Why is the ShamWow Commercial So Damn Annoying?

This must be the first example of an infomercial giving away the game in its own name (who else would have the gall to call themselves ShamWow?).

For me it seems more like he’s the illegitimate child of Billy Mays and Nancy Nelson. Billy is bad enough but two of these clowns hocking what is essentially the same product is unnerving.

Its like he went from carney to gun shows to tackle shows to state fair exhibit booth, then finally to tv. He exhibits all the archetypes of fair exhibitor life. The idea being that you get people of all socioeconomic and intelligence levels to stop and watch someone do something mundane yet entertaining. It definitely is a type of person who does this. They used to call them snake oil salesmen. But isn’t that the whole idea behind infomercials anyway?

Notice how the cola that is seeping out from under the carpet, is GONE when the camera cuts? Didn’t he say they were going to do this in real time??? LOL

The problem is it is so choppy–note how when he ends a sentence there’s an edit to Vince starting a new one. His speaking is unnatural. That is exactly why it is so annoying.

That and he’s creepy.

And the microphone

And the silliness of it all…

Oh dear!

That edit at 0:22 gives away the whole scam.

I bout those at a local department store, after a pretty girl did the exact same presentation, The product was still a prototype. The wipes were almost free and I also bought a mop.

Never underestimate the power of a pretty girl.

It’s the fact that he’s a screaming midget with a “creepy-eye” that seems to be upset with having to make these commercials.

didnt he say he wouldnt put pressure on it. he friggin punched it!

I think he’s english doing a stereotypical American accent.

Well he’s a dream compared to Billy Mays. I want to throw the remote at the tv anytime I hear “Billy Mays here!” SO LOUD and ANNOYING!!!!

And how about the weird Progressive Auto Insurance girl? OMG, she is scary!!!

I see they replaced the weird Brit crawling in the grass “in search of the Internet”….one scary dude!

Jimmy McNulty?

“Creepy” and “shamwow” is how I found this blog via google. One of the lamest commercials I ever seen by one of creepiest and weasle-like spokespersons ever.

Maybe because he’s ugly like jim carey, thats why he is creepy

I’m definitely in the minority. I find the commercial entertaining. Phony, cheap and carney-like, yes. I like Vince, headset and all. I think it’s that he is so naive that he doesn’t understand how he appears or that he knows and doesn’t care. In either case, there’s a certain honesty to him that seems at odds with the whole image and message. I never get tired of watching this infomercial (but I’ve never bought the product and don’t plan to).

I think the worst part is when it gives a few of the key points to the product, and one of them is “Made in Germany”. Who cares? My shirt is made in China, I don’t see them advertising that.

How can I get a job as easy as his?

You guys are all so WRONG! I am sure it is my old HS boyfriend who is a Broadway Star, a film star, and extremely talented, satirizing the whole “Head on” thing. It is brilliant marketing, and if it weren’t wonderfully funny, you wouldn’t still be talking about it here! Just laugh with him the next time you see it, and you will notice he is smiling with you and the character he is playing. Wait and see…

Have anyone realised the weird stance he does when he says: Hi this is Vince from Shamwow?

Cracks me up every time

I know you’re gonna love this-Vince has a MySpace profile with 31 friends,with Tila Tequila as one of his top friends. I wish I was making this up. Link: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=398376179. He has even more ShamWow videos on there,including a kid using it. Anyways,this infomercial is sort of annoying.

Love Fellow Reader,
Epiphany

Why does he cover his face when the audio is dubbed “this lasts ten years?” That always gets me, I don’t know why. Just curious about it I guess. It’s such an obvious edit.

I wrote a little about that here:
http://www.infomercial-hell.com/blog/2008/07/28/youll-be-saying-wow-when-you-see-vince-in-the-full-length-shamwow-commercial/

I’m pretty sure when they first filmed the commercial they weren’t certain how many years they were going to claim the ShamWow lasts, so Vince intentionally covered his mouth so that you couldn’t read his lips. They did a terrible job with the dub.

He has a lisp. He sounds like his mouth is full of the shamwow like he’s been chewing on it.

And he looks like a messed up, meth taking Leonardo DiCaprio with a NJ accent.

Does nobody else see why he has the fake microphone headset on? It’s because the right side of his mouth doesn’t work. I’m not knocking him for it, it’s just that the microphone is to cover up that the entire right side of his mouth doesn’t move at all.

Remember…you have to call in twenty minutes….we’re can’t offer this all day!

