Oddity Archive: Episode 167.5 – Ben’s Junk: Ronco Mr. Microphone

Ben: Hey, good lookin’! How ‘bout I pick you up later?
Attractive Lady: (smacks Ben so hard his fillings are rearranged)
Ben: But it worked for the guy in the commercial…

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[Larry]

I'd have thought most people our generation would remember it from that episode of The Simpsons :D

BTW what was the difference with Mr. Microphone II?

[KristianWontroba]

Hey @OddityArchive ! Just letting you know for the record that the foam wind screen was very stinky even brand new. I had this as a kid in the early 80s. It was pretty lame. Barely worked back then. :)

[utoobuser]

"hey good lookin'. We'll be back to pick you up later"

[OfficialDJUnikittyYT]

I saw that Mr. Microphone reference on The Simpsons

"Hey good lookin', We'll be back to pick you up later!"

[xaenon]

I had one of these. Got it at a garage sale. I'm living proof of Al Bundy's 'bigger idiot' theory of garage sales.

[edbateyjr.]

I gotten the Radio Shack version in 1992.

[kbhasi]

I saw this in a Kipkay tutorial many years ago, but it's nice to see a proper review of an unmodified one!

[JohnHolton]

I always like the part of the commercial where you have a woman on roller skates holding Mr. Microphone in one hand and a boom box in the other, being propped up by two other women in roller skates, saying "I got a Mr. Microphone, too, and I love it!"

[RadioLaPrincess]

I can definitely see Barry Goldberg having one on the Goldbergs. That would be hysterical.

[bdwalton]

I thought this was just from the Simpsons. “Radio Bart”

[tommynesbitt]

10:13 All I know is you couldn't use that frequency in Bellevue, Ohio ;)

[danmount]

I was more of a fan of the rap master 3000 megaphone

[rEdf]

I was 16 when this audiotrocity came out. The “hey good lookin guote became a popular catch phrase in the last days of the Disco 70’s The sound guality was dreadful compared to a ho hum cheap $19.95 plugin mic from Radio Shack(RIP). Me or none of my friends ever bought one.

[collectingonthecheap]

One of the inventions that "Weird Al" Yankovic did not mention in his song, Mr. Popeil.

[bibberly]

I had one! But it was later in the 80's, so maybe it was a knockoff or a used one? I was in late elementary school at the time and thought it was amazing. I just pretended I was a radio DJ and did pun intros to different songs. I interviewed my friends for "morning show" segments and featured my friend's older brother (who was in a band) as a celebrity interview guest until he got fed up with me. I also used to record myself doing this on cassette.

[ericariley]

Can't believe they had not only a Mr. Microphone but a Mr. Microphone II a few years later. And the second commercial was worse than the first one.

[dieselchevette]

If it doesn't transmit worth a damn I bet there is a bad cap in that thing somewhere.

[JeremyMcCracken]

5:45 Analog TV channel 6 has its audio just below the FM radio spectrum; if you have a tube TV and rabbit ears available, you should see if it tunes below the FM band. It would definitely have made an more interesting novelty device if it were capable of covering the audio portions of VHF channels

[briankaplan]

Hey babe, we'll be back to pick you up later!

[lenb]

Id like to see you review " the ronco record cleaner "