GMM 2298: Testing Discontinued Toys From The 80’s

Are toys fun forever? – Let’s talk about that. (gentle upbeat music) Good Mythical Morning! – Today, we’re gonna be playing God with discontinued products. But first, we wanna have a moment of silence for the products that we lost this year. (gentle sad music) – Wow, the Passat? No. – No way. Angry Birds Epic? – Or just Angry Birds in general? I don’t know. – I think it’s Epic. Batgirl the movie? How could that be discontinued? – I’m still pissed about that. – The Ch’King. Honest Tea? – We did a commercial for that! – No freaking away. – Was it our fault? – And anything God save the queen. (crew laughing) (Link fake crying) – Well listen, don’t worry. We’re gonna bring them all back someday, even the Queen. – How are we gonna do that? – I don’t know. We’ll figure it out. It’s time for To Be Discontinued More, More, More, More, More, More Products Edition! – Let’s go back to 1992 for some Gak! – Gesundheit! – Thank you. Gak was the name of Nickelodeon’s series of pre-packaged slime toys, but not to be confused with slime. – Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. – From 1992. – This is Gen X slime. – Yeah, man. But if you think slime is only good for making a mess and sweeping Katy Perry off her feet, think again. – [Announcer] What is Gak? I don’t know. – Gak is great stuff. – Oozy! – Yuck. – [Rhett] It makes adults mad. – Gak is stretchy! (upbeat techno music) – [Announcer] You can pull it, make Gak sounds. – How rude! – [Announcer] Suck it up and squirt it up with a Gak vac. Pump it up and blow it up with a Gak inflater. – Well, I never! – [Announcer] Nickelodeon Gak comes in different colors, sizes, and play sets, each sold separately. Coming soon from Mattel. – Disgusting. – So Nickelodeon slimed people and then behind the scenes, the people who made the slime called it Gak. So then they made Gak, which was not slime, and it was- – But it kind of is slime. – All a precursor to- – To slime. – To the slime craze on the internet. So the question is, is the $165 worth of Gak stuff that we acquired better than the internet craze? Oh, we even got stickers! You know how the 90s is all about the stickers. – Now, I’m gonna have to rely on you a little bit here ’cause your kids did some slime making at home. – Lando makes lots of slime. – So you can make slime at home, right? You just watch a YouTube video and you make it. – And it does seem to be kind of the same as this. I mean- – What would be the fundamental difference here? I love 90s advertising, by the way. – Yeah. – The whole like, adults are not happy with this and that makes it a good thing. Like, what happened to that? That was a good angle. Back in the 90s, it was like your parents and your teachers are all bad! – Yeah. – I like that! – You know what I think? – Now, we’re trying to teach kids that their parents are great and their teachers are great. – This is what I think about parents. – I don’t like it. (Gak squishing) That’s pretty awesome. This is smell my Gak. – Oh, gosh. It doesn’t work anymore. – Smell that and tell me you don’t like it. I’m actually gonna make a mold of your nose. – I don’t like it. – Oh, you got an old double nose. – That hurts. – [Rhett] You look like a cartoon character now. – It doesn’t smell bad at all. I like it. – Yeah, it smells great. – Oh, and that’s a lot. That’s a lot of Gak. And then you can take it and put it on the Gak-apult. – Oh, no. This is a thing? Yeah, ’cause you just take it and get back. – Does your kid have that? – Uh-uh. My kid doesn’t have this. – Okay. (crew laughing) – Okay. – Give us a little undershot there. (both laughing) – Not edible. – Are you supposed to put it in your mouth? – And then this one here- – That was pretty fun, I gotta say right there. That was fun. – The Gak vac. Just the Gak vac. – Really enjoyed that. – We paid 50 freaking dollars for this. – What? Is this when you make messes and you gotta clean it up? – And you can put these little critters in it and it sucks up the Gak, but not the critters, apparently. – I feel like I’m trying to have fun, but I feel like maybe I’m lying to myself. – Yeah, your tone of voice is like, really trying to have fun. – I feel like I’m trying to manufacture fun. Look at that. It just sucks right in there. – It doesn’t. Oh, yeah. I think I’m pulling too hard. Let me. Oh, look. – It kind of made like, a- – Oh, man, I totally made- – You made a wiener. – Like that. If I get rid of this part, like that is a realistic. – [Rhett] Yeah. Yeah. – [Link] Wiener, I mean. – [Rhett] Yeah, it is. – Morgan. Morgan. – (laughs) Morgan, you’ve seen one, haven’t you? – [Link] You’ve seen a wiener before. Look at that. – [Rhett] Get a close up. – [Link] Isn’t that? Stevie, isn’t that the most? – Stevie, now I