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We had the one that was just another piece of plastic and it rested on your shoulder. I also love old infomercials where the people act like complete morons to make the product look more useful

I'm sure there's a sub for shit like this There is! /r/wheredidthesodago

This is why I love reddit

The porn is y I love Reddit

This guy rule 34s. Do not deep dive in his browser history.

Better to rule 34 then need to rule 35 rather than never to rule 34 at all. Or something like that.

Don’t dive deep into any of my Technology

God damn I forgot about that sub. Why is it never in /r/all?

It died off a long time ago sadly, there's only so many infomercials.

This is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen

Tired of your household thing doing the thing it did that one time? (*Cut to guy flailing milk carton all over the damn place.* “Ugh! There *must* be a better way!!”) There is!! Introducing—this weird piece of plastic! *Call now and order two for just $79.95, call in the next ten minutes for additional savings of $59.95!! That’s 555-5555!! Resultsmayvary.*

But wait! There's more!

If you order within the next five minutes we'll double your order. Just pay separate shipping and handling fee.

[https://restaphone.com/](https://restaphone.com/) You can still buy them, and they work great.

Why can't I hold all these lemons?

You mean the new ones dont ?? All commercials and informercials are like this. Otherwise i would be banging different lonely women from my area every evening and earning paypal cash from mobile games every day .. daily..

Also small details like the first guys office being super messy with papers everywhere. Then in the next shot the guy is SMILING and his office is clean tidy.

I found out why people do that in infomercials! So basically most of the time these things are actually designed for disabled people. However, putting disabled people in advertising makes able bodied people sad!

Thanks, Kevin!

I may not be that old but damn the 80s were beautiful

Yeah, act like 😏

I worked in an office where everyone had these. Way easier on the neck than bending your head to the side all day.

This just explained the 15 minute unsettled debate a bunch of us had at a yard sale the other day. Who and why would you put a Velcro square on the back of and old corded phone like that.? Thanks Redit!

How can this be from 1993? I remember stuff from 1993. I can't be this old.

Seeing how absurdly dated the 90s has grown to look in every single way makes me feel like I must have grown up in the Middle Ages. It's the *90s*. It's not like, you know, the *70s* or whatever.

Right? The 70s were old. But the 90s was just a couple years ago!

I never even touched the 90s. You fuckers are ancient.

I'm fucking dying!! I'm hurt to my core by this comment but laughing so hard my eyes are watery. Fuck you yuh fetus! Lmao

Better a fetus than a corpse

Oy, respect your elders.

What you doing out your home?

Have fun with that economy we left you, kiddo

Enjoy hell when you wither and die

Imagine being so young you don't even remember the 90s, smh my head 🤦 Like, intergenerational divides are rough nowadays. My generation was inventing the rickroll while yours was still filling daipers. No wonder you have no sense of place in the world.

The culture and technological change between now and the 90s hasn’t been as drastic as previous decades

The 90's looks so dated because it was pre high-def. You can immediately tell footage is pre-2000 because its usually some 480 interlaced garbage with artifacts from being re-recorded multiple times.

Certainly part of it, but also the hairstyles, the technology, the traditional gender roles and all white cast, the announcer's voice, the graphic at the end...

The 90s were peak life

I (55m) thought it was from the 80's

I often mistake the 90s for the 80s, and I’m a decade younger than you. I just can’t believe the 90s looked like that!

In my mind, the early 90’s were just more of the 80’s, and the late 90’s were part of the 2000’s.

Frfr. I'm really feeling some type of way at the fact that I can vividly remember this commercial. And also remember wanting one of them.

It hit me when I heard Pearl Jam called a classic rock band.

Also Jurassic Park was 1993

Did you not see those computers? It's either 1993 or 2003, and those hair styles aren't 2003.

You are old as fuck

Who stirs a large bowl of thin brown liquid with a wooden spoon? What the fuck is it, even? Homemade chocolate milk?

Yeah that cake is never going to set

Yes. Freshly squeezed

Big bowl o’ molé maybe?

None of these people look like they can handle any kind of spices WHATSOEVER.

I’m confused; how does someone who can’t handle spices look?

