Heartburn Indigestion Commercia
Q: I just saw an ad for a prescription heartburn medication.
The wife is pouring gravy on her husband's meat loaf. In mid-air, it
changes to a stream of steel pushpins. They freeze in mid-air and the
camera circles around them like in "The Matrix", only weird. Everyone
else at the table is happily chatting and completely ignoring the
guy's terrified expression as he attempts to eat a plate of meat loaf
covered with pushpins. He picks up a forkful of meat and spikes pop out,
in extreme close-up.
So, why the hell doesn't he divorce her?
can anyone explain this to me please?
A:You have clearly misunderstood this commercial, which is part of a
brilliant campaign to make heartburn sufferers second-class citizens. You
see, the commercial is implying that if you have heartburn, you're so crazy
that perfectly ordinary things like gravy and meat appear to be made of
hazardous metal!
Similarly, another commercial shows a heartburn sufferer at a cocktail
party, and while sane people hear, "Would you like a cocktail weenie?",
the heartburn sufferer, deep in her psychotic delusions, hears, "Would you
like to suffer incredible pain unlike any other known in this life?" This
is because heartburn = paranoid schizophrenia.
Basically, the entire thing is a ploy for pharmaceutical companies to sell
their anti-psychotic medication under a different name to people who get
heartburn a lot