Did you have a favorite late-night infomercial?

Yeah the lady with the hand held blender back when it was a new thing. Byt usually anything that involved food

Yes. Anything by Cathy Mitchell.

Nothing like being drunk on a weekend night and watching Cathy Mitchell make "apple pies" with canned sugary apple filling pressed between two pieces of Wonder Bread.

Cathy, cutting it open proudly, "And mine has SOME APPLES in it."

The tragically balding guy on the pooph room spray infomercials intrigues. He looks like fun in bed

The highlight of the Magic Bullet infomercials was Hazel!

Cathy’s Xpress Readi Set Go infomercial is hypnotic . I like the part where the guy burns his mouth with the pizza.

The ShamWow guy. He was cute and funny.

All the Psychic Network ads particularly Dionne Warwick's.

That AbShaper looks like what I need! I’m sold.

In the early 90s, Cher and the wildebeest who sold hair products

Ronco's "set it and forget it" rotisserie oven. I never bought the oven but usually bought a buttery rotisserie chicken from the deli the next day!

R6 and I'm going to cut through it like this. And do you hear that crisp! Always keep a box of Bisquick in the cupboard and a roll of Pilsbury Biscuits in the fridge!

Late-night infomercials? Please. The very idea of being "mesmerized" by a bunch of men in spandex parading around like they’re doing something extraordinary is utterly absurd. If you want results, you don’t rely on gimmicks and flashy ads - you get down on the floor and work for it. No excuses, no nonsense. And if I ever catch you wasting your time on such trivialities, there will be consequences. Remember, discipline and hard work are what truly shape a person; not some ridiculous contraption on TV. Now, do we understand each other?

Time-Life music compilations.

Yup, the Cathy Mitchell commercials were very watchable, late at night. I liked it when she dropped a mini candy bar into cake mix.

HOWEVER, she did NOT have a warm and fuzzy demeanor. She actually had a mean and rushed edge to her delivery.

Ronco guy had a shyster edge.

David Venable on QVC is my all-time favorite for food appliances.

Flowbee!

R14 Yes these! I'm a xennial but I would watch those all the time , even the ones from the 40s and 50s....I was always retro obsessed.

The late night Bowflex and Soloflex infomercials

As a teen I used to j/o to the Soloflex infomericals semi-regularly

Here's a 30-sec version but there were 30-min versions late at night with lots more glistening workout shots

Those Soloflex commercials. My God. Sat there late at night eating junk food while watching those.

R14, I'm with you about Time-Life music.

I hit the couch late one Saturday (I had worked all day, was exhausted) and came thisclose to ordering a CD set of Music Barry Williams (yes, Greg Brady). A google search tells me I almost purchased 70s Music Explosion.

I loved when Cathy Mitchell had a whole kitchenful of "set it and forget it" appliances and they'd be going off one after another (ding! ding! ding!) with gourmet treats like cornmeal batter with hot dog pieces in it, or the aforementioned mini cake-mix cakes with a tiny Snickers melted in the middle.

Amazing Discoveries with Mike Levy was always an entertaining watch. For some reason this product fascinated me and was one of the few things I ever ordered from TV. It worked about as well as you’d expect. It transferred the image to the fabric but under a semi-flexible layer of plastic goo. Not really comfortable to wear.

Early Mad TV spoofed the Mike Levy infomercials perfectly

Susan Powter fucked up my concept of fat for years. I still do that mental math to figure out the percentage of fat in a product

I've moved on from Cathy Mitchell's "Xpress Redi Set Go" small appliance infomercials. To her "Bake cupcakes and cook fish in the same pan" Turbo Cooker infomercials.

One of my college friends and I found this infinite dress infomercial late one night and laughed our asses off at the absurdity.

The ancestor of all these infomercials. What the hell kind of accent is that? "Parry-john"

R10, I bought those Lori Davis products, it was a whole kit. It was like putting Gorilla Glue in your hair. I can’t imagine she used the same products on Cher and Holly Hunter.

I’m sure I just threw them out after a few weeks.

Jackie Gleason as The Chef of the Future.

I win...

Speaking of the Time Life connection, I was obsessed with this one. I dont even like 40's music much but I would compu;seively watch it anytime it was on which was often

I was obsessed with this one and my mom actually bought it but it turned out be a piece of crap.

[quote]I win...

Aww. I miss Suzanne.

r31 that's a commercial, not an infomercial. You lose.

Man, I think owning some of those T-L collections of music would be great... that Greg Brady infomercial was so compelling, but the post-purchase shame of actually making a purchase kept me from calling the 800#.

I remember seeing an infomercial for the complete set of PeeWee's Playhouse! I can't remember who hosted it (not Paul Reubens) and I was so happy knowing that brilliant show wouldn't be forgotten. But I only saw the commercial once so maybe I hallucinated it.

Miss Cleo. No contest.

Lynne Marie Stewart played Miss Yvonne in that one, R37. And it was filmed on a playground?

Found it!

The Soloflex and similar ones were the closest thing to porn my 12 year old brain could find.

Laurence Fishburne and Phil Hartman and S. Epatha Merkerson -- all of them played in Pee Wee's Playhouse!

R5 won.

Magic bullet 100%.

It should be an example of masterful marketing.

It was dumb. It was cheesy.

But people got genuinely invested. The commercial had characters. A loose storyline. It was something

Right before Ron Popeil would start his spiel on the Showtime rotisserie, he'd spray his bald spot with GLH (Great Looking Hair). He had the blonde hype lady that he hardly paid attention to.