Pitchmen

One of the guys that is always at my house insists on watching Pitchmen on Wednesday nights (which is annoying to me since it is at the same time as Meet the Browns), but I have to admit the show is growing on me. It is about the Oxyclean guy and his announcer going around to all of these wannabe inventors and trying to find the next big idea for infomercials/commercial products. Last night there was the gatorblade guy who has come up with a windshield wiper that gets rid of bug guts, and I want those wipers! Too bad it will be a while before we see them on the market because they do not do as well on the winter things that attach to a windshield, and are being marketed for winter too. I could care less about the winter performance, but that is because it doesn't ice enough here to care about ice on the windshield. Or salt. The coolest thing about the episode was the bug bazooka that they used to shoot crickets onto the windshield of the car to simulate bugs dying on the windshield at hundreds of miles an hour. Although I was grossed out by the people putting their hands into the boxes filled with thousands of live crickets (GROSS!!!), it is very entertaining to see them come shooting out of the bazooka bug gun. Also on the show was a guy who invented a tie that has a pocket that attaches to a shirt, and you can do a handstand without the tie coming detached from the shirt. Only mildly entertaining until the guy tried to do a handstand to demonstrate. Some other dude invented a bowl that supposedly keeps cereal from going soggy, but the problem is that you have to dip the cereal in the milk before taking a bite. How are you supposed to make chocolate milk with cocoacrisps if you use that bowl? That takes part of the fun out of cereal. Anyway, I am slowly beginning to appreciate the show, even if it is taking some time away from Meet the Browns. I cannot remember if it comes on TLC or the Discovery Channel, but it is on the same network that has Mythbusters, another show I am beginning to appreciate.