Making it so
Sep. 1st, 2008 10:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captainsblogAh, nothing like a day off. No phones, no pool, no pets, and a Star Trek TNG marathon on Skiffy to rot my brain all day with.
And what better way to begin the marathon than by watching the Enterprise-D blow up real good, half a dozen times? Only to come out of it to encounter Captain Frasier Crane of the Soyuz-class Federation Starship Cheers?
Even more amusing was the selection of commercials chosen for this Very Special Episode. At least twice, the makers of Abilify came along to pitch their perfectly spooky bipolar medication. The once manic patient walks slowly along a stream as she recounts her past outbursts (and sees their ad in Womens Day magazine), but as the announcer finally gets to the selling points of the medication, she rounds the bend, sees her honey and smiles. They walk along a boardwalked path, accompanied by the voiced-over side effects of coma and death, and just when the announcer tells the audience to speak with your doctor if you have any thoughts of suicide?
They walk right to the edge of a freakin' cliff!
"Dudes!," I replied. "Suicide is a side effect, not a benefit of taking the meds!"
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Now we've gone back in time to beardless Riker, annoying Wesley, and Jean-Luc learning to use the holodeck. THIS hour's commercial of doom is Billy Mays trying to sell me health insurance. Sorry, but I'm really not comfortable entrusting my medical decisions to the recommendations of a guy whose biggest claim to fame is pulling a truck with his teeth using Mighty Putty.
For some reason, 3hough, I have 3his funny feeling 3ha3 I've seen 3his episode before.
And what better way to begin the marathon than by watching the Enterprise-D blow up real good, half a dozen times? Only to come out of it to encounter Captain Frasier Crane of the Soyuz-class Federation Starship Cheers?
Even more amusing was the selection of commercials chosen for this Very Special Episode. At least twice, the makers of Abilify came along to pitch their perfectly spooky bipolar medication. The once manic patient walks slowly along a stream as she recounts her past outbursts (and sees their ad in Womens Day magazine), but as the announcer finally gets to the selling points of the medication, she rounds the bend, sees her honey and smiles. They walk along a boardwalked path, accompanied by the voiced-over side effects of coma and death, and just when the announcer tells the audience to speak with your doctor if you have any thoughts of suicide?
They walk right to the edge of a freakin' cliff!
"Dudes!," I replied. "Suicide is a side effect, not a benefit of taking the meds!"
----
Now we've gone back in time to beardless Riker, annoying Wesley, and Jean-Luc learning to use the holodeck. THIS hour's commercial of doom is Billy Mays trying to sell me health insurance. Sorry, but I'm really not comfortable entrusting my medical decisions to the recommendations of a guy whose biggest claim to fame is pulling a truck with his teeth using Mighty Putty.
For some reason, 3hough, I have 3his funny feeling 3ha3 I've seen 3his episode before.
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