Buy Me That! A Kids' Survival Guide to TV Advertising (VHS 1989)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ก.ย. 2016
- A special that examines television commercials aimed at children. Focusing on the gimmicks used in TV ads, the documentary is designed to help young people look at commercials with a critical eye.
Pogo ball looks like a great way to break both of your ankles.
I Had It, It Actually Worked. 😂
It was really hard to use. You got tired very fast.
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.
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
There are several shows that use this format. There's _Adam Ruins Everything,_ _Penn & Teller: BS,_ and going as far back as _Fight Back! with David Horowitz._ And Consumer Reports (who made this video) has a youtube channel. There are also lot of youtube channels that explain and expose this type of stuff. It's quite commonplace today.
I've finally found it
If you were a kid who was lucky enough to have HBO back in 89, you'll definitely remember this 🥰
This is why I love TH-cam so much. Thank you so much for uploading. Nostalgia city!!!
Katie Rowen Very true. TH-cam is a true time capsule.
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!
I have been looking for this for easily 20 years, I thought I mads it up in my head
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!
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!
Kid: I want a ninja turtle!
Me: same...
I had that blue watercraft thing with the snakes. I had Rat King, Leo, Don, Ralph, my brother had a few. We knew exactly what we were getting. Who the hell would think that they would be getting all of the environment that these toys are being presented in?
Ohh I know THIS GUY
For some odd reason the glue milk part is what I remember.
Th3 A6E5 3030 Posada I remember the grapes and oil.
That revelation messed me up as a kid.
And in the '90s, Consumer Reports had Zillions magazine, a kids version of their main one.
First of all turbo trickers were badass
That pogo ball toy is incredibly dangerous. All those kids kept falling directly onto the concrete.
This should also be watched by adult toy collectors whose collecting has turned into an addiction.
If I meet someone with a Funko Pop collection, I immediately know that they're retarded and should avoid them at all costs.
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.
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.
cough cough DISNEY
I loved this when I was a kid.
I'm surprised that they got away with anti-consumerism/capitalism in the late 80s.
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.
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
That scares me.
I loved watching this
My teacher was showing me this at school.
same
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.
You poor thing.
@@aquastartv1895 ikr
@@MartenFerret have a virtual hug, it's ok.
This video is so true!
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!
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!!
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.
Yes I still remember the pogo ball and myself and my sister falling off and almost getting ourselves broken bones!
WE NEED CHAD
1989 youtuber, lol.
lol
I'd subscribe 🤷♀️
These kids thick NY accents has me rollin lol
I was never allowed to call those numbers...even if it was for the Pope.
15:19 Okay based on this upload, they did NOT even write "Each sold seperately", period
15:21 there is some blurry print on the bottom of the screen.
@@markraymo997 It's just illegible from the poor quality
they did write it, some people couldn't really see it.
@@LiLi-lj2ib I'll admit that the quality of this upload is no help
But this disclaimer still might not be more legitimate than" wuzu wuzu wuzz zzz zz zzzzz one hundred, ready or not here I come"
Tuesday, May 16, 2023 CE, 18:03 EDT
@@mcwooley I don't think we needed the exact time.
Very cool
6:47-7:07 Its not cheap, it's called stereotyping.
It’s called knowing your target audience. Boys tend to gravitate towards toys that reaffirm their strengths and feed their sense of pride. Girls tend to like toys that appeal to their emotional maturity and social skills, generally speaking of course. It’s kind of like showing teenagers in cellphone commercials because young people are quick to pick up on new technology.
i loved playing guess who
Thank you so much for uploading this. I watched this in school
Me too. I saw this in 6th grade back in 2002.
In the advertisers' defense, how dumb would you have to be to think the Guess Who? characters actually talk?
Have you met a kid before?
@@sageparra4956 I've met enough of them to know that if any of them thought characters talked in a board game that didn't involve electricity, other kids would call him an idiot.
Guess Who: Game cards do not actually talk
“If they do, you should probably seek help.”
Dude I was 7 when I first saw a guess who commercial and even I knew the cards don't come to life.
To be fair, I was a gullible enough kid to think that a Rainbow Brite doll I saw on TV actually made things change color. Kids are inexperienced and marketers like to prey off of their inexperience.
I had to watch this in technology class
Hard to believe he played Willie Loomis in 1991’s Dark Shadows.
I found it easy to find sold separatel
I was a teenager back then. So I didn't really care.
aha- i came from my teacher
imagination sold separately.
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!
True story
How can cards talk
They don't. Edit: it's a little thing called animation.
Is this Hugo Weaving from The Matrix, Lord of the Rings, etc.?
Oh my god I can't believe guess who is on here 🤣
I knew toys didn’t do what the commercial had them doing
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!!!!!
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 have no clue.
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
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.
This guy's trying to take the commercials too literally. I get it and like the video, but he's over exaggerating.
It's for children my dude
That's what the segment was about. Children taking the commercials literally and being duped into buying junk. I remember watching this and instantly being woke to commercial tactics. I can't remember asking for another toy after 1989. I was disillusioned.
Because he’s trying to keep kids from wasting their parents’ money and understand why what they see isn’t always what they get. Plus, you kinda need to exaggerate in order to keep kids’ attention.
This mans give me gay vibes
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@@roccotv1582they were saying that he looks like he'd be gay.