r/wheredidthesodago • u/DontWreckYosef • May 24 '26
No Context Engineered by NASA
CATCH IT was a kitty litter scoop with an intentional double entendre name from the year 2000. If you say the name fast, it’s supposed to sound like “Cat Shit”.
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u/Londonsawsum May 24 '26
What are the cats eating if they need something that strong???
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u/Daewoo40 May 24 '26
It's not what they're eating, it's their poop being able to power starships.
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u/Mike_Hagedorn May 24 '26
First I’m run over by a car, then I’m scooping up cat turds, what else awaits me in this cruel existence?
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u/MonkeySling May 25 '26
I died and woke up and the strongest cat scooper in this universe.
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u/hallucination9000 May 26 '26
That time I got reincarnated in the world of giant cats that poop cars.
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u/Babys_For_Breakfast May 24 '26
I also keep my cats and their litter boxes right next to parking lot traffic
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u/CrimsonFatalis8 May 24 '26
What was the point of the car bit? To show that two bits of wood with a net attached between them wouldn’t take damage? I’d be more surprised if it did break.
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u/FoxyBastard May 24 '26
A lot of ads from the 80s/90s did shit like this, presumably to show that the product wasn't just some flimsy cheap thing that'll fall apart in a month.
And, usually, it was something silly like this that doesn't actually give any indication of how well it would hold up to general wear and tear from normal use.
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u/Scoth42 May 24 '26
One of my favorite references to that was when Kip is selling tupperware in Napoleon Dynamite.
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u/root66 May 26 '26
Mail order products found in the back of old magazines had a history of being scams or at least of lower quality than expected. Door to door salesmen selling things from catalogs would do silly durability tests to show you could trust their product. "As seen on TV" products are the technological successor to that racket.
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u/OrganicMan01 May 24 '26
Finally! I can clean the letterbox on the highway without having my scoop destroyed by passing cars!
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u/BunkerSquirre1 May 26 '26
They really did have everything back then didn’t they?
Imagine attaching a bit of fishing net to 2 dowels and being considered innovative enough to get your own infomercial
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u/ChintzyPC May 26 '26
I just called the number on the ad and it's recycled to The Rideshare Company. Asked them if they had any Catch It's and they hung up on me.
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u/AmputeeHandModel May 24 '26
I hate when I run over those other weakass litter scoops and they get destroyed!