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Postby KhakiBlueSocks » Fri Sep 15, 2006 8:30 pm

You know the commercial...checkered background...creepy looking lady with a tube of what appears to be paste hovering above her forehead.

Then you hear the words--

HeadOn--Apply directly to the forehead! :hits_self
HeadOn--Apply directly to the forehead! :hits_self
HeadOn--Apply directly to the forehead! :hits_self

It's addictive, it's repeatitive, it's subliminal...but does it work?!
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Postby Sync » Fri Sep 15, 2006 8:46 pm

it worked too well, the company had to reduce the times the ad aired because people were complaining about it.
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Postby Tenshi no Ai » Fri Sep 15, 2006 8:51 pm

Sync wrote:it worked too well, the company had to reduce the times the ad aired because people were complaining about it.



You can't be serious... subliminal studies show that they really don't work :/

And what is this commercial for anyways?
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Postby Mithrandir » Fri Sep 15, 2006 10:28 pm

The theory behind this ad campaign is:

"If you didn't have a headache BEFORE you saw the commercial..."
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Postby K. Ayato » Fri Sep 15, 2006 10:52 pm

Exactamundo, Mith-sama!
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Postby Alice » Fri Sep 15, 2006 11:52 pm

>.> It's so annoying...
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share

And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence.
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Postby [GMOD]Vedicardi » Sat Sep 16, 2006 12:17 am

It'd be nice if they told us what they were selling. =D
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Postby Maledicte » Sat Sep 16, 2006 1:14 am

Watch as I blithely rub a glue-stick across my forehead, while horrible audio loops endlessly!
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Postby Raiden no Kishi » Sat Sep 16, 2006 3:43 am

Well, even if it were some sort of wonder treatment or headaches, I'd still pop an Aleve. Their ads are so inane and pathetic that I refuse to purchase their products.

If I was the person in charge of Head-On, I would seize the advertising guy and beat him to the point that even dental records won't identify him.* This trash is inexcusable.

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Postby Nate » Sat Sep 16, 2006 5:04 am

Know what the funny thing is?

"Chemical analysis has shown that the product consists almost entirely of wax."

Basically it's a placebo. Completely useless. :p
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Postby TheMelodyMaker » Sat Sep 16, 2006 10:22 am

Tenshi no Ai wrote:And what is this commercial for anyways?

If I remember right, it's for a headache remedy. Supposedly.
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Postby dyzzispell » Sat Sep 16, 2006 10:46 am

Most people I know, including myself, know the commercial. And hate it.
And say that BECAUSE of the commercial, they will never buy the product.
So I wonder then, who DOES the commercial work for? Who actually does buy it? :eyebrow:
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Postby Radical Dreamer » Sat Sep 16, 2006 11:32 am

ROFL, this commercial. I hate it. I really, really do. XD And I wholeheartedly agree with Mith. XD
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Postby mitsuki lover » Sat Sep 16, 2006 11:57 am

I can't even remember the commercial.Maybe my memory is bad or I just didn't see it.

The earliest studies of subliminal messages were done in movie theaters.Supposedly a sign was flashed that had Popcorn on it and the way it worked was people were supposed to get up and go buy more popcorn.Of course it was supposed to have flashed so fast that no-one was supposed to see it.
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Postby Puguni » Sat Sep 16, 2006 12:05 pm

Gah, this commerical was annoying. I didn't know what it was for and now that I know, I doubt it works. :[
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Postby MorwenLaicoriel » Sat Sep 16, 2006 1:03 pm

I wouldn't buy ANY of their products. EVER. Horrible ad, and horrible packaging. Everything about them seems like a bunch of unprofessional people working out of their garrage. If they don't even have the intelligence to come up with a decent ad, I doubt they have the intelligence to come up with a good remedy for headache medicine.

The only thing about the commercial that works is you actually remember the name of the product. But that's useless if you hate the company with a blind rage. XD
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Postby KhakiBlueSocks » Sat Sep 16, 2006 7:20 pm

mitsuki lover wrote:I can't even remember the commercial.Maybe my memory is bad or I just didn't see it.

Picture a blue grid background with a lady dressed in red. She's rubbing (Actually, if you look close, she's hovering) something that looks like a gluestick (The Product) over her forehead. There's a bright yellow arrow pointing at her forehead.

Meanwhile, a female is repeating "HeadOn: Apply directly to the forehead!" three times in a row.


I need SERIOUS help if I remember a commercial that well...
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Postby Radical Dreamer » Sat Sep 16, 2006 9:01 pm

KhakiBlueSocks wrote:I need SERIOUS help if I remember a commercial that well...


XDD Not necessarily. I mean, it's not like the commercial is very complex or anything. And it gets shown often enough for anyone to remember it that well. XD
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Postby K. Ayato » Sat Sep 16, 2006 9:15 pm

Give me ibuprofen any day!
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Postby dyzzispell » Sun Sep 17, 2006 10:07 am

KhakiBlueSocks wrote:I need SERIOUS help if I remember a commercial that well...


Not true. The only reason I didn't remember the blue grid background, is because I usually hear the commercial rather than see it. Strangely, I'm almost never looking at the TV when it's on. But the whole thing is just a picture, with the person repeating the words. That much I remember. It's like you wonder if it's a real commercial or not...
But being the commercial only lasts like ten seconds, and it annoys you to death, THAT'S why you remember it. NOT because you need serious help. If that's the case, then MOST of us need serious help! :dizzy:
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Postby mitsuki lover » Sun Sep 17, 2006 1:44 pm

Curious I must be in denial of every seeing this one because I can't remember it.
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Postby KhakiBlueSocks » Mon Sep 18, 2006 11:51 pm

K. Ayato wrote:Give me ibuprofen any day!

Ibuprofen, apply directly to the mouth!
Ibuprofen, apply directly to the mouth!
Ibuprofen, apply directly to the mouth!

GAH! HELP!

Kae was right on the money--HeadOn is basically a candle with a crushed up aspirin mixed in it minus the wick.

There's also another product sometimes advertised with HeadOn called...you guessed it, "ActiveOn", which is basically the same thing except it's in a red tube and it's just as criptic in what it does as HeadOn!
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Postby mitsuki lover » Tue Sep 19, 2006 12:32 pm

I finally glimpsed a bit of it yesterday and it was a green and not a blue screen.
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Postby KhakiBlueSocks » Tue Sep 19, 2006 12:50 pm

mitsuki lover wrote:I finally glimpsed a bit of it yesterday and it was a green and not a blue screen.

There were two versions made. A green and a blue one. The blue one just advertises HeadOn, the green one has the original HeadOn add, plus an add for ActiveOn, then one for Freedem Hemerroid (SP?) cream. (Go on and laugh.)
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Postby dyzzispell » Tue Sep 19, 2006 2:26 pm

KhakiBlueSocks wrote:There were two versions made. A green and a blue one. The blue one just advertises HeadOn, the green one has the original HeadOn add, plus an add for ActiveOn, then one for Freedem Hemerroid (SP?) cream. (Go on and laugh.)


Ok, NOW I think you know too much about this. Maybe you DO need serious help... :lol:
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Postby K. Ayato » Wed Sep 20, 2006 10:22 am

Blue was regular, green was for migraines.
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