Do Canoes Distract from Drug Side Effects?

[Chip]

I don’t watch live TV much because I like to fast-forward through the commercials. Yesterday, I had the TV going while I couldn’t get to the remote, and a drug commercial played. I happened to glance at it and a nice canoeing scene was being shown as background to the side effects. That made me rewind it and play it again. I timed it. The side effects part of the add went on for 33 seconds. The add dedicated more time to the side effects than to the drug’s benefits. Two different canoe scenes are merged for the add while the announcer rapid-fire vocalizes the side effects, which include death. What does canoeing have to do with it? That swelling between the anus and genitals must make paddling uncomfortable!

Why canoeing?

 

[Tryin']

Name that canoe:

 

[recped]

Do Canoes Distract from Drug Side Effects?​

In my experience they (drugs) enhance rather than distract...........


FYI - In the past couple of years there have been a number of pharmaceutical ad campaigns that feature canoes, sometimes even with SOLO canoes.

 

[Black_Fly]

If you check side effects on ChatGPD, you can get validation for ANYTHING you are experiencing. I’m currently struggling with tinnitus, likely from my days of elk guiding, with guns going off around me. Every drug I take can cause it according to ChatGPD. Are they worsening a problem, causing it? IDK, but you can take ChatGPD with a grain of salt. Reading the reams of fine print that come with a drug refill will make you never want to take anything.

 

[stripperguy]

Anyone smell burning feathers? (obscure reference to a Billy Bob Thorton line in the 2001 movie "Bandits")
I would guess the inclusion of canoes in these pharma ads is supposed to connote a relaxed, healthy lifestyle...