The Dude lies. “Call in the next few minutes, CUZ WE CAN’T DO THIS ALL DAY” yet they do it all day…”YOU”LL BE SAYING SHAMWOW ALL DAY” yet NOBODY does that, their famliy would beat them senseless.
He looks like he’s speaking into that giant mole that protrudes from his chin. There’s something on top of his head that looks like a swiffer refill. He, Billy Mayes, and the Progressive slut need to sit in a stinky car at a junk car lot until they are squashed, revived by paramedics and squashed again! I don’t say shamwow all day, I say peeyoo, ALL DAY!

Wow if theres so many reviews about this being a scam, why haven’t they taken it off the air? sick.

I bought them and I LOVE them!! And I DID throw away my sponge!!! Don’t knock it till you tried it. Some things DO WORK!!

who spends 20 dollars a month on paper towels?

I can’t believe that there is this many people that have the time to review an infomercial for absorbent towels. On the other hand, I’m sitting here reviewing the reviews which are mostly screamingly funny. Something twisted about Vince that I can’t put my finger on, maybe if I watch it a couple of hundred more times I’ll get it.

Where’s Beavis? We’ve found Butthead.

I think Vince is cool…it’s all a put on which he carries off extremely well…I hope he makes a lot of money from this gig…the accent and tempo of his speech is New York-Philly-Long Island and he pulls it off well…to the naysayers out there…get lives and get your own (well paying) gig!

Bill, Dude, you need help. It is NOT cool to wear a swiffer refill on top of your head!

More like ScamNow. Even Vince looks fake. Like wax.

Good God. I change the channel every time I hear that retard. That infomercial makes me feel like I’m being brainwashed. It is obviously a scam and I would never spend money ordering anything with the word “sham” in it’s name. Give me a good ole paper towel I can throw away when I’m done. Who cares if it takes two or 10 when I don’t have to worry about cleaning it? It’s obviously a useless product and from the majority of reviews it doesn’t even work. Who cares if it holds 21times its weight, water is heavy and that crappy little towel is light. They are making a fortune off of suckers and the reason why it’s still on the air is because they pay for air time so the broadcasting organizations don’t care who runs a commercial so long as they get paid.

LOL!! He said the towel acts as a vacuum. and suck up moisture from under a rug… Yeah, that doesn’t defy logic and physics.
That’s why professional carpet cleaners don’t just use a Scamwow instead of an actual moisture vacuum.

I am always amused by this commercial. Time after time! I agree, I think that Vince’s stance in the beginning has got to be the best part. He looks like he is about to be attacked by a bear or something…

I bet his belly button has fuzz in it.

I always wondered to see who else thought that this guy looks like a complete crackhead, i just saw the commercial while online and decided to look it up….funny ass blog

I want to put him in a space bag and suck the air out.

OMG!!! This stuff is funny! I LOVE the space bag comment. I literally laughed out loud. I totally agree that this guy is in serious need of rehab. He looks like he has been on a month long binge of meth and crack. Look at the way his veins pop out of his arms, how he appears to be all sweaty, and he has that “I’m a drug addict” squint going on with his eyes! I bet someone found him in an alley, where he was begging for change for a fix, and they said “Hey! You look like you could be just annoying enough for this commercial!” That is the story of how the Sham Wow guy paid for his next rock.

The Germans always make good stuff…….come on Vince gimmy a break!

He looks like Willem Dafoe.

I have decided that I am going to adopt Vince as my new guard dog. I mean, who the fuck is going to try to rob my house with Vince squatting in the doorway squinting at them menacingly? No one! And i will also adopt Billy Mays (he will be the one that scares off the robbers with his loud bellowing bark) and Flo, the progressive auto insurance bitch. (To keep Vince and Billy from humping the furniture)

By the way- His face is like that because he had a stroke.

THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH VINCE, I THINK HE IS BETTER THAN ANYONE ELES. ALSO I THINK HE IS VERY TALENTED HE IS A GOOD LOOKING MAN.

I think he’s hot. I’d like to set him up with my sister in VA.

Er… Kevin you need more help than Methnow-wow man if you think he is good looking. You also need help on spelling and typing and command of the English language. You have been taken over by commercials such as this, Head-on, Geico and Billy F**khead Mayes.

Now I know why they invented a remote with a mute button… otherwise I would have put a brick through my TV by now.

On the other hand, I’m sure enough suckers are buying this useless rag like so many other people who buy other crap off the TV to make it worth his while. Let’s face it people. Everything we own has been advertised to death so that we feel good owning it, even superior to others.

Anyone drive a Hummer, Merc, BMW or wear a Rolex etc etc. Does a Starbucks coffee taste any better than coffee you can make at home for pennies?

Shamwow just happens to be the lowest ad on the totem pole amongst others.

