Even more novelty telephones.

[@Whitewingdevil]

The thumbnail had me thinking that was the same Garfield phone that was washing up by the hundreds on a random beach in France for decades until they used new tech to track the bastards back to a sunken container FULL of them. Imagine walking down the beach and just finding dozens of Garfields staring at you, what a nightmare.

[@SteveBrandon]

The "beach" phones were the superior Garfield phones with the opening eyes and the handset being a detachable part of Garfield's back.

[@Mollymauking]

nightmare? more like heaven

[@Ironman1o1]

@@SteveBrandon I love there's now the "Superior Garfield Phone" Thank you LJN Phones.

[@Jynxxx5]

Oh I’ve heard of this! I never figured out why that happened. That’s so interesting.

[@Caledon91]

I was thinking the same thing. Would have been kinda poetic after Dank was talking about plastic being "the cancer of the planet" and then move on to the infamous Garfield beach phones.

[@FriendlyNeighborhoodLamia]

I like how the Garphone was so close to a passing grade *And then the ringer was so bad that it revived a bit from years ago*

[@natsuko_mikan]

the 1-gritting has returned…

[@skyraider87]

The gritting never went away

[@IAmStillNotMatthew]

I never really thought about how house phones disappeared. Watching the previous video made me go "huh house phones disappeared so suddenly". Then I realized how we swapped from wall mounted phone in the kitchen-dining room and in the living room to some wireless house phone in the kitchen-dining room to "we aren't using it anyways".

[@bxck]

I remember the old landline phone my parents used to have when I was young. I really loved the ring tone of old phones like the one in the video

[@shapinsaybikes4611]

Don’t know about anyone else but I still have and use a wireless house phone

[@echo_soldier]

I don't remember if our house had a landline, but for a while my parents had a flip phone as our house phone. Then we just stopped using it. No idea where it is now

[@pavook]

@@bxck I don't remember what the landline phone used to sound when I was young, but... that dial-up for Internet would stay in my head till I'm dead.

[@ShyShy_999]

This may be the dorkiest thing I'll ever say, but the day I realized that landlines were for sure dead was that one fateful update to The Sims 3 where your sims got their own smartphones and ultimately made the wall mounted phones functionally decorative lmfao

[@ProtoV33MK1]

The "Hearing-aid-compatible" thing on the garfield phone refers to the T-coil (Telephone coil) feature that most hearing aids have now where they can pick up the audio from a speaker by magnetically coupling to the speaker coil instead of using the mic to amplify the phone. If you've ever seen a symbol on your way into a building (typically churches and the like) that looks like an ear with two outlines and a line through it (sometimes with a T next to it) that means they have a transmitter that can be picked up with a T-coil hearing aid. The idea is that you can leave the volume at the normal level so it doesn't over-amplify sounds near you (like someone talking) but it'll pick up the relatively quiet sound of a phone. The fact it says it's compatible basically just means the speaker is given enough power that it can be picked up by a T-coil.

[@zilog1]

Protogen go beep boop

[@ColaTai]

​@@zilog1yes

[@zilog1]

Yes @@ColaTai

[@lowratedchess]

@@zilog1 furry ahh

[@vogelvrouw]

Oooh thats cool actually

[@roghider319]

Imagine you get a call on your Garfield phone telling you you're convocated to court for manslaughter

[@FurroGenerico]

Mondays amirite

[@roghider319]

@@FurroGenerico Mondays are copyrighted, gotta go for Tuesdays now

[@diedrino]

Or that like your daughter died in a car crash

[@roghider319]

@@diedrino That ringtone absolutely has that "we're sorry to inform you that (insert awful thing happening to a close relative)" vibe

[@cowabunga2597]

Crikey mate

[@AzeriaCraft_]

I can’t help but think that the Garfield Phone was a “Gift From An Old Mate”. And he destroyed it. 😂

[@spaceacepl4636]

mixed feelings about this one

[@SunnyD1865]

That’s probably the first time someone has ever crushed a Garfield shaped telephone in a vice, and for some reason I’m surprised it never happened sooner

[@CommodoreFan64]

I have a feeling someone already has, just not on camera lol

[@dftns19]

It was begging for the song from Office Space, but of course, copyright strike....

