Made-for-TV super salesman Ron Popiel has passed away

I really like how Ron Popiel’s junk truly represented 1970’s-1980’s Americana, It was all garbage, extremely profitable, and brought the carnival huckster mainstream.

Ron Popiel hit the spot.

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Almost all of the dubious-gadget TV commercial tropes came from him, or at least it seems that way to me. “But wait! There’s more…”

Sort of the great-granddad of clickbait.

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