October 2nd, 2007
#346 - Pillow
Infomercials are weird. Every once in awhile I’ll be flipping through through the channels and stop on something interesting. I’ll actually watch it for a few minutes before realizing that it’s a dang commercial. It makes me feel deceived… which doesn’t make me likely to purchase anything. Even after decades of exposure, I have yet to buy anything from my television.
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:10 am
Seriously… sometimes I’ll just be watching the tube, and not even realize commercials are on until the show comes back on. I think a lot of advertisers need to learn how to, well… advertise. Cause I, as well as most people I know don’t buy anything because they “saw it on TV”.
Anyways…
Sucks for Biff
GR
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:25 am
hahah
i dont buy them from the tv
but i find them in stores
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:32 am
I buy off the web in the past I gotten things from TV but not in a while
October 2nd, 2007 at 1:11 am
Infomercials are the scum of TV, second only to reality TV.
October 2nd, 2007 at 1:16 am
nooo Livid. It goes Infomercials, reality TV, commercials, sports, news. those are the scums of TV XD cause those arent entertaining to me :p
October 2nd, 2007 at 1:37 am
you have a problem with sports? well, i guess if you live across the street from the city arena, city football stadium and city baseball stadium, sports do become irritating.
October 2nd, 2007 at 1:37 am
Not to be gross, but one night as a party at a friend’s house was winding down, the person flipping through the channels suddenly stopped with quite a look on her face.
“It’s the home shopping network… for adult toys!” And it was. Oh how much fun we got out of watching the two women trying to sell us toys like they were the next great kitchen knife. They went into detailed yet vague descriptions on exactly how the devices worked.
Of course, they were just novelty cake toppers to us. In Texas, we invest loads of money into the right novelty cake toppers
October 2nd, 2007 at 1:39 am
Somehow I skipped right over buying from the TV to buying loads of stuff on the internet.
Those magic bullets always piqued my interest. And I usually hate kitchen “gadgets”!
October 2nd, 2007 at 2:03 am
for me it goes:
infomercials, soap operas, comedies that aren’t even funny (e.g. friends), reality tv and commercials
if anyone puts the simpsons or futurama on their list, they will pay.
October 2nd, 2007 at 4:00 am
I have to agree with Warcrime’s list, except I’d move commercials to the bottom of the list. After all there are some quite comical commercials out there.
Oh and Biffs pillow would probably be more comphertable if he took it out of its traveling case first XD.
October 2nd, 2007 at 4:00 am
Sorry for the double post but after looking at the picture again something occured to me. Is it just me or does it look like Biff is sleeping on a giant slab of concrete?
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:51 am
pieman: I love simpsons and futurama
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:52 am
it missed out the 2nd part of my post =\
pieman: I love simpsons and futurama =p imo, futurama’s even better that the simpsons =p
i never buy stuff from tv infomercials or ads, but i can’t say the same for internet ads >.> =p
October 2nd, 2007 at 6:49 am
Yeah in New Zealand sometimes they play infomercials for hours and hours straight.
October 2nd, 2007 at 7:20 am
This is pure minimalist comedy genius. There’s just something so hilarious about a single spike.
October 2nd, 2007 at 7:36 am
Funny thing is I bought a set of pillows from an infomercial. It was the one with the loud pony-tailed guy in spandex. After being up all night, I was convinced a new pillow could help me get the sleep I needed. I am pretty certain that my best financial decisions are not made at 4 am lol. Needless to say, the pillows didn’t help
October 2nd, 2007 at 7:36 am
My theory is that infomercials radiate ’stupid waves’ through your tube into your head. If you watch long enough, you’ll do somthing really dumb like buy from the TV, or vote for Bush.
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:57 am
Trueblaze: Actually, that’s what I thought the joke was until I read the caption.
Ugh… my wife loves those dang infomercials… I usually have to race her to the phone to keep her from ordering more stuff.
To date, she has bought:
- one Magic bullet blender (which is actually pretty useful)
- a gimmicky foreman grill (great at gathering dust)
- one exercise thingamajig (which was delivered broken)
- one ninja kit (she chased me around with the sword; she’s a bully…*sniffle*)
Fortunately neither of us has ever voted for Bush… *shudder*
October 2nd, 2007 at 10:20 am
At least it doesn’t look as dangerous as his blue porcupine pillow!
October 2nd, 2007 at 10:44 am
Note to Biff: I’ve heard the
Foreman grill is more comfortable
to sleep on. ~Love, Sera
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:12 am
Well, we can just chalk this one up to his list of “things he shouldn’t've bought from the infomercial” (some of the more famous ones being the electric tennis ball and the Saturn Gravity boots). The only difference tho was that those products were funny and possibly useful. This pillow just seems painful : (
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:53 am
TrillionGrams - from what I understand of Texas law’s prohibition on anything that adults might enjoy, the state also has the world’s most diverse market for back massagers.
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:07 pm
I ordered a set of LP’s (you know, pre-CD music disks) from TV once. Actually, the girl I was dating and I agreed to split the cost. She never did pay me for her part of the purchase. It doesn’t really matter now, we’ll just let the grandkids (we have two so far) decide who gets possession of the LP’s.
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:25 pm
Somehow I get the feeling that such a product as that actually exists out there. I don’t actually know because I haven’t sat down and watched a TV for more than five minutes in almost three years but I can almost guarantee it. I mean, I’ve seen an commercial selling orange juice where a female actress stripped and got into a shower with what I think was an iguana. There has to be something out there.
October 2nd, 2007 at 1:29 pm
…it sorta looks like Biffs bed is made of concrete… that MUST be uncomfortable!
October 2nd, 2007 at 2:59 pm
I don’t think Biff’s bed is made of concrete. That’s just a bed sheet, and it’s gray. If Biff’s bed were a solid slab of concrete, why would there be pressure lines at the bottom of the spike? The spike would have to be made of lead or some even denser material. Dark mater? Biff is often times a fool, but I think even he wouldn’t use a thousand pound spike as a pillow.
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:52 pm
Wow. You know, I’ve watched infomercials before, but generally, I think their annoying. They say the same thing over and over again! Gezz. Oh well. Poor Biff.
October 2nd, 2007 at 4:59 pm
Suggestion: Turn the spike around and use it to murder the evil infomercial people.
As for what I think about infomercials, I think I want one of those Magic Bullet thingys, they look useful.
October 2nd, 2007 at 7:20 pm
there was somtin on tv the other day about this weird pot holder that doubled as a face washer an a strainer
October 2nd, 2007 at 10:27 pm
Biff gives into the informecial and pays the price.
Those Magic Bullets? Work very well, especially when mixing soy protein powder!
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:35 pm
Poor biff. How many cruel realizations will he have to go through in life?
…Probably as many as Chris can think of while still being HILARIOUS.
January 3rd, 2008 at 6:58 pm
Did you see how the news guys got a doctor to approve an untested product for an infomercial?
January 26th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
once again, biff has gotten scammed.
July 8th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
I don’t get it, it looked comftorble to me…