It's not the uselessness of the infomercial gadgetry, it's the dumb ads themselves. It's toooooo haaaarrrrd to boil water, or cut with scissors, or dump the cooked spaghetti into a colander to strain it. No, you have to have our special gadget -- and we'll give you, ABSOLUTELY FREE, last month's wonderful gadget that is cluttering up our warehouse because we couldn't unload them onto enough suckers customers.