Exploring the Pez Museum Video
Exploring the Pez Museum Video Transcript
>> Hi, this is iSlutski.
>> iJustine here.
>> Reporting for Geek Entertainment Television on location in Burlingame, California.
>> And we are at the world's only Pez museum. You ready? You want to go and check this out?
>> I am going to go find a Sugar Daddy.
>> I am going to go eat some Pez. ^M00:00:18 [ Music ] ^M00:00:52
>> So, Gary tell us about when Pez started and how it originated and where it came from.
>> Gary Doss: Well, the Pez dispenser is now 57 years old. It came out in 1950. People are very surprised when I tell them that that is the very first Pez dispenser, as you see it doesn't have a head on it just has a little cap. And when you bought that Pez dispenser it was only packaged with one flavor of candy that was peppermint. Now, Pez dispensers have always been made in Austria. People are always surprised they are not made in the United States.
>> So even the ones that we can get today, they are all made in Austria.
>> Gary Doss: The dispensers are, yes, are made in Austria.
>> What city is that?
>> Gary Doss: Linz, Austria. Now, when you bought that it only came with peppermint candy.
>> Okay.
>> Gary Doss: This is the German word for peppermint. If I try to pronounce that it is 'Pfefferminz'. Abbreviate that word and there you get P-E-Z, Pez, that's where the word Pez comes from. Now, the candy came first back in 1927, the candy came and it was called Pez then too. But it was only sold if you look right behind you there Pez originally was sold in little tins, like they sell Altoids today.
>> Looks like that you arranged these and what's one of the oldest ones.
>> Gary Doss: Well, the ones in the front here are the oldest Pez. When they decided to put little heads on them they selected Casper, Mickey and at the back there Popeye. Other early Pez were the baseball glove, they made Bozo the clown, and in the back there you'll see in the yellow stem is Bullwinkle the moose. They never made his pal Rocky, they just made Bullwinkle.
>> Why do you think that is?
>> Gary Doss: Bad agent, I have no idea [laughing]. In 1968 they came up with this model. This is one of my favorites. This is called the Psychedelic Art.
>> Ooh!
>> Gary Doss: [overlapping] Everybody have a share of --
>> [overlapping] Does this dispense acid?
>> Gary Doss: It dispenses Pez candy but it is very unique.
>> Don't eat the brown Pez.
>> Gary Doss: Pez dispenser that was pulled off the market in --
>> Yeah, danger.
>> Gary Doss: It also is the rarest of all Pez. This is called the Maker Face. Mine is in its original German package.
>> Wow!
>> Gary Doss: It's like a Mr. Potato Head.
>> Super Spiel.
>> Gary Doss: Yes. It's like a Mr. Potato Head Pez dispenser and it was taken off the market because the little pieces were considered too little, too much of a choking hazard. Now above that in 1976, the United States celebrated it's bi-centennial, it's 200th birthday. There is Betsy Ross and Daniel Boone and Uncle Sam and the guy right there on the right stem his official name is Wounded Soldier. But I always called him 'the Pez dispenser guy shot in the head.'
>> [Laughter]
>> Gary Doss: There's this classic [inaudible]
>> [laughter]
>> Gary Doss: That really is a big Pez dispenser when you took the head back, you get a whole package of things.
>> Oh.
>> Gary Doss: [Background sound] There you go. You see the Pez sign here by the actors in Star Wars? David Prowse, Anthony Dan. You got a 50's, 60's, 70's version of Elvis.
>> Oh my God!
>> There's no Steve Jobs though.
>> Pez really.
>> Not yet.
>> But I want it to dispense the iPhone
>> Gary Doss: It could work, yeah.
>> Maybe like.
>> Gary Doss: We made this one, it's 20 times bigger than the normal Pez and in March of 2007 we were awarded the certificate of having the world's biggest Pez dispenser, and it works. [Sound of dispenser] and that's what comes out.
>> It's so--
>> There you go.
>> This is amazing. This is better than what any Sugar Daddy can give us.
>> I know. Do you see that Pez necklace though? ^M00:04:22 [ Music ] ^M00:04:32
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