Before there were clickbait and push notifications nagging you every other hour into yet another I-really-don’t-need-this purchase, there was the OG marketing shark: the infomercial. These multi-hours long commercials had us purchasing the most irrelevant things.

GLH-9 Good Looking Hair Color Spray

If you can spray paint a wall, why not all over your head, too! Who needs hair when you have an Aquanet-sized ozone killer to give you your youth back? And much like the heaviest makeup foundation that exists, this colorant spray is thick, runny, and will transfer on just about anything it touches. Genius!

Shake Weight

If you can look past all the dirty jokes and high probability of knocking yourself out with this thing, then you can see the ‘science’ behind the Shake Weight’s promising exercise. But then again, why would you want to look past any of that? The never-ending innuendos is what keeps the Shake Weight in our hearts even now all these years later.