Where is the salesman in this screencap? He’s behind the table, holding his ribcage and crying out in pain. Don’t keep striking your $45 samurai blade against the table, kids—otherwise you might find yourself saying things like, “Ohhh, that got me good,” instead of talking about the awesome swordlike qualities of your sword.
[YouTube via The Soup Blog]
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welcome back to 2007
correction…2006.
heh, that’s been around for a LONG time. I had that on my PC before I got a Mac almost 5 years ago…
REALLY funny none the less. Cheap chinese steel.
Great. I was just thinking that home shopping channels should get into weaponry. That’s just fabufuckingtastic.
Well, at least the demonstration is an accurate depiction of the quality of the weapon.
@MissTicklebritches: Yes yes, next comes the guns. I can see it now….
“These handguns are great, they have an extremely nice barrel, you can just look down it and see the fine craftsmanship and they made this nice little hooked thumb rest so you can do that here….” *bang*…. *camera pans away, youtube veiwership rises*
@socalrob: oh goodness, Im dying laughing!
@socalrob:
im the only one in the room professional enough to carry this glock 40
@endless: You know he sued b/c after this tape was released, no one took him seriously? He did you the qualifier “That I know of” when describing himself as the only person.
[www.thesmokinggun.com]
@endless: Oh man, I can’t stop laughing at that video. That’s priceless.
My FAVORITE part is the tech person who, in a moment he’s likely imagined for years, gets in front of the camera and says “We’re gonna need emergency surgery in the studi-oh.
@PsychicPsycho3: Odell is a trained media professional! I mean with a name like Odell, how can you not be famous?
@PsychicPsycho3: HILARIOUS! I saw your comment before I watched the video. I thought you were kidding. How wrong was I?
@msbluesky: priceless. for a second there I though Odell was going to continue the sales pitch – instant promotion!
good grief! emergency surgery – how about checking for blood first?
@PsychicPsycho3: Well I bet you that guy finished the sales pitch while they were taking his buddy away.
Damn, I hate when I’m late to the funny.
A Dallas production company was one of the first in the 80′s to do infomercials to sell products. The guy who ran it would get cases and cases of whatever crap he was hawking. Most of the time he’d need to go through 40 or 60 items of new product to find ones made well enough to do what was needed to be shown in the 10 minute commercial.
After that I always think of this mantra when I see stuff on TV, “only the best make it in front of the camera the rest goes to the dumpster.”
FW:FW:RE(This is so funny)Re:FWD:FWD
I like this one:
“He’s moving, he is ok”
@TheBusDriver:
Look on the bright side: at least it was human stupidity and not a product failure, unlike the phony katanas in the other video where it was both.
I still like the video of the really expensive one of a kind tech object that that old guy drops, and says shit.
@DemolitionMan: You mean this?
[video.google.com]
Very old.
I have always liked:
“he’s moving, he’s ok”
@TheBusDriver: sorry for the repeat…new commenting system caught me off guard.
@TheBusDriver: my personal fav.
@TheBusDriver: He’s moving. True, it’s more of a twitch, maybe even leaning toward seizure, but he’s moving. That’s good, right? OK, next item we have, coincidentally is a Ron Popeil Mr. Ambulance Stretcher. Let’s go back to Chris, and see if he thinks it’s comfortable.
@TheBusDriver: That video is proof that the people calling in are plants.
Guy falls and the caller says “Uh oh…and that has never happened.”
Really? Really?
THis is one of the most epic shop at home videos ever. I’ve LOVED these videos. Other ace videos are of Mike Rowe on QVC… search for them, the cat bag, the crazy doll lady, all of them are money.
Epic moments in shop at home history
And this lady should have read the Consumerist, too:
@MichaelBrazell: IS THAT MIKE ROWE!?!
@Kevin: you are correct, sir! mike rowe gets around like the beach boys: “Mike Rowe sang professionally with the Baltimore Opera and worked for QVC selling various items in the early 1990s. … He has hosted Your New Home for WJZ in Baltimore, Worst Case Scenarios for TBS, On-Air TV for American Airlines, The Most for The History Channel, No Relation for FX, New York Expeditions for PBS, Channel 999 instructional guide for the now defunct PrimeStar satellite television service, and the CD-ROM music trivia game Radio Active…”
-Wikipedia
@Kevin: Yep, before Dirty Jobs, he was a QVC “host”.
@Kevin: oh, my love affair with mr. “dirty jobs” just came to a screeching halt.
@MichaelBrazell: Wow, my cats are looking up when they hear him crinkle it. Now if only he used his “Deadliest Catch” hyperbole voice/narration when he did this.
