Admit it, you've watched an infommercial!

[scottcsmith]

I'm watching Chef Tony RIGHT NOW pitching the Ultimate Chopper! It's amazing! It can chop and grind stuff like spam, spam and eggs, spam spam spam and eggs, and chunks of kangaroo.

I want one!

And the knives, too, the Chef Tony knives!!!!

Dear God, help me I'm hooked.......

Where's my credit card????

[hlthe2b]

1. You caught me... Rarely, but the "Total Trolley"

got me. (I'm so embarrassed :eyes:)Yup, I ordered one 8 weeks ago (that's how backordered they are), but if it is as shown, it seems like a cool deal to have around the house.

www.totaltrolley.com

But, I normally have more self-restraint!

[Alpharetta]

2. I love watching "The Perfect Club"

It's an infomercial on the Golf Channel.

Peter Kessler is the most amazing speaker. I never get tired of hearing him say "perfect" about 1000 times in a half-hour infomercial.

Go here to hear his voice. He should run for office.

www.perfectgolfclub.com

[KFC]

14. That one gets me too

I have almost ordered one a couple of times. Shit, if it is perfect I have to try it at least, right?

[Overkil]

3. Oh ya.....

I'm guilty

[corarose]

4. Well hell yes

I don't remember the name of the product but I think that ladies name was Kathy and she could sell you the shirt off of her back.

She would cook and it would look so damn easy but when you got the product in the mail it was a piece of shit.

[VOX]

5. You bet! I miss the real classics, like the Helsinki Formula...

and the original Veg-O-Matic.

[DivinBreuvage]

6. My favorite was Tom Vu

The Vietnamese immigrant who discovered one of those real estate get-rich-quick schemes (actually the secrets were revealed to him by a kindly millionaire at the country club restaurant where Tom waited tables).

He spent half the show on a yacht and the other half at his palatial estate, and in almost every shot he was surrounded by a herd of smiling and fidgety bikini-clad twenty-somethings.

He had this great slogan: "You no heh da gut to come to my semminah, you dezuhv to be b'oke, ma fen!" (If you don't have the guts to come to my seminar you deserve to be broke, my friend)

Poor Tom, I think he's in jail now.

[guitar man]

7. I'll bet

I have seen more than just about anybody. It is my job to load the tapes,cue them up and air them here at the tv station where I work. It doesn't matter what they are selling,you can bet it is something that promises to make you good looking,skinny or rich.

[Khephra]

8. I can honestly say that I've never watched one

(Well, more than a few minutes of them, just so I know what it is I'm watching.)

Same applies to reality shows. I only needed to see the ads for them to know they're not for me.

[ldf]

9. i'm with you on the reality shows...

but must say i have done the infomercial.

several.

i only use my ronco showtime rotisserie (sp?) every few months.

i never even opened the pilate tapes that daisy hawked. why? 'cause i got my total gym, although not the expensive one christy and what's his name pushed, but the one for about 250.

proactive did not work for me at all.

susan lucci's do-hicky, with cream, didn't work for me, either.

nothing against those two products, i just have a weird combo oily/dry, red complexioned face that i can't seem to find an answer for. all the rosacea lotions (suggested by the dermotalogist) did nothing.

and i won't even mention carlton sheets.

and what kills me is they now put you on these automatic mailing schedules, so you get more every month or two. i'm sure they are counting on many to forget to call up to cancel.

they only thing that has actually (maybe) been good was the coral calcium. i have been taking that for over a year. i think it has helped my overall health.

and i DO WANT THAT TOTAL TROLLY! we'll be moving at the end of may, and it sure would come in handy.

and then there are the people who just love to shop out of "dr. leonard's" or "carol wright's" cheap useless stuff magazines. but that would be another thread..... (although i did finally break down and get a vibrator!)

:-)

[BiggJawn]

11. Oh, I'm sorry....

You had to buy a "Personal Massager"?

I've gotten Dr. Leonard's a few times myself. Those "Confidence Rings" look scary...

[Doctor_J]

10. I like the music ones

With Davy Jones hawking the ultimate 60's collection, or John Sebastian flogging the Best Of The 70's.

[BiggJawn]

12. The one for the bike with the automatic derailleur...

Women in black spandex....YUM!
And NO, I didn't buy one. I'll shift my OWN cogs, thank you veddy much....:7

[mr_hat]

13. Worse. I've *made* an infomercial.

[Faygo Kid]

15. Bass-O-Matic

The whole bass. Mmmmm. . . .

[Blue-Jay]

16. If I ever meet Billy Mays

I swear by all that is holy that I'll kick him square in the nuts. I don't like salesmen who yell at me. God, I hate that guy.

The juice-machine guy flat out scares me. I don't think he's quite human.

On the other hand, I'm quite fond of the English dude that used to set car hoods on fire. He wore some nice Cosby-esque sweaters.


EDIT: I should have purchased the "Spell Like a Pro" video. Oy.

[short bus president]

17. Only the "Thighmaster." And only for about 15 minutes.

I used to have a little Suzanne Somers thing. I ain't ashamed.

[Faygo Kid]

19. Was that just long enough?

Hmmm. . .

[Blade]

18. Oh hell no...

You'd be a sucker to fall for that sh!t.

[Fenris]

20. The WASHLET from TOTO

The bidet for filthy American assholes who don't like French things!

[BlackVelvetElvis]

21. The only one I've actually enjoyed is Ron's spray on hair

Campy! I actually miss it.

[Fenris]

22. Learn guitar with ESTEBAN!

[Ellen Forradalom]

23. Miss Cleo and Girls Gone Wild

are the best infomercials.

[LTR]

24. I bought Tony Robbins' stuff

I actually enjoyed it. The guy can motivate. Sheesh, he even consulted Clinton!

But Ron Popiel is the KING of infomercials. I always stop to watch when he's on. Who can ever forget spray-on hair?

[LTR]

25. Another one

Remember the one Dick Butkus did with the grill that worked on burning newspaper?

Mmmmmmmm. Yummy!

[Paul Hood]

26. Alright I admit it.

Now I have to go take my coral calcium to recover from my shame. I think they said it's good for that, as well as everything else I could ever possibly suffer from.

[ChoralScholar]

27. I used to watch the

Richard Simmons Deal-a-Meal Infomercials.

I always wanted to call in and say "I've eaten 4 decks of these freakin cards and I haven't lost a pound yet!"