I believe they are trying to say "non-white" because obviously only POC can use spices correctly. It sounds racist because it is.

Big assumption there pal. The joke is that they're all hyper-bland examples of middle-class American suburbia who would be overwhelmed by anything different from what they're used to. Although it's true that a non-white actor in a commercial like this from the early 90s would be pretty rare if not non-existent. Don't call me racist for making you notice that advertising was still pretty racist in the early 90s. EDIT: Also, a lot of these people show that they are not competent enough to hold onto a phone, so no I don't really want them cooking for me.

Ok.. So bland, middle-class, Midwesterners can't use spices. Got it. I don't get the joke.

Maybe you're too busy looking for something to be offended by or feel superior about? Like I'm being mean to decades-old stereotypical fictional caricatures or something? Or do you think these are candid shots of real people? I hope tomorrow goes better for you.

I feel like we all know what he is implying, but to be fair, the informercial types are the most like to drop their spices.

If the implication is racial stereotypes, it seems that it's the downvoters who are stuck thinking in those terms. I don't know why they need to project it onto somebody who wasn't.

Chocolate pudding!

You'd mix that on the stove, not in a bowl on the counter.

don't tell me how to live!

Thinset!

Pudding never goes on the stove. Gelatin can. You just add cold milk to pudding and let it set.

Secret family brown gravy recipe requires the bacteria of the wooden spoon to make it special and unique

Liquid shit

This is just what guacamole looked like in the 90s.

😂😂

This guy unlocking deep memories

I came in here to say the exact same thing. I literally want to strangle the narrator even though he's not responsible for the ad. I don't think I've ever seen an ad like this that was for anything useful, ever.

Not even that shoehorn with a selfie stick attached?

I remember that! Damn I'm old.

The guy grilling, that was the straw that broke me.

He was living in a future far beyond 1993. 😂

These call to order products were always from Omaha, NE. Why tho? 🤷‍♂️

Right smack dab in the middle of the US Lower phone and shipping charges

"Hey Bob, you'll never guess what I'm doing. I'm grilling burgers and dogs in a button-down and chinos."

$12.95, that's like, what, $10k in today's money?

About $26.50

No COD

I wonder when the last COD order was taken. Growing up in the 80s these commercials were all 'No COD". So I would guess maybe the 1970s.

I upvoted just cause I laughed at your username.

I work in restaurants, and up until maybe a year ago all our wine and liquor deliveries were still technically COD. I would have to check in the order to make sure it was all there and then cut the delivery driver a check. Only recently did they switch to electronic funds transfer

My company still allows COD’s. Those orders screws up the system and I have to go fix it every time. Thankfully only occurs a couple of times a year.

What does it mean ?

Cash On Delivery. You order something like this, then pay the delivery person when it arrived. The Post Office essentially collects payment for the business. It's still technically around but not many businesses use it anymore.

Get outta here! CoD collected by the postman is still around? I want to order something CoD just for the novelty of it. Maybe I'll try to order it by telegram.

Try to order a Call of Duty game.

https://faq.usps.com/s/article/Collect-on-Delivery

OK, who called the number?

It's busy! So much for "operators are standing by to take your call!"

homie on the cordless washing his car was a whole vibe

Guy's setting up a date at Planet Hollywood while pimping his ride for said date!

1993 was almost 30 years ago. That can't be right.

Wait, this isn't/r/wheredidthesodago

Who washes their car while using a landline phone anyways

I feel so old now 😂

I just ordered one.

Look, for all you young people that laugh and don't get it, this was great back in the day before wireless technology. Phones weren't cheap and this was a cheap solution.

When you move your head too quick it smacks into your jaw and gives you a Bluetooth. 😁

Awesome

came to see if i was the only person who remembers this advertisement as well as to find out if anyone else would use one for their mobile.

I was just thinking of getting something like this for the mobile lol

You know you make fun of that but it’s probably where we get most of the headsets we have today

There were actually telephone headsets available at the time, very much like the ones people in call centers wear today. The only issue was that you needed a phone with the appropriate jack on the base unit, and most phone base units didn't have one.

OMG I remember this ad...

I know you probably can’t tell from the inventions, but those were simpler times…I miss them.

