When Amazon's Comment Section Gets Hijacked: The Best Joke Reviews

Amazon has established itself as the go-to source for everything from entertainment (books, movies, and Kindles) to the less-everyday items, i.e. novelty signs and cat appeasing pheromones. And since this near-limitless marketplace is just a mere click away, users have come to rely on reviews from fellow online shoppers to separate the crème from the crap. But inevitably, as must happen to all things on the Internet, Amazon's customer reviews are on occasion hijacked by smartasses.

One of the earliest examples of this phenomenon was the review section for a gallon of Tuscan Whole Milk. Since 2006, the otherwise unremarkable gallon of milk has gone on to inspire thousands of largely disassociate reviews, such as this commentary from user Alexander Strommen: "I was in Tuscany recently, and despite my sincerest efforts, was unable to sight any Tuscan Wholes. Given the rarity of this creature, I find it hard to believe that anyone has managed to domesticate them, let alone convince them to give milk."

What these reviews lack in helpfulness they make up for in gleeful goofiness. For its part, Amazon hasn't tried to dissuade this phenomenon, as these self-generating memes can actually increase sales. For example, when an unexceptional graphic T-shirt featuring three howling wolves caught the ire of the sarcastic community in 2008, it went on to become one of the top selling pieces of apparel on Amazon that year.

The Most Hilarious Amazon Reviews

Since we could all probably use some additional LOLz in our life, we rounded up our favorite Amazon product reviews below, in an effort to make you smirk. Since these are direct quotes, you can naturally assume there's a blanket [sic] throughout the text below.

How to Avoid Huge Ships [Second Edition, Paperback]

Taken out of context, there is a certain absurdity to this maritime manual. But when the time comes to avoid a huge ship, you'll wish you weren't so dismissive.

Reads like a whodunnit!: "I bought How to Avoid Huge Ships as a companion to Captain Trimmer's other excellent titles: How to Avoid a Train, and How to Avoid the Empire State Building. These books are fast paced, well written and the hard won knowledge found in them is as inspirational as it is informational."

A Parent's Review: "As the father of two teenagers, I found this book invaluable. I'm sure other parents here can empathize when I say I shudder at the thought of the increasing influence and presence of huge ships in the lives my children. I certainly remember the strain I caused so long ago for my own parents when I began experimenting with huge ships. The long inter-continental voyages that kept my mom and dad up all night with worry. Don't even get me started on the international protocols when transporting perishable cargo. To think, I was even younger than my kids are now! Huge ships are everywhere and it doesn't help that the tv and movies make huge ships seem glamorous and cool. This book helped me really approach the subject of huge ships with my kids in an honest, open and non judgmental way."

Caution: Check the title before purchase: "I live near a park and frequently walk around the local area. Given the amount of dog mess that is on the pavements I thought this book would be the ideal read to stop me having to scrape my shoes on the grass before going home. It was only after it arrived that I looked closely at the title and realized it said 'How to Avoid Huge SHIPS.'"

Radioactive Uranium Ore

Before any of you would-be James Bond villains get any ideas, this small sample of radioactive material is just that: small. This "low radiation" tin of ore is meant for science classes and to test your Geiger counter. While a steal at $39.95, the real value may be in the snarky creativity it inspires.

Great Product, Poor Packaging: "I purchased this product 4.47 billion years ago and when I opened it today, it was half empty."

Perfect for use in death rays!: "I must say I was surprised to find such a great price on the internet. I often require uranium to crush my close-minded enemies. When my radioactive mutant army ushers in the apocalypse I'll be sure to spare the seller!"

Tastes terrible!: "I've never heard of a Uranium flavored Oreo, but thought I would give it try. Based on the taste alone, this stuff is not worth it."

BIC "For Her" Pens

You may be wondering to yourself what exactly makes a ballpoint pen "for her", or, for that matter, "for him." You weren't the only one.

FINALLY!: "Someone has answered my gentle prayers and FINALLY designed a pen that I can use all month long! I use it when I'm swimming, riding a horse, walking on the beach and doing yoga... Since I've begun using these pens, men have found me more attractive and approachable. It has given me soft skin and manageable hair and it has really given me the self-esteem I needed to start a book club and flirt with the bag-boy at my local market. I'm positively giddy. Those smart men in marketing have come up with a pen that my lady parts can really identify with."

TOO girly: "I didn't know it was possible for a pen to be too feminine... this one made me feel inadequate, like I was forever standing next to a thinner, hotter girlfriend. Do they make pens for women who are tomboys but bad at sports? They could come in colors like mustard or navy. Perhaps Bic could do "before" and "after" versions, like the pen is getting a makeover? I hope so, since I'm currently stuck in pen limbo and questioning my gender identity. "

Annoying: "I love the pretty colors and skinniness, but I'm only giving two stars because they're annoying. For one thing, they dot every "i" with a little heart. They also won't make periods at the ends of sentences; it's a question mark or exclamation point every time, also dotted with hearts — SUPER annoying. I went to okay a memo from my boss with the word "Fine" and it looked like I was coming on to him or something, which I wasn't. At ALL."

Fresh Whole Rabbit

For $45.90, you can purchase three pounds of rabbit meat, but the side helping of trollish fun is completely free.

Whole Rabbit - NOT!: "I ordered one of these Fresh "Whole" Rabbits, but when it arrived its head, fur, and insides were missing. Not exactly whole, I'd say! Maybe it was just damaged during shipping, but I won't be buying another one."

