Hi! Billy Mays Tribute Thread Here!

JustinSane07

http://twitter.com/youngBillyMays

My dad didn't wake up this morning.. I'm sure you'll all hear about it. It hasn't yet hit me but it's about to.

http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/article1014018.ece

http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/dpp/news/local/hillsborough/plane_landing_tampa_062709

“All of a sudden as we hit you know it was just the hardest hit, all the things from the ceiling started dropping. It hit me on the head, but I got a hard head,” said Mays.

Uhhhhh, wow wtf is with this past two weeks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tyct9l-fD8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAE-r0fhiJE

Monday update: It appears the culprit in the death of Mays was a heart disease.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/06/29/mays.death/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

Saiga

This is absolutely unreal.

I am really not sure what to say.

TheBog

Oh wow...

Buttcleft

God damn, I was just watching Pitchmen too.

TheBog

I swear 2009 is the year lots of awesome people die.

Omeks

Man, I was starting to like Pitchmen. It gave a pretty good behind-the-scenes look at Billy Mays that made him seem human behind all that screaming.

Bionic Monkey

TheBog wrote: »

I swear 2009 is the year lots of awesome people die.

I've coined it the Celebri-geddon.

An-D

This is really surreal.

I'll never watch another infomercial.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_4a4O7kXQo

SkutSkut

Man, what?

Xenogears of Bore

Always comes in threes.

Just like Shamwow.

redfield85

Xenogears of Bore wrote: »

Always comes in threes.

Just like Shamwow.

Didn't we already have three though? This is fours.

YodaTuna

This is worse than Michael Jackson!

TheBog

I swear, Vince from Shamwow better not die.

Bionic Monkey

redfield85 wrote: »

Xenogears of Bore wrote: »

Always comes in threes.

Just like Shamwow.

Didn't we already have three though? This is fours.

Count again, we're at 5. David Carradine, Ed McMahon, Farah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, and now Billy Mays. Apparently Walter Cronkite is seriously ill too, so he'll probably be #6.

Xenogears of Bore

This week maybe?

TheBog

Lets hope so.

YodaTuna

TheBog wrote: »

I swear, Vince from Shamwow better not die.

So many more hookers to beat up!

Brainleech

This week seems surreal with the deaths

temperature!

Man he was just on Conan, and I was just watching Pitchmen like an hour ago!

Robos A Go Go

Bionic Monkey wrote: »

redfield85 wrote: »

Xenogears of Bore wrote: »

Always comes in threes.

Just like Shamwow.

Didn't we already have three though? This is fours.

Count again, we're at 5. David Carradine, Ed McMahon, Farah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, and now Billy Mays. Apparently Walter Cronkite is seriously ill too, so he'll probably be #6.

The trick is to start counting at some arbitrary spot and then stop counting at 3.

redfield85

Bionic Monkey wrote: »

redfield85 wrote: »

Xenogears of Bore wrote: »

Always comes in threes.

Just like Shamwow.

Didn't we already have three though? This is fours.

Count again, we're at 5. David Carradine, Ed McMahon, Farah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, and now Billy Mays. Apparently Walter Cronkite is seriously ill too, so he'll probably be #6.

I could say 6. Gary Poppa, a local sportscaster, died not that long ago.

Xenogears of Bore

Robos A Go Go wrote: »

Bionic Monkey wrote: »

redfield85 wrote: »

Xenogears of Bore wrote: »

Always comes in threes.

Just like Shamwow.

Didn't we already have three though? This is fours.

Count again, we're at 5. David Carradine, Ed McMahon, Farah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, and now Billy Mays. Apparently Walter Cronkite is seriously ill too, so he'll probably be #6.

The trick is to start counting at some arbitrary spot and then stop counting at 3.

EXACTLY!

People die all the time.

Pony

maybe it was the yakuza, guys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lftTkFacM3I

deadonthestreet

Basically, if you get hit on the head, go to the fucking hospital and get checked out.

