Hah, I just came here specifically to comment about this. As an American tourist, the popularity of those garishly animated pharmacie signs in Paris was one of

Hah, I just came here specifically to comment about this. As an American tourist, the popularity of those garishly animated pharmacie signs in Paris was one of the subtly weirdest things about a number of countries in Europe that I've visited. I didn't see them anywhere outside of France, and they were so bright and distracting that I seriously wondered how they weren't a traffic hazard.