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January 08, 2007

Who says ED ads are tacky?

Cialisx

This still from a TV ad shows a lighthouse as a very anatomically correct metaphor for the benefits of a drug that treats erectile dysfunction.

Subtle!


Posted by Ben McConnell on January 08, 2007 | Permalink

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I have no problem with the lighthouse ad -- hell, it's pretty much what we're talking about when we talk about ED. My problem is the timing of the ads. Let's let the kids watching sitcoms at 8 o'clock have their innocence a little longer.

Later in the evening? This is just fine.

Posted by: Adam at Jan 8, 2007 11:28:57 AM

If they had asked me to conceive of an ad, it's exactly what I would have come up with...when I was in seventh grade.

Why not just show a happy couple, and leave the juvenile imagery for the middle-school bathroom stall?

Posted by: Shmelke at Mar 14, 2007 9:06:04 PM

I just had ask somebody, why does every Cialis ad end with the couple in seperate bathtubs? Neither tub is hooked up to plumbing and there is no apparent dressing room. What is the deep meaning behind this? It escapes me. And lately I've only seen the black couple commerical aired. Did Eli Lilly find its target audience?

Posted by: Boyer at Jul 23, 2007 11:20:36 AM

How about the message within the concern
for "en erection that last more than 4 hours...".
Who you gonna call?

Posted by: Jeff B at Dec 21, 2007 3:12:59 PM

"Uh, doc, I've got a little problem, well, not exactly..."

Posted by: Mike L at Jan 21, 2008 10:17:47 PM

If one considers that the two bathtubs represent two testes and that the ramp leading up to them represent an erect penis, the image becomes more caracteristic of other Cialis ads.

Posted by: Randy Olli at Nov 12, 2008 6:02:55 PM



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