For those of you who don't know, Tom Papa's journey to L.A. was so successful, he's been reduced to working as a writer for Minnesota Public Radio's "A Prairie Home Companion."
The Johnny Seven gun looks like the greatest war toy of all time. My much older cousin Frankie had one and wouldnt let any of his grubby little cousins anywhere near it.
My parents wouldnt buy me guns ( though we were all hunters and I had a actual 4/10) so wemade guns at the neighbors woodshop. She was kinda pissed when she saw me lumping an M60A replica down the road! lol
i was later on (early 2000s) and by then there were a lot of hand-me-down rambo guns and spray painted water pistols wed loan out. sticks were grenades or swords back then.
Tom Papa doesn't seem to bother me as much as everyone else. He's not hilarious by any measure, but he does add a little to the conversation. If Ant is the chocolate and Jim is the strawberry, then Papa would just be the plain old vanilla in the neopolitan ice cream. And Opie is the freezer burned lima bean ice cream.
Opie is the Chinese food you forgot you we're saving in your mini fridge when you went on vacation and didn't realize you had plugged into a splitter that you turned off to save power. Every time you return to that room, you know that the stink will still be lingering and there's not shit you can do about it.
Time waster isn't exactly a tone anyone wants to see in a comedy radio show. Wouldn't you rather just have chocolate and strawberry if that's what you like?
I had a black uzi water gun that took 4 AA batteries. The magazine held the water and it would recoil as you shot it. I'd be so dead if I walked outside with that damn thing.
I'm very jealous. We live out in the country and because the guns were so plastic and all bright colors we hated them as kids. We found sticks that looked like rifles and played with them around the house a car drove by a road 100yrds away and a cop pulled in saying it looked like kids had rifle's. We got grounded and introuble nothing other than us getting our ass whooped by our dad but still I doubt toys like this would be terrible for kids
Love the "Midnight Cowboy" references that started @ 00:50! I must be getting old because I had to explain the jokes to a dozen co workers when this was new :-)
These toy guns would have been about $20-$40 today, if they cost $2-3 in the 50s. I swear these things would be $60 today though if they were being sold. Toys have gotten so expensive.
that last pistol, according to the inflation calculator, would be 60 bucks. Also these were probably catalog prices, store buying was always more expensive.
Not sure what year this was but Ant saying there aren't any toy guns anymore, hell we used to play war with airsoft guns around town in 2000 and they looked very real.
same, but he raises a great point. I was growing up then, and I remember distinctly a sort of end to it all. I was just out of suburbia, so it probably was already gone in the cities and suburbs, but sometime around 2007 either it all suddenly felt less "real" or the stuff they were putting in stores really did change. my friends and I all ww2-gulf war-style action figures, and wed have gay little war scenarios with them at each others houses, and then a rule was broken somewhere because then it wasnt just moms who were against it, a few dads started getting anti-gun toys. A few guys weren't allowed to hang out with kids whos parents let them play with gun toys, and at first they said it was bullying because the kids felt left out but that fell through because if a guy had a second gun, hed always loan his least favorite to the guy who had none. Wed run through the woods shooting at each other, and it was amazing to see the ages of toy guns coming together: rambo machine guns dollar store "cowboy" pistols, airsoft M16s, plastic tommy guns and that one asshole who brought his older brothers paintball grenade... its stupid nostalgia talking, and i don't think its just "i got too old to stop playing" that makes me think it went away, we stopped when we were still young enough, its just parents were trying to guilt each other or cause trouble to seem morally superior. It didnt matter if their sheltered kid gets popcorn lung by age 16, after years of being forced on ritalin, as long as he wasnt the good guy in his own cowboy/army fantasy story. funny enough i always enjoyed playing the villain, and i was really on point with the props. when we played "swat" i was always the drug lord with a baggy of sugar, or in mafia games id play the dumb goon or the crooked cop.... how fucking gay. I was too old however around 2012, when hunger games came out, and i think that was the death knell of kids playing war. a few companies tried to get girls involved in the fun of "playing war" while boosting their egos to think they were invincible. Im sure a couple girls running around with fake bows got pelted with a stick "grenade" and cried to their parents were already pressured to shut everything down. by 2015 any younger relatives or family friends had toys of things that lacked any reference to firearms, and if they came over they were alarmed to see a real metal capgun 6-shooter that i had when i was younger than they were. its as if it was a real gun.
Shit, i realize after watching this clip i had the gun at 26:50... It was a hand-me-down from my father, and it was probably my grandfathers because he was a kid back then.
