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** In all fairness, clamshell packages are so hard to open that bringing in a chainsaw to defeat those polyethylene forcefields is not ''that'' far-fetched.

* The ads for those little rubber caulk spreader things show someone who doesn't have their product using their finger to spread caulk, because they apparently have no cardboard or tools of any kind; additionally, the caulk already looks like it was applied by a pack of kindergartners offered a prize to the one who could apply the most caulk to the bathroom tiles. Most caulk is in fact ''supposed'' to be smoothed out by finger. Even if you don't want to get your hands dirty, you can always use a latex glove.

** Preston and Steve are [[Crowning Moment of Funny|all over]] [[Memetic Mutation|this one]]. [http://www.wmmr.com/shows/preston-and-steve/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10092066 "I'm gonna totally transform yo' ass into one of my shoes!"]

** Having studied this program in psychology classes, this troper found that the program really is meant for parents who are just that bad at working with normal teenagers... Since the "Trick" of the product is that the "Total transformation" is the parent, not of the kid.

** On the other hand, plastic containers and their lids can warp after time. Doesn't make the commercial any less silly, but there's a grain of truth there.

* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SltsgYuSHrw Shoe-dini] commercials take this trope possibly as far as it can go; the ad shows people trying and failing spectacularly to ''put on slip-on shoes''; in other words, they're unsuccessfully trying to put on shoes that require absolutely no physical effort to put on, besides moving your feet. They seem to be trying to force the shoes onto their feet without stretching the hole whatsoever; sure enough, the Shoe-dini is designed to stretch the shoe's hole, and said people have absolutely no problem using it.

** Up until April 2010-ish the slogan for Shoedini was "It's not just a shoe horn, it's a shoe horn on a stick!" Apparently they realized just how clearly this shed light on their shoe-based incompetency presented in the ad (A great deal of shoe horns are on sticks already...). It has since been changed to "It's not just a shoe horn, it's Shoedini!"

* Several ads, not all of them for coffee, take place in a Starbucks-alike where the customers [[This Loser Is You|are too stupid to read the menu]] and the baristas either too slow to comprehend orders in normal English or too rude and hostile to fill them.