know you haven’t seen one, but that’s what it looks like. Morgan can tell you. – And look, now it’s just begging to be. – Sucked right in there. Gather around, kids. (crew laughing) This is. Oh, yeah. Hey, don’t get your wiener next to that vacuum. This is what happens. – Wow. – It’ll just suck it right up in there. – I have seen ads for this. – Oh, a penis pump? Yeah. Is that what you mean? – Yeah. – What part of the internet are you going to? (air popping) (Link laughing) Hey. – It went that way and that way. – Hey, listen, man, I think we’ve proven right up here- – That was awesome, dude. – That there’s no reason for this to not be a thing anymore. – No. – But are you telling me that we could go on the internet right now. We can make this stuff without even having to buy it? – Open wide. – Don’t get so close. – You gotta watch this channel. These two guys. – This channel? (crew laughing) – Yeah. These two guys. – You gotta watch this channel. (both laughing) Let me tell you. I mean, listen, you just gotta watch it. – You gotta watch this. Yeah. – I can’t even explain what happened. (both laughing) You just gotta watch it. – (laughing) Yeah. You gotta watch this channel. – I mean, it’s a channel. – (laughs) Are you surprised? What’s wrong with you? – I mean, it’s a channel. Can you believe it? Okay. All right. – You gotta watch. – Okay. All right. (Link laughs) Well, I think we’ve proven it. – Gak, bring it back. – Bring it back! (crew laughing) – Don’t move! – Oh, shoot. This is what couldn’t happen. – We’re good. We’re still good! – Why use a flashlight when you can use a dismembered digit from outer space? Presumably, that was some of the thinking behind 1982’s “ET” Finger light. – ET finger light. Man, that is morbid. – [Rhett] So it’s basically just a- – Looked like the thing that you found in your parents’ bedroom underwear drawer. – Who’s the market for this? – I don’t know who would use it. I don’t know. – Hey, guys! It’s me, Elijah Jeremiah Ezekiel Malachi! – Hold on. I thought it was Ezekiel Jeremiah Elijah Malachi. – Well, what you might think is a mistake is actually on purpose on my part. If you keep changing up your name, it’s harder for Jeff Bezos to get a camera in your toilet to take pictures of your turd cutter. Now, it looks like y’all found my brain scratcher. – Yeah. – Oh, my poker buddy says post-apocalyptic brains will be a hundred times itchier and these guys are the only semi-safe things you can use to reach in that far and it makes your head glow at the same time. – So I put it in the ear? – Oh, yeah. Actually, there’s a lot of places it can go. Let tell you. (crew laughing) The food I eat will back you up something serious. MREs, squirrel meats. Yeah, it really harms the plumbing and that thing can get right up in there. – And just coax it on out. – It can coax out anything. After you coax out the squirrel stew, it goes right in the ear for some good old brain scratching. – So there and then there. Okay. – We paid $175 for this on eBay. – $175 and Lucas had to like- – It didn’t work. – Open it up and put a new light in it because the light, because it’s from 1982 and it was made to never be replaced. – Yeah, it said, “Battery is not replaceable.” Huh, proved them wrong. – We showed you. – Well, y’all guys, have fun with that thing. – What are you going to do? I mean. – Oh, I’m off to my day job. Jazz critic for National Public Radio. (Rhett laughs) – Jazz critic. Slip ET finger over your index finger. – Done. – Tip of finger should touch base of battery. – Hey, listen, the only thing I wanna tell you is whatever you do at any point during this, do not let me pretend that this is my wiener. – Okay. – Okay? I want to keep it on my hands. – All right. – I’m not gonna- – No, no, no. I’m not gonna do it. Whatever you do, do not let me turn around and put this down next to where my wiener is and turn around holding it. – No. – I’m not gonna do that. – Not gonna do that. – I don’t think I should do that. – I don’t think you should do it, either. – I don’t think I should do that. – I don’t think you should do it, either. – I shouldn’t do that. But if I did do it. – Yeah? – And I turned around, would you let me put it in that thing? (crew laughing) – We could try. – Okay. – We could try. All right. I thought it was Malachi. – [Malachi] Don’t tell me my own name, city slicker! – Malachi. Are you ready? – Yeah. – Don’t turn around. Don’t turn around if you did what you said. – [Rhett] Don’t think of it as a wiener. – Okay. – [Rhett] Just think of it as me holding it down there, okay? – Okay, yeah. – Don’t think of it as a wiener. (screen beeps) – I don’t really want to bring this back. – No. – NOthing that’s happened with this- – I was thinking I might until that didn’t work. – Yeah, yeah. – Yeah, yeah, yeah. – ET