F**kface - Christmas Catalog of 98
Episode Date: December 23, 2023AN EGG round out the holidays with a walk down memory lane as they go through a Christmas catalog from 1998. Flip the pages with us and check out what was Hot or Not for the 98 holiday. Whoa is that P...layStation? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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here we go with the final piece of a 98 content eric's favorite year the last good year in eric's
opinion we are going to do something a little bit unique for the end of the season it's the
holiday time and something that i was worried was just specific to my
childhood experience but seems to be universal and and everyone i've talked to for the most part
went through the process of as a kid getting a christmas catalog at least to people of a certain
age where you get to look through like all of the classic gift items fuck you gavin and you can
circle maybe what you want you could just see sort of what's out there it was such an exciting time like all of the classic gift items. Fuck you, Gavin. And you can circle
maybe what you want.
You can just see
sort of what's out there.
It was such an exciting time
as a kid to look through it
like all the cool toys
that you're never going to get.
It was just fun.
It was an iconic part
of at least my childhood
and it sounds like
many others.
So this is a,
to me,
definitive catalog
which is the Sears catalog.
Winter 98.
We're going to get a great look at what the fashion was at the time of 98.
The toys.
Just sort of a general full collection of what you could expect in 98.
Isn't it funny how much possibility that catalog represented in your childhood?
Like you're talking about like your parents weren't going to buy you any of that shit.
Like my mom was never the mom that was like,
here, circle what you want in the catalog.
I'll get it for you.
I was always like, hey, I went ahead and circled all this stuff so you can get it for me.
My mom would be like, yeah,
I'm buying you the USS Flag aircraft carrier for G.I. Joe.
Sure, I'll get right on that.
That's $500.
But when I was a kid, if I circled it,
I thought it was possible.
It was possible. Yeah, it's a great way of putting it i also just we're gonna get some great photos of
the time as well like there's gonna be a lot of bullshit in this i love going through these old
catalogs because there are things that you look at and just go that never worked somebody was
excited and bought that at the time that was never how they advertised it that just didn't work i
used to think that constantly when i saw kids playing with like virtual reality i was like
that's gonna that's so cool there's no way that worked there's no way that was any fun
so uh nick are you screen your screen capture i got it i got you all right cool so you guys can
watch the video version of this over on our youtube channel or over on F***FacePod.com if you want to watch the video version. No payments until the 1st
of Feb. Wow. Until the 1st of
Feb 1999.
See, truly the best year. We could wait.
Yeah, good stuff.
All you had to do was die before
February 1st, 1999.
That's all you had to do. You had one full month
to enjoy all your gifts and then you could die.
Fingers crossed.
So this is the Sears catalog,
the Wishbook Holiday 1998 catalog that we're going through.
Andrew sent me a link.
Maybe we'll include that link here for you guys
if you want to jog through it.
Oh!
Check this out.
New Rhythms.
New Rhythms drum kit.
That font.
Do you think that particular drum kit exists in use anywhere on earth today
i no no i don't well now it's just called rhythms
like what do you think happens to all they just end up in landfills somewhere they must have made
thousands of them must have existed right oh for sure that drum kit that just says rock on it is definitely in a landfill somewhere.
I mean, when you look at the kid at the top in the jean jacket shirt, he's playing a kick drum, a cymbal, a snare, and then three more slightly smaller snares that I think are supposed to be Toms and are definitely not.
It also appears that they've dressed him
in a denim shirt that has a zipper pocket
as if they don't trust him not to bend over.
Yeah.
But boy, everyone had this haircut.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
I want to draw attention as well
to the product names of a flare for the snare.
So is this like a modular thing?
Are you buying individual drums here are
they all different full sets it i think it's different kits like you can see the one on the
left that says rock is c and that's never miss a beat the one at the bottom is d which is perfect
percussions oh the classic one is kid blue keeps it cool i want to be kid blue. Absolutely.
I feel like we immediately
need two things.
We need anyone who has
any of these items
to post pictures in the comments
if for some reason
you have this.
Yes.
I feel like we also need
an inflation calculator.
Oh boy.
Dude, we absolutely need
an inflation calculator.
I saw a story the other day.
Nick, will you get
an inflation calculator going?
I guess every year
some organization
figures out how much it would cost to give the gifts from the 12 days of Christmas.
And apparently this year it's the most expensive ever.
It would be like 48 grand to give those 12 gifts.
Eight Lords of Leaping costs how much?
A lot.
Terrible.
So here's...
Oh, fuck. Gifts for... Oh oh it's the little critter guy oh that spinning
lullaby ball i remember that
the season's best baby's first christmas it was that baby uh lullaby ball? Was that a hand-me-up from one of your... I remember it lighting up, and it would spin and make music.
Oh, wow.
I like that he's riding a zebra.
Kevin, your brother's tired of playing with his...
He needs this more than he does.
He's got a Super Nintendo.
You can have his lullaby light ball.
I like the zebra as a choice for a kid to be writing i think yeah yeah
it's great they were working on taming them back then so what consoles would be in this
are we talking n64 era around yeah it would be yeah this would be the 64 playstation playstation
one yeah yeah these twins are too cute they're nightmares yeah that's a horror story too cute. They're nightmares. That's a horror story. Too cute.
Handcrafted amour.
Great as a child.
The thing I want in amour.
It's hard to tell
the scale of some
of this shit.
It is.
Big time.
Mini grand
for little hands.
Alright.
I think we've
bled all the comedy
out of that page.
Oh that kid is so
fucking happy this is or terrified potato head felt mr potato you can't you can't take his
pieces off it's just him so what's the point interactive oh he's got 50 knock knock jokes
oh my i feel like they've taken all of what a potato head is and removed it.
Well, they made him a stand-up comedian.
He's got 15 knock-knock jokes.
Yeah.
He also, you kid his hat and he won't tell you the joke until the kid says, who's there?
That's like buying a pre-assembled Lego set, but it's all glued.
Yeah.
That's like you walk into a room and that Mr. Potato Head's just knock just waiting for anyone to respond to what's this globe you mean like color in the planet
what's happening there odyssey the world's first atlas sphere combines the finest qualities of a
globe atlas and computer to yeah i think you use the pen it's a pen that reads out
the country yeah and then it tells you stuff about it i think that's oh it's facts like population
and all that stuff three hundred dollars then that's like a seven hundred dollar hunk of shit
300 back in 98 it's 563 and 16 that's a0.16. Fuck you! That's a PS5.
That's more than a PS5.
And that's just Google Maps now.
Yep. And also
good luck finding a computer that'll run that
fucking program. Oh yeah. Oh shit.
Jesus Christ. That's fucking
crazy. Wow.
What? What?
Gavin, look! Feet!
That's an abominable snowman he's only a magic show
i bet there's like a rope in there there's the magic one wow i think i had that of course the
magic show yeah i was terrible at it i was gonna say it's definitely listeners of this podcast at
home are probably looking at this and going i had that that doesn't surprise me at all i had a little magic show and it had a rope in it to do rope tricks and then i
think a week after i got it i found the rope tied around the neck of a uh like a plushie dog that my
one of my siblings had just taken the rope and used it as a leash and i could never undo the
knot and it just stayed on the dog for the rest of time was it the same
rope trick that the driver at the ghost tour showed us in qs oh good stuff remember that
where he tied the knot in half and then there wasn't yeah i bet i bet the instructions for
that were in the book obviously i had a dog on the end of my rope which would have hindered
some of the timing i had a thing that was like
the little air hockey thing when I was a kid.
It was really small, and it wasn't
like a blue air. It was just a little thing.
But I loved it. It was great. I'm getting
Bonsai Buddy vibes off the
balloon.
Oh, this is the thing that I had.
I had this.
The smallest pool table.
Five in one? I had the five in table. Five in one?
I had the five in one.
Yeah, someone gave it to me for my birthday when I was like 10.
I think I turned 10, and I had that.
I did too.
It was great.
Hands off my stuff.
Look at that.
Dude, I could have kept my rope in there.
Yep.
You get to put your baseball cards,
one baseball, one dog uh uh tennis ball
my favorite thing about the five and one is it was so cool of an idea as a kid but it was play
these five games poorly like none of them worked they were all terrible yeah they they were it was
not good like the felt for the it wasn't even like felt for the pool.
And then the bowling never really rolled right.
And the basketball was fun
because it was just a little thing
that like launched a little ball.
That was fun.
So is this the first item
that somebody from this podcast physically owned
that we've run into yet?
Nick said he had the-
Oh, right.
You had the magic.
Yeah, some variation of that magic set. I believe that kid in the green
shirt is Elon Musk, and that's where
his Mars... I think if you were to read his
lips, he's yelling Mars.
I turned
23 in
1998. So you had to keep the hands off
my stuff?
I don't know that I'm going to
have had any of
these things other than the playstation but we'll see okay you say so oh man oh you didn't have that
truck chef i wish i did you had the nascar golden car get real monday night football lighted stadium
i definitely didn't know more. No more fumbles.
Cool haircuts, guys.
What is it?
It's just like the thing where it rumbles and the things move?
I think so.
Where's John Madden?
Yeah.
No more fumbles in the night with the electric football stadium that really lights up the atmosphere.
Damn.
Nick is excited about it now for some reason.
I'm a child at heart.
Realistic crowds.
Well, the realistic
crowd is just these two kids.
And a golden NASCAR.
Yeah, but it's Sears exclusive,
so I can't imagine anyone has that, you know.
No one has Sears anymore.
Yeah. They bulldozed the sears in austin i
think when they started it's gone baby it's sad oh pop shot oh i love those i was always so jealous
of the electric cars that you actually drive around as a kid that was i never had one and i
just think it would have been great dude i'm 48 years old and there's a little girl in our
neighborhood who drives around in a Barbie
dream car and I get annoyed
and jealous when I see it. Yeah, people
just like little kids driving around in G-wagons.
With the release of Halo Infinite, they made
a little Warthog electric one for kids.
I've never wanted anything more.
Oh my god, I gotta get that for my kids.
That's so cool. Oh, you need, yeah!
Nick, get on. We're gonna live vicariously
through my son. Let's do this.
Oh, that's great.
Hey, Andrew, do you think you would have benefited
from those snowshoes up in Canada?
I definitely would have, but I also
would have been incredibly disappointed if that's
the thing I got out of that page.
What is the thing
you want the least on this
page? Oh, man.
Okay. Probably the dad clock
because it looks like dowels.
I think I would take the mom. I don't want the mom
clock. I don't want whatever
this package thing is for the
bottom for birds. I don't care about birds.
