Tacoma spots leave us a little queasy

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If you’re going to invent a fictitious physical ailment to get laughs in your TV spot, you might want to log on to WebMD or some other knowledgable site and make sure it’s not real.

One of Saatchi & Saatchi’s new faux-PSA spots for the Toyota Tacoma presents a problem called “adrenalitis”—evidently a lack of enthusiasm, which the Tacoma can supposedly cure. Problem is, adrenalitis is an actual affliction, and it doesn’t exactly sound fun.

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