18:33 You wanna talk about adverse effects on kids, all that Elsa-Gate stuff that was happening on RUclips (that the website allowed) is gonna have some long term effects on all the infants & toddlers who watched that BS.
Mark Winberry ya I dunno I tried researching one sight said they made the plastic parts one sight said what u stated , you serve ? if so thank you for your service
abc345ful they were so junky the guys couldn't wait to ditch em for an ak. A little sand and water they were done. That's how they got the Mattel joke. Your welcome.
“It has an effect” you don’t know shit. Played with toy guns my whole life and never have hurt a fly. I’m not even really interested in guns at all. Crazy people are crazy. Toy guns have nothing to do with it
It's a pretty well know fact that the design, production, marketing and sales of toy guns was almost a direct result of the Korean war and multiplied exponentially during the Vietnam war. They were intentionally designed to make kids familiar with weapons as early as possible, thus making it far easier to entice them to enlist in the military. Pretty awful shit if you ask me.
@Irina 1. "School shootings" pre-Columbine were not like those today. They include anyone that fires a single shot on school grounds as a "shooting". Also, the vast, vast majority of shootings where people were actually targetted were perpetrated by adults (including school staff and other adults in the area, and less so students) The point was that kids were less likely to be weak maladjusted cowards who just shot other kids when they couldn't hack it in social groups. Your point about serial killers is moot, he was referring to kids. 2. Vague, stupid platitude that means nothing. 3. A complete non-point. He said that kids are not treated or raised properly in general, not that he specifically did so. 4. "The world is doing better *than ever" is just another vague platitude that can't be proven or disproven. It would depend on what you mean, and exactly how it's better. It is better in terms of advanced technology and standards of living I guess, but there's definitely a problem with gen Y and Z that is existential. In a world where communication is so improved and easier, young people feel more and more isolated and alienated and still become antisocial, and in extreme cases, mass murderers. It's not "better than ever" all around, in some places it's actually worse.
yeah? but what happened? the US was more opposed to war then than it is now. Ive heard so many people say the USA should nuke isis or whatever shithole of the week the news is peddling, as an actual, non-joking solution to what to them seems like an unsolvable problem. Capguns aside, shit like the "tommy burp" or "seven steven" (or whatever the fuck it was called) don't act like guns at all. and it hardly helps that during vietnam the guns being sold were wild west-themed. a bunch of 6-shooter and lever-action armed toddlers wont grow up knowing how to field strip an m16, or keep an accurate grouping with an m60. especially when commercials showed hyperactive spray-and-pray to be the fun way to play. Kids are curious about life, and they find death and pregnancy to be really cool, and companies who want to make money will sell boys toy guns and to girls they sell baby dolls. plus in the wake of ww2, most people had a heroic father, uncle, or grandfather who "beat the nazis/japs" sure its racially incentive to simply those people into that category, but back then it was a lot worse when the Japanese butchered manchuria, or when the nazis exterminated massive populations of central and eastern Europe... but the irony was perhaps lost when considering what the USA did to the natives when they made those 6-shooter, lever-action guns to "win the west"... but that's what Hollywood was making back then, so companies wanted to make a buck (or four) on some dopey kid who wanted to be like roy rogers.
toys used to be bad ass. No wonder we got these generations of fruits who dress up as furries plying with ponies being totally confused even what gender they are.
I'm surprised Opie's kids aren't used to hearing crickets
They have to be 18 years old, so he can brag about doing this for 18 years
Lol
Sir this is the greatest anything ever
HAHAHAHAHAHA OPIE BAD HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
@@georgedudleysashtray3860 lol i actually dont have any hate towards him it was just too easy
26:33 “No, he’s holding the gun properly.” Love Jimmy.
Thank you for making all of these, you're giving all these brilliant segments a new life!
For those of you who don't know, Tom Papa's journey to L.A. was so successful, he's been reduced to working as a writer for Minnesota Public Radio's "A Prairie Home Companion."
oooof
Good.
(Simpson family watching Tom Papa's work on APHC)
Stupid TV, be more funny!
G.I Joe, morphine sold separately.
VideOandA will never die...... MAAAAANNN !!
STILL LIVING ON MAAAAAAAAAN
It's still real to me maaaaaan!
härjaren Langstrumpf It’s still real to me damn it!
Listen to the words MANNNNNN
The Johnny Seven gun looks like the greatest war toy of all time. My much older cousin Frankie had one and wouldnt let any of his grubby little cousins anywhere near it.
