Let's talk about our favorite infomercials and the shitty products they try to sell us.
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Who the fuck eats that many chips
Who the fuck eats that many chips
I remember this, it was also in an ad for Subaru (In which an axe was taken to it, can't seem to find said ad though).
Who the fuck eats that many chips
On the other hand, remember the Snuggie?
Also, that commercial with the "Fasy Feet", aside from the obvious Fetish jokes. Is it really that hard to bend down to clean your lower areas?
One of our fave Youtubers: Mike J. And his Infomercialism channel. He reviews the products so you don't have to spend $19.99 to find out it's a flop.
One nifty thing I've been looking for since I saw his review of it-
...and one just for the sheer horror potential.
And his disastrous encounter with a "dump cakes" recipe. Glass. ERRYWHERE.
Here's his entire playlist. 127 reviews of infomercial products. Have fun.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL19DFlTh4hRukKzdaIzJ5Kg9Zw8qAh0CQ
One nifty thing I've been looking for since I saw his review of it-
...and one just for the sheer horror potential.
And his disastrous encounter with a "dump cakes" recipe. Glass. ERRYWHERE.
Here's his entire playlist. 127 reviews of infomercial products. Have fun.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL19DFlTh4hRukKzdaIzJ5Kg9Zw8qAh0CQ
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Debbie Downer here, with your daily dose of disappointment!
Some of this shit, we can agree, are useless money-wasters, such as the fucking gross-ass egg on a stick thing.
But a lot of the products in infomercials are very useful to one particular group: disabled people.
Who needs a gadget that lets you crack and separate eggs with one hand?
Answer: someone with one hand.
Who could use a blanket with sleeves? A person in a wheelchair. Who's so lazy they have to wipe their ass with a wad of toilet paper on a stick? Someone with spinal issues. And in fact, a lot of these products were created for or by people with various disabilities to solve some of their everyday problems.
But the nature of a commercial means you have to show everything as great and amazing and shiny and pretty. So you can't show disabled people using products that might have originally been made to help disabled people, because disabled people are gross. Instead, let's show these perfectly average people using these items in situations where doing it the ordinary way would have been just as easy, and let's have them going out of their way to make it seem like the only people who would use these items are lazy, stupid, clumsy cunts because the marketing people behind them are asshats who can't even bring themselves to market to the demographic that might legitimately need their shitty fucking product.
And that's why informercials are terrible and deserve to be made fun of. Carry on.
But a lot of the products in infomercials are very useful to one particular group: disabled people.
Who needs a gadget that lets you crack and separate eggs with one hand?
Answer: someone with one hand.
Who could use a blanket with sleeves? A person in a wheelchair. Who's so lazy they have to wipe their ass with a wad of toilet paper on a stick? Someone with spinal issues. And in fact, a lot of these products were created for or by people with various disabilities to solve some of their everyday problems.
But the nature of a commercial means you have to show everything as great and amazing and shiny and pretty. So you can't show disabled people using products that might have originally been made to help disabled people, because disabled people are gross. Instead, let's show these perfectly average people using these items in situations where doing it the ordinary way would have been just as easy, and let's have them going out of their way to make it seem like the only people who would use these items are lazy, stupid, clumsy cunts because the marketing people behind them are asshats who can't even bring themselves to market to the demographic that might legitimately need their shitty fucking product.
And that's why informercials are terrible and deserve to be made fun of. Carry on.
Debbie Downer here, with your daily dose of disappointment!
Some of this shit, we can agree, are useless money-wasters, such as the fucking gross-ass egg on a stick thing.
But a lot of the products in infomercials are very useful to one particular group: disabled people.
Who needs a gadget that lets you crack and separate eggs with one hand?
Answer: someone with one hand.
Who could use a blanket with sleeves? A person in a wheelchair. Who's so lazy they have to wipe their ass with a wad of toilet paper on a stick? Someone with spinal issues. And in fact, a lot of these products were created for or by people with various disabilities to solve some of their everyday problems.
But the nature of a commercial means you have to show everything as great and amazing and shiny and pretty. So you can't show disabled people using products that might have originally been made to help disabled people, because disabled people are gross. Instead, let's show these perfectly average people using these items in situations where doing it the ordinary way would have been just as easy, and let's have them going out of their way to make it seem like the only people who would use these items are lazy, stupid, clumsy cunts because the marketing people behind them are asshats who can't even bring themselves to market to the demographic that might legitimately need their shitty fucking product.
And that's why informercials are terrible and deserve to be made fun of. Carry on.
I'll also add that a lot of kitchen informercial products are simply dumbed-down versions of resturaunt equipment. Take a look at the "Nicer Dicer"
That's a kiddie version of a foodservice prep french-fry press. Look at it. It's the same damn thing, a matrix of interlocked blades behind a ram, just made with flimsier construction.
The original device is really handy- and I speak from experience here- if you have to convert 500 lbs. of raw potatoes to french fries in a prep kitchen in a half an hour before the grill line needs 'em. But other than that, the infomercialsism version of it "solves" a problem that doesn't really exist. Who needs that kind of volume production in a normal home kitchen?
Any normal person can achieve the same results with a good chef's knife in a shorter amount of time.
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I'd recommend getting a good old pie iron if you're interested in the Diablo. They have square versions better suited for sandwich toasting.
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Another Life Alert infomercial. They played this so many times on Cartoon Network back in the day that I'M HAVING A HEART ATTACK! became some sort of mini meme at my school.
I mentioned this somewhere else, but I was watching one about buying precious metals that was very charmingly amateurish and they spent the first five minutes or so of the show just gushing about how cool eternal kook presidential candidate Vermin Supreme is.
Also I dig Gemporia/GemsTV. The hosts, the music, the ugliest shit jewelry, it's the total package.
Also I dig Gemporia/GemsTV. The hosts, the music, the ugliest shit jewelry, it's the total package.
Magic Bullet infomercials were some goofy shit trying to be part-time sitcoms.
The alcoholic pervert granny in the Baby Bullet one is just a treat.
The alcoholic pervert granny in the Baby Bullet one is just a treat.
The Magic Bullet infomercial deserves to be in the Criterion Collection.
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