i distinctly remember forcing my parents to buy a fushigi and when i finally got it i literally did not know what to do with it so it ended up sitting on the floor for a few years, don’t know where it is now actually

honestly the most influential comerical for me as a kid was those bathtubs that come with a chair and you can "walk into" it designed for senior citizens. bro me and my sister genuinely thought that was the height of luxury and we would beg our parents every year for one. (we got a wii instead so we called it even.)

i was strangely attatched to the ‘bathtub with a door’ (for old people) commercial - i would come into the room anytime that commercial was on just to watch it, i wanted a bathtub with a door so bad

I HAD ONE I begged my dad to get me a Fushigi and we couldn’t figure out what it was and we all waited for it to come in the mail and when it arrived it was just this big heavy glass ball. To show my excitement I suggested we pop the dvd in and try it out and I tried the first exercise and the ball rolled off my forearm onto our coffee table and broke the glass table top

the thing that absolutely infuriated me as a child is that they kept bringing up that it “floats” but it clearly doesn’t float. oh every shot they say it floats it shows them literally holding it. it made me so mad as a kid.

Also, my wife let me in on a fun fact: the church she was forced to go to as a young adult, banned the Fushigi ball as they thought it was actual “Magic” and deemed anything described magic as anti-Christian/witchcraft. That’s The South for you.

Kurtis' mustache looks like two Yorkies kissing

Glad I’m not the only child who spent hours watching the same magic bullet infomercial each night. My sister and I still quote it sometimes lol. Nothing like waking up at 3 am to the George Lopez show theme and staying up to watch Mick and Mimi make chocolate mousse

I'm a "professional" contact juggler and I was around during the inception of the fushigi. Here's some extra background from someone in the community. In the last video I made a comment on it so I'm going to copy and paste it here. Later today I'll add some stuff about this particular video. Fushigi is just a brand of ball used for contact juggling, and it was a horrible contact juggling ball. I was a contact juggler years before Fushigi existed (the creator came to our forums and even asked us for advice, he didn't actually take it) and Fushigi just killed contact juggling on the spot. The problem you can see in this video. Contact juggling is HARD, very hard, it takes hundreds of hours of practice to make it look good (the people in the commercial were doing beginner moves, and some not that well). Before fushigi I would contact juggle in public and people would be amazed. They'd stop in their tracks with their jaw dropped, come over, ask questions. I'd hand them the ball and they couldn't believe it was just a very heavy ball. Then fushigi came and the reactions were "oh that's just a fushigi" and keep walking. Because they thought the ball was doing all the work, it's a magic trick. Nevermind the years it took to nail these moves, stuff 100 times more complicated and smoother then what you see in the commercial, it was all reduced down to a party trick. Other members of our forum were street performers and they had it even worse. They'd contact juggle in their acts and had a very noticeable decrease in tips because people thought it was a "magic ball" which did the work for them. People thought they just bought the ball and hit the streets a week later, instead of 5+ years of practice. You can see all the people in this comment section who were disappointed that they got a fushigi and it was just a ball. Also, it's a terrible contact juggling ball because it's actually too small and light. Real contact juggling balls are solid acrylic and very heavy, easily twice as heavy as a fushigi. The hollow chrome ball in the center was so it doesn't start fires. I've seen people light campfires with their acrylic balls, or melt the plastic in their car if the ball was in the open and in direct sunlight. The fushigi people didn't want that problem when advertising to kids so they put the chrome ball inside. The problem is that chrome ball was never centered perfectly, so you can always see it wobble around and ruin the illusion. Plus the chrome ball had a big seam on it that you can see. The illusion only works when you have a perfectly round ball with no markings so you can't see it rolling, rather you see it floating. In short, fushigi killed contact juggling and all of us in the community hated it even more than all of you who opened it up on Christmas morning.

my younger sibling got one and there was a big warning about how you should NOT, under any circumstances, drop your fushingi on an uncarpeted floor. not because of the damage it might cause to the fushigi, but because The Fushigi Will Break Your Floor

As a child who had blo pens, rainbow art, that magic rainbow blackboard, bead magic, and that hair string wrap tool... I'd say that yeah... Those commercials really got me too.

