The fact that Bengal watches Scott Cramer videos is surreal to me. They are my top 2 favorite content creators, but they make totally different content
My parents had a waterbed until i was like 11. Imagine being a sick little kid and your mom laying down with you for comfort and somehow getting seasick in bed.
I wanted a water bed when I was a little kid but my parents always said no on the grounds I get travel sick and they knew full well I would get sea sick from a waterbed.
When my family house burnt down as a kid, my brother’s water bed saved all his toys that he stored in the drawers below it. When the water bed burst open all his actions figures got soaked and therefore saved. That lucky bastard was so happy that he still had his toys while the rest of mourned the loss of all our possessions.
@@isaacm6052 It is definitely hilarious now, but quite annoying at the time when you are a kid saying “I lost everything”, and your brother just keeps saying “well I didn’t” lol
@@mccoyrachel86 Shit, I'm sorry that happened to you. I've lost all of my possessions before in various ways, (it's happened a couple times sadly), so I understand how much that sucks. Hopefully everyone was alright. Take care
My dad was super into waterbeds for some reason, so growing up I only had waterbeds. They were pretty neat, but too hot for me since they have a heater that keeps the water warm. But one time mine had a very slow leak so moisture built up and literal mushrooms grew between the mattress and frame. Good times.
I work for State Farm and my favorite thing is that there is literally a “waterbed liability” endorsement that you can add to your policy just because of the risk of having a waterbed
@@MsAngrybutterfly okay i get that it would be a massive pain and a half and thensome to find somewhere to empty it at all, let alone getting it there, but how did they come up with the idea of opening the damn thing INSIDE
@@HungerGamesFan00 Well you can’t really carry the whole thing outside. It’s full of water after all. A smart things would’ve been to get a hose and syphon as much of the water out was you can.
I remember there was a water bed store not far from where I lived the last couple years of high school and I always found it so odd that a waterbed store could exist. Like are people really buying waterbeds frequently enough to stay in business? I speculated with my friends about it being some kind of front for illegal financial activity.
Mattresses cost so much that if the store sells one a day they can make back any money they spend on bills and such. So even if people rarely buy them, they sell enough that it’s worth it to plop down a million mattress firms in every city.
I had a waterbed in middle school because my room had the only floor in the house that could hold it. You have to “burp” them every month or they fill with air and you’ll be sleeping in a back bend 🤣 The cat popped it one night and I woke up in a sensory deprivation tank - true terror
I like to imagine that each time Scott does one of these Helix Sleep ads, he has to open a new mattress. His house is just overrun with Helix mattresses, he has several storage units around town full of Helix mattresses. Sounds like a good time.
There's a store that sells pools and waterbeds in one of the main avenues in my city, and my friend's dad has an art gallery right by its side, so one day the dad asked someone who worked at the store how they managed to keep the waterbed business afloat (pun intended) since no one knows someone who owns a waterbed, and the worker straight up said that like 99% of their waterbed sales are simply for motels, motels in and around the city buying waterbeds for people to fuck on top of them, some of them even for water themed rooms.
I do think it's funny you mentioned how the inventor of the waterbed can't sleep on any other type of mattress and it's for the same reason why you have to wear Strugglr merch 24/7. You understand and respect the game.
I'm old enough that I remember water beds, and the tentative, unsure way Scott crawled up onto the air mattress is pretty much EXACTLY how we'd get onto the old water bed. No matter how sturdy it was, lying on one was an exercise in anxiety because you always felt like it might explode or roll you to the side or something. I used to lie there trying to be perfectly still all night.
I slept on a waterbed as a kid. One perk is that it’s heated so you’re never cold! Strange waterbed story: One morning- I had moved around significantly and my sister couldn’t see me in the bed (since you sink into it). She called my parents and told them I was missing. I woke up to her crying in the hall! I was there the whole time and she couldn’t find me🤣.
We are having this intense heat wave in Europe this summer, and I keep missing the water bed I had as a kid because yes, while the heater kept you warm in the winter, I'd turn it off on the summer and it made sleeping in the heat almost bearable.
The frame just keeps the sides from bulging. Some mattresses did have baffles to reduce the waves when moving, but they basically all felt the same. You could kind of make them more firm by adding water.
Yeah I slept on one a few times as a kid, I remember being positioned similar to a hammock but not as dipped. It was nice, though I can see how it might either improve or destroy one's back
My grandma had a waterbed and the first time anyone ever visited her house, she always ended the tour by making them try the bed while she showed them her Elvis collection and the urn full of my grandfather's ashes that she kept on her bedside table. We were all super surprised my brother's fiance still decided to marry him.
My mom worked in liability insurance for 20 years. Waterbeds, trampolines, and candles were a few of the things I wasn’t allowed to have growing up. Now as an adult I understand why. 😅
You weren’t even allowed candles? I know trampolines are dangerous, they felt dangerous being on one but that was part of the fun. Knowing you were only inches away from your skin getting ripped off by the springs.
@@rachelcookie321 unattended candles cause a lot of fires. I am a very forgetful person so I would definitely forget that I lit a candle. We also had 2 cats and a dog. Cats love to jump on top of things and knock things over. If they became to careless around the candle it could have hurt them. Candles were not essential to my life so I didn’t really care.
I remember a girlfriend having a waterbed when I was a kid and it wasn't a cozy sleep. I have to imagine it was because it was an old school non waveless mattress. I sleep on one as an adult and it's an entirely different experience. So cozy.
I recently signed a new apartment lease. There was a paragraph dedicated the building's water bed ban. I thought it was strange they would take the time out to mention it. After seeing this video, they might've been onto something, lol
Most people with waterbeds drain them before moving. Just think about all that water and where are you putting it. Traditionally, bed manufacturers say to drain it through outside (run a hose out your window), but some will try to drain it in a bathtub. Either way has tons of issues for any apartment to deal with, especially if something goes wrong.
When I was a renter, there was a line in the lease that said no waterbeds. I asked my landlord about it. He said it's because there's a chance that the bed would leak, which would cause massive damage. It's basically the same reason that most apartment complexes ban large aquariums as well. It's because of a risk of leak, and the huge expense of replacing the floor and eradicating mold as a result of water damage.
I've had the same experience signing leases. Someone I talked to about it on Reddit said their roommate's leaking waterbed cost thousands of dollars in damage so it makes sense they'd take steps to avoid it
My parents finally replaced their water bed with a regular bed. And my dad took the water mattress, and filled it with air. We put it in the front yard, on of us laid on it, and another ran and jumped on it. Literally on the front lawn, small children launching, no joke, more than 15 feet in the air (dad measured) and slamming into the ground. Most fun shit of my life. Legendary. No broken bones luckily. The 90's were great. Also, water beds are not comfortable at all. They fucking suck
@@duanekennard3298 Came to argue this! I find that people that complain about them being bad for your bed haven't filled them properly. (if you butt can touch the bottom, then it needs more water.)
My parents had a water bed and it was absolutely fantastic. They also had cats and it never leaked once until the end of its life like 15 or 20 years after they got it. Now that I know it used to be called a "pleasure pit" it feels really cursed. Imagine telling people your parents owned a "pleasure pit"
@@froggy5748 Wait, it get's worse. When I woke up, I was so genuinely confused that I just started crying. Deadass. I was a 21 year old man, sobbing and wet. Not my best moment.
My mom had a waterbed when I was a kid, but it wasn't one solid bag of water it was made up of maybe 5-6 long tubes filled with water laid side by side in the bed frame from head to foot. I think the idea was it had some of the sloshy comfort of a waterbed, but if you sat on one side of the bed it didn't make waves on the other side and disturb your partner if they are asleep. I remember seeing waterbeds on tv and thining well that's a hoax, that's not how waterbeds work lol
my mom had a water bed for THE longest time. to the point where when i was like 22 [so like up until 3-ish years ago] and sleeping in it. it gave me SUCH severe hip and back pain, that when sleeping on a regular mattress felt like sleeping on a cloud- no matter how shitty it was. - also note: my mom moved out of the house so me, my brother, and sister could all have our own rooms, im the youngest.
