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Here is a funny video care of EverythingIsTerrible (via HolyTaco) that captures the brief and regrettable craze that was Beanie Babies. (Did you know that if planet Earth’s existence was an hour, all of human history would be less than one second out of that hour, and Beanie Babies would be a fucking joke?) It’s two and a half wonderful minutes of completely deluded people talking about over-priced beanbags as if they’re a real thing worth actual money. There is even a full-grown adult man who is obviously your boyfriend going on and on because he’s President of the Sad Club’s Beanie Baby Division.
Yes, yes, LOL, of course. I get it. They talk about how the fad will never end, but it does end! BUT ALSO I KNOW YOU, HOST.
Enhance…
Enhance…
You are CAUGHT, Samm Levine. Or should I call you SAMM BEANIE BABY LOVERINE. Oh man, I don’t know why this is so funny to me. Obviously, Samm Levine is a perfectly good comedic actor, who has been in lots of good stuff, and work is work. Even 10-year-old future cult comedy stars have to put food on their families. It’s just nice to see that no one is safe from the mild embarrassment of resurfacing viral videos. You’re next, Martin Starr.
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Man this isn’t even funny. It’s actually the saddest thing in the world.
(Not the Samm Levine part. That part’s hilarious.)
Glad to see that Beanie Babies collectors also use Joel Bauer’s “power of three.”
Glad those Beanie Babies collector’s use Joel Bauer’s “Power of Three” technique.
Sad that you don’t also use Joel Bauer’s theory of “Power of Three”.
Too bad, Colin. One more comment and you wouldn’t of been a cast member of Freaks and Zings and Inglourious Zingterds.
I blew it. Do these comments have to be approved or something? Wasn’t showing up so I went for it again. Should have known better. Fail.
Yet another example of how perfectly Freaks & Geeks was cast.
My two kids kept asking me all the time for Beanie Babies, but praise Jesus they never fuckin’ got them. Welcoming those demonic little critters into our households with open arms is one of the largest mistakes we’ve made, ya’ll. I prayed everyday for years that TY Inc. would feel the wrath of God and, of course, took part in weekly scorchings of Beanie Babies.
Praise the Lord we were saved because those things will suck your soul out and put in beans.
Now there a ton of hilarity and ha Samm Levine looks exactly the same and all, but OMG there is a shot of Zip in there and I owned a Zip and I loved my Zip and basically Zip is my Rosebud so there.
I forgot there used to be Beanie Baby stores. How the economy has changed.
All of the “Cut” “Uncut” jokes I could make. And yet I choose not to. Maturity!
I thought Beanie Babies were kind of cute, but, I never had more than, like, two of them.
It would have been better if he’d spoken all his lines through a ventriloquist dummy (sorry, “figure”) like in that one episode of the show.
Beanie Baby and Craigslist nsa lingo are strangely similar.
Everything’s coming up Samm Levine!
(He is on Twitter, and not in I Love You Man but my friend said he was. Everything!)
Ty should be ashamed of itself for exploiting children and mentally retarded adults.
haha. no wonder sammy’s parent’s got divorced. and you thought it was because his dad was cheating on his mom…
So is this like a metaphor for the sub-prime mortgage collapse?
I guess not, because if they were stopping people at customs to limit the supply of Beanie Babies, then Ty did a much better job of regulating than Alan Greenspan.
The market’s poised for a comeback…nowhere to go but up. More cautious types might want to diversify by holding pogs.
My doggy has that horse!! It’s her favorite toy & it’s been ripped to shreds & resewn a gazillion times.
So Beanie Babies are gone? I thought people still collected them & new ones still came out & stuff?
Once Samm was on Conan for F&G and he told him he’d auditioned for a Bar Mitzvah-themed skit years before but hadn’t been cast ? apparently he was ‘too Jewish.’