Fox, CBS Ban Pig 'Condom' Ad

NewsMax.com ^ | Monday, June 18, 2007 | NewsMax

[jacknhoo]

Fox, CBS Ban Pig 'Condom' Ad

The Fox and CBS networks have both declined to air an ad for Trojan condoms that features cellphone-carrying pigs on the prowl.

The ad depicts women in a bar surrounded by cellphone-toting pigs. One of the swine heads off to the men’s room where it obtains a condom from a vending machine — and "is transformed into a head-turner in his 20s,” The New York Times reports. "When he returns to the bar, a fetching blonde who had been indifferent now smiles at him invitingly.”

The commercial is part of a new ad campaign by Trojan called "evolve.” The message: "Evolve. Use a condom every time.”

In rejecting the ad, Fox sent a written response to Trojan that read: "Contraceptive advertising must stress health-related uses rather than the prevention of pregnancy.”

CBS wrote that it did not find the ad "appropriate for our network even with late-night-only restrictions.”

The commercial will air on ABC, NBC, and nine cable networks, as well as in magazines and on Web sites.

[LIConFem]

There's nothing like creativity in advertising.

And this is NOTHING like creativity in advertising!

[George from New England]

“”Contraceptive advertising must stress health-related uses rather than the prevention of pregnancy.””

WHAT HEALTH-RELATED benefits? Aren’t condom usage STDs up 4 fold in the last stats?

[PBRSTREETGANG]

[ClearCase_guy]

Offensive on so many levels! Quite an achievement.

Sometimes I think these things are created so that networks can "take the high road" and refuse to air them, then thump themselves on the chest.

[N. Theknow]

The Fox and CBS networks have both declined to air an ad for Trojan condoms that features cellphone-carrying pigs on the prowl.

Why would Rosie O'Donnell need a condom?

[edcoil]

Needed to wait until the super bowl. That is where edgy ad’s get run.

[Graymatter]

If a condom works properly, ain’t no “evolving.”

[Clara Lou]

Utterly disgusting advertisement.

[SouthernBoyupNorth]

Yup nothing sexist about this add.... Nope all men are pigs.... nothing sexist about it at all..... /sarc off.

[untrained skeptic]

It's kind of sad to say it, but having this ad publicly banned, and then likely showing up on-line is actually pretty good advertising with much of their target market.

The networks take the high road and refuse to air the ad. The controversy then causes people to hear about the ad that otherwise would not have.

[jackv]

So the message is men are pigs til they want sex and come prepared. Great. Just great.
And I must say I am proud of Fox (surprise but pleased with cbs), although condoms do NOT prevent herpes, HPV and not always the other bacterial stds either.
To promote “safe sex” is a lie. SafER maybe...but hardly safe.

[chuckles]

I was waiting for the girl to turn into a pig for being the obvious whore she is. Going to a bar to pick up men isn’t exactly “ladylike”.

[Savage Beast]

There's some measure of reassurance in knowning that at least Fox and CBS have retained some sense of decorum.

If you think like the Roman Empire, you'll act like the Roman Empire.

[Clam Digger]

Hey, it’s good to hear from the completely sin-free crowd again! /s

[weegee]

CBS-Viacom thinks this is inappropriate?

This is the same media empire that airs MTV 24/7 and deliberately broadcast a mutilated nipple as the closed of the Superbowl Half Time Show.

[weegee]

Ted Kennedy’s still looking to make ‘sandwiches’ I see. Where’s Chris Dodd when he needs him?

[weegee]

CAIR must’ve sent Viacom a letter of complaint.

[weegee]

Don’t worry, the states will all mandate that women take the HPV vaccine (although men can get cancer from HPV too).

[rollo tomasi]

“Yup nothing sexist about this add...”

It takes a slut to feed a “pig”.

I presume the females are depicted with their legs and mouth permanently spread, wide open, like a blow up doll till the "magic" condom appears.

[miliantnutcase]

They should just redo the commercial so when the pig gets a condom and transforms into a guy the woman gets a headache and has to leave.

[weegee]

There are some women who routinely pick up the bartenders...

[weegee]

I guess CBS didn’t take Dan Rather’s advice to “tart it up a bit”.

[Keith in Iowa]

SeeBS will refuse this ad, yet air that show with Charlie Sheen with far worse content than the commercial in question...what a network! And Fox...oy vey! The crap they put on, and then refuse this ad...they’re worse than SeeBS.

[dmz]

There are some women who routinely pick up the bartenders...
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I believe that’s called “drinking for free”.

[TonyRo76]

» If you think like the Roman Empire, you'll act like the Roman Empire.

Yep, and eventually...fall like the Roman Empire.

