Posted on 08/22/2006 6:50:44 PM PDT by indcons
Only one commercial can top the sheer hatred our readers have for the winner of this year's worst-commercial contest. Yes, only creepy, toenail-snapping Digger the Dermatophyte is more hated than the horrendous repetition that is this year's winning loser, the HeadOn headache remedy commercial.
In case you haven't seen it (you can find it on YouTube, but really, why would you want to?), the commercial is as insanely simple as it is annoying. A female voice repeats "HeadOn: Apply directly to the forehead!" three times as a blissed-out smug woman rolls what appears to be a Bonne Bell LipSmacker on her head.
What in the name of a glue stick in disguise is going on there? First off, does anyone believe that this works any better than, say, rubbing your head with your hand? Who decided that a commercial where only the product name and tagline are repeated over and over was good advertising? What kind of drugs is the model in the ad actually on? And does anyone know anyone who has ever, ever used this product, or seen it for sale anywhere outside these ads?
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Yeah, that's a pretty good one. The one with Charro - same product - sucks, though. She annoys me.
Go to headon.com and you'll look in vain for any statement that it's a headache remedy
I remember that ad as well; I think it may have been on during the Super Bowl. It had a certain "subliminal in the sense of a club to the head" quality, didn't it? Imagine the advertising exec who actually thought putting the football through the tire was effective symbolism. That commercial was just creepy.
We DVR through most of them, too - probably 90% - but there are a couple we watch or come on when we're busy with something else so we "hear" them.
There is some commercial with a young couple kissing and the old couple across the street watching because the young couple doesn't have any curtains (I think the commercial is for money management of something). Anyway, the best part is when the old woman wakes her husband up to watch and he looks across the way, sees the young couple and shouts, "Jackpot".
I've heard that one, too. In fact, I heard it just two or three days ago. It's sickening.
A property owner should be able to rent to whom s/he chooses anyway.
"BP" ads? What is that?
How about the law firms hustling for cancer victims, mesothelioma, whatever, and other lawyer ads that scare people about the IRS garnishing their bank accounts and so on? Pretty bad.
Has anyone tried Head On and does it work?
There was a cute Office Max or Office Depot ad at Christmas for two years running, although I didn't see it last year. A robot is in love with a fax machine. A customer wants to buy the fax machine, but the robot tries to stop him, saying, "But I love her! You can't take her!" The customer takes the fax machine anyway and the robot is sad.....until a copy machine or another fax machine is pushed by him on a service cart. Then his eyes light up and he blows his funnel-type hat up with steam and makes a an appreciative sound - obviously he's found a new love interest. Cute.
That's OK, it was disgusting in the movie as well. Really disgusting.
Mark
Agree 100%!!!!!!!! And there are a lot of them! I email those companies when I see one and tell them what a turn-off it is, that I'm a woman, and I would never consider their product.
Notice it's always a white male, too. I only remember one with an ethnic minority male - the "Are we there yet?" ad.
"And she's only three!"
Yep, that's some audience the ol' professor is targeting. buncha rocket scientists.
8 million years of evolution and what do we have? The Video Professor.
Thanks for posting the link... Didn't they also do the commercials where they used the jerky as bait, and wound up "tagging" the people with ear tags? Those were a hoot!
Mark
My fave Geico is one they haven't played for quite awhile. It's the Kung fu fighting one where the gecko is asleep in the car. Cute.
ROFLOLOL!!!! :>
Just goes to show how some of the most powerful ads are the ones without a lot of hoopla. The commercial I remember most powerfully aired during the SuperBowl following 9/11. I believe it was called "Tribute," was for Budweiser. The Budweiser Clydesdales are traveling through the snow on a cold morning; eventually they can see the NYC skyline, and they all kneel silently in the snow. The only sound in the commercial, as I recall, is the jingling of the harness and the hoofbeats.
It's an Aussie accent, not a Brit.
It may just be you. British and Aussie accents are popular in the U.S..
Shouldn't that be "'Roid Off"? Who would by a product named "'Roid on"???
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