- Today, we play with 21 year old robots.
- Let's talk about that.
(upbeat music)
Good Mythical Morning.
- They say it's not good to bring up the past,
but I believe it's healthy to re-examine things in the past.
- Okay.
Well, in that case, let me just say that I think
that in middle school, when you used the Gillette
Sensor razor to get rid of your unibrow,
that was a bad idea.
I mean, it was way too wide, way too sudden,
it shocked all of us.
- I'm glad I gave you an opportunity to bring that up again,
but I'm just talking about reexamining products
from the past, like flip phones or Oldsmobiles,
items that were taken from us way too soon,
'cause there is a world of forgotten products out there.
And much like snacks that have been discontinued
these discontinued products can sometimes still be found
in the shadowy corners of eBay.
And we're gonna shine a light on a few of them today.
It's time for "To Be Discontinued Products" edition.
- We're gonna examine some unique products
that have been discontinued for one reason or another.
And just like we do with snacks,
we're gonna decide if the companies that made them
should bring it back or nah, that's whack.
- Okay. First up, we've got some allegedly tasty items
from Dessert, which is Jessica Simpson's line
of edible beauty products that you could lick off
of yourself or.
- Others.
- Your loved one.
This is from back in 2004, and in this ad,
I mean, all right, and Dessert Beauty, it's all edible.
We paid almost $115.
- Yeah, we did.
- For these discontinued makeup pieces.
- Now, these were released in 2004,
technically discontinued in 2006.
I don't know how like edible makeup expires.
It doesn't really say it on here.
- But the company, because of different lawsuits,
did not last as long as her and Nick's relationship.
- Which was what?
- Three years.
- Okay. So, All right.
- Nick Lachey. - All right.
I've got Dreamy Delicious Kissable Hair and Body Mist.
This is a decadent chocolate coconut treat.
I know how much you love coconut.
- But, it's, look at what suspended in this thing.
I mean.
- Glitter.
- Show it to the people.
- I mean, I was gonna just spray it my mouth.
Am I not supposed to do that?
- But it's a cloud of glitter, dude.
I mean, do you wanna just drink that?
- I'm supposed to be able to, right?
- That's the point, I guess.
Yeah, go for it.
Make the inside of your body glitter.
(bottle spraying)
(crew laughing)
- It's actually pretty tasty.
(bottle spraying)
I mean the coconut's bad.
- It tastes like sunscreen.
- Hey, that's what licking Jessica Simpson would taste like.
- I mean, that is the appeal to this, is that.
- She tastes just like coconut and cream.
- You can kind of imagine.
- This might actually be what Nick tastes like.
I don't know.
They spent a lot of time together.
They were a beautiful couple.
- I think once he tastes her, then he tasted like her.
- Like her.
And so then you can lick him.
If you've licked Nick, you've licked Jessica.
- All right.
This is, these are treats.
They started targeting younger girls.
- Of course,
- With their less risque marketing here.
So instead of words, like, "creamy and juicy and sexy
girls have dessert taglines,"
it's more of just, "Ooh, delicious and kissable
plumpy lip candy bubblegum."
- Um.
(crew laughing) I'm gonna get my own.
That's what we get, I mean, first of all,
- I mean, why put it on your lips?
- That's exactly what kids would do, right?
- Yeah, if it's edible, you just eat it.
(crew laughing)
- Okay. Something's gone wrong with this.
- Well, it's old. It's bald.
- It's 23 years old. Oh, Gosh.
- Yeah, we kinda forgot about that part of this.
- Oh, I thought because it was makeup,
it would just last forever.
- This is making me grumpy,
'cause it's glitter, man.
- Hey, that's the best one yet.
That is the best one yet.
Try that on for size.
Just lick right into the thing.
If you know what, if we could go back in time
and then we could get us, oh, I just poured this
all over myself.
I took it out of the thing.
This is a fragrance.
- Oh my God.
This tastes like aspartame.
(crew laughing)
- Let me just do, just a little doll-
- Any guesses were you should place it?
- Just a little dollop of the fragrance
right on your tongue.
Just stick your tongue out. I'm just gonna.
Because it says, listen, it's a fragrance.
- Just do it.
- It's a flavor.
You wear it, you share it.
So, I'll wear it.
- Is it sweet or sour?
Put it on the sweet spot.
- Let's do it like a dip.
Let's do it like a dip.
- What are you doing?
Oh, seriously.
(crew laughing)
- It'll go straight into your bloodstream that way.
- Yeah, there's no taste buds down there.
- I'm trying to get it into your bloodstream, man.
- All right, we need.
- Hold up. You're not reacting to that.
It must be good.
- I can't taste it, but.
(crew laughing)
- All the kids.