This was a minor rage as well back in 1986 after Jim Henson's _Labyrinth._ The contact juggling was done by Michael Moschen who basically invented the modern form and introduced it to the world in that movie. It's really quite mesmerizing to watch. The movie is awesome too.

KURT the Magic Bullet commercial was SO important to me. The product too, but mostly the feature length infomercial. The grumpy hungover uncle who is cured by a smoothie? I relate more and more to him every day. Idk but I feel really seen rn

My grandmother gave me one of these, and let me tell you, as someone who never learnt how to use it, the property damage comes from launching the 2 pound rock hard ball into your parents stereo system.

14:27 the face of pure panic on Kurtis’ face when he dropped the Fushigi 😭

Childhood friend and I were equally obsessed with the magic bullet advert when we were ~8, and 20 yrs later I finally got one when she gave it to me as a wedding present

i used to watch the magic bullet commercials and think of how useful that would be in my life. I thought that that blender would seriously change the trajectory of my 7 year old life

my sweet grandmother overheard my cousins and I talking about how badly we wanted fushigis and got us all bouncy balls for Christmas because she thought that they were the same thing

for me it was. no joke, the worm on a string. i saw a commercial for them as a child and i wanted one for ages. i did end up getting one once i had my own money, and it was a novelty for a very short time and then spent the rest of its days in a drawer of my jewellery box.

I saw the ad for a Fushigi, had no doubt it was real magic, and wanted one desperately as a eight year-old.

The fushigi coming out in 2010 is REALLY throwing me off… I graduated high school in 2010 and I could have sworn I saw those commercials in middle school. Lol I think Kurtis uncovered a new Mandela effect.

Every single time, without fail, the Barbie “balls” reverb will make me laugh. It will always be funny

Is it just me or did Kurtis look actually really cool in that fushigi video edit

Honestly really happy that the people behind Fushigi actually went out and found someone who was genuinely interested and passionate about contact juggling to make the tutorial DVD. +RESPECT

It’s hilarious that Kurtis doesn’t realize that he has always looked the part of someone who can Fushigi

The ponytail actually centers your energy and gives better balance to manipulate the orb

I legit never understood what the fushigi was as a kid, and even now... Like they're literally just doing tricks with a ball. It doesn't look like magic. It looks like something that some kid named Justin would do with like a baseball at recess when everyone else was just trying to play a game and ignore him.

I liked the the part when he said “it’s fushigan time” and fushiged everywhere

My father was SO into this thing when I was a kid. He'd freak out every time he saw the commercial, just like he was a big kid. He finally got one and demanded I watch the "cool tricks" he learned 😂. He passed last year, this video was a really nice reminder of him 💗

Fun fact- the storage disclaimer was because if you left the ball out and sunlight hit it, it could ✨burn down your house✨

12:11 should’ve put a ponytail on the baby 😂

only kurtis could make a 21 minute long video about a ball from 2010 that i'd watch the whole way

i remember watching a video years ago called “trying to break a fushigi” and it was a guy throwing a fushigi off the roof and shooting it with a bb gun until it broke. it never did.

I actually had a friends that got one of these. She left it sitting on her dresser one day and the sun was shining into her room. The fushigi literally focused the sunlight and started a little fire on the carpet

as a flow artist thats really involved in the community its always fun to see takes on stuff like this. contact juggling is so cool, and like he said, it is kind of a dance. There are so many other really cool flow arts like poi, contact poi, buugeng, hoola hooping, staffs and dragon staffs, etc etc, that are dances but also prop manipulation. it takes a lot of practice and trial and error to find your style and flow (hence the name flow art). And being in flow state is a type of meditation once youre practiced enough, hence the "therapeutic" claim. Many flow artists find their craft an extention of their regular meditation practices. To anyone interested, definitely look into different flow art props! I was never any good at contact poi, but hoola hooping and poi resonated heavily with the way i like to move my body. xo

Ayo, is no one gonna talk about the fact that Kurtis actually looks kinda good with the ponytail? It's such a different but cool look! Especially with the glasses.

the real reason Kurtis made this video is to prepare us for his new hairstyle which is a ponytail so no one will talk shit because its the fushigi that made him do it, no one can prove me wrong

I’m so glad the “BALLS” soundbyte has become a recurring gag because I already quite it all the time lmao.

