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August 8, 2016 6:38 PM

48 infomercials of the late Billy Mays playing simultaneously.

Some related previouslies:
Mays' obituary thread.

The Economics of Infomercials.

The passage of the Commercial Advertising Loudness Mitigation (CALM) act was seen as a response to the genre that Mays, um, perfected.

posted by codacorolla (17 comments total)

CONSUME NOW
CONSUME IT
RUB IT ON YOUR FLIPPERS
posted by STFUDonnie at 6:50 PM on August 8, 2016 [10 favorites]

GOOD NIGHT SWEAT PRINCE
posted by benzenedream at 6:52 PM on August 8, 2016 [6 favorites]

For anyone that speaks in tongues does not speak to people but to God. Indeed no one understands them ; they utter mysteries of the spirit. SHAMWOW!!!

1 Billy Mays 14:2
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 6:59 PM on August 8, 2016 [4 favorites]

And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing. And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever. And the four beasts said, Separate shipping and processing applies for each item ordered.
posted by Vic Morrow's Personal Vietnam at 7:01 PM on August 8, 2016 [7 favorites]

calling it right now, this shit is spontaneously inducing a great awakening. WORTHY IS THE LAMB
posted by Vic Morrow's Personal Vietnam at 7:07 PM on August 8, 2016 [2 favorites]

"Just as in religion the spontaneous activity of the human imagination, of the human brain and the human heart, operates independently of the individual–that is, operates on him as an alien, divine or diabolical activity—so is the worker's activity not his spontaneous activity. It belongs to another; it is the loss of his self...

Here's how to order!"
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 7:08 PM on August 8, 2016

Behold, Apollyon.
_{warning more flashing and pulsing than the fpp link}
posted by codacorolla at 7:15 PM on August 8, 2016

It sounds like bees
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 9:31 PM on August 8, 2016

NOOOOOOO!!!
posted by Sys Rq at 10:13 PM on August 8, 2016

That sync is perfect
posted by Going To Maine at 11:22 PM on August 8, 2016 [2 favorites]

I really miss Billy Mays, and I love this completely unironically.
posted by layceepee at 7:38 AM on August 9, 2016 [1 favorite]

Sort-of related because it's Billy Mays - I've gotten fond of a Youtube channel that's a "buzzfeed" clone based in Dublin; 90% of the time the cast is reacting to something wacky in American pop culture in particular. And for one video, they had them react to Billy Mays infomercials.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 10:35 AM on August 9, 2016 [2 favorites]

I really miss Billy Mays, and I love this completely unironically.

Seconded. And Empress' link is hilarious!
posted by joedan at 2:47 PM on August 9, 2016

"This guy's mental!"

"....Or is he a genius? That's the question!"
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 7:28 PM on August 9, 2016

That sync is perfect
Kinda want someone to make that moment into a really sick drop.
posted by xedrik at 9:52 PM on August 9, 2016

HI I'M BILLY MAYS
WHY WAIT FOR THE DROP?
THE DROP IS RIGHT HERE
YOU CAN HAVE THE DROP
YOU NEED THE DROP
THE DROP, GET IT NOW!
posted by zippy at 12:03 AM on August 10, 2016 [1 favorite]

i like the part at the end where the vocal tone slowly shifts from ALL CAPS to small italics
posted by rebent at 10:23 AM on August 10, 2016