Yeah, I don't need the sun nature's beauty.
It's where you keep the birds
after you catch them. Yeah, but you've got
the binoculars to perv on people, so
that's true. Yeah, that's true.
You can perv on the birds. But you can go
fishing with your tackle box
handheld game. Can you? For Radica.
Yeah. Oh, that looks great.
Lunker Bass. Fishing for
fun anywhere, anytime. Game of
the year, Lunker Bass.
Game of the year. Once they added mic of the year, Lunker Bass. Game of the year. Once they
added microtransactions to Lunker
Bass, it was never the same.
It's a real pay-to-win thing now. You just pay
to catch the fish. Dude, fucking
fish skins. It's ridiculous.
Fish skins?
What? Oh!
I want that frog.
What a monster. The bullfrog okay i like that he's for some reason
is also just wearing flip-flops like why were why was that important to his outfit he's got
he's like he's got a t-shirt on he's got he's like a beach guy he's got his chilling fucking
frog genitals out but he's got his feet covered he's got that frog hog out
he's covering it with his foot right now
what's this giant thing
do you think if we called
this number
1-800-775-5555
our dreams would come true
yeah yeah yeah call it
someone call it
where wishes come true. Should I call it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Call it. Yeah. Someone call it. All right, I'm calling it.
All right.
Where wishes come true.
I'm going to see if I can buy
this bullfrog off eBay.
This is good.
The batter up thing
probably just does not.
I mean, it's probably like
little wiffle balls or whatever.
FM radio watch.
Whoa.
Wait, I can't see the number.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I thought you'd already dialed it.
No, I was about to go to the next page.
Oh.
Okay, I sent the warthog to my wife.
Let's see what she says.
Thank you for calling.
Just for calling today, you're entitled to a retail rebate of $100.
Hell yeah, good Australia.
Press 1 now for more information.
Okay.
Or you can hang up.
You should hang up.
I think you're on a list now.
Well, we don't know what we're...
Who have we called?
Some Australian woman.
Does she have access to the bullfrog?
I'll ask.
Where's my frog?
The frog?
Bullfrog?
Bullfrog.
If they don't have that,
see if they have the Hydro Zap still.
Hi, can I have the Bullfrog?
Hello?
That's Mr. Bullfrog to you.
Can I have the Bullfrog, please?
Isn't it fucking weird how somehow in 2023 we can't even engage with spam?
Like they won't even let you.
He has the bullfrog and he won't give it to you.
Andrew found one.
I found $70.
Oh my God.
How much was it originally?
$34.99.
It was $34.99.
So inflation calculated, Nick.
$34.99 is?, Nick. 3499 is 65,
68.
Oh,
you're getting ripped off.
You're getting ripped off.
No,
you're getting ripped off,
dude.
That's pretty close.
I would send him a message and say,
I won't pay a dime over 65,
58 or whatever.
HydroZap.
Yeah,
I think,
I think it's like a, like a quiz game and then it sprays you in the face
oh my god we have got to get that all right find a hydra's that hydro
let's fill it with horseradish oh yeah horserad that's
hydro zap stuff that stings what if three of them are filled with that and then one of them
is filled with piss and nobody gets to know and mix it up oh dude you can buy hydro zap for 20
bucks what how much it's 1999 with the inflation calculator nick how much is that uh let's find out
it is 37 52 and these things are really maintaining their value it is new37.52.
These things are really maintaining their value.
It is new in box, I believe cheaper than what it was
at that time. I have an eBay
link for one.
Remember when you were a kid and
grown-up shampoo stung your eyes way more
than kid shampoo? Yes.
We should put grown-up shampoo in that thing.
Grown-up shampoo.
We gotta throw out the pert.
Did you ever do the thing where you would walk through
like the laundry soap aisle of the grocery store
and it was like getting baby maced?
Like it would burn your eyes?
Having to go through my sensitive newer eyes.
Baby maced eyes I would avoid
I'd avoid the cleaning supply
man I'd be pissed if I bought that kid blue shit
now I'm looking at other drums
there's more to find out about
page 7 with the
oh I could have had a
drum kit that said rock on it
what's this bullshit
dude that the sharp like stereo I could have had a drum kit that said rock on it. What's this bullshit?
Dude, that the sharp like stereo with the cassette.
Dual cassette. CD on the top, baby.
You could record from one to the other.
Yep.
Wow.
I guarantee you can detach those speakers too and move them around the room.
Make copies for your friends.
I can't articulate why it's so funny to me but I think it's so fucking funny that on the drum set
it's bright red and then below it blue
and then in brackets
not shown
just in case you were wondering where that blue was
where the fuck's the blue drum
uh
skips
baby stuff
yeah that page's for babies.
That's for babies, too.
Yeah.
Oh, it's for babies.
Seeing.
Get away.
Well, the baby stuff's got to get a little closer to...
That's kind of cool.
Yeah, we're getting into Gavin territory.
Gavin, let me know when any of this looks cool to you.
Okay.
Keep your eye out for the Toonieville choo-choo.
Yeah.
Look at that Mickey.
All right.
The Mickey license stuff's pretty cute.
Yeah.
Oh.
You know, do you think any of the babies...
Oh, there's this thing.
There's the Toonieville choo-choo.
Holy shit, it's this.
It's the choo-choo.
Oh, my God.
It's fucking right there.
Oh, my God.
It's the same fucking one.
It's on my calendar.
I'm looking at it right now. Holy shit, guys. It's... right there! Oh my god, it's the same fucking one! It's on my calendar, I'm looking at it right now!
Holy shit, guys, it's identical!
Oh my god! I do have something from the catalog!
He's got the tiny little choo-choo.
There's also the same thing, but like, as a CD player, but the trade is so much cooler.
Yeah. I agree.
Dude. Wow. I agree. Dude.
Oh, I turned it on.
How do I turn it off?
Fuck.
How the fuck do you?
This is so immersive.
How do I turn it off?
It doesn't even have the record in it.
How can it still be
How do we go from starting a podcast
To this moment
I don't know how to turn
Just turn yourself off
Oh
Hold on
I love that
The kids in G are looking
Like this is the greatest mystery
Anyone's ever had.
They go down the chute. The balls just go down.
So I put them in there.
And it's
you see it's now it's at the
how did it get there? I put it
in the white. How is it now in the green?
Steve, I put the thing in the top.
Oh, man. Jeff is so excited about
his Toonyville choo-choo.
Is that the same number that you called before, Gavin?
The 1-800-775?
Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Damn.
Yeah.
Okay.
If someone else wants to try it, they might have better luck with the person.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
That went so long for me.
I knocked everything off of my shelf putting that.
I don't like that it says uh oh uh oh
what is happening
did you ever watch Teletubbies
oh my god
I was too old for the Teletubbies me and Jeff were both too old
for the Teletubbies yeah we were grown ups
I'd like to see someone's catalog where they
circled Tinky and Winky and Lala, but fuck
Dipsy and Poe.
I don't fuck with them.
Fuck Poe.
Anything here?
I think it was...
Oh, speaking spells is shit.
I Spy was fun.
Those I Spy books, yeah.
Who says?
Good night, moon.
Good night, moon.
Game.
Oh, there's a game?
It's a game.
Oh, yeah.
What?
Wow. Say good night to the moon. Good night. It game. Oh, there's a game? It's a game. Oh, yeah. What? Wow.
Say good night to the moon.
Good night.
It's probably beneath us.
Beneath us.
Oh.
Well, people.
Randy Newman hates this page.
He hates this town, but he loves loves la it's fucking crazy this is wow this looks like what a doctor's
office looks like is it like playmobil or is it different different uh it's fisher price
it's similar yeah i think it's like the same kind of thing. Two sides of the same coin. Yeah. Okay. Like the
Eeyore recently found out that
Eeyore is the British way of saying
hee-haw. What?
Like a donkey noise.
Oh. Sound of a donkey.
Didn't know that.
He's saying Eeyore,
which is the sound of a donkey,
which is not the sound of a donkey.
The sound of a donkey is ee-haw,
which is,
but you say it with a British accent,
and it's Eeyore.
That is why Eeyore's name is that.
Isn't that crazy?
It's weird, right?
That is crazy.
No wonder he's sad all the time.
No kidding.
Dude, he's got interactive poo?
Ew.
What the fuck?
Oh, Jesus, no.
That's a picture of Andrew recording the podcast.
That's $100 by interactive poo.
Wow.
I get you an interactive poo for $15.
I can get you an interactive poo by this afternoon.
That would cost you $187 today.
Barney, here's a tool for Barney. I was not a
Barney guy. No. Millie wasn't either.
I was so happy about it.
You got the movie,
Giant Barney, Yellow Barney,
soundtrack, White Cat.
Do you think any of the little
child actors in this
catalog are dead? Jesus
Christ. I thought you were going to say listeners
of this podcast. Oh, maybe that too. If any of the ones are alive. Yeah. I say listeners of this podcast.
Oh, maybe that too.
If any of the ones are alive.
Yeah.
Oh, there's babe.
Hey, feed the dog.
I love this phone.
I would argue that
that's not a real
live babe.
What do you mean?
It's a real live babe.
I don't I don't I
don't know about that.
Yeah, that might be
false advertising.
No, I believe so. I don't think you can. Yeah, that might be false advertising. No.
I believe so.
I don't think you can say real life anything
and then have three batteries required.
He does interactive.
He does eating.
He does sleeping.
He does giggling.
He does it all.
At 6 a.m., he asks for breakfast.
At noon, he speaks of lunch and a midday nap.
At 7 p.m., he asks for dinner.
And after 9 p.m., he's too tired to talk anymore.
Are you fucking serious?
He speaks of lunch.
So I knew all those things, so I don't know what to feel anymore.
This actually might be a real-life thing.
Andrew is babe-picking the city.
Wow. Can we make an
interactive plush, Andrew?
Oh, God, no.
Oh, dude, I. Oh, dude.
I remember Pound Puppies when I was like really, really young.
Pound Puppies were cool.
I remember the name, but like nothing else about it.
It was just like it was it was like adopting.
You would like get a little dog.
You'd adopt like a little dog or whatever.
And then there was a cartoon.
OK, you would get like a little like it was kind of like a cabbage.
