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Huggy Buddy Infomercial Annoys Kids of All Ages
The many Pillow Pets rip off products usually feature really annoying jingles. The infomercial for Huggy Buddy, however, dispenses with the jingle entirely but manages to be even more annoying by having a 30-year-old woman narrate the whole thing using...
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Strike Trainer: Mercilessly Beat a Piece of Styrofoam
In the never ending war to get fit, consumers spend lots of money on fitness club memberships, home gyms, and personal trainers. But this whole time the path to a better body could have been achieved by simply punching and...
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BunIt Makes It Easy to Look Like a Frumpy, Uptight Librarian
The most successful “fashion” products sold on infomercials–such as Booty Pop, Bumpits, Snap-On Feathers and Salon Express–have great appeal to either white trash or 13-year-old girls or both. So what will be the next hot fashion trend sold on TV...
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Bottle Cuddler Gives Kids a False Impression of Animal Anatomy
The Bottle Cuddler is another contestant in the pageant of Pillow Pets rip-off products combining a stuffed animal with something else. In this case, Bottle Cuddler combines a stuffed animal with a baby bottle (or sippy cup): Much like the...
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Grab-A-Bite and Dog Dicer Rescue Us from the Horror of Using a Fork and Knife
For centuries people living in what is commonly referred to as “Western civilization” have gone through quiet moments of desperation multiple times each day. The cause of this torment is always the same: no, it is not getting shampoo in...
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Is Pitchman Marc Gill the Next Billy Mays?
Since 2009, many people who follow DRTV have asked themselves who, if anyone, will be the next Billy Mays. This website has also asked this question from time to time and mostly has given tongue-in-cheek answers. Some possible candidates we...
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Is the "They Rapin' Everybody" Guy the Next Billy Mays?
In 2010 a news report about an intruder sneaking into the bedroom of a housing project turned Antoine Dodson into an unlikely Internet celebrity: The video went viral and turned the phrases “They rapin’ everybody,” “Hide yo’ kids, Hide yo’...
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First World Problems - Bye Bye Tears Shampoo Band Alleviates the Suffering of Children
One of the saddest subjects any human being can contemplate is the day-to-day suffering so many children around the globe have to endure: malaria tormenting children in Africa; fighting in Afghanistan creating orphans who have to make their own way...
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Popabrella Really Believes Your Camera Needs Its Own Umbrella
As I said in my Recip-Ease post, I really think that infomercial marketers are just running out of ideas. The latest example of this is Popabrella, which is an umbrella specially designed for cameras: This text will be replaced jwplayer('mediaspace51612').setup({...
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Papa Bert's Sippin' Seat: The Perfect Gift for Any Cheap, Alcoholic Sports Fan Under 300 Pounds
Who knew there was such a thriving market for devices to help sneak booze into sports stadia! The Bootlegger let people strap a mini-bar to their ankles, and now Papa Bert’s Sippin’ Seat lets you carry a cushion secretly filled...
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The Party Bullet: Mick, Mimi, and Hazel Get Drunk at a Funeral
The latest infomercial in the Magic Bullet franchise has debuted! In The Party Bullet Mick, Mimi, and Hazel (!) return. The producers of this one have really ramped up the humor and campiness in an earnest attempt to make this...
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Neck Right Inflatable Pillow Relieves Pain While Making You Look Like a Dork
The Neck Right inflatable neck pillow is very similar to the Dr Ho Neck Comforter product. The infomercial for Neck Right, however, was produced by Fred Vanore’s Blue Moon Studios, the same company the made the Snuggie infomercial. The trademark...
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Hallucinate a Giraffe the Easy Way with Cypher Kids Club 3D Cards
Every parent wants to encourage their children to hallucinate, but offering them peyote, LSD, and magic mushrooms presents certain legal and medical complications. Luckily, the Cypher Kids Club offers these Live 3D Interactive Cards: Now with this “augmented reality” your...
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Ab-Hancer: Fake But Funny
Yesterday, I received this image for the Ab-Hancer, which is gaining notoriety online: The product is supposed to be a grid placed over the midsection to quickly create the appearance of developed ab muscles in the skin. The product image...
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Recip-Ease Proves You Can Try Too Hard to Invent a Product
Sometimes I think infomercial marketers are running out of ideas for new products. Case in point: Recip-Ease: This text will be replaced jwplayer('mediaspace41612').setup({ 'flashplayer': 'http://www.infomercial-hell.com/video/jwplayer/player.swf', 'file': 'http://www.infomercial-hell.com/video/Recip-Ease.flv', 'image': 'http://www.infomercial-hell.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/recip-ease-03.jpg', 'controlbar': 'bottom', 'width': '425', 'height': '319' }); How convenient Recip-Ease makes...
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Yes, Bosom Max is a Pink Bra That Massages Your Breasts
The Bosom Max is an entire system designed to enlarge a woman’s bustline. It uses creams and capsules, but most of all, a pink bra that massages the breasts: I assume those undulating rainbows in the infomercial represent circulation in...
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Lid Lift: Stop Using the Bathroom Like It's the 90s!
I am hesitant to write about the Lid Lift infomercial, because despite the assurance that “This is a Paid Advertisement” I am certain this thing has never actually aired on TV. But this video promoting a toilet lid handle is...
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Do Daddy: The Hand Grip with the Name that Makes Everyone Uncomfortable
The product is a hand grip that can be attached to shovels, rakes, and mops for easier handling. Yet, for some reason, the makers of this useful product felt compelled to give it a highly suggestive name, Do Daddy: Were...
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Squatty Potty: A Stool for Stool
Here is the product we have all been waiting for. It’s Squatty Potty, a stool that lets you squat over a toilet bowl while defecating: Jimmy Carter surely appreciates having his hemorrhoid bout from 34 years ago retold to a...
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iGrow: Stop Thinning Hair with a Laser Beam Tricycle Helmet
Back in the 1800s and early 1900s people were so naïve. They believed baldness could be cured by wearing goofy contraptions like these: But in the 21st century we know better, of course. The only proven way to re-grow hair...
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