The kid that had parents who wouldn’t allow them to have toy guns had to use a stick when playing war
My parents wouldnt buy me guns ( though we were all hunters and I had a actual 4/10) so wemade guns at the neighbors woodshop. She was kinda pissed when she saw me lumping an M60A replica down the road! lol
He proberly had to use his trigger finger.
i was later on (early 2000s) and by then there were a lot of hand-me-down rambo guns and spray painted water pistols wed loan out. sticks were grenades or swords back then.
@Trantor The Troll Yeah it was a lotta fun, my son seems to have a knack for it, tio
As a poor kid I remember always being on the lookout for stick guns
19:47 I needed a good laugh today. Thanks Uncle Paul.
at 26:30,,is that an African American child ? Jimmy "no, he's holding the gun properly"....home run Chipperson !!!
“Yeah hes not holding it sideways”
-The echo in the room
6:20 when they FINALLY begin talking about the toys :P
Thanks for reuploading all the videos
God damn it man, if only the boys got back and did an MST3K style show they’d some good money
Awesome idea.
Tom Papa doesn't seem to bother me as much as everyone else. He's not hilarious by any measure, but he does add a little to the conversation. If Ant is the chocolate and Jim is the strawberry, then Papa would just be the plain old vanilla in the neopolitan ice cream. And Opie is the freezer burned lima bean ice cream.
Opie is the Chinese food you forgot you we're saving in your mini fridge when you went on vacation and didn't realize you had plugged into a splitter that you turned off to save power. Every time you return to that room, you know that the stink will still be lingering and there's not shit you can do about it.
I do love a good ice cream analogy
Time waster isn't exactly a tone anyone wants to see in a comedy radio show. Wouldn't you rather just have chocolate and strawberry if that's what you like?
Pretty good description.
Please tell me lima bean ice cream is not a thing. That's the most despicable thing I've ever heard.
I remember I had a toy M-16 and it looked and sounded pretty realistic - you could probably rob a store with it.
Probably …until the Korea owner practices his American rights, as he should tbh.
I had a black uzi water gun that took 4 AA batteries. The magazine held the water and it would recoil as you shot it. I'd be so dead if I walked outside with that damn thing.
I had the same shit. Mac 10 and the 9 mm. Didn't even have a safety cap on it. The 80's were the shit
I had the tech-9.
I'm very jealous. We live out in the country and because the guns were so plastic and all bright colors we hated them as kids. We found sticks that looked like rifles and played with them around the house a car drove by a road 100yrds away and a cop pulled in saying it looked like kids had rifle's. We got grounded and introuble nothing other than us getting our ass whooped by our dad but still I doubt toys like this would be terrible for kids
IT'S MY TOMMY BURP!
Love the "Midnight Cowboy" references that started @ 00:50! I must be getting old because I had to explain the jokes to a dozen co workers when this was new :-)
the second i head tom papa i bailed
Joe Curry shit.. haha of all words to mispell. i thought he'd be smaller
VideOandA is immortal, fool's.
Those toy guns are sweet.
You are the best man these videos are great!
"Anyone who lives in a triangle house, deserves to be murdered" haha
“This kid would be on Ritalin now” 😂
I could fucks with one of those Thunder Burps
Good on you for putting these together so well.
Now....
Enjoy!
If Ant was a GI Joe, wouldn't they just call him Army Ant?
Special edition Army Ant with his white hood and robe to keep those pesky neighbors out
"fawkk yeahhh, that's a home run!" - Lyle "Chip" Chipperson
Cadet Cumia?
*Car Crash Noise*
@@cHAWNsHINN Comrade Cumia
Yaaaahdadadada dadada your father drinks your mother smokes ahhh yadadadaaaa
3:10 Opie had a similar experience when he heard people laughing
the toy in the thumbnail looks like Anthony
Thanks for doing this :)
That Fonzie doll looks like Anthony Perkins...
A little Richard Belzer too.
On the machine gun commercial, I think the crook, 14:41, is Otis from Andy Griffith.
Insta sub right here. Your a GOD dude! 🤙 Think you for your hard work man. I love video to O&A. Especially Patrice on Movies.
$3 in 1955 is about $30 now. 🔫
When ant was saying "G.I. Ant G.I. Ant" jimmy was silently trying to think of something but didnt pull the trigger in time
Thank you for your service.
Yeah thanks for your service tough guy when your radio show calls you're there
G.I. Ant? what's he like super tall er sumthin? tssssssssssss
Kids were impressed with so little back then.
Ikr it's almost as if they actually had imaginations
that johnny seven is the gun sinbad wanted in jingle all the way
20:30 i think so because nothing relaxes me more than a blades and sorcery session with the bloodborne weapon mods.
