Thursday, July 26, 2007

Apply Directly to the Brain!

Whilst eating breakfast this morning, I happened across yet another commercial that I found interesting, so to speak. This is for a product called Head On. The whole commercial seems to be a woman happily pressing this product to her forehead, while an announcer semi-shouts Head On! Apply Directly to the Forehead!

The thing I found interesting, other that the extreme annoyance of the commercial itself, was that it never described what the product actually does. I would guess its for headache-relief of some sort, but Im not sure.

The question then becomes, what the hell does this product do? Does it remove wrinkles? Does it improve memory? Cure warts? Enable you to recite the Preamble to the Constitution? Does it, perchance, teach you Klingon?

It is a mystery.

However, it does unlock a whole range of potential Blank-On products.

Pit On! Apply Directly to the Armpit!
Sinus On! Shove it Right Up Your Nose!
Ass On! Stick it . . . Well, Yknow!
Communism On! Rub Vigorously On the Proletariat For Generations While Propping Up a Crumbling Economy!
Get It On On! Cues 70s Soundtrack and Disco Lights!

The possibilities are endless.

Cheers,
-Jason

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Right on!
Left off!
Perhaps it was just a silly come-on; an excuse for the announcer to put on airs for a product best described as a write-off.

Anonymous said...

Looks like a quality product

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeadOn

Anonymous said...

Head On is supposed to get rid of headaches. As it is homeopathic and thus has no actual active ingredients I'm not quite sure how it's supposed to do that. The placebo effect, apparently.

Believe it or not, these people in fact make a hemorrhoid remedy. We as a nation are very glad they don't advertise it in the same way.

Jason Janicki said...

I should market a product called Floor-Aid with the tagline 'Put It on the Floor!' All you do is remove the 'protective sticker' and put it on the floor.

I will eventually branch out to 'Counter-Aid' (put it on the counter!) Ceiling-Aid, Garage-Aid, etc.

Unknown said...

as long as they don't tell you what it actually does, they don't have to reveal any potential side effects. I believe they're required to by law if they name the specific purpose.