finger light. – [Both] No, that’s whack! – It does go right in there. (crew laughing) – It goes right in there. And then you can push it. – Oh, my goodness. – You can push it out. How do we? It’s still lit up. – It’s still on, though. ET finger light. – [Both] Bring it back! – In the 70s. it could take weeks to get your hair right. That is until the Clairol Air Brush came on the scene in ’71 and ladies could not get enough. Take a look at this commercial. – It’s so fast. I can wash my hair whenever I want to. – Now, I don’t have to spend an hour under the dryer. – I didn’t think a dryer could be this fast. – Dry in seven minutes. That’s great. – So fast. It’s fantastic. – It’s dry already. – [Narrator] Clairol introduces the Air Brush. It’s the fastest way we know to dry and style your hair. – I love it. – I love it. (Emily laughing) – Why am I so unsettled by that commercial? Like, there’s no music. – Yeah. – It’s just like- – It’s very candid. – Oh, hey, Emily. – Hey, how’s it going? – So, we’ve got the Clairol Air Brush and we got Emily here, who’s, do you know why you’re here ’cause? – Well, I feel like I’m here to do penance for that More I wrote where you hot rolled Rhett’s hair. – Yeah. (Emily laughs) – This is the payback. – Are you willing to let us try this on your hair? – Absolutely. – Okay. – Your here as the representative of all modern women. – Yeah. I mean, I don’t think I’d do well in the 70s ’cause the volume of which they spoke was not mine. (Rhett and Emily laughing) – Now, as we’re doing this, no matter what happens to your hair. – It’s okay. – You need to be saying what these women in the commercials said, like, “It’s so fast.” – Okay. – It’s so dry so fast. – I can do it. – Do you mind if I wet your hair a little bit? – Yeah, go right ahead. – I mean, I’m gonna get over here with this mister here. – It’s off now and then we’ve got- (Clairol humming) – Whoa. I love the color. This is a nice blue. – [Link] Oh, it is hot. I can tell that it’s gonna get hot. – Well, that’s good. That’s how you get it done in seven minutes, right? – Okay, that’s pretty wet back there. – All right. – Okay. So now, look at Rhett. (Clairol humming) Oh, see that? Look at. – But you gotta comb it. – Well, I know. I’m just… – You can go harder than that. – How does that feel? – It’s nice, actually. – It’s so fast. – It’s so fast! Wait, wait. I have to do it like them. It’s so. How did they sound? They sound like they were in a cult. – Yeah. – They’re just in the cult of hair dryers. Can I try it? Can I see if I? – Maybe you can just hold it. – Yeah. – And like look into the camera and look that way. – I think you can probably do it yourself. – Is this my camera? I never know where my camera is. – You don’t need two men here to do it for you. – Okay. You ready? It’s so fast. It’s so fast. Was it that quiet? – It was that quiet. – Yeah. It’s barely above the- – You’re still not dry, so we’re gonna go a little bit more. (Clairol humming) – Yeah, keep going. I feel like I’m at a dog groomer. (laughs) – Is that okay? – Oh, that’s nice. – And then the bangs? – Yeah. Do the bangs. Yeah, I like them to lay right there flat. – Does it feel hot? – No, it doesn’t feel hot at all. – You do it to the front of your hair. – This feels like when my mom was trying to figure out my bangs. – Oh, it is hot. – [Rhett] Well, you have some issues with the hair falling down there in the front, so I feel like… – Oh. Oh, yeah. – Does it feel good? Oh, look at that volume. – It’s so fast. – It’s so fast. – You gonna do it? – Now that you’re like our cup bearer. Once we found out that you didn’t lose any hair, we’re willing to use it. – (laughs) No problem at all. – Oh, it’s stuck – Uh-oh! – Okay. – It’s so stuck. – It’s not so fast in curly hair. – Well, you know, I have a hair dryer that’s a brush. They make them today, but they’re not like this. It’s like a round brush and- – Oh, really? – I just got one. I know that like, kind of new versions coming out exist, but they’re not like this. – Does it have two heat levels and two speeds and 500 watts of power and weigh 14 ounces and come from 1973? – [Emily] No. – You seem to be saying that you’ve got something better, though. – I think because, actually no. You know what? – So you’re saying bring it back. – I think this is better. – It ain’t better. Clairol Air Brush. – Hold on, are you sponsored by 1971 Clairol? – What if I just turned into one of those women and I stayed that way? Could I still work here? (laughs) – That would be up to you. – All right. – All that is your decision. – I was gonna bring this out, but I decided not to. – No. (Emily laughs) – [Link] Clairol Air Brush. – [Rhett And Link] No, that’s whack! – We got a mystery item under here, but first, you know our game. We’re