Sham-Wow And Zorbeez Tested On Attack Of The Show
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.
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@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.
Hey camera guy...you following me?
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!
Give us a spoiler! Who won?
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.
But how much vomit can a snuggie absorb?
@deliciousnyc I will take your philly cheese steak. Unless you already threw it up. In that case, you will need a shamwow!
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.
@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!
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
:)
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.
Can they test the SlapChop versus the Chop-It next?
@suburbancowboy: No, a snuggie is what you use to INDUCE vomiting. Then you use the Shamwow to clean it up.
@HawkWolf:
Someone has never used a shammy! Or a chamois, an absorbent cleaning cloth. You damn kids all use paper towels for everything...
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.
@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.
@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.
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.
I want to do very naughty things to Olivia.
@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]]
@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.
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.
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.
@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!
@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...
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?
@LetMeGetTheManager:
G4 better toss the loser over their collective shoulders into a sink. That would be HIGH-larious.
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?