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he was the pioneer of infomercial sales; now a $7 billion a year market
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-news/ron-popeil-infomercial-pioneer-inventor-dead-obit-1204044/
According to Popeil’s official website, he was instrumental in the invention of unique products like “the Chop-O-Matic, Mr. Microphone (the first Karaoke machine), the Popeil Pocket Fisherman, the Veg-o-Matic, the Buttoneer, the Smokeless Ashtray, Popeil’s Electric Food Dehydrator, the Inside-the-Egg Scrambler, GLH-9 (Great Looking Hair Formula #9) Hair in a Can Spray, Rhinestone stud setter (Later called the Bedazzler), the Cap Snaffler, the Popeil Automatic Pasta Maker, the Ronco Electric Food Dehydrator, the Ronco 6 Star Plus Knives, and the Showtime Rotisserie and BBQ.” Sales of his products, according to his website, grossed in the billions.
Popeil became such a pop culture icon that he was parodied by Saturday Night Live (the Bass-O-Matic ’76, a fish blender), name-checked by the Beastie Boys (“I got more product than Ron Popeil,” they say on “Crawlspace“), and appeared as himself on The X-Files, The Simpsons and dozens of late-night TV appearances. (“Weird Al” Yankovic recorded the 1984 song “Mr. Popeil” about Ron’s father, though many mistakenly attribute the titular character to Ron.)
he was the pioneer of infomercial sales; now a $7 billion a year market
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-news/ron-popeil-infomercial-pioneer-inventor-dead-obit-1204044/
According to Popeil’s official website, he was instrumental in the invention of unique products like “the Chop-O-Matic, Mr. Microphone (the first Karaoke machine), the Popeil Pocket Fisherman, the Veg-o-Matic, the Buttoneer, the Smokeless Ashtray, Popeil’s Electric Food Dehydrator, the Inside-the-Egg Scrambler, GLH-9 (Great Looking Hair Formula #9) Hair in a Can Spray, Rhinestone stud setter (Later called the Bedazzler), the Cap Snaffler, the Popeil Automatic Pasta Maker, the Ronco Electric Food Dehydrator, the Ronco 6 Star Plus Knives, and the Showtime Rotisserie and BBQ.” Sales of his products, according to his website, grossed in the billions.
Popeil became such a pop culture icon that he was parodied by Saturday Night Live (the Bass-O-Matic ’76, a fish blender), name-checked by the Beastie Boys (“I got more product than Ron Popeil,” they say on “Crawlspace“), and appeared as himself on The X-Files, The Simpsons and dozens of late-night TV appearances. (“Weird Al” Yankovic recorded the 1984 song “Mr. Popeil” about Ron’s father, though many mistakenly attribute the titular character to Ron.)