Infomercials You Can't Forget

There are few things more bizarre than the television infomercial. With poor video production, horrible acting and unnecessary products, it's a wonder how any of these products ever get sold. Yet, people in Utah and across the nation make purchases after seeing an infomercial every day. Maybe there's something in the message. After all, there are a few infomercials that seem to have a power to stick in your mind forever...even if you desperately want to forget ever seeing them.

The TV Hat

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Sometimes, simply watching videos on a smart phone or tablet isn't enough. For those people who feel a need to watch TV anywhere and look like an idiot at the same time, there's the TV hat. As Stephen Colbert noted, you can use it to ignore your wife, ignore your children or ignore the traffic around you. It probably shouldn't come as too big a surprise that the website for this product is no longer in existence.

Shake Weight For Men

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Sure, there may be some crazy mountain man in Utah who loves exercising, but for the average Joe, it's more a chore than anything else. Thankfully, there's the Shake Weight For Men, which claims to harness “the power of dynamic inertia” to give an incredible 6-minute workout. Of course, anyone who sees you performing said workout probably thinks you're doing something a bit different than an exercise routine. This product is still in existence – maybe its slightly better video production or its total strangeness helped save it from infomercial oblivion.

While nature can inspire many things, it clearly did not inspire quality video production or a calm product presentation for this infomercial. However, if you have an itchy back and you want your next set of visitors to wonder if you host stripper parties at your house, this is the product for you.

Kevin Johnson writes for Fusion 360, an advertising agency in Utah.