Home Shopping Network Tosses Wiimote Accessory Into HDTV

Who says the Home Shopping Network isn’t entertaining?  In the video above, posted on Youtube on October 16 by HSN, two sales people show off a special Wii console bundle that includes 15 accessories for the low, low price of only $329.90 (and that’s after a price drop folks!).

While the saleswoman on the right talks about the features and the hot item on many people’s Christmas lists, the salesman on the left gets a little too into his demonstration of Wii Sports tennis while using a third-party tennis racket accessory for his remote.  The resulting calamity is simply classic.

Barely 10 seconds after showing a close-up shot of the accessory – which appears to be securely fastened to the remote – the salesman goes for a serve and dislodges the accessory from the Wii remote, hurling it into the HDTV and breaking the screen.  This happens despite the salesman using the Nintendo-recommended wrist strap (he clearly shows the remote still in his hand immediately after breaking the TV).  The salesman then comments “I didn’t have it on there all the way.”  Yeah, sure you didn’t….

I guess nothing sells a video game console like a controller accessory that flies off your remote and breaks your TV, because the saleswoman then showcases the accessory display to the right and notes “These are the accessories that you get – obviously that was the tennis racket flying out of Cory’s arms.”  Live product demonstration folks!

But if I was an HSN caller, I’d simply have one question for the sales people: “Does that bloated $130 accessory package come with some sort of liability insurance for when it flies off my remote and breaks my $700 TV?”

Skip to 4:55 to see the action.