I remember seeing this commercial all the time and thinking "I'm sorry, what's so magical about it? It's clearly not levitating!" Glad to know I'm not the only one who thought that.
I mean it does look cool, but it's basic contact juggling with (probably) acrylic spheres that distort the light passing through and possibly a reflective core. Certainly not even "five-year-old's birthday party" levels of "magic."
Warnings included on the Fushigi box it comes in: *Warning: Pregnant women, the elderly, and children under 10 should avoid prolonged exposure to Fushigi.* *Caution: Fushigi may suddenly accelerate to dangerous speeds.* *Fushigi contains a liquid core, which, if exposed due to rupture, should not be touched, inhaled, or looked at.* *Do not use Fushigi on concrete.* *Discontinue use of Fushigi if any of the following occurs:* -itching -vertigo -dizziness -tingling in extremities -loss of balance or coordination -slurred speech -temporary blindness -profuse sweating, or -heart palpitations. *If Fushigi begins to smoke, get away immediately. Seek shelter and cover head.* *Fushigi may stick to certain types of skin.* *When not in use, Fushigi should be returned to its special container and kept under refrigeration. Failure to do so relieves the makers of Fushigi, Wacky Products Incorporated, and its parent company, Global Chemical Unlimited, of any and all liability.* *Ingredients of Fushigi include an unknown glowing green substance which fell to Earth, presumably from outer space.* *Do not taunt Fushigi.*
That’s just the warnings for Happy Fun Ball from SNL, except you added green to the glowing substance and took out the Gulf War references and, appropriately, the guarantee.
I feel like these are the types of infomercials you wake up to randomly at 3 in the morning when you accidentally fall asleep watching South Park marathons on Comedy Central.
Lemme correct that for you.... "I feel like these are the types of infomercials you wake up to randomly at 3 in the morning after smoking too much weed and passing out while watching South Park marathons on Comedy Central."
I remember when I was a kid I wanted one of these and I got it for christmas. It came with a tutorial disk for how to use it and in the first minute of the video it said that the ball wasn't magic and it's all illusions and that was the beginning of my trust issues for the rest of my life.
One of my grandmas used to have a tendency to pick up any crap labeled "as seen on TV" in the grocery store/pharmacy's useless shit aisle and give it to us for birthdays or Christmas. (Thankfully, she eventually switched to giving cash.) She got me a Fushigi one year. I have poor coordination thanks to a neurological issue. I did watch the DVD and give it a try, but quickly got frustrated and gave up. Did I mention I was in my mid- to late-20s when this happened?
My parents got me this thing for Christmas one year when I was going through my magic phase. The reflective core wasn't even perfectly smooth. You could see the imperfections. Not to mention it got stuffed up after just one drop, ruining any potential for illusion.
"Best of all, it's amazing!" This is because the word "Fushigi" is Japanese for "amazing". Old-school anime geeks know this because of the show "Fushigi Yuugi": "Amazing Play"
I had one of these on my desk at work. I actually just liked to toss it around as it's a pretty high quality, solid ball that's fun to just toss around. I don't think I'd spend 20 on it though, I found mine at a garage sale for 50 cents, still brand new. Was a bargain.
It's weird to watch commercials of stuff you never knew existed, because they make you wonder what the hell they were thinking with some of them. This is easily one of those.
Glass? You wish. It's plastic. My friend once said she wanted one and I lectured her for 15 minutes while showing her the price of an acrylic sphere from a plastics supplier. Thankfully, she's still my friend.
As someone who spent time learning how to do contact juggling (aka sphereplay), I find it pretty nauseating that some corporation tried to cash in by pretending it's the BALL that actually does anything. I learned this stuff on a $5 clear plastic ball, then once I could do it without dropping it all the time, I splurged on an acrylic. I know everybody's gotta make a living, but those jugglers are an embarrassment for participating in this sham, knowing it's an absolute ripoff that does nothing to bring people into the art. Thanks for calling out the bull$hit.
I had never heard of this before so it apparently never fully swept the nation. But on the topic of "Call Now" products, I'd love to see Catch It sinned. There are two commercials that i know of.
I actually remember seeing these and i figured out it was just a mirror ball that makes it look like its not turning or moving when it really is so it doesn't do much.