Fun fact: fushigi is actually originally a Japanese word (不思議 literally fu-shi-gi) that means wonderful/marvelous with a hint of mystery. Whenever I see it I can't help but think of the ball lol

hearing him describe the early 2000s as "vintage" makes me feel ancient and I'm barely an adult

FUCKING FINALLY. I was talking about this stupid ball with my friends last night and I couldn’t remember what it was called for the life of me. Thank you Kurtis

im actually pretty sure the reason you have to "store the fushigi properly" is because it's essentially a huge reflective crystal ball, which means it's subject to the magnifying glass effect. if you leave it out in the sun, it can concentrate the light to a point and start fires.

Kurtis, don't let the fushigi ball discourage you from your real informercial dreams---the magic bullet. High key way easier to clean than a blender and it's kind of nice to be able to make single servings of smoothies (since they don't sit well in the fridge)

I don't remember how old I was when that Magic Bullet infomercial came out, but I was OBSESSED. My mom would tell me when it was on, and no matter what else I was watching, I would switch over to watch that infomercial. It even won out over episodes of Avatar the Last Airbender

I'm embarrassed to say I literally laughed out loud when you described the carrying case as a "ball sack"

Professional contact juggler here: I was doing a show earlier today and let a guy in my audience feel the ball. He yelled "WOW! IT FEELS LIKE A BOOB!" to which somone else in the crowd immediatly yelled "Wow! This guy has never touched a boob!". That filled my heart with joy. 7 years ago they all would have chanted in unison with their eyes rolled back, "THAT IS A FUSHIGI" Edit: Professional Ponytail Man here

My grandma got these for a lot of my younger cousins for Christmas circa 2010-2011. I think they were selling them at Walmart in the As Seen on TV section around that time, and that's where she got them. Everyone was pretty excited initially, but the disappointment soon set in. But the kids did a good job at still pretending to be hyped about it in front of grandma, which was good.

Kurtis' fushigi performance looks like he's auditioning for Dean in the netflix live action Iron Giant.

I understand the fact that the Fushigi looks harmless, but the outer layer is just really thick glass, when I was a kid a friend had one of these, left it out in the sun, and when we came back there was a black mark on the ground and the part of the ball facing up had started to puddle up. They look like they couldn't do any damage, but after I saw that fucker start to melt, I never watched the commercial again.

As someone who just saw Kurtis on tour, I’m sad to say he didn’t do Fushigi I paid to see Fushigi and all I got was stand up 😔

this video was therapeutic

i’ve had one in my house as a sort of junk drawer staple object and it’s genuinley one of the most nostalgic random stupid objects ever

so brave of Kurtis to follow through with this video after realizing he was 16 and in fact, not a child, when the fushigi dropped. All the respect for my Mayor.

the phrase “this has definitely been fushiged before” has not left my mind since i first heard it

I always wanted those stuffed animals that you could turn inside out and it was a new animal. That shit was revolutionary to me as a kid.

“If I wanted to play with 2 balls, I’d just go hop in the shower.” Kurtis is the king of comedy

Kurtis you've seriously gotta do a video on how badly the movie Stuart Little aged. My wife and I decided to rewatch it the other night and oh my lord I cannot believe this movie was actually created. A family walks into a orphanage, see all these kids who want families and are like yeah we want the mouse. You could seriously have a field day with this movie.

Why don't pick up artists just teach fushigi? That was unironically a mad sexy display of alpha energy

Thank you for explaining it for what it actually is: a weighted ball for contact juggling. I used to sell these when I worked at Blockbuster. I sold them all. It was easy. I just marketed it as what it is; a stress reliever. If you use a stress ball, twirl your pens or fiddle with a coin, then you’ll enjoy Fushigi. I would take one up to the counter and put on a show. Sold ‘em all before Christmas. You gained a skill, Kurtis. You may not know it, but you did.

