![]() ![]() It plays perfectly on the tropes of horrible birth control and feminine hygiene product commercials - Remember "Talk to your doctor about Yaz?." Apparently having your period turns you into a raging she-devil, so you better get a pill that only brings your crimson curse once a year. "Once a year, period," the tagline boasts. It was always a treat to see head writer Tina Fey pop up in a sketch or a fake ad, and this 2008 sketch for a birth control pill called "Annuale" is sheer gold. SNL ads are no joke: Adam Tucker from Ogilvy & Mather Advertising New York said "Secretly, we all covet the opportunity to create work that SNL will spoof." Here are 13 of the best faux-mercials from SNL's 40 seasons, in no particular order. It's no telling whether or not the star-studded, comedy dream event that has a three-hour time slot will showcase some new spoof ads, but I'd bet that the enormous guest list has a few tricks up their sleeve to peddle new products or bring back old ones. ![]() So imagine my surprise when I looked up the ad and found it aired in 2003. ![]() I grew up in an SNL household, and I still remember the Mom Jeans commercial with Tina Fey like it was yesterday. Weekend Update and the Digital Shorts are gems of the show, but nothing has stood the test of time like SNL's wealth of infomercial, clothing, household cleaners and feminine hygiene product spoofs. As the show gears up for their outrageous and sure to be incredible SNL 40 event, we have to pay homage to one of the best parts of the show: the fake advertisements that are often too real and make us think about all the crap we buy. What Alli will not do is make up for not living a healthy lifestyle.There's Don Draper and his Mad Men, and then there are the Saturday Night Live writers that create the infamous SNL spoof ads. “We call them treatment effects - that’s a signal for you that you’re not staying in the guidelines. “It’s so important to understand that you must adopt a low-fat, healthy lifestyle,” Jones says. One grande Starbucks Caramel Frappuccino contains 15 grams of fat, and if an Alli user adds even a low-fat muffin to that meal, it could get icky. Alli users take one pill with every meal, and to avoid an “Alli oops,” they should eat less than 42 grams of fat a day, or about 15 grams per meal. The diet pill works by blocking 25 percent of fat from being digested. ![]() For example, if someone were to lose 10 pounds from dieting, they’d lose 15 by combining their diet with Alli. The drugmaker states very clearly that it’s no miracle drug, and only promises to help people toward moderate weight loss. “People who don't live well, who stuff themselves with bags of snacks, in desperation they reach out for a pill.” “The pill offers the promise of convenience, that someone has done the job for you,” says Adam Drewnowski, director of the Center for Public Health Nutrition at the University of Washington in Seattle. Now that it’s available in many major drugstores and grocery chains, it’s not just for the obese with a doctor’s prescription in hand - anyone who wants to lose a few can try it. That anticipation refers to the origin of Alli it’s the newly approved over-the-counter form of the prescription weight-loss drug Xenical. “But we don’t know if it’s going to last - there was a lot of pent-up anticipation.” Jones declined to share any specific numbers. “We know it’s selling very well - better than we expected,” says Brian Jones, a GlaxoSmithKline spokesman. (Anderson does, however, arm them with this helpful tip: “I tell the patients, try when you have a day off.”) “I think they’re excited that it’s an over-the-counter product,” Uyu says.Īnd even though pharmacist Miyuki Anderson, who works at a Bartell Drugs in Seattle, warns everyone who eyes the Alli display about the messy side effects, it doesn’t stop most of them from buying the diet pill. At one Los Angeles-area Walgreens, pharmacist Susie Uyu’s seen customer after customer march directly through the store toward the prominent Alli display. Still, it seems there’s no shortage of people willing to risk public humiliation to shed a few pounds. ![]()
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