PenCorder Replaces Creepy Boss with Creepy Pick-Up Artist

In May, I told you about infomercials for a USB voice recorder being marketed under the names FlashCord and Playback Polly. The most unusual thing about this commercial was a scene in which an elderly boss uses the device to eavesdrop on the gossip of his employees:

This same product has been reborn yet again as the PenCorder, a USB voice recorder that is also a pen—no doubt in response to the well-publicized global ballpoint pen shortage. The infomercial for the PenCorder is nearly the same as the one for the FlashCord, except that the boss’s snooping has been replaced by a creepy pick-up artist who uses the device to record his conquests at the local singles bar:

What a great way for fledgling PUAs to evaluate their performances! (“My neg worked reasonably well, but my kino escalation needs improvement.”) Of course, PenCorder will appeal only to a PUA who both can’t figure out the record function of his smartphone and doesn’t mind looking like the kind of nerd who keeps a pen attached to his shirt front. (Pocket protectors sold separately.)

I will give the guy in the infomercial the benefit of the doubt and assume his recording doesn’t conclude with the sound of a lifeless female body tumbling helplessly into an isolated ditch.

The other interesting thing about the infomercial is that even this husband thinks his wife is an idiot for holding up an ugly, oversized pen in the middle of a church service:

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