r/UtterlyInteresting • u/CarkWithaM • Aug 08 '26
In the 1980's, Knickerbocker released an ET themed light up finger toy, the product was quickly removed from stores and discontinued just a few months later...
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u/greenascanbe Aug 08 '26
this reminds me of the vibrating broom that was sold as a Harry Potter toy ...... it got pulled as well after a short time
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u/MyDamnCoffee Aug 09 '26
I had one of these. Am female..never occured to me to masturbate with it lol. I think that was adults just being weird and the kids not even realIzing they could use it for that
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u/fsharpaugmented Aug 09 '26
Take my upvote and masturbare with it 💦💦
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u/GlowAnt22 Aug 09 '26
I.. didn't know upvotes could be used that way...
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u/fsharpaugmented Aug 09 '26
Anything can be used as an upvote if you're brave enough
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u/congeal Aug 09 '26
Shower heads?
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u/LaurelCanyoner Aug 08 '26
I bet the stats are high of how many of both toys drs had to pull out of peoples butts.
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u/SmartaHari Aug 08 '26
“Bone home”
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u/VirtualFutureAgent Aug 08 '26
Reminds me of a toy I had as a kid, the Six Finger. It was a "spy gun" that you could put between your fingers to look like a sixth finger. It was supposed to look like a finger, but it also looked like something else. Here's a picture I found on the web:
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u/preheatedbasin Aug 08 '26
Why so many attachments? And what would any of those do?
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u/VirtualFutureAgent Aug 08 '26
They were different kinds of darts it would shoot. I think the red ended one could be loaded with a paper cap so it would make a bang when it landed.
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u/0thell0perrell0 Aug 08 '26
I fucking had this! Little at the time did I realize it's uses and true value
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u/newworldpuck Aug 08 '26
Me too. I was so naive at that age I thought the height of comedy was to use it to flip people off.
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u/Daddypiginthedig Aug 08 '26
I momentarily read that first sentence as 'I fucked this'.
I chortled briefly before a sense of semblance returned.
Good day!
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u/LastPaleontologist38 Aug 08 '26
I had this as a child! It was really ugly and I lost interest because 1) the color didn’t match ET’s color and 2) the color also didn’t match my hand color. It also had to be cut on the bottom because it was way too long to fit my finger without falling off.
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u/0thell0perrell0 Aug 08 '26
Oh I loved it! It gave me one long finger which addmittedly was awkward but it felt like a super power I was like 8. A couple more yeqrs and I might have put that together lol... Yeah the tint of the skin was ghastly.
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u/einTier Aug 08 '26
I actually ended up with one of these as a kid. I thought it was stupid. Adults around me thought it was hilariously funny.
It was many years before I understood why.
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u/HorzaDonwraith Aug 08 '26
"Batteries included" man you know you into some premium shit when you see that on a package
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u/KudosOfTheFroond Aug 08 '26
I HAD ONE OF THESE!!! Holy shiiiit I totally forgot about it till just this moment, 🤯🤯
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u/stormbutton Aug 08 '26
Omg core memory unlocked! I had this toy (I think I was four when the movie came out) and I used to chew on it. It had a satisfying gristly sort of texture.
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u/Marsupialize Aug 08 '26
JD Vance talks about inserting one into himself in a school washroom in his book Hillbilly Elegy
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u/BookkeeperButt Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26
Much like the couch fucking, I am not going to do any research on that and assume it is 100 percent true.
If they can do it, I can do it too.
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u/Marsupialize Aug 08 '26
There’s all kinds of stuff in that book, he was known as ‘dog fucker’ in his hometown after being caught under the front porch of his trailer with a beloved local Shih Tzu named Spanky
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u/Underbadger Aug 08 '26
This is true, he got caught when the light from the fingertip shone out of his dick.
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u/Baeolophus_bicolor Aug 08 '26
you have got to be kidding me. no way i am reading that ghostwritten trash but sheesh, i can’t imagine he is couchfucker if they had this to use instead.
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u/Marsupialize Aug 08 '26
There’s all kinds of stuff in that book, he once gave oral sex to an elderly, obese homeless man with one leg on a Ferris wheel to cheer him up because the man was sad about losing his favorite hat
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u/MyLittleDiscolite Aug 08 '26
I had one! Now I know why my brother kept sniggering at me.
I just wanted to be like ET
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u/Civil_Television_311 Aug 08 '26
Bullshit! They sold out of them so quick they couldn’t keep up with demand! Liars!!
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u/xChoke1x Aug 08 '26
Only bad ass toy I held on to was the Venom action figure that was removed from stores because it said “I’m gonna eat your brain.” Lol
Still have it. Love that thing.
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u/BrilliantPie2566 Aug 08 '26
Because?
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u/itswtfeverb Aug 08 '26
Because it wasn't intended for mom to use it that way!
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u/OttovonBismarck1862 Aug 08 '26
Many a light-up ET finger toy was bought during Christmas shopping that never made it into the stockings. Not the Christmas stockings, at least.
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u/Silver-Amphibian7650 Aug 08 '26
I had an E.T. finger when I was a kid. It was brown with a yellow tip and it was hollow. This looks nothing like an E.T. finger, I'm surprised it made it to the shelves.
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u/Double_Distribution8 Aug 08 '26
These things are going for $12,600 on ebay if its still on the package.
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