Funny Pharm: You Write the Caption & Win: April 2016

★Winning Caption★
 "Financially speaking, you're just going to feel a little pinch." - Bill Russo

Pharmaceutical Manufacturing presents "Funny Pharm," featuring drawings by award-winning cartoonist, Jerry King.

The winning cartoon caption will be featured on the Pharma Manufacturing website and the winner will be mentioned in upcoming enewsletters. The winner has a choice of two prizes: a coffee mug with the cartoon and winning caption printed on it OR a $20 Starbucks giftcard.

Please submit your caption to [email protected]. Thank you for your contributions!

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Contending Submissions

Please note: Funny Pharma caption contests are for entertainment purposes only. Reader submissions reflect their own personal experience and opinions. Winning submissions are chosen for their humor and industry relevance; Pharmaceutical Manufacturing reserves the right to delete any entries deemed inappropriate.

“Pop! Goes the weasel.”  -Tara Bronson

"This ending does not seem very valiant..." - Ben Johnson

Bill Russo:

"Feeling bloated? This remedy is even better than Xifaxan!"

"Financially speaking, you're just going to feel a little pinch."

"Well... this still isn't as bad as facing an FTC probe."

"This is a quick way of making a Single Error Correction."

"I just aTyr of this whole insider trading thing."

"Look, Cha-Cha... I'm just going to help you let out some Chagas."

"Even Novartis knows -- a refreshing pop is better than a cold stake."

"What are you worried about? It's $30 million that you don't even have."


Heyyyyyyy Abbotttttt! Too much of your revenue comes from overseas.

This will close the door on Philidor.

All your troubles will be over in a sec.

This isn't a needle. It's a SEC file.

This will take care of the schism at Visium.

Since there are so many bugs in your system, we'll have to decrease your tick size.

Are you Shire... that this is what you want?

You're being Depom-ed.

"Sorry about your pool, Mr. Pearson." - Ben Johnson

"Despite the Valeant effort, take this probe." -Michael Redman

“Don Quixote tilting at windbags.” - Tara Bronson

"SEC probes not done their worst
Bribe fines make the bubble burst!" -Peter Clark

"He, who would Valeant
Be, ’gainst all disaster,
Let him in constancy
Survive the SEC." -Peter Clark


“All right, now come down to earth so that I can check you out.” -Atul Deshmukh

“Is there any substance or is it just a gas bubble?” -Atul Deshmukh

“Let me see…will this go up in smoke, or collapse like a burst balloon?” -Atul Deshmukh

"Ah…that’s the loop hole I was looking for.” -Atul Deshmukh


“The SEC is attempting to prick a self-healing green slime bubble." -Andrei Winkler