This guy has been a part of American popular culture for a generation. Apparently he got his start from his old man.

I rarely watched infomercials, but this guy hypnotized me. He gave me the impression that if I wanted to chop a potato in a fraction of a second, or cook several chickens at once in a rotisseries which sat on a kitchen counter, I could have an affordable well made tool that might last more than a year, in other words, longer than I would be inclined to use it.

I just read that there was an English musical group out of Sheffield called "Bassomatic" which is a meme of a meme. For a comparable development recall there was an indie group in the 90s called "Ned's Atomic Dustbin".

For the Wikipedia article.

For the SNL 'Bassomatic '.

There's also 7 minutes of Terry Gross interviewing Ron Popeil