Ahhh. I love infomercials!
They are a riot to watch! I’m so glad I don’t do things the old fashioned way anymore!!!
When my mom was 90, I walked in the room and she was glued to a station that runs only infomercials. I asked her why she watches them. “Because they never break for those darn commercials.”
Phil Swift here for Flex Seal! Love that guy. Cut a boat in half and tape it together? No problem. Assemble an entire off road vehicle using tape and glue instead of welds? Watch this!
Dennis
Don’t order the copper pans. Trust me. Junk!
When my son was like five or six, he would get up at three or four in the morning just so he could watch that old man with the vacuums (I forget his name).
My son used to have a weird obsession with vacuums.
I like how infomercials (commercials, essentially) always have commercials for the same product as the infomercial itself.
Does anyone remember the balding, English guy that used to sell woks? Back in the mid-eighties, as I remember.
That must be a boy thing! This is the 3rd time I’ve heard of a little boy being obsessed with vacuum cleaners!
The aforementioned son calls stupid people “The Idiots from the Black and White Part of Infomercials”. And I’ve got to admit… they are amusing!
Sure do.
I also remember the 30-minute infomercials for Nad’s, the Australian hair removal gel, which I use to this day, mostly on my upper lip and interestingly, my big toes because they’re very hairy and pull on socks. Those commercials used “real people”, not professional models, which was also part of the appeal for me. They aired around 2000, and as for the thing in the story about her tasting it on the air, it does have a vague lime taste.
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My cable used to have a TV station that just aired actual TV commercials all day. I have no idea what it was called or why it existed but it was funny to trick guests into switching to the channel because “A really good movie is going to come on after the commercials” and just watching to see how long they would wait until they realized the movie would never come.
It probably got high enough ratings because of people who kept it on for background noise.
I don’t think that’s how that works. The cable company doesn’t know which channel you’re tuned to.
Unless you’re a Nielsen family.
Neilsen families have an additional box.
Noooo!