- Today, we travel through time with toys on the mind.
- Let's talk about that.
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- Yeah, now everyone had a favorite toy growing up, right?
Mine was the calculator.
Boobs!
Remember that?
- I remember boobs.
- And I tell that story for a good reason
because today we're digging to the bottom
of the old toy chest.
- That's right, we're busting out some of the most
classic toys of the past century to see if we can guess
when they were invented.
It's time for Year Eye With 2 Straight Guys!
Toys Edition.
- Okay, so we're gonna be taking a toy tour
of the 20th century.
We're gonna play with the toys and then we're gonna
determine which decade they were invented in
and indicate that on this amazing shuffleboard!
- Yes, and whoever shuffles their shopping cart with a toy
in it to the closest decade wins the point.
And whoever wins this game,
gets the right to play Naughty Santa on Instagram.
- Ooh, let's shuffle.
(game show theme music)
- [Rhett And Link] Round one.
- What's our first toy?
Ooh,
the Magic 8 Ball.
- Ah we each get our own.
Am I gonna win this time since Link won last time?
- Do you prefer me over Rhett?
- "Yes, definitely"!
- "My sources say no."
We have inconsistencies amongst the Magic 8 Balls.
- I think the Magic 8 Balls prefer me on both accounts.
Isn't that right Magic 8 Ball?
"Without a doubt."
Wow, woo! The case--
- "Outlook good."
- The case keeps building.
- It is in agreement.
- Okay, so again, you won last time so you go first
because the loser gets the advantage of going second.
- (sighs) Okay.
- When do you think the Magic 8 Ball was invented?
- To find out what decade the Magic 8 Ball was invented,
we have to first determine when magic was invented.
- Ha!
- Magic's been around a long time so maybe that's moot.
- Ah.
- So, let's go back to the 8 Ball.
Here's the thing, it's a simple toy,
it seems like it could be earlier,
but the way that it's manufactured is kind of fancy.
- [Rhett] Oh.
- So I think you gotta have advanced manufacturing
techniques to make this thing work.
- You think this is fancy?
- I mean, I know this was around in the '80s.
Are you from the '80s?
"My reply is no."
Well, you're wrong.
- Ooh, you're not gonna trust the 8 Ball.
Hm, okay.
- All right, so I'm going for 1980 in the back corner.
Slide, slide, slide, slide, slide, slide, ooh!
- Interesting. - A little bit short.
- You went to the '70s which, incidentally,
is what I was thinking.
- Oh, yeah?
Huh, well that's your problem.
- Okay, was I right in thinking that it was the '70s,
Magic 8 Ball?
"It is decidedly so."
You have to trust the 8 Ball.
I'm gonna try to actually knock you to the answer
that you wanted which was the '80s.
- I love that.
Knock me to the '80s.
- And try to stay in the '70s.
(shopping baskets crash and clang)
Oh my goodness, yes! (clapping)
- [Link] Oh no!
- [Rhett] Ha, ha, ha, ha.
- [Link] No!
You're in my answer!
- [Rhett] I'm in pretty good shape.
- [Narrator] Yeah, of course that was the Magic 8 Ball.
It was originally called the Syco Seer
and it was first developed by Albert C. Carter,
the son of a professional psychic.
The Magic 8 Ball first came out in 1948.
- [Link] What?
They must have made it differently.
I was barking up the wrong tree.
(bell chiming)
- Ah, that manufacturing, woo, way ahead of it's time.
(game show music)
- [Rhett And Link] Round two.
- Okay. Let's see what we gots in here.
Ooh, Raggedy Ann!
- Look at that Raggedy Ann.
Did you have one of these?
- I had a Raggedy Ann doll.
- Really?
- Yes, I don't know, I think maybe it was a Raggedy Andy,
they like did the Raggedy Andy.
- Yeah, there was a guy version.
- Gender norms.
But, yeah, I spent a lot of time with him.
- So, we know it's as old as you which is as old as dirt.
- And it has, okay, so I'm gonna go first
'cause I'm in the lead.
- This one smells new though.
It's amazing you can still buy these.
- [Rhett] I hate to do this--
- [Link] She's a bit dejected.
- [Rhett] To her.
- What are you thinking, in terms of decade, here?
- I'm thinking that this is no later than the '50s,
but is so basic and has yarn hair,
so I think that it's probably before that.
So I think I'm just gonna kind of go up top
right there between 1910 and 1930.
Maybe create a situation that you have to navigate.
- Hedging your bets, huh?
Oh, that's too hard.
You're going way past.
No, you're not.
(clears throat)
- [Link] Okay, now, I feel like with a name like Raggedy,
you know, you've gotta pick a raggedy time.
- [Rhett] Right.
