Super Bowel 50? Some Viewers Cried Foul, but These 2 Poop Ads Got People Talking

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During last night's broadcast of Super Bowl 50, the ads were filled with animals to warm our hearts, celebrities to make us laugh and ads about constipation and diarrhea to make us all very, very uncomfortable.

Not one, but two national ads addressing bowel movements—one for a drug to help with opioid-induced constipation (OIC) and another for irritable bowel syndrome—ran during the game. (Take a look at the two spots below.)

While the first spot, "Envy," came as a surprise, Twitter lost it when the second bowel-related commercial aired.

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