@@rachelcookie321 oops, no! sorry for not clarifying. she moved out when we were all adults. i know it should've been the other way around, but i wasn't home a good chunk of time due to being off at college, my sister had just lost her place due to drug addiction, and my brother had to move back home after a break up.
Last time? I think I was like 5? And it was my dad's first girlfriend after my mom's parents house, we where house sitting for them, and their guest bed was a water bed. He let me sleep on it and I loved it, I just didn't get why I wasn't allowed to jump on the bed, cause I could at home
I grew up sleeping on a waterbed, and I remember how weird it was to transition to a regular mattress when I went off to college! They ARE actually very comfortable, but you kinda sink down into it, so it bet it's harder when you're older and have more back pain.
Man I really should use twitter so I can get in on this stuff. My parents had a water bed while my mom was pregnant with me. I remember being told they thought there was a hole in the mattress one night, instead it was my mom's water breaking lol
I had a water bed from about 3rd-8th grade. I actually found it very relaxing, like it would gently rock me to sleep. Unless the sheets ever were disturbed and the cold, cold plastic would touch my skin in the dead of night.
My parents had a waterbed for a long time when I was little. Apparently it was the first thing my dad bought on credit, so after he died, my mom had a hard time getting rid of the frame, even though she couldn't even move the frame WITHOUT water because it was so heavy. We did eventually convince her to let it go, even though she's a packrat that keeps everything. We have Littlest Pet Shop toys from 1992 but we got rid of the waterbed. Some nostalgia just isn't worth holding onto.
Don't mention waterbeds! Brings back traumatic memories from when I once lived in a rental apartment with a waterbed. It was fun for about 5 minutes. It had a built in electric heater for the water otherwise it was cold and clammy like a giant dead jellyfish. The knowledge I was sleeping on a large body of water plugged into an electrical outlet wasn't great for putting me into a relaxed and restful sleep. You also had to put special disinfectant fluid into the water to stop bacteria and other nasty microbes growing in it. Nice. Several months in, I woke up one night and found a big damp patch on the sheets. I wondered for a moment whether I should book an appointment with a urologist the next morning. Then I remembered I was lying on a giant water balloon - which was leaking. In panic, I phoned the landlord who said not to bother him. He said it was OK because there was a secondary liner to contain leaks. It was not OK. This liner also leaked. I was on the top floor. My downstairs neighbour had just redecorated. I was not popular. I had to wait days to get a specialist in to drain all the water from the mattress (or what was left that hadn't leaked out). 'Deomissioning' I think the process was called, like a damned nuclear power station. He left me with the shrivelled rubbery remains in the bathtub, which I deliriously hacked to pieces and stuffed into binbags like some unhinged serial killer. My landlord was going to arrange the purchase of a new mattress but I said I'd do it. There was no way I was risking getting another water mattress. The whole ordeal was just so stressful and I did not want to go through that again. And on top of all that, the bed wasn't even particularly comfortable. It turns out the human body isn't designed to sleep on water. Funny that. Since then, I've almost given up mattresses completely. I tried floor sleeping for a while and now I sleep on a very thin kapok mattress. One of the best things I've ever done for my back. It's the cheapest and most comfortable sleeping setup I've ever had. And it doesn't leak.
Was gonna get a kapok but I think I'm just too bony to use one regularly. Would they be good for camping though? Also lmfao fantastic story, that sounds horrifying. 10/10
@@radishfest You might be able to use a kapok mattress for camping. However, even though they're a lot less bulky than a regular mattress, they might still be too big for a camping trip, even if you roll them up. You'd want to make sure you keep them dry too. When I started, the first few nights were a bit sore, but within a week or two of sleeping on it, all was fine. Now I find it difficult to sleep on a regular mattress as they're all so weirdly soft. I was going to say that I'm sure you're not too boney to use one regularly, but looking at your profile pic, I'm not so sure...
I remember these exclusively from houses that my mom used to clean around the turn of the millennium. She would take us along when she couldn't afford child care so I spent absolute ages just exploring other people's big strange houses. I was bored to tears mostly, but the waterbeds were always fun.
For some reason, my parents were obsessed with water beds and had one the whole time I was growing up. The latter half of the trend saw water beds with internal ribbing to prevent sloshing and add support. Ill be honest, it was actually really comfortable to sleep on!
It's been a long time and it was my parents water bed so I could be misremembering but I think I found them annoying to get and lay on but comfortable to sleep on.
I've never been on a water bed before, but I always assumed sleeping on them would make me feel seasick....somehow. Like there would be too much movement and wiggling or something. I want a bed that stays still, dammit!
My best friend growing up had one, and yes, seasickness is exactly the vibe. Also, it was so annoying to climb onto and off of; if you tried to crawl across it, your hands and knees would just sink deep in and kind of trap you. And if you were sitting on it, and someone else got on, you started bobbing like a buoy. I hated that thing.
Had a waterbed when I was a kid. Never felt sick because of it, and I am prone to motion sickness. Chasing the bubbles was always fun. Fun anecdote - during the Loma Prieta earthquake in 89, my older sister was sick. In a waterbed. She wasn't too happy about that. I was getting ready to go jump rope in the backyard. Then the ground started to feel like a waterbed and my mom ran into the doorway to the kitchen and yelled, "Earthquake!" Very vivid memory.
@@Karamarika Oh, wow! I grew up in the Midwest and currently live in the south... so my experiences with earthquakes is limited to a few seconds of mild vibration. Lol But tornadoes and hurricanes? Definitely lived through plenty of those!
I had a waterbed as a young teen/tween because my mom bought a cheap one one summer and didn’t like it, so I got it. It or, more likely bad posture gave me torticolis. In college my upstairs neighbor emptied her waterbed and it flooded my apartment. When I bought my condo built in 1965, I found a promotional yardstick for “Nude Waterbeds” in the furnace closet. I love that yardstick.
I had a waterbed as a kid. I hated that thing. I was always telling my mom I didn’t want that bed and she would always say “Do you know how lucky you are to have a waterbed?” Anyway we finally got rid of it when it started leaking.
that's 61 shots, 1 shot being 1.5 ounces that's 91,5 ounces, or three quarters of a gallon (2,7 litres) that's a lot of hydration for a 15 minute video!
My parents had a water bed when I was a kid. I loved playing on it, pretty sure I slept there a couple of times. In hindsight though I wonder how they're comfortable for more than I person because every time you move they will ripple. Still miss it anyway.
Asked my Mom about it. She said they first one she and Dad owned did have sone rippleing problems. But the swcond one had two bladders in it so one partner didn't disturb the other, as well some kind of wave canceling tech built into them. It's been enough years she doesn't really miss having a waterbed, but if they hadn't disappeared from stores when theu did she would have bought a third one.
My mom had a waterbed for the longest time because i helps her back and i grew up sleeping on one until i got my own room as a kid. - My mom's water bed had a heaters so the water wasn't ice cold - the texture of a waterbed is like a thicker version of the air matrass but not the side you sleep on - water beds go in a frame instead of just sitting out in the open and that helps with distribution - they are pretty sturdy but when they break they cause BIG damage, my mom's broke twice and flooded her room the first time, you can patch the hole and refill them, its not like the whole mattress is wasted but my dad had to end up redo the carpet in room after it flooded. - they are really comfortable but hard to move on, Scott rolling off of it at ( 14:30 ) is exactly how you'd have to get out of this bed majority of the times
@@MrDj232 But how did you fill the actual mattress? Set the bed and frame up and drag a garden hose all across the house to the bedroom where said bed had to be filled? Moving a filled mattress of water seems very impractical.
love waterbeds always found the gentle movement of them comforting from being a baby co-sleeping with my parents to having one myself from later childhood to mid-teens and have always had a queen sized bed since
My parents had a waterbed, my sister had one, I’ve slept in both of them…they were uncomfortable. The water would rush to the foot of the bed and my back would be hitting the bottom of the bed frame. It’s also easy to get caught in the corner of the bed. They also got really hot (you’re basically sleeping over plastic).
