{"id":1321,"date":"2008-08-18T14:55:33","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T13:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2008\/08\/18\/yes-i-want-to-go-to-the-bathroom\/"},"modified":"2016-08-18T14:04:25","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T14:04:25","slug":"yes-i-want-to-go-to-the-bathroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2008\/08\/18\/yes-i-want-to-go-to-the-bathroom\/","title":{"rendered":""Yes! I want to go to the bathroom!""},"content":{"rendered":"

So who else remembers that great line from the film Crazy People?<\/a> It featured Dudley Moore as an off-the-rails, burnt-or-burning-out ad exec who is chucked into a psychiatric hospital and then winds up (with the assistance of some of his fellow patients, one of them played by Darryl Hannah) doing something absolutely unthinkable: basing print and TV ad campaigns on the truth.<\/p>\n

There are some hilarious fake ads in the film. \u201cBuy Volvo! It\u2019s boxy, but it\u2019s good!\u201d, one urges. Or: \u201cPorsche! It\u2019s a little too small for you to get laid inside. But you\u2019ll get laid as soon as you get out!\u201d And at the end of the film, there\u2019s also this wildly un-PC fake Sony commercial <\/a>that explains why Eastern electronics are so superior to Western ones.<\/p>\n


\n<\/embed><\/center>But the ad from the movie that sticks most in my mind is a Metamucil ad. It says straightforwardly that if you don\u2019t take Metamucil so that you can move your bowels regularly, you\u2019ll get cancer and die. The next thing you see is a shot of a pharmacy being mobbed (and cleaned out of Metamucil) by middle-aged-and-older people frantically waving promotional coupons that say, \u201cYes!<\/em> I want to go to the bathroom!\u201dFor some reason, that was the line that flickered immediately through my mind when I ran into this (and thanks to Mark Evanier <\/a>for the link: )<\/p>\n

The Imodium Bathroom Finder<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2026Brought to you by a company that specializes in OTC antidiarrheal preparations. This would seem at first glimpse like a really useful online resource.<\/p>\n

However, alas, there\u2019s a catch. It appears that if you are anywhere but in the continental US, you are (so to speak: forgive me if the idiom suggests itself\u2026) s**t out of luck. I guess the rest of us are all just going to have to hold it in.<\/p>\n

Tags: Crazy+People<\/a>, Imodium<\/a>, Immodium<\/a>, bathroom<\/a>, toilet<\/a>, finder<\/a>, USA<\/a>, bathroom<\/a>, Dudley+Moore<\/a>, Darryl+Hannah<\/a>, diarrhea<\/a>, diarrhoea<\/a>, Metamucil<\/a><\/p>\n

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