Fushigi are just spheres that create an optical illusion that makes it hard to see that it is rotating. When they say you can learn how to do it in "just a few minutes" they mean it takes a few minwtes to watch the video, and then nearly a whole year just for you to figure out how to do the most basic of tricks. I remember at one time they had release a whole DVD set of how-to videos "for advance fushigi users". All those videos do is teach you how to contact juggle.
What a wild gimmick that got so big just because of the commercial. Obviously I know it's stupid now, but many people, myself included went and got one of these as kids. The moment I opened it and got it I was disappointed.
Had this came out when labyrinth was out maybe it would have sold but This is just some bull . I remember this and was like Somebody owe Prince Jarek some money LMAOOOOOO
I remember Jay Leno use to have a skit when he had the late show to show how gullible people can be when it comes to buying dumb products. The products he had literally did nothing but had someone go around making people actually believe the product worked as advertised. Omg people would actually fall for it.
I had one of these as a kid,. I practiced with it for hours and could never figure out any of the moves, even with the DVD. I’ll give it this though, I dropped it tons of times and it’s still somehow in one piece and it just sits in its pouch to this day. I haven’t picked it up in years.
Has anybody noticed that for a product using a Japanese name yet only one asian little girl absence of parents and a maybe college spanish dude is in that area of either LA or florida.
I remember seeing this commercial as a teenager and knowing even then it was bs. 😂 Bc if you look closely, the emo girl who’s on the phone calling her mom about the ball, is in another shot wearing a bikini top with a group of girls with sunglasses on 😂 These were all paid actors. Lol
I remember seeing the advertisement for this dumb ball as a kid and thinking it was the coolest shit ever. I don’t remember how but I got one and was so disappointed when I found out it was just a ball. I learned that day to not trust advertising ever. I still have the ball and it’s still lame
I remember purchasing this for my nephew--he just HAD to have it. I had not heard of it--somehow I missed the ad--then he got it home, opened the box pulled it out saw some kind of fishing line, and tossed the entire 19.99 + tax onto his bed and I never saw it again. He did not even try it.
I've never seen this one. First thing I notice is how much the voice-over person is hyping up all this stuff the ball can do but most of the shots are basically just people rubbing it with their hands. Excited voice-over does not match what's being seen!
The fact that me and my cousins got this when we were little and absolutely never learned it or mastered it. Hell, I still have mine sitting around. Discovered it the other day😂
I looked up on eBay what the cheapest one was for sale, including shipping. It was $21. Apparently one of the side effects of this ball is that it causes you to become a charlatan.
I remember watching this a lot, and I wanted it so badly 😂. Yet my family couldn't afford it and I was told it was stupid I remember crying because I wanted the magical ball now I understand about it and I'm sorta sad I didn't get one but also relived 🤣
Can't say for sure but it looks to me that throughout the commercial they're using different balls. In some shots it looks like they're using the legit glass ones that professionals use.
My brother bought it. It won't shatter easily but it looks a lot lamer irl. There is an instructional CD that comes with it but it doesn't have all the tricks in the video.
Even as a kid, I smelled bullshit in this commercial. Some kids at my school got it and only played with it for 20 minutes before realizing it was boring...
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I remember seeing this commercial all the time and thinking "I'm sorry, what's so magical about it? It's clearly not levitating!" Glad to know I'm not the only one who thought that.
I mean it does look cool, but it's basic contact juggling with (probably) acrylic spheres that distort the light passing through and possibly a reflective core. Certainly not even "five-year-old's birthday party" levels of "magic."
Warnings included on the Fushigi box it comes in:
*Warning: Pregnant women, the elderly, and children under 10 should avoid prolonged exposure to Fushigi.*
*Caution: Fushigi may suddenly accelerate to dangerous speeds.*
*Fushigi contains a liquid core, which, if exposed due to rupture, should not be touched, inhaled, or looked at.*
*Do not use Fushigi on concrete.*
*Discontinue use of Fushigi if any of the following occurs:*
-itching
-vertigo
-dizziness
-tingling in extremities
-loss of balance or coordination
-slurred speech
-temporary blindness
-profuse sweating, or
-heart palpitations.