Yal didn't have a good one ...if it's wavless non of that happens....I'm n one now just floating no sinking....warm bed....ac on for the air .. perfect bance
My grandma and my brother both have waterbeds. My brother has some health issues related to heat and the waterbeds temp can be adjusted to keep him cool. They’re pretty comfy and it kinda cradles you, but they’re pretty hard to get out of because there’s very little stability
Water beds are awesome. There used to be one in my grandma's house and I loved sleeping on it. It's honestly nothing like the air mattress filled with water. It's super comfortable, and you can heat it! I wish I had one.
My cousin had a waterbed when we were kids and I was so jealous. Until I slept on the thing. I was a child and legit woke up with a sore back every damn time. I promise ya ain’t missing out on anything. Keep making that Helix sponsorship money!
One of my best friends had a waterbed, when we were kids. I just remember getting pushed into the crevice during sleepovers. Pushed against a wood edge and the mattress, not good for three teenage girls.
Every video of Scott’s slaps, but something about this one hit different! It hit so different that I actually watched the Helix ad instead of quadruple tapping my screen to get back to the waterbed bonanza. The story, structure, and comedy in this video were some of the best I’ve seen! Keep it up Scott, love it! Thank you so much!!!
I had a water bed when I was a really little but we got rid of it because we moved halfway across the state when I was five so take this sentiment with the tiniest grain of salt because of my little kid memory, but I remember really liking the water bed. It was fun to see the water move around when I was on it and the only issue I had with sleeping back then was sometimes my baby brother would wake me up crying. I have a regular bed now and I do thoroughly enjoy the memory foam mattress, but sometimes I think it'd be nice to just get on a water bed to see if it's as good as I remember.
Literally a week ago I mentioned to my partner how cool it would be now that I'm an adult to spend adult money on a waterbed to make my inner child happy, and now my inner child is crying
Some people love them, but I haaated mine. It was massive with these big mirrored cabinets in the headboard. I got it from a friend of my mom's who had it in storage before that. In movies and shows growing up, they always looked so cool, so of course 14 year old me jumped at the opportunity. It was crazy uncomfortable, though. Eventually I just got rid of the water mattress, and put a regular bed in that sweet gigantic frame.
I worked for Furniture Row for a bit, they used to be Big Sur. We still had water bed stuff in the warehouse and would occasionally sell the matresses, etc.
I experienced a water bed in my youth. It wasn't mine, I think we just played on it, not slept. It's a novelty and fun, but definitely not worth the upkeep/damage possibilities. A real one is deeper than that air matter, so you get more of a floaty feeling and it's really hard to get on/off because of it lol
I remember waterbeds growing up - my parents had one for many years and even I had one for a couple of years until we moved into a smaller house and did not have the space for such a large bed. They do require a bit of maintenance compared to a regular bed - the water has to be treated with chemicals like a swimming pool and it has to be "burped" once in a while (removing of air pockets), plus you also have the heater unit. They also leave a huge indentation in the carpet on moving day
I think if I was ever to try a weird alternative mattress I'd probably try a purple mattress. Just to see if it is comfy for me. The only consistent complaint I've heard is that it smells funny so you gotta hose down the rupper part of it when you get it. That's not too bad.
My wife works at Purple HQ, so we got a free one. It did smell funny the first few days, but within a week, the smell was gone, and it's totally neutral now. They have different firmness levels, and I would definitely recommend finding a showroom and trying each one to determine what works best for you. My wife wanted the softest and I wanted the firmest, so we compromised and got the "in-between" firmness, and it's been great for us. I have no complaints, besides the fact that it's REALLY heavy (160-ish pounds, I think?), but it feels great. But pro tip: even better than their matresses is their purple grid pillows. I'm never going back to a regular pillow.
My husband and I got the pillows first and now won't use any other pillows because we like them a lot. Very supportive. We have a purple mattress now and it only took a few days to get used to it. That's also super heavy but other than that, no downsides so far.
All new mattresses should smell a little funky from transit and storage. My mattress smelled for like 4 days. There's this whole thing where you're supposed to air it out before sleeping on it
My cousin had a waterbed growing up and I was always so so jealous of her. It also had a like hideaway underneath it in the wooden bed frame. Sick ass bed.
I have two memories of waterbeds: my parents slept on one when I was very young, and my friend's father slept on a waterbed in his apartment. The one that my friend's dad had was heated, too! I remember liking it but ultimately preferred a typical mattress.
So I had a water bed from as early as I can remember as a child up until about earlier this year. About 25 years in total. (Don't judge me for still being at home lol. It's complicated). As someone who bought a new, non water bed for the first time, I do NOT recommend it. So as for the tendency to have leaks. Your probably aren't going to have them for the first 4-5 years at least. It will most likely be good for that long. Then your first leak is gonna pop up, and from then on out you can expect to find one at least every 1-2 years. The problem about when it leaks though is that you never find the leak in the middle of the afternoon or right after you wake up. Nooo, you find the leak at 2 AM after a long, rough night at work and you gotta go back in the next morning, and now you don't have a bed to sleep in till you patch the leak, let the outside of the mattress dry, get new sheets, its a process! Mine was at least not terrible. Instead of having one big tube, it was actually a mattress with 10 smaller tubes in the bottom, so you didn't necessarily need all the tubes to go back to sleep, but god would your back notice ones missing. And also, finding witch tube was actually leaking was a whole damne process, and you really need to find witch one it is before you go back to sleep even if you have a back up option like a couch or something, because its just gonna keep leaking water onto the mattress, and thats gonna make it smell bad and there is a risk of mold. Its just aweful. Do not recommend. I made a mistake keeping it for so long. Like yeah, its cool to tell your friends/girls "I have a water bed! it's so neat!" But like its not viable in the long term like a good bed should be.
Idk y but this is one of my favorite Scott Cramer videos. Maybe b/c my parents had a waterbed when I was a kid, we moved a lot (military) and they carted that damn bed along for every move, absolutely crazy. I also love the old, cheesy commercials... and I'm stuck on 80s/90s nostalgia.
The weird genie rubbing scene with your reaction and the "I'm crazy Marty!" "Ah!" had me laughing 😂😂 Also, the Comfort King commercial is creepy as hell 😢
My husband and I loved our water bed! We gave it up when we moved and actually couldn’t move it by our selves. Saved the frame and put a mattress in it and used that for a long time. Miss my water bed!
The fact that you’ve never even seen one blows my mind. Every single person in my family had waterbeds growing up, me included. Yes getting trapped between the frame and the mattress happened alot lol 😂 I was always getting yelled at for playing on them too much, but they even had warmers. It was great. I miss them everyday of sleeping on an actual mattress.
i discovered your channel after the toilet paper video and ngl i've been binging EVERY SINGLE VIDEO. so glad to see another one in my subscription feed!!
My parents had a waterbed when I was young enough to still be sleeping in their bed sometimes at night. Not the most comfortable or supportive, and you could hear the water sloshing around. I remember having to actively not sleep too close to the edge of the bed or you would be pinched in between the bed and the frame. I honestly don't remember them getting rid of it, but they didn't have it but for a few years.