- We're talking like taking yarn
that's been used for other purposes
and then making it into hair for a toy.
I definitely think this is like Depression Era.
- When was ragtime?
- Oh, ragtime?
- Wasn't that, ragtime was the '20s.
- Are we talking, like flappers in the '20s?
- Or was it the roaring, the Roaring '20s, ragtime.
- Roaring '20s?
But I'm sticking to my guns.
I'm going for 1930s and I can bank shot off of yours
in order to distance you from, if I'm wrong.
- Well, if you do what I did last time,
yours is gonna continue to go forward.
It's not gonna stop.
- [Link] Right there on 1930!
- [Rhett] Nice, okay.
All right.
If 1930's right, you're it!
- [Narrator] The Raggedy Ann doll was designed
by Johnny Gruelle and was first introduced to the public
in the book "Raggedy Ann Stories" in 1918.
- [Link] Oh, that's early and what are you on?
You nailed it. - 1910s!
(bell chiming) Do I get extras for that?
- No, but you're pulling away.
(game show theme music)
- [Rhett And Link] Round three.
- I love toys, oh!
- Oh, finger skateboards. - Here's some more.
- Right there, you've got these,
what are these called?
They're called something.
- Finger skateboards.
- Skateboards for your fingers!
- You know what, this seems like the kind of thing
that back in the day,
I would've like come over to your house
and you would've just been going bonkers with these.
- Fingerboarding away.
- [Rhett] Yeah, it's the kind of thing
you would've done for a long time.
Like, two or three hours alone in your bedroom.
- But, I never did.
- Why?
- I'm not gonna tell you why.
- They didn't exist!
Ha!
That's what you were hiding!
(laughs)
- Fine.
They didn't, yeah, I don't remember these existing.
Do you?
When we were kids?
- No, I don't remember these in the '80s.
But listen, we lived in North Carolina
and things came to us like a generation late.
- Yeah, you were bouncing on the pogo ball
and everybody was pointing and laughing,
saying "Where's your scooter?"
- Right.
But, I really, again-- - And remember,
the pogo ball came back.
- You would've been playing with this if you could have
so it must have been invented in the '90s.
Going for the '90s.
- Woo, that was-- - Oh (laughs).
- All right, man, I believe this is the '90s.
So I have got to eradicate you from contention
and then nestle myself up there.
- Oh, you're going to nestle.
- But, I don't want to push you in the '80s,
'cause if we were wrong, then it's '80s.
- [Rhett] Hmm, yep.
Quite a conundrum!
- I've gotta go back this way
and I've gotta heave ho you into the 1960s
or off the board entirely.
- You're gonna send me all the way to the '60s?
- Yeah.
- [Rhett] Oh ho, whoa!
- [Link] Yeah!
It looks like no matter what happens to you,
I should get this point, right?
- Yeah, I don't think--
- Yeah, it is physically impossible for me to win,
regardless of the answer.
(exhales)
- [Narrator] Okay, before I give you the answer,
have a look at a semi-pro finger skater
pulling off some sweet tricks.
(wheels rolling)
- He doesn't look like he's having any fun.
- Effortless.
It's just amazing.
- I mean, is it fun?
- It's gonna be an Olympic sport soon.
- [Narrator] Okay, the name of these is Fingerboards
and they were a huge fad in the late 1990s, but--
- [Link] Yes?
- [Narrator] Were first invented as novelty toys
and sold as key chains in the late 1960s.
- [Rhett] Wow, okay, well, you're actually in the '60s.
- Man, man.
- You tried to push-- - I dodged a bullet.
- You tried to push me to the right answer.
- I know!
- And you ended up in it.
- Dang, son.
(game show theme music)
- [Rhett And Link] Round four.
- Okay, you're still in it, Link.
- Ooh!
- Yes!
Viewmasters!
- Viewmasters.
- What's in here?
There's pictures in here.
Oh my God! - Chase, come on!
(background laughter)
- Dude!
You're totally naked on our leather couch
and now you're laying down.
Seriously?
- Chase, we sleep on that couch!
- [Link] That's my freaking desk!
Your butt's on my desk!
- Well, you know what?
He's probably doing that on my desk.
Ha, he's not on my desk!
You only did it on Link's desk?
- [Link] He's on the coffee table.
- Thank you Chase!
- I keep looking for you to be on Rhett's desk.
His desk was just right across from my desk!
- [Rhett] Chase--
- You know all you had to do
was move your naked ass over there!
- He played the piano?
Okay, Link, I'm gonna go first 'cause I'm still in the lead.
I'm a little shaken, I gotta say.
- I think you went a little overboard on the censorship.
It's a little larger than it needed to be.
