FUSHIGI: As Seen on TV's Weirdest Product

honestly the most influential comerical for me as a kid was those bathtubs that come with a chair and you can "walk into" it designed for senior citizens. bro me and my sister genuinely thought that was the height of luxury and we would beg our parents every year for one. (we got a wii instead so we called it even.)

I actually had a friends that got one of these. She left it sitting on her dresser one day and the sun was shining into her room. The fushigi literally focused the sunlight and started a little fire on the carpet

i was strangely attatched to the ‘bathtub with a door’ (for old people) commercial - i would come into the room anytime that commercial was on just to watch it, i wanted a bathtub with a door so bad

I HAD ONE I begged my dad to get me a Fushigi and we couldn’t figure out what it was and we all waited for it to come in the mail and when it arrived it was just this big heavy glass ball. To show my excitement I suggested we pop the dvd in and try it out and I tried the first exercise and the ball rolled off my forearm onto our coffee table and broke the glass table top

The ponytail actually centers your energy and gives better balance to manipulate the orb

i distinctly remember forcing my parents to buy a fushigi and when i finally got it i literally did not know what to do with it so it ended up sitting on the floor for a few years, don’t know where it is now actually

Kurtis' mustache looks like two Yorkies kissing <3 I'm so happy they're in love

As a child who had blo pens, rainbow art, that magic rainbow blackboard, bead magic, and that hair string wrap tool... I'd say that yeah... Those commercials really got me too.

It’s hilarious that Kurtis doesn’t realize that he has always looked the part of someone who can Fushigi

the real reason Kurtis made this video is to prepare us for his new hairstyle which is a ponytail so no one will talk shit because its the fushigi that made him do it, no one can prove me wrong

Glad I’m not the only child who spent hours watching the same magic bullet infomercial each night. My sister and I still quote it sometimes lol. Nothing like waking up at 3 am to the George Lopez show theme and staying up to watch Mick and Mimi make chocolate mousse

This was a minor rage as well back in 1986 after Jim Henson's Labyrinth. The contact juggling was done by Michael Moschen who basically invented the modern form and introduced it to the world in that movie. It's really quite mesmerizing to watch. The movie is awesome too.

I'm a "professional" contact juggler and I was around during the inception of the fushigi. Here's some extra background from someone in the community. In the last video I made a comment on it so I'm going to copy and paste it here. Later today I'll add some stuff about this particular video. Fushigi is just a brand of ball used for contact juggling, and it was a horrible contact juggling ball. I was a contact juggler years before Fushigi existed (the creator came to our forums and even asked us for advice, he didn't actually take it) and Fushigi just killed contact juggling on the spot. The problem you can see in this video. Contact juggling is HARD, very hard, it takes hundreds of hours of practice to make it look good (the people in the commercial were doing beginner moves, and some not that well). Before fushigi I would contact juggle in public and people would be amazed. They'd stop in their tracks with their jaw dropped, come over, ask questions. I'd hand them the ball and they couldn't believe it was just a very heavy ball. Then fushigi came and the reactions were "oh that's just a fushigi" and keep walking. Because they thought the ball was doing all the work, it's a magic trick. Nevermind the years it took to nail these moves, stuff 100 times more complicated and smoother then what you see in the commercial, it was all reduced down to a party trick. Other members of our forum were street performers and they had it even worse. They'd contact juggle in their acts and had a very noticeable decrease in tips because people thought it was a "magic ball" which did the work for them. People thought they just bought the ball and hit the streets a week later, instead of 5+ years of practice. You can see all the people in this comment section who were disappointed that they got a fushigi and it was just a ball. Also, it's a terrible contact juggling ball because it's actually too small and light. Real contact juggling balls are solid acrylic and very heavy, easily twice as heavy as a fushigi. The hollow chrome ball in the center was so it doesn't start fires. I've seen people light campfires with their acrylic balls, or melt the plastic in their car if the ball was in the open and in direct sunlight. The fushigi people didn't want that problem when advertising to kids so they put the chrome ball inside. The problem is that chrome ball was never centered perfectly, so you can always see it wobble around and ruin the illusion. Plus the chrome ball had a big seam on it that you can see. The illusion only works when you have a perfectly round ball with no markings so you can't see it rolling, rather you see it floating. In short, fushigi killed contact juggling and all of us in the community hated it even more than all of you who opened it up on Christmas morning.

KURT the Magic Bullet commercial was SO important to me. The product too, but mostly the feature length infomercial. The grumpy hungover uncle who is cured by a smoothie? I relate more and more to him every day. Idk but I feel really seen rn

14:27 the face of pure panic on Kurtis’ face when he dropped the Fushigi 😭

Childhood friend and I were equally obsessed with the magic bullet advert when we were ~8, and 20 yrs later I finally got one when she gave it to me as a wedding present <3

i used to watch the magic bullet commercials and think of how useful that would be in my life. I thought that that blender would seriously change the trajectory of my 7 year old life

my younger sibling got one and there was a big warning about how you should NOT, under any circumstances, drop your fushingi on an uncarpeted floor. not because of the damage it might cause to the fushigi, but because The Fushigi Will Break Your Floor

I saw the ad for a Fushigi, had no doubt it was real magic, and wanted one desperately as a eight year-old.

I legit never understood what the fushigi was as a kid, and even now... Like they're literally just doing tricks with a ball. It doesn't look like magic. It looks like something that some kid named Justin would do with like a baseball at recess when everyone else was just trying to play a game and ignore him.