My parents had a water bed, we had to get rid of it when we moved from the coast up north because it was very likely going to kill someone in their sleep from being to cold. My dad sold it, I'd love to be reunited with it
I had a waterbed in middle and high school and I loved it haha it had a heater with a dial so I could turn it down or make it warmer. My cats loved it and it never leaked. But it got annoying when we moved so often, so we got rid of it. Mine had a frame with padded bumpers and a headboard with lots of space to put things. I thought it was comfortable. It just takes a little getting used to.
I had a waterbed as a kid, and I freaking loved it… for about a month. I remember that when we were shopping for it, there were two different types of mattresses that you could get. One that was wavy and one that is more firm. I was a kid and of course I got the wavy one, but it may have been best to have bought the firm one
Back in the 90s, my aunt had a waterbed. My family ended up housesitting for a week and I was soooo excited to sleep on it. It was the least comfortable sleep of my life. And I spent a year sleeping on the floor.
I slept on a waterbed for like 16 years, from when I left the crib til I moved away to college. The only times it was uncomfortable was when the heating element went out once or twice. I loved it so much, it was so warm and soothing.
So, I'm old and arguably have no right to be here but one of my earliest childhood memories involves a waterbed and Michael Jackson's music video for Thriller (which was a big deal back then). I can't do the memory justice, early childhood memories are like that, especially when you're old like me. But it was the first thing that popped into my head when I read the title of this video. So, thanks, Scott. Thanks for bringing back that tremendously vague yet poignantly traumatic memory back into my head. Subscribed.
My parents had a water bed when I was really little. They had to get rid of it because I used to get night terrors and have to sleep with them. The feeling of sleeping on water always made me pee the bed 😅
I had a waterbed all the way up to 2001!! I loved it. I do have to say though that I never realized how creepy all those commercials were. And the “extras” 😮 😂😂😂. Thanks for the laughs!
My parents had a waterbed when I was a little kid. I thought it was the coolest thing ever and it was fun to bounce around on. Can't tell you what it's actually like to sleep on as an adult and what it would do to your back, though.
my aunt and uncle had a waterbed when i was little. i went to a family reunion at their house and ended up sharing it with my cousin who was an... active sleeper. every time she shifted it amplified and jostled me and i couldn't get to sleep. i ended up sleeping on the bare floor because at least it didn't wiggle unendingly every time i tried to get comfortable.
Apparently, if you lay on a water-bed for long enough, you become a shredded, jacked 27 year old man or a middle aged dad with a mustache soooo, just something to consider before buying.
I had one as a teenager in the early 90’s. Gave it up when we moved. It was great to stay warm on, not much else. No support for your lower back, and eventually you get tired of rolling into the giant wooden sides. They’re hard to clean, and change sheets as well. Back then they had basically styrofoam balls inside to control how much motion there was. I can still sit on it in my mind anytime I want. Gives me the shivers. I always had visions of falling through my floor in my sleep. I ended up hating that thing.
This video brought back so many childhood memories... When I was 7-ish, my parents got a big "fancy" king sized waterbed. I think the store must have been giving away a 2nd, much crappier, full sized waterhell for free because thats what I got. I thought was so awesome at first. Then I started waking up every morning wet af (No, I was not a bed wetter, ever) and I could never seem to find the sweet spot for the heater. It was always either freezing or burning up. Freddy Kruger didn't help the situation either (I'm surprised you left that movie out). Thinking back, I guess there was a reason my mom would find me sleeping on the floor so many mornings.
i was led to believe water beds were the largest luxury known to man by movies and tv I watched as a kid
And quick sand is a real problem
And that it wasn't my dream to play a sport, but my dad’s.
The fact that Bengal watches Scott Cramer videos is surreal to me. They are my top 2 favorite content creators, but they make totally different content
@@noelanilewis5104 u good bro?
@@thesecondhalfshow9903 well, they at least have two crossover viewers
My parents had a waterbed until i was like 11. Imagine being a sick little kid and your mom laying down with you for comfort and somehow getting seasick in bed.
I wanted a water bed when I was a little kid but my parents always said no on the grounds I get travel sick and they knew full well I would get sea sick from a waterbed.
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@@Anonymous-ng4wc no one cares
When my family house burnt down as a kid, my brother’s water bed saved all his toys that he stored in the drawers below it. When the water bed burst open all his actions figures got soaked and therefore saved. That lucky bastard was so happy that he still had his toys while the rest of mourned the loss of all our possessions.
That’s hilarious
@@isaacm6052 It is definitely hilarious now, but quite annoying at the time when you are a kid saying “I lost everything”, and your brother just keeps saying “well I didn’t” lol
@@mccoyrachel86 Shit, I'm sorry that happened to you. I've lost all of my possessions before in various ways, (it's happened a couple times sadly), so I understand how much that sucks. Hopefully everyone was alright. Take care
The first couple of words definitely threw me off, didn’t expect it all all. Lol
@@mccoyrachel86 sorry u had to go through that I'm kinda happy for your brother tho lol
My dad was super into waterbeds for some reason, so growing up I only had waterbeds. They were pretty neat, but too hot for me since they have a heater that keeps the water warm.
But one time mine had a very slow leak so moisture built up and literal mushrooms grew between the mattress and frame. Good times.
This reminds me when mushrooms grew from сum
@@madeinmicrosoftpaint they grew from WHAT
@@SnickerTheDoo you read correctly
@@madeinmicrosoftpaint 😨😨
@@madeinmicrosoftpaint please elaborate
I drank a bit of water every time someone said waterbed, and now I feel like a living waterbed.
That feeling when you slap your belly and hear a slosh.
I did the same thing and consumed. 0.7 liters of water
I was trying to do the full shot thingy, but when it got to almost fifteen in less than two minutes, I had to give up
The instructions were to take a shot every time Scott said 'waterbed' not every time anyone in the vid says it, that's on y'all for not listening
Stuffed 🧸
I work for State Farm and my favorite thing is that there is literally a “waterbed liability” endorsement that you can add to your policy just because of the risk of having a waterbed
My upstairs neighbor in college flooded my apartment by emptying her waterbed. It’s amazing how much damage they can do.
@@MsAngrybutterfly okay i get that it would be a massive pain and a half and thensome to find somewhere to empty it at all, let alone getting it there, but how did they come up with the idea of opening the damn thing INSIDE
@@HungerGamesFan00 Well you can’t really carry the whole thing outside. It’s full of water after all. A smart things would’ve been to get a hose and syphon as much of the water out was you can.
@@Anonymus-ih7ybI would actually say to at least get the bed to the bath tub and drain it there.
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley good luck doing that. Even the small ones are heavy as f*ck when full
I remember there was a water bed store not far from where I lived the last couple years of high school and I always found it so odd that a waterbed store could exist. Like are people really buying waterbeds frequently enough to stay in business? I speculated with my friends about it being some kind of front for illegal financial activity.
You ever heard of the mattress firm theory?
@@crabser2253 do enlighten us
@@crabser2253 ... wat
Mattresses cost so much that if the store sells one a day they can make back any money they spend on bills and such. So even if people rarely buy them, they sell enough that it’s worth it to plop down a million mattress firms in every city.
It’s definitely some money laundering type of thing
I had a waterbed in middle school because my room had the only floor in the house that could hold it. You have to “burp” them every month or they fill with air and you’ll be sleeping in a back bend 🤣 The cat popped it one night and I woke up in a sensory deprivation tank - true terror
I like to imagine that each time Scott does one of these Helix Sleep ads, he has to open a new mattress.
His house is just overrun with Helix mattresses, he has several storage units around town full of Helix mattresses.
Sounds like a good time.
There's a store that sells pools and waterbeds in one of the main avenues in my city, and my friend's dad has an art gallery right by its side, so one day the dad asked someone who worked at the store how they managed to keep the waterbed business afloat (pun intended) since no one knows someone who owns a waterbed, and the worker straight up said that like 99% of their waterbed sales are simply for motels, motels in and around the city buying waterbeds for people to fuck on top of them, some of them even for water themed rooms.
