Jul 29, 2019
Usually on the Old Man Cowboy Channel that I watch, the ads are for fairly predictable old-person products: pills, catheters, lawyers who are filing class-action lawsuits against medical companies, reverse mortgages, stuff like that. But I just saw a commercial for an indoor bug-zapper: it's bad enough to imagine America's decrepit, cash-strapped seniors sitting around watching reruns of Bonanza and The Rifleman, pissing into bags and hoping for a big check from the doctor that botched their hip replacement, but now I have to think about them doing all that in a bug-infested home they're going to be swindled out of because they saw a commercial where a beloved star of yesteryear assured them everything is going to be okay.