It's kind of like a cabbage like it's kind of like a cabbage
patch kid that was more accessible to boys i guess you get a little certificate like you've
adopted this dog from the pound not really not really yep but you know it might shut you up to
your mom for a couple days some of this stuff just seems like generic like star base set cinderella dream castle like these are like
that was back when it was just about pure imagination and not like corporate branding
and fucking synergy right h is a little bit of a oh what was okay hang on let me go it's just
like a minimum wage simulator yeah pretty much it's hey you're gonna be doing it's fun now but it's not you're training oh
i thought it looked fun now oh my god
whoa enter the secret code enter your secret what is it that oh it's a saving sound bank
you want to make saving sound fun secret code do you think parents are like, tell me your code.
Where's the key? First flashlight.
You can just
have a regular
flashlight.
Everybody always talks about their first
flashlight, but do you remember your second
flashlight?
Nobody does.
This flashlight is my flashlight. There are many like it, but this flashlight is my flashlight there are many like it but this one is
mine hello fax me a drawing please what is this man recording message center it It's like Cisco started making kids toys.
Baby's first voice over IP calling device.
Baby's first voice over.
Teddy Ruxpin!
Jeff, did you have Teddy Ruxpin?
I knew of Teddy Ruxpin. I never
owned one. Is this
the origin of cars?
I'm sorry, what?
That Tonka truck with eyes? No, there has to be plenty of cars with eyes'm sorry what that that tonka truck with eyes no there there has to be
plenty of cars with eyes do you think that was the 1998 was when they invented eyes on cars
when was the first face put on a car when was the first car invented yeah no kidding you think cars
or like immediately had a face on from the beginning i don't think it took him 60 years to make the connection, no.
I think we anthropomorphized those pretty quick.
I think there was a lot of delay.
I think it was pretty quick.
Oh, here we go.
Rugrats.
Oh, fuck yeah.
Rugrats.
I don't know shit about this.
Dude, Jeff, check it out.
I can own all my favorite characters.
Tommy, Phil and Lil,
the grandparents,
Angelica's mom and dad for some reason.
Wow.
What was the baby?
I hate Dil.
Dil? Does Rugrats,
is that in Andrew and Gavin's era as well
or just Eric?
It's in mine.
Yeah, I saw that Nickelodeon stuff.
When this little kid is introduced is
like i didn't watch that's the anything with him yeah that's like new rugrats yeah that was the
movie right yeah when it first when rugrats first started it was like whoa nick nick tunes was like
that and doug and ren and stimpy and rocko's modern life and everything and it was like that and Doug and Ren and Stimpy and Rocko's Modern Life and everything. And it was like, oh, like this big block
of stuff to watch. It's weird to see
Doug look so well-defined
and not, like, vibrating.
Yeah. I'm not a
big fan. I don't like it.
Cool Reptar, though.
Big Reptar guy. That's an awesome Reptar.
Yeah. I completely
missed all this Rugrats shit. Oh, yeah, of course.
Other than I thought the art style was terrible.
Little bear.
Why is he
standing like a man at the bank?
Sir,
I have a check to cash.
Have you noticed
that every
creature in this catalog needs a hug.
He might rip you to pieces when you do it, though.
Hug me like you'd hug a real bear.
That's seen daily on Nick Jr.
Daily.
It's on every...
And there he is, standing like a man at the bank,
walking forward in the line.
I don't...
What is...
What's happening at X?
Is the head coming off the bear to put stuff in?
What?
Pick up pal the bear.
Whoa.
Oh, it's like a little bin to put your other crap in.
And it's $25.
It's a deep cylinder storage bin.
Mom, mom, I got to get the deep cylinder.
Veggie tails.
Where's God when I'm scared? What'm scared well you guys know that right veggie
tails was was like thinly guys yes uh religious oh yeah oh i remember yeah it's just so funny
yo where the fuck is god when i'm scared i put on fierce fuck Christmas. Where's God then? Some buck-toothed zucchini's like, where's God?
I'm afraid.
What do you think the chances
are that that little boy or that little
girl right there holding the
little cart was
at the Capitol on January 6th?
Pretty good. I think so.
They made a lot of money out of this.
I don't care about any of this stuff.
No, it's so generic.
I don't care about any of this stuff. Oh, the's so generic. I don't care about any of this stuff.
Oh, the big comfy couch!
Well, a blow-up couch
is something.
Wow!
Is it inflatable?
I might have a new chair.
Let's see if you can
find one.
The big comfy couch
inflatable.
Let's see if we can
get you one.
Are you ready?
Enjoy watching the PBS series
The Big Comfy Couch
from your very own
heavy-duty inflatable couch.
I would have loved that. Was that the first
face on a couch?
No cars did it.
I'm pretty sure they am
the remorifiedest faces on couch.
Pretty quickly.
Big Comfy Couch.
Are you ready?
I don't see any.
Are you ready to clown around?
What's that behind?
Is it like some sort of little chick or is that the sun?
What is that behind the couch?
What?
Where?
Oh, that?
Yeah.
What is that?
It looks like it's the sun.
It looks like a chick.
A little amount of beach.
Dude, you can't buy one of those inflatable couches on eBay.
No.
I don't see one.
Well, they've all rotted.
Yeah, they're all in the trash and they're all decomposing.
They're all biodegradable.
Whoa, I love Thomas the Tank Engine.
Oh, this is your thing, right, Gav?
I don't care about this train at all.
I think it's more Ringo Starr's thing.
Radio-controlled chug-along Thomas?
Only after George Carlin was done.
Wasn't it a big deal in England, though?
I mean, it's a British thing, right?
Yeah.
Did you grow up with Thomas the Train Engine?
Yeah, there was an episode, though,
where one of the carriages got crushed
and his face fell off
and a crane was holding his face
and it scared the shit out of me
and I never watched it again.
Is this the thing that Sir Topham Hatt
has a hand in somehow?
What?
The Fat Controller?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, the Controller guy.
I don't know what that is.
I just know the name.
He runs the train.
That's simply all I know of Thomas the Tank Engine.
Were you a Percy or a James fan, Gavin?
I think I was just a classic Thomas guy.
Oh, no.
He's a Gordon.
You can fucking tell.
Gordon was a bit stuck up. Gordon's a Gordon. You can fucking tell. Gordon was a bit stuck up.
Gordon's a bit stuck up?
He was.
Bye, Gordon.
That's Andrew!
That kid is cool.
I don't fuck with horses, Eric.
I don't trust them.
But this is Marvel the Mustang. Yeah, I don't trust them. I don't fuck with horses eric i don't trust him but this is marvel the mustang yeah i
don't trust him i don't like marvel the must have you ever have you ever been in front of a horse in
person yeah i so i i have a genuine for a while a real fear of horses because i went to a birthday
party as like a four-year-old and they did the thing where they had a horse and would like ride
the kids around and i was the last kid to
do it and the horse was tired and
said fuck that so it took two
steps forward and then tried to lay
down with me on top of it and I had
to get ripped off of it while
it was coming to the ground or else it would have crushed my
leg and I didn't fuck with horses for a long
time I was terrified didn't like horses
so I don't know that's not me
I'm not fucking with Marvel the Mustang at that age.
I don't trust it.
Tic Tac Zoo.
I was a big theater tugboat fan, though.
Loved him.
We know, Eric, we know how to scare the shit out of these two guys
with horses and Thomas the Train Engine, apparently.
Yeah, we'll take a face off a horse and show it to both of them.
For me, it was donkeys that scared me.
Donkeys?
Yeah, I talked about how the first time I ever embraced death was on the back of a donkey.
Didn't I tell that story?
Jesus Christ, no.
I don't think so, but that's pretty cool.
I've only heard when the donkey was on your back in your first time embracing death.
No, I was on the back of a donkey on a beach, and it just took off with me on the back.
And I was about five, and I just thought, well, a donkey on a beach and it just took off with me on the back and I was about
five and I just thought,
well, I can't hold on because I'm slipping off.
This is it.
And I just let go. I just let death
take me.
I just bounced off the sand.
I was ready.
I'd seen everything
in the world I needed to see.
I just thought this is it.
Oh, man.
Okay, let's keep it going.
Let's see.
We're on page 38 of 490.
Why is smoochy pooch?
Why is this a thing?
I don't know.
Can we get to some of the older kids?
Yeah, we might be skipping through.
We skip a couple pages
let me see if I can find
oh what have you done
you want to skip through oh no go to the next page
Eric you gotta go to the next page
why just go to the next page
trust me look at how fucking happy
this kid is
this is the happiest I've ever seen anybody
that's a young Gavin
at P.
That's how he started.
He's filming in slow-mo.
He's filming in slow-mo.
Oh, man.
You gotta start with one frame a second.
Perfect shot, 35mm camera.
There's a K as baby's first podcast kit.
I had that too.
Oh, man. So that would have had to have been an actual film camera
would it
or is it just a bullshit thing that flashes
I think it's just a bullshit thing that flashes
I don't think there's film
in it
oh you know what it says 35mm film
on the right it might be real
it might be fucking real
that might be a real
I'm looking this up.
What is it called?
If you can get that,
we should do a photo shoot with that camera.
A 135mm camera from Fisher Price.
I bet Wes already has one of these.
Wes already has it.
Price.
Fisher Price.
Perfect shot.
Nowadays, you've got to pay decent money
to build a cage around your camera.
Just to come included. No, you've got to pay decent money to build a cage around your camera. Yep. Used to come included.
No, I'm not.
It's not that one. I found a
yellow one. Oh, here we go.
Here we go.
What's the inflation? So how much
was it back then?
$24.99?
$24.99.
$45.
I got a new in box one. $46.99? $24.99. $45? I got a new in box one.
$46.91.
I'm going to put it in the chat.
It's overpriced for what we want, but
if we want to do a photo shoot, it's there.
It's $90.
Oh my god.
Get real.
That seems totally...
It's a classic. It's from 1976.
It's a classic. Or 1997 from 1976. It's a classic.
Or 1997, sorry.
Did you say 76? That fucking girl killed a lot of animals.
Look at my skins!
It's like fucking... She's like Don Jr.
Goddamn.
Ertl!
Oh, we got some John Deere happening.
John Deere kids.
They even have like their own logo.
It's a smaller deer.
I wonder how much of a business this is for John Deere and Ertl.
Like how much money they make off of this kind of shit.
Yeah, that's a great question.
I wonder if they look at it as like every fucking plushie lawnmower
or like a little
crane truck we sell
is a future John Deere little customer
20 years later, you know?
Like if they take a loss, but they're like brand
loyalty. I wonder if they were against
their kids repairing their tractor's back then.
Alright, Darla, you have your
push mower and you don't have the right to repair.
So if this breaks, you have to buy a new one.
Oh, my God.
Oh, that air hockey table looks cool.
That's about it.
Everything else on this, whatever.
I like the back.
Yeah.