My friend had an entertech Tec 9. Looked pretty close to the real thing.
21:50 😂 “Johnny Seven” Ultima weapon Final Form Omega
Ah yes...new yorkers are sooooo cultured and intelligent LOL
Ant is so fucking old. He literally remembers the ad from the 60s
Oh joy Tom Papa.
Jimmy at 14:55 was hilarious
These toy guns would have been about $20-$40 today, if they cost $2-3 in the 50s. I swear these things would be $60 today though if they were being sold. Toys have gotten so expensive.
that last pistol, according to the inflation calculator, would be 60 bucks. Also these were probably catalog prices, store buying was always more expensive.
Ever seen airsoft??? Lol
Johnny Seven OMA (One Man Army) they had a cool all in one gun and a cool commercial. Check it out.
Man, I kind of want that gun at around 22:00 now as and adult.
opie @ 28:24 goes ''Huhh!'' when he hears the word ''war'' ; as in that song ''war what is it good for'' ?
Not sure what year this was but Ant saying there aren't any toy guns anymore, hell we used to play war with airsoft guns around town in 2000 and they looked very real.
same, but he raises a great point. I was growing up then, and I remember distinctly a sort of end to it all. I was just out of suburbia, so it probably was already gone in the cities and suburbs, but sometime around 2007 either it all suddenly felt less "real" or the stuff they were putting in stores really did change.
my friends and I all ww2-gulf war-style action figures, and wed have gay little war scenarios with them at each others houses, and then a rule was broken somewhere because then it wasnt just moms who were against it, a few dads started getting anti-gun toys. A few guys weren't allowed to hang out with kids whos parents let them play with gun toys, and at first they said it was bullying because the kids felt left out but that fell through because if a guy had a second gun, hed always loan his least favorite to the guy who had none.
Wed run through the woods shooting at each other, and it was amazing to see the ages of toy guns coming together: rambo machine guns dollar store "cowboy" pistols, airsoft M16s, plastic tommy guns and that one asshole who brought his older brothers paintball grenade... its stupid nostalgia talking, and i don't think its just "i got too old to stop playing" that makes me think it went away, we stopped when we were still young enough, its just parents were trying to guilt each other or cause trouble to seem morally superior. It didnt matter if their sheltered kid gets popcorn lung by age 16, after years of being forced on ritalin, as long as he wasnt the good guy in his own cowboy/army fantasy story. funny enough i always enjoyed playing the villain, and i was really on point with the props. when we played "swat" i was always the drug lord with a baggy of sugar, or in mafia games id play the dumb goon or the crooked cop.... how fucking gay.
I was too old however around 2012, when hunger games came out, and i think that was the death knell of kids playing war. a few companies tried to get girls involved in the fun of "playing war" while boosting their egos to think they were invincible. Im sure a couple girls running around with fake bows got pelted with a stick "grenade" and cried to their parents were already pressured to shut everything down. by 2015 any younger relatives or family friends had toys of things that lacked any reference to firearms, and if they came over they were alarmed to see a real metal capgun 6-shooter that i had when i was younger than they were. its as if it was a real gun.
Shit, i realize after watching this clip i had the gun at 26:50... It was a hand-me-down from my father, and it was probably my grandfathers because he was a kid back then.
Yeah, and i guess theyve never seen airsoft. Lol
GI Joe making Barbie his GI Hoe! XD
😂 24:34 Child Gary Busey.
Leonard Nimoy on a scooter 😆
That Fonzie toy is probably worth a fortune in 2024. 😂
PTSD and crippling medical bills sold separately.
@16:00 DRIVE BY
Give your dad raging korea nightmares for $3
Big hands for a kid lol
14:59 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Was that Otis in the gun commercial
Here’s the Fronzie commercial Jim was actually talking about. It was the one for just the figure. ruclips.net/video/m_ruSCznix4/видео.html
OandA Pests unite!!!!
"Child of the 80s". Weren't you about 17 when it was 1980 Opie?
Tommy gun toy in 2019 would get pulled from the market in an instant ‼️😲🤣
What exactly is happening to Jimmy in that clip at the end?
I wish I could use my Rottweilers and go for a hunt
Only $7. In 1955 $7 then was the equivalent of almost $80 today. Not cheap even at $7.
Tom papa has a little girls mentality when it comes to guns.
at 12:40 is that a young jake busey?
I guess these guys have never seen airsoft lol
14:40 Otis. Town drunk by day. Big city burglar at night
18:33 You wanna talk about adverse effects on kids, all that Elsa-Gate stuff that was happening on RUclips (that the website allowed) is gonna have some long term effects on all the infants & toddlers who watched that BS.
