Ridiculous Infomercial Review Blog

I previously upload a video from the Spanish Knutric health drink infomercial that showed it being used to light up a lamp. Here is a longer version of that same kind of demo:

I am not an electrical engineer nor a chemist, so I am honestly not sure if such a thing they are showing is even possible. Can an electrical plug be dipped in to a liquid that would cause a light bulb to light up?

Whether it is scientifically possible or not, it sure doesn’t make me want to start swallowing Knutric. Gasoline is a liquid that gives automobiles lots of “energy” but I’m not about to start treating a gas pump as some kind of a keg!

I have found yet another extreme way to exercise your face.

I recently came across a video featuring Greer Childers, the 61-year-old blonde who can currently be seen on TV infomercials promoting her Shapely Secrets and Body Flex workout and diet programs. At least I think it is Greer Childers because it sure does look like her and the title of the video is “Body Flex”, which is the same as the name of one of the programs she is currently promoting.

(If you will let me offer a comment on something off topic: I hate when people put videos online and provide no info or context about it. When was the video made? Where did you get it from? Who is in it? Don’t make us guess!)

I’m pretty sure this comes from these Body Flex workout tapes. According to Amazon, the date of these tapes is 1992, but it looks really 80s—boy does this thing look 80s! Bad 80s hair, bad 80s synthesizer music, bad 80s workout clothes.

In this video Greer demonstrates a fantastic way to keep your face in top form:

Between this technique, Facial Flex, and Rejuvenique, I’m surprised anyone has wrinkles at all anymore.

One of the most popular videos I’ve ever posted was the clip from QVC in which people demonstrate a hideous product called Facial Flex. You’re supposed to put Facial Flex in your mouth and squeeze repeatedly to exercise your face. Watching this thing in action can be quite a disturbing viewing experience.

I recently came across a video demonstration of Facial Flex that is several times harder to watch than the scene from QVC. It comes to us courtesy of something called the “Looseleaf Beauty Report.”

Yikes!

It’s nice to know that Edith Bunker is looking so well these days.

And check out this image being used to promote Facial Flex on Amazon.com:

I reiterate my previous claim that FacialFlex is a tool no self-respecting dominatrix should be without.

Back in April of last year, I wrote about the Spanish infomercial for Karakol Kream. Karakol Kream is a skin care product made from snails. Throughout the infomercial, they show a computer-generated graphic of a snail. I thought the whole thing was a strange Latin American peculiarity, kind of like that guy on Univision who dresses up as a bee. I wrote, “Perhaps the snail has some kind of cultural significance in Latin culture that I don’t know about, because I can’t image that any English-language infomercial for skin care would ever show a picture of a snail (CGI or not)…”

Well it turns out my assessment was completely and utterly wrong! A skin care company called BioCutis has produced an English-language infomercial selling a snail “secretion” serum called BioSkinCare. And the BioSkinCare infomercial doesn’t show just some stylized computer graphic of a snail like the Spanish infomercial—they show lots of real photos of slimly, ugly snails crawling around in dirt.

I’m not sure if this thing has aired on broadcast TV yet, but the videos are available on YouTube:

You got to love the audio syncing and video quality. I thought I was watching Max Headroom for a while there.

But wait, there’s more. Here they assure us that no snails were harmed in the making of BioSkinCare!

Apparently this amazing discovery came about when a “snail farm in Chile noticed that their snail handlers had exceptionally smooth hands”—which I’m sure must have been a major blow to the machismo of the Chilean snail handlers.

Here are two must see videos for any “fan” of infomercial pitchman Kevin Trudeau, author of Natural Cures “They” Don’t Want You to About, The Weight Loss Cure “They” Don’t Want You to Know About, and Debt Cures “They” Don’t Want You to Know About.

The first is a report from investigative reporter John Stossel that aired on the TV show 20/20 in 2006:

The thing that was most striking to me in that report was that Tammy Faye Bakker actually hosted one of Kevin Trudeau’s infomercials!! How in the world could I have missed that one?!

I’m also sorry I never saw that infomercial where he used some kind of tape to cure pain!

And after seeing that you’ll really appreciate this Mad TV sketch in which “Robin Kirkly” promotes his book “Miracle Natural Cures Formula” on an infomercial:

A very funny sketch that nicely captures Trudeau’s mixture of greed and paranoia.