Gotta fix that audio man. Can't have an already loud and busy song being washed over your own audio. I'd suggest something more simple for music and turned down drastically lower.
No need for any music at all. That's the biggest failing of most teenager You Tubers. They THINK they have to have music, or they're too shy about the sound of their own voice and try to hide it with music. The best You Tube channels have NO MUSIC, just the narration.
I love Billy West. when I met him, he was far more interested in hearing MY history of enjoying his work than he was eager to brag about himself. Such a genuine guy!
The idea that rather than Nickelodeon’s audio equipment “didn’t work” and that’s why they made an episode without dialogue is incredibly stupid lol. Of course it either came down to money, (which seems to be the case) wanting to make an episode that references older slapstick comedy cartoons with no dialogue like Tom and Jerry, or both. I’m guessing it’s both Nick wanting to pay voice actors as little as possible as well as the storyboarding team for SpongeBob wanting to create an episode that stands out and also references cartoons from their childhoods. I think the episode really wouldn’t work as well with dialogue.
I honestly cant really imagine this episode working with a huge amount of dialogue because most of the scenes in the final short seem written with a lack of dialogue in mind. I imagine if any version with dialogue ever existed it was from before what the short even was got finalized. For all we know this could have been a segment from a scrapped regular length episode initially(like say maybe other scenes of spongebob doing yardwork with other tools but they settled on just the reef blower because the first half hour needed 3 minutes to fill) and this particular segment was never meant to have dialogue in the first place similar to how there were quite a few early spongebob episodes that had several minutes of no dialogue(like the song segment of jellyfish jam)
Again, I'm pretty sure what Billy West said about Nirvana and Ren and Stimpy was meant to be a joke, as again, they were both very popular in the early 90s. It's like joking that Blink182 was going to write the theme song for Totally Spies and it being scrapped. It's clearly a joke that Lost Media enthusiasts took way too seriously.
I mean, Walt Disney and Dalí wanted to make a movie together and in the end the only shot a few scenes (even though the project ended up existing in short film form long after they both died). And the same goes for the movie that Dalí was going to make in collaboration with the Marx Brothers. They were all at the height of their popularity at the time, so those projects should have been hits if only because of the names attached to them, but they were cancelled anyway.
6:54 What? That was a popular theory? Why? Nicktoons OFTEN had "weird experimental minisodes". And vewing Reef Blower, there's NO point where it seems like it was originally planned to have dialogue.... That literally feels like kids coming up with conspiracies cause they're bored or don't understand experimental works.
Same with the Squidward Snail scene. Like why would they even make that scene in the first place, the screenwipe is much more efficient and simply funnier
I can’t believe there’s been an update to the purple yoshi tech demo. That was the first video I watched from you, and what made me follow you for almost 7 years now.
Random idea about the Pablo thing: What if it was possibly used as part of the intro for Me & My Friends? Basically something like the Wiggles TV series in the 90’s, where the show in general is live action, yet the intro utilises CGI
i think it's like some sort of virtual storyboard for the me and my friends pilot, like as a way to visualize how the actors would move around the stage
The theory about the Reef Blower situation is, kinda silly. Surely they would've been better off postponing recording until the equipment was fixed rather than rework an entire episode that would've likely been at the animatic stage at the very least.
I still think Billy West misremembered Kurt Cobain instead of remembering Eric Stefani, who was both an animator and in No Doubt at the time. The time and places and job descriptions match up.
The episodes eric worked on were in the shows 3rd season, so we’d just have to work out how he’d have known about it before it was airing. Definitely worth an ask, I think.
I don’t know if it’s me but this video felt a bit rushed compared to previous videos, especially when came to the sound mixing particularly during the first segment. I really hope LSuperSonicQ is able to address this small issue as soon as possible.
OK, so the "we weren't planning on making it" quote, I think that was meant to apply to his claim that the movie wasn't "too dark". The quote was saying it was canceled due to corporate politics, not because the studio deemed it too dark. I don't think he's saying they weren't planning on making the movie.
I'm guessing the Pablo thing was just a REALLY early test for when they switched Me and My Friends from a live-action Barney/Telleytubby esc. show to something completely animated, but it was never finished.
The first song is really terrible and annoying, it goes absolutely nowhere musically and just sounds like cheap string samples played at random. It's also very loud compared to the voice volume. Usually the music is great or amazing even, but that was painful to try sit through.
It seriously never crossed my mind that there could've been dialogue for Reef Blower. I always saw it as the show just wanting to try a silent, slapstick-focused episode for funsies.
The spongebob theory is just weird if you think about if for more than 5 seconds. Why would they go through the hassle of re-writing and (partially) re-animating the entire episode to be silent instead of simply recording the voice lines again?
Look at the cast. Allot of people were working on allot of projects. I can easily see scheduling issues combined with a tight deadline being more than enough reason. This isnt a small company we are talking about here, thems some BIG names.
i watched the pilot episode of aRM multiple times in mexico when i was growing up. They aired summer of 1998 and '99 on channel 5 (canal de las estrellas) on weekdays before 1pm. the region was Zacapu Michoacan. Not sure if any of that information helps but i remember the dates because i would only visit in summer and the summer of 00 is when they started airing DBZ (have tapes from the time).
4:40 This is the issue with chasing old internet sources. It can be hard to tell the difference between Circular False Sourcing(Sometimes nicknamed 'Woozles') and Lost Sourcing or Circular Lost Sourcing. Is this something fake people made up, that got spread around and those got cited by other people? Or was there real info that got lost at some point and now it looks that way. This is especially true because pre 2010s, most internet discussion was on smaller independent sites that may no longer exist or be archived. So it's totally possible all those 'dead ends' you found in the old video that sputtered out around 2007-2008 were actually based on something real from earlier, and that site just no longer existed. Maybe a fan site had the info in the early 2000s, it tricked out for a bit, the fan site went under, and then circular sourcing happened when it was cut off.