Now that should be the regulation NBA basketball hoop.
It should have a little pipe
at the bottom of it shoots out this is how dream on green practices that's pretty cool
oh we're just like we're really deep into preschool shit yeah i need to get to the
the vr headsets oh okay okay okay okay Here we go. Look at this. We got some computers.
Calculators. Now we're getting somewhere.
We're at homework age. Kids are getting
homework whiz.
Rolodex electronics.
Weren't those things called wizards for adults?
Yeah.
Speaking homework whiz
and all that stuff.
Like knew that stuff.
That's a stupid time. pc it's just it's it's weird
because it's like this analog and digital sort of like overlap yeah where you don't really know
what the future is going to be so all your guesses are wrong and it's like a my first crypto miner
and the future came so quickly.
You get to see how wrong you were almost immediately.
Power printer plus.
Like the idea of this is something,
but all of the execution of it is like such a mess.
It's so fucked.
When I was in the army early on
and I would get sent to like Kuwait or wherever,
this was before laptops
they would send me with a word processing unit that looked almost exactly like the one that you
just saw on the last page like almost in the middle identical yeah with like the tiny little
screen that you can see in the middle and like just i wrote i used to fucking work off that thing
did they come in a big briefcase or a pally case for the army?
He had some version of that, yeah.
And then this is how Andrew typed. He was just hanging out with his frog, pressing his stomach,
getting the letters in. Yeah, the caps lock key
was on the right hand.
That's the only important button to know.
Oh.
Get that IQ.
Oh, a word spin. I had one of those. You had a word spin? I oh a word spin I had one of those
you had a word spin?
I had a word spin
I don't remember what you did with it
I think you spin words yeah
what's the game do you have to make words
I think you just make as many words as you can
with spins
countdowns
five
there's so much dormant shit in my learning.
Learning is so much fun.
Bullshit.
I love this fucking font.
That font is fun.
Word art font.
Yeah.
Look at, like, fucking baby's first expanding folder.
It's like, do you want to organize your taxes?
Oh, dad, I want to be like you.
Can you teach me how to balance my checkbook?
Where do I keep my receipts?
Well, you're not going to learn it in school, so yeah.
Do you think anyone who bought M, the billionaire's club, became a billionaire?
Oh, absolutely.
Yeah.
That's what they look.
This is how they dress, too.
I like that they went with billionaire.
Yeah, billionaire.
Think big.
Yeah, baby.
You'd be a millionaire?
Ugh. Ugh. Lame. Lame. Yeah, baby. You'd be a millionaire? Lame.
Who do you work for?
I work for VTech.
The equalizer.
Here we go.
The affordable laptop.
300.
For what?
Mouse on the left side.
At least it's not a DOS prompt.
What's funny is that this is a laptop that you can't connect to the internet to yeah like it's all that's great it's just there
also m the power zone just looks like when you used to get too many pop-ups and they were like
they're advertising how annoying that's gonna be to close all this god Oh my god. Why would you ever need to close something? The Canon
BJC 255 bubble jet
printer for VTech doesn't look that
different from the Canon
printer I could buy at Best Buy right now.
Was bubble jet before
inkjet? Yeah.
Yeah, well, bubble, ink,
and then, I don't know.
And then I don't know.
And then I stopped giving a shit about printing stuff.
Bubbles sound cheaper.
Oh my God.
It's Barbie Elvis.
There you go.
Emily has this one.
Emily has that one.
Emily has this one.
Emily has that one.
How many peacocks did they kill for these Barbies?
Geez, no kidding.
Look at the Elvis Presley TV.
Look at him.
TV special.
1968 TV special.
Every little girl's dream to have a 1968 Elvis doll in 1998.
Yeah.
Uptown chic Barbie.
Great.
They loved Elvis.
This is cool.
This is like Sex and the City Barbie.
This is like Sopranos,
Gumar,
like Coke Barbie.
That's pretty cool.
That's awesome.
Wow. Romeo and Juliet Barbie Audrey Hepburn
that's just just
Audrey Hepburn Ken has a
fucking knife in his belt get him
yeah
draw down
go Ken go
WNBA
Barbie
WNBA Barbie.
Oh!
Awesome.
WNBA Barbie.
Wow.
Christy, Barbie, Teresa, and Kira,
and they have NBA Bulls in the Caucasian Not Shown.
What the fuck?
Are these the cheerleaders?
NBA Commemorative?
Bulls, Lakers, Knicks.
And then University Barbie. They are. They're the cheerleaders? NBA commemorative? Bulls, Lakers, Knicks. And then University Barbie.
They are.
They're the cheerleaders, I think.
How weird.
No, here's Lakers Barbie.
No Celtics, huh?
I would have bought one of those if they made Celtics ones.
Jeff, Alabama's on there.
But not shown.
I would consider getting a University of Alabama Barbie.
University of Alabama, not shown.
Oh, there's Texas.
There's Texas.
Do you know why
in 1998 i think alabama was still serving a suspension uh i think that i think that
they almost got blackballed in like 94 and so uh they might not have been allowed to appear
uh more barbies lots of barbies uh tommy doesn't look well no cool sitter teen skipper
uh teen skipper gets around apparently four times it's a cool no she's a sitter yeah those aren't
her kids no she's just simply watching for children yeah wow this is awesome what barbie
photo designer digital camera and cd-rom now
you can be in pictures with
barbie and that's detective barbie
they actually storyboarded the barbie
movie with that yeah yeah i like it
they call games cd-roms
back there yeah i'm pretty sure
funhouse played this barbie writing
club game in a video
you mean the barbie writing club cd-rom
yeah i'm pretty sure, I'm pretty sure
they played that.
Get it right, please.
Yeah, of course. Cool looks,
fashion designer. Cool looks, Barbie.
A lot of Barbie.
Wait, hang on. I'm sorry.
I have to go back real quick.
Software for girls.
Jesus Christ.
Alright, I guess I'll get fucked then. This is software for girls. Jesus Christ. Alright, I guess I'll get fucked then.
This is software for girls.
What if I want to be a detective?
Oh, man.
This is just... Show Emily.
Let Emily know about this. I will. I wish she was
home right now. I'm going to show this to Amanda.
Oh, no! Look out! Barbie horses!
Dude, I recognize that Barbie
motorhome. Great. great emily has that maybe
i think there's a donkey barbie is like a donkey friend to keep it away from gavin though
wow they really expanded barbie this is just not even barbie stuff
answering machine boombox at boombox is cool conference phone great barbie cd player the disc disc girl oh that's so cute
wow i wonder if that barb disc girl 15 that's cheap oh no
that guy whatever that guy is i want this mouse guitar junior why is Why is that the picture?
I don't know.
Maybe it's to warn people to keep this man away from your kids.
Yeah.
Have you seen this man? I don't like Holiday Hero Buzz Lightyear either.
He's all too smug.
He looks too shiny.
He looks like DLC skin.
He does.
Yeah, that's a great descriptor.
Microtransaction.
Oh, shit. Unauthorized biography. Oh, absolutely. Yeah, that's a great descriptor. Microtransaction. Oh, shit.
Unauthorized biography.
Oh, man.
Was this everywhere just for you growing up, Gavin?
Yeah.
It was just like inescapable, right?
Is this before Ginger Spice left?
I guess it is.
This is 90, this would be 98.
So it's, yeah, it's right before.
How many times in your life, Eric, did you did you wish for a Spice Girl for Christmas?
Santa, please.
All I want for Christmas is any Spice Girl.
I don't care which one.
Like a toy or.
There's a lot of ambiguity in the way they said that.
All I want for Christmas is a Spice Girl.
But I'll settle for a Spice Girl. But I'll settle for
a Spice Girl's deluxe cosmetic set,
a mouse pad stationery set,
pens and pencils, a pencil case,
play shoes, a shoulder bag,
a secret diary, and an electric organizer.
I mean, I was a big ginger Spice guy.
Who's everybody's favorite Spice Girl?
I like Sporty Spice.
I think Baby. Okay. Sporty's cool. And Nick? Spittin' Bunton. girl i like sporty spice i think baby okay sporty school and nick it's a bit bunton yeah sporty i
i was a sporty fan as well wow posh in the mud
oh no Oh, no, Andrew, look away. Oh, God. Oh, no. Tell me when it's safe.
This one's turning the corner.
He was hiding behind the barrel, and now he's coming for you.
Is he going to sneak up on you?
A horse and an explosive barrel?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, I thought it said sniper next to barrel.
Oh, man.
Jeff, did you have cabbage patch when you were growing up?
Nah.
Yeah.
No, I did not.
It was...
I thought they were weird, and I didn't get the appeal.
I thought they were weird.
Also, to be honest, it was like girl stuff to me when I was a kid.
Look, it's Babe again.
Wow.
He's back.
Splash and shiver.
Oh, Baby gets cold.
Baby gets cold when you dunk it in cold water
who to thunk splash and shiver snoopy oh snoopy he's everyone's best friend this is not what
snoopy looks like this is not also snoopy's traveling band would not be uh five different
snoopies it would be snoopy and his brothers and sister please grow up
but that puppy's so real
I guess this is sort of what they're going for
you can see he's got like an there's an Olaf
sort of situation here
this might be Belle
I don't know Spike might be driving
but it doesn't look like Spike so I mean
that really leaves what Snoopy
maybe Andy
I don't know I don't think that I don't think they were accurate with their portrayal of the Snoopys here So, I mean, that really leaves what Snoopy is maybe Andy.
I don't know.
I don't think that I don't think they were accurate with their portrayal of the Snoopys here.
I'll take your word for it.
Happy meal.
Fake McDonald's.
This country's crazy.
How are kids gonna know to eat McDonald's when they grow up if you don't teach them as children?
It's true.
Yeah.
Wait, you think about being a franchise owner?
Yeah.
Where's the plastic melting pot?
More Rugrats.
Who the fuck is Annie and why does she get a sun and fun camper why am
i supposed to buy into annie's bullshit i'm already into barbie now i gotta like annie too
imagination i think you know yeah more barbie oh more probably had a bunch of this stuff um
wow a seven dollar rebate all right i remember that barbie styling head being a big deal
oh yeah is that how emily got her start yeah i think so she worked on one of those for like the
first two years she was in school yeah that hair doesn't grow back though what is looney tunes down
here is it all looney they just keep throwing like the same logo on it? Is that all this is? I guess.
Yeah.
I think so.
It's like things we could fit a logo on.
Put Taz on it, idiot.
All right.
That gear organizer.
Yeah.
I like this.
This is a cool dog, but nothing's happening here that is really grabbing me.
