My dad is sitting on my couch, watching 60 Minutes, and a commercial just came on. Youngish guy (whom I should clearly recognize) looks out at the camera and says, "This holiday season, do you want to do something special for the woman in your life? Schedule her for a pap smear. Show you care, by giving her the gift even Santa can't give." Then a "cbscares" logo comes on - CBS cares, clearly, but of course I read it as CB Scares. Certainly, I am scarred for life. Yeah, I totally want my man scheduling my pap smears; I would totally rock his world after that.
ETA: He didn't say "the woman in your life" - he said "your woman." GROOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.
I just . . . I do not understand how this is an actual commercial.
I read it as "Scares," too. The thing that gets me the most, is that news stations including CBS were only just promoting fewer pap smears (following the "fewer mammograms" push a few days earlier). So this is how they're trying to make up for trying to kill off women with those recommendations?
I wasn't thrilled with the "Wymmins, you should schedule your mens for colonoscopies and prostate exams, because you know they're just dumb little boys who don't take care of themselves" adverts for the past several years, either. How about appealing to the intelligence and personal responsibility of your viewers, networks? I suppose that's too much to ask.
Yeah, I read about the fewer pap smears required, so what gives, CBS? Fortunately, I *don't* remember the colonoscopy/prostate exam commercials. Yikes.
(I'm a cancer survivor, but no-one wants to save my sexy, sexy thyroid. *sobs*)
But yay, you!
"Oooh, what do you have planned? A trip? A sexy day off together?"
"No, darling, I'll be at work, but I made an appointment for you to go have your cervix investigated."
*blank stare* "Thanks a bunch, but I did that two months ago."
Just watch, next year there'll be a Hallmark card for it. XD
Seriously, I got nothing.