuspecting victims, with or without this pharmaceutical product. In fact, the commercial even states that it is not a cure. Then have the guy be honest with the girl! He will still need to purchase their product regardless, since this is a lifetime disease.

Feel free to post your most detested commercials.

[Bahbah]

That commercial is for a product to reduce the flare up of genital herpes.

I think that commercial is disgusting. It is trying to say "See, there is really nothing bad about this. It won't interfere with you continuing to have inappropriate sexual encounters. The fun's still on." Really awful.

There is another commercial that I have just noticed that I guess is for some sort of female sexual stimulant. I would find it offensive any time, but they are showing it during the day. It seems there just are no longer any limits.

[trimom]

Not to be flip about it all, but gosh, I miss the days of commercials for cigarettes. And I even remember being embarrassed by commercials for Playtex Cross-Your-Heart bras. Boy, were we innocent then......

[NYer]

Not to be flip about it all, but gosh, I miss the days of commercials for cigarettes. And I even remember being embarrassed by commercials for Playtex Cross-Your-Heart bras. Boy, were we innocent then......

"Call for P-H-I-L-L-I-P M-O-R-R-I-S!"

And to think that these commercials have been banned in favor of contraceptives and drugs to slow down our children in school. Whatever happened to boys being boys? When I was growing up, all disagreements were taken to the playground. Now, even that has ended. Boys must now act like girls. It's a fairly sick world in which we are attempting to raise our children.

[TradicalRC]

We canceled cable back in the mid-nineties. Unplugged the antenna at the turn of the century. You wouldn't believe how much better life is.

[Logophile]

We canceled cable back in the mid-nineties. Unplugged the antenna at the turn of the century. You wouldn't believe how much better life is.

We canceled our cable TV ten years ago. You are right—life is better without it.

[SaltyJoe]

Kill your TV before it kills you.

[Salvation]

Was that really the headline? Not "write" a letter? LOL!

Or maybe I could "left" a letter!

[bornacatholic]

You're tv free? I think you can be arrested for that, right?

[trisham]

She flipped on Turner Classics. The tail end of Gilda.

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Anyone know what the author intended to convey with this sentence?