A real time saver: "How many weekends have I spent, in the loincloth, knife clenched in my teeth, running through the fields trying to find a rabbit? (A bunch, trust me on this, a bunch.)"

Pays for itself: "I bought two, left them alone in the refrigerator for a week, and now I have thirty-eight."

Wheelmate Laptop Steering Wheel Desk

You may not think you need a way to attach a laptop to your car's driving wheel, but you really do. (This entry has the added bonus of trolled product images.)

This thing is a life saver!: "Believe it or not, I'm typing this review on my laptop steering wheel desk! As a school bus driver I was never be able to check my email and update Facebook while at work. Now I am networking more than ever!"

Not as convenient as I expected: "I just picked uuyp my laptop hoder from the post offfice and I'm ddriving home now. It's OK Iguess, but the bumpy road majkes it hard to type. And theree's a lot of pedeestrians and traffi c that keep distracti9ng me fromm my computer. Oh, and yyou can't make any sharrp turns. So when you turn right, somnetimess you have to use the oppsing lane of traffic."

Makes a boring drive easier: "You wouldn't believe how much more interesting my commute is now that I have something to do other than just stare out the window! I'm using it right now to post this review and I never - "

Looking For... The Best of David Hasselhoff

While not quite known for his music stateside, actor David "Knight Rider" Hasselhoff is a one-man musical movement throughout central Europe. His is an audio art that is best appreciated by the Germanic ear — and also by awestruck Amazon reviewers.

Aural Rapture: Hasslelhoff Finally Delivers Salvation: "It's no surprise that Hasslelhoff has been nominated for immediate canonization in the wake of the release of this collection of hits. The album is, simply-put, the Word of God. Each note, each beat, each utterance reflects a long and careful dialogue with the Lord Himself, resulting in total perfection in the most analytical sense of the word. 'Looking For: Best of David Hasselhoff [IMPORT]' is the first real tangible evidence we have of the existence of a higher power."

The very epitome of musical godliness: "Twice the ruggedness of mortal man, ten times the talent of any other artist, Hasselhoff dazzles on this CD. Every track has been plucked from the heavens and trembles with vigor and force. God Himself could not record as good a greatest hits album like this, and if He were to listen to all 17 tracks on this compilation, He would refrain from striking me down for blasphemy."

Dave pulls no punches on this emotional rollercoaster: "For a laugh — in those days it was always for a cheap laugh — I went out and bought 'Looking For: Best of David Hasselhoff.' How ironic I thought I was being. How big, how clever of me to ridicule a recording artist shunned by so many of the 'in crowd.' What did I think it would achieve? I don't honestly know, but perhaps I thought my cynicism would make me popular and more attractive to women. Little did I know that within hours the small-minded man I had been would be all but dead, leaving behind a boy — yes a boy — full of hope, excitement, and joy. I won't bore you with all the details of my epiphany, but let's just say that by the time Hot Shot City was over the caterpillar had become a butterfly.

AudioQuest K2 Terminated Speaker 8-Foot Cables

In 2009, these high-end speaker cables with a multi-thousand dollar price tag inspired much of the internet's fury. As they should have.

If only Heracles had such power!: "If there is one cable I would whole-heartedly trust to my Chimera-hunting needs, this would be the cable. No other cable has the tensile strength to properly and efficiently garrote a lycanthrope, asphyxiate an Esquilax, or even gag a mermaid. Last week, using my trusty AudioQuest K2 (retrofitted with lead weights, bright orange latex paint, and a generous coating of crushed glass stolen from the window of an abandoned church at midnight), I managed to snuff 3 golden unicorns in swift succession!"

The K2 Conqueror: "A vital accessory for all those attempting to climb the world's second highest mountain, which incidentally was named after this item. At first I was skeptical, but after a quasi-religious ceremony in which I held this aloft in front of the baying masses at base camp; I realized the true power that AudioQuest has manifested in this silver snake. Attaching it to my harness, I noticed how the shard-like peaks of the West Face smoothed over in front of me as I attempted to climb the savage mountain in only my Y-fronts and a Busted-Tees t-shirt."

Just a whisper: "At the urging of another reviewer, I too listened to the Beatles White Album whilst using these cables. And faintly, ever so faintly, I heard 'buy Tuscan Milk, 128 fl. oz.'"

A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates [Paperback]

With so many misleading advertisements out there, the book "A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates" should be praised for delivering exactly what it promises: pages and pages of truly random digits showing absolutely no pattern or reason. Kudos.

almost perfect: "Such a terrific reference work! But with so many terrific random digits, it's a shame they didn't sort them, to make it easier to find the one you're looking for."

A great read: "Captivating. I couldn't put it down. I would have given it five stars, but sadly there were too many distracting typos. For example: 46453 13987. Hopefully they will correct them in the next edition."

Not Nearly A Million: "This book does not even come close to delivering on its promise of one million random digits. My expectations were high after reading the first sentence, which contained ten unique digits. However, the author seems to have exhausted his creativity in this initial burst, because the other 99.999% of the book is filler in which those same ten digits are shamelessly reused!"

This is, of course, just a taste of the flagrant abuse of the trust that Amazon put in its consumer base to provide true opinions of the products featured on their site. There are many more scattered across the site, there to delight shoppers like a hidden treasure.

Readers, do you have any favorites that we didn't include here? Sound off in the comments section. Or just be a smartass. It's fun.