as seen on tv

There are several "As Seen On TV" ads out there. I'm sure you've all known someone that has fallen victim to the Snuggie Cult (Is your life shrouded in a cold blue haze? Do arrows with $ symbols appear when you try to raise the thermostat? Is your blanket slightly too small? If so please join us, the Cult of Snuggie) or known someone that has longed for a Shamwow to clean up those messes that require the unholy offspring of a sponge and towel. But these things are actually popular items that have seen great success from a relatively simple idea marketed in such a way that it seems like you must be dumb. What about those spectacular ideas that don't seem to fit into that mold, whether they have poor marketing, a terrible or strange idea, or all of the above and so much more? Well here are a few of my favorites from over the years of youtube videos and countless hours of late night television:

magnescribe

Do you constantly realize the shortness of your arms when tossing pens under your bed? Do you need to constantly wear a clock that is awkwardly around your neck so it makes it obvious to other people that you are bored when you look at the time? Do you want your kids to have something close by to impale them if they trip on their way home from the school bus? then boy do we have the pen for you!

electronic abs (ab energizer, abtronic, etc...)


So you want to lose weight whilst being lazy, eh? well the good thing about this setup is that the electric shocks will definitely motivate you to stop trying to cut corners and just do the work out. This is essentially the equivalent of you flexing several times a minute because any weightrainer can tell you that resistance is how you build more muscle. If this actually worked by flexing the muscle then preteen boys trying to show off in the mirror would be the buffest of us all.

easy toothbrush

Does you toothbrush feel like steel wool? Does its shape also have absolutely no relevance to what this commercial is talking about? Well we crammed both those things into one jam-packed fantastical toothbrush!
Brilliant!
Lesko

You may remember this man as a riddler impersonator trying to get you free money from the government. His attitude towards everything was great as I could not believe how ridiculous he was. I did end up finding his books online. So I "borrowed" them and everything single piece of information was actually freely available by the government itself. Who knew.