Instant Audience
A 3.5-inch electronic button box with four sounds: applause, crickets, a rimshot, and booing. Three LR44 batteries are included. The Archie McPhee version of a laugh track you can point at a person.
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Four buttons, four verdicts. Applause for when someone wants credit, crickets for when a joke dies, a rimshot for when it almost worked, and booing for when it should not have been attempted. The box is about the size of a small remote, so it stays on a desk instead of becoming a toy that has to be stored. Batteries come in the package, which matters for a gift that is supposed to work during the meeting after the party. Archie McPhee has sold sound buttons in this shape for years, and this one is still in the popular list because the four labels are legible without a manual. It is a prop for people who already narrate their own lives. It will annoy anyone who has to share a room with it, and that is disclosed on the card.
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