Oh, that dog's dead.
Musical keyboard.
Got the shoes and shoe box if you want to.
Oh great.
Oh wow for Christmas I want somewhere to keep my shoes.
All your jellies.
Garden house.
Super activities.
Man this is a
Barbie heavy catalog.
Very Barbie heavy.
What do you expect?
Mrs. Fields.
Or Transformers at some point.
This is Megamike.
Whoa, Baskin Robbins.
Nick has found his niche here, which is just the food things.
Oh, I guess that is kind of my thing, huh?
You can make ice cream.
You can make cookies.
You can make, what are those?
A 59-piece cake baking and decorating set.
Oh, shit. Or a 109-piece cake baking and decorating set? Oh, shit.
Or a 109-piece.
Here's 109.
Oof.
$30.
Jeez.
How much is that today?
Let's find out.
That's crazy.
Might be hopping on eBay.
Yeah, 56.
Dreamgarden Giggle and Grow Nursery is fucking terrifying looking.
Yeah, it looks like it's going to eat you.
That's a nightmare.
At the top. Giggle and grow.
Cool. Whoa, what's Taz
doing down here, though?
He eats your laundry.
Dude, hell yeah. He's a Hooper hamper.
That's awesome. Also, the
Dream Garden Strawberry Sunshine
Baby is terrifying.
Oh my god.
Pick me up or die.
Dog shit there.
Yep.
Zap, zap, racetrack.
Is this what you think the...
What?
Fun noodle?
Well, Andrew, the thing at the bottom,
is this what you think the...
What was the... the leg crossing thing
that you have to run back and forth?
Sewing machine?
Sewing machine?
Yeah.
Is that what this is?
No.
Oh.
Looks nothing like it.
Could you do the sewing machine
on the Fun Noodle Tumble Fun Mat?
No, you couldn't.
Well, I mean, you could do the move,
but it'd be pointless.
That wouldn't show any of your agility off.
You need a ladder. You need a ladder.
You need a ladder on the floor to do.
Oh, OK.
If you say so.
Hug a bear.
Do you think, Andrew, you'd be a little less scared at night if you had a hug a bear nightlighter?
Oh, I would have been way less scared at night.
Yeah.
Bad life advice, though, in a general sense, but for sleeping at night would have helped.
Nightlighter makes it seem like you can actually light a match with it, though.
Yeah.
Which is pretty cool.
You'll be less scared if you go to sleep with open flame.
Save me, fire.
Oh, easy pick up.
That's cool.
Don't mix up the stuff on the top with the stuff on the bottom.
Some is food, some is playdough. That McDonald's playdough looks real good. That's cool. Don't mix up the stuff on the top with the stuff on the bottom. It's just some is food, some is playa. That McDonald's playa looks real good.
Uh-oh.
And playa tastes like shit.
Oh, hey.
Oh, Snoopy.
So the Snoopy snow cone machine, they just re-released at Knott's Berry Farm.
Oh.
And you can get a Snoopy snow cone machine.
They're selling it for Christmas.
Let's go.
I feel like we should have one of those to make snow cones. A Snoopy snow cone machine? I own selling it for Christmas. Let's go. I feel like we should have one of those to make snow cones.
A Snoopy snow cone machine?
I own one.
You do?
Do you really?
I do, yeah.
I bought one at like a thrift store.
Does it work?
Two years ago.
It does work, but not well.
But it does work.
I don't think it worked well when it was new.
Yeah.
I never understood
and of ring gables
I didn't get the
bed
wooden bed as a mattress a pillow
a quilt like bed spread
Fitz doll
bed Fitz doll
Fitz doll bed
Fitz doll not you
little little tykes is just fisher price under a different Fitz doll bed. Fitz doll. Not you.
Little, little tykes is just Fisher price under a different name.
Yes.
I also feel like all this shit,
the kids this age would be too young to fully enjoy and understand this
catalog.
You got it.
This is,
uh,
Oh,
you can be a vet.
This is fun.
It can't be for the parents because as a parent,
I know when your kid is this age,
you either buy
what they point at
on the TV
or you just go
10 minutes before
like the night before
and go,
oh, fuck,
and you run to Target
and you just buy what's there.
Yeah.
And you're like,
she's two.
She's not going to care.
Also true.
I love the light bright
as a kid.
Mm hmm.
I never had one.
That kid's sitting on a toilet.
I have a Singer sewing machine.
So, and they don't look like this.
Interesting that Singer made like toy sewing machines.
I wonder, did it actually sew?
It has the foot control, the tension dial.
It seems like it's a sewing machine.
I thought it
would have had a needle that could do that and accessories needle bobbin and spool of thread
whoa what's the needle a needle is it a piece of plastic i have no idea like it just seems very
weird that this is made at all it's not going to come with an ac adapter if it's not a real
fucking sewing machine it's an ac adapter there under G. You can get the AC adapter.
Weird.
Very weird.
Oh, here we go.
Got a friend in me.
A girl across the street
had this, where you put
beads in their hair. She loved it.
Electronic
talking room guard Buzz Lightyear
and Woody?
Motion sensor activates security alarm.
Each comes with secret passcode.
Memory detects if correct code entered
and gives friendly greeting
or intruder alert.
That is like a thing you'd read as a kid
and be like, that's so fucking cool
and then you'd get it
and it's just useless.
There's no point of it.
It does nothing.
My mom would go to do the
laundry and then she would go what this thing won't shut up teddy warm heart put the teddy
in a sleeping bag and microwave for one minute you'll stay warm for four hours. Talk about a night lighter.
Wow.
That's awesome.
That's awful.
I want that.
Oh my god.
Oh my god.
That mother goose is a...
Yeah, that's terrible.
A cat named Bob.
Mungo's?
What is this? Mungo's? What is this?
Mungo's World Tour?
And then we got a bunch of Lion King stuff down here.
I just got a news alert.
I just got a news alert that says
dead longhorn found
at Oklahoma State frat house one day before school faces Texas.
Oh, my God.
Do you think they mean the animal?
They mean the animal, right?
Yeah, absolutely.
Hopefully somebody called it in with their Crayola phone.
Mega blocks.
Mega blocks.
What is naval command?
Night chopper
night chopper has serious airwolf vibes oh yeah i want to be this kid in h with the sunglasses
and his backpack a plastic backpack
a horse oh no horse i prefer zebras when I ride.
What the fuck is going on
with that Woody? That Woody
looks so goddamn... What is happening
with his head?
There's a snake in my brain.
Tumbling talking Woody looks terrible.
There's a snake in my brain.
Terrible.
There's a snake in my brain.
Oh, wow.
It's almost Legos.
I could get behind this.
I used to get into all this kind of stuff.
Really?
Yeah.
Like the not Lego stuff?
Yeah.
Yeah, sure.
Why not?
But it's a little bigger and chunkier.
Like Duplos, Mega Bloks.
Yeah. What castle? I had the castle in and chunkier. Like Duplos, Mega Bloks.
I had the castle in the last page.
Oh, really?
Dude, that forklift was fucking cool.
I had that.
Could he lift up his parents?
Yeah.
Could he lift up his parents?
That dude that Jeff used to hang out with back in school,
could he use that?
The great outdoors?
Could you imagine your kids saying they want a patio table?
Yeah, right?
I want a bench! I want to enjoy a brunch
with my friends on the veranda, mother.
Dad,
I need a place to store my toys.
I don't want to leave them all out
where you can step on them
can I have a two in one toy box so I can put
stuff away
if that was said to me yes yes you can son
that's that yeah
now here's the thing
this is what I remember from the 90s which was
poorly
licensed
poorly produced licensed things
Batman on some stuff Looney Tunes on some batman on some stuff looney tunes on some stuff barbie
on some stuff rugrats on some stuff that is a couple things that's that's what i remember
so crinkly shit i'm not mad i'm not mad at that batman uh set at all but also too you can tell
that this was scanned in because somebody x'd the batman yeah i was gonna say we, there was one or two other ones on other pages that we'd seen that also.
And it's like, oh, they must have wanted that.
101 Dalmatians on some stuff.
All right, here's a question.
If you go on this page alone, you've got to choose between Dalmatians, Mickey, and Pooh Bear.
Who are you picking?
Probably Mickey. I, and Pooh Bear. Who are you picking? Probably Mickey.
I'm going Pooh.
I want the tree stump Pooh.
Yeah, I'm going Pooh Bear.
Yeah.
I'm going Mickey too
because it looks like Donald Duck is on it as well.
Yeah, yeah.
He's down there doing construction
with Pluto and Goofy.
Yeah.
And they're not super well versed
at like what they're doing here but they are you know they're trying and i think that's great
the rabbit's house is fucking cute though it's also just called mickey stuff
stuff just stuff beanbags had to be oh that was taz chair? Whoa. That's pretty cool. $5. Hey, Jeff, what was up with dudes in like the 80s
that just got Tasmanian Devil tattooed on them?
They were very popular.
What was with that?
The 80s, it was all about the Tasmanian Devil
and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish guy.
Yeah.
That's all we cared about.
Yeah.
Very weird.
Those were the only two tattoos until tribal tattoos were invented.
Yeah, you just knew guys who just had that.
Wow, this person was like all about this page give me the high back video chair andrew oh andrew we might have a
we might have a new chair solution for you you got a long back it's a high chair i like that
those kids are in the lab.
They're in the lab.
That's great.
This looks like a horror movie.
A sports toddler bed?
Yes.
What is sporty about that?
Oh, it's like a football and hockey stick on the end.
That guy in H is prototyping the sphere in Vegas.
It's this but bigger. You can go inside.
He's like,
what are you doing, Billy? He's like, I'm stuffing Bono in this.
This is where U2 goes. What the fuck?
U2? You don't know storage.
I had a neighbor who had this thing. You can go inside of it.
But I was I think a little bit too big.
To fit in?
Oh, chairs.
More chairs.
Oh, cowboys.
Honestly, this baseball one, pretty cool.
Dude, I'm a much bigger basketball than baseball fan,
but I'm going hard baseball if I'm picking one of those chairs.
That baseball chair is awesome.
I would throw it all over the place.
That kid in G is crawling through the anal passage.
I love the team options they give you.
They're like, listen, you can get the Cowboys, the Packers,
the Bears, the Broncos, the Patriots, the Steelers,
the 49ers, the Panthers.
That's it.
That's it.
No other teams exist.
Since this magazine came out,
the Cowboys still have not won a Super Bowl.
That's awesome.
Oh, fuck yeah.
Is this shit?
Time blaster?
