{"id":28304,"date":"2019-10-19T08:30:38","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T12:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=28304"},"modified":"2019-10-19T09:52:51","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T13:52:51","slug":"weekend-discussion-thread-riffable-infomercials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=28304","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Discussion Thread: Riffable Infomercials and Commercials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>Murdock Hauser observes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I ran into one of my favorite infomercials that I haven&#8217;t seen in years the other week on YouTube and that&#8217;s the &#8220;Ronco Showtime BBQ Rotisserie.&#8221; In the late &#8217;90s early 2000s, I remember watching it all most every mourning while folding papers for my paper route and thought it would be perfect for MST3K. Now, what say you? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On further consideration, it seems like this is too narrow a topic, so let me broaden it a bit to include ALL TV commercials.<\/p>\n<p>I, for example, would call out the plague of prescription drug commercials. Not just their terrifying lists of side effects &#8220;including death,&#8221; but also lines like &#8220;tell your doctor about your medical history.&#8221; Up to now my doctor&#8217;s had no interest in that!<\/p>\n<p>Have at it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>Murdock Hauser observes:<\/p>\n<p>I ran into one of my favorite infomercials that I haven&#8217;t seen in years the other week on YouTube and that&#8217;s the &#8220;Ronco Showtime BBQ Rotisserie.&#8221; In the late &#8217;90s early 2000s, I remember watching it all most every mourning while folding papers for my paper route and thought it [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-msties","odd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28304"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28307,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28304\/revisions\/28307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}