Summary
The origin story of a wobbly toy with a peculiar name.
Show Notes
- Nickelodeon’s Wild & Crazy Kids Gwok Ball on Dailymotion
- Google Books Ngram Viewer results for “guac”
- Maureen Down piece from the New York Times Magazine, May 29, 1994: The Lost Quayle Diaries
- The New York Times, January 22, 1997: Snacks to Fix in Super Bowl Timeouts
- “Guac” used in a 1993 episode of Norther Exposure
- “Guac” used in a 2000 episode of Will & Grace
- Guac Ball on Toy Directory
- Creative Imaginations website, archived August 3, 2008
- Wham-It on the front page of the Wall Street Journal in December 1989 (PDF)
- Wham-It on Amazon, complete with photos of the can
- Lars and the Real Girl, with which this story has - and I cannot stress this enough - nothing in common
- Regina’s Guac Ball
- K·B Toys (RIP) on Wikipedia
- Gymboree on Wikipedia
- John asks Reddit: Is “guac” an old surf term?
- Dave Chappelle coins “Zip it up and zip it out”
- “Guac” in the LA Times, April 7, 1989
