Look up the hero wars commercials. the games probably fake but the ads really try to imply some kind've funny lore and there are ALOT of them. It's the new lily's garden for me.
True, but when I was a kid, toothpaste in the sink was never the result of me not knowing how to dispense toothpaste from its tube. It was the result of me brushing for only like 10 seconds, so when I spat it out, most of the toothpaste was yet to actually dissolve in my mouth.
Some things in infomercials like the toothpaste gadget can be really useful for people with motor function disabilities. The way they show the "mess ups" is hilarious though I will say.
Yeah that seems to be the intent for a lot of as soon on tv products but they don’t market them as specifically for folks with disabilities to maybe get interest from as many people as possible I guess?
Basically this. While some are absolutely bullshit gimmicks, a lot of the products are originally designed as products to assist people with disabilities or other limitations. They would bring it to these companies to help produce and sell them to a larger populace, and the businesses more or less push for them to be something that is advertised as a gimmick fix for the general population because advertising it for people with disabilities is considered too niche of a market. A lot of spill prevention items and “kid promoted” products usually also have some sort of color neutral version either mentioned as an option over the phone or as part of the in store stock because they were originally built for people who have nerve or muscular issues.
Hey kids, Buzz Killington here! Remember that a bunch of these "make your life easier" gadgets and gizmos may have originated as tools to make lives easier for the elderly and disabled. The wacky advertising to try to sell them to people that may not need them is on purpose, intended to get your attention and potentially drive more sales to make them easier to make and provide for folks that might, in fact, need them. The o-face thing and other beauty stuff, I can't explain so easily... Have fun with that! :D
The foot washing one is a good example. I feel like I mentioned it'd actually be useful for elderly or disabled people? But I don't think it made the final cut, lol. @@frankf684
I'm so sick of people starting comments with "as a blah blah blah"...it's so validation-seeking. Gold medal for you, you're a woman. So am I. And so is half the planet. Congrats.
Trying to pass off a carbon filter as "military technology against chemical weapons!" is wild because its just...it's just carbon. Everyone else uses carbon for filters too but I guess that isnt as much of a selling point
It's the little edits Toasty does that always gets me. Like putting the Ace Attorney explanation music over Peebs' attempts to wrap his head around the fart catcher blanket
Recently I learned many As-Seen-on-TV products are derived from genuinely helpful things for disabled people that are then made into crap that barely works if at all and comes across as fixing a problem that doesn't exist at best or shows people being super lazy at worst. "This toothpaste dispenser is very helpful for people that may have damaged nerves in their hands or parkinsons. Let's sell it as if people's tubes explode every time they try to get some on their brush."
I was just about to make fun of the Easy Feet by saying "Oh, yeah, I can't wait to give my feet the equivalent of a car wash" and these mofos really used that as a selling point. I miss the days when companies would try to sell you a product by offering to also give you five to seven wholly unrelated products with your purchase. "Buy our slow cooker now and also receive three bars of soap hand-crafted by the Amish. But wait, there's more!"
I got one of those toothpaste dispenser things when my wrist was fucked up. Its alright i guess, but if you end up not needing it, it doesn't have a purpose. But if you've got arthritis or something, it makes life simpler
8:17 My parents got me a container of Floam when I asked for it as a kid. It's just styrofoam beads suspended in slime. As soon as I opened it, I immediately knew my parents would _never_ allow me to stick this shit to furniture.
Why does media always show people using the wrong plungers for their toilets? Cup plungers are for sinks. Flange and bellows/accordion plungers are for toilets.
After seeing how many people on Twitter consider frozen meals to be the most difficult things ever to make, as a response to why they use Door Dash literally every day, I have gained a newfound respect for these As Seen On TV ads. The people in that video are not exaggerating at all.
I mean, considering a lot of the people talking about that are people with disabilities or mental health issues which make even frozen meal prep inordinately difficult (not to mention questioning if they have room in the freezer, if they have a functioning freezer to begin with or a microwave to cook them with, if they are physically or mentally able to go to the grocery store frequently enough to restock said frozen options with consideration that their freezer may only be large enough to fit a handful due to the packaging, etc) and a lot of “As Seen on TV” products were originally designed to assist people with disabilities and just marketed to the general population to make it more marketable and therefore more accessible to the people who actually need it….then yeah, I can see how you’d notice that correlation.
@Silentgrace11 If you can order Door Dash every day, you can afford delivery from Walmart or whatever your local supermarket is. My aunt could barely walk, had bad eyesight, and even worse hearing, but she could still use the microwave. Even the regular oven too! Also, one of the "disabilities" is the mental stress of opening the package and not being able to sit down in the kitchen while the meal cooks.
