Hold it! If you call right now now. You'll get the dehydrator, 25 set knife set, the whole line of hair products, a lifetime warranty and ...I'll even throw in Nancy.
Nancy always seemed nice but I bet as soon as the cameras turned off she was like "somebody give me a cigarette, my paycheck, and don't call me cause I'm gonna be shitfaced until Monday!"
After Saturday morning cartoons and WWF ended around 1pm I was captivated by this stunning commercial artistry. Thank you Mom for the Ronco home made beef jerky. R.I.P. RON POPEIL AMERICAN LEGEND.
Rest in peace, Ron. This along with the pasta maker and rotisserie cooker were my favorites to watch as a kid. Made weekends visiting with my Dad before the internet~along with some three stooges in the morning :)
Don't give up the dream! I made it this year in my oven and it was incredible. Gotta get the meat from a butcher, store bought meat comes out like shit.
I laughed my ass off years after these ads aired that the Ronco Food Dehydrator was used by some to dry Cannabis and Cocaine, lol. Rest in Peace Ron Popeil, that guy could sell anything.
After Saturday morning cartoons and WWF ended around 1pm I was captivated by this stunning commercial artistry. Thank you Mom for the Ronco home made beef jerky. R.I.P. RON POPEIL AMERICAN LEGEND.
I suffered from childhood insomnia. These infomercials were about the only thing I watched. I also like the guy that used to talk about making money by putting *TINY* ads in _NEWSPAPERS_
@@DizzyedUpGirl sorry no mystery meat sales and the savings I made on rosemary has disappeared, I put the food dehydrator into storage and purchased an insta pot, I make poridge in seconds now.
My grandparents had this! They made the best dried apples. But they didn’t cut them thin they made wedges. They were the best dried apples I’ve ever had!!!
Ron Popeil has entertained me with his infomercials more than Hollywood has in the past 10 years. Thanks Ron, hope you're selling your wares in heaven.
"Ron, REMEMEBER!" The voiceover guy talks to Ron like it's not a recording and he can hear him, haha. He's like, "Dumbass, listen, you're not remembering this!"
This is literally one of the weirdest informercials I've seen, it's almost like it's not scripted and Ron is about to give old mate such a back hand lol
It really is odd. It's like they were going for a "talking to your friends", off-the-cuff style of talking with one another and about the product. Seems like it wrapped straight around into making it odd, with them talking over one another, asking questions that don't get answered, and going on tangents stop halfway through and don't lead anywhere.
I saw this infomercial so much as a kid... it was always on... late night, sunday mornings, etc... I've seen this entire infomercial so many times i am now 39 and could still recite it after not seeing it for like 25 years...
Best infomercial ever. I used to watch this when there was nothing on at like 130am. I was probably 12 so I never bought one but it always seemed like it probably works.
I was thinking that, too. Never noticed how awkward this was, watching as a kid. They are both trying to get more words in than the other person. I kept waiting for Popeil to get mad at Nancy.
I discovered I already had an amazing machine for drying herbs. It was in my laundry room all this time- my ikea folding drying racks. Instead of laying clothes on the racks, I used cooking twine to tie up bundles of herbs and hung them from the rack. It dries reasonably quickly down in my basement, but if I want to dry it in under 4 days, I just set it near my dehumidifier (needed to cool a house economically around here). Works great.
I remember I was like 7 years old or something and went to a friend's house for the evening. They had this in their kitchen and I was like, "Cool, we're going to eat those later" Hours later that night I never got any of it and my parents picked me up. Made me resent that machine. Don't show me food you're making if I can't have any!
Nancy was fired after the food dehydrator infomercial. You can at the 6:35 mark of this video, when she starts to go into the audience during his speech, Ron gets very pissed off at her. If you look closely, you will see Ron cross his arms, like "how dare you go back to the audience again" while I'm trying to give my sales pitch. The funny thing is the infomercials of the pasta maker and the food dehydrator featuring Nancy Nelson performed very well. Ron shot newer versions, I believe with his daughter, as the side host. (The newer version was the one that gave away the sausage making attachment, which was later edited into this older version with Nancy.) But even after those newer ones were shot and aired a couple of times, they always re-aired the infomercials with Nancy because they performed better sales wise. So if Nancy received residuals every time her shows aired, Nancy got the last laugh after Ron spent money making new infomercials, only to have those new ones fail and having to re-air the shows with her in them! During his presentation of the Dial A Matic food slicer, you can tell he told Nancy to beat it because she's nowhere to be seen. Later on she gets her revenge 27:40, during her solo sales pitch to the cameras when she refers to the slicer as "this $40 item," instead of the actual name of the product, because she was left out of that presentation.
How bad to Ron beat that woman after the taping? Calling out his bald spot and then never shutting the fuck up when he’s trying to talk? They took her out in a body bag that evening.
Actually... that little Ronco Dehydrator works great. Just make sure to follow the directions on how to dehydrate certain things and you won't be stressing and bitching about it "not working". Of course, don't expect too much from a machine that costs $40! If you want something that works amazing then get something more expensive top of the line dehydrator. So the question was, does Ronco Dehydrator work? Yes!
the theme music heard in the beginning was used as the theme music for the cinema 6 late night movie show and the sunday afternoon movie show on wpvi-tv back in the 80's and mid 90's.
I think I watched this dam infomercial several 100 times. And the Juicer and the Rotisserie. I mean.. Ron was king of tv. Forget Silk Stalkings, Friends and Up All Night with Rhonda Shears.
I had a very old one, it was my mother's, and I used it for years but one of the cutting blades got bent and there was no way to fix it. I got the latest version of Veg-O-Matic. It works, but is really cheap and I'm sure it won't last very long.
So, Dankpods just reviewed the Go Bible Traveler, a digital audio Bible sold a while back. According to the packaging, it was "Narrated By Emmy Award Winner, Stephen Johnston". I looked up Stephen Johnston, and it seems that in addition to narrating the Bible, he also voiced over Ronco commercials. Based on audio I've listened to from his Bible narrations, I can confirm beyond a reasonable doubt that that is Emmy Award Winner Stephen Johnston's voice at 0:23.
You can go to Aldi supermarket right now, (limited time only -July 2016), and get one for $19.00!! I was watching this old video for some recipe ideas.
Dood, Ron was like the Mr Rodgers for adults. Who else, as adults, got captivated by his infomercials every time you channel surfed into them? Fess up.....
She looks pretty hot in the fryer infomercial, all grown up. I remember he used his much older daughter in the rotisserie infomercials, then he thought, "Why don't I use my hot daughter?"
