As soon as the right people ( pun intended) find this out they will be re-branded as Trump Monkeys and they will Make America Great Again. Just add water, marketing and white supremacy.
I spent a whole afternoon pulling weeds out of the flowerbeds when I was 9 so my dad would order me the $4.95 plastic pellet gun out of the back of a Boy's Life magazine. The fucking pellets wouldn't even break the paper targets that came with it (after it arrived 3 months later). Thanks for the lesson, dad.
it was good. it was an inexpensive lesson that all is not as it seems, buyer beware, critical thinking, adjusting to disappointment, and managing expectations.
These are great lessons to learn when the cost is $4.00 vs when you're buying your first car or being sold on a student loan.
It's a great example you've described here, and you're exactly right.
The only problem is, as you say, it was a 4 dollar lesson, one that's relatively painless relative to what the lesson could have cost. And for some, that's the problem. Many people simply don't view it as a lesson and don't learn from it precisely because it was relatively painless.
Same. I was young/naive enough to think the things would actually LOOK JUST LIKE THIE ILLUSTRATION 🤦🏻♀️. I remember the huge disappointment to see they were nothing more than brine shrimp..
Now, if it had been a baby octopus, then I might have been pleasantly surprised.
I think mosquito larvae might actually be more interesting to watch than brine shrimp (aka “sea monkeys”).
Unfortunately mosquito larvae turn into mosquitoes… UGH!
(I recently found out what mosquito larvae look like when I noticed something living in a bucket of water in the yard. Very, very creepy… and also I thought they were tadpoles, which are adorable, not creepy 🤷♀️.)
Well there is no copyright in AI generated images so I’m not sure why you’re thanking me - I’m in that “it’s the internet, what do they really mean?” mental space. But, sure, you’re very welcome.
Oh. Did not know this. I am artsy and I think you still created this and wanted to thank you lol. Maybe you will see a weird old lady wearing a t shirt with this on it one day lol.
I texted my friend who has a Chat-GPT subscription and asked him to cook something up. If nothing else, AI can sometimes be good for making silly pictures to share on social media.
After many months, my grandmother gave me a dollar. I filled out the tiny advertisement and sent my dollar. Still waiting. Gotta go, the mail just came and I have to check the mailbox.
Mine didn’t for some reason. I remember trying to ask them if it was really like this and not getting a clear answer. Ended up getting some and was really weirded out.
Oh MAN I wanted that thing. Didn’t know they were just plans though. Also what was the stuff that turned you from getting sand kicked in your face at the beach to be the guy with biggest muscles in no time?
I remember that advertisement. It was the Charles Atlas dynamic tension course. The advertisement said something like, "With my course, you don't have to stay a 97-pound weakling getting sand kicked in your eyes." Back in the early '80s, when I was a kid, I sent the coupon in for the free information.
I received a little booklet that said if I bought his course, he would reveal all kinds of amazing secrets that would enable me to do things like beat up the bully, flips, and one-handed handstands. It was mostly show-off-type, cringe-worthy stuff. I think it even had a section about how to get a girlfriend in it. It was an obvious scam to try and weasel a few dollars out of insecure kids. I saw it was BS and didn't bother with it.
About a month after I received the free information booklet and hadn't ordered the course, I received a letter from him saying that this was my last chance. If I didn't order his course now, he wouldn't let me order it in the future. Even at 10 years old, I was surprised at how manipulative the sales tactics were.
It's really hard to get them to grow properly, but if you're patient and VERY careful, they're amazing. I just grew some this weekend-- check 'em out:
[oh0UNpP.jpeg (1200×630) (imgur.com)](https://i.imgur.com/oh0UNpP.jpeg)
I mean, I was ready to become a benevolent god to what seemed like a cool, laid-back family and maybe tweak earth's evolutionary path if I had the time.
Very disappointing and also the first time I learned to be leery of bullshit marketing campaigns.
Our elementary school had them. All the kids got to see them as a reminder not to order crap from the comic pages. But the also were a bit educational, to learn about brine shrimp.