Gabriel_Pitt

redfield85 wrote: »

Bionic Monkey wrote: »

redfield85 wrote: »

Xenogears of Bore wrote: »

Always comes in threes.

Just like Shamwow.

Didn't we already have three though? This is fours.

Count again, we're at 5. David Carradine, Ed McMahon, Farah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, and now Billy Mays. Apparently Walter Cronkite is seriously ill too, so he'll probably be #6.

I could say 6. Gary Poppa, a local sportscaster, died not that long ago.

David Eddings. Now they're dying in 7s.

Operator-C

I'm thinking there was an epic battle between Mays and Vince (Shamwow guy), and Mays let Vince win so he could become one with the force, becoming more powerful than he could ever imagine.

Mr Pink

Jackson is going to reappear in a few years with a comeback album, and Mays is going to sell it. It's all a plot!

Gosling

Operator-C wrote: »

I'm thinking there was an epic battle between Mays and Vince (Shamwow guy), and Mays let Vince win so he could become one with the force, becoming more powerful than he could ever imagine.

The question now is, does Anthony Sullivan have any ill feelings towards Vince? Because short-term he's likely to be frantically filling in for Billy on every product Billy has out there if for no other reason than to reduce the creepy ZOMBIE BILLY MAYS HERE FOR BRAINS factor. Long-term, he's more geared to the business end of things than the pitch end, so he is going to need a second pitchman, and I could see him sucking it up and calling Vince.

JustinSane07

From watching Pitchmen, Billy hated Vince because he thought Vince was a clown ripping off one of Billy's products. Sullivan, had no real issues with the guy and would tease Billy about the Shamwow.

That said, the likeliness of Sullivan calling Vince is slim to none. From the show, they seem to know a lot of people in the industry, including people that want to be pitchmen.

Nakatomi2010

Intriging... Wonder who else is going to go down this year...

This one fascinates me because I'm in Tampa, so he died not too far from here....

TheBog

Nakatomi2010

TheBog wrote: »

*golf clap*

BigBear

I wonder if Discovery will do what MTV did when MJ died last Thursday, and have an all-day Pitchmen marathon or something like that. Probably not, but it'd be a nice sendoff.

In any case, RIP Billy Mays. I hope they have Big City Sliders in heaven.

SQUIRREL!

Those commercials Mays did for ESPN's online stuff were pretty fantastic. I'm actually sad to hear about this, but maybe Jr. will step into his dad's shoes and take over the family business. Apparently Mays' father was also a pitchman, so it's in their blood.

RIP man, you had the sack to do some self-parody and I'll always respect people that can do that.

Improvolone

But he had such great health insurance, he even pitched it!

JustinSane07

SQUIRREL! wrote: »

Those commercials Mays did for ESPN's online stuff were pretty fantastic. I'm actually sad to hear about this, but maybe Jr. will step into his dad's shoes and take over the family business. Apparently Mays' father was also a pitchman, so it's in their blood.

RIP man, you had the sack to do some self-parody and I'll always respect people that can do that.

Billy the Third already does work behind the scenes. He's even directed for his dad.

Taximes

According to Wikipedia, 63 notable people have died in the past week, so apparently they come in 63s.

Who will be next?

Sliver

Taximes wrote: »

According to Wikipedia, 63 notable people have died in the past week, so apparently they come in 63s.

Who will be next?

abe vigoda

Taximes

But he's been released into the wild, how would we know? Did we tag him?

Edit: I guess so

matt has a problem

Abe Vigoda will outlive us all.


Also, the Oscars are going to suck next year. 5 hours of tributes to dead famous people...

RUNN1NGMAN

Buttcleft wrote: »

God damn, I was just watching Pitchmen too.

My wife and I were watching it this morning! This is crazy. Perhaps surprisingly, this is the celebrity death over the past few days that hits the hardest, even more than Michael Jackson. Billy Mays seemed like a genuinely good guy, an everyman who had made it big and still seemed like a "regular guy" despite the Bentley. He was a great personality and I'm going to miss watching his antics.