Who needs the dumb old ShamWOW! when you’ve got paper towels? They’re only available in stores!

(Earmuffs Warning.)

I ran across this video last week on one of my days off, and I absolutely couldn’t wait to blog about it.

You know those infomercials where people demonstrate the power of knives by cutting hammers, aluminum cans, sponges, bricks and other weird things in half? Well, this is the toilet equivalent.

Now, I can’t think of an instance where I’d ever need to flush a pitcher of hot dogs or a bowl of golf balls. But it’s good to know it’s not out of the realm of possibility.

The Snuggie has weaseled its way into Americans’ hearts and even further into pop culture.

(In related news, check out the Twitter traffic from people who thought Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi looked like she was wearing a Snuggie at last night’s presidential address.)

What if there were a smell that could make you lose your appetite? (Yes, we know, there are plenty of smells like that. Just play along.)

The makers of this product think they’ve come up with something pretty spectacular: a screen with handles that sifts your cat litter. You can even run it over with a car — and it’ll still work!

TV’s Ellen DeGeneres recently discovered the Snuggie.

She’s so funny. We were reading some viewer comments on her Web site, and this one had to have been submitted by the makers of Snuggie:

I was surprised that you made fun of the Snuggle. I have one that was called “The Slanket” when I bought it from a tv shopping chanel. I have lowered the heat in my house this year in an effort to save money and sometimes it gets guite cold. When I watch tv I cover up in my slanket. It keeps me warm and allows�

“Next time that you’re feeling down, feeling that no one really gets you, or you’re just wanting to hear some encouraging words, well, there’s a solution.”

It’s the Wunder Boner — an actual commercial from years ago.

Online chatter says it’s Mike Rowe of “Dirty Jobs” doing the voiceover.

Since we started this blog in September, we’ve featured quite a few commercials and infomercials that seemingly were produced only for our enjoyment. What marketing expert would ever think that backwards robes were a good idea? Or that Vince from ShamWow should wear that headset? Or that we should pry gold fillings from our dead loved ones’ mouths so we can cash them in for gold?

The following seven products may not be good investments, but they certainly were viral gold this year:

Remember Vince, that annoying, headset-wearing pitchman from the ShamWow infomercial? He’s back — this time in a double-entendre-packed spot for something called the Slap Chop.

Feast your eyes on this mess.