Originally Posted by
kahunamoose
Gong Razors were produced in the mid to late 1970’s by Chuck Barris. Their exclusive purpose was to shave contributors preparing to perform on a vaudeville-esque television program entitled “The Gong Show”. Gong scales were notoriously ludicrous, and Gong blades were often not sharp in the least, but they guaranteed an entertaining shave by virtue of their brazen unfitness to perform the job.
(Source – Homer Simpson’s quintessential straight shaving reference manual called “Doof - Don’t Eat the Pink Styptic Pretzels”.)