This montage of people doing things the wrong way on infomercials would be the supercut of your nightmares if you could nightmare right, you incompetent boob.
(Note: I wonder if using a song from a group with a catalog as precious and online-unfriendly as the Beatles' in a YouTube clip is the editor's meta statement on the art of doing it wrong? I expect this to be soon muted, if not deleted entirely. Watch it while you can and appreciate the otherwise brilliance.)
(Via Videogum, BWE, Vulture, etc.)
Update: OK, duh, Everything Is Terrible did this first and without any canned music:
I feel like such an ass for missing this, especially after going on about how much I love EIT. I guess the lesson here is WE'RE ALL DOING IT WRONG. (Thanks, tone_def.)
Oh my, so much mental defficiency in one video. I can hardly cope.
Posted by: Lust--for--life.blogspot.com | April 22, 2010 at 04:46 PM
You can do one that features old people.
Posted by: kips | April 22, 2010 at 05:11 PM
Everything is Terrible did this last September. They're in this month's Wired for it... here's a link to that video: http://www.everythingisterrible.com/2009/09/infomercial-hell.html
Posted by: Marah | April 22, 2010 at 05:21 PM
Kips, young people screw things up MUCH more often than oldies. Youngsters are most inclined to haul off and do things whether they have any knowledge of their subject or not... such as writing completely uninformed comments on a blog.
Posted by: Weezmgk | April 22, 2010 at 05:59 PM
When did eating become such a hard task to accomplish correctly?
Posted by: Smokes70 | April 22, 2010 at 06:08 PM
I wish they included the woman trying to sew her curtains with her giant sewing machine WHILE THEY ARE STILL HANGING, And the guy trying to make guacamole by putting an entire avocado in the blender.
Posted by: zelazny | April 22, 2010 at 06:58 PM
Weezmgk, it looks like old people can completely misunderstand what kips was actually saying ...
Posted by: ger | April 22, 2010 at 08:05 PM
People who make their lives that difficult might deserve their misery. Just sayin'.
Posted by: chaka | April 22, 2010 at 11:28 PM
I like the pets section, but what's wrong with that lady's boobs??
Posted by: Maja | April 23, 2010 at 06:58 AM
That dog that can't make the bed jump is my favorite of all time.
Also love the drill-through-the-wall bit. Too funny.
Posted by: Katie A | April 23, 2010 at 09:26 AM
I recognize most of this pointless objects designed to save me 10 seconds per day. But I couldn't figure out the one going with the spilled milk/oj/water. What solution is there that will keep people from spilling? Are there tables with glasses attached so it doesn't spill? Quite a quandrary.
Posted by: Mariella | April 23, 2010 at 02:24 PM
I've been keeping a mental tally of these domestic bumbles for years. Dammit - guess I missed my chance.
The one that's missing here (besides the sewing of the hanging curtains one mentioned above), is the paper-towel-dispenser lady. She simply can't pull down and tear off a piece of paper towel correctly without turning her kitchen into a shambles. IT IS JUST AN IMPOSSIBLE THING FOR HER TO DO.
Thankfully, there was a remedy to her terrible plight which they proceeded to helpfully advertise. I don't remember what it was, but presumably it involved protective custody...
Posted by: spazmo | April 23, 2010 at 03:02 PM
Holy god! Really??? I've been working on my version of this for months... thinking I was the only one obsessed with those parts of the infomercials. Hmph!
Posted by: Marcella | April 23, 2010 at 05:05 PM
Hilarious! I love infomercials for telling me why my life sucks
Posted by: Amber | April 26, 2010 at 08:10 AM
I love infomercials for this very reason. They make it seem like doing everyday things are just so hard or you can't do them at all!
Posted by: Brandi | April 26, 2010 at 11:07 AM
Who the hell gives up on squeezing a tube of toothpaste?!
Did they purposely use crippled dogs who could not jump up into a car or onto a chair or climb steps? Those were some big dogs!
Why couldn't that guy sit up straight to use his laptop?
How come that lady had to put all those things in her arms at once, when her kitchen was so small, she could have just taken a few extra steps to get everything instead of spilling her spaghetti?
These and many questions will never be answered, because we live in a world of utter Dumbasses.
Posted by: antbee | April 26, 2010 at 12:40 PM
Cracking an egg with the side of a fork! Now why didn't I think of that???! Oh, man.
Posted by: Amber | April 26, 2010 at 07:38 PM
admit it, you have all done these things and worse during your miserable lives.
i hate me.
Posted by: bosco | April 28, 2010 at 02:28 PM
Love this! It's always my favorite part of an informercial.
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