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Author Topic: Who watches infomercials? Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 06-29-2009 07:27 PM                        With all of the mass hysteria going around about the death of that Billy Mays guy and how he was as good/not as good as some other guy named Vince I just have to ask who watches infomercials? And more importantly.... WHY??? I watched one once when I was a child. They seemed like commercials for shitty products that couldn't afford commercials.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 06-29-2009 07:50 PM                     Hitler,and others were also very good "front line" talkers - marketing and selling a "product" that could be believed in. They could sell the shirt off of your back if they wanted to.. The excellent art of persuasion...  |  IP: Logged Galen Murphy-Fahlgren Master Film Handler Posts: 405 From: Canton, MI, USA Registered: Oct 2007 posted 06-29-2009 08:52 PM                     I see them a lot, although I only watch them sparingly. I usually watch an hour or two of TV after I get home from work, and that 1-4am time frame is chock full of them.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-29-2009 09:38 PM                        I used to sort of enjoy the "Amazing Stories" one about the miracle car paint scratch remover/disguiser. It had a British guy that was kind of funny. But I haven't watched one in years now. DVD is better for very late night TV.  |  IP: Logged Lyle Romer Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1400 From: Davie, FL, USA Registered: May 2002 posted 06-29-2009 09:42 PM                     I used to watch "Ron Popiel" late at night. Infomercials are sometimes more entertaining than some of the crap on TV. Once in a while they have a really good product. Oxy Clean really works well.  |  IP: Logged Don Furr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 509 From: Sun City, Ca USA Registered: Nov 2002 posted 06-29-2009 09:42 PM                     Every time a Billy Mays commercial comes on....I MUTE the volume. I can't stand infomercials.  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 06-29-2009 10:02 PM                        There are commercials, and there are program-length infomercials. Billy Mays did both. It's not like infomercials are appointment viewing. But more than once while channel-surfing I've stopped on some infomercial and just had to watch at least a few minutes. I mean who among us has stumbled onto a DualSaw infomercial and not felt a compelling need to buy one.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 06-29-2009 10:38 PM                     Watch infomercials? I'd rather watch my fingernails grow.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 06-30-2009 02:07 AM                        I remember stumbling across one commercial where it showed someone fixing a bald spot with what looked like a spray paint can. I don't know if it was a real commercial or an infomercial, but it was late at night. Anyone else see this?  |  IP: Logged James Westbrook Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1133 From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa Registered: Mar 2006 posted 06-30-2009 02:21 AM                     Hair in a Can. One dumbass I worked with told me I needed it. It wasn't funny the first time, but after pointing this out over a dozen times, I told him to STFU PLZ and dammit. He concluded that I am sensitive about the small "clearing" on the top of my head that the flies like to land on. I deny that. I was simply tired of his incessant "hair in the can" suggestion. All the substance would really do was darken the "peach fuzz" on one's head and darken the scalp with the same hideous color of whatever was in that can. I recommend wearing a cap. More dignity there.  |  IP: Logged Jack Ondracek Film God Posts: 2348 From: Port Orchard, WA, USA Registered: Oct 2002 posted 06-30-2009 03:01 AM                        quote: Joe Redifer I remember stumbling across one commercial where it showed someone fixing a bald spot with what looked like a spray paint can. Yep... another Ron Popeil (Ronco) invention... GLH spray-on hair. He frequenly pushed that stuff... sometimes on the same show as his amazing turkey roaster.  |  IP: Logged Rick Raskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1100 From: Manassas Virginia Registered: Jan 2003 posted 06-30-2009 06:13 AM                     quote: David Stambaugh I mean who among us has stumbled onto a DualSaw infomercial and not felt a compelling need to buy one. Did you?  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 06-30-2009 06:39 AM                        Infomercials and daytime network TV are the reasons people who are in hospitals get well and leave. Louis  |  IP: Logged Hillary Charles Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 748 From: York, PA, USA Registered: Feb 2001 posted 06-30-2009 07:01 AM                     What was the first informercial? I remember back in the 1970's, on a Sunday morning, if you couldn't find any "Davey and Goliath" shows (the closest thing to a cartoon on Sunday morning), there used to be a half hour show about the "Shop Smith" woodworking tool. What really stuck in my mind was the color. It was VERY colorful, and looking back, it would have classified as an infomercial. Anyone remember those?  |  IP: Logged Barry Floyd Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1079 From: Lebanon, Tennessee, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 06-30-2009 09:48 AM                        Being the cheap-ass father that I am, we don't have either cable TV or satelite at our house. My kids have to watch TV via antenna thru the new converter box. One of the new channels we got when we "scanned" for new channels a couple of weeks ago is called the "Qubo Network". It rotates some really cheesy cartoons with infomercials. Billy Mays does (or did) a couple of them on there. My 6 year old is always coming up to me talikng about how we should get an "IRON GYM" or a "Pancake Puff Pan".  |  IP: Logged

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