Comments for You Say Snuggie, I Say WTF Blanket

You Say Snuggie, I Say WTF Blanket

2009-01-31T06:51:01Z

Though you may know and love and/or fear it as The Snuggie, it's marketed some states north of Minnesoata and east of Kentucky as The WTF Blanket. Here is its ad [NSFW], which, according to unconfirmed outsider sources on non-attribution background, could be angling to snatch up one of the the last Super Bowl ad slots using a modified eBay snipe-bot. [via Bon Jour, Pee Wee]

Comment from Savoy Sison on 2009-02-21

2009-02-21T10:24:12Z

I will send the snuggie pics of my family, I just ordered four from [getsnuggies.net] We are planning to go out around vegas with our snuggies on LOL

Comment from You Cannot Untoast on 2009-02-02

2009-02-03T01:16:14Z

@HagarOffspring:

Yeah, I don't hate my kid or myself that much - but hey don't let that stop you.

Comment from trumpetfalcon on 2009-02-02

2009-02-02T23:27:13Z

Yeah. Robe worn backwards. Did this in the hospital for months and then started seeing the commercial. Wow.

Comment from Kimaroo - 100% Pure Natural Kitteh on 2009-02-02

2009-02-02T21:54:56Z

@SRSco: It creeps me out that they are drinking out of the same glasses I own..

Comment from alexawesome on 2009-02-02

2009-02-02T21:10:13Z

Er, Minnesota only has one A.

Comment from Anonymous on 2009-02-02

2009-02-02T20:25:22Z

I wom one of these at a Super Bowl party last night. It's a blanket with 2 arm holes cut into it. Since it's useful for sporting events, I may wear it to my daughters basketball game this weekend.

Comment from Ghede on 2009-02-02

2009-02-02T16:15:27Z

@samurailynn: And holding a knife, while inviting you to a "meeting" with some "friends"?

Comment from liquidnumb on 2009-02-01

2009-02-02T03:59:20Z

@lannister80: I'm actually with you on this one. Another, better video maybe. Unfortunately, this video frugally attaches a bunch of old internet memes to the product. God knows we can't live without another "Snape kills Dumbledore" joke.

Comment from liquidnumb on 2009-02-01

2009-02-02T03:55:04Z

@humphrmi: I think it's mainly a function of them buying up all the now-dirt-cheap airtime. Everyone has seen this thing, everyone is baffled by it, and so when you make fun of it everyone gets it. It's not just some internet wildfire.

Comment from StreamOfConsciousness on 2009-02-01

2009-02-02T02:17:56Z

I hate the snuggie commericals...they are creepy as hell.

Comment from Jenny Mauck DeBonte on 2009-02-01

2009-02-01T21:19:26Z

My husband got me a snuggie and I love it. As to why not just turn up the heat? Well, it's already set to 70 and he's comfortable, why should I make him uncomfortable when a blanket with sleeves fixes the problem? A few bucks for a blanket or raising my heating bill even more for several months during the year. It's more than paid for itself.

Comment from Shenanigans Was Taken on 2009-02-01

2009-02-01T18:37:16Z

@lannister80: LVL 50 MAGE LFG.

Comment from humphrmi on 2009-02-01

2009-02-01T12:05:49Z

@WickedKoala: Maybe I'm being a wet blanket.

Comment from Owen Yun on 2009-02-01

2009-02-01T10:11:25Z

looks like something you would wear if you were in a secret cult.

Comment from jrizos on 2009-02-01

2009-02-01T09:54:01Z

Very creative and funny vid with super low cost of production. ++

Comment from Stile4aly on 2009-02-01

2009-02-01T09:25:36Z

They should add in that you're a hood shy of looking like a klansman.

Comment from Blueskylaw on 2009-02-01

2009-02-01T09:07:18Z

@johnfrombrooklyn:

They have sold more than 4 million in the last 3 months.

Comment from MrsLopsided on 2009-02-01

2009-02-01T06:52:50Z

@hahamaximus: Didn't Tom Cruise wear one in Eyes Wide Shut?

Comment from iSleipnir on 2009-01-31

2009-02-01T04:31:13Z

@lannister80: THE NEWS IS SERIOUS BUSSINESS

Comment from samurailynn on 2009-01-31

2009-02-01T04:19:35Z

@ds143: Was your friend wearing it when he/she showed up?