[@JackBandicootsBunker]

ViSe 🤓

[@colt-_-jonson1743]

The shipwreck that still plagues some beach with them to this day was enough most people thought.

[@Deja117]

@@JackBandicootsBunker Actually it's "Vice" where Wade is from. He's an Aussie, they use English there, not American English. It's the same reason they "add" an I to aluminium. The history of both languages is actually quite fascinating, but people are too stuck up to give them the time of day. Of course they have their own quirks to the language, but it's closer to the original than American English. :)

[@RedParatroopa112]

5:00 imagine being in your granny’s one story country house at the dead of night and sitting on the sofa when this abomination’s eyes start flashing in the dark

[@squatchjosh1131]

Even more insidious, it's just an auto dialer scam calling.

[@nilysion]

My family has always had that one house phone that even to this day has not disappeared. You betcha ill answer those calls with the crisp mic quality of a carrier pigeon

[@xxyvng6831]

I want a house phone that has a bad mic like when he does the junk headphone mic tests lol

[@watsisbuttndo829]

My boomer parents refuse to unplug the old landline dispite the only incoming calls on it being scammers multiple times per day.

[@onefastrax5431]

4:50 if i was a kid back then and saw that panda flashing its red eyes i dont care what time of day it was i would be running out the front door (also the garfield ring reminds me of school fire alarms)

[@Homepage.]

MY SISTER HAD THE GARFIELD ONE 😭 I remember being so jealous I offered her BOTH of my smurfs wallets for it :/

[@nonpostings_]

i can relate 😭

[@saulelfandesonicjimenez7969]

Did she accept the smurfs wallets?

[@Homepage.]

@@saulelfandesonicjimenez7969yes, I got my Garfield phone 😌 but then it got lost 3mos later when we moved 😐

[@olidlavoie]

Did it actually sound like that when it was plugged into a real landline?

[@Homepage.]

@@olidlavoie no, it sounded more like the “generic” Telefone

[@actualtrashpile]

I have fond memories with those baby phones. My mom always had one on her desk at work and she got a matching one with a picture of her in the middle for me. She told me that she knew I missed her when she was at work and that I could talk into mine and she would pick up the one on her desk and hear me, just that I wouldn’t hear her. I was extremely young, so believing her was all I needed. They don’t ring, and they don’t even connect, let alone have speakers, but she convinced me otherwise so I wouldn’t miss her. I just think that’s wholesome and wanted to share :)

[@OrangeDied]

i'm convinced james has every possible device dank could use in existence just waiting to give to him

[@EnoshimaGuertena]

You don't find an ol' mate like that anywhere y'know.

[@themaritimegirl]

I could be wrong, but you may be accidentally destroying these phones by ringing them when they are off-hook. The telephone network will never send ringing voltage to your phone when it's off-hook, but your ringing machine does. You had Garfield off-hook when you rang it for the first time, and you might have done the same for Snoopy. It could have fried the electronics.

[@mogli4692]

Him gritting the things makes me scared the rock is gonna break, and that rock is a relic😂

[@rydx4]

Let's be honest, the scream on that panda phone is comedy gold.

[@Jeagles]

I still have a phone shaped like a train, and a friend of mine used to have one shaped like a chameleon that played “Karma Chameleon” when it rang. Good times.

[@megacherv]

Yoooo I remember the BT advert with that! They became super popular at the time, and then Watchdog had an episode cos so many of them were crap and people were complaining

[@splendidfd6848]

4:00 "Tone" is how modern phones communicate numbers to the exchange, with the beeping and whatnot, "Pulse" is how an oldschool rotary phone works. If you lived somewhere that was a bit behind the times the exchange might have only supported pulse dialing so early touch phones had those switches on them for compatibility.

[@kaitlyn__L]

Also some people just refused to pay extra (even if it was only $1 a month) for tone dialling lol

[@supra107]

Now I wonder if the thing that James made is a "pulse" type ringer, and the reason so many of these phones make that ear piercing sound is because they get a "pulse" signal on the "tone" mode. If only that switch was flipped before the gritting to confirm this theory.

[@splendidfd6848]

@@supra107 the way ringing works is the same for both, the phone rings when a certain voltage is on the line (it's a little more complex than that but not by much, Wikipedia has a writeup of it). The different systems are just how the phone communicates the number dialed. So while rotary phones can't dial new systems, they should still ring and answer calls if connected.

