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Ronco is known for a wide range of products marketed and in some cases invented by Ron Popeil. Among them are: Showtime Rotisserie: The Ronco collection of rotisserie ovens can be used to cook chickens, barbecue ribs, lamb racks, seafood, and roasted vegetables.
Both commercials feature a boy riding by in a car full of friends saying, "Hey, good-looking, we'll be back to pick you up later", a line the staff thought was "hilarious". [3] In the Superstar Celebrity Microphone commercial, the boy sings the 1975 song "Convoy" by C. W. McCall into the microphone.
Yankovic's song "Mr. Popeil" was a tribute (and featured his sister Lisa Popeil on backing vocals). Ron Popeil later used this song in some of his infomercials. [22] In the 2007 film Funny Games, one of the characters is channel surfing and briefly flicks past an infomercial for Ron Popeil's Vegetable Dehydrator.
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In each appearance of this sketch, the moderator of the show would interrogate toy maker Irwin Mainway, played by Dan Aykroyd, while he defended his company's extremely dangerous products aimed at children, such as "Bag O' Glass" (with Mainway also acknowledging other products in its line, such as "Bag O' Vipers" and "Bag O' Sulfuric Acid"), "Teddy Chainsaw Bear" (a teddy bear with a working ...
On the January 16, 2016 episode (hosted by Adam Driver) SNL paid tribute to David Bowie, who had died six days earlier, by playing a clip of his performance of "The Man Who Sold the World" (introduced by Fred Armisen) and posting the full performance on its website (and briefly on YouTube).
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He made 504 commercials as Mr. Whipple, earning U.S. $300,000 annually while working only 12–16 days a year. [ 2 ] [ 5 ] In an interview with ABC News on April 22, 1983, he mentioned that the first series of commercials for Charmin he appeared in were filmed in, appropriately enough, Flushing, New York City . [ 6 ]