Fun fact: The second episode & First short of Spongebob "Reef Blower" only exists because the first episode "Help Wanted" wasn't long enough to fill out to be a single episode. This is why it's the shortest episode. And additional fact, it's the only episode you can fully post on TH-cam.
Yep. I'm more amazed it took everyone THAT long to realize it was Nick/Viacom pulling their "Screw the artist/creator" stunt. It really doesn't look like a cartoon that was meant to have dialog, anyway. It'd just be very obvious Squidward saying something catty, and Spongebob giggling along.
Fun fact: The second episode & First short of Spongebob “Reef Blower” only exists because the first episode “Help Wanted” wasn’t long enough to fill out to be a single episode. This is why it’s the shortest episode. And, additional fact, it’s the only episode you can fully post on TH-cam.
I think nowadays it gets copyrighted immediately, just not taken down. And I believe it has no voices because the microphones werent in the studio at the time. PS yiff in hell gacha kid
Knowing the sort of person John K was, I wouldn’t doubt for a second that he probably *did* know who Kurt was and still refused. John has been confirmed to have done something similar to Robin Williams when he inquired about a guest role.
Hey I just found a new piece of lost media that suddenly started getting resurfaced It's a cartoon shorts show named birth of a coda It's about a blue alien who keeps dying but taking time back to prevent it Lots of people remember it on cartoon network in 2010-2015 but it was also on french Regional channels from what I understand I remember watching it on a greek regional channel in around 2015-17 For a while there were only 3 episodes found,but now some random french kids channel started uploading the episodes
Reef Blower is super early in the broadcast, why is it hard to accept that it's just an artistic decision in an early era where they haven't fully figured out what the show is yet?
I'd always heard that the Reefblowers episode was silent because they couldn't afford the VAs. I'd never heard of it being because of broken equipment.
IGN could have reposted it themselves and put their logos on it at some point lol. Just because it has IGN logos doesn’t absolutely mean they were the original posters of it.
@@BurningEmeraldbut it means it’s the most likely answer. As they say, the simple answer is more likely the right answer. Still silly this was a mystery 😭🤣
With all due respect, the Kurt Cobain thing not being real is not at all surprising. Same with the purple Yoshi thing, there is no real “twist.” IGN having a foreign correspondent doesn’t twist the story, nor does it even point to anything surprising. Foreign correspondents aren’t at all a rare thing for gaming publications to have. That’s where all the hot scoops come from… Did something happen that made you have to release a video in this state? Your other videos are clearly more competent than this.
Someone download this video before he removes it and reuploads a fixed version so it too doesn't become lost media- 🤭 Jokes, jokes Bur seriously, the audio is all over the place.
I can tell you, squidward in Spongebob transitioning on screen did happen! It was showed in a' shadow way" matter. His shadow was projected on a wall and he became a snail. Episode was in Netherlands
Literally none of these were shocking, nor were they twists. Also, that Yoshi pic looks like a gameplay mock-up rather than a screenshot. The phong shading on it is something you'd see in a rendered scene from 3D Studio Max or something, not anything you'd see on a gamecube.
I love your channel but please consider re-uploading with the music turned way down, my ADHD brain cannot handle it because I can't focus on what you're saying (which is why I follow your videos! I like your insight!).
I don’t think this song during the Real Monsters segment was the best choice. Besides the mixing being less than stellar, it just sounds really rough. Maybe in a video game it could work, but Idk about an informative TH-cam video
@12:02 To me, his original comment sounded like Cobain wrote a song, as in sheet music, which was thrown away. It does not sound like he recorded anything, which still gells with the tweets.
Why are people complaining about the audio? I mean it’s not as loud as the rest of the video but you can hear him perfectly fine I had to actively try and listen for something wrong when going to the timestamps
@@tuunbaq I would call it sassy. But if you wanna put a melodramatic tone to it, thats your choice. Not my fault at all that you like to assume the worse of people and add your own imaginary tone to it. But all i said was facts, nether of us know the full story here, and people like OP are making an ass of themselves by assuming so much. Also, its not deep at all. This is very basic stuff. Surface level thinking, no effort needed. So whats your excuse for being melodramatic wank about my post?
@@tuunbaq I would call it sassy. But if you wanna put a melodramatic tone to it, thats your choice. Not my fault at all that you like to assume the worse of people and add your own imaginary tone to it. But all i said was facts, nether of us know the full story here, and people like OP are making an ass of themselves by assuming so much. Also, its not deep at all. This is very basic stuff. Surface level thinking, no effort needed. So whats your excuse for being melodramatic wank about my post?
@@tuunbaq I would call it sassy. But if you wanna put a melodramatic tone to it, thats your choice. Not my fault at all that you like to assume the worse of people and add your own imaginary tone to it. But all i said was facts, nether of us know the full story here, and people like OP are making an ass of themselves by assuming so much. Also, its not deep at all. This is very basic stuff. Surface level thinking, no effort needed. So whats your excuse for being melodramatic wank about my post?
Reef Blower theory makes zero sense from the start. As a literal child, I could see that it was artistic and intentional. The episode is one of the best because of it
19:21 There is a visual difference! The feet are only blue on the tips of the toes in the CGI Pilot and Final. In "Me and My Friends" and the Celluloid Studios Test animation, he has completely blue feet, which could mean the Celluloid Studio test came before the CGI Pilot, and the character design was based after the mascot costumes.