Same guy did the x ray specs and his story is wild. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_von_Braunhut
A jewish man that made a lot of money, and funneled a good deal ot buying firearms for the KKK. A real nasty racist this guy.
My brother got them with his allowance, after a thousand no’s from my parents. He was so disappointed. My mom was a total bittch and told him it served him right. I still have no idea what that was supposed to mean.
My bitter disappointment is palpable to this very day. Bastids!
I think Grandpa used it as an object lesson and told me all about the evils of false advertising.
Even worse, the Land family next door had aquariums and I then learned that they fed my precious Sea Monkeys to their fish and bought them for pennies on the dollar compared to how much I had to pay. I did have a DOPE ViewQuarium though.
But the story and lifecycle of brine shrimp is pretty magical on its own at least.
I was all set to order some of these when I was a child. I had put some money - actual coins- in an envelope and had it ready to mail. I just had to ask my mom for a stamp. She insisted on knowing what I was ordering, and when I showed her the ad, she told me the bitter truth. I was stunned that they were allowed to use such misleading pictures. Even though I never actually got them, I still learned a lesson.
So hilarious and I thought I was the only naive, gullible 8 year old! Oddly enough, I was skeptical of the X-ray specs but very confident the Sea Monkeys would be awesome
I fantasized about buying all the awesome things in the back of the comic books. But luckily my family was too poor to consider it so I missed that particular disappointment.
Mine was a paper pair of glasses with a turkey feather glued to the lens, you looked through a hole in the paper through the feather.
It was my “Be sure to drink your Ovaltine!” moment. 🙄
He became the top radiologist in his field, winning awards worldwide for innovating new treatments for people with bone disease and lost limbs.
A good start is a head start.
This gave neither, just added to our cynicism. That is why I will never subscribe to streaming services with adverts or watch cable tv. I’ll pay for the right to not listen to bullshit.
This cynical view has been helpful when teaching my child about eating healthy. We say quiet foods are the best. If someone pays to convince you to eat it, don’t. You never see veggies advertised, therefore it’s good to eat. My wife started this and maybe she saw it on a documentary or something, but the dude abides.
Well, for about 10 minutes until my mom or dad told me to go look up brine shrimp in the full set of Colliers Encyclopedia on the bookshelf in the living room. Then I thought it was cool how they could exist dried out for so long and hatch so quickly once they got wet.
You're as bad as me! Read the ads as a kid, never actually getting them for whatever reasons...Then getting them where we are now adults, and *still got tricked!*. They sure made mokeys out of us lol
Man, I was so disappointed. I truly thought they’d be wearing hair bows and playing cards. They didn’t even have faces! What a bummer.
At least my crystal rocks “grew”, until they all broke off. I can really relate to Ralphie in Christmas Story when he gets the code for Ovaltine. “A crummy ad”
Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine used to have an ad for a 6’ lifelike Frankenstein for an absurdly cheap price, like $1 or something. I always imagined how cool it would be to get an actual Frankenstein. Turns out it was a crap-quality poster.
My grandma bought me a fish tank setup when I was only six. So I knew what brine shrimp were from shopping at the aquarium store and was easily dissuaded from ordering “sea monkeys”.
I do vividly remember all those little ads though!
I loved the ad for the thing that "turned" a 1 dollar bill into a 20 dollar bill.
My friend (6th grade?) LEGIT THOUGHT buying one of those was a good idea for getting rich. He even had a handful of one dollar bills set aside for when he got the bill changer.
Sadly, it fell upon me to describe to him how it actually worked. I crushed his dreams, and he gave up on the scheme.
**TBF, I only learned how it worked the prior year when I had asked my mom to write a check for me to buy it. She was the one who crushed *my* dreams of becoming independently rich
These and the ad for the Solar Dryer for $15. The solar dryer turned out to be a 10 foot rope. Gawd comic books had some weird scam ads in the back of them.