[@LordofDiamondsMetal]

even as a zoomer, I'm still quite familiar with land lines because my mom might be the last one I know who uses a land line exclusively. She never has owned a cell phone or any similar piece of technology, really, and honestly I gotta respect her for making that life style work today

[@abbyelectric]

We have a land line in our home too, it's usually only used when someone at home put their smartphone on silent, though...

[@theelectricneko]

Same for my grandma.

[@OrbObserver]

Unless she never leaves her house she's inconveniencing herself and anyone who needs to contact her over some misplaced sense of pride. There is nothing inherently noble about refusing to change along with the world around you.

[@joeldowell5059]

@@OrbObserver maybe she just simply doesn't want one. That's not a misplaced sense of pride, that's essentially no different than not buying the newest iPhone every year. She doesn't want one, she doesn't need one. Simple as that.

[@RatBürgerSk8]

​@@OrbObserverDo people _really_ need to constantly be available for a conversation at all times? That's an entirely modern expectation.

[@prekatori]

1:56 that is literally the warning tone my smartphone makes when the government tests their public warning system

[@PendragonDaGreat]

For my birthday last year some friends got me an orca shaped phone. It sits on a wave (like it's leaping out of the water) and the body of the whale is the actual phone, which means it basically speaks directly into your ear.

[@vlkiller]

It's funny, the moment that phone started ringing I had the in ground need to run to answer it before it stopped ringing. That anxiety of missing a call and not knowing who it was and why they were calling was horrific. Back then you would only call someone if you had something worth while to talk about. Especially as a teenager. We didn't have a cordless phone so I'd have to sit under the counter in the living room whispering while my parents watched TV 3 meters away. Thems the times... Shit times, but still times.

[@rellikai945]

7:25 Seeing wade's shadow double fist and wind up slamming the phone down on the ground is just absolutely hilarious to me lol

[@izack0128]

7:10 the return of the 1 grit is truly magical.

[@OrangeSpaceNewt]

I've tested the DankPods charm on my niece, she really liked watching this episode and she didn't go ballistic like she usually does the entire time lmao

[@xxyvng6831]

what i learned from this as a 17yo:put on dankpods and kid no cry

[@naikahara]

I love the demonic panda one. I haven't used my house phone in ages but I totally would use that one everyday

[@Laribhaven]

The sound was really Cursed, but that Garfield phone would be absolutely child proof

[@tsm688]

unlike that baby phone

[@lamptrent]

it's child-proof in that no child would enter a room with it after hearing it ring

[@mafiacat88]

While I agree with you on the age of that thing-the "all plastic!" thing is somehow still sometimes a line. Because recently some snapple bottles switched from glass to plastic (Probably for profit reasons, because what's the point in recycling, right?). And for some mind-boggling reason some goon in their marketing division thought putting "New Plastic Bottle!" on the front was a good idea. Like I'll be thrilled at the prospect of drinking slightly more microplastics rather than having a nice glass bottle. Ah well, there's other brands of iced tea. But it's still annoying

[@JessicaFEREM]

I can't wait to watch more of this truly peak audiophile gear truly the top of the top shelf.

[@JakkuTheMagicalCattu]

The Garfield phone gave me traumatic flashbacks to being on the coast of France as a kid and getting to the beach only to find like a dozen oozing messy Garfield phone's 😅 also the fact it took till now to find the cause is wild and it was a container leaking the fvckers

[@OfficialTKKH]

They're all full of demons, I blame Frank, she's obviously had input on all of those utter nightmares. No sleep for me this weekend... THANKS ALOT FRONK!

[@chanceguy2]

✌

[@aaronbryan5095]

The panda one feels real demonic lol, especially the red LEDs as the panda's eyes 😂

[@katelyn6989]

Mr Dankmus- I just wanted to say that I really appreciate the variety in your videos and how you just make videos about things that you just find neat. Sometimes I think KZbinrs feel forced into making videos with a very narrow range of topics to appease viewers but your channel is the exact opposite which I find super refreshing. Whether it's about iPods, headphones, cars, drums or weird old phones the topic is always really entertaining and easily digestible and I find that extremely cromulent

[@pollosasadosalcarbon]

his video about literal calculators is absolute peach like how do you even make a video about calculators that doesn't only appeal to calculator nerds he can't even use the hp nugget properly and i am still there watching

[@marcberm]

My last panda didn't have a lighted button key. Jealous.

