Schrödinger's Furby

Binchtopia

Julia Hava & Eliza McLamb

Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2023

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

The ladies time travel to the 90’s to discuss the world’s first simulated pets — the Tamagotchi and the Furby — and what lessons they have to teach us about our digital selves online. Digressions include a very “low brow” intro, a Binchtopia spit-take meet-cute, and the discovery that we might be your Tamagotchis.

SOURCES:

Love It, Feed It, Mourn It

Virtual Pets Are Back and Why We Need Them Most Now

Love In The Time of Tamagotchi

Taken By the Tamagotchi: How a Toy Changed the Perspective on Mobile Technology

PUBLIC LIVES; Far From the Pleading Crowd: Furby's Dad

Coded for Cuteness: How the Furby Conquered Hearts and Minds

How to Turn Your Furby Evil by WikiHow

A Dark Furby Theory May Reveal Them as Flesh-Devouring Predators

What Happens When Your Furby Becomes Evil

Into the Furby-Verse: The Narrative Production of Electronic Companions

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0:00.0	We hope you enjoy your stay.
0:18.5	Hi everybody, welcome back to Binch Topia.
0:20.6	Hello and welcome back.
0:21.9	I'm Julia Hava.
0:22.9	I'm Eliza McLam.
0:23.9	We just had our first live show last week, you guys.
0:27.5	It was so fun.
0:29.5	It was so fun.
0:30.9	We had a really funny time because we got in there and we walked into the theater and
0:35.7	it smelled heavily of weed.
0:37.8	Loud as hell.
0:38.8	We were like, somebody literally like, like, hotbox this entire theater.
0:42.4	And then the guy from the theater is like, oh yeah, sorry, like we can't leave to the
0:45.5	green room yet because like Seth Rogan and Ozzy Osbor and Jason Manzooka are back.
0:49.6	They're like, chief in one.
0:50.9	If you want to hang with them and we were like, um, okay, I think we'll just stay here.
0:55.4	We did eventually let us in, but then we were very surprised to see that the green room
1:00.2	was really covered in rubber bats, which felt like you don't put Ozzy in that situation.
1:05.6	You don't put Ozzy in a situation with a bat with a bat, never again, never again.
1:09.9	But yeah, we had the best time.
1:11.1	Thank you guys so much for coming out.
1:12.5	It was so cool to see your name on the mark.
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