Growing up, one of my best friends had an uncle who was in the infomercial business, and his home was a literal warehouse of "As Seen on TV" specials. So, to impress me with its pointlessness, a product has to be truly special. It has to seek to satisfy a need so unneeded, a laziness so lonely in its lethargy, or a hunger so base that no one has ever bothered to make something for it. It has to be for the truly, madly, deeply gullible.


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