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Noam the Pitchman Has a Website!
Longtime reader Phil Alexander let us know that “Noam the Pitchman” from the ID Blocker infomercial has his very own website. You will find it at www.NoamThePitchman.com Among the more interesting pages on Noam’s site is a “Guess the Funny...
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Hot Booties: Like Microwave Hot Pockets for Your Feet
You might suspect that an infomercial with a product named Hot Booties would be selling a video like Girls Gone Wild, or maybe an item to enhance the derriere like Booty Pop. In fact Hot Booties has nothing to do...
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Tug Toner: The Next Breakthrough In Highly Suggestive Men's Fitness Equipment
Someone at the Jimmy Kimmel Live show has seen the Shake Weight and Free Flexor infomercials and imagined what the next stage for somewhat off-color exercise equipment would look like. Behold the Tug Toner! (Warning: This parody video is lewd,...
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Lucky Shoppers Get to Pelt Infomercial Dork with Food
How often have you wanted to throw something at a dofus on a TV infomercial? The producers of the Whip-It infomercial gave a bunch of lucky mall shoppers the chance to hurl food at host Art Edmonds: Art Edmonds was...
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It's a Stuffed Animal...It's Something Else...It's a Pillow Pets Rip Off!
The Pillow Pets ad was one of the most successful TV infomercials targeting the kids’ market. You cannot step into general big box retailer without seeing piles of these things on display. Pillow Pets are succinctly described by the annoying...
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ID Blocker: Goofy Guy With a Funny Accent Sells an Identity Protection Stamp
You might assume that the minimum requirement for a television pitchman would be an ability to clearly pronounce words, but the producers of the ID Blocker infomercial think otherwise: Noam has to be the unlikeliest imaginable candidate to become the...
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Forever Lazy Taps Into the Growing Infantilism Fetish
The mega-success of the Snuggie blanket with sleeves in 2008-2009 tempted others to cash in with infomercials selling some variation of a wearable blanket. All of these Snuggie rip-offs went bust except for one: Forever Lazy The Forever Lazy is...
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Free Flexor Provides Men with Another Suggestive Workout
Now that the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy has been repealed, the US Army can start using Free Flexor for its strength training: Someone must have thought the Shake Weight for Men wasn’t nearly suggestive enough, so he went on...
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Infomercial News: Don Lapre Dead of Apparent Suicide
1990s infomercial personality Don Lapre has died, apparently from a suicide while in prison awaiting a trial for fraud. Read details here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2044687/Don-Lapre-dead-Arizona-TV-pitchman-commits-suicide-cell-52m-fraud-trial.html The boyish, energetic Don Lapre first came to prominence for a series of infomercials promoting a money...
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Guess What the "Better Marriage Blanket" Does...
No couple thinks about divorce when they gaze lovingly into each others’ eyes and exchange vows. But divorce is exactly what will happen to nearly one million of them each year in the United States alone. Yet no statistics can...
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Thunder Shirt: Talking Albino Wolf with a British Accent Sells a Calming Dog Vest
In order to sell their calming dog vest, the infomercial for the Thunder Shirt uses the magic of computer graphics to make its canine pitchman talk to us—and wink at us: If you ever wondered whether animals can tumble into...
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IonPod Turns Your Drinking Water Into the Fountain of Youth...or Something
The IonPod is a metal bottle that alkalizes your water to reduce the levels of acidity in your body. Yes, it is a dull product, but this product resulted in one strange and off-kilter infomercial: You got to love how...
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Happy Sack: A Useless Product with an Off-Color Name
Don’t you hate it when your cell phone is too far to reach but not too far to see yet you are not able to see the screen because the phone is lying flat instead of upright? At long last...
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Vanilla Ice Goes from Has-Been Rapper to Wannabe Real Estate Guru
Seeking to become the next Tom Vu or Dave Del Dotto is rapper Vanilla Ice (né Robert Van Winkle), best known for his early Nineties mega-hit “Ice Ice Baby.” He has launched a website called Vanilla Ice Real Estate, which...
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Action Alert: Big Mother is Watching You
Here is one product that will be popular among viewers of To Catch a Predator. The Action Alert software constantly monitors your child’s Internet activity for “any evidence of online dangers.” The best part of the Action Alert infomercial comes...
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Magic Thimble: Crazy Infomercial Gives Us a Lollipop Robot, a Vibrator, and a Rubber Finger Tip
The Magic Thimble is a pretty dull product, a rubber finger tip that helps you turn pages more easily. Yet this unremarkable product ended up with one of the craziest infomercials ever: Oh where to start… The pitchman here is...
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Put Away Your Tin Foil Hats! The E-Pendant with EMR Blocker is Here!
Sure, we all want to prevent the Illuminati, CFR, and Bilderbergers from using government satellites to read our brainwaves and control our thoughts. But wearing a tin foil hat is soooo passé. Instead, protect yourself with the EP2 E-Pendant with...
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TV Hat: Trade In Your Dignity for a Big Screen Movie Experience
With TV Hat you can get a big screen movie experience when watching videos on your smart phone or iPod…as long as you don’t mind looking like a complete weirdo in public: Yes, people may give you strange looks when...
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Nature's Greeting Gives Us a Bean with Meaning
The Nature’s Greeting (www.NaturesGreetingPlants.com) product will evenly divide the public. Half will find Nature’s Greeting a cute and clever novelty. The other half will find it pointless, stupid, and creepy. Nature’s Greeting is a bean plant inside a can that...
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Igia Air-O-Sage: Is a Soothing Massage Worth Looking Like a Dork?
The Igia Air-O-Sage Back & Shoulder Massager promises a soothing massage…and as an added benefit you get to have a black tortoise shell strapped to your back! On second thought, the black color is actually more reminiscent of a beetle’s...
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