[@blunderingfool]

I generally consider it a good idea to keep a house phone anyway... aside from nostalgia it also gets powered by the phone line, not needing power from the mains, so in the event of a middle to long-term power cut you'll still have a phone line.

[@Battler789]

6:50 WORST CALLING SOUND EVER

[@Klaevin]

honestly, even though I don't want to own it, either. this is the first time I've felt bad for something getting gritted. RIP Garfield phone

[@Mawson6492]

7:33 "i'm sorry John..."

[@KineTheFish]

Wade just never fails to make us smile

[@Stunbunny]

If there was a hell, Jim Davis would be on a pointy stool, forced to draw a novelty caricature of each repub- I mean individual that entered.

[@Alexisadingus]

The snoopy phone ring sounds like an egg cooker when it finishes cooking eggs

[@WisconsinAdventures]

8:49 "well, it's here if you want it" 💀💀

[@Telefoon-bi9wf]

Got into collecting old landline telephones as ive still got one, very fun!

[@alsomika]

I wanna see em

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@alsomikaprobably not OP’s collection but there’s a channel here called GPOboy with a bunch of old American and British (hence GPO, “General Post Office”) landline phones. You might find it interesting to peruse.

[@jackkraken3888]

Fun Fact: If you have a modern Voip line you can use devices called ATAs or analog Telephone adapters to connect your old telephone to the voip line and use the phone like normal! Older phones rotary phones may or may not work though.

[@alsomika]

@@kaitlyn__L thanks a ton! This is exactly what I was looking for

[@bkzach]

One of the things I like about my work is that we have 5 wireless phones for use around the office. Even still half of the calls we receive are spam and telemarketers. What floors me even more is that people actually make and send out fax telemarket ads and even scams via fax. I can't even believe someone would pay to send out that crap.

[@AstonsVintageTechnologyWorkshp]

I hooked up a telephone exchange here, because... well, just because I could to be honest, but also so I could have an old school -actual dial phone- in every room. We can call each other from room to room. It's actually super convenient, but also kind of comfy feeling, knowing that all my weird phones have something to do, in this ever increasing digital age. :D

[@TransistorBased]

I'm still trying to figure out how to get my payphone set up to require coins

[@marcusj17]

Bench vise - for when the 1 grit isn't enough. Rest in pieces, Garf-phone

[@Steakkiller]

There is a beach in France where Garfield phones kept washing up since the 80s. Apparently a shipping container got lost. If only the baby’s in the 50s knew…

[@DeskyFanny]

DankPods: "Are they the LJN of novelty telephones?" Me: "Did DankPods watch the Angry Videogame Nerd?"

[@JTS.citizenship2022]

This is the kinda content I need when walking to school at 8:00 oclock

[@DystopianOverture]

James walking in seeing Wade torturing a plastic Garfield thinking 'ahh just a normal day at work' XD

[@FokkerBoombass]

I haven't had a classic landline phone for most of my life now, they're all digital now with fancy ringtones. The only times I get to use a classic phone like this is at work while I'm on a ship, every cabin and other important places gotta have a phone. Hearing that old ring tone just fills me with anxiety now because if someone's calling my cabin, it's usually because there's a problem.

[@TechGorilla1987]

@0:47 - The wife is offering $125 USD for that phone. She just screamed from across the room.

[@Walrusman_180]

I’m glad the decided to give the panda phone ominous red Terminator eyes

[@stravvberryheart]

5:31 LJN!? *Vietnam flashbacks*

[@_Chimaera_]

I'm waiting for someone to find a craig phone like these

[@ObbyCloud]

the echo like a gunshot after each slam of the garf-phone brings me great joy.

[@alanaclapp2104]

hi dankpods! thanks for another great video so glad you’re back! ❤️

[@joearnold6881]

Tone/pulse means you can switch it between touch tone (the numbers make a beep, you know like a telephone) or acting like an old-timey rotary phone where the number of clicks is the number sent. I had one that did that in the mid 90s and thought it was silly, and I’m old enough to have known adults who had rotary phones when I was a little kid

[@kaitlyn__L]

It’s only useful if you live somewhere without tone dialling. Or, occasionally, somewhere which still charged extra for tone dialling and they wanted to be tightfisted. (Someone else I watch was in the latter position, only switching to tone dialling when he got FiOS and it became free!)

