I remember wanting one of those but never getting one. I'll bet that very few young people today know what rabbit ears are. The ones for the TV.
Oh yea! The things we had to do to get a decent picture in the old days. I had a mini ariel too that you had to place somewhere and rotate just right. Placing on a higher shelf sometimes worked better! But most pictures were snowy in some rooms, you just couldn't make it better no matter what you did with the Ariel. Then we started routing the main ariel into multiple rooms, then we started buying extenders etc.