Skip-It, the hula hoop for your ankle that tripped up kids all through the 80s and 90s.
Skip-It looked like an 80s plastic neon version of a prison-style ball and chain, and it was a children’s torture device that brought hours upon hours of simple entertainment. I tried to conquer Skip-It twice, but quit that shit when I almost left half of my face on the asphalt. It was much more fun to sit on the curb and watch other kids almost eat cement and break their ankles. You could tell who the Skip-It masters were, because the skin on their ankle was also chaffed. Skip-Its should’ve come with anti-chafing cream and condom socks. But the best part of a Skip-It was the ball counter. You didn’t even have to know how to count to use it!
Wikipedia says Skip-It was buried in 2009, but I’ll remember it forever thanks to its theme song. The Skip-It song is like musical herpes. Every now and again, it will break out in my brain and never leave:
Skiiiiip it, Skiiiiiiip it… Shit, it’s never leaving.
Hint: Not a lot. “Rourke was leaving the gym in L.A. yesterday when he joked about using the movie as a torture device … ‘I’m gonna tie you to a chair and make you watch Moneyball all fucking night.’” [TMZ]
Full Story »Thanks to Rich at FourFour for going through hours upon hours of magical footage of Detective La Toya to put together this supercut of her giggling throughout the years. We should all sign a “Get Well Soon” card for him later, because I’m pretty sure he’s hiding under the stairs and scratching at his ears while mumbling to the wall, “Get the giggle out! Get the giggle out!”
I would polish Detective La Toya’s monocle with my own tongue if she asked me to, but I have to say that this video should be used as a torture device. I kept waiting for La Toya to turn to the camera and say, “I’m Talking La Toya…and I’m going to kill you.“
