Pogo ball looks like a great way to break both of your ankles.

There are adults who believe everything they see in a commercial or infomercial. Adults who can vote, drive, own guns, have kids, etc. Some people are smart enough to question the claims of an ad, or to do research before spending money - but millions of people are not smart enough. I loved the Buy Me That series, and Zillions magazine (Consumer Report for Kids). New suckers are born into each generation, and the level of trickery only gets worse. Great job cutting thru the b.s. I'd love to see a reboot of this series for today

I remember staying home sick from school and watching this on HBO and being blown away.

This is why I love KZfaq so much. Thank you so much for uploading. Nostalgia city!!!

Damn, this basically still holds up - I would love if an updated version with a section on online advertising were to be produced. Probably a pipe dream though lol

If you were a kid who was lucky enough to have HBO back in 89, you'll definitely remember this 🥰

I've finally found it

I have been looking for this for easily 20 years, I thought I mads it up in my head

I still have VHS copies of all 3 specials...years later, Jim Fyfe would go on to play a much creepier role in the Smart Guy episode "Strangers On the Net". Also, likely in response to that one segment, later versions of the Guess Who commercial added a disclaimer stating "Game cards do not actually talk"...always thought of this BMT installment when I heard it!

Even as a kid I knew commercials had to exaggerate. To me it was about the imagination but I guess some kids wanted the cards to talk. I saw the TMNT toy commercials and I didn’t expect for my figures to recite dialogue in animation form.

I remember viewing this presentation as a kid and loving it!

And in the '90s, Consumer Reports had Zillions magazine, a kids version of their main one.

That pogo ball toy is incredibly dangerous. All those kids kept falling directly onto the concrete.

Assembly for those toys will help you later in life with your Ikea furniture. Not to mention putting it together yourself is cheaper and greener!

For some odd reason the glue milk part is what I remember.

First of all turbo trickers were badass

Kid: I want a ninja turtle! Me: same...

I played with GI Joes and was Never disappointed with what I got. If a vehicle came with a driver/pilot then it was advertised on the packaging and you could see the figure in a clear window.

This should also be watched by adult toy collectors whose collecting has turned into an addiction.

I loved this when I was a kid.

Thank you for uploading this!

I feel these companies have way to much influence and money now a days for program like this to exist today.

I'm surprised that they got away with anti-consumerism/capitalism in the late 80s.

This show covered FOMO before we knew what it was.

Maybe Jim fyife should teach kids and their parents how to avoid quackery because their isn't any advice and information on quackery prevention for kids.

They'd Never Air This Nowadays. Smh

My teacher was showing me this at school.

This show lasted longer than I thought it would.

I remember watching this and being so disappointed and intrigued

I'm disappointed my playset didn't come with an ocean.

Ever since the toys that made us series dropped ive been trying hard as hell to remember what this series was called, and bam here it is. These kids seemed coerced in some of these scened but i cant deny it made me smarter as a kid. Thanks for the upload.

WE NEED CHAD

I loved watching this

That guy is right if it's sounds too good to be true it probably false and it's there for a reason to scam customers out of their money and take advantage of them.

Still have my VHS copy of this special...oddly enough, while most of the commercials featured can be found individually on YT, have yet to find a decent recording of the one for Flip Ball (other than a "cell phone aimed at the screen" hack job), which sucks, since it had a very catchy jingle!

Yes I still remember the pogo ball and myself and my sister falling off and almost getting ourselves broken bones!

15:19 Okay based on this upload, they did NOT even write "Each sold seperately", period

Thank you sir! Okay Mandela effect time. For some reason I remember the gentleman taking a bite of the fake ice cream. now seeing it here he just puts the spoon in. good show again thanks for the upload!!

This video is so true!

In the advertisers' defense, how dumb would you have to be to think the Guess Who? characters actually talk?

I was never allowed to call those numbers...even if it was for the Pope.

i loved playing guess who

6:47-7:07 Its not cheap, it's called stereotyping.

These kids thick NY accents has me rollin lol

1989 youtuber, lol.

Very cool

I had to watch this in technology class

Hard to believe he played Willie Loomis in 1991’s Dark Shadows.

Thank you so much for uploading this. I watched this in school

imagination sold separately.

aha- i came from my teacher

I found it easy to find sold separatel

How can cards talk

I was a teenager back then. So I didn't really care.

Is this Hugo Weaving from The Matrix, Lord of the Rings, etc.?

It doesn't take much for that guy to be entertained.... one bottle of soapy water and plastic ring thing and WOW hours upon hours of nonstop FUN!!!!!

Oh my god I can't believe guess who is on here 🤣

I have a toy that is a scam (maybe it just got made wrong) it was scruffy love!When i got it I wanted to wash it right away,so I did I washed it then! I looked at it it looked like a pink rat! It seemed that it was a scam!so never! I said NEVER GET THOSE!

I knew toys didn’t do what the commercial had them doing

I had a pogo ball and I never got 1 jump out of it lol

Why does he look like Matpat’s Great Grandfather when he was young?

I watched these as a kid and loved them, I also wondered how stupid these kids were for thinking the things in the commercial were real.

If more kids at the time were shown this, than maybe we wouldn’t have so many basement-dwelling 43 year olds who have collections of Funko Pops and Transformers action figures

This guy's trying to take the commercials too literally. I get it and like the video, but he's over exaggerating.

This mans give me gay vibes