Archie McPhee News Blog of Fun

The Meat Parade Single Not a Review of Come Join the Meat Parade! We recorded a single and put it out on a vinyl 45! We thought to ourselves, what would it sound like if Mr. Bacon had a band? So, our IT guy, Dayton Allemann, wrote a couple of songs and got his friends to record them under the name...

Why not transform squirrels into unicorns? When we made the Horse Head Squirrel Feeder it made people laugh, but we wanted to inspire them. That's when we thought it would be amazing to take mundane, everyday squirrels and turn them into magical unicorns! The Unicorn Squirrel Feeder does just that. As this video demonstrates, your backyard will soon be a fairyland! We...

Did you ever wonder where the whole Horse Mask fad started? Where did the Horse Mask come from? Well, we started it when this video went viral in 2009. We thought we were making a video for the Donkey Cigarette Dispenser, but no one cared about that. Everyone was obsessed with the Horse Mask. We made other videos in the...

Our most popular video of all time is the infomercial we did for Handerpants starring our own commercial pitchman, Chester McGuinness. As of this post, it has almost 900,000 views! We finally talked Chester into recording a response.  Here, for the first time, is the rough draft of the script for the Handerpants commercial. It changed a bit during filming:...

This funny Horse Head Squirrel Feeder video by the BBC is simply nuts! It's a squirrel ponying up to our horsey squirrel feeder and then snatching some food. And, as a bonus, all the action is set to the William Tell Overture.  We sell the the Horse Head Squirrel Feeder, but also a Unicorn Squirrel Feeder and a Big Head Squirrel Feeder! ...

Our resident inventor, Chester McGuinness, was SHOCKED to discover all the mean comments on his Handerpants video (click here to read them). This is his response.

This great clip from the late 1980s features our owner, Mark Pahlow, with Seattle comedy legend John Keister discussing Archie McPhee on Almost Live! It includes a few  great Mark Pahlow quotes: "We like to make people laugh, but we also think it's important to inspire and educate. " "We find people pretty squeamish about their internal organs and we feel they...

We sure had fun making this video with our new Cat Mask and Black Cat Mask! We filmed it at our home office in Mukilteo and it shows lots of business cats going about their day. Nothing too eventful happens until a pigeon intern shows up with some files. We even wrote a song about it!  Here are the lyrics to...

In October of 1990 KOMO did this profile of Archie McPhee featuring our owner Mark Pahlow. At the time we were located in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle and have since moved to Wallingford. As always, the story is filled with amazing Mark Pahlow quotes: The first thing I tried to sell was a "how to have a child at...

How realistic is our new Racoon Mask? Maybe a little too realistic. As you can see, we had fun with green screen when we did this one.  The shorter version we did on Vine was even more popular. It had over 1,500,000 loops, but it has been erased. Here's that video...  

We were pleased as punch when The Presidents of the United States of America found inspiration in our Finger Monsters for an amazing song that captures their awesomeness perfectly. (Buy the song here) Not only that, but the incredibly talented Chris Bellew came to our Seattle Archie McPhee store to perform his Caspar Babypants song Googly Eyes. We like to...

Anthony Bourdain came to the Archie McPhee store in Wallingford to shop for weird stuff. He was amazingly nice and seemed to have a really good time. He even said we sold serial killer supplies! Click here to watch a clip of the episode, but if you can watch the whole thing you'll get tips from Dan'l and Fuzz between...