The artistic value of teleshopping

[Tommyboi]

Does anyone else find tv shopping, particularly the unproduced, unmanicured, strangeness of idealworld to be of great artistic merit?

The same way that people find humor and value in bad movies, I find value in teleshopping. When a product comes on I just think, how are they going to sell this crap, what lies are they going to spin, how are they going to try and pluck my heartstrings?

I like great tv, critically-acclaimed shows and films, for what they are. But I also love the unpredictable unabashed nature of teleshopping, how bare-faced it is. How transparent the sales techniques. It’s like a case study in human behaviour.

Does anybody feel how I feel?

 

[Wanderer]

Does anyone else find tv shopping, particularly the unproduced, unmanicured, strangeness of idealworld to be of great artistic merit?

The same way that people find humor and value in bad movies, I find value in teleshopping. When a product comes on I just think, how are they going to sell this crap, what lies are they going to spin, how are they going to try and pluck my heartstrings?

I like great tv, critically-acclaimed shows and films, for what they are. But I also love the unpredictable unabashed nature of teleshopping, how bare-faced it is. How transparent the sales techniques. It’s like a case study in human behaviour.

Does anybody feel how I feel?

+1

 

[Muttley]

Does anyone else find tv shopping, particularly the unproduced, unmanicured, strangeness of idealworld to be of great artistic merit?

The same way that people find humor and value in bad movies, I find value in teleshopping. When a product comes on I just think, how are they going to sell this crap, what lies are they going to spin, how are they going to try and pluck my heartstrings?

I like great tv, critically-acclaimed shows and films, for what they are. But I also love the unpredictable unabashed nature of teleshopping, how bare-faced it is. How transparent the sales techniques. It’s like a case study in human behaviour.

Does anybody feel how I feel?

I think I know what you're getting at. It's almost so bad it's brilliant (not literally though)

 

[Ant7t]

I think I know what you're getting at. It's almost so bad it's brilliant (not literally though)

Puts me in mind of Plan 9 from Outer Space. I think that was the title of it. It was awful, but I couldn't help but look at it all the way through. They had gravestones that wobbled, more than obviously, when someone was near them (cardboard), the flying saucer you could see the string holding it up. I recommend you see it if you haven't already

 

[Wanderer]

Puts me in mind of Plan 9 from Outer Space. I think that was the title of it. It was awful, but I couldn't help but look at it all the way through. They had gravestones that wobbled, more than obviously, when someone was near them (cardboard), the flying saucer you could see the string holding it up. I recommend you see it if you haven't already

This?

 

[Ant7t]

This?

That's the one It has Vampira (she was friends with James Dean) in it too. And, as an aside, Johnny Depp played the Director, Ed Wood and that's where I discovered the film. I wanted to see the original.