Dated Discoveries on Old VHS Tapes | Mystery Tapes #5
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 พ.ค. 2024
- Happy January! Time for a Christmas episode.
In this installment of Mystery Tapes, un-charismatic host Ian MacMystery watches two sold-as-blank VHS tapes and discusses their contents.
0:00 - Intro
1:55 - VHS 1: Young Pioneer's Christmas
6:22 - VHS 1: Commercial Block
11:35 - VHS 1: Remaining Content
15:32 - VHS 2 Introduction
16:55 - VHS 2: Rabbit Test
31:53 - VHS 2: Commercial Block
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Feel free to use this as either a belated 2020 Christmas episode, or an early 2021 Christmas episode. Either way is fine by me.
Okay lol
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SUPER EXCITED! THANKS BUDDY
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When you started reusing the “plop” sound effect, I wasn’t expecting it to replace the sound of flowers hitting a child’s coffin.
Still funny though
This legitimately had me laugh out loud. Totally unexpected use of it. 😂
Incredible
I died laughing at that
Ian: *witnesses a shooting*
The gun: pow
Ian: plop
Ian: Running jokes are one of the easiest kinds of jokes to have
Also Ian: HEMORRHOIDS
Point. I actually laughed by the third one.
Also Ian : plop
He said easy, he didn't say bad
*PLOP*
I took the liberty of extracting that video and uploading it: th-cam.com/video/IXocLqek1YM/w-d-xo.html
You are not being Rick-rolled, by the way.
"Hemorroids... They hurt" I mean, I don't know who the fuck chose to make that commercial sound like a thriller/horror movie but I love it.
*John Carpenter's Haemorrhoids*
There's something weirdly homey and cozey about Brutalmoose looking at old VHS tapes, probably because it's basically doing archeological exploration from the comfort of your living room couch.
right? this guy is absolute genius.
The VHS quality really adds to the nostalgia factor
his secret is ragtime music lol
I get similar feelings with Oddity Archive when he does old commercial retrospects. Sometimes I'll get lucky and see him show something from my general area, and that's always cool. Seeing all the Oklahomans here talk about fuzzy memories they have with these or knowing the local spots is super cool.
EW A FURRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You may or may not be happy to know that Anusol is still going strong here in the UK.
And Aspercreme is still going strong in the US.
And we also have Rectinol in Australia
In Canada, we have Pootertine. (Sorry...that was a horrible joke.)
Anusol is called Tucks here in the US. Their packaging still references that their product was formerly called Anusol, which tells me that they were VERY proud of that name.
fuckin Anusol.
the best thing about the plastic santa is his face is overexposed so we don't have see him judging us
He’s always watching even if you can’t see him 😳
it took me almost 9 minutes to realize it was moving
@@inkanddew3820 plastic santa is God confirmed
That scene of the mom telling the kid they're leaving without him is honestly so much funnier than anything in Rabbit Test, even if unintentionally.
"I could start eating less!"
"No.. son.. we just.. nah. You gotta go."
I am old and people really did keep National Geographic collections on shelves in their homes just like encyclopedias. I loved reading them
My grandparents still have a bunch of old issues in their bathroom. Hahaha
We still do 😂 My mom likes buying old Nat Geos from thrift stores.
My mom can't speak English but she's really proud of her collection lol. She watches me like a hawk when i pull one out to read so i don't rip it.
My uncle has these brown leather cases that are labeled by month and year and he's got like 10 years of Nat Geo lol
My grandfather has a bunch! He let us take some that we’re about things we were interested in when we were younger.
"A shockingly offensive mpreg comedy"
- Ian Brutalmoose, 2021
I imagined that sentence being said by ENA and I think I hate myself now.
I had to do a sextuple take when I heard that
Heh, I looked up the reviews for that mpreg movie. Gene Siskel (of Siskel & Ebert) actually called it out at the time for its racism. Good on him!
My FAVORITE Conjugation of Nouns!
Good fucking job, you quoted the video, do you want a fucking medal for it?
I feel bad laughing but the minute they mentioned a dead baby and the Ian’s face went from happy to “uhhhh wtf “ just killed me lmfao
god same, I had to pause and recompose myself haha
Ian's reaction is such a mood. Nothing says festive like your "Christmas movie" opening with a dead baby.
literal same, the double unexpected happened and im pleased
It's the best thing ever lmao
i choked on my totinos it was incredibly unexpected💀
The unexpected "PLOP" after the first "dead baby" gets me every single time.