*If Fushigi begins to smoke, get away immediately. Seek shelter and cover head.*
*Fushigi may stick to certain types of skin.*
*When not in use, Fushigi should be returned to its special container and kept under refrigeration. Failure to do so relieves the makers of Fushigi, Wacky Products Incorporated, and its parent company, Global Chemical Unlimited, of any and all liability.*
*Ingredients of Fushigi include an unknown glowing green substance which fell to Earth, presumably from outer space.*
*Do not taunt Fushigi.*
Sounds legit. Thats why ive only known 1 person who ever had one.
Well now I'm just curious about what are the different "types of skin".
@@SgtSupaman lips, tongue, i suppose
@@evilgenius97 I heard 1000 Fushigis were donated to a leper colony. That did not go so well for them.
That’s just the warnings for Happy Fun Ball from SNL, except you added green to the glowing substance and took out the Gulf War references and, appropriately, the guarantee.
I feel like these are the types of infomercials you wake up to randomly at 3 in the morning when you accidentally fall asleep watching South Park marathons on Comedy Central.
And you only call the number if your judgment is still impaired from whatever you were consuming before you fell asleep.
You're not wrong!
Lemme correct that for you....
"I feel like these are the types of infomercials you wake up to randomly at 3 in the morning after smoking too much weed and passing out while watching South Park marathons on Comedy Central."
I remember this being on several channels at all times of day.
You'd think so, but this DID air in the afternoons...sometimes on Cartoon Network
I remember when I was a kid I wanted one of these and I got it for christmas. It came with a tutorial disk for how to use it and in the first minute of the video it said that the ball wasn't magic and it's all illusions and that was the beginning of my trust issues for the rest of my life.
The commercial absolutely everyone saw, for a product absolutely no one wanted to buy.
I actually bought one as much as it embarrasses me to type this
One of my grandmas used to have a tendency to pick up any crap labeled "as seen on TV" in the grocery store/pharmacy's useless shit aisle and give it to us for birthdays or Christmas. (Thankfully, she eventually switched to giving cash.) She got me a Fushigi one year. I have poor coordination thanks to a neurological issue. I did watch the DVD and give it a try, but quickly got frustrated and gave up. Did I mention I was in my mid- to late-20s when this happened?
My parents got me this thing for Christmas one year when I was going through my magic phase. The reflective core wasn't even perfectly smooth. You could see the imperfections. Not to mention it got stuffed up after just one drop, ruining any potential for illusion.
I remember really wanting this ball, thinking I was gonna be a master at this.
Same lol Still have mine...am not a master 😆
"Thanks Nancy Pelosi" took me out 😂😂😂
Thank you for cracking me up so late on Christmas Eve
"Best of all, it's amazing!" This is because the word "Fushigi" is Japanese for "amazing". Old-school anime geeks know this because of the show "Fushigi Yuugi": "Amazing Play"
It means "mysterious"
If this has taught me anything, you can sell anything with the right advertising
I used to have fushigi. Was never able to do anything seen in the commercial
I saw this when I was a dumb kid and thought it was like an orb from The Labyrinth. Needless to say I learned a lifetime lesson for only 19.99!
I still have this ball, along with the DVD. Glad you did a video on this one, so many sins out of it.
I had one of these on my desk at work. I actually just liked to toss it around as it's a pretty high quality, solid ball that's fun to just toss around. I don't think I'd spend 20 on it though, I found mine at a garage sale for 50 cents, still brand new. Was a bargain.
It's weird to watch commercials of stuff you never knew existed, because they make you wonder what the hell they were thinking with some of them. This is easily one of those.
Whoa! I completely forgot this existed. Talk about a throwback. Haha. Wild.
Glass? You wish. It's plastic. My friend once said she wanted one and I lectured her for 15 minutes while showing her the price of an acrylic sphere from a plastics supplier. Thankfully, she's still my friend.
Yep, I was gifted one plastic off center ball by an out of touch grandma...not my grandma thankfully.
@@neowulf420 Same with mine. A week later, she had an "unfortunate accident" down a flight of stairs.....
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I had a friend with one of these. Held it for 45 seconds and wondered why the people in the commercial were so excited.
As someone who spent time learning how to do contact juggling (aka sphereplay), I find it pretty nauseating that some corporation tried to cash in by pretending it's the BALL that actually does anything. I learned this stuff on a $5 clear plastic ball, then once I could do it without dropping it all the time, I splurged on an acrylic.