“The cat may enter the bag, but if the Bering Sea has taught us anything, it’s that Booker’s fate….can change in an instant.”
But seriously, he seems like a guy who enjoys doing what he does. If only there was a female single version of him.
@MichaelBrazell: the man has a million dollar voice. It’s hilarious watching him hocking useless crap, and talking to that woman who is drowning in consumer debt.
These dudes are on the late night tubery every weekend in my DMA; I love them. These clowns provide C class entertainment and grade A prices!
I think he hit his ‘sword’ with that sword.
So, what do you think the odds are that he was going to say “The nice thing about the practice katanas is they are durable!”
That’s a really old one. But still funny.
Old, but always funny.
and amazingly, the demonstrator still remained rather poised and well spoken. how THAT’S talent.
this really is quite old. at least 5 years. perhaps longer
@elislider: totally agree. why is it here now? Maybe we can see the starwars kid too? where is he now anyway?
Can someone please track this guy down? I mean… he’s forever part of internet lore. It would be interesting to hear how he feels about being immortalized for acting like a moron.
I’ve been in the martial arts for about 48 years, and the demonstrator you don’t give weapons to fools. The katana is not a stick, and there is a correct way to hold and use it. It is funny though.
@ageshin: There is no correct way to use one of these crappy replica katanas. They’re just for show. That was his first and biggest mistake. Anyone who knows anything about the construction of one of these – as compared to a real katana – will tell you not to even swing one in the air, let alone bang one against the table. They are dangerous to even own.
Real katanas are so hard that they’re practically indestructible. If you don’t believe it, there are a couple of Mythbusters episodes out there that you might like to see. Real katanas are hand-folded carbon steel; the replicas are pressed stainless steel. One is ridiculously strong and somewhat flexible, the other is brittle and weak.
I meant to say demonstrates.
wow these vids are being taken down so fast! i havent seen one
@racerchk: I think something about the new layout is making some of the videos not play.
I used to watch these guys sell beanie babies when I’d stay up until 7am every night (not much else to watch when you don’t have cable). You haven’t lived until you’ve seen 3 middle-aged southern men extoll the virtues of Princess the Bear.
@robotrousers: We’re imposing a three Beanie Baby Limit. i would suggest you buy all three, then hang up, and call back with your neighbors address. These are NOT going to last. This is a TY limited edition, folks! We’re offering them on flex-pay people!
I’d never seen it before, even if it is old. You have to hand it to Rowe-he remained composed, and got himself and his injury off-camera instantly.
Odell was not exactly ‘camera-ready’.
I’ve always liked these:
(same guy with the Katana sword)
Who can forget Don West?
I kind of miss late night Shop at Home now.
Didn’t Mike Rowe get fired from QVC over an incident with a Nun Doll?
…too funny…
Along those lines in the early 80′s a cousin of mine was traveling the US flogging imitation corningware tempered glass cookware. The real stuff takes a wild beating before ever breaking… Well, one day he did a demo for us with the product and one thing they did to show how strong it is was to whack against a table and produce a hell of a noise, but of course not break the product. He confided in us that he had to practice this move extensively because if you didn’t do it absolutely right the product would explode.
We all got a great laugh from the demo and stories of flogging this crap to the students in high cafeterias. I hope his Karma didn’t take too bad a hit from this job.
Anyway, so watching the sword guy stab himself by slapping the table with the sword suggest he didn’t spend enough time learning the demo… It also suggests that this product is not a toy and maybe shouldn’t be sold in this way.
@GreatWhiteNorth: of course that would be high school cafeterias… he may have also visited some high cafeterias but not for selling knock off cookware.
Ths s knd ld nws. =/
@pat_trick:
No, this is kinda an old video. The “news” itself is fresh ^_^
I’m impressed he didn’t swear like a pirate after being injured. That’s professionalism. Bravo!
O’dell…love that guy.
I love how the screen says “Customer Appreciation” on it. Show ‘em how sharp the sword really is! QVC at it’s finest no doubt. Mike Rowe was bored to tears with the cat bag, as was the cat after about 5 seconds
decent sword, comes in two pieces
This sucks. I don’t have speakers at work.
I’ll have to wait until I get home!
I could use a laugh right about now!
Slow news day @ Consumerist?
Why do people ALWAYS have to comment on how old something is? Like they are cooler than everyone else because they’ve seen it 3 years ago? These are probably the same people that ask “Did you get a haircut…”.
LOL. That.. was amazing…. made my night!