On this day 22 years ago, a bunch of weirdos in Denton, including our buddy Rick, held a high concept garage sale where all the prices were determined by mysterious masked figure. Happy Pricemaster Day to those who celebrate.
No host likes shooting promos, especially for a phone version of their hit game show, but Trebek did them with good humor. So long, Alex, and fuck 'em.
On this day 23 years ago, our pal Rick and his weirdo friends held a garage sale in Denton, Texas where prices were determined by a mysterious entity known as The Pricemaster. Today only, EVERYTHING IS FOR SALE!
Hard to describe exactly how weird syndicated kids TV was in 1989 unless you were there. Here’s the delightful Elvira on a home recorded VHS tape of The Super Mario Bros Super Show.
Got the news late last night that Jack Rebney, our favorite Winnebago pitchman and our friend, passed away at the age of 93. We'll be paying tribute to Jack tonight on our YouTube channel with "Winnebago Man" filmmaker Ben Steinbauer.
Weird Al has made several cameo appearances in movies and TV, but we didn’t expect to see him in this military training video, “Train Hard, Fight Easy”
#WeirdAl
@alyankovic
Dream come true: Got a tip from a restaurant inspector that my hometown Pizza Hut was tossing all their training videos. My dad went there the next day and sent them to me. Thanks to teamwork, future generations will know how to make a P’Zone!
Looking forward to tonight’s show in Vancouver but nothing will top our 2014 stop when an employee at
@RioTheatre
revealed this sweater he found at a thrift store.
Talkin' Beards was an NYC public access show that aired at 5am on Wednesday mornings from 1997-2006. The show abruptly ended when Nick tragically lost his beard in a fireworks incident. Watch more on our Rewindo channel at
On this day 35 years ago, local Minnesota station KTSP spent a long time reviewing a new restaurant called Olive Garden!. Thanks to our pal Tom at
@TCMediaNow
for serving up huge portions of footage like this.
#OliveGarden
We just discovered this footage from the Wildwood, New Jersey boardwalk from 1994. It's from a doc called Wildwood, NJ by Ruth Leitman and Carol Weaks Cassidy. Has anybody seen Dave?
Three years ago today, we performed on America’a Got Talent and did something that made the producers furious. We were escorted out and only two seconds of our performance ever aired. Will tell the full story soon.
We love Bargain Bernie and the outtakes from his furniture store commercials from the 80s. All that’s missing is a good jingle. Want to take a stab at one? DM us with your 5-10 second song and we’ll award the best ones a prize. All we want to do is save you money!
When David Letterman retired on this day in 2015, the staff donated Dave's VHS Collection to the FFF. Here are some highlights. Much more on our Vol 8 show
Here’s a dance interpretation of Meco’s 1977 disco mix of John Williams’ Star Wars, as performed on French TV in 1977. May the 4th be with vous!
#maythe4thbewithyou
#starwars
World, meet Charles Carson 📼
A LIFE ON THE FARM celebrates the odd life of an eccentric farmer whose insane home video has become a cult phenomenon.
See it on tour with CHOP & STEELE starting April 13 with
@alamodrafthouse
&
@fantasticfest
.
Tickets 🎟
For our money, the best Elvis movie is still this 1984 documentary on VHS. Now let’s all put on our Elvis Presley music and pull out a game of Yahtzee.
#elvis
#elvismovie
Today is the 29th anniversary of the weirdest VHS tape
@mccarthyredhead
has ever found: Dog Wedding 6-5-94. Wherever they are, we hope the happy couple is still together.
We're celebrating the wonderfully bonkers 1989 kids movie, Creating Rem Lezar, with its first ever theatrical screening! Join us and the stars and makers of the movie for the "blue carpet premiere" in NYC on Sept. 13th. Tickets will go fast!
We now have a proper, museum-quality way to display our most precious VHS tapes. The McDonald’s custodial training video Nick found in high school is finally behind glass. (thanks
@midnightrental
for donating the case to the cause!)
WED 4/3: Found Footage Festival: 20th Anniversary Show
On the night of the
@foundfootage
's 20th Anniversary, Joe, Nick & Special Guests serve up their all-time greatest VHS finds, with new updates on the people they've tracked down from the footage!
🎟️:
Here’s just a minute of the full 8-minute credits sequence of this locally made movie from Hegins, Pennsylvania. Found by Strange Tapes and featured in the latest episode of Strange Show
With the MN State Fair cancelled this year, here's a flashback to the 1986 fair where people skipped fried food and the Tilt-A-Whirl to watch a talk show about satanic toys. Featuring evangelist Phil Philips and a lot of confused Minnesotans.
This 1992 educational video starts from square one for people who’ve never even heard the word hygiene. Includes hand washing tips and a killer rap about b.o.!
Remembering Carl Weathers in sweatshirt form. (Thanks to Ross from St Louis for finding this merch promo at the end of the Action Jackson VHS.)
#CarlWeathers
When someone asks, “What kind of VHS do you collect? Horror?” I say, “No, it’s more stuff like ‘Safety in the Grove: Safe Citrus Harvesting.’” Then they usually find a reason to walk to another part of the room.
Congress is holding a UFO hearing today but all we want to hear is Jan Terri’s song about extra terrestrial contact, Journey to Mars.
#JanTerri
#UFOHearings
We have a lot of VHS tapes meant to entertain your pet while you’re away but this is the only one that attempts to do it from the dog’s POV. Get ready to pee and fall in love in “Doggie Adventure” (1990).
“Dinosaurs are really cute but I wouldn’t want to marry one.” Let Christopher Reeve and company tell you all about dinos in this 1985 VHS tape.
#dinosaurs
#jurassicworlddominion