The music makes this video nearly unwatchable. Chaotic music is a bad choice, even more of a bad choice to have it so loud to the point where people cant hear you or focus on the video😬😂
Ooh more lost media!! (…also I did not expect that Pablo video to come up… because I’m pretty sure I remember seeing that a while ago XD I don’t remember where but I recognized it when the clip was played, I did not expect it to be lost media, at the time I just thought it was, like, a fan animation)
i'm disinclined to believe that Reef Blower ever meant to have audio. And I'm not just saying that because I'd be disappointed to find out it was ever intended too.
If its not because you just dont want it to be that way, then what possible reason do you have? You didnt even remotely back up your stance. Just tried claiming it wasnt because of a reason that no one even had a chance to accuse you of having. You know why people jump to conclusions like that, right? Youve only lead me to believe that its purely because of you not wanting it to be that way. No logic or reasoning, solely because you want it to be.
@@jordanekl5383 I didn't give a reason because at the time I wasn't really sure what made me feel that way. I only knew what it wasn't. So in my brain, it seems logical enough to put what I do know, in hopes of a response which might help me figure out the missing pieces. I will hazard the most likely reason that I may feel it wasn't intended to have sound, was I've watched a fair number of silent movies which require a lot to be said with facial expressions and actions. The animation flowed without speech. Speech would destroy the pacing and lessen the impact of the humor.
@@coyoteartist That could be said about a Movie with real people. Or some Animes, but Cartoons in general are constantly telling their story through visuals and not just audio. Infact, i would bet that if you picked a random episode of spongebob from that era and watched it with no audio, you would still know the exact plot of the story. Disregarding all that, you still have the fact that they would only need to adjust the lip syncing parts (Ya know, the thing they still needed the audio recordings for in order to even start on that part of the animation process) Theres allot of reasoning why it makes sense. And its all directly because of their well known animation process, no general speculation there.
@@jordanekl5383 So your argument is there had to be speech so they could animate the points where they look like they're speaking. I never said no one ever spoke. I said I don't think it was meant to be aired with speech. Yes you could watch many of the early episodes with no sound and know the story, but you only get half of it. You don't lose anything in Reef Blower. So to me it makes sense that speech wasn't a concern.
@coyoteartist Nope. You are just being obtuse now. I was quite clear, and its very basic stuff. You obviously have no interest in a conversation, rather you just want to push your own agenda and twist my words around to suit your desires. Soh, peace oot cub scout! I don't play those idiotic games.
Just because somethings being taken into consideration doesnt mean they believe it. And when its the most direct source available for information, it gains allot more credence than some random person on the internet.
@@jordanekl5383 granted, and fair enough - but the whole segment seems to act like the script is legit. I was actually just asking a straight question (granted it's easily to read it otherwise).
Ok, so I need to add my two cents about the leaf blower episode. I could be wrong but I remember that rumor. I heard it years ago before I even knew what lost media was and way before I ever watched videos about it. I definitely didn’t hear it from my friends because I was one of the only ones in my friend group that was allowed to watch SpongeBob. But I remember learning about that rumor and telling my mom about it. I have a lot of SpongeBob DVDs and a few VHS tapes and if my memory serves me correctly, I remember learning about the audio malfunction from a special feature on a DVD. I don’t remember learning about it from anywhere else. I would have to go back and rewatch all my SpongeBob material to see but I loved watching the special features sometimes more than the episodes themselves, so this is a very prominent memory for me. I can’t remember who said it in the special features but it was ether Stephen Hillenburg himself or one of the voice actors. It honestly could’ve just been them regurgitating the rumor because they didn’t know the real reason but I really remember hearing about it from one of them. I wasn’t on the internet all the time growing up because we didn’t have WiFi or unlimited internet so all I had was my DVDs, VHS tapes and some video games. So that means I almost had to have learned about it from one of those sources. If I remember anything else I’ll ether edit this comment or put it in the replies, but I am almost 100% positive that rumor is true and that we shouldn’t be so quick to believe that one guy who said it was false.
Im sorry all i read was "I was one of the only ones in my friend group that was allowed to watch SpongeBob" Were you 2 years old??? Or maybe, Did your friends live without TV all? Or did you simply have no friends? Something not adding up here. After reading the rest, i think i might have an answer tho. Regarding the video itself, if you feel that way then find it before spreading false information. Dont tell us what you think maybe might of happened, possibly, if you remembered right. Thats just ludicrous!
@@jordanekl5383 No, I had friends growing up but I don’t think they were allowed to watch it. Now that I think of it maybe a few of them could but maybe only 1 or 2 of them. The others weren’t allowed because “the show was too inappropriate”. I know for a fact that 4 of them weren’t allowed. I could very well be wrong about the episode though, if I’m wrong then I’m wrong, I’m just saying what I remember.
@@jordanekl5383 Ok, believe what you want to believe but you can’t tell me you’ve never heard of kids not being allowed to watch SpongeBob. Also, they were Catholic so. I am too, but my parents were a little less strict about what I could watch. Although I think not being allowed to watch SpongeBob is ridiculous.
@BobbiRakus I never told you anything about what I believe, nor even stated that I have a belief about you. Just assumptions and guesses. And you for sure can't tell me what I have experienced and/or herd about in my life. You are for sure a catholic tho, you've made that much very apparent with your hipocrytical little rant there, eh.
