Life Observation # 182 On Demand and its recurring ad themes

Life Observation # 182 On Demand and its recurring ad themes

While I was at mamas recently I started trying to catch up on several television shows since I’ve not had “live tv” for several months.  On Demand is a great thing to allow you to catch up on things that you have missed over the last season.

I like the Dick Wolf Chicago series “Chicago Fire, Chicago Med, and Chicago PD”.  Great writing, story-telling and the cast on all three shows are interesting to watch and I especially like the crossover shows story lines.  There is depth to things much like Steven Bochco/Michael Kozoll’s “Hill Street Blues” in the early 1980’s.  Both series are shown on NBC so I guess quality television seems to be still around.

That production quality might not seem to carry over in its commercials with On Demand.  I have been watching all three Chicago shows as I catch up and there are repeated commercials for Viagra, Sprint, and Cialis shown multiple times per episode.  They thankfully are not the standard 60 second commercial but a briefer 20 or thirty second one quickly covering the subject.  I think the demographic is not the under 35 year old crowd especially all the ED commercials.

Sprint uses the old ad man “Paul” from the “Do you hear me now?” Verizon commercials who is now pitching the new Sprint plan with better coverage and bashing Verizon a little bit too.

The Cialis commercial left me wondering . . . if it really worked so well wouldn’t the couple be in the “same” tub together enjoying the sunset?

I noticed this latest batch of Viagra commercials have the different women (usually about 15 years younger than the man shown, what’s up with that?) all going for the “standard” pose lying across the bed.  I’m wondering why in these latest commercials none of the men’s faces are shown.  This differs from the earlier ones with the various occupation men in them.  There is the jogger, the bridge builder, the cowboy, the guy who sails his boat alone, camper dude who can make a fire, and the fisherman who has been away commercial fishing getting back to his wife.  All of their faces shown; the bridge builder usually plays a bad guy in movies or television shows and gets killed off at the end.

It kind of reminds me of many years ago the lady who did the Preparation H commercial who could never get more work after that since she was known for her hemorrhoids.  “Breaking Bad” co-star Bryan Cranston’s 1980’s Preparation H commercial didn’t keep him out of work but possibly helped get him out of some “tight” situations on his BB show.

The things that I ponder?

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