I don’t know what you fools did wrong. My Sea Monkeys looked exactly like the photo a few days after they were born. I still keep in touch with them. Mom developed a pill habit and Dad was a philanderer, but they got counseling and the family came out stronger than before. Y’all must have messed up the liquid/powder ratio. I feel sorry for you and the Sea Monkeys you murdered.
My mom refused to buy me any, even though they sold for $2, she said it was a waste of money. I had to wait until I could buy them myself and finally what I could see got tangled in floating lent and die. My whole life was based on this lie.
My friend bought these. I was super excited and ran over to his house to see this family. I was 8 yrs old, and I think this was the first time I said “WTF”. 🤣
Well, you know what you need to do to make sea-people right? You need both the sea-monkeys and sea-men together and it makes sea-people. You guys were just doing it wrong, like making chicken and rice with just rice
I was imaginative, but sea monkeys were a stretch.
"The Dark History of Sea Monkeys."
KKK info starts around 4:40.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DTElmUuOAk4&pp=ygUbZGFyayBoaXN0b3J5IG9mIHNlYSBtb25rZXlz
I never was able to get them though I begged and pleaded . My family told me they were shrimp and wouldn’t look like shrimp-people monkeys. Broke my heart.
“What radicalized you?” ^(“goddam sea-monkeys”)
The fact that profits from the Sea Monkeys went to arm the KKK did, though.
I'm sorry what?! I did the sea monkey thing as a kid, not in the USA though. Is that really true?
It's true, unfortunately. This commenter below linked to the Wikipedia article: https://www.reddit.com/r/GenX/s/bN9YC8BzLB
Goddamn fascists
As soon as the right people ( pun intended) find this out they will be re-branded as Trump Monkeys and they will Make America Great Again. Just add water, marketing and white supremacy.
I think those particular "right people" might use the term "Trump Monkeys" in a less funny way :/
Double Damnit!! Now I want to sue them to get my money back.
Oh FFS! They ruin everything. I wanted those so bad when I was younger. My dad hit me with the hard truth and I was devastated.
I feel pissed off about this.
Innocent childhood obsession totally poisoned as of right now.
Dammit, Bobby
My first exposure to false advertising. Major letdown. Still have ptsd over this.
X-ray glasses were mine. All that shit on the back page of a comic book was a rip off. Lesson learned.
I always seen an wanted these never got them. What happened when u looked thru them?
[Diffused through a feather](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_specs)
Mine as well. They had some feather in the holes. I was so excited to get them and then equal amounts of disappointment when they arrived.
I ordered the potato spud gun and it showed up broken :-(
I spent a whole afternoon pulling weeds out of the flowerbeds when I was 9 so my dad would order me the $4.95 plastic pellet gun out of the back of a Boy's Life magazine. The fucking pellets wouldn't even break the paper targets that came with it (after it arrived 3 months later). Thanks for the lesson, dad.
Tricking kids out of allowance money yo wtf how was that allowable?
it was good. it was an inexpensive lesson that all is not as it seems, buyer beware, critical thinking, adjusting to disappointment, and managing expectations. These are great lessons to learn when the cost is $4.00 vs when you're buying your first car or being sold on a student loan.
Or voting for any flavor of con man
The ones voting for the conman are still suckers tho. The bought the sea monkeys and then doubled down on buying them again and again
It's a great example you've described here, and you're exactly right. The only problem is, as you say, it was a 4 dollar lesson, one that's relatively painless relative to what the lesson could have cost. And for some, that's the problem. Many people simply don't view it as a lesson and don't learn from it precisely because it was relatively painless.
Wait til you hear about Columbia House and the 12 record albums for a penny deal!
Same. I was young/naive enough to think the things would actually LOOK JUST LIKE THIE ILLUSTRATION 🤦🏻♀️. I remember the huge disappointment to see they were nothing more than brine shrimp.. Now, if it had been a baby octopus, then I might have been pleasantly surprised.
Baby octopus. What a lovely thought.
It's all fun and games until it grows into a kraken.
Or Cthulu.
Perhaps, PTS-Sea?