One NEW piece of Nickelodeon lost media is the unaired Really Loud House episode "Tennessee-you-later: A Very Loud Road Trip", which was listed as an episode of Season 2 on IMDb and the Loud House wiki prior to the SAG-AFTRA strike ending. An episode with a similar title AND plot/synopsis, "The Tennessee Surprise: Love Is In the Air" was filmed after the strike ended, and aired as the third episode of Season 2 (or second if you count A Musical to Remember as one episode; I count it as two). You can also tell it was shot later because Lola's voice is so much deeper than the next few episodes (in broadcast/chronological order). Since that episode HAS to be played in that order for the story to make sense (since Lincoln breaks up with his S1 girlfriend in the ep, and gets a new girlfriend in the next few episodes), AND the fact that the various sites no longer list the other episode, these claims check out. The one thing I should mention about the scrapped version is that it was Thanksgiving-themed. Since it was filmed in late Jun or early Jul 2023, they probably figured they'd have the episode out by Thanksgiving of that year, but since the strike ended early, they decided not to do that. Another thing to add to that idea is that the Season 2 finale, set to air this Fall, is also apparently about Thanksgiving. Since this is such a recent show (with a lot of unfair bias against it as well), I feel like I'll never find out the whole story behind this since not a lot of interest would be had in the topic
Pixar Planet showing up in this video gave me a nostalgic whiplash something fierce... I was a frequent poster there. I miss forums. Discord servers don't feel the same, man.
15:50 It's funny to think your being ignored just to keep the mystery alive? By funny you mean kinda conspiracy theory brain crazy narcassistic to think right?
@@namingisdifficult408 Thanks for this comment bc it's like sometimes, am I the crazy one or is everyone else just riding high on conspiracy juice in the comments. It's a kind of harmless example of conspiracy-ism so I dont want to totally yuck other peoples yum but I worry it could rub off thinking wise
I can't wait for the day me and my friends will be found because the hype surrounding it has gotten me interested in the topic, and I especially want to know what the animation of pablo running was about
My man, 5:02 this music is chaotic and too loud, i cant focus on what you're saying when it swells up like that 😭
id have to agree unfortunately ☹️
same around 1:45
What the hell is that music xd
He needs to manually adjust those louder parts in audacity (or another audio program) prior to using the song in his video
@@EpikBirb birdday party music
The audio isn't mixed very well here, the music is too loud.
Yeah especially during the real monsters segment, it was like he's being completely drowned out by the background track
I was building a house in the Sims while watching this video and thought the game had added new weird music lol
@@ToonEditor2001 no one is going to do this
Never thought I'd see you here, makes me happy
Yeah it’s too loud
1:21 IM LOSING MY MIND I CANNOT THINK WITH THIS NOISE
I'm struggling to process what he's saying in some of these segments with the music 😭😭
Some of those segments having music louder than voice makes those parts unwatchable for me.
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Gotta fix that audio man. Can't have an already loud and busy song being washed over your own audio. I'd suggest something more simple for music and turned down drastically lower.
I know there's a closed-captions option, but when I have to read the whole video, that kills it for me.
No need for any music at all. That's the biggest failing of most teenager You Tubers. They THINK they have to have music, or they're too shy about the sound of their own voice and try to hide it with music. The best You Tube channels have NO MUSIC, just the narration.
I love Billy West. when I met him, he was far more interested in hearing MY history of enjoying his work than he was eager to brag about himself. Such a genuine guy!
Wanna meet the voice of a cartoon character? Why not Zoidberg?
audio mixing is a bit weird
The idea that rather than Nickelodeon’s audio equipment “didn’t work” and that’s why they made an episode without dialogue is incredibly stupid lol. Of course it either came down to money, (which seems to be the case) wanting to make an episode that references older slapstick comedy cartoons with no dialogue like Tom and Jerry, or both. I’m guessing it’s both Nick wanting to pay voice actors as little as possible as well as the storyboarding team for SpongeBob wanting to create an episode that stands out and also references cartoons from their childhoods. I think the episode really wouldn’t work as well with dialogue.
the first one is confirmed correct.
I honestly cant really imagine this episode working with a huge amount of dialogue because most of the scenes in the final short seem written with a lack of dialogue in mind. I imagine if any version with dialogue ever existed it was from before what the short even was got finalized. For all we know this could have been a segment from a scrapped regular length episode initially(like say maybe other scenes of spongebob doing yardwork with other tools but they settled on just the reef blower because the first half hour needed 3 minutes to fill) and this particular segment was never meant to have dialogue in the first place similar to how there were quite a few early spongebob episodes that had several minutes of no dialogue(like the song segment of jellyfish jam)
Yeah I'm not surprised it came down to money, especially since the show did not have as much budget back then.
What they did with Reef Blowers is what I like to call "Being creative with your limitations"..
Again, I'm pretty sure what Billy West said about Nirvana and Ren and Stimpy was meant to be a joke, as again, they were both very popular in the early 90s. It's like joking that Blink182 was going to write the theme song for Totally Spies and it being scrapped. It's clearly a joke that Lost Media enthusiasts took way too seriously.
That's what I'm thinking of too; even back then I thought it sounded too much like a joke to be true.
Blink-182 totally spies theme would be hilarious, though.
I mean, Walt Disney and Dalí wanted to make a movie together and in the end the only shot a few scenes (even though the project ended up existing in short film form long after they both died). And the same goes for the movie that Dalí was going to make in collaboration with the Marx Brothers. They were all at the height of their popularity at the time, so those projects should have been hits if only because of the names attached to them, but they were cancelled anyway.
Tbf it would be really funny if it actually existed the bait was too goof
6:54 What? That was a popular theory? Why? Nicktoons OFTEN had "weird experimental minisodes". And vewing Reef Blower, there's NO point where it seems like it was originally planned to have dialogue.... That literally feels like kids coming up with conspiracies cause they're bored or don't understand experimental works.
