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Thursday, June 20, 2013
Cialis Voiceover Story (Joke) Ad
Over the usual video imagery of an attractive fifty-something couple interacting, the announcer says: "Your wife loves you, but your erectile dysfunction won't let you get a boner so you can't make sweet love to her anymore. Well, your wife initially read your apparent lack of sexual interest by thinking you didn't find her attractive enough anymore, which has upset her greatly, but now she thinks your lack of activity in the bedroom means you're having an affair with another, younger woman. Well, she was planning on divorcing you and taking the kids, the house, your sportscars, and everything else her lawyer can squeeze out of you, but now she's so angry that she's planning to kill you. Just think of it: the woman you love loathing you and becoming a murderess, being arrested, tried and sent to prison for life! What will happen to your children? Aside from becoming orphans, they'll never overcome the social stigma associated with this crime, which was committed purely because you couldn't get a boner and are too stubborn to get Cialis. Well, if you don't love your family enough to get Cialis, I guess that's up to you, but we think you're a real jerk for not caring enough about them to just do the one simple thing that would save them: buying Cialis. Look, you don't even have to use it if you don't want to, but if your wife finds it in your medicine cabinet, she'll realize what the problem is and know everything is fine with her own attractiveness and the fidelity of your marriage is still assured. (But for God's sake don't leave it in your briefcase, your coat pockets or your car!) So come on: just buy some Cialis already! And really: it's only because we care about you and your family staying together and not ending up as a violent statistic, as so many others do when the selfish man of the house refuses to get Cialis because he's too embarrassed or whatever about his flaccidity issue. Would it make you feel any better if I told you that I also have erectile dysfunction? Would you go ahead and get the Cialis and save your family already if I admitted that to you? I mean, it's not true: I swear I can get a boner; but we all know you can't, so come on already and get some Cialis, for your family's safety and happiness. If you don't, you know, she might just start cheating on you with the gardner or the pool boy, and then you'll be the one feeling ugly and perhaps conspiring to murder her, and all because you wouldn't just resign yourself to getting Cialis. Well, then it's your own fault, and I have no sympathy for you, because you're just a jerk. And getting Viagra or Levitra instead is cheating."