Opie - we're child of the 80s
Greg Opie Hughes date of birth - 1963
Who the fuck is he fooling?
14:25
Fonzie was a predator 😂🤣 AAAAA👍👍
We could ask Heather O'Rouke but Spielberg killed her
"You are never to blameeeeeeeeee."
30:02 Travis Dog!
ouff ouff ouff
I believe Mattel made prototypes of the M16 if I'm not mistaken
Yes, you are mistaken. It was a Vietnam joke man.
Mark Winberry ya I dunno I tried researching one sight said they made the plastic parts one sight said what u stated , you serve ? if so thank you for your service
abc345ful they were so junky the guys couldn't wait to ditch em for an ak. A little sand and water they were done. That's how they got the Mattel joke. Your welcome.
do more sightseeing.
sdry thanks for the tip numb nuts
Stern quit having comics on his show because most of them were friendly with O&A
That old Jewish woman didn't want anyone else that could possibly be funny on her show
Maybe the reason the violence is worse now is because they use real guns, due to the lack of toys.....
It's weird hearing people laugh at opies little quips
19:55 - 20:06 What the fuck is that!?
Kids get real guns now.
Was looking forward to this until I heard "Welcome Tom Papa..." Real or fake, that laugh is fucking horrible.
“It has an effect” you don’t know shit. Played with toy guns my whole life and never have hurt a fly. I’m not even really interested in guns at all. Crazy people are crazy. Toy guns have nothing to do with it
"liberal jimmy" was annoying
It's a pretty well know fact that the design, production, marketing and sales of toy guns was almost a direct result of the Korean war and multiplied exponentially during the Vietnam war. They were intentionally designed to make kids familiar with weapons as early as possible, thus making it far easier to entice them to enlist in the military. Pretty awful shit if you ask me.
Actually it was brilliant and pretty awesome. We ain't no pussy country, we indoctrinate young.
Children didn't play with pretends swords hundreds of years ago?
@Irina 1. "School shootings" pre-Columbine were not like those today. They include anyone that fires a single shot on school grounds as a "shooting". Also, the vast, vast majority of shootings where people were actually targetted were perpetrated by adults (including school staff and other adults in the area, and less so students) The point was that kids were less likely to be weak maladjusted cowards who just shot other kids when they couldn't hack it in social groups. Your point about serial killers is moot, he was referring to kids.
2. Vague, stupid platitude that means nothing.
3. A complete non-point. He said that kids are not treated or raised properly in general, not that he specifically did so.
4. "The world is doing better *than ever" is just another vague platitude that can't be proven or disproven. It would depend on what you mean, and exactly how it's better. It is better in terms of advanced technology and standards of living I guess, but there's definitely a problem with gen Y and Z that is existential. In a world where communication is so improved and easier, young people feel more and more isolated and alienated and still become antisocial, and in extreme cases, mass murderers. It's not "better than ever" all around, in some places it's actually worse.
Who cares, we had fun for days
yeah? but what happened? the US was more opposed to war then than it is now. Ive heard so many people say the USA should nuke isis or whatever shithole of the week the news is peddling, as an actual, non-joking solution to what to them seems like an unsolvable problem. Capguns aside, shit like the "tommy burp" or "seven steven" (or whatever the fuck it was called) don't act like guns at all. and it hardly helps that during vietnam the guns being sold were wild west-themed. a bunch of 6-shooter and lever-action armed toddlers wont grow up knowing how to field strip an m16, or keep an accurate grouping with an m60. especially when commercials showed hyperactive spray-and-pray to be the fun way to play.
Kids are curious about life, and they find death and pregnancy to be really cool, and companies who want to make money will sell boys toy guns and to girls they sell baby dolls. plus in the wake of ww2, most people had a heroic father, uncle, or grandfather who "beat the nazis/japs" sure its racially incentive to simply those people into that category, but back then it was a lot worse when the Japanese butchered manchuria, or when the nazis exterminated massive populations of central and eastern Europe...
but the irony was perhaps lost when considering what the USA did to the natives when they made those 6-shooter, lever-action guns to "win the west"... but that's what Hollywood was making back then, so companies wanted to make a buck (or four) on some dopey kid who wanted to be like roy rogers.
Tom Papa is worse than Opie. Jesus christ
toys used to be bad ass. No wonder we got these generations of fruits who dress up as furries plying with ponies being totally confused even what gender they are.
Yeah you're right. Lack of toy guns is to blame for the emasculation of men.
@@georgedudleysashtray3860 That and a bunch of other things. How old are you?