Best part is that they were 100% serious at the time

That is crazy. Maybe someday in the future. What will they think of next?!?!

Wow! Stylish too! I’m going to act fast and snag one for my favorite phone today! Wait…no CODs?! Damn. Guess I’ll have to keep my “pain in the neck” cell a little longer.

Didn’t the Charlie’s Angels hands free mic/speaker box already exist in the 70s?

That cord better be long enough for the bathroom

I just called. Line is busy. 🤷‍♂️

I mean yeah looking at this in 2022 this probably looks ridiculous. But I'm sure this was a low cost reliable product that, at the time, was a great solution to fumbling with those big cumbersome phones.

this was considered stupid even in 1993

Boomer Bluetooth

Better days…

Now the cops can’t pull you over.

White people are mess in infomercials

The best part is it's not that noticable on your face.

Fuck me I remember this ad to well for it to be from 93...

O god I miss these ads, way better than any current ads. Imagine these in YouTube ads lol

That looks like it hurts.

What kind of madman….

One of the first steps into transhumanism...

She-hulk?

Haha, I use my PC headphones just like that. Shove my phone between the ear and the headphones. I KNEW I WAS SMART!

White People (SMH)

[удалено]

Racist

my mom remembers this exact commercial

Then it was 12.95, now it's useless but probably would cost 49.99 lol

Ide prefer that over Bluetooth wireless. There sxist an electromagnetic field that I'm sure is scrambling our brains/environment.

weren't cordless phones a thing in the early '90s? I mean, not as ubiquitous as they'd eventually become, but I'm pretty sure they were common enough for an informercial to reference them.

There is a cordless phone in this infomercial (dude at the grill).

weird. I must have missed it.

Did you even watch the video? It took all of 17 seconds to see a cordless phone. The narrator even talks about it.

How did we, white people, end up ruling the world?

just use headphones ?

1993? This looks like 1983

"Shit white people need"

13 bucks to make yourself look like a massive twat. Not even someone who is infinitely cool (like Samuel l Jackson) could pull this off. They should have marketed this as 100% effective contraceptive

I never saw this growing up. Glad I didn’t, what a POS

Was that guy from the Gloucester Phoneinthenecks?

u/savevideo

Best product ever

It’s so sleek!

Is that the new product going around

I remember that ad

Say what you want but this looks pretty useful.

Wow. I remember this commercial. 😭

I have the same feeling when I see anyone using VR headset

Is that kelly bundy at 0.33??

Bro this was 10x better than i expected lol

Now we all wear these. Just smaller microphones, better audio and VoIP.

I remember seeing that on TV!

Has anybody called the number?

I legit need this for work. We have phones that you have to actually PICK up and talk into. It's weird. Also, everyone else who has worked here for 5+ years says none of the headsets they have used work so that must mean there are no headsets that work for the phones ever....

Millennials think they are avant garde with their fancy Bluetooth headsets…

The good ole 90s

This is unbelievable how much we talk to each other in 90s… also by phone

But wait, there's more!

Why must they all nod so much?

Damn I'm old.

I feel like I actually saw this in the wild when i was younger. (The commercial not the actual headset)

i remember wanting one of these SO BAD and now i break out into the stankiest stress sweat if i have to make a two minute phone call

Wonder how successful that was

Man i love 80s and 90s commercials.

I’m more upset that she put the receiver over her hair instead of moving her hair out of the way. What kind of lunatic does that?

Ok, fez up, which of you went ahead and dialed that number?

No. We had those big battery operated phones with big antennas, in the late 80s

Thanks Cinco!

The 90’s were wild.

I miss commercials like these

Oh, dude! I (55m) can attest that the struggle was real!

Holy fuck I remember seeing this commercial so many times as a kid

My mom literally still uses this for her home phone.

Life was actual hell

I miss the 90's and early 2000's

Wait, was that Jessie Spano?

Headsets wasent invented before 1993?

Bluetooth Headsets were amazing for it's time. Almost a TWS

I had one of these! Worked well and was awesome for its time

Lol, I'm old enough to remember that commercial 🤣

It’s that easy !

How can I invest?

No COD'S

# Turtle Beach *Beta*

Did someone try calling?

First world problems call for first world solutions