Rubberene Biogrip
For those
children whose parents were too poor to afford the more desirable official Six
Million Dollar Man doll, there was the Captain Matt Youth doll. Whereas the former had many wonderful
attachments and features, including the famed “karate chop action,” the
latter’s only advertised characteristic was its “rubberene biogrip,” although a
splashy blurb on the box mentioned the oversized gun included with the doll.
“Daddy,
what is ‘rubberene?’” a child asked after seeing the Captain Matt Youth
television commercial.
“Well,”
Daddy replied, laying aside that week’s edition of the local paper, “It’s like
rubber, only it’s synthetic, like plastic.”
The child
nodded thoughtfully, turning back to the TV in time to see Jimmy Carter shake
Donna Summer’s hand.
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