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Life is all about second chances,
which is why I watched "The Emoji Movie" twice.
Today we're talking about everyday products
that had some interesting first tries,
some previous lives if you will, before they were discovered
or marketed to do what we know them for today.
- Okay. - It's time to play...
- What? - What?
- What? - So you're telling me
that there are products that I know and love
- Yeah, you love 'em. - that when you tell me
what they were originally used for, my mind will be blown?
- Blown! - What?
Yes.
Which is why I watched "The Emoji Movie" twice.
Twice.
And all you have to do is just tell me
if the thing that I'm telling you is true or false.
- It's 50/50, Link. - Okay, okay.
You get three of these right
and I'm going to give you a special--
- Well, actually if you get three-- - Give me a special?
If you don't get three right, I'm gonna give you a punishment.
This is one of those games where there's not a prize, there's just a punishment.
- I love this show! - What's the punishment?
It's a punishment related to one of the products
that I'm gonna tell you about which may or may not be real.
I can't even know the punishment?
Here we go.
Bad breath can ruin a good date.
At least that's the kind of anxiety Listerine stokes
to sell you their minty, fresh mouthwash.
But before it was a burning green liquid in your mouth,
it was a burning, green liquid for another part of your body-- your feet.
That's right. Before you went out dancing,
you were encouraged to dip your dogs in the green stuff
to keep them dry and smelling nice.
True or false...
- Sweaty feet? - Sweaty feet.
Not stinky feet.
Well, I'm sure it would take care of that as well,
but specifically, it was to clean and dry.
I think this would work.
You know, because of the alcohol content
in a lot of these mouthwash.
- Makes sense. - I also think
Listerine is, like, urine colored.
Not green. There's new colors now.
There's new colors. New colors.
I think-- I think this is true.
I think this would actually work in the short term.
True, Link! It is true.
It was marketed as a multi-purpose antiseptic,
including cure for gonorrhea,
cure for the dandruff-- the dandruff, as well as a foot cleaner.
An article from 1880 says...
"For sweaty feet and soft corns
developing between the toes."
Soft corns.
Soft corns, not the hard corns, though.
- Those are the tastiest corns. - Stay away from those!
- Those soft corns between the toes-- - Mmm. Yeah.
So it's totally not weird to ask your dentist for a foot massage.
Life is full of sticky situations,
and sometimes they end in minor cuts and bruises.
Fear not, though, because Band-Aid is here to help you recover.
While you're waiting for your skin to grow back, here's a fun fact.
The Band-Aid adhesive formula was originally used
to hold your fake hair to your real skin.
True or false...
Wig tape. Wig tape.
Wig... tape.
- Wig glue. - Say it three times.
And what? The wig man appears?
- Yep, but he didn't this time. - Wig tape, wig tape, wig tape.
I also think this is true.
- Wig glue. - You're wrong. You're wrong.
It's false, 'cause everybody knows wigs are held on by thumbtacks.
Oh. Push 'em in.
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You got a little something right here.
Got it.
You need some wig tape, wig tape, "wib"--
wig tape for that. Oh, gosh.
Every--
Every college kid knows the smell of Lysol
means a roommate's parents are coming to visit.
- Yep! - If only Lysol could remove a Bob Marley poster.
But before it was marketed as an all-purpose cleaner,
Lysol had a more specific purpose.
It may not have removed your bad interior decorating,
but it did remove bad interior smells down there.
That's right, Lysol was originally introduced as a lady parts cleaner.
Just a little spray, and everything was clean as a Summer's Eve.
True or false...
Female hygiene spray. Female hygiene spray.
Say it three times and that woman
from the Summer's Eve commercial shows up.
It's not working today.
I don't know what's going on.
Man, that seems traumatic
- to that area. - The magic's not working.
- Lysol in that area. - Yeah, yeah.
It seems like a horrible idea.
- I'm gonna say true. - It is true!
In the early 1800s, Lysol was marketed to women as a feminine hygiene spray.
Also Lysol back then was a lot stronger
than it is today and extremely harmful.
In fact, by 1911, doctors had recorded
193 Lysol poisonings and five deaths
- from uterine irrigation. - Oh, no!
Uterine irrigation.
No, I'm gonna quit that.
You don't wanna hear me say uterine irrigation again, do ya?
- No, you don't. - I just did.
Nowadays, ladies just use some Ajax and a Brillo pad.
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- ( groans ) - We got some groans.
- ( groans ) - Got some groans.
- Play-Doh-- - That's because, um,
that's what's happening over there just off screen.
Oh.
- Play-Doh is the dough you play with. - I love Play-Doh.
- Big fan of it. - But before the colorful clay found its way
to kindergarten classrooms and kindergartners' stomachs,
it was actually used for cleaning up."
True or false...
Wallpaper cleaner?
Oh, I get it.
Like you put it on
and it pulls stuff off.
- Yeah. - Mmm.
You made that up. Fake.
- It's true, man! - Oh, really?
Yeah, it was originally invented in the 1930s.
They marketed it as a wall cleaner
and then it was remarketed to kids in the 1950s!
- Ah! Oh! - Fun fact, like Play-Doh,
wallpaper cleaner is totally safe to eat.
Hold on. Actually--
The booth is telling me--
No, that is not true. It is not safe to eat.
- Oh, you touch your finger-- - The booth tells me--
- The booth-- - Touch your ear to your finger.
The booth tells me when I say something that--
when legal has an opinion.
- Oh, okay. - Link, you're not doing well.
You need this one to not get punished.
Do I know-- Can you tell me the punishment now?
You gotta put your feet in Listerine.
And if you do get this one right,
I gotta put my feet in Listerine.
Oh, wow! And wash my lady parts?
Yeah, you can wash your lady parts if you want.
A lot of people like to get their day going with a bowl of cereal,
but the inventor of cereal did not want people
to get going at all, if you know what I mean.
What I mean is, the Kellogg behind Kellogg's Corn Flakes
wanted to keep people from thinking impure thoughts
and believed a bowl of bland cereal was the cure.
True or false...
You know, shuffling your iPod,
buffing your vampire slayer, hunting for Red October,
playing a little five on one,
- strangling the goose, - Okay.
- DJing your own party. - Okay.
Got it.
- I got more. - No.
Okay.
This is so odd.
Did you make that up just so you could say all those euphemisms?
Possibly.
I'm gonna say true.
Shockingly, you're right, Link!
Yes! John Harvey Kellogg believed the bland taste
of Corn Flakes would decrease excitement and arousal.
That's why I'm a Fruit Loops guy.
Congratulations, Link! That means I'm gonna be dipping my dogs
into some Listerine for Good Mythical More.
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