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{{quote|''"First, there is the sequence where someone is shown trying to unsuccessfully impale the cap of a normal pen, which suggests not only a lack of familiarity with pens, but also the visual-spatial reasoning ability of a pot-smoking chimp."''|''[[Cracked
There are people in this world who take incompetence to an art form. You know who we're talking about; people who [[Major Minor Inconvenience|cannot be trusted to use scissors, cut themselves to ribbons when they try to use a potato peeler, and cannot even use a blanket without help]]. How can such utterly incompetent people make a living in this world?
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* The [[Trope Namer]] comes from the commercials advertising [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huo7h53G0IM "Snuggie Wearable Blankets"], which begin by showing a woman who simply could not make a standard blanket work. As said above, originally the blankets were created for wheelchair users who quite literally couldn't use a regular blanket, at least not safely. However, when able-bodied individuals find their blankets triumphing over them, it becomes logically painful. The best part of the commercial is that the "blanket" she's too incompetent to use is actually a decorative throw - in other words, it's about ''three feet long''. No wonder she can't get warm. This was satirized in this [[Gag Dub]] video for the "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h05ZQ7WHw8Y WTF Blanket]".
** Apparently you can buy them for your ''dog''! The commercial even has a small dog in a snuggie wearing glasses and reading a newspaper. Apparently they're trying to tap that incredibly small Mr. Peabody niche of glasses-wearing anthropomorphic dogs.
* ''[[Cracked.com]]'' offers a few more examples in "[http://www.cracked.com/article_15768_as-seen-on-tv-10-most-laughably-misleading-ads.html As Seen on TV: The 10 Most Laughably Misleading Ads]". Who'd have thought that ''capping a normal pen'' could be so hard? The commercial cheats by using a cap that is so chewed up that it's unusable.
* Practically every food processor TV spot begins by showing us someone who shouldn't be allowed near a knife trying to use one.
* "Are you still cleaning the old-fashioned way?" commercials ask, showing us the most haggard housewife in history struggling vainly and ineptly at a splotch on the wall.
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