Comments on: It Slices, It Dices, and It Never Loses Its Edge!: 6 Must-have Facts about Infomercials

By: coffee

coffee — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:14:00 +0000

i’m torn between the Snuggie and the Shamwow

By: Lisa Popeil

Lisa Popeil — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:51:57 +0000

I’m the daughter of Samuel Joseph Popeil, not Samuel Jacob Popeil. That error was made in a New Yorker article for some strange reason. Thought I’d write in to correct it.

By: Kate

Kate — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:40:33 +0000

Don’t forget the Buttonneer…

By: BJ

BJ — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:46:56 +0000

No one has mentioned Ron Popeil’s best line ever: “The only tears you’ll cry will be tears of joy”.

By: Jess

Jess — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:22:48 +0000

Don’t forget that Ron Popeil was also credited with inventing the technology required to keep human heads alive in jars separate from their bodies (in Futurama, anyway)!

By: Angie

Angie — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:04:06 +0000

I love being up late at night so that I may watch infomercials for hours on end. :)

I swear, those Magic Bullet infomercials are absolutely the BEST. The smoking old lady? Hilarious.

I too have a strange and morbid fascination with Billy Mays. But his volume control seems to be stuck.

I can’t believe no one’s mentioned a)that microwave bacon thingie from the 80s and b)spray on hair. How can we talk about Ron and not mention hair-in-a-can?

By: Sandy C

Sandy C — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:59:54 +0000

I LOVE INFOMERCIALS!
Though after being burned by the “Eggstractor” I swore never to actually purchase anything again. It was a P.O.S!
My MIL did buy us a magic bullet for Christmas and we did make some good drinks in it.
I also love how informercials always act like the opposite of their product is chaos. There was an infomercial once for I think the click light and this woman is trying to find a flashlight and a whole mess of them falls down on her from the closet shelf. Hilarious!

By: Tdave

Tdave — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 08:59:48 +0000

They might say “Set it and forget it” but the owner’s guide says “Do Not leave unit anattended while in use!” “Do not allow children to operate” and(haha) “Do not use while bathing!” etc. The company lawyers would point out those phrases in the courtroom.

By: Dabitch

Dabitch — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 08:32:11 +0000

Oh Ron “set it and forget it” is great, here’s a short edit of that informercial (Quicktime), it could become a technosong, it’s hypnotic (click my name for the link)

By: Spocker

Spocker — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:40:54 +0000

I had a K-Tel record like that way back in the early 70s which featured song’s such as “Popcorn” by Hot Butter, “Layla” by Derek and the Dominos (except it cut the piano part at the end), “Dueling Banjos” by ???, “If Not For You” by Olivia Newton-John, and I don’t remember what else. But it was one of my favorite records growing up.