That exactly how SpongeBob theories worked online in the late 2000's
Same with the Squidward Snail scene. Like why would they even make that scene in the first place, the screenwipe is much more efficient and simply funnier
You nailed the point perfectly.
@@tonys6620 Spongebob fans theorizing about the lost scene where spongebob walks to work for five uninterrupted minutes and nothing happens
In fairness, it was probably some playground rumor that somehow snowballed into oblivion.
I can’t believe there’s been an update to the purple yoshi tech demo. That was the first video I watched from you, and what made me follow you for almost 7 years now.
Random idea about the Pablo thing: What if it was possibly used as part of the intro for Me & My Friends? Basically something like the Wiggles TV series in the 90’s, where the show in general is live action, yet the intro utilises CGI
That would work. (Also, I'm happy that most people also know about the Wiggles.)
i think it's like some sort of virtual storyboard for the me and my friends pilot, like as a way to visualize how the actors would move around the stage
I think it might be a transition animation but could happen.
That's not a bad theory.
i was thinking maybe it was use during the my and my friends intro or ending
The theory about the Reef Blower situation is, kinda silly. Surely they would've been better off postponing recording until the equipment was fixed rather than rework an entire episode that would've likely been at the animatic stage at the very least.
Yeah I'm not surprised it was a money thing, especially since the show did not have as much budget back then.
I still think Billy West misremembered Kurt Cobain instead of remembering Eric Stefani, who was both an animator and in No Doubt at the time. The time and places and job descriptions match up.
Very possible
why, he said he was a nobody, surely he would have recognized eric stefani if he was already in no doubt?
The episodes eric worked on were in the shows 3rd season, so we’d just have to work out how he’d have known about it before it was airing. Definitely worth an ask, I think.
True
Bro this goofy music I can’t 😭
I don’t know if it’s me but this video felt a bit rushed compared to previous videos, especially when came to the sound mixing particularly during the first segment. I really hope LSuperSonicQ is able to address this small issue as soon as possible.
I hope this issue doesn't happen again.
“able to address this small issue” What is there to address 😂 he’ll either fix it or he won’t.
When I saw Pablo I immediately thought me and my friends
Same
Me too.
Same
5:00 wtf is this music!?
Sounds very ai made
I hope he isn't using ai
OK, so the "we weren't planning on making it" quote, I think that was meant to apply to his claim that the movie wasn't "too dark". The quote was saying it was canceled due to corporate politics, not because the studio deemed it too dark. I don't think he's saying they weren't planning on making the movie.
That was my interpretation too. Seems like he's saying they were never planning on making it dark.
bro this music is not it
What
@Taoddddd the audio levels on the video are messed up, the music is louder than lssq during sections
@@aimnothingg lol
Is not the music, is the volume
@@wilhelmorangenbaumNah the music sucks too
could you turn the music up? i almost heard what you were saying
I'm guessing the Pablo thing was just a REALLY early test for when they switched Me and My Friends from a live-action Barney/Telleytubby esc. show to something completely animated, but it was never finished.
"that episode was silent because the recording equipment broke!"
Cartoon nerds love refusing to learn how cartoon production works
Yeah fr. Did they think they would’ve just recorded the whole thing, not realized it wasn’t being recorded, and *then* animated it?
The first song is really terrible and annoying, it goes absolutely nowhere musically and just sounds like cheap string samples played at random. It's also very loud compared to the voice volume.
Usually the music is great or amazing even, but that was painful to try sit through.
The music is really loud
It seriously never crossed my mind that there could've been dialogue for Reef Blower. I always saw it as the show just wanting to try a silent, slapstick-focused episode for funsies.
I never really considered it an actual episode, more like a short
My audio's bugged
Not anymore
That'll happen when you click a video in the first like 30 seconds sometimes lol
That's good
The spongebob theory is just weird if you think about if for more than 5 seconds.
Why would they go through the hassle of re-writing and (partially) re-animating the entire episode to be silent instead of simply recording the voice lines again?
Look at the cast. Allot of people were working on allot of projects. I can easily see scheduling issues combined with a tight deadline being more than enough reason. This isnt a small company we are talking about here, thems some BIG names.
@@jordanekl5383 and yet it would still have been much much easier, simpler and quicker to simply rerecord the lines, so no. 👍
I never, in my life, excepted to hear about the Ahhhh! Real Monsters movie again. Genuinely wild
i watched the pilot episode of aRM multiple times in mexico when i was growing up. They aired summer of 1998 and '99 on channel 5 (canal de las estrellas) on weekdays before 1pm. the region was Zacapu Michoacan. Not sure if any of that information helps but i remember the dates because i would only visit in summer and the summer of 00 is when they started airing DBZ (have tapes from the time).
4:40 This is the issue with chasing old internet sources.
It can be hard to tell the difference between Circular False Sourcing(Sometimes nicknamed 'Woozles') and Lost Sourcing or Circular Lost Sourcing.
Is this something fake people made up, that got spread around and those got cited by other people? Or was there real info that got lost at some point and now it looks that way.
This is especially true because pre 2010s, most internet discussion was on smaller independent sites that may no longer exist or be archived. So it's totally possible all those 'dead ends' you found in the old video that sputtered out around 2007-2008 were actually based on something real from earlier, and that site just no longer existed. Maybe a fan site had the info in the early 2000s, it tricked out for a bit, the fan site went under, and then circular sourcing happened when it was cut off.
