Pizza Hut delivered this blog

I was watching tv this weekend when I saw yet another Pizza Hut commercial where they supposedly dupe a restaurant full of people by informing them that THEY, in fact, made they food they are currently eating. I have a couple hangups with this, mainly the fact that the folks who are being duped are having intense discussions about how good the food is prior to the jig being revealed.

I don't know about you, but when I am at a swanky restaurant with friends we are generally talking about a local sports team or maybe why we are so awful at trivia. We are most certainly not talking about how well the lasagna holds together. My only guess as to why everyone is talking about their food is simply this: Pizza Hut found a bunch of homeless people, dressed them up, and gave them a free meal to be in the commercial.

Secondly, once Pizza Hut reveals that they are the people who prepared the food, everyone gets all excited and claps and pretends to be embarassed. Of course you are going to be embarassed! People have been filming you eat and listening to your private conversations for later use on national television. What if I had been talking about how I was nailing this hottie at work and laughing about how my wife would never find out? I would be pissed!

Not only that, if a restaurant I was at told me that they didn't even make the food I was eating, I would almost certainly never go there again. If I wanted Pizza Hut, I would have ordered it. But no, I decided to give your craphole place a try and you then proceed to give me someone else's food? Not cool at all.

I realize that this is just a commercial and I am taking it too literally, but still. Please don't tape my converations or dupe me into eating at places I didn't intend to go to.

I didn't realize this was like The Pentagon Papers.
-Dave Nelson

My late night commercial

Everybody once in a while will see one of those advertisments on late night tv and think to themselves, "hey, that's a pretty cool thing." Most of the time, that is as far as it goes because most people are generally sagacious and realize that the product must be junk since it is not sold in stores. So you can imagine my surprise when I found out recently that people are buying one particular item in droves, the snuggie.

Most of the garbage that is "as seen on tv" are mostly niche items for people who like crazy, unique junk to fill the empty gaps in their lives. Things such as the chia pet, that grabber arm for lazy asses, and, of course, robot insurance. All of those things are items that, for the most part, can not be purchased any where else. I am going to save my thoughts on the shamWOW for another post, but you get my drift.

The snuggie does not seem to fit into that category, because it is basically a robe that you put on backwards. I know I am really blowing some of your minds right now... Some of you who purchased the product might be saying to your monitor right now "lolz but mike this is more than a robe, I can hold mah fone and cuddle with mah children!". The thing is a glorified robe/blanket and yet, 4 million people have purchased it. The product isn't even made in Germany! It is truely shocking that in this economy people are buying something for $19.99 plus $7 shipping that can be purchased in the Beyond section of Bed Bath and Beyond for 5 bucks.

Please, please, please, if you take away nothing from this post, just remember that the snuggie is a ROBE. Not even a full robe! You are paying money for half a robe with no pockets!

I, for one, am going to hold out and wait for the Snuggie/ShamWOW hybrid. I can just picture the commercial now. Vince will come out and makes us feel silly for spending 200 bucks a month for robes AND towels. Billy Mays will start yelling at us. And finally, Ron Popeil will throw in a free knife set if we offer to tell just three of our friends about the product.

Can we please turn on the LHC already? I'm not sure if humanity can take waiting till 2012.