- Yeah, listen. (background laughter)
Okay.
All right, when did the Viewmaster get invented?
Obviously it was super popular when we were kids
but it has a very '70s feel to it.
But, you know what?
- I don't think so.
- It actually feels a little bit more '50s.
- Hours of entertainment just by looking at pictures?
- In the '50s it was like we were looking forward
and imagining how awesome things were gonna be
and it seems a little futuristic that you can just, like,
put a little world inside a plastic thing.
I don't know.
I don't really have good reasons but I'm going for the '50s.
- [Link] Sock hops.
- [Rhett] Too much!
Oh gosh, come on!
- [Link] Too much juice.
- [Rhett] I'm in a real, real bad position here, Link.
- If you wanna see a really bad position,
look through this Viewfinder again.
(laughing)
- Viewmaster, I remember when I was
like four years old I got one of these at Disney World
and I just thought it was absolutely amazing.
So, I'm definitely thinking this is definitely a '70s thing.
But, just to hedge my bets,
I'm gonna nestle up right next to you.
- You're doing a lot of nestling.
- Yeah, that's right where I wanted it!
Woo, that feels good!
- You can't lose.
What's the answer?
- Feels like looking through a Viewfinder
and not seeing a naked Chase.
- [Narrator] So the Viewmaster was originally
marketed to adults at the World's Fair,
but eventually grew in popularity with children.
It was invented in the year 1938.
- [Rhett] Whoo.
- The '30s are way up here.
- Ah, okay.
So it means that you're closer.
- I get the point.
- All right, we're tied going into the last round.
- Drama!
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- [Rhett And Link] Round five.
- It all comes down to this.
- Troll dolls.
- Look at these cute little munchkins.
- [Rhett] In multiple sizes.
- [Link] They're not munchkins, they're trolls.
Look at that. - So, Link,
we're tied. - Yeah.
- Sudden death.
Any man's game, but because you won the last game,
now you have to go first.
- Okay.
Trolls have been around the place, man.
They're ubiquitous.
Wee!
Let's put this one on top.
I think there's like,
there's a freaking Troll cartoon.
I think there's a Troll candy called Trollies.
Does that have anything to do with Trolls?
I think these are pretty old.
What's the oldest decade that's still in play?
1920s?
Has that been an answer?
Why don't I pay attention?
- That's a question for yourself.
- I'm going between the '20s and the '40s
'cause I can't remember if they've already been an answer.
- [Rhett] What?
- [Link] Whoop!
A little short there.
My answer is now 1950.
- Okay.
I find it strange that you thought
these could be from the 20s.
I mean, maybe you're right, I have no idea.
- Why?
It's just a doll with a bunch of hair
that looks like a troll.
- To me, this screams that the toy manufacturers
who invented these were doing some experiments with,
you know, some plants, ha ha.
You know what I'm talking about
when I say plant experiments?
I'm talking about psychedelics, man.
- [Link] Okay. - Different color hair,
crazy eyes,
all Trolls look like they're in the midst of a trip,
and so I think that this is '60s.
- Okay, do you remember if that's been answered?
- It has been (laughs).
So that can't be my answer.
So that means--
- Did I just tell you that? - '70s.
No.
I think that it's '70s because they,
somebody came up with the idea
during a trip during the '60s--
- But they didn't have the wherewithal to manufacture them.
- But the patents and all the stuff and the manufacturing,
it took them a while to get to the '70s.
- [Link] Well, I'm sitting pretty on '70s right now
so what you gonna do?
- [Rhett] You're actually, you're in a really good position
because '50s is potentially a really good answer.
I feel like I've just to got to knock you back
and be closer to the right answer,
unless the right answer is the '80s,
in which case I'm definitely going to lose.
(grocery carts crash and clang)
- [Link] Oh my goodness!
- [Rhett] Oh no!
- We have some chaos,
and I think we are agreeing that we're measuring from what?
The disc, not the Troll, right?
Because, remember when my pie came off
and we had our argument,
you said you can't measure from the pie?
- I think we have to measure,
I don't know who the red doll was, but regardless,
I think you gotta measure from the disc.
- [Narrator] Okay, Troll dolls were inspired
by Scandinavian folklore
and are said to bring good luck because they make you laugh
and no harm can come to you if you're laughing.
- Really?
- [Narrator] They were first introduced to the world
in 1959.
- Oh, shoot.
Oh gosh, so you--
- I think you're definitely closer.
- [Link] Are further away from the '50s.
- [Rhett] You're definitely closer, right?
'Cause a straight line from here to the '50s
is much straighter than the line from here.
- Okay, so by the hair of a Troll's head,
I have won the game which means I win the right
to play Naughty Santa in a sketch on our Instagram.
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