# American Inventors 4/6 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 7, 2006, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-inventors-4-6/351678 "2006-04-07T03:44:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-inventors-4-6/351678/1 "2006-04-07T03:44:35Z")
I haven’t seen it yet but am looking forward to more wacky inventions–and maybe even a few good ones. Anybody with me? ---
**Author:** ![the\_only\_bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b2d939/32.png) [@the\_only\_bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_only_bunny)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-inventors-4-6/351678/2 "2006-04-07T04:00:03Z")
Oh, lets see. I may have missed something with the teddy bears, what was original about it? What on earth was with the xmas tinsel lady? What kind of invention was the huge thing everyone bounced on? ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-inventors-4-6/351678/3 "2006-04-07T22:57:57Z")
> [@the only bunny](#): > > Oh, lets see. I may have missed something with the teddy bears, what was original about it? > What on earth was with the xmas tinsel lady? > What kind of invention was the huge thing everyone bounced on? I don’t know what was so inspiring about the character building teddy bear kit, either. Centerpiece Lady had overpracticed. I don’t recall them really showing the bouncing thing except for a few seconds. That was the end of the auditions. Now we’ll be watching the finalists and eliminations. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-inventors-4-6/351678/4 "2006-04-07T23:18:34Z")
> [@the only bunny](#): > > Oh, lets see. I may have missed something with the teddy bears, what was original about it? It’s a character-building thing. The teddy bears came unstuffed and with a plush brain, heart, etc. and a rhyming storybook. The idea that the child is to place the parts into the bear while the parent reads the storybook, which explains the importance of each part. The inventors liked it because it was something parent and child could do together, and in this age, the parent rarely has time to spend with the child. > [@](#): > > What on earth was with the xmas tinsel lady? There’s this old tape that’s been bootlegged and circulated over the years (you can find it on the Internet) of Orson Welles in his later years doing an ad for frozen food, stumbling over the words and chewing out the producers for the way they’re making him work and the poor quality of the script. For some reason, this woman reminded me of that. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-inventors-4-6/351678/5 "2006-04-08T04:15:27Z")
If you wanted to make this show a drinking game you could take a shot everytime the woman judge cries, the Italian judge cries, the little bald guy talks about how much he knows and the British guy acts like a smartass. You’d be drunk less than halfway through. I watched this with my boyfriend, every time they started to tell someone’s sob story I’d say “the woman judge will cry over this one” and she always did. As for the inventions, most of the time they spend the most time on the ones that don’t get through and just show a flash of the ones that did get through (unless they have cute widdle kids or good sob story).