Mark Ruffalo, Jake Johnson Star in New Voting Rights Ad for ‘Electile Dysfunction’

Mark Ruffalo, Jake Johnson, and Property Brother Jonathan Scott star in a new voting rights ad about… “electile dysfunction.”

In a pretty blunt parody of those erectile dysfunction ads, a voiceover asks “Is your democracy flaccid?” and “Tired of the parade of disappointment performances?”

The ad, produced by RepresentUs, is meant to promote the Freedom to Vote Act, one of the voting rights bills Democrats have been pushing for weeks. When it came up for a vote in the Senate recently, Republicans blocked it from proceeding. President Joe Biden suggested last month he would be open to entertaining the notion of doing away with the filibuster on this particular issue.

“I get all excited about a new bill,” one man says in the ad.

“The debate gets all hot and heated,” one woman says. “Premature capitulation.”

Johnson, the New Girl star featured in the ad as “not a paid actor,” remarks, “Every time I get an election, I think maybe this time we’ll be different.”

Ruffalo, with the same disclaimer, says, “Filibusting just doesn’t make me feel good anymore.”

Scott says with the Freedom to Vote Act, “Now my election is rock-solid. And it works everywhere.”

The ad wraps up with the voiceover adding, “The Freedom to Vote Act is only for democracies healthy enough for electoral activity. Talk to your representative if you are experiencing greased palms, lined pockets, dictators, neo-fascists, or other pre-existing conditions.”

It ends by telling people to call their senators to tell them to pass the voting rights legislation.