See, this is why you let experts like Consumer Reports or Captain Duvel Moneycat handle product testing. Kevin and Olivia from G4′s AOTS decide to have a Sham-Wow/Zorbeez faceoff to see which one works best. All we can say is maybe they shouldn’t have used so much fake vomit. Oh, and apparently both products smell bad when they’re wet.
“Zorbeez vs Sham-Wow” [Attack of the Show]
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I don’t have sound at work, but did either of them speak in the annoying way of Vince Offer, or loud way of Billy Mays?
@LetMeGetTheManager: never saw the show? he sounds like a Muppet to me and she’s a typical skirt all flare no substance.
I remember when Kevin hosted……. better days.
@Skankingmike: I remember when Attack of the Show became the “The Internet Today” with Myspace Profile of the Day and HEY THIS VIDEO IS HILARIOUS.
Kevin seems like a gigantic tool in this show. I would never trust a product he sold or liked. He’s completely unlikable unless you’re some vapid teenage internet fame whore.
@LetMeGetTheManager: Olivia is always yelling so I’d have to assume that she’s doing so here.
@rdm:
You won’t (or maybe you will) be disappointed – yep, still yelling.
So is the guy, by the way.
Good times? Eh….that’s their schtick.
Hey camera guy…you following me?
@William Garzon:
I just hope that G4 did the tests in real time.
What about the Will it Blend guy? He’d be a great product tester – quick intro, show the product, blend the shit out of it.
I will buy that blender someday, I swear it on my severed thumb!
@LiC: +1.
@LiC: OMG that blender is f*cking amazing. I have no doubts it would pulverize glass. You can drop a whole apple or pear inside and in 60 seconds you have a smoothie. Best kitchen purchase I’ve ever made. EVER.
@LiC:
it was the best investment i ever made. i take comfort knowing i have a device that can blend Cubic Zirconia if i need to…
@ephdel:
I knew there had to be a video blending credit cards!
@LiC: will it blend guy got one-upped by Jeremy Clarkson on Top Gear- they rigged up a kind of makeshift blender and powered it with a MASSIVE V-8 engine from a Corvette. it liquefied a brick.
Give us a spoiler! Who won?
@mantari: According their ‘tests’, shamwow is “the real deal.”
@mantari: Certainly not the viewers…
Now we need to punch the carpet like a Craigslister!
At least now we can be relatively sure that ShamWOW works kind of how it was shown on the ad. The carpet was still damp underneath, although not as bad as I would have expected.
guys seriously – you put this post up at LUNCH? so much for my philly cheese steak….jeesh.
@deliciousnyc: I sure hope it wasn’t a philly cheesesteak from nyc, cause if so you need to throw that thing back up! like right now!
But how much vomit can a snuggie absorb?
@suburbancowboy: No, a snuggie is what you use to INDUCE vomiting. Then you use the Shamwow to clean it up.
@tcolberg: Damn, beat me to it.
@deliciousnyc I will take your philly cheese steak. Unless you already threw it up. In that case, you will need a shamwow!
@Youdont Knowme: But not a Zorbiez, apparently.
Right, but can someone make me a snuggie out of a shamwow? That way, I can dip my SnugWow sleeves in soda and suckle on my couch until my heart blissfully ceases functioning.
@ADismalScience: you sir, have blown my mind.
@ADismalScience: Brilliant!
@ADismalScience:
That sounds like a terrible idea. The authentic German (the Germans make good stuff) material would probably suck all the moisture from your skin leaving nothing but a pile of dust.
@wgrune:
I was wondering how they did that effect in The Last Crusade..
@wgrune: Hmmm… Sounds like a good plot for the next Indiana Jones movie..
@wgrune: Or ashes.
oops.
@ADismalScience: I own both, I’ll get right on it after I buy some bendables and mighty putty
So who really thought ‘shamwow’ was a good name for a product anyway? I mean a chamois is one thing, but a ‘sham’? There are two reasons to say that word:
- I need a new coordinated sham for my floral print bed set
- This stupid rag is a sham
@HawkWolf:
Someone has never used a shammy! Or a chamois, an absorbent cleaning cloth. You damn kids all use paper towels for everything…
@ADismalScience: But Bounty is the quicker picker upper!
@HawkWolf: Vince (who created the product) did get the name from chamois. His first idea was Sham It Up!, but he didn’t like that, and Shamit was taken. He noticed that people said “Wow” every time they used it, hence the name and the tagline. [Source: [www.cnbc.com]]
@Chris Stone:
well god shamit, that’s god sham amazing
From what I understand, you’re supposed to use those things when they’re already damp. If you use them dry right out of the box they don’t do nearly as well at absorbing stuff, which is why all the yoootooob videos say they don’t work.
Just saying.
@Canino: No you are thinking of swimmers quick dry towels.
Can they test the SlapChop versus the Chop-It next?
@LetMeGetTheManager: You’re gonna love my nuts.
@LetMeGetTheManager:
G4 better toss the loser over their collective shoulders into a sink. That would be HIGH-larious.
