California Fitness, Pamela & Magic Slim Tea

Yes... my whole one hour at the gym this weekend was productive! After a week away, I felt too tired and asthma-y to make it even half-way through my workout. So I sat down at the exercise bike in front of the row of TVs. Lucky me! AXN was showing an old movie where Pamela Anderson plays a black pleather jumpsuited mastermind villan. I have no idea about the plot as the sound was off and the subtitles were Chinese, but the heros appeared to be a gang of kung-fu savy kids acrobatting the hell out of some evil henchmen at an amusement park. How's that for quality entertaiment? Suddenly, Pamela smiles and the scene cuts to three women in white hot pants and sports bras drinking tea and rubbing their stomachs. Then we catch a shot of one of them exiting the washroom followed by a diagram of someone's intestines... 10 minutes later and we are STILL watching the white clad girls, but now they have been joined by a bunch of other people (some of them with knees larger in circumference than their thighs) holding up pictures of when they were "fat". A man (presumedly the inventor of the "magic slim tea") came out and some of them started crying (out of gratitude?) and they all started hugging him. Scene cuts to a pitcher (not pot) of tea and several cups... Then, Pamela flips a switch on the massive control board in her secret hide-away headquarters.

Two questions for you:
1. Don't you think the million dollars I pay every month for my platinum gym membership are well-spent?
2. What's up with the infomercials? Should that really be allowed?