Can wipe down the rubber/plastic 🤣🤢
Literally what is it about a mattress filled with water that gets people really horny? Genuinely asking
I do think it's funny you mentioned how the inventor of the waterbed can't sleep on any other type of mattress and it's for the same reason why you have to wear Strugglr merch 24/7. You understand and respect the game.
I'm old enough that I remember water beds, and the tentative, unsure way Scott crawled up onto the air mattress is pretty much EXACTLY how we'd get onto the old water bed. No matter how sturdy it was, lying on one was an exercise in anxiety because you always felt like it might explode or roll you to the side or something. I used to lie there trying to be perfectly still all night.
I slept on a waterbed as a kid. One perk is that it’s heated so you’re never cold!
Strange waterbed story:
One morning- I had moved around significantly and my sister couldn’t see me in the bed (since you sink into it). She called my parents and told them I was missing. I woke up to her crying in the hall! I was there the whole time and she couldn’t find me🤣.
We are having this intense heat wave in Europe this summer, and I keep missing the water bed I had as a kid because yes, while the heater kept you warm in the winter, I'd turn it off on the summer and it made sleeping in the heat almost bearable.
Yeah my parents didn’t buy the warmer to go with my water bed. It was fine unless the mattress itself was ever exposed. Now that would suck.
Until the heater breaks and you’re stuck sleeping on an ice cube in Illinois winter.
I think an actual water bed is meant to have a special frame to fix the weight distribution issues you were having on your homemade version.
Yes and the ones in the mid 70's had baffles added as well. That is when they started to become popular. Before that, they were just bags of water.
@@thunderbearcourage yes, our has these particle board baffles that help keep the base up. I assume for weight distribution.
The frame just keeps the sides from bulging. Some mattresses did have baffles to reduce the waves when moving, but they basically all felt the same. You could kind of make them more firm by adding water.
@@thunderbearcourage "free flow" forget the rest there's a party waiting🎂
Yeah I slept on one a few times as a kid, I remember being positioned similar to a hammock but not as dipped. It was nice, though I can see how it might either improve or destroy one's back
My grandma had a waterbed and the first time anyone ever visited her house, she always ended the tour by making them try the bed while she showed them her Elvis collection and the urn full of my grandfather's ashes that she kept on her bedside table. We were all super surprised my brother's fiance still decided to marry him.
Scott saying "sorry 'bout that" twice for possibly accidentally getting a little water on her is so midwest and wholesome. it made me happy.
Good ol fashion Midwest "ope"
@Safwaan nah his wife was recording
Ope, let me sneak right past ya
So is the way he said vaguely, it doesn’t make me happy but it is Midwest I think
My mom worked in liability insurance for 20 years. Waterbeds, trampolines, and candles were a few of the things I wasn’t allowed to have growing up. Now as an adult I understand why. 😅
You weren’t even allowed candles? I know trampolines are dangerous, they felt dangerous being on one but that was part of the fun. Knowing you were only inches away from your skin getting ripped off by the springs.
@@rachelcookie321 unattended candles cause a lot of fires. I am a very forgetful person so I would definitely forget that I lit a candle. We also had 2 cats and a dog. Cats love to jump on top of things and knock things over. If they became to careless around the candle it could have hurt them. Candles were not essential to my life so I didn’t really care.
@@samanthawise8991 I guess it makes sense if you have cats who could knock them over or accidentally catch their tail on fire.
@@rachelcookie321 I stay in the same room and watch my candles while they're lit bc I have two cats
I remember a girlfriend having a waterbed when I was a kid and it wasn't a cozy sleep. I have to imagine it was because it was an old school non waveless mattress. I sleep on one as an adult and it's an entirely different experience. So cozy.
I recently signed a new apartment lease. There was a paragraph dedicated the building's water bed ban. I thought it was strange they would take the time out to mention it. After seeing this video, they might've been onto something, lol
It is a hazard, like a guy had to experience
Most people with waterbeds drain them before moving. Just think about all that water and where are you putting it. Traditionally, bed manufacturers say to drain it through outside (run a hose out your window), but some will try to drain it in a bathtub. Either way has tons of issues for any apartment to deal with, especially if something goes wrong.
When I was a renter, there was a line in the lease that said no waterbeds. I asked my landlord about it. He said it's because there's a chance that the bed would leak, which would cause massive damage. It's basically the same reason that most apartment complexes ban large aquariums as well. It's because of a risk of leak, and the huge expense of replacing the floor and eradicating mold as a result of water damage.
I've had the same experience signing leases. Someone I talked to about it on Reddit said their roommate's leaking waterbed cost thousands of dollars in damage so it makes sense they'd take steps to avoid it
Local strugglr invents *Watered Bed!*
Omg a random @OneTopic
Hi!!!!!!
My parents finally replaced their water bed with a regular bed. And my dad took the water mattress, and filled it with air. We put it in the front yard, on of us laid on it, and another ran and jumped on it. Literally on the front lawn, small children launching, no joke, more than 15 feet in the air (dad measured) and slamming into the ground. Most fun shit of my life. Legendary. No broken bones luckily. The 90's were great. Also, water beds are not comfortable at all. They fucking suck
I was waiting for someone to say this, I work at a mattress store and water beds are actually really bad for your back and uncomfortable 🤣
@@amandadavis5687 also, laying next to someone? Any movement literally rocks the damn boat haha yea they're so uncomfortable haha
Waterbeds ARE the most comfortable bed when set up properly.
I have had one for 40 years.
@@duanekennard3298 i respectfully disagree, but as someone who is always searching for a better bed, i envy your love of water beds haha
@@duanekennard3298 Came to argue this! I find that people that complain about them being bad for your bed haven't filled them properly. (if you butt can touch the bottom, then it needs more water.)
My parents had a water bed and it was absolutely fantastic. They also had cats and it never leaked once until the end of its life like 15 or 20 years after they got it. Now that I know it used to be called a "pleasure pit" it feels really cursed. Imagine telling people your parents owned a "pleasure pit"
Knowing I was conceived on a water bed is life fact I never needed to know haha. But I was obsessed with my parent's waterbed when I was a kid
I was conceived on a four-wheeler because #Texas
Sounds like they were obsessed with it, too.
Sounds like you were trying to reconnect with your siblings
@@therocknrollmillennial535 A little too obsessed.
You were obsessed with it because it was basically your step parent, lol.
Scott always talks about the most random and mundane topics yet manages to make them entertaining each time. No drama, just vibes. I appreciate it.
Had a waterbed. Woke up one day half submerged. It leaked over night. Half my shit got ruined. It was awful.
I’m kinda impressed that you didn’t even wake up from all of that
so what you're telling me is you're a bedwetter
@@froggy5748 Wait, it get's worse. When I woke up, I was so genuinely confused that I just started crying. Deadass. I was a 21 year old man, sobbing and wet. Not my best moment.
@@IknowIamkindagreat man I’d cry too, that sounds so stressful
@@IknowIamkindagreat this comment made my day, thank you
My mom had a waterbed when I was a kid, but it wasn't one solid bag of water it was made up of maybe 5-6 long tubes filled with water laid side by side in the bed frame from head to foot. I think the idea was it had some of the sloshy comfort of a waterbed, but if you sat on one side of the bed it didn't make waves on the other side and disturb your partner if they are asleep. I remember seeing waterbeds on tv and thining well that's a hoax, that's not how waterbeds work lol
Scoot always has the goofiest video ideas. Like who thinks about water beds regularly.
