Filed under: Health

In sitcoms, you can always get a laugh by showing someone with zits all over their face.

You’ve seen the TV sit-coms that play on this debacle which so many of us with acne problems identify: In one episode of “Wings,” for instance, Joe Hackett (played by the typically beautiful Timothy Daly), is getting ready for his high school reunion on the island of Nantucket. Joe’s brother, Brian – who classically gets his kicks pointing out flaws his brother inevitably has – points out a huge zit that has appeared suddenly on Joe’s nose.

The zit, of course, is of the kind and size that you’d desire to lance and medicate ASAP. Joe retrieves and applies the magic acne cream. For the sake of the sit-com laugh, however, Joe obsesses over unpleasant growth every five minutes, over-working his acne cream of choice by expecting too much too soon.