@nickiwhite I second the Ronco rotisserie–and would like to add an honorable mention for the George Foreman grill, also known as the lean, mean, fat-reducing grilling machine. (Oddly, despite wacky catchphrases and memory-worm commercials, these are both genuinely useful products.)
I’ve really taken a beating this week in regard to my age. First, I met with some new trainees at work who were all born in the mid 90’s (by which time I had been at this job ten years - which are now thirty), and second, that I remember the black and white ads for the Popeil Pocket Fisherman! That was the product which started it all in the world of infomercials as we know them today.
The only other product I can remember as a contemporary of this was “DipIt.” This was a silver and brass cleaning fluid in which you simply dipped or wiped the tarnished object to make it shiny and looking new.
@reddinghill This! I still make jokes about “I’ve fallen! And I can’t get up!” in that way that evidences my pop culture references have not been updated since college.
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Sorry guys but the best of the worst has got to be the UroClub!! Seriously?!? A golf club that you pee into and to top it off, it comes with a small hand towel to drape over your privates so that you can do it while you’re standing in front of everyone!!! Really???
As Seen On TV stores in malls?
Wasn’t the Chia Pet going back then? Too far back?
Seriously? No Ronco rotisserie?! Who here doesn’t remember the catchiest/most annoying catch phrase: “set it and forget it!”
@nickiwhite I second the Ronco rotisserie–and would like to add an honorable mention for the George Foreman grill, also known as the lean, mean, fat-reducing grilling machine. (Oddly, despite wacky catchphrases and memory-worm commercials, these are both genuinely useful products.)
Billy Mays was more or less a product of the “As See On TV” golden age, so I vote him.
@nogoodwithnames
(fyi this is a 30 minute “best of” with a bunch of Mays’ most known products)
Chi-chi-chi-CHIA!
Guys… you are missing out a very important one…
edit: oh golden age? hmm… I am pretty sure the As Seen on TV golden age is still happening isn’t it?
@thismyusername why do these commercials always rhyme?!
@Collin1000 it’s an important part of selling to drunk and or stoned people vegging on the couch.
@thismyusername
/woot bacon bowl
Why don’t you find anything /woot?
http://www.woot.com/offers/perfect-bacon-bowl-set-of-2-7
@chacham The /woot mehdown only finds active sales, not closed sales (or the shirt.woot back catalog).
/woot meow
World Meows for $10 - $13
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The Time is Meow for $25
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@narfcake Yeah, kind of remember that. But i feel like half the point is what they have sold in the past.
The rotato!
@Collin1000 Is it sad that I recognized this without playing the video?
@Collin1000 This brings back memories of the great Vince from Sham Wow vs Billy Mays wars.
@Collin1000 that’s the first thing i thought of as well.
I’ve really taken a beating this week in regard to my age. First, I met with some new trainees at work who were all born in the mid 90’s (by which time I had been at this job ten years - which are now thirty), and second, that I remember the black and white ads for the Popeil Pocket Fisherman! That was the product which started it all in the world of infomercials as we know them today.
The only other product I can remember as a contemporary of this was “DipIt.” This was a silver and brass cleaning fluid in which you simply dipped or wiped the tarnished object to make it shiny and looking new.
Excuse me, it is time for my pudding and Matlock.
@Cheddy Oi! Matlock is awesome!
@Cheddy Better get them damn kids off your lawn before you sit down. I know how long it takes you to get back up.
@Cheddy I don’t recall the Pocket Fisherman, but I do recall DipIt.
@nogoodwithnames Awww. That’s just hurtful. True, but hurtful.
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@mfladd somehow I knew without looking this one was yours…
@jbartus thinking about it now. I should have reversed the order of them.
That’s better.
I am not sure if this counts…it should.
One I remember in my youth. I actually owned one of these.
@mfladd you can buy one for $15 at Wal-Mart. $19.95 in whatever year it came out, that was expensive.
LIFECALL
@reddinghill I’ve fallen! AND I CAN’T GET UP!!!
Classic.
@reddinghill This! I still make jokes about “I’ve fallen! And I can’t get up!” in that way that evidences my pop culture references have not been updated since college.
Do services count?
Come on, it’s literally nothing, a total placebo, and it’s sold millions!
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Blue Blockers!
Spray hair.
GLH Spray hair FTW! The babes are BACK!
Bass-o-Matic!
“Hey man, is that Freedom Rock?”
“Yeah, man!”
“Well, turn it up, man!”
@PocketBrain His lil’ head shake is too perfect.
@PocketBrain Freedom Rock.
Sorry guys but the best of the worst has got to be the UroClub!! Seriously?!? A golf club that you pee into and to top it off, it comes with a small hand towel to drape over your privates so that you can do it while you’re standing in front of everyone!!! Really???
First there was the Snuggie,
then came (As Seen on Cable):
@chienfou Dishwasher safe!
No one mentioned the “shake weights”? I’m so surprised…or those just maybe in the “bronze age” of seen on TV?
The greatest product is the Ove Glove. The second greatest product is the other Ove Glove you should buy so you have a pair or Ove Gloves. Ove Glove.
@elimanningface I do! I have two!
Epilady, basically a power hair-puller- outer.
Smokeless Ashtray
No Oxi-Clean comments yet? I still buy that on a regular basis.
@narfcake I feel motion sickness coming on just from watching.
@narfcake
/youtube the clapper
For Real : OxiClean
For Funny : Shakeweight
I can’t believe no one has mentioned the Magic Bullet!
The Magic Bullet
Buttoneer
I am not really confident, but I think it’s a hand holding a remote control.
/captionbot
The Buttoneer! Yes someone brought it up.