18:27 - Holy crap!! The line in Aerosmith’s Sweet Emotion that goes “You can’t catch me cuz the rabbit done died,” makes SO much more sense now!!
I never knew what that line meant until a few years ago. I was just as surprised!
"all i did was eat a chili dog with pickles and all of a sudden i'm living in siberia" has the exact same energy as "figures i'd end up in philadelphia"
I laughed at that line WAY too hard for WAY too long. Don’t know what’s up with my sense of humor.
I dunno, I'm thinking it's more like "so my foots totally stuck in there right, I'm freaking out, the dog's having a seizure and I still got half a pie left."
"figured i'd move to Pennsylvania, became that sounds like trannsylvania...and we all know thats cool"
This sounds like the setup of a isekai anime.
@@pauliewalnuts2527 when you're jackie daytona, you can do anything because you change lives!
"HEMORRHOIDS" needs to become a running joke on this channel - just randomly appearing in videos when you least expect it, confusing anyone who hasn't seen this. The guy's serious tone and the little jingle make it so perfectly cursed. Really cracked me up.
I agree wholeheartedly
Regular Car Reviews has been doing that
here here!
Anuslol
@@ziggerknot88 I wonder if “Chadtronic” would love to see an Anusol commercial for a “Cursed Commercials” episode where it will show “Hemorrhoids”.
Everyone on airplane were all serious actors, that's why the movie was so surprising at the time
A "waterbeds and stereos" store is probably the most 80s thing I've EVER heard of.
Ah, a trigger warning, that must be for the dead baby thing
*Rabbit Test intensifies*
I had the same thought
@Basket Weaver Wow so edgy
@Basket Weaver spotted the cis
Gotta have the trigger warning for the radical leftwing extremists and their delicate sensibilities
@@MikehMike01 imagine thinking blackface is something only radicals would find offensive....
Never in a million years did I expect to hear the word mpreg in a brutal moose video
I was thinking the exact same thing.
squee!
Of course I laugh at the running "hemorrhoids" gag, but another laugh getter is the way the camera zooms in on the waterbed salesman when he says CLAIM
I love that peanut butter commercial, because they clearly just changed to plastic to save money, and are trying to actively market it as a selling point. It's like the 'more milk, less chocolate!' you can sometimes read on kinder eggs.
I know I shouldn't laugh, but that "plop" when the flowers hit the casket I absolutely lost it. If you laughed too, I guess I'll see you in hell!
Thank you Bulk I really admire your Muskles
@@Blade383210 ooh yis... De muskles
We'll be seeing Davey there too
@@zunk_funk JESUS CHRIST
@@BulkBogan Mooooseklays
My mom worked on Young Pioneers as executive assistant to the producer. She basically managed the whole production. I haven't thought of that show in forever. Wow thanks for the completely surreal memory.....
Ask your mom what she has against Christmas and joy.
What are the odds
Is your mom doing alright? Did this movie give her depression?
Ha guess I wasn't clear. She passed away in 2004. And no, it wasn't from Young Pioneers lol.
So is the ending of The Rabbit Test implying that his kid is the second coming of Christ or that it's the Antichrist? I mean, it's gotta be one of them.
Based on the way the movie was going before that, my money's on the latter. I think this movie predates mpreg fluff by at least a decade.
I think the "baby death pioneer movie" was trying to cash in on the popularity of "Little House on the Prairie", a TV series based on the Laura Ingalls Wilder books that had lots of depressing child death in it. (But also lots of heartwarming scenes and comedy, so it tended to be a bit more popular than the Young Pioneers series. )
The “Hollywood” joke is almost certainly because Holly is toxic. Note she says it’s nauseating.
The hero I needed
Is it?
Yes it's a very british but of humour, but they basically mean Hollywood has bad taste and only likes comedies and silly stuff, not serious or historical stuff.
Also my god Michael Caine looks so young.
As a Holly, can confirm. Berries and leaves are poisonous!
TH-cam is no place for intelligent replies.
