Stupid pharmaceutical ad watch: Mr. Gouty & his big flask of gout acid.

(click ad, scanned from Time)
Just bide your time, Harry, bide your time—it's a nice paycheck. Today, you're a freaking idiot holding a comically oversized flask of fake uric acid. Tomorrow: maybe you'll be one of the new Viva Viagra! Whiskey Dicks. You can play a mean banjo.