Yeah, I remember this stuff.
My brother, I think, had...
I want to say he had the time blaster or something like that.
Talk blaster?
Photo blaster, quad shot camera. Talk blaster. Fingeroblaster quad shot camera.
Fingerblaster?
Man.
Nickelodeon had a real grip on stuff.
Boring.
Space sharing.
This Gavin science shit.
I would have wanted one of these.
I know, that's why I'm making fun of you.
More science. Gross. have wanted one of these. I know. That's why I'm making fun of you. More science.
Science.
Oh, man.
Gross.
HBO, suck my dick.
This is my jam.
This is toy section.
It's only 30 bucks, man.
It was. What a steal.
Math, the VHS.
Hell yeah.
Whatever is going on with phonics, that's me.
Everyone wants the phonics VHS. me. Everyone wants to know phonics, VHS.
Damn, you got hooked on him.
45 minutes of phonics?
The Civil War?
Oh, is that by Ken Burns on VHS?
Father, I must learn of our nation and its dark history.
I must see what happened in Gettysburg.
I just wanted the great sports montage,
but I had to get the Civil War box set with it.
The tapes aren't labeled properly,
so I just put them on and hope for the best.
Yep.
Is anything on here?
Okay, right here.
Bible stories with cassette.
Hell yeah.
Nick, we're about to learn
about the love of Christ
and everything that he's done for you.
You're welcome. But what about
the veggies?
Where is God when I'm scared?
Whoa!
Not for kids.
Dude, hey, at 12
years old, was this 1998? At 12
years old, I was going, guys,
get me Cary Grant.
Yeah, I want the Bonanza four tape set and if they
don't have that i want world war ii i want andy griffith show a thing that was always on tv and
i never watched hey i know i'm six years old and it's 1998 but could you get me the four disc set of hits of the seventies? If they don't have that,
I want,
I want golden band era.
Best of sports bloopers.
Christmas with the stars,
25 hits on two CDs.
Awesome.
Sweet.
Mommy,
can I have Alfred Hitchcock for tape set?
I really like birds.
Oh,
here we go.
This,
you can form a band now.
You just had to get 100 pages in or whatever.
You and your brother can put this all together.
You can have the drums.
Brother has a guitar.
It's great.
Sin Sonics.
Oh, electric.
Here we go.
Look, Grandpa can read his newspaper and these idiots can strum like morons
that's great everything you want i wonder how much grandpa got paid for that photo
yeah right be here oh my god oh band nerd shit here we go check it out a page for getting beat up
could you imagine joining band and then rolling up with your $100 flute?
Even more drums.
More drums.
Drums hot in 98, dude.
Turnable bongos.
Who is this?
Is this Chris Rhea or whatever?
He's driving home for Christmas.
It's a guy who really wants to be John Mellencamp.
Oh, man.
Man, a lot of instruments.
So many instruments.
A whole lot of options if you want to get into music
in 1998.
Yeah, put some cassettes on
for your child.
Karaoke.
200 bucks.
A parent would buy this for their kids.
$350 jeez
oh it's got the graphics
a parent that really loves their kid
god damn
parents who wants no peace and quiet
sing it
sing it
encore
I grew up in
such a non-musical family
I can't even relate
I can't imagine my parents buying this shit for me
100%
Man
Just some Yamaha headphones
What the fuck is the
Wacky sax
One man band sax
I got the drums, my brother got the guitar
And our friend Andrew got something called the Wacky
Sax, and he said he wants to start
a band. It's like
if Homer Simpson invented an
instrument.
So, I'm not seeing...
Oh. Homer. Nope. I'm not
seeing the Wacky Sax on
eBay, but we should look into it. If we
can find one, maybe we should start a band
where we only play
instruments from this catalog a five-piece band did they get they run out of walkie-talkie so
they just repurposed a couple of phones like what were they doing they kidding with d there yeah
also just want to point out that uh the electronic guitar with microphone and speaker
is marked here oh Oh. Yeah.
Do you think they got it?
Do you think they got it?
No.
Oh.
No, fuck it.
Absolutely not.
Is this just a scan of, like, one person's catalog?
I think so.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Sea monkeys, go to hell.
Free range ants?
What are you trying to-
Free range?
Stop trying to trick us into learning, you assholes.
Pottery wheel.
Toy factory. Do you think sea monkeys from- He wanted this. Trying to trick us into learning, you assholes. Pottery wheel.
Toy factory.
Do you think sea monkeys from 98 would actually hatch?
You mean now?
Sure, why not, right?
Didn't they just defrost a 40,000-year-old worm?
There are all kinds of shit. It immediately started to asexually reproduce.
Frog lab. Frog lab that you don't even
need a frog just cut it open fake frog mold your own frog then learn the amazing things about the
frog inside okay yeah so they just like you mold one and then you cut it open what do you mold it
with i don't know like goo yeah yeah goo yeah Yeah, goo. Yeah. It's goo, frog goo.
You get your own frog goo.
Wow, nail salon.
Nail salon.
Hell yeah.
Paint and swirl.
You got nails?
Insect lab.
Invisible horse.
Oh, visible horse.
Oh, God.
That reminds me.
Maybe I should talk to you while I have your attention here.
Antonio and I were talking last night about starting a self-care club where like once a
month we go get manny petties together do you want anybody want in on that i'm way in
all right absolutely i'll keep you guys apprised of when it happens i'm in dude that's great i love
it that kid on the left kind of looks like kenn from 30 Rock. Yeah, you're right.
It's like Righteous
Gemstones.
Oh,
the older son?
No, the blonde husband.
Oh,
BJ.
BJ.
He just looks like BJ.
When Eric Andre calls him Little Dolly,
or Little Debbie,
right before he shoots him.
This is just paints and crayons.
Get out of here.
I also don't care about this.
No.
Oh, no.
Is that a gun?
The hell?
Whoa!
Magic shot in gallery?
You see that B guy right there?
B?
Human anatomy male science kid? Yeah. The B guy right there? B, Human Anatomy Male Science Kit?
Yeah.
The ring bearer from the wedding, Dash,
he got me that for Christmas last year.
What?
Yeah.
It's in my fucking closet right now.
I'm pretty sure.
So what do you do?
Just look at it?
We gotta do something.
Well, the way it worked last Christmas
is he gave it to you and he said,
hey, I got this for you for Christmas
and I opened it up and I was like,
oh, cool, Human Anatomy Think Stash. And he goes, yeah, cool you for Christmas and I opened it up and I was like oh cool Human Enemy Think Stash
and he goes
yeah cool
can I play with it now
and I was like
oh okay
awesome
oh nice
that kid knows what's up
I like it
classic child stuff
it looks like Kevin Bacon
in that movie
oh he did
with Elizabeth Chu
Babylon 5
magnet game
board game
Xena board game
kids loved Babylon 5 in the 90s.
And Xena.
This is, I think I'm worried that we're getting into the board game section.
We are.
I know Xena was a big deal.
I lived through the Xena era.
But at the time that it was on the air,
I never met a single person who watched it.
I think nobody wanted to admit it.
Yeah.
They were all online in 1997.
It was so weird.
I remember thinking, how is this show?
I don't know a single human being that watches it.
Can you go back for a minute, Eric?
Sure.
What is Titanic the board game?
Gossip with other passengers receive telegrams and collect all five pieces of your personal property to advance from second class to the
first class section of the ship but watch out you might get put back in storage steerage
or worse yet never make it to your lifeboat on time. You can die in Titanic the game.
Did you ever play this CD-ROM game of Titanic?
No.
And it had maybe the worst music I've ever heard in a game.
We need to look into that.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, that's funny.
That is such a fucked up game, that Titanic board game.
It's terrible.
It's really fucked up.
I want this grandfather clock
for Christmas. It's like, make your way past
the women and children to secure your spot.
Billy Zane style.
Yeah, you've drawn the, this is my child
card. Oh, Puzz
3D, I always wanted one of these, but they were
all, oh, they're actually not expensive. Why didn't
I get one?
Hang on, I was lied to.
I don't think the Mount Rushmore was available for my market.
Cookie cup.
Do you think they had a Stonehenge?
That'd be a pretty easy puzzle.
Yeah, it would.
Would you say it's the best henge?
Yeah.
I would think so, yeah.
It's got to be up there i had twister
um operations battleship we had bop it bop it was cool i guess how about this all the bullshit
are there any games here that you haven't owned or played uh spy web maybe spy web yeah lionheart
i might still have that trivial pursuit Pursuit Star Wars edition.
I never played Gate of Gulf.
Oh, you give it a whack, and it throws it right back.
We used to play Bop It at TNI all the time, Gus and I did.
Yeah, hell yeah.
Dude, I watched the Best Friends Today do a live operation.
The other day, that was pretty fucking funny.
What was that, Extra Life we were doing?
Yeah, they did a great job.
Let's see.
More fishing.
More fishing, yeah.
Oh my god, I have this
Disney game. It is on the thing right behind me.
It is right here. Oh, really? Yeah, it is
right here. This game fucking sucks.
It's impossible.
The trivia is awful. Yeah, I take
it to parties and make people play it and they get mad
every time.
Is it from 98?
Oh yeah. So the trivia is all
old as balls. It's like
the oldest shit in the world.
And like some of it's irrelevant now or it's like
asking questions like that have nothing to do with
Disney movies at all.
Men are from Mars
3D tic-tac-toe
toss-a-cross
I had a friend who had this
oh yeah you play it with beanbags right
yeah you throw it and then you're trying you know you're X
and you throw it and you're trying to get it to like land on X
but sometimes it'll go oh and you're like
ah instead of like messing up
or does it like okay cool
I thought it was like yeah and then men are from Mars women are from Venus game go oh and you're like ah instead of like messing up yeah or does it like okay cool yeah i thought
it was like yeah and then men are from mars women are from venus game great cool love it you can
learn about the difference between men and women finally but but in a fun but in a very fun format
hip hoppers whoa what this is these lovableinch tall animals hip-hop to a jammin' beat.
You read it like you can't believe it's written.
You could get Sasha or Quincy for $20.
Fistful of aliens.
There's a lot of stock cars in this catalog.
Yeah, really.
NASCAR was big in the 90s.
That might be the...
What page are we on?
148?
131?
Yeah, this says 131, yeah.
I think that might be the first gun we've seen.
No, no, there was a shooting game.
Oh, the alien gun arcade thing.
Oh, okay.
That might be the second game we've seen.
Gun?
You mean?
Are they muzzle-loading the Super Soaker?
Yeah, yeah.
