Don't be a Criminail...

[charliepops]

I can't believe an advert as weird as this is allowed on TV.

It features a woman who seems to have been imprisoned in her own home by a giant toe with a fungal infection. It looks like it has been created by a crazy person.

Best of all is the tagline: Surely it's better to get Curanail than be a criminail.

[Ceeb]

The tagline is genius/crap. Although it used be delivered by a cgi foot dressed as a policeman if i remember correctly - which I probably don't

[charliepops]

I find it quite sinister - the toe peering through the net curtains onto the street, then turning up in the bedroom, then hiding behind the sofa, then on the TV in the living room which makes it look like the giant toe is watching some kind of fungus porn.

I don't think it is an advert for an anti-fungal cream at all, it's just a ruse to sell powerful anti-insanity drugs to housewives who can see imaginary body parts around their homes.

[Mr Kenneth]

If it gets a few London men to pay a bit more attention to their feet instead of revealing bog-rotten toes to the world in their flip-flops on the tube, I'm all for it; naff slogan or no naff slogan. In fact, can we have a campaign to discourage the wearing of flip flops away from the beach? "Better to get proper shoes, than be a flippin' flop."

[JoanSmith]

Jul 9, 2008 14:03:26 GMT Mr Kenneth said:

If it gets a few London men to pay a bit more attention to their feet instead of revealing bog-rotten toes to the world in their flip-flops on the tube, I'm all for it.

Absolutely. There are, worryingly, many more mouldy toenails around than you might think: A few years ago, when this first came off prescription and they did the big advertising push, a pharmacist friend told me he had his busiest day ever - loads of people who'd had nail fungus for years suddenly realised they could do something about it. Disturbing giant toe or not, I'm grateful.