Yeah, I remember hearing about this 10 years ago when I was in High School. They're really using the fame of the Shamwow commercial to sell it? That's just sad.

I've posted about it before, but I'll give a little refresher on it. Basically, every commercial you saw for the original was paid for by Vince Offer himself, more or less out of pocket. He worked himself into something like 0,000 worth of debt making and promoting the original film. No one liked it but MAN did he want people to. He really Believed in it. And so even after it was clear how much of a bomb the thing was, and how in over his head he had gotten, he kept working at trying to make it successful. Anyway, the debt he incurred is why he ended up trying to sell you a chamois on TV at 3:00 in the morning.

Now. I thought he had finally given up the ghost of making his shitty comedy film successful. He -- unbelievably, implausibly -- found a way out of his seemingly intractable situation, and it seemed he was content with his little niche in popular culture.

But no. Instead of being happy with his incredible luck in getting out of debt by becoming a minor celebrity, he wants to use all the money he's made as starting capital to do the exact same shit ALL OVER AGAIN.

Vince Offer so obviously has a dogged, unhealthy obsession with being recognized for this film that literally NO ONE likes, or will ever like, and it is going to utterly destroy him.

I would read a book about this man. For real.