{"id":479239,"date":"2010-03-27T10:00:45","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T14:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10003805"},"modified":"2010-03-27T03:11:37","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T07:11:37","slug":"this-infomercial-uses-a-familiar-voice-to-get-your-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/479239","title":{"rendered":"This Infomercial Uses A Familiar Voice To Get Your Attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/shoedini-thumb-156x176-38651.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>If you hear a vaguely familiar voice screeching from your television set during a commercial break, fear not. It&#8217;s only actor, comedian, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/character\/ch0000624\/\">ex-parrot<\/a> Gilbert Gottfried&#8217;s voiceover for the Shoedini commercial. It&#8217;s hard to get across in mere words how much I wish I were kidding right now.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/AeFuh6enzT4&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x2b405b&#038;color2=0x6b8ab6\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/AeFuh6enzT4&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x2b405b&#038;color2=0x6b8ab6\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The version using audio outtakes, however, is amazing. <\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/q73MjnazIfg&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x2b405b&#038;color2=0x6b8ab6\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/q73MjnazIfg&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x2b405b&#038;color2=0x6b8ab6\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nGets your attention more than the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CMf6ejoq8kk\">Anthony Sullivan<\/a> version ever did, doesn&#8217;t it? <\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tryshoedini.com\/\">Shoedini<\/a> [Official Site] <em>(Thanks, Jessica!)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you hear a vaguely familiar voice screeching from your television set during a commercial break, fear not. It&#8217;s only actor, comedian, and ex-parrot Gilbert Gottfried&#8217;s voiceover for the Shoedini commercial. It&#8217;s hard to get across in mere words how much I wish I were kidding right now. The version using audio outtakes, however, is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-479239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}