- Oh, hot bro, I got taste buds.
I still like it, though.
I think it's the idea of Jessica that I like it.
- She is photogenic.
Should this be brought back or not?
Nothing tasted great.
And I mean, somebody getting all dolled up
and then licking them down.
- I like that idea.
- Is a nice invitation, though.
There's no one else that's filled this gap in the market.
- But there does need to be an invitation for that.
- So I'm for this. - Oh, 100% hundred.
- Dessert by Jessica Simpson.
- Bring it back.
- Okay, now we've got Poo-Chi,
a voice recognizing robotic dog from the year 2000
that can sit, bark, and sing.
We also got our hands on Meow-Chi,
which is the cat.
And then we've got Dino-Chi, which is the dinosaur.
Now all three of these things will just immediately start
up when we put batteries in them.
So we will do that in one second,
- They were developed as a followup to the Furby,
as those sales were declining.
Let's take a look at the Poo-Chi commercial
from the year 2000.
- Next in the world's smartest dog show.
- I've got Super Poo-Chi.
- My dog's gonna win. - Wrong, bulldog breath.
- Smartest Pooch in the pack.
- Super Poo-Chi understands your voice,
and does what you say.
- Paw?
Sit.
Good dog.
- Sit, sit.
- And only Super Poo-Chi.
- Lay down, please lay down.
- Lay down.
- Recognizes you and interacts with Poo-Chi too.
(crowd cheering)
- The winner.
- The new Super Poo-Chi, with real voice recognition
and Poo-Chi, each sold separately.
Batteries not included.
- Okay, so it's for snarky kids who can't be trusted
with real dogs.
- Well, they're kind of selling this idea
that they're better than the real thing, huh?
Okay, well, let's see about that.
- And again, without an on/off switch,
you're just at their mercy once you put
the batteries in there.
And they talk to each other, supposedly.
- There's these things that they can interact with.
This one's got this thing.
The cat has like a little mouse.
- And you put that in front of the cat.
- Oh, look, see, he gets excited.
Are you having fun yet, kids?
Are you having fun yet?
Is this better than a real dog?
- Oh, he really wanted that.
Oh, and he really wants to eat that triceratop.
- Okay, let's actually do the test.
- This cat, much like a real cat, does nothing.
- Does it even work?
- I mean, it.
- I think it might suppose to spin.
- I think it's pretty active.
- Oh, speaking of the real thing,
Jenna, could you please bring my dog, Barbara, in?
- Yeah, let's see how she.
- She has opinions.
- Let's see what she thinks about it.
- She has opinions. Wanna go see?
(toys barking)
- Kill it, Barbara?
Eat it.
I don't think Barbara is doing anything wrong.
I think Barbara is just letting us know
that this is boring and stupid.
See what's happening? - Barbara. Barbara.
- She's just not interested.
She's not interested.
Not only is she clearly better
than any of these electronic dogs,
but I mean, she's not even interested in them.
Those kids are stupid.
You're gonna get bored with this thing in like four minutes.
- Yeah, can it give you a massage?
- No, do you get a massage from your dog?
- No, but I'm just kind of looking for anything
with batteries to give me pleasure.
- Oh, listen, you know what?
I don't have any treats, but let's just,
I can get Barbara to do things.
- What?
- I can get Barbara to do things.
Okay, Barbara.
Okay. Okay.
Okay.
Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, sit.
Barbara, sit.
Okay, that's kind of good.
Okay.
- That was a lay down.
- Barbara, dance.
- Ho!
- Ha ha! I don't have any treats.
You can have this fake bone.
Look, she likes it. - She likes it.
- She likes it.
- See how much more fun and poopy a real dog is.
- Bring it back, Barbara.
- Fetch.
- Barbara, bring it back.
- Barbara, come get this.
- Come on, bring it back.
Oh God, you just hit my dog.
You hit my dog with a robotic dog.
Here she comes, here she comes.
Okay, okay.
- Hey, Barbara, you want this?
Hey, Barbara, Barbara.
There it go. (Barbara barks)
Get it.
Get it. Get this guy.
- You know, she does not like cats.
- Yes, attack it.
- You want me to do this?
- It's alive. It thinks.
- You want me to throw this?
That's so much more fun than batteries.
- We need to decide if the Poo-Chi should come back,
and I think it's pretty obvious.
Sorry, Jenna, the Poo-Chi.
- Nah, that's whack.
- Now we got the Skip-It.
I remember this.
In 1987, it got kids off the couch and into the driveway,
shaping their ankles, and making all kinds of havoc.
- I never played with one of these.
There were friends.
We had friends who had these, but we didn't play with them.
We were scared of them for some reason.
- Yeah, it's got a counter.
They added that a little bit later
and the sales really went up.