Comment from ChainsawFacelift on 2009-01-31

2009-02-01T02:13:10Z

That's golden, "I can't believe a black man is president." Good find.

Comment from WickedKoala on 2009-01-31

2009-02-01T01:28:49Z

@humphrmi:

You're missing a sense of humor.

Comment from BuddyGuyMontag on 2009-01-31

2009-02-01T01:06:00Z

@Hoss: Ron retired.

Comment from HogwartsAlum on 2009-01-31

2009-02-01T00:05:43Z

@SRSco:

Whoever mocks this should remember to make fun of the people nodding idiotically throughout the commercial.

And:
*Lets you hear conversations from across the room!*

"God, John is such a dillhole...see, he's wearing one of those eavesdropper things!"

or:

*someone sees John wearing the eavesdropper device and blasts an airhorn nearby*

Comment from OprahBabb on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T23:44:38Z

@Voyou_Charmant:

Comment from PittDragon on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T22:34:24Z

@Hoss: He had the fat knocked out of him by George Foreman and his kick ass grill.

Comment from Bog on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T22:25:47Z

Why can't you just turn up the heat and be comfortable? Oh yeah - you also bought one of those "Amish" space heaters.

Comment from Stephanie Makowski on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T22:10:02Z

oh, wee. whew.
I almost shot peanut butter out of my nose on this one.

Snuggie=creepy

Comment from Voyou_Charmant on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T21:28:21Z

@humphrmi: Are you familiar with comedy and/or the internet?

Let me explain:

1. A person, place or thing exists
2. Someone on the internet discovers this person, place or thing.
3. It gets made fun of endlessly and in different fashions, from family friendly to uncomfortably offensive to the absurdly irreverent.
4. Sometimes it becomes an "internet meme".
5. Profit!

Comment from johnfrombrooklyn on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T21:13:31Z

The more bloggers make fun of the Snuggie, the more Snuggies sell. So I'm sure they're laughing all the way to the bank. Just like Jessica Simpson who showed the world her "mom" jeans and now all the cougars are snapping them up.

Comment from Blueskylaw on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T20:39:17Z

@ds143:

The Snuggie too will end up in the basement along with the Cabbage Patch dolls and Kerbangers.

Comment from SRSco on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T20:19:50Z

Mock this now:

Comment from Eryn DeLille Cobb on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T19:39:35Z

I was just talking/ranting about this last night. It's about time someone parodied it.

Comment from Jonathan Shelton on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T19:25:15Z

I'm just glad someone finally had the courage to say it. This thing is just a robe you wear backwards! People might have said it before, but this is the first I've heard someone say it. CNN has a news article about it calling the Snuggie a "marketing phenomenon". I...I just wanted either my life or the entirety of human civilization to just end in that moment.

Comment from Nick1693 on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T18:50:59Z

@Dansc29625: Or a KKK Member who mixed up their whites (No pun intended).

Comment from Hoss on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T18:24:37Z

You know the economy is bad when people want something like this because their house is 60 degrees or below -- and the only ad space that is being sold is to mail order houses.

BTW -- whatever happened to Ron Popeil?

Comment from closed_account on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T14:12:22Z

Does this guy sound like Sarah Haskins [consumerist.com] to anyone else?

Comment from guroth on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T13:03:12Z

When I first saw this commercial I thought "what a ripoff of the slanket"

I saw an above comment about the snuggie not having enough fabric for the neck; not a problem with my slanket.

Comment from the lesser of two weevils on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T11:27:56Z

@hahamaximus: Looks great with Nikes.

Comment from kaldurak on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T11:02:30Z

I guess the Snuggie was just marketed better. In my heart the Slanket > Snuggie.

Comment from ShirtMac on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T09:46:21Z

I'm going to get one to use for Halloween next year....and dress as a Byzantine monk.

Comment from humphrmi on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T09:45:44Z

@SybilDisobedience: OK, I get it. Ridiculous, yeah! So, where's your video?

Comment from pixiegirl1 on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T09:37:42Z

This clip basically said everything I thought the first time I saw the infomercial. It's a $60 backwards robe but I guess if your going for that "I'm in a cult look" its worth it.

The part that scares me is how many people honestly think ugg blanket so hard. . . are you flipping serious?!

