For everyone who's still getting creeped out when they turn on the TV and see now-dead pitchman Billy Mays selling things, you're in luck - more commercials are coming! Did I say luck, I meant terror. You're in terror:
"Just stretch, wrap and it fuses fast," says Mays, demonstrating a product called Mighty Tape on a kitchen drain pipe in the new commercial. Moments later, he's seen, still wearing his signature sport shirt and khaki slacks but accessorized with scuba gear, as he repairs a hole in another diver's air hose underwater using Mighty Tape.Yes, the company respected the death of Billy Mays just long enough to shock people when they threw those commercials back up. Shock people into buying the crap, though? Only time will tell.The commercial will begin airing July 20. Mays' advertising for other products in the Mighty brand line returned to the air earlier this week. The commercials were pulled after Mays' death June 28 of an apparent heart attack. (AP)
"Our feeling is, everyone wants to have Billy go on," said Bill McAlister, president of Media Enterprises, a sales and marketing company based in Trevose, Penn. "This is what he would have wanted."Act now, and we can start pimping out all the recently dead celebrities for our amusement and profit. Farah Fawcett will sell poster glue, Ed McMahon can help promote Jimmy Fallon. And if you call within the next 15 minutes, we will kill your soul by having Michael Jackson sell individual gloves, absolutely free. It's the bargain of a lifetime!