@itsjackywacky scoot 😔
people who have water bed loving grandparents
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my mom had a water bed for THE longest time. to the point where when i was like 22 [so like up until 3-ish years ago] and sleeping in it. it gave me SUCH severe hip and back pain, that when sleeping on a regular mattress felt like sleeping on a cloud- no matter how shitty it was. - also note: my mom moved out of the house so me, my brother, and sister could all have our own rooms, im the youngest.
Your mum moved out? When you were kids? Where did she go?
@@rachelcookie321 oops, no! sorry for not clarifying. she moved out when we were all adults. i know it should've been the other way around, but i wasn't home a good chunk of time due to being off at college, my sister had just lost her place due to drug addiction, and my brother had to move back home after a break up.
Nothing makes me feel older than hearing Scott say, "I've never seen a waterbed in person"...and we're part of the same generation.
Last time I saw one was in 1997. Five year old me thought it was so cool.
@@Ndizzyinthehizzy 2006 maybe for me? It was my older brother’s. He had it for a long time then one day it popped from a pocket knife
Last time? I think I was like 5? And it was my dad's first girlfriend after my mom's parents house, we where house sitting for them, and their guest bed was a water bed. He let me sleep on it and I loved it, I just didn't get why I wasn't allowed to jump on the bed, cause I could at home
I’ve never seen one in person either. Only time I’ve seen one on tv was in The Goofy Movie.
@@vireo2543 Same, OMG
How I made it through the whole 90s, 00s and 10s to this day without ever seeing a waterbed in real life is astonishing
I grew up sleeping on a waterbed, and I remember how weird it was to transition to a regular mattress when I went off to college! They ARE actually very comfortable, but you kinda sink down into it, so it bet it's harder when you're older and have more back pain.
Man I really should use twitter so I can get in on this stuff. My parents had a water bed while my mom was pregnant with me. I remember being told they thought there was a hole in the mattress one night, instead it was my mom's water breaking lol
That is actually hilarious
Lol
I had a water bed from about 3rd-8th grade. I actually found it very relaxing, like it would gently rock me to sleep. Unless the sheets ever were disturbed and the cold, cold plastic would touch my skin in the dead of night.
My parents had a waterbed for a long time when I was little. Apparently it was the first thing my dad bought on credit, so after he died, my mom had a hard time getting rid of the frame, even though she couldn't even move the frame WITHOUT water because it was so heavy. We did eventually convince her to let it go, even though she's a packrat that keeps everything. We have Littlest Pet Shop toys from 1992 but we got rid of the waterbed. Some nostalgia just isn't worth holding onto.
Don't mention waterbeds! Brings back traumatic memories from when I once lived in a rental apartment with a waterbed. It was fun for about 5 minutes.
It had a built in electric heater for the water otherwise it was cold and clammy like a giant dead jellyfish. The knowledge I was sleeping on a large body of water plugged into an electrical outlet wasn't great for putting me into a relaxed and restful sleep.
You also had to put special disinfectant fluid into the water to stop bacteria and other nasty microbes growing in it. Nice.
Several months in, I woke up one night and found a big damp patch on the sheets. I wondered for a moment whether I should book an appointment with a urologist the next morning. Then I remembered I was lying on a giant water balloon - which was leaking. In panic, I phoned the landlord who said not to bother him. He said it was OK because there was a secondary liner to contain leaks. It was not OK. This liner also leaked. I was on the top floor. My downstairs neighbour had just redecorated. I was not popular.
I had to wait days to get a specialist in to drain all the water from the mattress (or what was left that hadn't leaked out). 'Deomissioning' I think the process was called, like a damned nuclear power station. He left me with the shrivelled rubbery remains in the bathtub, which I deliriously hacked to pieces and stuffed into binbags like some unhinged serial killer.
My landlord was going to arrange the purchase of a new mattress but I said I'd do it. There was no way I was risking getting another water mattress.
The whole ordeal was just so stressful and I did not want to go through that again. And on top of all that, the bed wasn't even particularly comfortable. It turns out the human body isn't designed to sleep on water. Funny that.
Since then, I've almost given up mattresses completely. I tried floor sleeping for a while and now I sleep on a very thin kapok mattress. One of the best things I've ever done for my back. It's the cheapest and most comfortable sleeping setup I've ever had. And it doesn't leak.
Was gonna get a kapok but I think I'm just too bony to use one regularly. Would they be good for camping though?
Also lmfao fantastic story, that sounds horrifying. 10/10
Damn, you and mattresses really got beef
@@radishfest You might be able to use a kapok mattress for camping. However, even though they're a lot less bulky than a regular mattress, they might still be too big for a camping trip, even if you roll them up. You'd want to make sure you keep them dry too.
When I started, the first few nights were a bit sore, but within a week or two of sleeping on it, all was fine. Now I find it difficult to sleep on a regular mattress as they're all so weirdly soft.
I was going to say that I'm sure you're not too boney to use one regularly, but looking at your profile pic, I'm not so sure...
Only Scott Cramer could upload a video about frickin' water beds and have me over here rapidly clicking play before I have to work
I remember these exclusively from houses that my mom used to clean around the turn of the millennium. She would take us along when she couldn't afford child care so I spent absolute ages just exploring other people's big strange houses. I was bored to tears mostly, but the waterbeds were always fun.
For some reason, my parents were obsessed with water beds and had one the whole time I was growing up.
The latter half of the trend saw water beds with internal ribbing to prevent sloshing and add support.
Ill be honest, it was actually really comfortable to sleep on!
It's been a long time and it was my parents water bed so I could be misremembering but I think I found them annoying to get and lay on but comfortable to sleep on.
10:38 "This looks like pure bliss"
*shows guy uncomfortably shifting on waterbed
I've never been on a water bed before, but I always assumed sleeping on them would make me feel seasick....somehow. Like there would be too much movement and wiggling or something. I want a bed that stays still, dammit!
my only experience is after drinking and being hungover and yeah, basically seasickness
My best friend growing up had one, and yes, seasickness is exactly the vibe. Also, it was so annoying to climb onto and off of; if you tried to crawl across it, your hands and knees would just sink deep in and kind of trap you. And if you were sitting on it, and someone else got on, you started bobbing like a buoy. I hated that thing.
Had a waterbed when I was a kid. Never felt sick because of it, and I am prone to motion sickness. Chasing the bubbles was always fun.
Fun anecdote - during the Loma Prieta earthquake in 89, my older sister was sick. In a waterbed. She wasn't too happy about that. I was getting ready to go jump rope in the backyard. Then the ground started to feel like a waterbed and my mom ran into the doorway to the kitchen and yelled, "Earthquake!" Very vivid memory.
@@Karamarika Oh, wow! I grew up in the Midwest and currently live in the south... so my experiences with earthquakes is limited to a few seconds of mild vibration. Lol
But tornadoes and hurricanes? Definitely lived through plenty of those!
@@Jhfisibejoso8pkabrvo2is8 earthquakes are nothing. Tornadoes and hurricanes terrify me. That's one of the things that keeps me in California ☺️
I had a waterbed as a young teen/tween because my mom bought a cheap one one summer and didn’t like it, so I got it. It or, more likely bad posture gave me torticolis. In college my upstairs neighbor emptied her waterbed and it flooded my apartment. When I bought my condo built in 1965, I found a promotional yardstick for “Nude Waterbeds” in the furnace closet. I love that yardstick.
I actually took a sip every time waterbed was said in the video. Went through like 3 glasses of water, thanks for the hydration Scott.
I just took a sip every time Scott said waterbed. Downed 22 ounces in like 10 minutes
Same!
I had a waterbed as a kid. I hated that thing. I was always telling my mom I didn’t want that bed and she would always say “Do you know how lucky you are to have a waterbed?” Anyway we finally got rid of it when it started leaking.
you could have made it ‘leak’ a little earlier
Each time the word "Waterbed" was spoken in this video for those who want to take shots(stay hydrated):
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Legend lol
that's 61 shots, 1 shot being 1.5 ounces that's 91,5 ounces, or three quarters of a gallon (2,7 litres)
that's a lot of hydration for a 15 minute video!
i have owned & slept on waterbeds for 40+ years , loved them then & love them now.