[T.Smith]

I’ll bet my house that those networks would happily run back to back Valtrex or impotency ads. I can’t watch a darn thing without having to see one of those stupid (and, in the case of Valtrex, disgusting) commercials.

[Alter Kaker]

There's some measure of reassurance in knowning that at least Fox and CBS have retained some sense of decorum.

Have they? Or is it only selective decorum? They don't seem to have any problem showing sex scene after sex scene after sex scene on Temptation Island or The O.C.

And, say what you want about the Girls Gone Wild videos every affiliate seems to advertise, at least they don't mention condoms.

I don't get why there's selective self-censorship here, when these smut peddlers do so little elsewhere.

[TonyRo76]

Bump!

[PAR35]

When I saw the ad, my first reaction was that the muslims weren’t going to like it.

[stuartcr]

How is it not creative?

[No Truce With Kings]

“When I saw the ad, my first reaction was that the muslims weren’t going to like it.”

Yeah. I understand that they are down on condoms.

[Rutles4Ever]

Incredible how low we’ve sunk as a society. At least CBS could have claimed it was truth-in-advertising.

[andy58-in-nh]

"Hey, baby... I am the other white meat."

[FremontLives]

I was so afraid after the jump I was going to read they were afraid of offending Muslims. Good to hear it’s just old-fashioned American prudishness.

[mkjessup]

Whozat? Ibrahim Hooper of CAIR trying to pick up a date?

[Kenton]

How's this:

An ad depicts men in a bar surrounded by cellphone-toting piglets. One of the piglets heads off to the women’s room where it obtains a condom from a vending machine

When she returns to the bar, the guy who had been trying to employ the "beer goggles" tactic to choose a suitable floozy from among the bevy of barhogs sucking on Marlboros and longnecks, now figures "what the hell, one or two more beers and she'll pass the 'minimum acceptable standards at closing time' test. Besides, she brought her own rubber."

Remember - Use a condom every time you hook up with a pig.

[chuckles]

So, does your daughter go to bars to get boinked? How proud you must be. A slut is just that, a slut. Why would you condone her behavior? You can't call Clinton a male whore and excuse the sluts he fornicated with. Was Monica innocent?

This is a condom comercial. If the girl had any virtue, she would have slapped the guy that got the rubber instead of smiling at him.

[Clam Digger]

If the girl had any virtue, she would have slapped the guy that got the rubber instead of smiling at him.

So, all women in bars who smile at men are sluts & whores? Are you married? Care to guess wht my next comment may be?

[dangus]

So, yeah, I totally left "The View" on my own initiative... I could get you a nice gig, too, honey...

[dangus]

Actually, what I think is funny, is that the guy the pig turns into is totally Middle Eastern.

[JSDude1]

And that ALL of us just want to have sex with everything that has two legs. Pathetic, and the idea that condoms turn those of us that do into decent people, offends me Morally?! “Hitch” was right..guys like this give the rest of us that want a “real relationship” A BAD NAME!!!!!

[dangus]

No, clam digger, the point is that she smiled at him when he went straight for the condom... indicating she was primarily interested in sex on the first night.

[Osage Orange]

You know why men don't get mad cow disease?

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[HamiltonJay]

"Contraceptive advertising must stress health-related uses rather than the prevention of pregnancy.”

Yes, we can't possibly reject it because it makes men look like nothing but animals......heaven forbid. I understand the need for humor in advertising, and I'm not remotely a prude, but this entire ads concept is just debasing.

[gcruse]

I always wondered why the packaging said ‘for the prevention of disease only.’ I finally just chalked it up to my lack of imagination.

[absolootezer0]

hey now, GGW, and that other stuff encourages self pleasuring, which means that fewer guys are trolling for easy skanks, and therefore are staying healthier and not contaminating the gene pool further. :)

[CJ Wolf]

From the headline, I Thought they were going to ban it because it may be offensive to muslims.

[Clam Digger]

No, clam digger, the point is that she smiled at him when he went straight for the condom... indicating she was primarily interested in sex on the first night.

Funny, I thought his appearance changed, and she was attracted to him. I didn't read anything having to do with the condom and sex on the first date into it at all. Nowhere in the ad does she see the condom, just a man she finds attractive instead of a pig.

To me, what Chuckles says is condemning ALL WOMEN who smile at men as sluts and whores. Pretty harsh, don't you think? I'll bet some woman at some point smiled at him as if she were attracted, even though he's still probably in the pig stage and hates his mother and has never had a woman. It's usually the guys who can't ever get a date who are so quick to condemn all women like Chuckles seems to have done.

[gcruse]

So, the guy's like, "Yeah, but what's the deal with the pig having a wooden leg?"
"Are you kidding?" goes the owner. "No way we'd eat a valuable animal like that all at once!"
Say, are you here with anybody?