Love how all the comments are about the extremely loud music
that isn't even extremely loud. just bad
Fun fact: The second episode & First short of Spongebob "Reef Blower" only exists because the first episode "Help Wanted" wasn't long enough to fill out to be a single episode. This is why it's the shortest episode. And additional fact, it's the only episode you can fully post on TH-cam.
Didnt he just say that in the video?
Yep. I'm more amazed it took everyone THAT long to realize it was Nick/Viacom pulling their "Screw the artist/creator" stunt. It really doesn't look like a cartoon that was meant to have dialog, anyway. It'd just be very obvious Squidward saying something catty, and Spongebob giggling along.
Fun fact: The second episode & First short of Spongebob “Reef Blower” only exists because the first episode “Help Wanted” wasn’t long enough to fill out to be a single episode. This is why it’s the shortest episode. And, additional fact, it’s the only episode you can fully post on TH-cam.
If you look at some production artwork for the episode, they literally say "pilot extension" on them as a placeholder name lol
I think nowadays it gets copyrighted immediately, just not taken down. And I believe it has no voices because the microphones werent in the studio at the time. PS yiff in hell gacha kid
The music's way too loud
bro was this music AI-generated? it's so awful it makes me wonder if i'm having a stroke, and the amateurish audio mixing doesn't help
Some of it is from video games and others possibly royaltie free
Why are all these comments complaining about the audio? I don’t see any issues with it. I hear you just fine.
Knowing the sort of person John K was, I wouldn’t doubt for a second that he probably *did* know who Kurt was and still refused. John has been confirmed to have done something similar to Robin Williams when he inquired about a guest role.
What the hell is up with the background music?
I like the music, could be quieter though
This video is unwatchable due to the super loud music. Not a good choice for what seems like it would be an otherwise interesting video
Cool video. Anyways, what did you say?
Kind of hoping the music in this becomes lost media.
I cant believe people ever thought the Cobain thing was serious lol
Hey
I just found a new piece of lost media that suddenly started getting resurfaced
It's a cartoon shorts show named birth of a coda
It's about a blue alien who keeps dying but taking time back to prevent it
Lots of people remember it on cartoon network in 2010-2015 but it was also on french Regional channels from what I understand
I remember watching it on a greek regional channel in around 2015-17
For a while there were only 3 episodes found,but now some random french kids channel started uploading the episodes
Im so early that there was no sound
the background music is much too loud :( it is extremely hard to hear the main audio over it at some points
Some of those segments having music louder than voice makes those parts unwatchable for me.
Reef Blower is super early in the broadcast, why is it hard to accept that it's just an artistic decision in an early era where they haven't fully figured out what the show is yet?
People that say leaf blower episode reason was because broken audio equipment definitely never works in animation all their life.
Bored people coming up with fake rumors again.
You dont have to work in animation to realize this, just having a basic idea about the process is enough
I'd always heard that the Reefblowers episode was silent because they couldn't afford the VAs. I'd never heard of it being because of broken equipment.
Sonic adventure type audio mixing 😭
13:18 WHOAH you're telling me the original posters of the image with a clearly visible IGN watermark was IGN?!!!
IGN could have reposted it themselves and put their logos on it at some point lol. Just because it has IGN logos doesn’t absolutely mean they were the original posters of it.
@@BurningEmeraldbut it means it’s the most likely answer. As they say, the simple answer is more likely the right answer. Still silly this was a mystery 😭🤣
Music was a bit too loud in the early bits of the video homie, but another great upload
With all due respect, the Kurt Cobain thing not being real is not at all surprising. Same with the purple Yoshi thing, there is no real “twist.” IGN having a foreign correspondent doesn’t twist the story, nor does it even point to anything surprising. Foreign correspondents aren’t at all a rare thing for gaming publications to have. That’s where all the hot scoops come from…
Did something happen that made you have to release a video in this state? Your other videos are clearly more competent than this.
Someone download this video before he removes it and reuploads a fixed version so it too doesn't become lost media- 🤭 Jokes, jokes
Bur seriously, the audio is all over the place.
5:01 That piano 🎹 🔥
I can tell you, squidward in Spongebob transitioning on screen did happen! It was showed in a' shadow way" matter. His shadow was projected on a wall and he became a snail. Episode was in Netherlands
Show runner and story boards confirm it was not real
This background music is really annoying. Sorta takes me away from the video 😔
The audio in the "Aah Real Monsters" segment is quite loud (and I find the track distracting). Can this be re-mixed/reposted, by chance?
“The music is too loud” not really, you can hear him just fine. Yeah it could be a few decibels quieter but you can still hear just fine.
ngl the music for the first bit really doesn't fit
Literally none of these were shocking, nor were they twists. Also, that Yoshi pic looks like a gameplay mock-up rather than a screenshot. The phong shading on it is something you'd see in a rendered scene from 3D Studio Max or something, not anything you'd see on a gamecube.
Welcome to TH-cam.
I think he wanted to know who made the mockup
what is this SONG bruh😭😭😭😭
I'd actually assume the "Fred" the Real Monsters script was for would actually be Fred Seibert, that was my first thought
Yeah, that makes a lot more sense
I immediately clicked when I saw Pablo
Same
Yes.
No way! LSuperSonicQ got the guy who mixed Vultures 2 to mix his video!
Who did the audio?
I love your channel but please consider re-uploading with the music turned way down, my ADHD brain cannot handle it because I can't focus on what you're saying (which is why I follow your videos! I like your insight!).
Audio is pretty bad here, hopefully it can get fixed
I don’t think this song during the Real Monsters segment was the best choice. Besides the mixing being less than stellar, it just sounds really rough. Maybe in a video game it could work, but Idk about an informative TH-cam video
@12:02 To me, his original comment sounded like Cobain wrote a song, as in sheet music, which was thrown away. It does not sound like he recorded anything, which still gells with the tweets.
