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Ron Popeil infomercials handle it in a different way. Popeil may be accompanied by a "host" (often his daughter) or he may act as both host and demonstrator, but he doesn't need anyone to suggest a price. He'll tell you that you're not about to pay $240 for this item, or $230, or $210 like one of those fancy department store products. Not $200, not $190, and not even $180 like many of you might have been thinking. Not $175, and not $170 either. No, this product is available for [[Four Equal Payments Of|four easy monthly payments]] of just $39.99 each.
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* Parodied in a ''[[Good Eats]]'' episode dedicated to knives where Alton, playing Chef Klaus in an infomercial muses, "Now how much are you willing to give Klaus? One hundred? Two hundred? Heh heh, I [[Brief Accent Imitation|sink]] so but today Klaus is feeling generous."▼
▲* Parodied in a Good Eats episode dedicated to knives where Alton, playing Chef Klaus in an infomercial muses, "Now how much are you willing to give Klaus? One hundred? Two hundred? Heh heh, I [[Brief Accent Imitation|sink]] so but today Klaus is feeling generous."
* Spoofed in the Dr. Tran short ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JW133F0AK4 Roybertitos]'', along with other commercial tropes.▼
* Also spoofed on ''[[3rd Rock from the Sun]]'' when Tommy tried to sell chocolate door-to-door by performing a skit with Harry:
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'''Harry''': To get a bar of chocolate or at the request of a bar of chocolate?
'''Tommy''': ...to get one.
'''Harry''': Oh, fifty-three miles.
'''Tommy''': Well, now you can have chocolate ''in your own home''!
'''Harry''': ''In my own home''?!
'''Tommy''': That's right. Now, how much would you pay for that?
'''Harry''': For my own home or for a bar of chocolate?
'''Tommy''': A bar of chocolate.
'''Harry''': Ah!
''[door is slammed in their faces]'' }}
* Used by Swindle in [[Transformers Animated]] while selling increasingly ridiculous weapons to [[Those Two Bad Guys|Lugnut and Blitzwing]].▼
* Sometimes made fun of by Colin and Ryan on ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?]]'' during the "Greatest Hits" game.
* Spoofed in an episode of [[Tiny Toon Adventures]] involving an Infomercial parody where Babs tries to sell drying pins, only for the audiance to boo and hiss every time she mentions a price, forcing her to lower it and add even more "bonus" items, until the price gets ridiculously low. This backfires, however, when the offer even includes "the Sun" which she has apparently brought into the studio, thus, vaporizing everyone.▼
* Called out verbatim in the [["Weird Al" Yankovic|Weird Al]] song "Mr. Popeil."▼
* Parodied in a ''[[Mad TV]]'' sketch for the Spishak "Omni-Bowl", a bowl that can double as a cereal bowl AND a small pasta bowl. When the spokesman asks how much people would expect to pay for the product, the other actors agree that $8000 sounds about right. The spokesman shocks them by saying they would have to only pay $400 for the wondrous bowl.
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== Music ==
▲* Called out verbatim in the [["Weird Al" Yankovic|Weird Al]] song "Mr. Popeil."
== Web Original ==
▲* Spoofed in the ''[[Dr. Tran]]'' short ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JW133F0AK4 Roybertitos]'', along with other commercial tropes.
== Western Animation ==
▲* Used by Swindle in ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' while selling increasingly ridiculous weapons to [[Those Two Bad Guys|Lugnut and Blitzwing]].
▲* Spoofed in an episode of ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'' involving an Infomercial parody where Babs tries to sell drying pins, only for the audiance to boo and hiss every time she mentions a price, forcing her to lower it and add even more "bonus" items, until the price gets ridiculously low. This backfires, however, when the offer even includes "the Sun" which she has apparently brought into the studio, thus, vaporizing everyone.
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