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So Easy a Kid Could Do It: The Next Infomercial Cliché?
Here’s a claim that may become a trend in get-rich-quick infomercials: “It’s so easy even a kid could do it!” I first noticed this claim on the infomercial for WizeTrade stock trading software. The infomercial features a 12-year-old boy named...
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Excellent Resource for Classic Ronco TV Commercials
Before he became “The King of Infomercials” Ron Popeil was already well know for selling his Ronco gadgets on short form TV commercials. The website for the Biography channel features dozens of these classic 1970s Ronco commercials, including spots for...
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Patch Perfect Grass Seed Commercial Rips Off Famous Ron Popeil Phrase
Perhaps the most famous tag line in infomercial history is “Set It and Forget It” from the Ron Popeil infomercial for his Ronco Showtime Rotisserie. This phrase is so well known that it’s hard to believe anyone would try to...
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Klee Irwin: The Count Chocula of Colon Cleansing
I recently got a cell phone with a built in camera. I doubted that I would ever have any use for my phone camera, thinking it a feature more suited to 13-year-old girls who want to take pictures of their...
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Did Mad TV Cause the Quacker Factory to Change Its Styles?
Have you ever seen the Quacker Factory clothing sold on QVC? A rotund woman named Jeanne Bice (who sports headbands to sop up her flop sweat) founded the Quacker Factory and is thus culpable for the clothes, which are distinctive...
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Cast of the Magic Bullet Simpsonized
I threatened to Simpsonize more of your favorite infomercial stars so here it goes with the cast of the Magic Bullet infomercial. (You can compare them to these pictures of the Magic Bullet cast.) Here are Hazel, Berman, Mick and...
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