That was a Super Soaker that you could stick down,
attach it to a hose,
and it filled in from the front.
We've been talking for so long now,
I'm really starting to lose it.
I start to lose it.
I read that last page.
It was like...
I read it as Christy.
That's a bit Christy for my taste.
This is just trees.
Oh, bubble gum.
I love gumball machines.
As a kid.
As a kid.
What do you have against them as an adult?
I can buy them anytime.
There are simply more adult ways for me to consume my gum.
And gumballs lose flavor a lot faster than regular gum.
Yeah, they do.
Jeff, when you are no longer a child, you put away childish things.
I still like a gumball machine.
Cake in the mail?
Just cakes?
Here's cake.
Butter batter fruitcake.
Masterpiece fruitcake. Who's ordering cake from a catalog
catalog cake huh chocolate pretzels and mini graham crackers though what the fuck is this
can we order that lady oh no we're halfway through gavin okay oh you're gonna start
clicking faster or what?
It takes a long time to load.
I think we should just back out, go to it, and then go to electronics on 278.
Just keep going.
What about sports?
Okay.
Andrew wants us to just keep going.
Just keep power through.
You don't want to miss any of this gold.
Look at that.
Did this turn into a marathon thing, huh?
Uh-huh.
Let's click faster, Eric.
It loads slow.
Michael Jordan!
We would have missed out on Michael Jordan.
Everybody remembers that all-important
Michael Jordan Rayovac brand deal.
He's a Rayovac guy.
Have you ever seen a Rayovac autograph Michael here. He's a Rayovac guy. Have you ever seen a Rayovac
autographed Michael Jordan card,
Jeff, in time?
I'm going to look for him now.
Do you think he knew what he was smiling for in that picture?
Oh, now we're getting into some real toys.
You can get a Ferengi talking bank?
Whoa, what's with the
Star Wars shit?
Dude, it's already
they published
this fucking catalog with a 50% off on it.
What is that?
An R2-D2 tied to a fire extinguisher?
What's happening?
R2, there's a fire!
It's a little remote control, I think.
Yeah, it's a remote control.
Oh, never mind.
R2, you're not putting out the fire.
Dude, that guy is making two Millennium Falcons kiss.
He's discovered
he's going through puberty in that photo.
Well, he heard a rumor that
if you make them kiss a
baby Millennium Falcon,
you leave it overnight.
A century Falcon pops out.
Wow.
Darts.
Kids darts.
Great.
Andrew hates darts.
I would get so annoyed if someone gave me a custom dart kit as a gift.
Well, you just asked for one, so thank you.
Darts are fun.
This is nothing.
It's super values.
It's a shitty toy pitch.
Too many words.
I don't understand how this is organized.
We're already back in Barbie,
but we already went through two Barbie sections.
It's all over the place.
Star Trek Barbie.
Super value Barbie.
Super value Barbie.
So we're just in the bargain bin section of the catalog?
I think we're just in the bargain of the catalog.
It looks Wes Ellis.
That kid in the helmet,
he looks like me when I'm dancing to Felice Navidad.
Awesome.
This is the section of the catalog where they...
Nerf Defender T3?
They gotta try to move all this shit they didn't sell last year.
Another gun!
All this stuff we couldn't shift in the first 150 pages.
97's hottest items are 98's most deeply discounted bargains.
Yep!
Absolutely.
Oh, that checks out.
Plush Gorilla.
Plush Gorilla.
You can't see any detail.
I can't imagine why they didn't sell it it's nuts
it looks like Garbo Man
it looks like Garbo Man
oh man
we already did the speak and spell section
that's what I'm saying
is that Brio? I like Brio trains
Jeff you don't want to play Mall Madness?
Electronic Mall Madness?
I do, actually.
What is it called? Electronic Mall Madness?
Let's see if we can get that.
Uh...
Electronic
Mall Madness.
Extreme Ghostbusters?
Yeah!
There are a lot of versions of Mall Madness.
That checks out.
We can definitely get this.
Eric, I need the Eric card.
Hey, should we play Mall Madness at the mall?
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
We can do it while you're wearing the boots.
Oh, no.
Congo the game.
These Tiger Electronics games or whatever.
I miss them. Such a thing. They were such shit but i missed them terrible terrible terrible oh a little digimon and
oh tomagotchi packers darts gop andrew be mad at it okay they're not personalized it's okay
now we're talking now we're in the electronic games. This is more fishing. That's the third fishing page fake fishing
J alright guys we have assault I am buying I'm buying more madness right yeah
Do you think everything in this catalog was purchased or do you think they could have been one item that lit?
Oh definitely stuff that no, I do you think there could have been one item that literally no one bought?
Oh, definitely stuff that no one bought.
I don't think anybody bought that gorilla, dude.
Or maybe that table.
They finally did a Bible Trivia 2.
Finally, too.
I know all the answers to Bible Trivia 1.
I'm looking for some new gods, though.
Oh, my God.
What would Jesus do?
Video games!
Oh!
Surely a couple of the guitars that showed up on like page 200 didn't get bought
because there were 7 000 before them dude i was so freaking jealous of the kids that had the camera
and the printer for the game boy oh i had that that was you had that you had that yeah you were
one of those kids oh yeah uh that was such a luxury because you're basically saying goodbye to a game yeah
whenever I see I heard
like a podcast where Dan Riker told the story
about that he used to store
all his porn on the Gameboy camera
because he was scared like they would
find the Playboy magazine
in his room so he just took
photos using the Gameboy camera
so that was like the only point of
porn he had whenever I see Gameboy camera so that was like the only point of porn he had.
Whenever I see Game Boy camera, I think of
like shit bootleg porn.
That's a good idea. Printed refills
$20.
Nick just said that's a good idea.
Like he's gonna run out and grab a Game Boy
camera right now so he can tell
all his porn.
I'm old enough to not need to do that.
Wit.
Also married.
Oh, yeah, also married.
Wit.
Oh, yeah.
Did you have Pokemon Red or Blue?
I think I was Red.
I had Yellow.
Yeah, I had Blue, I think.
You didn't play anyone before Yellow?
Nope.
Wow.
Boy, that must have been a tough question when you were a kid, right? Do I want to get the Legend of Zelda,
or do I want to spend my money on Game Boy printer refills?
After they ran out, it was game over.
Dude, the printer was $70.
Yeah.
Then.
Hey!
Hey, here we go.
Now we're talking.
Kobe Bryant's NBA courtside. I had that.
Oh, I never played that.
I never played it.
These games were expensive.
It was not very good, but I liked it.
They are expensive.
Who's in the world?
Did games get cheaper, or were they always...
That's like over $100 now.
Well, 64 games are expensive.
They're always the same.
Yeah, the games have been the same price,
and that's the thing that you always hear now is like,
oh, we're losing all this money on these games
because we had to open to $70 or whatever,
and you look back at this stuff,
and they were $65 or whatever.
But it's like, I'm not going to pay $110 for a video game.
Yeah, I remember my N64 games were like £49,
and then I think Donkey Kong 64 was like £60.
Oh, yeah, because it came with the expansion.
Expansion. I don't think you'd ever see... Donkey Kong 64 was like £60. Oh, yeah. Because it came with the expansion.
I don't think you'd ever see... Bomberman Hero is a game title that exists pre-9-11.
You're not getting Bomberman Hero post that.
I remember Bomberman Hero.
I did achieve my 100 guides in that game, I think.
Yoshi's Story, I couldn't get past
a section in it for weeks and
I only got past it because
my mom's friend daughter
played it and she called to ask if
they had gotten through it and I had to learn
that you could ground and pound I just missed
that mechanic and you needed it to get
past the thing
also look at the difference
in price between the console itself and the game.
It's like the price of two games.
Now a console's the price of like nine games.
Diddy Kong Racing?
Underrated racing game.
Yeah, great.
Oh, yeah.
It was fun.
Fantastic racing game.
Love Diddy Kong.
Love Diddy Kong Racing.
Love all the characters in it.
Okay. Oh, bring the power home wwf war zone bad game but at the time groundbreaking oh yeah uh nfl quarterback club
99 had it played it played the fucking shit out of it that mission impossible game yeah was so
freaking difficult oh yeah although you could shoot people in the
head and they would do a full backflip.
That's awesome.
Okay, so you get one game
off this page. What are you buying?
Turok 2.
Yeah, it's a tough one. Probably WWF Warzone.
Yeah, Warzone. Blitz.
Blitz is a good one, though. Blitz is great.
I'm either getting Turok
or Offroad Challenge. That was a good game.
Oh, yeah. I didn't even see that one.
I remember getting
stuck on Mission Impossible
because one of the objectives in the
first level was you have to get the
score, and it was like a music thing.
You have to get the piano guide, and I
just didn't know what a score was. I was walking around
like, what's the score? Couldn't figure it out yeah clay fighter wasn't bad could have
just said she played fighter was fine i think it was like a it's like a good idea but yeah it was
a fun game quest 64 is always really dogged on but i don't think it's a terrible game i've never
played it i don't know anything about it oh there we go baby mario oh god i love starfox 64 who's not in either of those games and shadows
baby mario is not in any of uh is he no he's not in any of the games listed on the oh no
they're yoshi's island is g but he's not for some reason listed in any of these um
wave race 64 where you can unlock the dolphin great starfox 64 maybe one
of my favorite games ever made such a great period i didn't know that was a starfox game
because in england it was called lilac wars oh yeah that's the name of the system they're in i
don't know why they did that why did yeah and original starfox was called star wing yeah i
think starfox might have been a copyrighted term from something else.
Yeah. But Star Fox
64 is a game that I
beat every way that you could and earned
all the medals and then you could play multiplayer
where you run around on the ground.
Or be in a tank.
You could be in a tank.
Bang a soundtrack.
Oh yeah.
Oh, and there's the worst game
ever made
Superman
Superman
oof
how much is
how much is it here
oh it's
yeah what is that thing
you're in control
of up to
eight
oh is it like a switcher
I think it's a switcher
yeah
yeah
eight different inputs
for your TV set
wow
and then a bunch of late controllers
it's like a controller shagged one of those weird hinged laptops from 50 pages ago
all right here we go placed okay some playstation placed. Okay, some PlayStation. Mm-hmm.
So,
how much was the PlayStation?
It was a hundred, does that say $129? $129. Yeah, I think
the same as the N64. Yeah, they were
pretty competitive that way. But the games were cheaper.
Yes. Because I guess
just a disc. Yeah.
Crazy. Wow.
And the bundles of like, you get
Parappa the Rapper and Crash for $2.19
with the console.
That's,
what a steal too.