My dude really said: “Arkansauce”
That's the name of a bluegrass band actually
I was gonna post a comment saying 'I think the second 's' in Arkansas is silent'. I'm kinda glad I wasn't the first.
confirmed hahaha
It was a joke. He's from Texas, after all.
A hemorrhoid cream name better than Anusol? Sphinct-o-fix. Have a good day.
Nice
I was going to suggest Roid-B-Gone: the Rectum Rectifier. Just imagine a HeadOn style commercial that repeatedly says, “Roid-B-Gone, apply directly to the anus!” Granted they can’t show the application of it in the commercial so maybe show, I don’t know, Harvey Weinstein’s face shrinking or something.
Booty Butter: Lather up!
@@rustyshackleford6633 that would make a good lube actually...
Heal-a-Hole
Pucker Paste
Total AH
The editing in these videos always catches me off-guard.
"If mama meets Jesus, toniiiiiiiiiiiighhhHEMORRHOIDS"
I like how a very big chunk of this Christmas special is dedicated to male pregnancy
The only true virgin pregnancy.
@@spicybeantofu not technically some men can get pregnant. Trans men sure but men nonetheless
@@slimcognito383
Oh hey, it's that exact same profile picture that I've seen 50 000 times before.
Does that person just do commissions for free or something? Because they all suffer from a severe case of sameface syndrome, just like that shitty webcomic Ctrl Alt Del, where every face is just B^U
Also, based on your brief comment history preview, you seem particularly dedicated to bringing that detail up on comments about the male pregnancy. While there is a slim chance you would be right if there weren't any prescribed hormones, not only is this scenario an exception, but the content being discussed is unrelated to what you're saying, because the discussion isn't about trans people, it is about the scenario in the content and the vast majority of people.
@@theonlybilge How do you check people's comment history?
@@theonlybilge it’s from a website called picrew. Basically you make an original character using presets.
“seems like pretty easy chucklefuck territory to me” is such a fantastic quote
"If you're getting bored of oatmeal breakfasts, try Grape Nuts."
I don't mean this in a bad way, but I'm pretty sure Grape Nuts is the absolute most boring cereal the world has ever known. Unless you consider it exciting to spend a minute chewing each spoonful.
They don’t even have grapes or nuts
Statistically speaking, there's a chance that Pioneer's Christmas is someone's favorite movie.
@@cactusjackNV Haven't heard about this, but a Jane Bond or whatever they'd call it could work if it were to not be a generic modern action movie.
Fun Fact: Did you know the Big Mac was named after the legendary Ian MacMystery?
No way! It all makes sense now!
Of course, the answers been here the whole time!
Eeyup.
In the year 3021, Wikipedia will have that fact on its Big Mac page and will use your comment as a source.
OKAY, i absolutely cried laughing when he edited in the explosion when the kid falls. 10/10
also the butt poke was HILARIOUS. Thanks again Ian!
"they got a black guy for this scene"
That's not just any black guy, that's Jimmie Walker!
Dyn-o-mite! You're right!
No one gave a shit back then lmao.
they all look the same
@@sacb0y he was a main character on one of the most popular tv shows at the time
@@sacb0y we need to retroactively make them
I live in Oklahoma and wanted to see if Dr.Tohgi’s office was still practicing. He passed away in 2002 at 73.
Poking butts in heaven
I, too was curious what area code that was. Then the very next commercial was LISTEN UP OKLAHOMA RESIDENTS and I was like HOLY COW THAT'S ME!
RIP
Plop
Rest In peace what a legend
The flowers plopping caught me off guard. As did the child exploding when pushed over
This was more interesting for me than usual, and I think it was because these tapes came from Oklahoma (where I was raised). My grandma LOVED those weird, depressing prairie shows and I never thought about why until now. She would have been a teenager during the great depression, so I guess it makes sense why people her age would have connected to those shows/movies back in the day.
Likewise, I realized something else. I think this entire series of yours is interesting to me because of my grandma. She used to record random cartoons and stuff and give them to me as presents, as my parents couldn't afford cable or satellite when I was growing up. I grew up watching tapes like these, filled with commercial breaks and weird shows I had no connection to or interest in, but nothing else to watch so... I guess Xena it is this week.
