I forgot about this one, but I just saw it again! There’s a Viagra ad running on TV that shows some guy transporting horses with a horsie thingy hooked up to his pickup truck, and he’s just driving along until he gets stuck in the mud; so then he gets the horses out and they pull the truck out of the mud, and then he loads the horses back into the horse stall thingy and drives on, smiling all the way home. Now, I don’t really have to say what this ad suggests to me, now do I? I mean, come on!
The announcer should really say something like: “Are you sexually attracted to your horses, but the shame of bestiality prevents you from achieving an erection? Well, Viagra can solve that problem for you, so you can finally have that satisfying sexual encounter with your horses you’ve been dreaming of!” I mean, honestly, are they intending to send that message? That’s what it looks like! And I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one who has had this cross their mind while watching this ad! And I don’t even like horses that way, but maybe that’s just because I can’t afford them. But hey, maybe there’s a really big market for cowboys who “love” their horses. Who knows?
The announcer should really say something like: “Are you sexually attracted to your horses, but the shame of bestiality prevents you from achieving an erection? Well, Viagra can solve that problem for you, so you can finally have that satisfying sexual encounter with your horses you’ve been dreaming of!” I mean, honestly, are they intending to send that message? That’s what it looks like! And I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one who has had this cross their mind while watching this ad! And I don’t even like horses that way, but maybe that’s just because I can’t afford them. But hey, maybe there’s a really big market for cowboys who “love” their horses. Who knows?
The alternate reading for this ad is, of course, that if your ability to get an erection becomes stuck in the mud, and you’re just spinning your wheels trying to get it up, Viagra will drag it out of impotence for you like a team of horses. Um, I’m starting to think that other reading might be the less insulting one for their potential customers. I mean, maybe there really are people who need Viagra because they want to have sex with their horses, and to everyone else, that ad just seems really funny. But I’ll bet nobody wants to think about how they’ve been “stuck in the mud” or “spinning their wheels” in the bedroom. But I’ll bet their wives love to insult them with that kind of imagery comparison whenever they get into an argument!
The ad is not available to see on the internet as far as I know, so sorry there’s no link to it, as you’ve just got to see it to believe it!
No, wait: I have found it at last! Here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I4xBCq_cpw
(BTW: On March 13, 2013, Jerry Seinfeld made a joke very similar to what joke I made in the third paragraph of this post on The Tonight Show. I'm sure Jerry doesn't read this blog, but I'm proud to be able to say that I have written essentially the same joke as Jerry Seinfeld independently at least once.)
No, wait: I have found it at last! Here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I4xBCq_cpw
(BTW: On March 13, 2013, Jerry Seinfeld made a joke very similar to what joke I made in the third paragraph of this post on The Tonight Show. I'm sure Jerry doesn't read this blog, but I'm proud to be able to say that I have written essentially the same joke as Jerry Seinfeld independently at least once.)