Exactly.
I'm more intrigued by what controversy the cancelled movie script owner went through and why he disappeared
Truly the twists of all lost media time.!.!
I thought the reef blower episode was silent, because it was still the characters introduction
Why are people complaining about the audio? I mean it’s not as loud as the rest of the video but you can hear him perfectly fine I had to actively try and listen for something wrong when going to the timestamps
The Reef Blower theory makes no sense. Audio equipment failing wouldn't matter, since animation takes longer than recording dialogue.
Are you aware of their animation process, the demands they were under, and the scheduling of all the cast/crew?
I didnt think so...
@@jordanekl5383 this is the most melodramatic comment response i have ever seen. kudos! it's really not that deep!
@@tuunbaq I would call it sassy. But if you wanna put a melodramatic tone to it, thats your choice. Not my fault at all that you like to assume the worse of people and add your own imaginary tone to it.
But all i said was facts, nether of us know the full story here, and people like OP are making an ass of themselves by assuming so much. Also, its not deep at all. This is very basic stuff. Surface level thinking, no effort needed.
So whats your excuse for being melodramatic wank about my post?
@@tuunbaq I would call it sassy. But if you wanna put a melodramatic tone to it, thats your choice. Not my fault at all that you like to assume the worse of people and add your own imaginary tone to it.
But all i said was facts, nether of us know the full story here, and people like OP are making an ass of themselves by assuming so much. Also, its not deep at all. This is very basic stuff. Surface level thinking, no effort needed.
So whats your excuse for being melodramatic wank about my post?
@@tuunbaq I would call it sassy. But if you wanna put a melodramatic tone to it, thats your choice. Not my fault at all that you like to assume the worse of people and add your own imaginary tone to it.
But all i said was facts, nether of us know the full story here, and people like OP are making an ass of themselves by assuming so much. Also, its not deep at all. This is very basic stuff. Surface level thinking, no effort needed.
So whats your excuse for being melodramatic wank about my post?
Reef Blower theory makes zero sense from the start. As a literal child, I could see that it was artistic and intentional. The episode is one of the best because of it
Please remix audio. It's too distracting
im sorry but the audio mixing during the ahh real monsters bit is horrible the music is louder than you
I have a mystery. Where did the Austin concept art come from? It's on the me and my friends article but it's a mystery.
Uploaded right as my head hit the pillow. Perfect video to fall out to.
19:21 There is a visual difference! The feet are only blue on the tips of the toes in the CGI Pilot and Final. In "Me and My Friends" and the Celluloid Studios Test animation, he has completely blue feet, which could mean the Celluloid Studio test came before the CGI Pilot, and the character design was based after the mascot costumes.
I love the loud music and also I like how the audio is not mixed well
Was NOT expecting the me and my friends pilot in this video. I didnt even know it existed until now.
That Aaah! Real Monsters story is such a rollercoaster
The music makes this video nearly unwatchable. Chaotic music is a bad choice, even more of a bad choice to have it so loud to the point where people cant hear you or focus on the video😬😂
Ooh more lost media!!
(…also I did not expect that Pablo video to come up… because I’m pretty sure I remember seeing that a while ago XD I don’t remember where but I recognized it when the clip was played, I did not expect it to be lost media, at the time I just thought it was, like, a fan animation)
WHAT I CA- I CANT HEAR YOU SOMETHING ABOUT SPONGE BOB??
Whats that??? I cant hear you over the 1,000 other comments saying the exact same thing over and over again
Just in time! Have my food and ready to sit down and watch :)
i'm disinclined to believe that Reef Blower ever meant to have audio. And I'm not just saying that because I'd be disappointed to find out it was ever intended too.
If its not because you just dont want it to be that way, then what possible reason do you have?
You didnt even remotely back up your stance. Just tried claiming it wasnt because of a reason that no one even had a chance to accuse you of having.
You know why people jump to conclusions like that, right? Youve only lead me to believe that its purely because of you not wanting it to be that way. No logic or reasoning, solely because you want it to be.
@@jordanekl5383 I didn't give a reason because at the time I wasn't really sure what made me feel that way. I only knew what it wasn't. So in my brain, it seems logical enough to put what I do know, in hopes of a response which might help me figure out the missing pieces. I will hazard the most likely reason that I may feel it wasn't intended to have sound, was I've watched a fair number of silent movies which require a lot to be said with facial expressions and actions. The animation flowed without speech. Speech would destroy the pacing and lessen the impact of the humor.
@@coyoteartist That could be said about a Movie with real people. Or some Animes, but Cartoons in general are constantly telling their story through visuals and not just audio.
Infact, i would bet that if you picked a random episode of spongebob from that era and watched it with no audio, you would still know the exact plot of the story.
Disregarding all that, you still have the fact that they would only need to adjust the lip syncing parts (Ya know, the thing they still needed the audio recordings for in order to even start on that part of the animation process)
Theres allot of reasoning why it makes sense. And its all directly because of their well known animation process, no general speculation there.
@@jordanekl5383 So your argument is there had to be speech so they could animate the points where they look like they're speaking. I never said no one ever spoke. I said I don't think it was meant to be aired with speech. Yes you could watch many of the early episodes with no sound and know the story, but you only get half of it. You don't lose anything in Reef Blower. So to me it makes sense that speech wasn't a concern.
@coyoteartist Nope.
You are just being obtuse now. I was quite clear, and its very basic stuff. You obviously have no interest in a conversation, rather you just want to push your own agenda and twist my words around to suit your desires.
