I have now officially listened to this video while in a Bed, Bath, and Beyond and staring at a Simple Human device (although I could only find a soap dispenser, not a trash can). I feel strangely accomplished
This'll need a board game version soon so people can play along at home, complete with vacuum-sealed mystery biscuits. It'll make millions, or possibly tens.
It needs little cardboard cutouts of random biscuits in a bag like scrabble pieces, given out as points, with 3 given for Mystery Biscuits levels of mirth. Then whoever has the most biscuits at the end wins
I'm vastly late, but... "Bed & Bath" was a chain for ages, as you noted. They were in most shopping malls. Then they started building big, standalone stores, and wanted people to know they sold a wider variety of household supplies than their mall stores did, hence "Bed, Bath & Beyond." And they do, their stores are gigantic.
I worked for a company that sold simplehuman products, and I was always very confused as to what they were trying to suggest by their name. I always felt they were just calling their customers simple, since they overpaid for a rubbish bin.
I wish more comedy shows embraced puns with such consistency. I mean, they don’t work for every format or all the time, but I do believe they are under utilised.
Oh, 2014, such an innocent time. When sensors in random home appliances was still a silly thing and people's slow cookers didn't stop working because it needed a firmware upgrade.
Steven Bale tbf that's what most things in American infomercials for example are intended for (people with mobility problems etc) but everyone just sees it as humanity being stupidly lazy cause of the adverts.
I wonder if Tom checks the disambiguation page when they're just getting a general idea of what the thing is near the beginning. Gary asking if it was an album got me thinking, since it seems like every Wikipedia disambiguation page includes _at least_ one post-something album or artist.
@@odyseya ooh, that's a good idea! Find a disambiguation page with lots of entries, read of the descriptions but not the titles, and have them try and guess what the subject is! Brilliant!
The treaty of Paris disambiguation page, would be great due to: 1. The quantity of entries and 2. It gives you a chance to aping the wheel and bash the French, which would be great for this show .
Christmas Tree Shops does not actually sell Christmas trees... They are a bargain/discount store that happens to have slightly more Christmas decorations for sale in autumn (than the average box store).
Sensor-controlled lights are the bane of my existance right now... The lights in my Uni halls are motion-sensitive, and they basically turn off if you're not walking around the room. I've just given up...
Here in Canada, all the trash bins on my street have a small hole ripped into them, somehow...They're perfectly sized for squirrels to sneak in and out of. It's suspicious...
7:23 -- The Queen is now a mummy? Also, the toilet roll sensor is a good idea, but not for dispensing; instead for sensing how much is left. That way, maintenance could be automatically notified when a roll is low/out.
I heard Tom say 'Simplehuman' and immediately I was like, "those are the sensored trash cans and soap dispensers and stuff they sell at Bed Bath and Beyond right?"
Saw a package of hand soap called simple human at a department store today and immediately realized it's this same company. It was a refill bag for automated hand soap dispensers.
my mom has one of those trash cans and it works 70% of the time which means that 30% of the time you are prying it open using a knife because it is genuinely impossible to open without it when it decides it just doesn’t want to work.
All I can think about was the time I was on the dlr and this guy in full business wear got on at Canary Wharf with a kitchen bin and sat it on the chair next to him. To say I did a double take is an understatement.
If I was at that table when Tom came up with Russian Toilette, I would have smacked the biscuit button. ...And then asked for directions to the airport, because I'm not sure why I'd be across the Pond four years ago.
This episode really highlights the the thing that makes it so enjoyable for me. That is how mufun these guys are having just saying basically whatever comes to mind.
csaki Aloe Vera is a plant that is used to make soothing creams, but when the name is said out loud it sounds like a strongly accented person saying "Hello" to a person named Vera.
Are automatic bins not a British thing? I've seen tons of these in friend's houses. It's very useful if your hands are full, because it opens automatically. And most of them have automatic release food things in case of failure. Also whenever you look at a product and think "wow this is for really lazy people" is most likely designed for disabled people and they're selling it to the general market to keep the cost down.
At 11:11 Well, seeing as the other items are only somewhat useful, is it a mirror that has some heating coils to de-fog the mirror, but has facial recognition software and only defogs where your face is?
My girlfriend has broken multiple bins. Well not her, but her cats. They use it as a place to land on when they jump down from the kitchen counter, and those stupid cheap plastic lids break all the time.
In fairness, the "Christmas Tree Shops" (officially always plural because the original location was split into multiple stores owned together) is slightly more a seasonal goods and decorations place, and the newer stores outside the northeastern US are called "andThat!"
I remember seeing a simple green garbage can at the hospital I worked at and it looked like R2D2. I was afraid it was plotting the downfall of humanity...
I'm picturing The Haunting of Buckingham Palace, but it's just that the toilet paper dispensers in the bathrooms sometimes go off when no one's around... OoOoOoOoOooo...
The sensor mirror is kind of obvious, I thought. Small mirror, goes on the counter, has lights around the edge to help with seeing things in it. Usually they're parabolic so it's easier to see fine detail.
Have you been in the toilets in York where the circular seats rotate and clean themselves? But fail to dry, so you have a wet seat, so you dry it then as you turn to sit down it rotates again and is rewetted. And you have to pay...
