Thank goodness Christmas (Not Holiday) break is over and kids are back to school and I can get some work done. The other evening after a long hard day of coaching Basketball, of which I know nothing about and cooking dinner my son and I decided to sit down and watch one last episode of Man vs. Wild. A reality show of sorts on TLC that usually is family friendly.
We do not watch a lot of television in our household and I do my best to make sure he does not watch things that are inappropriate. Now this episode was on at 9 and it was his last evening of being able to stay up late as he was scheduled to start school yesterday and his bedtime is 830 so this was the final hoorah! Now my girlfriend told me about this TV commercial by FLO TV which just before the episode started came on and shows a mom cooking dinner, the husband comes in after a long day of work and the kids are asking if they can have milk and water or something like that. The Mom turns, looks at the clock and throws the bowl of cereal on one child, the other child’s plate on the floor and dumps a bag of something all over the children and the table. She stops and turns to her Husband and says I just need and hour and walks off to watch her own personal FLO TV Device. Seriously this is a great start to a family TV show or at least a PG rated TV show.
But it gets better, so the show starts and in this particular episode he his trying his survival skills out on a desert island somewhere in the Pacific. About half way through the show, we are playing a game of chess during the episode and as my son says EEWWW and covers his eyes I hear the word Enema come from the TV. As I look up the host is explaining and demonstrating how you can hydrate yourself with rancid water by giving yourself and enema. His lower half of the body blurred out as he takes a tube and pop bottle that had washed up on shore and begins to, well you know give himself an enema. No sooner do I change the channel than I hear my son ask me, “Dad what is a em-a-em-a-nam-m-na?”.
Between the commercial and the em-a-em-a-nam-m-na scene I have to wonder what Television, especially TLC has come to. I can see it now, My son sitting at the table dumping his Milk on his sisters forehead, turning to his mom and saying I just need an hour so I can go practice surviving by using an em-a-em-a-nam-m-na! Thanks TLC!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47-6ww9UUbU FLO TV Commercial
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YOU ARE NOT ALONE! I had to explain to my (then) 11 year-old son why the Viagra commercial running during the Super Bowl advised that you contact your doctor if an erection lasts longer than four hours. Even if the TV shows are rated “G,” the commercials fail.