In the world of the infomercial, it doesn’t matter about global warming, oil spills, poverty, war, disease… everything can be fixed and your world corrected if you will only purchase this Magic Widget (and call now! Operators are standing by!). I picture boiler rooms full of eager operators waiting for my call.
I LOVE the bareMinerals infomercial, and I’ve watched it many times. (Like the product, too, but now I buy it in a store.) On a gloomy day when I feel like an utter failure as a professional and a human being, a few minutes of watching Leslie Blodgett swirl, tap, and buff her product onto someone’s face and I’m completely distracted from my insignificant problems.
Anything by Ronco is excellent. The food dehydrator, the “Showtime” rotisserie, the knife set(with FREE “Solid Flavor Injector”!), they’re all fantastic.
I tend to dislike the exercise machine ones. They’re excessively repetitive and make me feel bad about my lazy ass.
KEVIN TRUDEAU IS A LYING SACK OF SHIT.
NEVER BELIEVE ANYTHING HE SAYS.
I had to work with Kevin Trudeau in the '90’s. I was the recording engineer for some of the Mega Memory and Speed Reading programs and multi-level marketing hype tapes.
There was a time in the late '80’s I had to deal with his lawyers because he was in FEDERAL PRISON.
My favorite infomercials are live performances at the county fair. I can watch them sell $1000 ovenware sets and $500 blenders all day long. I just enjoy watching the craft of hucksterism.
The problem is my wife is the easiest sell in the world which is why I can never let her go to the fair without me.
When it comes to infomercial products, there’s the Flowbee, and then there’s everything else. My favorite part was after they had showed you all the ways you could use it on your own head, they showed how you could use it on the dog!!!
I don’t know about your dog, but you can’t come with five feet of my dog with a running vacuum cleaner, much less a vacuum cleaner with mechanical blades sliding back and forth!
I miss “Amazing Discoveries”. The only product I remember was this device that was used for creating appliques (mostly of clowns and crap) on various surfaces by pushing a loop of thread through the material. The end result looked like a little carpet. The tag line was “punch, lift, and slide”.
What about that exercise weight thingamabobber that looks like you’re training for a jerk-off competition? I can watch that sucker all day. I think it’s called Shake Weight.
I watch those Time Life box set commercials. Mostly because I like to look at the vintage clips of 50s 60s 70s musicians. This is when there is NOTHING else on and I want to veg.
I like the various Time Life music collection ones. Ten CDs for the low low price of six payments of $19.95, plus a bonus CD for no extra charge!!!. A half hour of music and video usually hosted by a has-been and a younger nobody sidekick but it’s still a good trip down memory lane.
There is a new commercial out called theHandy Caddy. It is not an infomercial, but it is one of those done in the style of an informercial, and you gotta order it, not available in stores kind of thing.
Anyways, of all the useless products ever invented, this one takes the cake. It is a little slidey-deal that allows you to scoot the appliances on your counter top about 4 inches back or forth. As if you can’t pick up your coffee maker and move it forward 4 inches if you need to.
I was working for Nightingale-Conant Corp, a previously reputable company.
When I joined in 1987, there were 250 people working. They bought into Trudeau’s bullshit, lost their core business, and there are now maybe 70 people. They fired 50 people on the day I got let go in 1997.
Everything Trudeau touches turns to shit.
If you ever consider buying his stuff, before you do, look up complaints about Trudeau on the web. He is a scammer.
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