Ridiculous Infomercial Review Blog

I’ve uploaded a new video clip from the Dr Ho infomercial to my Dr Ho infomercial review page. Go to the bottom of the page to play the video.

In this clip, a Dr. Michael Ho hooks up his namesake massager to a hot blonde in a bikini. The blonde giggles in delight and proclaims, “Never mind men. You don’t need men at home.”

You get to see some close ups of twitching muscles and Dr. Ho uses his mouth to describes what all those other massage machines sound like.

At the end an old lady explains why the Dr Ho Muscle Massager is better than her husband.

Check it out: Dr. Ho

If my Web referrer logs are any indication, there are a lot of people who really liked my post with pictures of the new ExtenZe infomercial cast, especially of the brunette, Brigitte, who hosts. Well, fortunately for all you horny toads somebody (not me) put up a video clip from the new 2006/2007 version of the ExtenZe Sex Talk infomercial.

The clip features lots of that fan favorite Brigitte, including those rather questionable “on the street” interviews she does. It also show the girls on couch (namely Laura, Lisa, and Kim) who personally vouch for the fact take taking ExtenZe pills results in long schlongs.

For those of you who don’t know, I wrote a full review of the previous ExtenZe infomercial. The older version of the ExtenZe infomercial was even more hilarious. It was hosted by Ron Jeremy and featured porn stars such as Kim Chambers and Chantz Fortune as guests. My review also contains two video clips from that version of the ExtenZe infomercial. Check it out: ExtenZe

I’ve put up a brand new infomercial review. The Myotron Pulse Wave infomercial was the most absurd infomercial I’ve seen and Santo Gold was the strangest infomercial I’ve seen. But the infomercial for The Almighty Cleanse with Danny Vierra has to be the grossest infomercial I’ve ever seen!

Like the Dual Action Cleanse infomercial, the Almighty Cleanse sells a colon cleansing product. But creator Danny Vierra goes a lot further verbally and visually than Klee Irwin was willing to go. This is a truly craptacular infomercial! Check it out: Almighty Cleanse.

I’ve uploaded a video clip from the Alzare penis enlargement pills infomercial to my Alzare infomercial review page. Go to the bottom of the page to play the video.

Here “Dancer/Model” Teri Corcoran says that she’s traveled the globe and has “had a lot of experience with men.” She then has a back and forth exchange with hostess Jenny Richards in which both women insist that “size matters.” Teri also implies that if dudes had bigger wieners then they wouldn’t be so wimpy about trying to pick her up at bars.

And don’t miss the way Jenny Richards buttons her pink blouse and the guy at the end who admits he’s hung like a hamster.

Check it out: Alzare

From the late 50s to the 1980s, the downtowns of America were dotted with “grindhouses.” A grindhouse was a storefront movie theater, usually located in an urban downtown neighborhood. 42nd Street in New York was famous for its grindhouses. These theaters had been regular or even “luxury” movie houses when they were built in the 30s or 40s but over the years they, and their neighborhoods, became run down. So to attract patrons they started showing “exploitation” films. Exploitation films were movies put out by independent producers that “exploited” lurid cravings for gore, sex, and all manner of things bizarre. One interesting thing about grindhouses was that a person could buy a ticket and stay inside for as long as they wanted—something their clientele, which consisted of many hustlers plying their trade or junkies looking for a place to crash, appreciated. Usually there were no set start times for the films; the movies would be shown one after the other. Some grindhouses would even stop the projector right in the middle of a movie at closing time and then start it up again at that same spot in the morning.

On my cable system there is a channel called the Access Television Network (ATN) which is a veritable grindhouse for infomercials. ATN doesn’t show infomercials in between regular programming: Infomercials are the programming. Although there have been quite a few small UHF stations where infomercials dominated the broadcast day, they at least would show short commercials or public service announcements in between, so that each infomercial would start on the hour or half-hour. Because ATN shows these 28 minutes programs continually, you never know at what time an infomercial is going to start or end. And ATN keeps up its schedule of one infomercial after another going 24/7 (something even few of the old grindhouses did).

Cool!

(By the way, if you are interesting in learning more about the old grindhouse movie theaters, the book Sleazoid Express is an excellent resource, chronicling the heyday of the 42nd Street grindhouses. And check out some great pictures of the 42nd Street grindhouses.)