I’ve heard the Sham-Wow kinda works, but not as great as the commercial makes it look. Any similar decent cloth towel from the store will work the same. I’ve also heard it does leave streaks, so don’t use it on a car or anything. The clip is hilarious though. The show is for humors sake, not product testing. However, their Gadget Pron segment is very good because they do fully explain the gadgets and give you a good idea of whether you’d want it or not.
It’s a shammy. How can it NOT work?
Also, lrn2sham and it won’t leave streaks. Most shammies actually work best when a little moist.
Thank you, Attack of the Show. Your fine scientific testing left absolutely no room for error. It’s not like one person was more into it and tried harder than the other, skewing the results significantly, nor was it that uneven amounts of liquid were placed on the carpets, giving one of them unfair advantage.
Regardless, Jesus, what the hell happened to G4? Remember when it was about games? G4:games::MTV:music.
@Chris Stone: wow guy take it easy it was a comedy skit .. its not like they gave a rats ass who won ..
@Chris Stone:
Ya, remember, they aren’t trying to be serious. This is more like SNL than CR. They’re just having a good time. I love AotS. Yes, it’s mindlessly stupid, but it’s fun all the same.
@David Eckert: @jonthomasdesigns: Yeah, you guys are right, but I watched the video hoping that they would have tried harder to be more a bit more accurate. If they ended it going “They both suck,” it would have been different than endorsing one just because… Okay, okay, fine, I guess I am taking the fun out of it.
@Chris Stone:
Hell yeah, I totally miss TechTv too.. What have they done to my Screen Savers?!?!
@CigarMan22: Tech TV and TSS has effectively moved to the internet at [www.Revision3.com] (Kevin Rose & Patrick Norton), and [live.twit.tv] with Leo Laporte, Sarah Lane and Martin Sargent.
@Chris Stone: I do remember G4 before it was G4. Then Comcast bought it and, well, that speaks for itself I think.
I want to do very naughty things to Olivia.
Sham Wow is not a new breakthru product. They’ve sold similar stuff at auto and home shows for years. It’s simply a 100% rayon product with absorbent qualities. Yes, it has to be wet before it works but so does a sponge. I use it to dry my cars all the time and I’ve never had a problem with streaking. It actually works good and it does soak up liquid thru carpeting.
looks like the embedded video was broken. maybe if you had put up the source link, like a good blogger, I wouldn’t be complaining. Don’t go to shit like kotaku did now.
@Swizzler121: Vid’s not broken, but link has been added!
@Swizzler121: When Consumerist starts blogging about naked preteen anime girls, then I’ll start worrying about it going to shit like Kotaku.
@wgrune:
Look, camera guy, if you follow me – there will be plenty of moisture in the thing. After all, if pulling my hands out of a blanket is an expense-necessitating inconvenience then surely I’m not getting up just because nature calls. That would be too hard, damn it, and I’m an American!
@ADismalScience: that’s what your empty ‘mountain dew throwback’ bottle is for
@ADismalScience: There are not nearly enough Slap Chop references in this article or resulting comments.
You’ll love my nuts!
Evertime I hear Shamwow I think of Rose from Street Fighter IV’s Ultra move. Everyone online calls it the Shamwow now.
It involves her flinging her magic laced scarf at someone, wrapping it around their wrist, and then pumping them full of magical energy to electrocute them.
Good to see what this thing works like in a real environment.
Didn’t someone say in another thread that you have to wash the ShamWow first for it to work? I wonder if that would help with the odor issue.
Ha ha, Vince’s product won! Yay! I hate Billy Mays!
So what did Captain Moneycat think?
I love the Double Dare face off. That takes me back.
Providing a hotlink to The Captain while keeping him hidden for nearly half a year is equivalent to that sorta-hot eighth-grade girl that would let you dry hump her for as long as you’d like but the second your fingers grazed her trainer bra, she’d take her things, run home in a huff and blab to her bigger, older brothers. The Juvie grads with their dark Latin eyes and feral grins. Who fancied you mucho. (gulp)
Don’t be an eighth-grade girl, Chris. Ben, let us get past your training bra. Meg… I’d say something but it’d sound sexist. Err, even more sexist.
Make him earn his keep. Put the slacker to work. Dropping mouse carcasses on keyboards ain’t enough in this economy. Even ones thoughtfully delivered extra-masticated for your dining pleasure.
yeah, i dont care which ones better cause i wont be buying it. but damn olivia’s hot.
YES! CR needs to hire her for product testing on CRTV!
Any idea if they’re planning on making an adult diaper out of that stuff?
I’m 45 and just thinkin…
Wow. Stuff sold on TV does not do what it is advertised to do.. And in other news, grass is green, water is wet, and Obama is killing the stock market.
I thought the G4 clip was pretty hilarious. And as far as scientific testing goes… I don’t use products scientifically! I slap whatever cleaning product I have handy and wipe the mess up. I don’t carefully measure 4.391 ounces of foam and gently extract the liquid from whatever.
As far as product testing goes, while not as accurate as real testing, the G4 testing was more realistic. And funny.
That was painful to watch, that chick sounds really annoying.