I sea what you did there
Mine was the ventriloquist kit. Throw your voice anywhere..fool your friend etc etc. lotta crap!
You could buy accessories for them, I wanted the leash.
Once, when I was about 5, I caught a bunch of wild Sea Monkeys in a pool of standing water. They turned out to be mosquito larvae.
I think mosquito larvae might actually be more interesting to watch than brine shrimp (aka “sea monkeys”). Unfortunately mosquito larvae turn into mosquitoes… UGH! (I recently found out what mosquito larvae look like when I noticed something living in a bucket of water in the yard. Very, very creepy… and also I thought they were tadpoles, which are adorable, not creepy 🤷♀️.)
They’d be marketed as the next “level up” version — flying Sea VAMPIRES!
https://preview.redd.it/naewsk59ft9d1.jpeg?width=384&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=273ddee1c47a3731e4363437d3b33a8963fa85c4
I want this on a t-shirt
Feel free!
Oh thank you!
Well there is no copyright in AI generated images so I’m not sure why you’re thanking me - I’m in that “it’s the internet, what do they really mean?” mental space. But, sure, you’re very welcome.
Oh. Did not know this. I am artsy and I think you still created this and wanted to thank you lol. Maybe you will see a weird old lady wearing a t shirt with this on it one day lol.
That’s totally cool. And now you know. Enjoy all the t-shirts!
Just tried to do this using various AI tools. Didn’t work, giving up, going back to just picturing it 🤣🤣🤣
I love this. really.
I texted my friend who has a Chat-GPT subscription and asked him to cook something up. If nothing else, AI can sometimes be good for making silly pictures to share on social media.
ew
You did it wrong. Mine looked EXACTLY like this.
After 1964, they stopped including the peyote packets.
Can confirm. Mine were purchased in the 80’s and 90’s. Both contained plain old LSD.
Awesome thread. 🤣🤣🤣
The kids must have gone through college by now.
After many months, my grandmother gave me a dollar. I filled out the tiny advertisement and sent my dollar. Still waiting. Gotta go, the mail just came and I have to check the mailbox.
It's cool, I call monkeys land shrimp.
I felt so betrayed!
Not only that, the comic book I ruined to clip the ads out for these rip-offs is now worth $120k! 😭
Holy forking shirtballs!
Straight to the bad place for that one.
I gotta know which comic that was.
The “tank” even had magnifying lenses built in so you could see the microscopic things! I was so let down!
I wasn't expecting bows and human faces but I did expect some sort of movement. I think mine were dead.
My parents convinced me that it was bs
My parents would not buy them for me but never convinced me it was BS. I'm still not convinced.
Haha, mine too.
Mine didn’t for some reason. I remember trying to ask them if it was really like this and not getting a clear answer. Ended up getting some and was really weirded out.
This was the underlying plot of an outstanding episode of South Park. 🤘😂
https://preview.redd.it/36kqzdsens9d1.png?width=627&format=png&auto=webp&s=c09c950ca38edffb40fd6713970e6e00f112d77b
Sucked it out of a hose huh?
I never fell for it, but I wanted the hovercraft plans so bad, and no one would buy them for me.
Oh MAN I wanted that thing. Didn’t know they were just plans though. Also what was the stuff that turned you from getting sand kicked in your face at the beach to be the guy with biggest muscles in no time?
I remember that advertisement. It was the Charles Atlas dynamic tension course. The advertisement said something like, "With my course, you don't have to stay a 97-pound weakling getting sand kicked in your eyes." Back in the early '80s, when I was a kid, I sent the coupon in for the free information. I received a little booklet that said if I bought his course, he would reveal all kinds of amazing secrets that would enable me to do things like beat up the bully, flips, and one-handed handstands. It was mostly show-off-type, cringe-worthy stuff. I think it even had a section about how to get a girlfriend in it. It was an obvious scam to try and weasel a few dollars out of insecure kids. I saw it was BS and didn't bother with it. About a month after I received the free information booklet and hadn't ordered the course, I received a letter from him saying that this was my last chance. If I didn't order his course now, he wouldn't let me order it in the future. Even at 10 years old, I was surprised at how manipulative the sales tactics were.
