The Office's "Suck It" Vacuum Is Now A Real Thing
A person who is perhaps a genius is making the fictional The Office character David Wallace's dreams come true, creating a real-life version of the «Suck It» shop-vac that Wallace wanted to launch as his next big idea.
For those just catching up, the Season 6 episode «Sabre» saw Michael Scott (Steve Carell) visiting Wallace (Andy Buckley), who had left Dunder Mifflin at this point and was slugging beers in his hot tub when he pitched Michael on his genius idea for a vacuum that teaches kids to clean up their toys.
Wallace gave his product the wonderfully inappropriate name, «Suck It.»
«You know how kids leave their toys everywhere? This is a vacuum--it's like a shop-vac type of thing [makes vacuum noise]. And it teaches kids how to pick up their own toys,» Wallace says.
YouTuber Matty Benedetto, whose Unnecessary Inventions account has more than 1.24 million subscribers, revealed how he created his version of Suck It in a slick video that you can watch below (via AVClub). For this invention, Benedetto uses a 3D printer to build the components of the vacuum, which is supposed to help people hoover up their Lego bricks. Like Wallace might have, Benedetto attaches his tube-based Lego-catcher to a shop-vac and, well, the results are pretty impressive. The machine sorts bricks by size through chambers that have increasingly smaller holes. Check out the video below to see for yourself how it all worked out.
In The Office, it's later revealed that Wallace sold his patent for Suck It to the US military for $20 million. Whether or not Benedetto is able or interested in selling his own invention remains to be seen.
Here's the original scene from The Office where Michael visits David Wallace to hear all about his Suck It idea:
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