Like the real super-consumers they entertain everyday, the titular family on the animated comedy The Simpsons have torn through all kinds of unnatural and ill-conceived products over the years, from mysterious meat substitutes to bizarre beers. Guyism shops around for The 14 Awesomest Fake Products from The Simpsons, like Krusty Brand Imitation Gruel and Strawberrito. [...]

We don’t “heart” the “I Heart NY” shirt because, well, it’s just too popular. Wearing that shirt is like saying you love something that we all love, like air, it’s pointless. Still, whoever came up with the “I Heart ____” tee shirt template must be rolling in dough these days. Or maybe he or she [...]

Earlier this month (October 2) we celebrated National Denim Day by wearing nothing but clothes made of denim (even denim underwear, which you’ll find below). For Lee Jeans, who started the national day of celebration in 1996, it’s a day to raise money for breast cancer research, but for us it’s also a day to [...]

We’ve always thought that of all the cool kitchen utensils, the rolling pin must be the most versatile. Not only does it serve the obvious purpose of rolling out dough, but, in the eventuality that, like Steven Segal in Under Siege, we were tapped to serve as a secret agent, it would prove a very [...]

We once thought that the funniest prank anybody could ever pull on an unsuspecting friend was the old box-inside-a-box-inside-a-box birthday gift, were what seems like a huge present turns out to be multiple layers of packaging with nothing at the center (or coal at the center, in the Christmas version). Now, our taste for comedy [...]

Nothing sells stuff like a clever play on words, as most ad slogans and company catchphrases will demonstrate. And nothing sets an otherwise generic store apart from its peers like an unforgettable pun. This is how we ended up with Best Week Ever’s listicle of The 50 Best Pun Stores, which, amazingly, doesn’t include Buy [...]

October, in case you weren’t already aware, is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, so get aware. And more so than just about any other medical cause, the folks behind breast cancer awareness have some really spectacular merchandising and licensing ideas, which is how they’ve come up with the items listed in Comedy.com’s 15 Strangest Breast Cancer [...]

Generally we’re a little frustrated by how many of the images we encounter on the street in a given day are commercials, not to mention that most are poorly conceived and thoughtlessly executed. If we were starting a new society (which we do almost ever day, in our mind) the streets of its cities would [...]

Sending kids to stand in the corner to reprimand naughty behavior seems, well, slightly arcane as far as ways of flexing parental authority go. Why not make them wear dunce caps too while we’re at it? A slightly more humane–though infinitely more creepy and still on balance foolish–variation of the standing in the corner punishment [...]

Today, for some reason we can’t quite figure out, is National Play-Doh Day. Our only hunch is that today may be the 54th anniversary of the invention of the product by Joseph McVicker, although we’ve had a hard time pinning down an exact date. Regardless, in its time on the market it’s become a staple [...]