Scott saying "vague" in his accent at 1:44 made me break out in primal fear sweat and I don't know why.
Me too
vag memory
I was hoping someone else noticed 🙏 ty
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My parents had a water bed when I was a kid. I loved playing on it, pretty sure I slept there a couple of times. In hindsight though I wonder how they're comfortable for more than I person because every time you move they will ripple. Still miss it anyway.
Asked my Mom about it. She said they first one she and Dad owned did have sone rippleing problems. But the swcond one had two bladders in it so one partner didn't disturb the other, as well some kind of wave canceling tech built into them. It's been enough years she doesn't really miss having a waterbed, but if they hadn't disappeared from stores when theu did she would have bought a third one.
I just found your channel a week or two ago and you've quickly become one of my favorite creators.
Welcome, fellow struggler.
Welcome to the struggle bus!
My mom had a waterbed for the longest time because i helps her back and i grew up sleeping on one until i got my own room as a kid.
- My mom's water bed had a heaters so the water wasn't ice cold
- the texture of a waterbed is like a thicker version of the air matrass but not the side you sleep on
- water beds go in a frame instead of just sitting out in the open and that helps with distribution
- they are pretty sturdy but when they break they cause BIG damage, my mom's broke twice and flooded her room the first time, you can patch the hole and refill them, its not like the whole mattress is wasted but my dad had to end up redo the carpet in room after it flooded.
- they are really comfortable but hard to move on, Scott rolling off of it at ( 14:30 ) is exactly how you'd have to get out of this bed majority of the times
I never thought about the weight of water beds. Seems so impractical now that I think of it😂
@@MrDj232 But how did you fill the actual mattress? Set the bed and frame up and drag a garden hose all across the house to the bedroom where said bed had to be filled? Moving a filled mattress of water seems very impractical.
love waterbeds always found the gentle movement of them comforting from being a baby co-sleeping with my parents to having one myself from later childhood to mid-teens and have always had a queen sized bed since
My parents had a waterbed, my sister had one, I’ve slept in both of them…they were uncomfortable. The water would rush to the foot of the bed and my back would be hitting the bottom of the bed frame. It’s also easy to get caught in the corner of the bed. They also got really hot (you’re basically sleeping over plastic).
My parents' waterbed even had a heater.... can you _imagine!?_
@@jennteal5265 all waterbeds do. If they didn’t you’d be cold and miserable.
Those were either one or both of underfunded or at an angle.
Yal didn't have a good one ...if it's wavless non of that happens....I'm n one now just floating no sinking....warm bed....ac on for the air .. perfect bance
Balance
The mention and half second shot of a cat jumping on a waterbed has compelled me to get one just to watch my kitties jump on it. So cute!
My grandma and my brother both have waterbeds. My brother has some health issues related to heat and the waterbeds temp can be adjusted to keep him cool. They’re pretty comfy and it kinda cradles you, but they’re pretty hard to get out of because there’s very little stability
4:36 as someone with a grandmother who loved her water bed in the late 90s this part really got me
Water beds are awesome. There used to be one in my grandma's house and I loved sleeping on it. It's honestly nothing like the air mattress filled with water. It's super comfortable, and you can heat it! I wish I had one.
My cousin had a waterbed when we were kids and I was so jealous. Until I slept on the thing. I was a child and legit woke up with a sore back every damn time. I promise ya ain’t missing out on anything. Keep making that Helix sponsorship money!
One of my best friends had a waterbed, when we were kids. I just remember getting pushed into the crevice during sleepovers. Pushed against a wood edge and the mattress, not good for three teenage girls.
anyone else always excited to see the 5:24 clip whenever there's a helix sponsor? I love the little flip he does at the end and I'm always stoked.
Every video of Scott’s slaps, but something about this one hit different! It hit so different that I actually watched the Helix ad instead of quadruple tapping my screen to get back to the waterbed bonanza.
The story, structure, and comedy in this video were some of the best I’ve seen! Keep it up Scott, love it! Thank you so much!!!
This is the perfect fun, silly, lighthearted video to start my day. Thanks Scott!
My favorite thing about the crazy Marty's is that there were three different audio qualities but none of them were easy to discern
6:35 im crying. the yeeeeep absolute gold
Damn Scott, didn't even acknowlege that the saleswoman who dropped her pants to show off swim trunks. A real Waterman
I had a water bed when I was a really little but we got rid of it because we moved halfway across the state when I was five so take this sentiment with the tiniest grain of salt because of my little kid memory, but I remember really liking the water bed. It was fun to see the water move around when I was on it and the only issue I had with sleeping back then was sometimes my baby brother would wake me up crying. I have a regular bed now and I do thoroughly enjoy the memory foam mattress, but sometimes I think it'd be nice to just get on a water bed to see if it's as good as I remember.
Literally a week ago I mentioned to my partner how cool it would be now that I'm an adult to spend adult money on a waterbed to make my inner child happy, and now my inner child is crying
did you get one?
@Vale no, he claims its a bad investment so its not worth it and won't buy it 😔
Some people love them, but I haaated mine. It was massive with these big mirrored cabinets in the headboard. I got it from a friend of my mom's who had it in storage before that. In movies and shows growing up, they always looked so cool, so of course 14 year old me jumped at the opportunity. It was crazy uncomfortable, though. Eventually I just got rid of the water mattress, and put a regular bed in that sweet gigantic frame.
I worked for Furniture Row for a bit, they used to be Big Sur. We still had water bed stuff in the warehouse and would occasionally sell the matresses, etc.
I experienced a water bed in my youth. It wasn't mine, I think we just played on it, not slept. It's a novelty and fun, but definitely not worth the upkeep/damage possibilities. A real one is deeper than that air matter, so you get more of a floaty feeling and it's really hard to get on/off because of it lol
I remember waterbeds growing up - my parents had one for many years and even I had one for a couple of years until we moved into a smaller house and did not have the space for such a large bed. They do require a bit of maintenance compared to a regular bed - the water has to be treated with chemicals like a swimming pool and it has to be "burped" once in a while (removing of air pockets), plus you also have the heater unit. They also leave a huge indentation in the carpet on moving day
I think if I was ever to try a weird alternative mattress I'd probably try a purple mattress. Just to see if it is comfy for me. The only consistent complaint I've heard is that it smells funny so you gotta hose down the rupper part of it when you get it. That's not too bad.
This video's sponsor is screaming inside right now
My wife works at Purple HQ, so we got a free one. It did smell funny the first few days, but within a week, the smell was gone, and it's totally neutral now. They have different firmness levels, and I would definitely recommend finding a showroom and trying each one to determine what works best for you. My wife wanted the softest and I wanted the firmest, so we compromised and got the "in-between" firmness, and it's been great for us. I have no complaints, besides the fact that it's REALLY heavy (160-ish pounds, I think?), but it feels great. But pro tip: even better than their matresses is their purple grid pillows. I'm never going back to a regular pillow.
My husband and I got the pillows first and now won't use any other pillows because we like them a lot. Very supportive. We have a purple mattress now and it only took a few days to get used to it. That's also super heavy but other than that, no downsides so far.
All new mattresses should smell a little funky from transit and storage. My mattress smelled for like 4 days. There's this whole thing where you're supposed to air it out before sleeping on it
WHAT ABOUT THE POWDER????
7:47 reminds me of that guy from Spongebob when Gary broke his shell. "Angry Jack's Shell Emporium and I'm angry! I gotta sell, sell, sell!"
that episode traumatized me when i was little
My cousin had a waterbed growing up and I was always so so jealous of her. It also had a like hideaway underneath it in the wooden bed frame. Sick ass bed.