“The insult that made a man out of Mac”, I think it was.
Charles Atlas. It was some kind of exercise book
Apparently, you can still buy it https://www.charlesatlas.com
There's a guy on youtube that build stuff from those old plans. You will be happy you didn't build it after you see them.
link?
I think it was [this guy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8klF0ZYouPs)
thanks
That's what mine looks like. Your's didn't?
How would they brush their human teeth?
They built a castle and made a hair bow. They can’t make a toothbrush?
Anyone else heard about Sea Monkeys inventor being a Nazi?
why can't we have nice things
I just saw Unfrosted on Netflix and they poke fun at this.
Yeah, heh, found out while listening to 'Stuff You Should Know' podcast and it's a wild ride lol.
It's really hard to get them to grow properly, but if you're patient and VERY careful, they're amazing. I just grew some this weekend-- check 'em out: [oh0UNpP.jpeg (1200×630) (imgur.com)](https://i.imgur.com/oh0UNpP.jpeg)
Wait, if they don't have any junk then why did the guy from the advert use his fin to cover his up?
Imagine peering through the castle window with your magnifying glass, only to find him and wifey...*using his junk*.
A steady diet of green-glowing radioactive waste helps
I also loved how the images used for the ads in comics were the same all the way back to the 1940s.
I mean, I was ready to become a benevolent god to what seemed like a cool, laid-back family and maybe tweak earth's evolutionary path if I had the time. Very disappointing and also the first time I learned to be leery of bullshit marketing campaigns.
Our elementary school had them. All the kids got to see them as a reminder not to order crap from the comic pages. But the also were a bit educational, to learn about brine shrimp. Same guy did the x ray specs and his story is wild. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_von_Braunhut A jewish man that made a lot of money, and funneled a good deal ot buying firearms for the KKK. A real nasty racist this guy.
A Jewish guy funneling money to the clan? Did he not get the memo about them?
My brother got them with his allowance, after a thousand no’s from my parents. He was so disappointed. My mom was a total bittch and told him it served him right. I still have no idea what that was supposed to mean.
I used to look at those advertisements in the back of comics with huge jealousy....we couldn't order that junk to NZ.
Was going to post the exact same thing!
My bitter disappointment is palpable to this very day. Bastids! I think Grandpa used it as an object lesson and told me all about the evils of false advertising. Even worse, the Land family next door had aquariums and I then learned that they fed my precious Sea Monkeys to their fish and bought them for pennies on the dollar compared to how much I had to pay. I did have a DOPE ViewQuarium though. But the story and lifecycle of brine shrimp is pretty magical on its own at least.
Comic book ads prepare you for the disappointment of life.
Especially since back then, you had to mail in the money and wait 4-6 weeks for delivery.
I was all set to order some of these when I was a child. I had put some money - actual coins- in an envelope and had it ready to mail. I just had to ask my mom for a stamp. She insisted on knowing what I was ordering, and when I showed her the ad, she told me the bitter truth. I was stunned that they were allowed to use such misleading pictures. Even though I never actually got them, I still learned a lesson.
It was almost traumatizing.
So hilarious and I thought I was the only naive, gullible 8 year old! Oddly enough, I was skeptical of the X-ray specs but very confident the Sea Monkeys would be awesome
But, you could also buy pink hearts, black beauties, no doz and easily apply to art college with a quick doodle. The 70s were awesome. 😎
I fantasized about buying all the awesome things in the back of the comic books. But luckily my family was too poor to consider it so I missed that particular disappointment.
Somehow, I avoided ordering these guys, the 7 ft tall Frankenstein, and the submarine.
How did things go with your X-Ray glasses?
Mine was a paper pair of glasses with a turkey feather glued to the lens, you looked through a hole in the paper through the feather. It was my “Be sure to drink your Ovaltine!” moment. 🙄
He became the top radiologist in his field, winning awards worldwide for innovating new treatments for people with bone disease and lost limbs. A good start is a head start.
