I RATE ADS

sjbooher: I am truly torn on this one. It is so ridiculous, corny and over-the-top, that it just might be good. A bunch of guys hanging out laughing, joking and having a good ol’ time, singing about Viagra! Really? Are you serious? So amazingly weird… and yet… engaging. And yet… so uncomfortable and awkward. Vi-vaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Viagra! Technically speaking, it is very hard to turn your head away, good or bad, before they get into the meat and potatoes of the product. I think this is both an A and an F, so I’ll give it a C.

jtherkal: I’m not torn. This is ridiculous. What about this would make you want to get Viagra? Not that guys who can’t get boners need any additional incentive…that alone sells the product. There must be 1000 smart executions that don’t involve making a group of guys look like fools. While the song might be mildly catchy, my reaction is, “I hope I’m never one of those guys.” I hope I’m never an old nerd who meets up with other nerds at some dusty roadside garage to sing about how we take pills to get boners. D+.

sjbooher: I will never understand your definition of nerd. Never. Also, that one guy looks like Sam Jackson… that has to count for something.

Holy smokes, what a colossal blunder this was. What is the logic behind having a drug dealer, who is kind of likable, tell you his business sucks? Before you jump on me, I get it, the message is to parents, that they should watch their medicine cabinets. But you know who else was watching the game? Kids. Kids who heard, “if you want to get high for free, quit paying your dope dealer, all you need are some of your parents’ pills.” I mean, maybe we should also have also told parents, “you should especially not leave OxyContin, Valium, Zanax, Adderall, and Vicodin lying around, because when you take those, you can get a really nice buzz.” Why not pass out lists of prescription drugs at schools? That’d be about as effective. Whatever happened to showing a kid with brain damage from drug abuse or a mom crying at a kid’s funeral? Stop trying to be so clever. A down on his luck drug dealer is not going to win the war on drugs, idiots. F.

The Hawk:
Ha, I liked it, of course. At least the first time. But I didn’t pay full attention — I thought it was just saying, “don’t blame the drug dealer for your kids doing drugs, blame yourself”. Seems like that would have been a good message. Still, maybe this will still open the eyes of some parents? But the Mouth may be right, and it may open the eyes of just as many kids. Hmm… I’m not a parent, nor have I done drugs, so I’m not even close to the target demographic here, so it’s too close to call. I’m going to take the cop out and go with C.