4:42 As soon as Scott said "I think I'll stick with", I knew there was a helix sponsorship coming
I have two memories of waterbeds: my parents slept on one when I was very young, and my friend's father slept on a waterbed in his apartment.
The one that my friend's dad had was heated, too! I remember liking it but ultimately preferred a typical mattress.
So I had a water bed from as early as I can remember as a child up until about earlier this year. About 25 years in total. (Don't judge me for still being at home lol. It's complicated). As someone who bought a new, non water bed for the first time, I do NOT recommend it.
So as for the tendency to have leaks. Your probably aren't going to have them for the first 4-5 years at least. It will most likely be good for that long. Then your first leak is gonna pop up, and from then on out you can expect to find one at least every 1-2 years. The problem about when it leaks though is that you never find the leak in the middle of the afternoon or right after you wake up. Nooo, you find the leak at 2 AM after a long, rough night at work and you gotta go back in the next morning, and now you don't have a bed to sleep in till you patch the leak, let the outside of the mattress dry, get new sheets, its a process! Mine was at least not terrible. Instead of having one big tube, it was actually a mattress with 10 smaller tubes in the bottom, so you didn't necessarily need all the tubes to go back to sleep, but god would your back notice ones missing. And also, finding witch tube was actually leaking was a whole damne process, and you really need to find witch one it is before you go back to sleep even if you have a back up option like a couch or something, because its just gonna keep leaking water onto the mattress, and thats gonna make it smell bad and there is a risk of mold. Its just aweful. Do not recommend. I made a mistake keeping it for so long. Like yeah, its cool to tell your friends/girls "I have a water bed! it's so neat!" But like its not viable in the long term like a good bed should be.
Idk y but this is one of my favorite Scott Cramer videos. Maybe b/c my parents had a waterbed when I was a kid, we moved a lot (military) and they carted that damn bed along for every move, absolutely crazy. I also love the old, cheesy commercials... and I'm stuck on 80s/90s nostalgia.
i used to always want a waterbed with fish in it
now i know that thats maybe not the best idea
Probably not
Same! Goofy movie, right?
@@spartan2867 such a silly little movie (what movie)
@@edamame6363 the Goofy movie
@@spartan2867 thats so real
The weird genie rubbing scene with your reaction and the "I'm crazy Marty!" "Ah!" had me laughing 😂😂 Also, the Comfort King commercial is creepy as hell 😢
good googley goo! life's good when you're one of the first strugglers to see a Scott Cramer video.
Hell yeah
My husband and I loved our water bed! We gave it up when we moved and actually couldn’t move it by our selves. Saved the frame and put a mattress in it and used that for a long time. Miss my water bed!
My parents used to have a waterbed. Definitely not worth it. You can’t lay on the edges because you would roll in between the bed frame and mattress
The fact that you’ve never even seen one blows my mind. Every single person in my family had waterbeds growing up, me included. Yes getting trapped between the frame and the mattress happened alot lol 😂 I was always getting yelled at for playing on them too much, but they even had warmers. It was great. I miss them everyday of sleeping on an actual mattress.
i discovered your channel after the toilet paper video and ngl i've been binging EVERY SINGLE VIDEO. so glad to see another one in my subscription feed!!
Lol that's like everyone who finds his channel but with different vids. He's just incredibly binge-able what can I say 😂
ahh man I miss the time when I discovered his vids, now I've already seen them all so there's nothing to binge, have to wait for new uploads
My parents had a waterbed when I was young enough to still be sleeping in their bed sometimes at night. Not the most comfortable or supportive, and you could hear the water sloshing around. I remember having to actively not sleep too close to the edge of the bed or you would be pinched in between the bed and the frame. I honestly don't remember them getting rid of it, but they didn't have it but for a few years.
My parents had a water bed, we had to get rid of it when we moved from the coast up north because it was very likely going to kill someone in their sleep from being to cold. My dad sold it, I'd love to be reunited with it
What? How would it be so cold that it would kill someone?
@@JoshBattershell when the power goes out and you only have electric heat when it's -40
I had a waterbed in middle and high school and I loved it haha it had a heater with a dial so I could turn it down or make it warmer. My cats loved it and it never leaked. But it got annoying when we moved so often, so we got rid of it. Mine had a frame with padded bumpers and a headboard with lots of space to put things. I thought it was comfortable. It just takes a little getting used to.
8:36 SHE DOESNT BLINK EHY DOESNT SHE BLINK
she blinks twice
I had a waterbed as a kid, and I freaking loved it… for about a month. I remember that when we were shopping for it, there were two different types of mattresses that you could get. One that was wavy and one that is more firm. I was a kid and of course I got the wavy one, but it may have been best to have bought the firm one
Back in the 90s, my aunt had a waterbed. My family ended up housesitting for a week and I was soooo excited to sleep on it. It was the least comfortable sleep of my life. And I spent a year sleeping on the floor.
Water Beds? I barely know her beds!
Are you a citizen of Kurtis Town?
Thank you. From the bottom of my heart, thank you.
Water beds? They're what I sleep on. 😌
I slept on a waterbed for like 16 years, from when I left the crib til I moved away to college. The only times it was uncomfortable was when the heating element went out once or twice. I loved it so much, it was so warm and soothing.
So, I'm old and arguably have no right to be here but one of my earliest childhood memories involves a waterbed and Michael Jackson's music video for Thriller (which was a big deal back then).
I can't do the memory justice, early childhood memories are like that, especially when you're old like me. But it was the first thing that popped into my head when I read the title of this video.
So, thanks, Scott. Thanks for bringing back that tremendously vague yet poignantly traumatic memory back into my head.
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8:18 I need more people to be talking about what the complimentary instant camera is implying
My parents had a water bed when I was really little.
They had to get rid of it because I used to get night terrors and have to sleep with them. The feeling of sleeping on water always made me pee the bed 😅
I had a waterbed all the way up to 2001!! I loved it. I do have to say though that I never realized how creepy all those commercials were. And the “extras” 😮 😂😂😂.
Thanks for the laughs!
My parents had a waterbed when I was a little kid. I thought it was the coolest thing ever and it was fun to bounce around on. Can't tell you what it's actually like to sleep on as an adult and what it would do to your back, though.
my aunt and uncle had a waterbed when i was little. i went to a family reunion at their house and ended up sharing it with my cousin who was an... active sleeper. every time she shifted it amplified and jostled me and i couldn't get to sleep. i ended up sleeping on the bare floor because at least it didn't wiggle unendingly every time i tried to get comfortable.
Apparently, if you lay on a water-bed for long enough, you become a shredded, jacked 27 year old man or a middle aged dad with a mustache soooo, just something to consider before buying.
I had one as a teenager in the early 90’s. Gave it up when we moved. It was great to stay warm on, not much else. No support for your lower back, and eventually you get tired of rolling into the giant wooden sides. They’re hard to clean, and change sheets as well. Back then they had basically styrofoam balls inside to control how much motion there was. I can still sit on it in my mind anytime I want. Gives me the shivers. I always had visions of falling through my floor in my sleep. I ended up hating that thing.
My parents had one when I was a kid. Used to jump on it all the time until I burst it once. 😂
This video brought back so many childhood memories...
When I was 7-ish, my parents got a big "fancy" king sized waterbed. I think the store must have been giving away a 2nd, much crappier, full sized waterhell for free because thats what I got. I thought was so awesome at first. Then I started waking up every morning wet af (No, I was not a bed wetter, ever) and I could never seem to find the sweet spot for the heater. It was always either freezing or burning up. Freddy Kruger didn't help the situation either (I'm surprised you left that movie out). Thinking back, I guess there was a reason my mom would find me sleeping on the floor so many mornings.