Here’s the ad I just saw on TV:
A smiling woman stands in front of an elaborate background featuring: plain blue. She’s smiling, yes, BUT, according to the voiceover, she has a killer headache. She continues to smile despite the killer headache and begins to robotically rub what looks like Ban roll-on across her forehead. She is STILL smiling even though her forehead is now slick and dripping with Ban roll-on and how is that not getting in her eyes and she just keeps rubbing and I really don’t think she understands what Ban roll-on is for.
I begin to doubt she really has a headache.
Suddenly, the voiceover voice starts YELLING at me, repeatedly — like the night I stayed at my girlfriend’s house and it was too hot and I couldn’t sleep so I opened the window a just a crack, I swear, and a voiceover voice SCREAMED
“YOU HAVE VIOLATED A PROTECTED AREA!! YOU HAVE VIOLATED A PROTECTED AREA!! YOU HAVE VIOLATED A PROTECTED AREA!!”
like I was a RAPIST or something. But I have to admit I thought it was kinda funny to watch my friend run spastically up and down the hallway while her little kid also ran spastically up and down the hallway whilst holding onto his crotch like grim death.
Um, anyway ….. oh, the commercial!
No, so this voiceover voice was YELLING too. This is what it yelled:
“HEAD ON — APPLIED DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD! HEAD ON — APPLIED DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD! HEAD ON — APPLIED DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD!!!”
OKAAAY, DUDE! CALM DOWN! STOP YELLING AT ME! YOU’RE GIVING ME A HEADACHE!
YOU HAVE VIOLATED A PROTECTED AREA!!!!
I wonder if those “violated a protected area” thingies come in chastity belts?
You should look into that, Cullen.
THAT’s funny! I heard that same commercial today and said the very same thing “Shut up, you’re giving me a headache!”
Tracey, you really have to worry when the house starts shrieking, “NO MEANS NO! NO MEANS NO! NO MEANS NO!”
These bad ads just keep on coming, don’t they? I may have to run a clearinghouse.
Sorry, WG, I think I accidentally deleted your comment!
Spam make me eyes go crossy.
Those Head On commercials scare the bejabbers out of me. Why scream at me to promote a headache remedy?
(And can it really work? What is it? Is it some kind of funky drug you absorb through your skin? Or is it some kind of freezy thing?)
Maybe they’re trying to give everyone a headache so they’ll go out and buy the product…
ricki — I never thought of that: DOES it freeze your forehead? And if so, is it cheaper than Botox??
daniel and i were just laughing at this commercial today. the quality of it is so poor, it seems to have been made overseas. maybe they paid the translator PER WORD, so they just repeated the same seven words to save money.