Random Commercial Question

[metylerca]

From time to time, I see Youtube compilations of infomercial outtakes or stupidity. They are usually of the "white people can't do anything!" variety.

Somehow this reminds me of another informercial I would see that ran in the 90's that was for some Power Ballads CD compilation where a dude PARACHUTES to a woman's doorstep, because she rush delivered for the CD. Does anyone know what this was? I can't find it online, but the more I think about it, the funnier I remember it being.

[willywonka666]

I think it was one of the Monster Ballads cd commercials. You know "Every bad boy has a soft side" I can only find a couple on youtube and one has a couple jumping out, but I'll bet money the original spot is what you're talking about.

[metylerca]

Jan 5, 2016 21:30:18 GMT -5 willywonka666 said:

I think it was one of the Monster Ballads cd commercials. You know "Every bad boy has a soft side" I can only find a couple on youtube and one has a couple jumping out, but I'll bet money the original spot is what you're talking about.

Monster Ballads rings a bell. It just seems so random, the idea where you'd order rush delivery and have your CD delivered by some parachuter who looks like Fabio. I guess it's lost to the ether.

[willywonka666]

Jan 5, 2016 21:59:18 GMT -5 metylerca said:

Jan 5, 2016 21:30:18 GMT -5 willywonka666 said:

I think it was one of the Monster Ballads cd commercials. You know "Every bad boy has a soft side" I can only find a couple on youtube and one has a couple jumping out, but I'll bet money the original spot is what you're talking about.

Monster Ballads rings a bell. It just seems so random, the idea where you'd order rush delivery and have your CD delivered by some parachuter who looks like Fabio. I guess it's lost to the ether.

It was the 90s

[Cranjis McBasketball]

Jan 5, 2016 21:30:18 GMT -5 willywonka666 said:

I think it was one of the Monster Ballads cd commercials. You know "Every bad boy has a soft side" I can only find a couple on youtube and one has a couple jumping out, but I'll bet money the original spot is what you're talking about.

I remember the commercial , so does Youtube.



Parachute isn't familiar though, I recall it just like this.

[wildojinx]

The one where the guy lands at the doorstop is actually a commercial for the Monsters of Rock cd, sadly, that one ISNT on youtube.

[Mozenrath]

Some of the informercial stuff makes more sense with the knowledge that a lot of the products are actually made with the handicapped in mind. Unfortunately, that's a relatively tiny portion of the population. In order to make it in big numbers and be sustainable, you have to appeal to get non-handicapped people to buy them, too, and appeal to an interest.

Good example being the Snuggie. Novelty to someone who can walk, pretty goddamn convenient to someone in a wheelchair versus a typical robe.

[Cranjis McBasketball]

Jan 7, 2016 1:07:33 GMT -5 Mozenrath said:

Some of the informercial stuff makes more sense with the knowledge that a lot of the products are actually made with the handicapped in mind. Unfortunately, that's a relatively tiny portion of the population. In order to make it in big numbers and be sustainable, you have to appeal to get non-handicapped people to buy them, too, and appeal to an interest.

Good example being the Snuggie. Novelty to someone who can walk, pretty goddamn convenient to someone in a wheelchair versus a typical robe.

Typo?

[Mozenrath]

Jan 7, 2016 1:25:16 GMT -5 Cranjis McBasketball said:

Jan 7, 2016 1:07:33 GMT -5 Mozenrath said:

Some of the informercial stuff makes more sense with the knowledge that a lot of the products are actually made with the handicapped in mind. Unfortunately, that's a relatively tiny portion of the population. In order to make it in big numbers and be sustainable, you have to appeal to get non-handicapped people to buy them, too, and appeal to an interest.

Good example being the Snuggie. Novelty to someone who can walk, pretty goddamn convenient to someone in a wheelchair versus a typical robe.

Typo?

It is in reference to in the OP, about informercials with the characters being shown as inept in order to convince you to buy the gadget. I guess I should have been clearer about that.

[Cranjis McBasketball]

Jan 7, 2016 1:36:47 GMT -5 Mozenrath said:

Jan 7, 2016 1:25:16 GMT -5 Cranjis McBasketball said:

Typo?

It is in reference to in the OP, about informercials with the characters being shown as inept in order to convince you to buy the gadget. I guess I should have been clearer about that.

Oh, I thought you meant was inconvenient to a person in a wheelchair.

[Mozenrath]

Jan 7, 2016 1:39:17 GMT -5 Cranjis McBasketball said:

Jan 7, 2016 1:36:47 GMT -5 Mozenrath said:

It is in reference to in the OP, about informercials with the characters being shown as inept in order to convince you to buy the gadget. I guess I should have been clearer about that.

Oh, I thought you meant was inconvenient to a person in a wheelchair.

Nah, apparently snuggies are pretty awesome for wheelchair folk, I guess it beats having to figure out how to get a robe under.

[Cranjis McBasketball]

Jan 7, 2016 1:47:46 GMT -5 Mozenrath said:

Jan 7, 2016 1:39:17 GMT -5 Cranjis McBasketball said:

Oh, I thought you meant was inconvenient to a person in a wheelchair.

Nah, apparently snuggies are pretty awesome for wheelchair folk, I guess it beats having to figure out how to get a robe under.

Makes sense.