As a high-energy guy, I don't think I really need something like the ButtKicker. This home-theater addition basically provides a rumble seat while you watch your big screen. It's the living-room version of Sensurround sound, which anyone over the age of 40 will remember from its brief reign as the movie-house gimmick used to perk up such otherwise dreary blockbusters as "Earthquake" and "The Towering Inferno."
As anyone who's ever watched me watch TV knows, I'm not exactly a couch potato. I get up, I move around, I leap from my seat without warning, I hit the jump-back button about 20 times an hour ... I don't think I need to add a mechanical enhancement to the mix.
But Ramsey tried out the ButtKicker and made an amusing video of it:
I have no idea who the first person was who began including in his product reviews a video of himself opening the box, removing the parts and assembling them, but it's genius. I think a lot of us are stymied by descriptive instructions with 2-D line art written in pidgin English. (Though I have to say I'd LOL if I ever opened up the box and found a note that said, "I mades you a table!!") So this seemingly boring prologue reel is always appreciated.
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