I know everybody's gotta make a living, but those jugglers are an embarrassment for participating in this sham, knowing it's an absolute ripoff that does nothing to bring people into the art. Thanks for calling out the bull$hit.
And here I was thinking this commercial was a fever dream...
I was a big Enigma fan back in the day, so I lost it at the "sade di moi" line
Doesn't the girl say "this is so AMUSING" not this is so amazing?
I had never heard of this before so it apparently never fully swept the nation. But on the topic of "Call Now" products, I'd love to see Catch It sinned. There are two commercials that i know of.
Love the review👍🏻 Was hoping for a David(R.I.P) Bowie Labyrinth joke 🤣.
That weird ball thing huh? Here's a better challenge:
Something Right With Fushigi.
Omg I bought one of these and I still have it and I've never played with it just sits on my bookshelf collecting dust
I got one of these when I was little and I still have the little black bag you were supposed to carry it in but I sure as hel don't have a ball
Stop reading my mind. Thought about this yesterday at work.
I still have my Fushigi, although I hadn’t really used it in a while
I actually remember seeing these and i figured out it was just a mirror ball that makes it look like its not turning or moving when it really is so it doesn't do much.
It's weird the fact I still remember this commercial. And by the way 2007 called they would like their commercial back.
Someone saw Bowie in the Labyrinth juggling glass balls and thought, we can make money on this.
Fushigi are just spheres that create an optical illusion that makes it hard to see that it is rotating.
When they say you can learn how to do it in "just a few minutes" they mean it takes a few minwtes to watch the video, and then nearly a whole year just for you to figure out how to do the most basic of tricks.
I remember at one time they had release a whole DVD set of how-to videos "for advance fushigi users". All those videos do is teach you how to contact juggle.
I just got hit by a big wave of nostalgia
You’re not the only one!
Sharks in bikinis originally pitched magical levitating glass balls to the dinosaurs before this company finally bought them.
What a wild gimmick that got so big just because of the commercial. Obviously I know it's stupid now, but many people, myself included went and got one of these as kids. The moment I opened it and got it I was disappointed.
I have one of these things but i never bothered learning and of the tricks, i just fiddle with it when i'm bored
I thought I could be like David Bowie in labyrinth lol not even close 😁
Had this came out when labyrinth was out maybe it would have sold but This is just some bull . I remember this and was like Somebody owe Prince Jarek some money LMAOOOOOO
“Sharks have lived on Earth longer than Saturn has had rings.”
My brother got one of these for Christmas as a kid. It's more durable than it looks, but scratches really easy.
Yeah ... I can't even get a yo-yo to work; you think I'm spending $20 on THIS???
Wow. I have literally never heard of it.
i just wanted to be the goblin king, man....
I had one of these back in the day! It never worked right
As I watch this I shall be looking at my very dusty Fughigi next to me
I actually remember those things, but no one i knew had one of those.
I remember watching this years ago, I didn’t know this still existed!
I guess it was the fidget spinner before the fidget spinner was the fidget spinner😐
Pretty much
Everything wrong with liberty Mutual
I had one and ended up breaking it to get the ball inside
I saw this commercial so many damn times. I never understood what the hell it was supposed to be.
I remember Jay Leno use to have a skit when he had the late show to show how gullible people can be when it comes to buying dumb products. The products he had literally did nothing but had someone go around making people actually believe the product worked as advertised. Omg people would actually fall for it.
This feels like a beautiful fever dream all the commercials worthy of sinning
You know... I actually watched that DVD. Shit's actually pretty simple to pull off with some trial and error. The instructions are clear and concise.
David Bowie from Labyrinth has one
I remember wanting this. Haven’t seen one in maybe seven years.
I had one of them, I got it for Christmas and I actually loved it as a kid.
I had one of these as a kid,. I practiced with it for hours and could never figure out any of the moves, even with the DVD. I’ll give it this though, I dropped it tons of times and it’s still somehow in one piece and it just sits in its pouch to this day. I haven’t picked it up in years.
This is your best one yet.
Commercial:Order by phone!
Commercial Sins: How fking old IS this commercial???