Like,
those are great.
Those are two great games.
Wow.
Final Fantasy VII on here too.
Good game.
Could you even get,
could you get an original
PlayStation for less than that now?
No.
Not a chance in hell.
It's gone up in value.
Does anyone want to buy one?
I can buy one.
I don't think
that pistol's big enough.
Get bigger!
Tekken 3 was
fucking great.
Rampage is fun.
Yeah, some great games.
Oh, red alert! alert terrible controllers down here what's going on so bad n64 controller for the playstation yeah yeah it's the future
no it's an advanced nintendo 64 controller how weird. It's just on the PlayStation page. No, it is weird.
Oh, Punky Skunk?
Bottom of the night. What?
97.
What is Punky Skunk?
I don't know.
What is Punky Skunk?
Thrash, skate, dig, glide,
and jump past mutant mice
to win for one player.
We gotta get it.
That Frogger game sucked.
I bought it.
And that Speed Racer game sucked. I bought it. And that Speed Racer game sucked.
I bought it.
X-Men vs. Street Fighter
was fucking awesome.
Awesome.
That game rules.
X-Men vs. Street Fighter
was so fucking cool.
When I was in Kuwait,
one of the times
I was in Kuwait,
they had that
stand-up machine there.
It was the only thing they had.
They had like a little DVD or a VHS lending library
where you could rent like eight different movies.
And they had that arcade game.
And so there was just a line of like 40 dudes
to play it all day and all night.
For the four months I was there.
The X-Files game.
X-Files game.
Croc.
A lot of Fox Sports.
And disco balls.
Yeah.
I don't remember the Fox Sports line of games.
Weird.
No.
Very strange.
What the fuck?
Wow.
And we're out.
What happened?
Oh, I want those skateboards so bad.
I want the Mario Kart Star.
Oh my God.
That's so cool.
That's so cool. That's so cool.
The Scooteroo.
Scooteroo.
That sounds like a British thing.
Does she know how the ball works?
What is that?
Oh, okay.
That little girl looks like she's surrendering to the basketball rim.
Don't do it!
Electric talking rotten egg.
I can just imagine that thing just swearing at you
electric
talking let's see if that's on
do you think it's just begging for death
fucking kill me
just kill me
stop harassing me
this isn't a way to live
this isn't a way to live
do it
you know that was oh you can buy them
oh wow they're all over ebay all wrestlers
you know that was like somebody's somebody invented that and they had to take it and
pitch it and they were so fucking excited about it and they're like trust me i know kids this
is going to be huge and they they put every they put everything they had into it s macho
and randy savage i'm looking at that right now it's on my shelf to the left
oh wow we all do have things from this yeah but not sting you didn't have sting i also have a
diamond dallas page one but he's not shown here i love sting sting he's great uh but yeah macho
man randy savage you'd you'd like press like their hand or like their foot or like twist their nose and they go, hey, get off of my arm.
This is great.
Oh, tiny, tiny.
I mean, you want to be a hustler as a kid?
You know, a kid on the left looks like one.
Damn. All right. you know learn how to play your brother looks like one damn all right i think uh i think we got through the video game stuff and that was the important stuff i think yeah i agree here i'll uh jog through but this was fun going through oh cool
we've got the ninth fisher price section enough enough of you fisher price um This was fun. Going through this catalog, I think, was like, silly.
This was...
I mean, I remember getting it.
We have to go through the end.
We're at 170-whatever.
We can't stop. When does it end?
What's the last page? It's like 203.
Oh, yeah. We can finish it out. Absolutely.
290?
Oh, Jesus. Okay.
Never mind. We're done. Let's go to 200. Let's stop at 200.
Yeah. It's still 176. We got 25 mind. Well, let's go to 200. Let's stop at 200. Yeah.
I will say...
We got 25 more pages of this?
It'll go fast.
Yeah.
I will say...
Oh, wait.
Wait a second.
Mr. 98 all of a sudden wants to cut off 98 stuff.
Oh, I'm done.
Well, yeah.
I'm done with this.
Absolutely.
Dude, those fucking moon shoes were a thing for a little bit.
Oh, yeah.
Moon shoes were great.
Toonsylvania? What the
fuck is that?
I don't know. Spinal tap
fill. Bad gas
baby human. Cool.
Wow.
Oh wow. Cool.
Tonka. Cars with eyes!
How original!
I was never into trucks or like the construction stuff as a kid that's just a phase
I never went through
remote control crane
some kids had it so good
that looks like it rolls
you know I didn't see any
transformers any G.I. Joe
I saw some Power Rangers
you did see a chainsaw
that has real sounds if you want to be a baby
leather face you want to start young
he wanted it too it was
marked he wants that
what page are we on now
it took us 182
pages to get to a nerf gun
we've had some nerf in the past?
Have we?
Yeah, they're just scattered.
Hot Wheels.
Lead the way.
Three loops.
Madness.
That's not safe.
Uh-uh.
Jack.
Oh, shit.
This is right before the figures got any good.
These figures are terrible.
Is that Andre?
Yeah, under L.
Yeah.
I love that there's a little robot there,
the Capsula MX RoboMaster.
And for his head,
they just cut the front of a 737 off
and made it his face.
Jesus Christ.
The lost mines.
Dude, those are so big.
They're huge.
That's wild.
Who has the space?
Right?
Were you a big car guy, Nick, as a kid?
No, but I like trains,
and I think I want to get...
I like trains.
I like trains, and I want to get... I like trains. I like trains, and I want to get...
I like trains.
Yeah.
I want to get a train set that goes around my entire house.
You'd be like Bobby Bacala.
Bobby Bacala.
Yeah.
There's no reason why you couldn't.
There's nothing stopping you.
Remote control sunrunner.
I mean, your wife.
There is the matter of my wife.
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
You want the sunrunner, Gavin?
Is that the one you were looking at? Yeah. Yeah, i'm a big sunrunner guy right there too i see i think i'm a torpedo
racing boat kind of man me and gavin are we're going on the high seas but we're doing it in
style jeff's just trying to get there fast yeah well if you got the if you got the torpedo racing
boat where are the women gonna sit that's what i'm talking about. I'm gonna jump my Nissan Frontier onto your boat.
Ooh, you get a Humvee?
Ooh.
My tires, they float.
What the
fuck? We've entered into
Nick's area. We're in Nick's territory
now. Choo-choo! Welcome to Nicktown.
Oh, it's gone.
I scattered a little bit ahead.
Page 200 is a banger great page do you ever have the
the remote control car called rebound which could flip upside down and drive the other way
yeah i never had one but i know what you're talking about i know i know exactly what you're
talking about that thing was the shit that was my that was my big present one year loved it's
awesome so i think the cool thing about this i feel like this went really well and I had a lot of fun doing it.
And I think it'll be a lot of fun.
I could see us doing this again in the future
with other stuff.
Yeah.
Like I'd really,
Andrew and I have talked about this in the past.
It would be fun to do it for our birth years, you know?
Yeah.
Oh, that would be fun.
It's a great idea.
This is,
you like a Digizord
or are you more of a Digimorfer guy?
I was a Digizord guy.
I don't know what those things you said are.
Yeah, me neither.
This is after my time with Power Rangers.
Yeah, I was just...
Oh my God.
This guy was all about the shit on this page.
This guy's a Batman freak, bro.
Oh, Godzilla.
Oh, that's a pretty cool Godzilla.
That is cool.
Wait until 200.
There's so much cool shit. The whole page is... Oh my God. Dude, there's a pretty cool Godzilla. That is cool. Wait until 200. There's so much cool shit.
The whole page is...
Oh, my God.
Okay.
Dude, there's a Death Star.
Yeah, I saw that.
Godzilla Bank?
Oh, my God.
You can pull Vader's helmet.
Look, you can have a whole jizz band.
You can get Yoda.
You can get the Wampa?
Yeah.
You can get Figurine Dan,
and then if you just get four more Figurine Dans,
then you can have a jizz band.
You can slice it open and hide in its thigh.
Alright!
Do you think George Lucas has changed all the faces under the Vader helmet?
Yeah, they're all different now.
But he's still stuck with jizz.
Remove the eyebrows.
Not mad at that
Batman Jetblade vehicle.
That looks cool as shit
I don't know what's up with this
fucking freak guy over here but he's having fun
hey I'm here
the kid who owned this
I think it's the Joker
the kid who owned this
catalog really
really over the next Batman
yeah
$199 ooh X-Men really over the next Batman. 199.
Ooh, X-Men.
Cosmic power, 14-inch Galactus.
Whoa!
Did he ever show up in the cartoon? I don't remember.
I don't know. Who, Galactus?
In the Silver Surfer. I think so.
Silver Surfer cartoon, and he showed up there.
That was the whole thing.
There was an episode with Silver Surfer,
I remember, so he must have.
Oh, yeah.
Silver Surfer had like his own thing.
Here's Spider-Man's web blaster copter.
You know, the classic copter that he uses.
Yeah.
Is that unlockable in the game?
Look at this shit.
Oh, Robocop!
Look at how cool that helmet weapon arm thing is.
Dude, what a great way to go out
On fucking Robocop
I've been playing that Robocop game like fucking crazy
I love it
It's so fucking fun
What a fucking game
You gotta go I'm sorry
One more page Eric
201
Can we please get the 6 foot tall inflatable
Oh my god that kid's reaction also
a remote control fast attack godzilla this is incredible that it definitely looks like something
we would have on set right yeah they made godzilla look so weird in those in that movie yeah well
god godzilla look like shit in this stupid movie. And there's a new Godzilla movie?
He kind of looks like H.R. Giger presents Godzilla.
Yeah, kind of.
Oh, wow.
One of Eric's favorite toys is on 202.
Oh, one of my favorite toys.
Yeah, look.
Small soldiers!
Yeah, great.
They're here!
That's what we fucking ended on.
It's the Gorgonites!
This sucks.
Oh, chip figure for $24.99
what a deal
shout out to Joe Dante that guy knew kids
alright Jeff take us out
like in this fucking thing
hey thanks for going down this walk
down memory lane with us as we round
out and finish our final
piece of 1998
content that's not to say that we won't
come up with some other exciting piece of 1998 content. That's not to say that we won't come up with some other exciting piece of
1998 content in the future,
but I believe this fulfills our own internal obligation,
uh,
of all the ideas that we had initially.
We hope you enjoyed it.
We hope you get some of these gifts for Christmas.
Uh,
if that's what you put the X next to,
uh,
hopefully you'll give some of these gifts for Christmas to people that matter
to you in your life. Thanks for another
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