Update 3/11/09 – Harpo Productions has had the YouTube videos removed. They were not mine, I simply embedded them on this site, but the source files were from someone else on YouTube…so if you want to see Oprah in a Snuggie, I guess you’ll have to find a re-run…or you could just watch out for Tyra in a Snuggie, which is due to hit any day now.

You will have to settle for my original description of what you could have seen in the video, if Harpo Prods hadn’t brought down the copyright hammer.

Oprah chats with Mr. Snuggie, Scott Boilen, about the success of the Snuggie. The panel on Oprah’s show, which included Tyler Perry in a Zebra Snuggie, seemed to doubt that people would wear Snuggies out in public, to theaters, etc.

Although Scott didn’t point Oprah’s viewers to SnuggieSightings.com (sigh) for proof of Snuggies in Public, he did mention that people are out Pub Crawling in Snuggies. For more on Snuggie Pub Crawling, check out SnuggiePubCrawls.com (which is on the 1st Page of Fark.com right now and getting slammed with traffic). They also discussed people wearing Snuggies in theaters. Here is a pic of a Snuggie wearer at an opening night midnight screening of the Watchmen movie. Our first Snuggie Sighting in a theater is here.

Oprah Snuggie Video is here

It now officially does not matter that warm weather is fast approaching. The Snuggie is going to do just fine through Spring and Summer, thanks to someone whom you may already know…Oprah, a.k.a. O. (You know you are big when you can be referred to as the first letter of your name…this isn’t quite as ‘Artist Formerly Known as Prince / Funky Hieroglyphic’ big, but ’tis big enough for your own TV Show, Magazine, etc.)

Tyler Perry in the Designer Zebra Snuggie and Oprah in the Pink Snugglette - Oprah Winfrey Show - Friday, March 6, 2009.

On Friday, March 6th, Oprah devoted time to the Snuggie. For the first time, new Snuggie lines made an appearance. These new prints are known as Designer Snuggies. Prints available are Leopard, Zebra, and Camel. And also Snugglettes, Snuggies for Kids – Check out Oprah in the Pink Snugglette. You go, girl! And notice how Tyler Perry can cradle his coffee cup because his arms are not restricted by a blanket.

Oprah, thanks to the Snuggie People, was able to give away Snuggies to the entire audience. I will have this video up at some point of the crowd’s joyous reaction to the news. Snuggie = Mainstream.