Me who remembers this commercial: Shit that means I'm old now!?!?
I remember this toy I wanted one of these when I was a kid
Has anybody noticed that for a product using a Japanese name yet only one asian little girl absence of parents and a maybe college spanish dude is in that area of either LA or florida.
I remember seeing this commercial as a teenager and knowing even then it was bs. 😂 Bc if you look closely, the emo girl who’s on the phone calling her mom about the ball, is in another shot wearing a bikini top with a group of girls with sunglasses on 😂 These were all paid actors. Lol
I remember seeing the advertisement for this dumb ball as a kid and thinking it was the coolest shit ever. I don’t remember how but I got one and was so disappointed when I found out it was just a ball. I learned that day to not trust advertising ever.
I still have the ball and it’s still lame
You should do RipStik next.
I remember purchasing this for my nephew--he just HAD to have it. I had not heard of it--somehow I missed the ad--then he got it home, opened the box pulled it out saw some kind of fishing line, and tossed the entire 19.99 + tax onto his bed and I never saw it again. He did not even try it.
Oh he gets it now!
There is no fishing line with it
@@neilgodfrey2669 Okay it was monofilament line which where I come from is called fishing line. Gee whiz, it was a comment not an inventory.
@@WilAdams gee whiz?? Please do not swear
I've never seen this one. First thing I notice is how much the voice-over person is hyping up all this stuff the ball can do but most of the shots are basically just people rubbing it with their hands. Excited voice-over does not match what's being seen!
My brother got one of these lol its hard to believe we believed this as kids
Sin # 7: Chris says "f* you". I'm so proud! (teary eye)
"I'm gonna buy the of them and their then at any-"
So the ad worked then.
No Jareth the Goblin King jokes?
The fact that me and my cousins got this when we were little and absolutely never learned it or mastered it. Hell, I still have mine sitting around. Discovered it the other day😂
I comes with a tutorial CD I think maybe it’s just a CD of the ad or both of them, I don’t remember
I looked up on eBay what the cheapest one was for sale, including shipping. It was $21. Apparently one of the side effects of this ball is that it causes you to become a charlatan.
I forgot fushigi existed
I think a lot of people forgot those things existed
I remember watching this a lot, and I wanted it so badly 😂. Yet my family couldn't afford it and I was told it was stupid I remember crying because I wanted the magical ball now I understand about it and I'm sorta sad I didn't get one but also relived 🤣
a missed sin is that the clip they used when they show you the DVD is actually not a clip that's in the actual DVD.
What happened to Barret? What’s the secret?
Where’s Chadtronic when you need him? 🤣🤣
I wanted one in third grade, until some jackass brought his to school and crushed everyone's dreams.
WE WERE NOT ALL MEANT TO BE GOBLIN ROYALTY!!
Hello two years later. Currently rolling a Fushigi ball from finger tips to shoulder while texting this message
Oh fuck the broccoli comment. Ahhh my head hurts so that was kale.
Can't say for sure but it looks to me that throughout the commercial they're using different balls. In some shots it looks like they're using the legit glass ones that professionals use.
I got one for Christmas when I was little, I read the instructions that if I dropped it it would ruin the magic so I was too scared to play with it.
My brother bought it. It won't shatter easily but it looks a lot lamer irl. There is an instructional CD that comes with it but it doesn't have all the tricks in the video.
Even as a kid, I smelled bullshit in this commercial. Some kids at my school got it and only played with it for 20 minutes before realizing it was boring...
Yeah I don't need something this stupid to confuse people
I’m only mad. Because i freaking wanted one
This is so 2000s
Wait, its just a ball of glass?
I never met anyone that had these. 😂
Same here
I'm disappointed because they didn't even mention Jareth ONCE! Come on guys; IT'S RIGHT THERE
So is Fushigi a noun or a verb? Because I'd like some privacy while I Fushigi my Fushigi.
View #32 and comment 4. I'll take it. I had one of these when I was young. I got pretty good with it. It was pretty fun. Hard though.
I hate that I actually believed this commercial as a kid
I remember my older sister owning one of these and then never using it again, which I believe it's because she realized she was scammed.
Phil Swift and the whole Flex products family
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 3:42
3:15 NERD
My mom is in one of these commercials, it was weird.