Soh, peace oot cub scout! I don't play those idiotic games.
What was the controversy you mentioned at 3:42? If you don't mind saying, that part peaked my interest and curiosity.
Why should we believe the person who found the scripts?
Just because somethings being taken into consideration doesnt mean they believe it.
And when its the most direct source available for information, it gains allot more credence than some random person on the internet.
@@jordanekl5383 granted, and fair enough - but the whole segment seems to act like the script is legit. I was actually just asking a straight question (granted it's easily to read it otherwise).
17:52 the pablo design looks like pingu
He also looks like he's from animal crossing
Ok, so I need to add my two cents about the leaf blower episode. I could be wrong but I remember that rumor. I heard it years ago before I even knew what lost media was and way before I ever watched videos about it. I definitely didn’t hear it from my friends because I was one of the only ones in my friend group that was allowed to watch SpongeBob. But I remember learning about that rumor and telling my mom about it. I have a lot of SpongeBob DVDs and a few VHS tapes and if my memory serves me correctly, I remember learning about the audio malfunction from a special feature on a DVD. I don’t remember learning about it from anywhere else. I would have to go back and rewatch all my SpongeBob material to see but I loved watching the special features sometimes more than the episodes themselves, so this is a very prominent memory for me. I can’t remember who said it in the special features but it was ether Stephen Hillenburg himself or one of the voice actors. It honestly could’ve just been them regurgitating the rumor because they didn’t know the real reason but I really remember hearing about it from one of them. I wasn’t on the internet all the time growing up because we didn’t have WiFi or unlimited internet so all I had was my DVDs, VHS tapes and some video games. So that means I almost had to have learned about it from one of those sources. If I remember anything else I’ll ether edit this comment or put it in the replies, but I am almost 100% positive that rumor is true and that we shouldn’t be so quick to believe that one guy who said it was false.
Im sorry all i read was "I was one of the only ones in my friend group that was allowed to watch SpongeBob" Were you 2 years old??? Or maybe, Did your friends live without TV all? Or did you simply have no friends?
Something not adding up here. After reading the rest, i think i might have an answer tho.
Regarding the video itself, if you feel that way then find it before spreading false information. Dont tell us what you think maybe might of happened, possibly, if you remembered right. Thats just ludicrous!
@@jordanekl5383 No, I had friends growing up but I don’t think they were allowed to watch it. Now that I think of it maybe a few of them could but maybe only 1 or 2 of them. The others weren’t allowed because “the show was too inappropriate”. I know for a fact that 4 of them weren’t allowed. I could very well be wrong about the episode though, if I’m wrong then I’m wrong, I’m just saying what I remember.
@@BobbiRakus Ok... Yeaaaaaaa, sure.
I think i may of been right with my assumption on that answer.
@@jordanekl5383 Ok, believe what you want to believe but you can’t tell me you’ve never heard of kids not being allowed to watch SpongeBob. Also, they were Catholic so. I am too, but my parents were a little less strict about what I could watch. Although I think not being allowed to watch SpongeBob is ridiculous.
@BobbiRakus I never told you anything about what I believe, nor even stated that I have a belief about you. Just assumptions and guesses.
And you for sure can't tell me what I have experienced and/or herd about in my life.
You are for sure a catholic tho, you've made that much very apparent with your hipocrytical little rant there, eh.
if i hear about a day with spongebob squarepants one more time i swear to god
One NEW piece of Nickelodeon lost media is the unaired Really Loud House episode "Tennessee-you-later: A Very Loud Road Trip", which was listed as an episode of Season 2 on IMDb and the Loud House wiki prior to the SAG-AFTRA strike ending. An episode with a similar title AND plot/synopsis, "The Tennessee Surprise: Love Is In the Air" was filmed after the strike ended, and aired as the third episode of Season 2 (or second if you count A Musical to Remember as one episode; I count it as two). You can also tell it was shot later because Lola's voice is so much deeper than the next few episodes (in broadcast/chronological order). Since that episode HAS to be played in that order for the story to make sense (since Lincoln breaks up with his S1 girlfriend in the ep, and gets a new girlfriend in the next few episodes), AND the fact that the various sites no longer list the other episode, these claims check out. The one thing I should mention about the scrapped version is that it was Thanksgiving-themed. Since it was filmed in late Jun or early Jul 2023, they probably figured they'd have the episode out by Thanksgiving of that year, but since the strike ended early, they decided not to do that. Another thing to add to that idea is that the Season 2 finale, set to air this Fall, is also apparently about Thanksgiving.
Since this is such a recent show (with a lot of unfair bias against it as well), I feel like I'll never find out the whole story behind this since not a lot of interest would be had in the topic
Pixar Planet showing up in this video gave me a nostalgic whiplash something fierce... I was a frequent poster there. I miss forums. Discord servers don't feel the same, man.
Not really, Gabor csupo confirmed the films existence but said they never got to the story, but that they wanted to do some risky things.
15:50 It's funny to think your being ignored just to keep the mystery alive? By funny you mean kinda conspiracy theory brain crazy narcassistic to think right?
Yeah I feel like a lot of lost media videos take a sort of conspiratorial lens that is really weird.
@@namingisdifficult408 Thanks for this comment bc it's like sometimes, am I the crazy one or is everyone else just riding high on conspiracy juice in the comments. It's a kind of harmless example of conspiracy-ism so I dont want to totally yuck other peoples yum but I worry it could rub off thinking wise
I can't wait for the day me and my friends will be found because the hype surrounding it has gotten me interested in the topic, and I especially want to know what the animation of pablo running was about
That Spongebob rumor was so Dumb holy shit