Comment from Dansc29625 on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T09:21:52Z

@geekgrrl77: Or a Jedi

Comment from amorris525 on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T09:18:16Z

@lannister80: Because it is funny. WTB lannister.

Comment from SybilDisobedience on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T08:52:07Z

@humphrmi: Can't speak for anyone else, but I just find it ridiculous that the ads make the Snuggie seem like an astounding new invention, when it's basically just a bathrobe worn backwards.

Comment from hahamaximus on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T08:30:52Z

First time I saw the ad here in Denver, I thought it was some kind of cult robe, trying to dress everyone for Armageddon, ala Heaven's Gate....

Comment from lannister80 on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T08:25:37Z

Can someone explain why a damn parody youtube video in on the front page? WTB better editors.

Comment from stpauliegirl on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T08:18:53Z

@worksanddays: My Slanket covers up my neck adequately; there's a bunch of extra fabric at the top above the sleeves. But I don't want to get into any sort of WTF Blanket flamewar here. ;)

Comment from stpauliegirl on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T08:17:40Z

I have a Slanket and I am not ashamed to say that I love it. It's pretty essential for a couch/computer potato in a northern state.

Comment from worksanddays on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T08:09:21Z

@humphrmi I think the reason it's so funny is that it's a totally useless invention. Someone got me a Snuggie for Christmas, because I'm always cold. The thing is, it's a cross between a bathrobe and a blanket, and fails as both. If you wear it the way it's shown in the ad, it doesn't cover up your neck, so unless you're sitting in a really overstuffed chair, your neck is cold. If you wear it like a bathrobe, you have to wrap the front parts around you, and it doesn't have a belt or buttons, so you just have all this fabric bunched in front of you. Plus, you can't walk around wearing it, because it trails on the floor, and falls off (due to the lack of buttons/belt/zipper). I think anyone would be better off with a really warm fleece bathrobe. And when I tried using the Snuggie on my bed as a blanket, when my heater broke, the sleeves bunched up and got in the way, making it fail as a blanket as well.

I think the reason people find the ad so funny (other than the usual dumb infomercial stuff) is that the product itself is unnecessary, since blankets and bathrobes already exist and serve their respective purposes better than the Snuggie. But maybe I'm just a frustrated Snuggie owner. Blanket + bathrobe = FAIL.

Comment from geekgrrl77 on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T08:02:15Z

I always call the Snuggie the "Monk Robe" b/c everyone lounging around in it looks like a freakin' monk.

Or they look like their at Hogwarts attending a game of Quiddich.

Comment from MightyDwarf56 on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T07:57:25Z

@supercereal: Thanks that's great as well

Comment from YouDidWhatNow? on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T07:52:31Z

...I am strongly tempted to drive all the way over to your friend's place to smack him. Or her, as the case may be.

Comment from uberbucket on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T07:51:39Z

This thing is the tits! It's waaay better than that over-sized robe I put on backwards.

Comment from sprocket79 on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T07:41:36Z

Amazingly the WTF blanket can give you herpes AND super herpes all while not getting laid. Well, I'm sold.

Comment from humphrmi on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T07:19:28Z

This video is funny... and I'm as snarky as the next guy, and I see jokes all over the Internets about the Snuggie. I'm sure it's all just as hilarious as this video, but I really don't see the point of making fun of a blanket.

I have no intention of buying one, but it's just a blanket and it seems like right now to be Internet Cool and snarky in the right way, you have to be making fun of Snuggies.

Am I missing something?

Comment from lars2112 on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T07:14:40Z

@ds143: So are you gonna get one now? Was it as amazing in real life?

Comment from Yankees368 on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T07:11:42Z

@ds143: you need new friends...

Comment from supercereal on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T07:10:23Z

@MightyDwarf56: Hilarious"ad," but I think I may enjoy the ShamWow parody even more:

Comment from Zeniq on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T07:02:56Z

Hilarity!

Comment from ds143 on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T07:01:53Z

funny this article comes up today, my friend just bought a snuggie and excitedly drove all the way over to my place to show it to me.

Comment from Carias on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T07:01:21Z

As if "Snuggie" isn't a ridiculous enough name on its own...

Comment from MightyDwarf56 on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T07:00:54Z

This sounds like every thing I have read in the comments about this thing. I'm amazed I missed this video on youtube.