Many years ago, someone once told me from the music industry, “you can never get poor by underestimating public taste”. That my friends still holds true…

Vince had a stroke in 2001. That’s why he’s so “squinty”.

wow i thought vince to be annoying at first,after a while he grows on you ( thats scary) can’t wait to see him the next time. it just gets to be more funny, especially now that my man imitates him. could this be another vince in the works!!!and i have been using this product for years and love it.

Kevin wants to pinch Vince’s scrawny butt!

Vince had a stroke back around 2000 – so you can stop making fun of how he looks or how his face moves (and making yourself look lame in the process for obsessing on the superficial).

He seems to have a checkered past when it comes to law suite and a failed movie he made.

I like the infomercial. I like his snide approach (when comparing them to paper towels). It’s almost as if he’s making fun of infomercials while doing one himself.

I think it’s because the commercial seems like an SNL spoof ad…and at first I thought Vince was one of the guys from the JackA$$ movies…lol
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Doesn’t Vince kind of look like he could be the son of Moe from The Simpsons? They both have that one bug eye and the other side of their face is sort of squished down giving them them that classic “carny” look? And their personalities are also similar. Did Matt Groening know this guy and become inspired to cartoonize him into a seedy bartender? Well, if he did, it seems ironic that Matt is probably making about 10,000 times the money that Vince is…

The haters of this ad simply don’t have a clue. There isn’t a funnier thing to watch on TV these days then this ad. It’s absolutely genius…the mannerisms, the voice, the lines, the quick edits, everything comes together to make this the most entertaining informercial of all time. Whether or not it’s truthful is frankly irrelevant. I hope Vince Offer gets rich off this ad.

So, is #55 Vince’s mommy? Or girlfriend? Or both?… This is the “Why is the ShamWow Commercial So Damn Annoying” blog. Not the Vince from ShamWow fan club. I think #55 may be Billy Mays… We all know how much we love these annoying “for only $19.95” commercials assaulting our ears and our intelligence. Apparently the average Joe six pack swallows this crap hook, line, and sinker…

A good product infomercial Vince should push next should be a book on stroke masking techniques for the standard 19.99 fee .. *via headset microphone on side of face thats paralyzed, failed mohawks, lots of hand gestures and spazzing, and an annoying accent*

You know the Germans always make good stuff… Like the haulocaust.

I wonder if the ShamWow could be used for sanitary pads? “No spills!”

I think Vince from sham-wow it HOT. I’m sure I’m not the only homo that would like to blow him and tongue his anus. What’s his real name. Billy Mays BITES, may he eat his own Mighty Putty and stick some in his sphincter.

Hey… The Progressive Insurance girl? I’d nail her in a heart-beat!

What’s so annoying about the commercial? That’s easy, the simple scam nature of it. Forget how he loks, acts and wears a thing on his head…

Watch instead the way the camera switches views every few seconds, and how he pulls up that perfectly dry carpet trying to make you believe it ever had soda on it…

Look, it’s simple.. it’s a scam commercial and blatantly shows it as such.

People are such puppets, I feel bad for anyone who buys into these commercials. I’d like once to see an infomercial that is honest 100%, but that’s not going to happen anytime soon.

This is one of the best commercials on TV. You haters are just a bunch of high brows who think their s**t don’t stink. You’re so much better than the rest of us.

Notice just seconds before he say’s “we’re going to do this in real time” the spilled cola around the rug piece mysteriously disappears.

Vince is gay

Vince sucks

I hate vince

Vince is ugly with his stupid little stroke face

If vince died that would be so awesome

U all peged everything I was thinking about ole Vince and that damn commercial. I’d love to get some mighty putty and stick a Sham-wow to his face,put him under a Sun-Setter awning while Billy gives him an Oxy-Clean enema.

I wish the stroke killed vince. He is ugly. His movie was not funny. It was almost as awful as his ugly stroke face and faggy hair

Maybe Dick Clark should use a microphone to hide the effects of his stroke. Look how good it works for Vince.

Vince the ShamWow guy is a God amongst insects.

I can not lie about the powers of Vince the ShamWow guy.. His wittiness compels me to waste all my money for a good cause

Let’s face it.. Vince looks like the love-child of Paul Walker and Buster Poindexter.

I love infomercials, so when Vince showed up out of nowhere with his ShamWow, I was stunned!! Billy Mays seemed to have the market cornered on crappy infomercials, but now it looks like we have a real battle royale going on here.
People who trash talk Vince and Billy Mays aren’t getting the joke or seeing the humor!! These commercials are RIDICULOUS and they’ve found the perfect boneheads to sell these silly products… Billy Mays is awesome… that perfectly trimmed beard, big cheesy smile, and his abrasive yet cheerful selling technique… now we have Vince with his equally abrasive yet more intense and urgent method… it’s great!
I could watch these infomercials all day. I even bought my brother a ShamWow for Christmas because he loves the commercials. For Halloween, I went as Vince from Shamwow… I even brought a can of cola and a dish to demonstrate. I was a hit!
Stop ragging on Vince and Billy — they are what make pop culture so much fun… in ten years we’re still going to remember these goofballs.
Oh yeah, check out Vince’s new contraption the SlapChop!!:

Hilarious. I love it.