[@TPLS2]

Omg I just saw the Garfield Phone recently and thought Dank should cover it.

[@TPLS2]

Also there is a Garfield Phone that it’s eyes open and close when you answer the phone.

[@brettfluhr9973]

We had a phone growing up, it was a Michael Jordan basketball that opened up into a stadium with a basketball game ongoing with little figures and it'd play game noises as the ringer or you could swap it with an announcer calling out Michael Jordan's entrance. Dope phone.

[@darkness7479]

if you want a really unique telephone you should get the "Sleeping Goofy" it has animatronics and everything it's so cool (mostly nostalgia talking)

[@Girdiddle]

The snoopy phone was set to pulse instead of the tone that's the t

[@OliverWhiteTailAlexander]

The snoopy phone sounds just like an American fire alarm lol.

[@testchannel8151]

"The phoniest phone you can phone to phones" is now my favorite quote

[@KevinC2793]

the Garfield phone is actually EVEN MORE collectible now if you manage to find the intersection of Dankpods fans and Garfield fans.

[@RADish-official]

Garfield has one again proven that he is an otherworldly being of despair and chaos that needs to be destroyed as soon as possible.

[@blankadams3120]

So, I know there was a Garfield phone that had the phone embedded roughly where his spine would be, and the eyes of the base actually lowered and closed when the phone was on the cradle, but they would open up when you lifted the handset.

[@TransistorBased]

I have that one 😂

[@Thiswhat22]

T Y C O

[@adamgreenhill110]

Garfield cracked like an Easter bunny... I could almost eat those pieces

[@JamesR624]

3:46 _SpongeBob MP3 Player Flashbacks_

[@HeyImRancover]

And geek nugget dip

[@Rau-Dr]

I don't know if it's a coincidence, but the red lights on the Keypad of the CURSED NUGGET were forming a 1/8 Note

[@KillerCaitie]

I crack up every time you let out a terrified shriek at something. Also wow! That is a different Garfield phone than any of the versions I've seen. Cool! Although the ringer was like a smoke alarm of awfulness.

[@kylejames9536]

I just want to give a shout out to all those amazing patreons. I’m not in a position to join it but I’m so grateful to see so many of you still supporting this absolute legend even after the necessary changes he had to make to his channel. Thank you all you massive legends!

[@imstupid880]

I feel having Garfield's ringer be an EAS alert truly fits into Gorefield lore

[@Bennythejet55]

The amount of joy that came over me once I saw 1 Grit being used again... We love a good 1 gritting.

[@coloradorc]

I love how he says NO at 6:28

[@etheriumart]

FINALLY THE ONE GRIT IS BACK

[@BlindingWulf]

Fire alarm at school be like 6:57

[@nathanmarshall745]

I remember moving the T/P switch on our landline phone when i was young, the Tone is the beep boops you hear when dialing where Pulse sends little taps the higher the number is, which is probably how rotary dial phones worked

[@kaitlyn__L]

It can also be simulated by very rapidly hanging up and letting go again (ie with your finger on the hook button)! Some people (especially teens of the day) learned to do this on those “incoming-only” phones that had the dial removed. If they did it with the right rhythm the exchange accepted it just fine! I also know someone who had to learn to do it when the dial broke and they were waiting a few days for the guy to come fix/replace it.

[@endastking6217]

I love the Garfield phone. It reminds me of jontron.

[@adinko7]

Garfield sounds like crickets in the night.

[@pokehybridtrainer]

And here I was expecting the Garfield phone that has it's eyes closed, then opens when you pick up the receiver.

[@thegardenofeatin5965]

At the beginning I anticipated him picking it up, holding the receiver up to the camera, and then his voice from the phone goes "telephones, mate."

[@greenbloxgamer9786]

These phones are danker then the dankest of pods.

[@hfric]

7:16 my mind just hums "Still - Geto Boys"

[@Sonen10]

DankPods and Sonic Frontiers Update 3?! My day is absolutely set!

