Make sure to tune in tonight for another PitchMen LiveBlog! as we dissect and analyze the newest PitchMen episode, “Spinning Green.” According to the Discovery Channel website, the featured product will be “Spin Gym,” by Forbes Riley.
And to mix it up a little, Billy and Sully go to Hollywood! Want to guess which one goes on The Tonight Show? Sparks could fly.
PitchMen, “Spinning Green,” Episode Facts:
- Channel: Discovery
- Original Air Date: 2009/05/27
- Time: 10:00pm EDT and again at 1:00am EDT
- Product: Spin Gym
- Inventor: Forbes Riley
HERE WE GO
The final four products Billy n Sully had to choose from here is intriguing. Billy n Sully are off to Vegas to pick the product. Billy just wants to pick the best product and that’s it. This is they’re at ERA in Vegas and come across Forbes Riley. There are some giants at the show: TELEBrands, livemercial…
Riley is trying to get Billy n Sully turned on to Spin Gym. Sully looks excited. Billy seems on the fence. Forbes got her inspiration from her father — an abstract inventor who didn’t know how to get his products to market. Forbes Riley claims she sells about $2,000 a minute when on “Home Shopping.” Now she wants her name on a product and have the same effect. She didn’t invent Spin Gym, but she’s an inventor.
Billy and Sully will field test, but first Billy has a Kaboom shoot. …take 8, take… Sully n Billy are fighting about how to wipe glass scum. I guess it proves that details make all the difference. Billy is giving Sully the death look while Sully does an onscreen rant.
“Maybe you should use a ShamWOW,” said the production assistant who’s sure not to have a job much longer (unless that was Billy Mays III). If Billy only had a ZorbEEZ in his back pocket at that point.
“Maybe I’ll give you a ShamPOW!”
Commercial break :11 after
The cleaning lesson continues. “See, if you listen to me I’ll make you look good every time,” — Sully. But now the schedule is behind. Billy wants to get the shoot on schedule — so long as he doesn’t have to listen to Sully.
“Billy may have actually done something in one take — because he listened to me.”
Field testing the Spin Gym on the boardwalk — “Welcome to the gun show.”
The question: Toy or workout device? They all tell Billy it’s a workout device but then tell the camera they think it’s a toy. That’s mean.
TELEBrands TIME!
Forbes, Billy, and Sully meet with AJ Khubani. Riley is selling Jennifer Aniston. Billy wants to meet her again. Sully won’t let him go alone.
Media Test Buy for Spin Gym Results: the tested $19.99 against $29.99 — both tested bad. The best it could do was a $196 CPO for $19.99 price point. Sully is coming back with saying the $10.00 price point could have worked. “Always go with the best offer,” — Billy Mays. Have to agree with Billy n Sully.
AJ dropped the product. Billy n Sully suggest she drop the product.
Forbes Riley still won’t get over her fear of the $10.00 price point. She’s breaking down. “That’s why you’re driving the Bentley and I’m not.”
Sometimes the best lessons are the hardest to learn. Check back here next week for another LiveBlog! of PitchMen.
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