@@Silentgrace11 That is a bit issue with communication on the internet in general. You almost never have context for the type of person with whom you're speaking, whether they have some sort of disability, or might be a young child or teenager. So it's very easy to just point fingers at how dumb or incompetent somebody is (heck, I've done that myself), when it's just as possible that there's a good reason for why they are the way they are.
As finnish person, those sauna pants offend me. In finland pretty much every house and apartment building has a sauna and calling some heat up nappie the ultimate sauna is so wrong😂
That's the dumbest thing I find about it. It has nothing sauna-like aside from being above room temperature. You could wrap a heated blanket around your waist for the same experience. They absolutely needed to market heated pants as something amazing and revolutionary, and I guess "wearable sauna" was the only thing they could come up with.
Ok, something I want EVERYONE to consider if they feel like they need to buy something like the arm tape, or Booty Pop, or anything else (this goes for everyone not just the women the adds are targeting). Consider how your confidence will feel if/when you go home with someone and you have to take the product off. It's always better to be the real you! No matter what these ads say.
Time to gross out Peebs: So farts are not just all air. They contain trace molecules of...well...poo in them. Not much, as I said its trace MOLECULES of it, but its there and that's why they smell. And now you will think of that anytime someone farts near you.
2:17 Peebs, when they say it “never gets wet,” that doesn’t mean it never FEELS wet. It just means it reverts to its “dry form” (that is, powdery) when you take it out of the water.
True. Problem is, we already have hot water bottles. That's the problem with a bunch of these - you could just use something a lot more mundane and versatile half the time.
LOL at the older Terrible As Seen On TV video you've done a while back showing an old beauty face mask that had metal pins inside (the one that flowed electric currents, while you had to apply jelly)... 🤣
"A real solution for a real problem!" screams so much like a bunk product that's trying to convince you it's not a total waste of time, money, and resources.
Twin draft guard is actually great for places without central AC. My mom made homemade versions of these for our bedrooms, the only place in the house with AC on, as it's too expensive to run it in the rest of the house.
Soooo a win for preventing messes around the house and car but you pay for the prevention of messes and possibly ruined things in time spent cleaning the mess containment unit?🤔 Sounds like a win to me and my clumsy self! What exactly makes it so difficult to clean?
@@TinySwanGrandAdventures It's difficult to explain, but basically the lid is two pieces, the silicone gasket and a plastic ring. The issue is the plastic bit has numerous holes that the liquid passes through when you drink from it. Each one is a contained channel that's maybe 2mm wide, but travels through an inch of plastic. There's essentially no way to ensure that you have properly cleaned the internals.
"problem in the marriage bed.." implies that there's also a "the divorce bed", does that also means that there's also "the single bed" as well? 🤔(i just find the wording or "the marriage bed" a little funny/ridiculous as a ploy to buy your product 😆)
I know my dogs were thankful when I started strapping stuff onto them too, Peebs. The looks they gave me were like none other. Keep promoting these wonderful, ingenious items!!
Some of these commercials are nostalgic. I had Floam as a kid and it would stick to everything. I remember I tried to Floam a Lego set and the little foam beads got stuck inside the bottom of the Lego pieces. My parents threw it out the next day. Squeezy Freezy was another one. My grandma bought two for me and my brother. If I recall, it came in a cardboard box with instructions and flavor packets. No matter how many times we repeated the instructions, it never worked. My brother and I were disappointed that the end results were mildly cold flavored water. My grandma returned them the next day.
Easyfeet: Because apparently nail salons were closed down globally that year, and home mani-pedi kits were their weight in palladium. Also I have seen at least a third of these. I'm officially nostalgic for these. *creak*
Ok for the longest time, I thought the dog bag thing was a fake joke product made by a comedy show I watched YEARS ago. But now I’m scared, confused, and disgusted that it’s an actual product that someone may have bought.
This video was absolutely amazing, but you're getting so aggressive with the editing, which I know makes for a better video in some ways, but this could have been a good bit longer and still super enjoyable
That toothpaste dispenser stuck with me as a kid, I literally told myself when I was little that if I ever got rich I would buy one of those and to this day I STILL really want one, it was just so futuristic and classy to me. My parents are so messy with toothpaste, it would help SO much LMAO
Kids especially would not be able to stop themselves from reacting to actual slush ice water being dropped on them. They probably just got doused with room temp colored water with fake ice in it