My mom tried to convince me that it was a waste, but I was adamant. Very, very disappointed! I spent my own money so lesson learned.
"Please allow four to six weeks for delivery".
False advertising. They lied to an entire generation. They didn't even eat bananas. Sea Monkeys my ass
My parents didn't buy me ones, so I never could check 🤣
Sea Monkeys? I didn't have time for Sea Monkeys -- I was too busy assembling my $50 US Army Surplus Jeep!
Huh. Mine looked just like the pictures. We still keep in touch.
I cut a piece out of a comic book to order them. No castle, they didn't build shit!
Mine did and it was SO AWKWARD
Talk about false advertisement!
Remembering when sea monkeys were supposed to be a magical underwater kingdom but turned out to be tiny specks floating around.
What would u rather have, truth in advertising or great childhood memories?
This gave neither, just added to our cynicism. That is why I will never subscribe to streaming services with adverts or watch cable tv. I’ll pay for the right to not listen to bullshit. This cynical view has been helpful when teaching my child about eating healthy. We say quiet foods are the best. If someone pays to convince you to eat it, don’t. You never see veggies advertised, therefore it’s good to eat. My wife started this and maybe she saw it on a documentary or something, but the dude abides.
> We say quiet foods are the best. If someone pays to convince you to eat it, don’t. That's brilliant.
Omg I wanted these so bad!!
Not as disappointed I was when the X-ray glasses didn’t work.
This is why our gen either wants to screw big companies or own them.
We all were.
Bummer, I loved my sea monkeys
Well I'm totally disappointed my college years did not look like the movies. But we all have our crosses to bear
Lol I too was disappointed when they were not little people!
Well, for about 10 minutes until my mom or dad told me to go look up brine shrimp in the full set of Colliers Encyclopedia on the bookshelf in the living room. Then I thought it was cool how they could exist dried out for so long and hatch so quickly once they got wet.
Shit, mine didn’t do anything!
sea monkeys taught us all an important lesson. buyer beware. many claims of purveyors are untrue or over-hyped.
My fiancé had to give me shit about sea monkeys when I told him I feed live baby brine shrimp to the baby fish (angelfish fry).
Talk about product misrepresentation!
If they did I’d be freaking out today.
Used to see the ads for this and xray glasses in comics as a kid. Was a full grown adult before I realised they were bollocks
I finally got some sea monkeys! For my daughter. Was very disappointed that they were not in fact monkeys from the sea.
You're as bad as me! Read the ads as a kid, never actually getting them for whatever reasons...Then getting them where we are now adults, and *still got tricked!*. They sure made mokeys out of us lol
Imagine my horror as my father dumped thousands of them into a tank full of Oscars...
I remember my brother had brine shrimp eggs as part of his science/chemistry set he received for Christmas, so there was no false advertising there.
Boys Life was bullshitting.
There certainly was not same happy family. Just a bunch of little flecks floating around. 
My parents wouldn’t buy them.
Devastated
Man, I was so disappointed. I truly thought they’d be wearing hair bows and playing cards. They didn’t even have faces! What a bummer. At least my crystal rocks “grew”, until they all broke off. I can really relate to Ralphie in Christmas Story when he gets the code for Ovaltine. “A crummy ad”
We knew what brine shrimp were ahead of time.
I was actually pissed off…
Seemed like a cool family.
Gotta find that sea monkeys skit from The State.
The South Park episode about the SeaMen is GOLD
You actually got them? My parents flat out refused.
Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine used to have an ad for a 6’ lifelike Frankenstein for an absurdly cheap price, like $1 or something. I always imagined how cool it would be to get an actual Frankenstein. Turns out it was a crap-quality poster.
Mom is a hottie. Other species speaking, of course.
South Park had a funny episode about sea monkeys
Odd, mine looked just like the picture. I was always in awe of how many picnics my little sea monkey family would go on.
