Where have all the old people gone?
When I was growing up you used to see old people on TV. They would have a life alert, or insurance commercials. There were shows lke The Golden Girls, and sitcoms regularly featured an old person.
I can't remember the last time I've seen an old person commercial
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 40 | August 13, 2025 5:55 PM
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You're watching the wrong channels. They're all over the place on those channels that air old tv shows.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | August 12, 2025 12:43 PM
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They are in the Alzheimers-due-to-Dementia (Rexulti) ads. Those ads are shown really often on most channels. Or maybe I notice them more because my Mom died due to complications from dementia (she stopped eating and left on her own terms).
by Anonymous | reply 2 | August 12, 2025 12:43 PM
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There's a Matlock reboot with Kathy Bates on CBS.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | August 12, 2025 12:51 PM
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Left right after the cowboys.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | August 12, 2025 1:08 PM
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Cissy be deaf, not blind like you OP
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 5 | August 12, 2025 1:11 PM
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Everyone does everything to look younger (in Hollywood, anyway). They have to be over 80 to actually find a person who looks old
by Anonymous | reply 6 | August 12, 2025 1:12 PM
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And sometimes not even then!
by Anonymous | reply 7 | August 12, 2025 1:21 PM
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people also look a lot younger now
by Anonymous | reply 8 | August 12, 2025 1:26 PM
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They are fine, they send their love!
by Anonymous | reply 9 | August 12, 2025 1:27 PM
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[quote] Where have all the old people gone?
They’ve gone into politics.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | August 12, 2025 1:30 PM
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I can't remember the last time I watched live TV. No idea what commercials are these days. Everything I subscribe to is ad-free
Maybe they don't show old people in the commercials because they don't want to upset their audience with too much "realness?" Elderly people love fantasy and reliving their youth. Being confronted with the sight of decrepit peers might trigger a sundowning episode. The staff tries to mitigate such incidents by playing pre screened videos in the activity room in the afternoons.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | August 12, 2025 1:31 PM
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OP? You're not living in the right area for them.
They're all over the TV -- in Florida.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | August 12, 2025 1:31 PM
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OP do yourself a favor and watch a commercial break on Fox News.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | August 12, 2025 1:40 PM
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Well we have Billy Bob Thornton/70 as the lead in Landman, and Harrison Ford/83 and Helen Mirren/80 as the leads in 1923, Shrinking, and Mobland.
How old do they need to be for you to be considered old?
by Anonymous | reply 14 | August 12, 2025 1:54 PM
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Gone to graveyards, everyone.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | August 12, 2025 1:58 PM
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Where is my John Goodman? Where is his shiny gun? Where is my happy ending?
by Anonymous | reply 16 | August 12, 2025 2:05 PM
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I think it’s just that people look younger now. Anne Bancroft was 36 in The Graduate. That’s the same age as Emma Stone and Lily Collins who still play young adults.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | August 12, 2025 2:06 PM
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OP must not watch Judge Judy or Wheel of Fortune.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | August 12, 2025 2:08 PM
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All senior citizens need Life Alert!
by Anonymous | reply 20 | August 12, 2025 2:39 PM
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OP have you really not noticed the Medicare ads?
by Anonymous | reply 21 | August 12, 2025 2:44 PM
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They’re plenty of old people on tv you just don’t realize they’re old. Memba’ when late 50s used to be lowkey old?
by Anonymous | reply 22 | August 12, 2025 3:05 PM
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Are you even watching that many commercials these days, OP?
If you're like me, you mostly use services that don't have ads.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | August 12, 2025 3:27 PM
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That is because they are all Dataloungers. They are 80, but look 29!
by Anonymous | reply 24 | August 12, 2025 3:42 PM
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Your clearly not watching MSNBC
by Anonymous | reply 25 | August 12, 2025 3:53 PM
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Medicare renewal is coming up here shortly, you will see nothing but old people in medicare commercials.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | August 12, 2025 3:54 PM
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There’s so much good online porn now, they’re inside masturbating.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | August 12, 2025 3:59 PM
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Pushing daisies, amirite?
by Anonymous | reply 30 | August 12, 2025 4:36 PM
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They got put in the Carousel when they turned thirty.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | August 12, 2025 4:37 PM
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Fox News is wall-to-wall old people commercials. Reverse mortgages, buying gold, prescription drugs of all kinds—it’s all on there.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | August 12, 2025 4:40 PM
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Old people no longer look like "old people." When I was a kids, old folks had gray/ white hair, lots of wrinkles, the women frequently wore brooches and the men wouldn't be caught dead wearing collar-less shirts in public. Not the case today, especially among the crowd who would appear in movies and ads.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | August 12, 2025 4:56 PM
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You know you're getting old when you start to recognize the aging celebrities they use to push reverse mortgages on TV.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | August 12, 2025 5:00 PM
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They're still around, just dyeing their hair, or cutting in modern styles, tanning, trying to stay fit and wearing regular clothes so they don't look like yesteryear's old people.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | August 12, 2025 5:01 PM
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Watch the commercials on the Fox network.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | August 13, 2025 1:03 AM
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They overdosed on all those marathon TV pharmaceutical ads’ drugs they were told they needed to get prescribed and take, OP.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | August 13, 2025 2:35 AM
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[quote] Watch the commercials on the Fox network.
I watch neither commercials nor Fox network.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | August 13, 2025 5:37 PM
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Sadly, it's a Tik Tok world.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | August 13, 2025 5:55 PM
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