The stain with all the cola added was something like triangular, but after the cut, it is almost suqare-like. Wow! Shame Wow!

Who is the chick with the sexy feet?? I would love to bust a nut on those toes….then Vince could see how much man chowder the shamwow could suck
Up!!

Flo (Stephanie Courtney) is H-O-T! Quirky, but hot, nontheless.

Linquine, fettuccini, Lamberghini, martini, bikini!

Hey…at least the guys got a friggin’ job (which is more than I can say for most of you that have nothing better to do than critique infomercials). Besides…my kids love him, everytime he comes on the T.V. he’s the only thing that will get them to shut up for 60 seconds. And let me tell you, there is nothing funnier than a 6 year old girl and a 5 year old boy competing to do the best Vince impression. SO BACK OFF!!

Vince ROCKS!!

In the slightly expanded version, at least 2 people are happily saying “It lasts forever!”
Doesn’t Vince say in a muffled voice it only lasts 10 years?

That plump woman with the nipples poking out who
says ‘Omigosh’—I’ll bet they gave her a pound of Oreos to say that.

Note that his arm doesn’t appear to be wet to begin with when he dries it off–and just WHO are these Olympic divers he speaks of?

“A regular towel doesn’t work wet”–well duh! Vince uses a dry Shamwow to mop up what the regular towel left behind.

If these people who ‘can’t live without shamwow’ place this POS rag above the death of their kids or spouses/loved-ones, they should go directly to the graveyard, do not pass Go.

Also of note–the female with the black toenails exiting the shower doesn’t appear to be in the least bit wet!

I kind of have a man crush on Vince. I’d love to get his autograph. He’s great!

I have a man crush on Vince, too. I wanna put him in his sloppy slapchop and crush the tofu outta him!

Jeremy and Leon above:

Maybe you can both share the love with vince and help him ‘crush’ up the crack he seems to be on. And one of you might want to help and buy him a comb too–shipping and handling extra.

You didn’t know that Vince is a porn star? He should be hawking Viagra instead of towels.

I love when he says “you them Germans, they make good stuff!”
Yeah, like death camps and gas chambers!

vince has such a shapely body. big hunk-a-manstuff.

Vince’s hiney is too skinny.

My armpits stink to high heaven, so I used a Shamwow on them. Yellow fuzz pieces stuck to the hairs and mildewed in a couple of days. Now I have blisters the size of boils, the smell is unbearable and I’m thinking of sueing Vince!

I couldn’t find my bandana one day so i wrapped a shamwow around my head. A bunch of gangbangers saw me and beat the crap out of me. I hate shamwow

I put my shamwow in the dryer and when I went to get it out, I couldn’t find it. After 30 mins of hunting, I found it in the lint catcher. It had shrunk to the size of a post-it note.

On the slopchop, does he say:
…martini, bikini, smell my weenie
or:
…martini, bikini, oops there went my weenie

??? Which is it?

Slap chop, Slapchop. You’re gonna love my nuts. He loves to stick his nuts in the Gratie. Yellow cheese, cottage cheese, celulite.

ShamWow Guy Arrested for Punching Prostitute Who Tried to Bite Off His Tongue

You people don’t appreciate true TV kitsche-art that is considered an inferior, tasteless copy. This infomercial will be studied for generations by $19.95 ad executives looking to solve the mystery of home shopping. So maybe Vince did a little to much stimulant, he’s a genius here. I’d like to see him replace Katie Couric on the nightly news.

Hey Spock, Dude you need to go back to outer space, you pointy eared weirdo!

She bit his tongue because he couldn’t do it all day. LOL

well. Vince’s commerical gets on my nerves too-the damn head set, he looks cross eyed in the video to me, and the “you follow me camera guy” part too. The late Billy Mays’ commercial was annoying cause it WAS loud. You doze off sleep and suddenly “BILLY MAYS HERE…” and you are suddenly woke scared! But for some reason, I have realized that Vince is kinda cute-after the “you gonna love my nuts”, I got thinking he was cute. I’d take him in a heart beat! I wouldn’t bite his tongue!

I cant stand either one of them and billy still is on not bad for a dead guy

Uh-oh. He’s back.

There are so many beyond irritating commercials anymore, LOUD and to many, to the point I lose interest in the program I am watching, beside that WE/You pay the electric bill to watch these damned things, I immediately mute them or go up/down a channel….