Man, that 3am slot matters more than people admit. Those stations bought leftover airtime for almost nothing, so the weird stuff that couldn't sell during the day got dumped there, and half asleep you're basically the perfect target. I've noticed the same thing with the old exercise machine ads, the ones where the host never takes a breath, he just keeps yelling like the volume knob is stuck. Forget the product, the pitch itself was the show.

Watched my neighbor's oak heal shut in two years once I finally stopped slicing into the collar.

Wait 139? That's basically an oven, you could probably bake cookies in there lol. The chalky extension cord thing is wild though, i never thought about heat messing up plastic like that.