Squatty Potty: A Stool for Stool

Here is the product we have all been waiting for. It’s Squatty Potty, a stool that lets you squat over a toilet bowl while defecating:

Jimmy Carter surely appreciates having his hemorrhoid bout from 34 years ago retold to a whole new generation. And when President Carter suffered from hemorrhoids did he actually say, “Me. Me. Me hurty.” like some whiny toddler, as implied by this commercial?

Any advertisement for a product like this is going to gross some people out, but it really doesn’t help to have cheery whistling music in the background and a vaguely creepy pitchman. It seems, however, that products related to bowel movements just sort of attract those kind of people.

Even further weirdness takes place when you visit the official Squatty Potty website (www.SquattyPotty.com) and see the cover of a free ebook they are offering featuring a skeleton with a bad toupée taking a dump:

The money shot in the Squatty Potty infomercial comes when the intrepid pitchman holds up clear plastic bags with chocolate bars contrasting the amount of feces that plops out of a person when in the sitting or squatting positions.

I will never look at a Milky Way bar the same way again!
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