Still Good! – We’re Still Good! – The party game we created with Spin Master. Been played already by thousands of Mythical beasts. It is now available at mythical.com. So this held the number one hot new releases across all board games for three weeks on Amazon. – Is that right? – So get your friends together. Pick up your copy of We’re Still Good! – So much fun. Put a positive spin on catastrophic situation. Yeah and it even has instructions in there. All right, so we got this mystery round. We’re gonna look at it, see if we can guess what it is. – What it is. – Without touching it. – That’s a note for you. – Can we? (crew laughing) – [Stevie] Yeah, go for it. – [Rhett] Oh, it’s tubes. – You told us we couldn’t touch it, but there’s parts. – [Stevie] You can touch it. I feel lik you can touch it. – There’s parts you can’t see that like, I don’t wanna read what’s on it ’cause there’s like… – [Stevie] I think you can touch any part you want. You can move it around. – Oh, okay. – [Stevie] Let’s go crazy. – Let’s just go crazy with it. They they totally changed their minds. – [Stevie] Oh, but don’t flip over the box ’cause the answer’s on the box. – It’s a game. – What is this? It’s like, got a. Malachi, come out here. What do you think this is? – Hey, how you doing, top soilers? What do you got there? – We don’t know. That’s that’s exactly the point here. We’ve got some tubes. – What would you do with a bunch of tubes like this? – Yeah, I seen one of these before. I got one of these down in the bunker and I’m using it to build me a wife. (Rhett and crew laughing) Yeah, it can get lonely down there in the bunker and my buddy is already spoken for, so I’m using this to make me a misses. – I hear you. – So, I mean, it’s a tube thing. You know, and there’s… – It’s like a rollercoaster. – [Stevie] I will not accept that guess. – You build this into- – It’s a toy. – I’ll let y’all have fun with the misses. That’s right. I’m not uptight. (Rhett laughs) Excuse me, but that Cannonball Adderley box set won’t critique itself for National Public Radio. (crew laughing) – Jazz critic. – Yeah, yeah. He works for NPR, which is ironic. – I just think it’s like a rollercoaster toy. – It’s a game. – I mean, it’s got Tuba-Ruba. – [Stevie] Okay, so you just- – It says Tuba-Ruba on it. – [Stevie] Okay, sure. It is Milton Bradley’s Tuba-Ruba game. Players wrap the tubes around their body, drop the marble in one end, then wriggle around to get it to fall out of the other. – So it’s like Twister with tubes. – [Stevie] Well, the best part is we do have a commercial. – Oh, great. (upbeat pop music) – [Narrator] It’s Tuba-Ruba, the hottest game in town! Put your marble in the top, Tuba-Ruba all around, and shake your marble down, down, down. ♪ Everybody Tuba-Ruba ♪ – All right, let’s try out this Tuba-Ruba, man. – You put the ball in there and get it over here to me, man! – Yeah! – It’s super easy. – One, two. Oh, that one’s on the floor. – That’s enough. – Three. – All right. – All right. Tuba-Ruba, man. I mean, it’s gotta get off of you before it gets to me. – Where is it? – I mean, it’s right here. So now you’re gonna have to bend over. No, bend over. Bend over. Oh, yeah, it’s working! It’s working. (screen beeping) Everybody, Tuba-Ruba! Okay. Where is it? (screen beeps) (Link blowing) (crew laughing) Hold on. I think that. (screen beeps) Yeah, I got them. I got them, I got them! I got them. The balls are on me now. – All right. You got the balls? You got the balls? You gotta watch the show. – I got them, I got them! – You gotta watch it. – I got them! I got the balls! (Link cheering) Everybody, Tuba-Ruba! – Tuba-Ruba! No, that’s whack. – That was the most fun I’ve had in years! Bring it back. Let’s just keep this one. – It’s just a bunch of tubes, dude. – Hey, well, I’ll do it by myself. – Okay, fine. Tuba-Ruba – [Rhett And Link] Bring it back! – All right, so we’ve decided to bring back Tuba-Ruba and Gak. – Yeah. – Look at us. – And you can put the two together and don’t forget, if you put your ET finger in your pump, you’re never gonna get it out. – Thanks for subscribing and clicking that bell. – You know what time it is. – Hi, it’s Parker and Angela from Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and we’re embarking on our journey across the United States. And it’s time to- – [Both] Spin the Wheel of Mythicality! – Good luck. – And they have a dog with them. – Yeah, they do. That dog. – Beautiful dog. – Gotta rely on that dog. Click the top link to watch us guess when things came to an end in Good Mythical More. – And to find out where the Wheel of Mythicality is gonna land. Our gift to you this holiday season, our party game, We’re Still Good, available at mythical.com.

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