There is an entire fandom built around a late-nite infomercial from 20 years ago. This is one of those times when the internet is actually pretty great.
Why is this so nostalgic? I thought it was just me but then reading the comments looks like everybody used to watch this when they were young. I feel slightly better about myself now
You're certainly not alone! This was my favorite thing to watch on TV in 6th-7th grades. I even videotaped it to watch it anytime I wanted. This brings back great memories for me- and clearly many others here.
I thought I was just weird for watchin' infomercials when I was younger but WOW, it wasn't just me. XD It was a long time ago but I remember tryin' to find stuff on tv and when there was nothin', I watched infomercials. This was my favorite 1 and I kept tellin' my mom 'Let's buy the Magic Bullet. I wanna make chocolate mousse'. XD
Intense Lore. People go to a barbecue at a friend’s place, everyone gets a little tipsy, they spend the night and get gaslit into thinking they need a blender for all their kitchen needs.
Niamh Byrne I have one, and all I ever used it for was to make smoothies. The smoothies were bomb as fuck though! Here I am now, all these years later, trying to see what else I can use this damn magic bullet for.
Yeah same. After ABC Kids would air their block, it would just be waiting around through boring infomercials like proactive to get to the real tickets in town, Magic bullet and anything Ron Popeil
That was a liquefied ham liquefied cheese liquefied onion and liquefied tomato omelette. I mean every ingredient in that disappeared that's not what an omelette is supposed to be.
This was one of the few things I actually tried to make in a blender from this ad because my mom wouldn't let me get a bullet. It didn't come out well.
My brother and I used to watch this shit at like 3am when we were little kids. It was in our top 10 favourite "shows" .... This is what happens to kids in the early 00's who grew up on cable television. Kids these days will never know the true pleasure of infomercials with their netflix and streaming. SMH.
I remember watching this in Mexico at 6am because the cartoons would come out at 7 and idk why but my bother and I managed to memorize most of this legendary paid program. Saturday mornings were always amazing with the magic bullet... Truly great memories.
It's a PEN. They didn't DARE have her with an actual cigarette...not today. It was to IMPLY a "rough ol' gal." So...yeah...there's that...stupid, but there it is.
"Hang on a second, you just blended a bunch of smoothies. You whipped up an omelette. Denied my help and told me to 'sit down and relax', you ground coffee and you mixed up two different types of muffin batter in that thing.......*laughs nervously....what the heck is it?"
@@scentsyforever4423 I have two of them (I bought one, and one was a gift) and I LOVE them. There's a learning curve, since they're powerful, but I use them all the time! (I bought mine at Target, though; I never buy from the TV ad.)
Im 39 i can remember watching infomercials far back as 1988 but this one i was married with 2 kids and loved it i would fall asleep to it everynight strangely comforting
The motor underneath lets off a slight smell and it's a little loud ru-vid.comUgkxCKuMxLnvr6fJd_M4SE-n7trcGj3zEUHq but considering it's size and how hard it works to do the job, it's sort of expected. I assume the smell will go away over time. Overall, I love this cute little blender. The extra cups and lids are great too!
This infomercial was so clever. I like how they played it as a bunch of friends and neighbors getting together instead of some host and presenter demoing a product. This ranks up there with Susan Powter’s “Stop the Insanity” and “Amazing Discoveries”.
Used to watch this as a kid. Like there was one time where I was sick and stayed home from school for a week and I stayed up late and watched this along with other informercials to help me get to sleep or to just entertain me. This brings back a lot of great memories.
I think the reason I love this infomercial so much is because, as a teenager in 2005, one morning I turned on the tv at 5am fully expecting some televangelist spouting Fire and Brimstone stuff, but instead it was this. So calm and happy compared to what I was anticipating...
You know you grew up in the 90s or early 2000s when infomercials are a serious nostalgia kick for you. Those late summer nights laying on the couch with cool night air coming in from the windows and a dark house except for the TV you're flipping channels on. You land on infomercials and are suddenly intrigued by a blender, rotisserie, or a dehydrator. Great times.
My favorite thing about this informercial (besides just how iconic it is) is the obvious voice over when the thing is on. That thing is louder than a lawn mower in reality.
she says it like „ALLRIGHT ENOUGH MICK, I KNOW EVERYTHING I DO WILL NEVER BE GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU, YOU MADE THAT VERY CLEAR LAST NIGHT!“ and that night she‘s gonna stab him with a knife, suitcase already packed and all
Man I remember surfing channels every night looking for this infomercial, it was never hard to find but Mannnn idk what it was, I fucking love this shit so much 😂
That girl is riding on that tire swing and that boy is giving her a push and their mom is calling for them for dinner and she is saying time for dinner.
