Ron Popiel is a business icon. Every business school should study this fine example of American entrepreneurship.
Him wearing a cooking apron is not genuine...but he knows that it will sell more pasta makers...a true form of salesmanship and entreprenuership!
Hey, wait a minute! I think these audience members were paid for their appearance in the audience.
Oregano, esp dried, is extremely powerful, and you only typically use a very miniscule amount. He poured so much in! I wonder how that clam sauce actually tasted.
I was thinking that same thing when I watched the other version of this. But doing a search, I found a PDF of the booklet that came with pasta maker including recipes and that clam sauce called for 3 tablespoons of dried oregano. Where Ron messed up is when he dumped all that olive oil in the skillet. The recipe only calls for 3Tbsp of that LOL
Here is a video on how to make your own tomato sauce for your Ron Popeil pasta! ua-cam.com/video/QNFvE6XiQiw/v-deo.html
RIP Ron Popeli….let’s admit it, he was the only salesman you would actually go listen to LOL.
@@codedrop3339 “Look, and if you promise to tell a friend about so we can get word-of-mouth advertisement, I’m going to give you…………..absolutely free.”
I watched this a lot with my mom. The three things that I always remembered from it were the way he pauses and says, “It’s ready now” when Nancy is using the machine, the poor edit of him running over with the pepper mill while making the clam sauce, and, of course, Cajun linguine.
What a Legend 🙌!!! Thanks for posting... Takes me back
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"why would you add spinach juice? for the color and nutrients" i cant stop fucking laughing.
10:40 in the other version of this infomercial they added in a shot of the crowd exploding in cheers over the automatic cutoff feature lol
also the machine jams at 11:15
When the pandemic lifts, Terry Scott will be on tour with his one-man show saluting Alan "The Skipper" Hale.
This version is slightly extended what the three-part version on UA-cam. I also noticed the horrible dub about the whole wheat flour. haha
I can’t believe this infomercial is still going lol on 😂I was like in my early 20’s wowza memories of the time 80’s were the best ❤️
May Ron Popeil rest in peace. I loved watching the Showtime Knives a lot!
I have one of these, and like it.
I've tried making pasta from bean and nut flours, and it doesn't work so well, though.
@codedrop3339 Never tried that. I have made rye pasta, & had it with pastrami, saurkraut, 1000 Island dressing & Swiss cheese. Ruben Spaghetti!
5:34 I've never seen someone so enthusiastic about owning a juicer as that lady in blue.
They use the same clip at 14:45 when he asks how many people are going to buy the pasta maker.
Cajun Linguine!!!!!
Here is a video on how to make your own tomato sauce for your Ron Popeil pasta! ua-cam.com/video/QNFvE6XiQiw/v-deo.html
I was born in New Orleans metro, and spent my first 11 years in Louisiana. Nobody there prepares "Cajun Linguine"
Ron was so charismatic and smooth, he could sell ice making machines in the North Pole. 😂
Can you upload an infomercial about another pasta maker with host Joe Fowler and unknown host from Pasta express x500
@@codedrop3339 Okay the Pasta Express by Creative host with Eileen and Joe
@@jeaninempanzone6327 Shark cordless sweeper full infomercial version 2004 with headlights
A little oregano Ron? 😂. That 2 minute clam sauce is (to quote Gordon Ramsay) ‘fucking hideous’.
Here is a video on how to make your own tomato sauce for your Ron Popeil pasta! ua-cam.com/video/QNFvE6XiQiw/v-deo.html
I don't know about anyone else but I could barely believe the machine was switched on, it was so quiet!
Franca Paganucci from Florence, Italy.
Yeah, right.
Not even a fake Italian accent!
Oh, I believe she was from Italy. Look at her disgusted face when he brings out the jarred sauce.
At 10:07 she acts surprised that the machine doesn’t have to run for an hour as if he hasn’t already told her countless times (and even already shown her) that it is done in less than three minutes.
The announcer at 15:10 doing the "send check or money order" bit for the Canadian audience pronounced pasta - over and over and over - as "PAST-a" instead of "Pahhst-a"
Pass ta.
How I never noticed that when I was a kid and watched this over and over is beyond me.
25:21 If you were choosing fast food over boiling water to cook packaged pasta, are you really going starting cooking at home once you get a pasta machine?
15:04 Ron stops trusting his audience... HE KNOWS WHATS UP
Here is a video on how to make your own tomato sauce for your Ron Popeil pasta! ua-cam.com/video/QNFvE6XiQiw/v-deo.html
Lady, 24:55 who care if you don't know how to cook. The pasta machine is made for people like you 😊
Ron Popeil was somewhat of a pushy individual...
I'd guess he was more concerned with money that healthy pasta dishes. 🍝
I like to imagine that Ron and Cathy were married.
Well they do sound like an old married couple who like to bicker with each other!
18:32 Terry Scott is John Wayne Gacy’s doppelgänger!
Great Observation! From here on out, Terry Scott will be known as "The Duke"!
@@codedrop3339 I meant John Wayne Gacy as in the serial killer, the “Killer Clown”…
You can tell Ron was not really happy or comfortable there working with Nancy. IDK….I just sensed he was just a little bit arrogant with her (while faking politeness) he wasn’t genuinely friendly with her there.
i noticed it too. he barked at her to put the flour in...he was probably really pressed for time.
Who? 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Ron is like step away from me. I can smell your breath.
How did he know I was thinking $170
LOL…. even then I thought $170 was still quite expensive, this being in the 90s.
lol at 4:50 they cant even talk over the sound of the machine. they sound LOUD!
Even as a kid I always got indignant when he called that little slicer handle an “automatic” cut off… as he operated it by hand. C’mon, Ron… who you think you’re fooling?!
I found one at a thrift store today! Just four easy payments of $3!
Update: I made pasta yesterday. It worked so great! I think it was ready even faster than in the video.
Mine is a later model than featured here. It has the extension for sausage (I threw away the casings and seasonings 😆). It also has a different paddle inside and a different container for ingredients. I used olive oil and two eggs and just a splash of water.
Yes! Especially since it didn’t come with a manual. And when I was adding flour, all I could think about was “Dump it in!”
Oh, what a time it was when "oriental" was still socially acceptable to say.
.....as well as a recipe booklet with English and Spanish instructions.....
Ron is selling the machine in Canada with a recipe booklet without French instructions. He really pissed off everyone in Quebec.
"Cholesterol conscious"
I lowered mine by eating more animal cholesterol.
I know it was for the sake of the TV audience who tuned in midway through, but I like how she asks about the eggs when she makes the pasta after she had commented on the same thing earlier.
This is the earliest, unedited, first version of the Popeil Pasta Maker infomercial from April 1993. Things would soon be edited out to make room for "reduced prices" and the addition of the sausage-making attachment segments. Although the Call-to-Action breaks are Canadian, the rest is all "V 1.0" and was a real treat to see 😃
Nice to hear that I'm an OG when it comes to pasta infomercials!
Thanks, I'm glad to see an actual date for this. I downloaded a PDF of the product booklet, specifically looking for a date, and it showed copyright 1993 1994 and 1995 together. So I wasn't sure when this was produced. I'm always looking for vintage infomercials and this is awesome. Code Drop truly is an OG for me ha
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Also...Here is a video on how to make your own tomato sauce for your Ron Popeil pasta! ua-cam.com/video/QNFvE6XiQiw/v-deo.html
Its always funny to see how chopped up and re edited Rons infomercials become with such variable audio voice overs and hard cuts. Classic stuff we prob will never see the likes of again.