As a kid watching these commercials, it never occurred to me that "fushigi" could be a real word. But then, one day in Japanese class, it was right there on our vocab list. So for anyone who wants to know, "fushigi" is an adjective that basically means a mixture of miraculous, marvelous, and mysterious. This video has shown me that the real fushigi ball is not so miraculous, marvelous, or mysterious, though, haha

Kurt the editing of that fushigi montage was unironically beautiful. I was so transfixed that I got jumpscared by my boyfriend walking over to me. I’m lost in that sweet, sweet fushigi sauce.

To be fair, the guy who made it was a marketing genius

No homie, on my life, there was a fushigi thing with near identical commercials WAY before 2010. I moved to NC in 2007-2008, and watched the commercials at my old bestest Chess and PS2 buddy’s house C O N S T A N T L Y it felt like during almost every commercial break on rocket power and thornberries ugh 😩 hehehe much love and respect per usual to fellow Kurtistown denizens 😁💜🙏 y’all be safe!

If I showed up to a Kurtis Conner show and he just started doing Fushigi, I wouldn't be disappointed

For those who don't know. The warnings at 5:21 refer to when sunlight hits the FUSHIGI it turns your funny magic balls into an mega death laser. As you would expect that can be quite... Dangerous. I hear the same situation can also happen with magic 8 balls.

I used to wake up when I was younger just to watch teleshopping, I had the 5 in one mop on my Christmas list 3 years in a row

The commercial that got me as a child was the Squirmles worm on a string commercial and the day I saw a demonstration at the mall and found out it had like the thickest string and I wouldn't fool anyone was the most disappointing day ever

2000s toys had some of the wildest marketing tactics. I have a distinct memory of going to the mall as a kid, and seeing this booth set up for the Squirmles toy (ya know, the worms on a string). My family was baited. Like even my mom and her boyfriend thought they were the coolest things in the world. Like the booth had a video playing showing all the "cool" thing you can do with the worm on a string. And of course my 8 year old brain thought that the worm really did move on its own. The worst was that they were like $10 for one. Everyone ended up getting one (including the two adults). I just remember the car ride home was just a bunch of white people playing with their worms.

As a kid, I always thought the 'illusion' was that the glass outer sphere was to look 'invisible', so it looks like a smaller, floating chrome ball. So I actually hated these commercials because I thought it was a bunch of adults pretending they couldn't see the glass lol

The Zelda boss music during the fight made me lmao

when i was little i was obbessed with the shamwow infomerical and my parents got me them for Christmas, i was genuinely thrilled and messed around soaking up a bowl full of water with them and then squeezing it out for hours. those were the days.

I love how the comments range from people reminiscing on what they wanted from as seen on TV ads to “my fushigi broke several bones and set my house on fire”

a long time ago my parents bought my siblings and i a fushigi after watching the sick commercial. once we realized it was just an 8lb glass ball with a big metal marble in it, we brought it to the lake and threw it in the water for fun. we would swim around the bottom of the lake and look for it but eventually the fushigi was fushiged

"Fushigi is a Dance Move." I completely and utterly Agree.

This was on ALL THE TIME in Cartoon Network!!! They looked so cool lmao and I vividly remember an ad or infomercial for this nonstick frying pan as a kid and it has not left me since

I believe the storage warning and bag is so important because it acts like a crystal ball in the sense that sunlight at the right angle can literally burn your house down haha

this wasn’t a commercial necessarily, but i remember SO clearly learning about debit cards for the first time, and just becoming obsessed with them. i literally asked my parents for a debit card for christmas when i was like 7, and they had to sit me down and explain why i couldn’t have one

I'm sure I'm not the only person to comment this, but the disclaimer is there because if you leave your fushigi by a window it WILL burn your house down.

As a current 16 year old, I can say for sure that if I saw an As Seen on TV ad for a fushigi before this video, I would've wanted it too.