When you were kid? When I was a kid I sincerely thought people had all that stuff already chopped in their fridge. Not that everyone were a bunch of horn dogs.
This is the iconic magic bullet. My goodness the actors on this was like a comedy skit. “hazel” was a production with her cigarette, spreading cancer air. Good times
They don’t season shit and also the pasta takes about 7-10 minutes depending what kind you make. These people are spewing false information about cooking
i come back to this every thanksgiving morning. it would always be on for the half hour before the Macy’s parade started and my sister and i would get up early specifically to watch it. i haven’t the faintest idea why. but it’s a tradition now
I’m comforted by the fact that I’m not the only one searching this up with a sense of nostalgia. Everyone’s comments make it that much more hilarious xD
A friend of mine used to work for the company that owns magic bullet. She said that when this infomercial came out in the early 2000, the sale was not that good. Not until after 2010, the sales of magic bullet suddenly increased. Because most of the people bought these were kids in the early 2000 and many of them watched the infomercial at that time lol
Literally, I watched this as a kid, got my parents to get one bc I wanted to make milkshakes and smoothies. They use it for certain things now and got me my own last year for Christmas since I have my own house now😂
This is better than anything I watched on Disney Channel as a kid. This infomercial is the best. I always woke up at 3 am in grade school and watched this before school.
This was my "you've been up too long now take your ass to bed before you sleep the entire day away" cue on the weekends. It was this and that show Missing with Alex Paen. It was that weird middle of the night time when it's nothing really on TV but infomercials and crappy reruns of shows from the 80s and 90s.
When I was 10 I was obsessed with this informercial. I memorized every line. I even would make my own smoothies and talk like them pretending I was in my own commercial😂😂😂
About two years after this post key-party brunch was filmed, mimi was arrested for the murder of mick. His body was never recovered, but upon prolonged interrogation mimi confessed it only took 1, 2, 3 seconds in the magic bullet to turn the bits of mick into a fine paste. She even added a dash of curry powder for "spice".
Same! Mimi's line with the chopped onions sounded just like Jan when she said she cleaned the smudges off the sliding glass door, which made her the devil.
i remember waking up one day, it was a cloudy day. my favorite weather. it was the weekend or a day off from school, my dad turns on the television and all i hear is the homeland lady singing and i’m intrigued. then the whole commercial plays as it does and it just sticks with me. it’s always so much fun coming back to watch something so nostalgic 😭😩
I'm so glad I wasnt the only one that watched this religiously as a kid 🤣 I found it super relaxing late at night, along with some of the other iconic infomercials haha
I was already in my early 20’s when this came out but I was pregnant & bedridden so I saw this infomercial aalllll the time. It was definitely a sense of comfort & seeing this again all these years later was super nostalgic. Love it.
So you're telling me Mick and Mimi planned this shit out A few days before everyone was going to come over, they went to Krogers and got all this cheese, fruits, meat, chicken, nacho chips and vegetables and put it in the fridge until the morning of this happening They woke up before everyone else, got dressed, pulled out serving plates and bowls and diced up the cheese, tomatoes, onions and cilantro, put it all out on a plate and set everything up for everyone when they come to the kitchen to show them their new magic bullets You're telling they fucking planned out making smoothie omelets and and smoothie chicken quesadillias for their friends from college on a humid ass summer morning Are you proud of yourself Mick and Mimi? Hm?
@@josephnardi6455 I dunno why she had a cigarette. Irony. Not only was it unnecessary, it's so harmful. I used to chain-smoke but I quit. I think it's for the best. Didn't even need a patch
Secretly watched this infomercial hundreds of time as a kid in the middle of the night. Just showed my wife tonight for nostalgia sake and realized we’ve owned a Magic Bullet for years. Infomercial entertainment value as a child at 3 a.m.: 11/10 Actually owning a Magic Bullet: 2/10 Food any larger than what you would chop by hand gets lodged in it in the first two second and you lose those ‘specialty’ lids in like a week Thanks for giving me something to watch on the Food Network in the middle of the night when I was a kid though.
You kids don't even understand - this was the original, this was the first, modern "infomercial" infomercial of the 00s. This would be the template for the future.