"it's crazy to me that plastic peanut butter jars were revolutionary at the same time that we could record tv onto vhs tapes" brutalmoose - 2021
This is probably the most cursed episode of Brutalmoose.
This is going to be one of those episodes you only get on DVD sets of the show and never on any streaming services due to the content
*HEMMOROIDS*
agreed
I knew the dead baby joke was coming, and yet I didn't expect that it would literally start with a coffin being lowered. I lost my shit when he set it up like that.
Ah yes, Arkansauce, my second favorite state right after Kansauce
Texauce
For anyone curious about the "rabbit test"
"When urine from a woman in the early months of pregnancy was injected into immature female mice, their ovaries would enlarge and show follicular maturation. The test was considered reliable, with an error rate of less than 2%.[3] Friedman and Lapham's test was essentially identical, but replaced the mouse with a rabbit. A few days after the injection, the animal would be dissected and the size of her ovaries examined."
For those still wondering in horror: No, we absolutely DO NOT do this anymore. We haven't since the mid 70's, when people began using African Clawed Frogs. They'd inject the urine into the frog, and a positive test would make it lay eggs. The frog lived through this. Sometime around the 80's, a test was developed that was not only more reliable, but cruelty free. It began as a blotter paper, but these days we use a specialized chromatography machine that does the blot test for pregnancy for you. You can get results within about 2 minutes this way, no dead rabbits or cruelly-treated frogs required. African Clawed Frogs are still a model genetic organism used to study reproduction to this day, however.
I assume that it's something to do with increased levels of oestrogen present in the urine causing the animal to display signs of increased oestrogen levels?
Good thing we developed easy pregnancy tests, rabbit tests sound awful
The history of medicine is a weird and strange place and I'm always fascinated when I find a new nugget of wtf info from ye olden days
@@Roserae16
You always gotta wonder... What made them think to inject a pregnant woman’s urine into mice/rabbits? What was that dude who came up with the Pit of Despair on when he thought to abuse monkeys and remove the babies from their mothers and social groups?
i've come to the realization that this is my single favorite channel
Same fam
Def
HEMOROIDS
@@djmroom hemorroids
Yeah Ian's gotten really good. I hold Mystery Tapes and Ross's Game Dungeon in the same tier in my heart of favourite youtube releases.
"Dr. Toghi poked muh butt and now I don't PMS no more" made me giggle uncontrollably for 15 minutes.
I know a video is going to be great when a character shoves a small child to the ground and Ian photoshops a perfect explosion over it.
Did I just find someone else that non ironically collects VHS and enjoys watching them? They have a certain soft look and sound that just mellows me out and brings me back to my childhood. I have a really good panasonic player that looks, well as good as it can on a modern tv. Basically looks like this video. Sealed ones, well I can never open. My prized possession is a sound of music VHS and cassette combo, sealed.
The joke in "that's why they call it Hollywood" is probably supposed to refer to the fact that eating holly berries and leaves can cause (among other things) nausea and vomiting, and the woman called the movie nauseating. :)
I just thought it was two snobby English actors deriding Hollywood as superficial nonsense!
Ah I get it🤣
Cool. Thanks! I assumed it was because Hollywood is pretty sick.
Damn that was definitely something I could not even think of
I'd love to agree but as a brit it's a cheap and easy joke to poo poo Hollywood movies as expensive rubbish. I'm pretty sure the joke was that she won the oscar for the worst job shes ever done (har har bad american tv) but I much prefer your explanation!
"How did he give birth?"
Hemorrhoids
I remember “Hemorrhoids”. This was from a commercial for Anusal cream from 1986 from Parke-Davis. It ran for about 15 seconds. You don’t find Anusal at a drug store anymore.
CHRISTMAS MIRACLE.
Babies come from hemorrhoids; everyone knows that!
I had successfully avoided hearing a single bar of christmas shoes for 20 years and you RUINED this for me >:(
20 years? Jesus christ how old is that song?
@@yaboijack2064 i think it came out around 2000
If anyone actually cares Joyco still exists in Oklahoma as Joyco Engines, with the same address and phone number in the video
So as an Oklahoman (I live in OKC), I dug up as much as information about the locations and what they are now for those who may be interested (probably just me, but it satisfied my curiosities lol)
It seems like Dr. Tohgi passed away in 2002. If you Google “Dr. Toghi Oklahoma” his obituary comes up. He had a fairly interesting life.
