# 90s infomercial for bowl holder **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** commercials-ads\ **Created:** [January 29, 2025, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-infomercial-for-bowl-holder/1013588 "2025-01-29T20:15:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![curwin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@curwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curwin)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-infomercial-for-bowl-holder/1013588/1 "2025-01-29T20:15:55Z")
I remember an infomercial from the 1990s where the seller was offering something to hold down bowls while you stir them - maybe a kind of suction attachment to the counter. To show why it was important, he stirred without his product and the bowls went flying everywhere. It was pretty ridiculous. Anyone know where to find that infomercial online? Or at least remember the name of the product? ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-infomercial-for-bowl-holder/1013588/2 "2025-01-29T20:29:00Z")
There’s a subreddit for that: r/wheredidthesodago I found this one: [https://www.reddit.com/r/wheredidthesodago/comments/1j5s0h/fuck\_bowls/](https://www.reddit.com/r/wheredidthesodago/comments/1j5s0h/fuck_bowls/) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-infomercial-for-bowl-holder/1013588/3 "2025-01-29T20:34:28Z")
I always have a soft spot in my heart for the infomercials or even just local ads with truly awful actors where the script has them doing some ordinary task the ordinary way but utterly incompetently while strongly portraying “This is just waaay too hard for a mere mortal like me!!1!” Then they do the same task by using the product and they goggle and beam like new parents at their sudden skill and ease. So corny. So dumb. So American. I love 'em. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-infomercial-for-bowl-holder/1013588/4 "2025-01-29T21:45:27Z")
And usually the incompetent segment is in black&white, while the product’s segment is in living color. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-infomercial-for-bowl-holder/1013588/5 "2025-01-29T22:49:12Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > incompetent segment is in black&white Lol. [https://www.reddit.com/r/wheredidthesodago/comments/1cbe2uc/herb\_thought\_it\_was\_weird\_his\_exwife\_only\_wanted/](https://www.reddit.com/r/wheredidthesodago/comments/1cbe2uc/herb_thought_it_was_weird_his_exwife_only_wanted/) ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-infomercial-for-bowl-holder/1013588/6 "2025-01-29T23:10:52Z")
That style of commercials dates back at least to the mid 1950s when it was the basis for the “Better Living Through TV” episode of _The Honeymooners_, in which Ralph and Ed do a live commercial advertising their Handy Housewife Helper kitchen tool. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/W_dE9aY0phE/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-BIAC2AOKAgwIABABGGUgZShlMA8=&rs=AOn4CLCElTHjrq12zm3Ys3Z7-a6cFvev1g "But can it core a apple YouTube2") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_dE9aY0phE&t=150s)