[@sesukun2064]

Oh my goodness, so hyped

[@Kilo_Miles]

Sonic awesome 🛐🛐🛐🛐🛐

[@rorz999]

Why are sonicfags so weird lol

[@abbyelectric]

this was the last place I expected to find another Sonic fan. What a good day we're having!!

[@scottcaramel]

Denuvo taking from me once again

[@soliloquy1593]

Finally a grit session, how I’ve missed them

[@eain9009]

When i heard the garfield phone ring, i thought to myself, if that was mine id smash it to bits. and then you did exactly that what satisfaction! 😂

[@SPC503]

Flash on a landline phone typically was for call waiting. Pressing that would switch between line 1 and 2 if you got another call while on the phone

[@acnyc]

I recently got to use a working rotary phone and it was absolutely surreal to me, like seriously. Also, I'm scared to ask where you keep getting these rubbish things lmao😊

[@SonofSethoitae]

You have no idea how old this makes me feel

[@VulpesHilarianus]

There's just something about the mechanics of a rotary phone that makes initiating a phonecall feel like an important event. Unless you get one of those Bell Model 302s in pink. I would box a bear to get my hands on one. Some of the rarest telephones ever made because they were only produced from 1940 to 1941 when materials shortages stopped all production. It'd feel like calling the mayor about an epidemic of spontaneously combusting clowns every time with the ridiculousness.

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@VulpesHilarianusmy ideal phone is probably one of those dark turquoise model 500s. Even though I’m in the UK, I’ve never liked how “sunken-in” our model 500 imitation, the GPO 746, looked when it’s on the cradle. And the wall-mounted one was either a hasty conversion with the receiver catch flipped on the base, or a bespoke base which nevertheless looked like a squished desktop one! The cleaner lines of the Dreyfuss receiver appeal to me a lot more than the GPO one as well, which retains some of the features “inspired” from the 30x Western Electrics such as the cowling around the microphone and the seam down the back of the handle (a lot like the more angular Automatic Electric competition).

[@biscuitygudness]

seeing him one grit that garfield phone when they go on the secondhand market for over a hundred freedom eagles was so painful for my garbage collecting heart

[@StarfoxHUN]

3:29 If i get a Kinder Egg that is soo stinkin huge that it could fit this stuff, that would be the happiest day of my life

[@KairosQ]

Every house in my area still have a house phone! It's because we have very little to no Cell Service in our area at all, living in the country side and such.

[@VncentValntine]

5:12 you may see bad QC, but i see an eight note! :p

[@KamenRiderGumo]

My parents and I still have land lines hooked up in our houses with the bare minimum phone service (outgoing calls are free, each incoming call adds a whopping 50 cents to the bill), mostly for emergencies like power outages where we can't charge the cell phones. Mine is a black-and-silver rotary phone shaped much like the "baby phone" in the video and Dad's is an old "candlestick" type where you pick up the earpiece from a hook on the side and the mouthpiece stays mounted to the body of the phone. Honestly, I miss the simplicity of those old phones and wish they were still commonplace. FYI, the "pulse/tone" switches changed the ringer slightly so you would either have a long tone, or more of an interrupted noise, and the "flash" button was used for a lot of things like switching between calls (if you had the "call waiting" service from your phone company) or placing someone on hold (again, provided you paid for the service).

[@Zm4rf]

I feel like Dank just wanted to get the most value out of James's button

[@natevart4156]

Crazy how this works I always loved ur channel and also played the drums. Never knew you had a drum account, you are now officially the best KZbinr ever.

[@thechildhoodruiner15]

Whenever I think about Garfield Phones, I think of when they kept randomly washing up on some French beach over a period of 30 years.

[@Bismuth83X]

They make me think of the movie Ninja Terminator. Said movie also had a bootleg Transformers G1 Omega Supreme. Being a Transformers fan, the latter is more interesting to me.

[@adre2194]

Mr. Pods: I'm just happy to have a genuine Garfield telephone Mr. Pods, moments later:

[@imanassole9421]

2:38 Prior to this, all phones were cast iron. You had to hold the receiver 1 inch away from your face ot you'd get tetanus. Those people were lucky, before that, phones were made from wood..

[@SilverDragonJay]

I feel like "hearing aid compatible" should be like...the bare minimum. You know, considering the fact that the entire point of hearing aids is to enable you to hear things that you're supposed to be able to hear.