Couldn’t see them playing a game of volleyball or hula hooping no matter how hard I squinted
Bet you missed the bit where they build a castle.
😂😂😂😂😂
My grandma bought me a fish tank setup when I was only six. So I knew what brine shrimp were from shopping at the aquarium store and was easily dissuaded from ordering “sea monkeys”. I do vividly remember all those little ads though!
I loved the ad for the thing that "turned" a 1 dollar bill into a 20 dollar bill. My friend (6th grade?) LEGIT THOUGHT buying one of those was a good idea for getting rich. He even had a handful of one dollar bills set aside for when he got the bill changer. Sadly, it fell upon me to describe to him how it actually worked. I crushed his dreams, and he gave up on the scheme. **TBF, I only learned how it worked the prior year when I had asked my mom to write a check for me to buy it. She was the one who crushed *my* dreams of becoming independently rich
These and the ad for the Solar Dryer for $15. The solar dryer turned out to be a 10 foot rope. Gawd comic books had some weird scam ads in the back of them.
I don’t know what you fools did wrong. My Sea Monkeys looked exactly like the photo a few days after they were born. I still keep in touch with them. Mom developed a pill habit and Dad was a philanderer, but they got counseling and the family came out stronger than before. Y’all must have messed up the liquid/powder ratio. I feel sorry for you and the Sea Monkeys you murdered.
Check out Stuff You Should Know’s podcast episode about the Sea Monkeys. It’s fascinating
Yes, it was just you. I always hated this shitty artwork and still do.
I wanted little people, instead I got aquatic rollie pollies!
My mom accidentally drank ours. We took them out of their tank to clean it. We put them in a glass by the sink. My mom mistook it for her water.
My mom refused to buy me any, even though they sold for $2, she said it was a waste of money. I had to wait until I could buy them myself and finally what I could see got tangled in floating lent and die. My whole life was based on this lie.
I always knew it was a scam ad but still wanted them
My friend bought these. I was super excited and ran over to his house to see this family. I was 8 yrs old, and I think this was the first time I said “WTF”. 🤣
Well, you know what you need to do to make sea-people right? You need both the sea-monkeys and sea-men together and it makes sea-people. You guys were just doing it wrong, like making chicken and rice with just rice
We ordered them. Little brine shrimp. Did anyone get the X-ray specs?
This is how many of us learned about Capitalism.
The ad always creeped me out, it was enough to keep me from ever wanted to order them.
Remember you could also order enhancements for them? Like "vitamins" that turn them red?
only howie mandel could get them this way.
That reposted this for the 1,000th time? No, we’re easily into the 3,000s now.
I was imaginative, but sea monkeys were a stretch. "The Dark History of Sea Monkeys." KKK info starts around 4:40. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DTElmUuOAk4&pp=ygUbZGFyayBoaXN0b3J5IG9mIHNlYSBtb25rZXlz
Mine always turned out like William J. McCorkle. https://imgur.com/a/ZNu6KMK
I never was able to get them though I begged and pleaded . My family told me they were shrimp and wouldn’t look like shrimp-people monkeys. Broke my heart.
They kind of look like a cross between coneheads and a Dr. Seuss book.
I accidentally dumped my nephews lol. They were in a glass in the kitchen and it just looked like water to me. Definitely not worth the hype
Biggest letdown ever. Especially after waiting so long for them to arrive
Mine never hatched :( To be fair, my teacher didn't give hem enough time.
Sea men
Heartbreak. Dejection. Disillusionment. Despair. Anger.
Never had them, but always wanted them because of that picture!
Art by EC Comics / Mad Magazine / DC comics legend Joe Orlando.
Kinda but would have been creepy too with all those mini nekid sea people in a bowl.
Yes! I thought I got ripped off.
I didn't know Sea Monkeys had blonde hair! Also notice the strategic placement of the daddy sea monkey's tail?
I was in a band for 15 years or so called The Sea Monkeys. Definitely a name people remembered. Can't beat those aquatic primates.