I actually met Kenny in California about a year before the commercials came out. Dude was super nice and willing to teach kids how to do everything. I bought one of those stupid balls.. I never used it.

I had a fushigi! That thing was not what I expected. I didn't know what contact juggling was, or that I'd need actual skill to use it lol. Used it in a Jareth Halloween costume though. I also used to watch the Magic Bullet infomercial every single morning for like 8 months. Then my grandma got the set and I was so happy. As a teenager I rescued a disabled hamster (born with no teeth) and the Magic Bullet was my go-to for grinding up her food. ♥️

I am praying that you’ve been practicing this while you’ve been on tour and randomly come back with mad Fushigi skills

kurtis's fushigi outfit actually looks awesome. the ponytail works

I BEGGED my parents for a Fushigi ball when I was little. That thing is ridiculously heavy and tough as shit, it's been a decade and the thing is still solid. It's my most prized posession to this day.

let's give a quick shoutout to Jenna's mad interior design skills, you guys. those Patrick Nagel/80's lady masks on the wall had me laying a towel on the floor

I remember that Sun Setter Retractable Awning commercial like it was back to back advertised yesterday

I was into all sorts of weird shit when I was a kid. Dictionaries, flashlights, binoculars, strange contraptions to make juice: you name it, I asked my parents for it.

I'm minoring in Japanese at my uni, and I was completely taken off-guard by my prof using fushigi/ふしぎ in a sentence. Idk why but it had never occurred to me that the word even had a meaning. I had just assumed it was a made up word for the product. Anyways, ふしぎ is an adj. and means "mysterious" because... of course it does.

I’m embarrassed to say I convinced my parents to get me this as a kid. It was really heavy actually so I understand the property damage risk. I used it for literally one day then realized it was just a glass ball that did nothing

That piano music at 6:20 terrified me before I even realized where it was from.

It’s been a year but Magic Bullet sounds like a vibrator I cant stop thinking about it

My grandmother, who is rather disconnected from what my siblings and I actually enjoy, gifted my older brother a Fushigi for Christmas sometime during his teenage years. We'd seen the ads (and mocked them extensively) and my brother attempted a few tricks, but we immediately tired of the rather disappointing fad. It's been sitting on the windowsill for maybe ten years, and we only ever use it as a threat, since it's so heavy and could honestly be weaponized.

I love to imagine Jenna having to film Kurtis in the matrix costume and holding her laughter to make a steady shot

Dude you just give off such good energy, and you are so entertaining. Thanks for the laughs, especially during times of depression.

Sorry but your Fushigi demonstration left me gasping for air, too funny... the kiss had me in tears....lol

Fun fact! ‘Fushigi’ (不思議) means strange and marvelous in Japanese. There’s also a saying - fushigi da ne - which means ‘it’s strange, isn’t it?’ Which is also Bulbasaur’s name in Japanese (playing off the word for seed)

We still had a Fushigi from childhood laying around and my Doberman discovered it one day. Boy howdy, lemme tell ya, that is her favorite toy ever. She will carry it everywhere with her. She loves it. She looks like she’s just waiting to tell you your future with that orb in her mouth. We also have to watch our feet when she’s running around with it. Because she will drop that solid ball directly on your feet if you aren’t careful and just sit there like: Roll it for me pls :) My dog is Fushigi’s biggest fan.

I KNOW THIS A YEAR OLD... but HOLY SH*T ... This fushigi commercial was shot at the beach I used to go to when I was little! Its clearwater beach in FL .. I had to pause and look through for a second but the moment I realized why I recognized it so much I almost dropped my phone .. THIS WHOLE TIME IT WAS HERE. I live like 20 minutes away from one of the most meme legendary commercial filming locations ever 😂

Ahhhh I remember this amazing commercial LOL as well as the slap chop, and commercials for calling Quest to chat with local singles 😂

A side note- my mom recently bought me an off brand fushigi ball, no cap. She told me to leave it in the box when I'm not messing with it- if you let it sit in the sun, it can reflect onto surfaces in your home, aaand set them on fire... 👍🏻 10/10 product