- Now, they discontinued these in 2009.
So it actually hasn't been discontinued for that long.
We did have to pay $55 for it, which is more than retail.
I think in order to get it over the foot
that you wanna swing, you had to take your shoe off.
- I mean, let's be real.
These are just for kids who wanna jump rope,
but don't have any friends, right?
- I'm putting my shoe back on.
- Yeah, you gotta put the shoe back on.
- Because, you gotta have your shoes on to.
- Putting down my pant cuff so that-
- You don't want to chafe yourself?
- Yeah.
- Then you gotta get going.
- And this could really give your ankle a beating, man.
This resulted in a lot more ankle injuries
than three Razor scooter.
- Yeah, Barbara loves it.
(Barbara barking)
Okay, Here we go. I'm in a rhythm now.
Yeah, look at me in my driveway.
Okay, so that's how it's done.
- How do you?
The problem is the other leg.
- I'm afraid I'm gonna get hit by you.
- I only need one leg for this thing.
- Just get it going with the right leg,
and then jump over it with the left leg.
- Maybe I need to put it on my left leg.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
- I got it. Am I doing it?
Am I doing it?
- It's funny how you just, no matter whether it's happening
or not, you just go like this.
Let's see if we can get it in sync.
Hey, think about this.
Think about all the kids in the neighborhood watching us.
Oh, no, I broke it
- Oh, no.
- I broke it. I'm sorry.
- Mine's broken.
- It's just a one man show.
- What happened?
What happened?
(Barbara barking)
- That's my dog.
- We paid $50 for this thing, and you freaking broke it.
- Well, I'm having fun.
I think we should bring it back.
I'm sorry I broke yours.
Let's see if the counter worked.
- My counter is still at zero.
Okay, you want it? You wanna eat it?
I'm not a big fan. Mine failed.
- Okay. Here you go, Barbara.
- All right, so we're saying, the Skip-It toy,
nah, that's whack.
(crew laughing)
(Barbara barking)
(crew laughing)
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over the years, and guess what?
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- Would you like some wine, would you?
- Smell that.
There's lots of things. What else does he say?
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You know what time it is.
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- Let's talk about that.
- We're still good.
- Yeah.
- All right.
Okay, for the final round,
the mythical inventioneers have recreated an actual product
from the past.
We have not seen it.
We don't know what it is,
but we're going to guess what it is used for,
and when it's from, by looking at it.
Can I go ahead and just reveal it?
- [Female] Please.
- This is,
- That's real ice.
- This is real ice?
- That is real ice.
- On just a? So it's.
- On a ski mask kind of thing.
- [Female] Yeah, this is like a replica
of the actual product.
So you can also guess, you know, around the time.
- This was a real thing.
- [Female] Yeah.
- That was recreated.
- I'm gonna say that it's from the, okay,
all right, I've got a guess and a time.
- Okay.
I'm saying it's a head injury mask.
- I said it's a headache cure,
and I said it was from the 1940s,
because that was the other part of the question.
- [Female] And Link, do you have any date guessing?
- Yeah, I think it's from the 40s.
(crew laughing)
- [Female] It is from the 40s.
So, it's a ice mask that was invented by a cosmetics
creator, Max Factor in 1947.
And it was dubbed the hangover heaven mask
by the movie stars who used it to freshen their faces.
- You won.
- [Female] after a night out on the town.
And here's what it actually looked like.
And those ice cubes are the like plastic kind
that you can put back in the freezer.
So they're frozen right now.
- Oh, got it.
That's why they're not just melting everywhere.
There's ice inside of them, basically.
- For the benefit of actresses who wish to refresh
their faces on hot studio sets without spoiling
their makeup, the facial ice pack
was quickly diverted to another purpose
by festive Hollywoodians, Hollywoodians.
Never heard that term before.
How's it feel?
- Do I look like a 1940s actress,
or do I look like some sort of villain?
- [Female] It seems like the majority of the ice
has gone on your beard and your hair.
- My beard needs icing.
- Do you feel cool?
- I do think that the idea of having a bunch of coldness
on your head, it's gotta do something,
either give you a headache or take one away.
It's gonna change something.
It feels like a little personal AC,
like if you're like one of those college students
that's in a dorm that doesn't have AC,
and you're like, "no problem."
- All right, so, I mean, having not experienced it,
I'm gonna defer to you.
The hangover heaven mask.
- I think just based on fashion alone,
I'm in the bring it back camp.
- All right.
- Bring it back.
- Okay, so that means we decided to bring back
two incredible things.
Everything Jessica Simpson has ever brought on the market,
we wanna bring it back,
- True.
- Especially, her Dessert.
- Yep.
- Makeup products,
and this mask. - This mask.
Yep, that's it.
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