Ask your doctor today about ass effects
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Ok. There is no way this company didn't realize Achiphex sounds like Ass Effects. This was not a mistake.
Posted by: Stephanie | May 2, 2008 3:39:05 PM
Similarly, there's an ad for an insurance company, I don't know which, with people standing on red dots. The first time I saw it, I thought they were standing in a puddle of their own blood. So I laugh whenever I see it now, and think of the Don Hertzfeldt cartoon "Rejected." "My anus is bleeding!"
Posted by: Ryan | May 2, 2008 4:31:19 PM
Dave- What's sadder is that they likely spent several hundred thousand having one of those "naming companies" come up with Aciphex.
In my next life I am going to start one of those naming companies. They get paid mind-boggling amounts of money to come up with names like Accenture and Aciphex.
Posted by: Toad | May 3, 2008 5:40:15 AM
Hey wait, I've heard of Aciphex!
Richard D. James (aka Aphex Twin) put out some tunes under that name back in the days!
Rock on!
Posted by: Dr. Banzai | May 3, 2008 6:58:02 AM
I nearly wet my pants when I first heard the Aciphex TV commercial. ASS EFFECTS is what I clearly heard. Did no one catch this little gem before it was decided on?
By the way, I saw Uranus tonight.
Toooooo funny!
Posted by: Amanda Hugginkiss | Apr 20, 2009 4:47:56 AM
I just heard this commercial again and always laugh every time I hear it.
I picture a big board room with the marketing guy at the front and his whiteboard pitching the idea... too funny.
I thought it was for something that might replace Preparation H at first.
Posted by: Matt | May 12, 2009 8:43:01 PM
