Infomercials

As i was watching TV today with my friend, we happened to get stuck on this channel with very long ads and one really go to us.  It was for "callous clear".  This was the must repetitive and uncomfortable ad that we watched.  It was all about how to get the dead and dry skin off your feet. ew. then we started to think about what we were watching and why we were even thinking about this product.  Then we realized that we got sucked into watching an infomercial.
Infomercials, they make you want to pay attention and you don't know why....you catch yourself actually paying attention to what they are saying and why their product is something you should have.
What do infomercials do for you? Do you get caught up watching them?

Response to Tyler T: Gender Discrimination in Advertisements

As Tyler  noted there is a battle of the sexes going on in advertisements.   This clip of different ads has a great variety of ads that are blatantly screaming to men, "your not a man unless you do manly things..." and manly things do not include diet drinks.  Why would a man need a died drink? Is it because a diet drink has taken all of the calories out, there for not real or acceptable for a "real man" to drink?  

Does ten calories in a drink make it that much more of a manly drink?