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The "Herman's Head" Concept.

To those peeps who have some gist of this tv show in the early 90s, no explaination is needed. But for the 'no-recollection', here is some help:

(Herman Brooks is an aspiring writer working as a fact-checker at a publisher. While dealing with life in the big city, his inner thoughts are played out by four characters representing his intellect, fear, compassion, and lust.)

Face it, everyone comes into contact with this concept everyday. Be it during the school exam periods, where one has to come across his or her intellect & fear components to decide whether what was being answered to the questions are the right choices. "Intellect" character will always proclaim he is right and he has the knowledge to back it up with...whilst "Fear" will always query back with the "Are you sure???". But then in the end, the individual must decide whether Intellect or Fear wins the dual.

The dreaded term "fear factor" is what brings people down, breaks them into pieces emotionally sometimes. Questions like "What if he leaves me for a voluptuous and manipulative girl?", "Am I physically ready to go through these tests?", "Would the company become bankrupt soon and be closed down permanently?". All these trigger Mr Fear into utter delirium in the first degree. When this happens, Mr Intellect & Ms Compassion would calm him down, however hard it is. Intellect would voice out that everything is in order, giving factual statistics to back his reasonings. Compassion most probably give him a hug and handle him like a toddler. Lust would be somewhere sitting down watching tv and eating his junk food, oblivious to anything that is happening as it doesn't concern him one bit. Bloody arse.

Compassion is always around to comfort the heart when sad things happen in one's life. Imagine an example of seeing a friend betray another close pal behind his back. Compassion will voice out that what is happening is wrong and will ask if there is anything that can be done to stop this from continuing. Fear will of course wants to stay away from trouble as he might think "What if everything goes wrong and both friends would be lost FOREVER??"...Intellect then might stand up and proclaim that he has 101 solutions to the problem. It's a mess but in the end, the person has to make the final decision on what should be done.

The funniest character of the show is "Lust"...played by this fat dude who is always horny and eats a lot. He has no control over anything and his philosophy is "Just go for it!!!!". Ok back to reality, let's say your good buddy's gf confessed that she has a big crush on you and wants to "have fun" with you when he will be away this weekend. This is where Lust is immediately awake and voices out anything and everything to get you to have a secret relt with her without the buddy knowing. In this case, Intellect + Fear + Compassion will do a "team" attack on Lust. The most angry emotion arguably would be Compassion who would be saying "Don't you dare backstab your good friend or I'm gonna skin you alive!!!". Intellect will open up his book and starts to nag about 'integrity' & 'rights'. Fear will most likely be running around to find some ropes and masking tape to tie Lust up and shut him up for good. In the end, only the person will make the final decision.

There you have it....everyone comes face to face with "Herman's Head" daily. Use it wisely.