The closeout store is now a frame store in the same strip mall. The strip mall looks the same as it always has.
Joyco engines doesn’t exist anymore, but that address does pull up some type of auto shop so it’s probably the same building.
The waterbed store is definitely not there anymore lol 1-35 and 19th street in Moore has been totally redeveloped from the ground up because of tornadoes. There’s a good chance the original building isn’t even there anymore because of the 2013 tornado. However, that being said, I SWEAR that guy is still doing commercials for another currently operating discount store called Capps Furniture. Of course he would be older now so it’s hard to tell for sure, but his voice and face are very close!
Ah, yes -- I worked at another OKC TV station during this era, and remember these spots! Hope to see more!
It would have been a real gem if the BC Clark commercials were on there. Not Christmas time in OKC without them.
@@Shayoni that’s so true!
I can't imagine living in a place with tornados. I'm in Ohio, and you have to go further south to get tornados, but even then they're still uncommon.
You guys also had a rather devastating twister in 1999, didn't you?
It is crazy how much the world has changed in such a short time. The people in the commercials are like they are from a different world.
The people in modern commercials still feel alien to me.
@@caucasoidape8838 The people in modern anything still feel alien to me. No need to limit it to just commercials.
A world I would gladly give up the internet to go back to.
I actually feel the opposite whenever I see old footage!
@@LikaLaruku Why the world was demonstrably less good in a lot of ways than.
“I could quit eating so much” hit me in the soul and now I’m depressed.
Ian, i was drinking coffee, scalding hot, and let me say, the way you delivered after "I got a nice surprise" with the Hemorrhoids clip, it took all my strength not to choke, or spit it out, Ive never been more scared to react in my life. You are a gift to this world and everything you contribute makes me smile and laugh
Rabbit Test kinda seems like the “Epic Movie” or “Movie 43” of its day
I'm amazed in today's world of gravitating towards... pure, unadulterated crap, "Rabbit Test" went under the radar of websites like Cracked or the Agony Booth. There's nothing redeeming about the film, it barely even wanted to do the main story, and largely consists of a series of painful skits that only people who unironically like "The Nutshack" would find hilarious.
It would only take Joan Rivers another 10 years to ruin her career by doing a late night TV show opposite Johnny Carson, surprisingly.
@@bigjohnsbreakfastlog5819 Nutshack is fucking funny
@@bigjohnsbreakfastlog5819 ay fuck you when I was younger nutshack was the shit I even got the blu ray to get those sweet special extras
Twins beat it at male pregnancy. With Danny Devito and Arnold Swartzenager(spelling?) as twins.
@@MattStMarie-bm5sq Your thinking of Junior.
“They’re the ones with the dead baby.”
That sentence made me laugh way harder then I should have.
*PLOP*
I love that you pointed out that running jokes are pretty easy, and then proved it by making me cackle like a hyena every time I hear the "hemorrhoids" clip.
Baby Georgie:
Dies
* plop *
Lives
Got this recommended yesterday. I have now binged the last two years of this channel's content, you're awesome mate
Love the pfp. Bookworm rules!
@@livviegoat thanks! Can't wait for s3
@@KurikuShoTto I caved and got all the light novels, so I already know season 3 is gonna be great.
Oh dear. What am I in for? Mr ballen all over?
Same thing happened to me about a year ago 😂 I’ve been watching since, Ian’s content is very unique and I love it
I was today-years-old when I learned that there haven't always been area codes in phone numbers
My grandma actually remembers a time when she only had to dial three numbers for local calls, supposedly. I don't really know how phones work but hearing that just sounds... So wrong.
@@silence2314 you would hook up to a localised central directory service network, where an operator would ask who it was you are trying to contact, then they would manually hook the cable line from your number up to the line you requested (the operator tables looked like a labeled table full of guitar amplifier jacks). or, if they were already on call, you'd be told to call back later. it makes sense when you realise how the entire process worked. especially because long distance was a rarity, only if the service had access to other networks, and even then, you'd say the city/township name, and be transferred to another operator who you would then give the number and name you were contacting. large cities likely used 4 digit numbers, or were broken down into segments, as the operator stations were also signal amplifiers, as over distance, clarity of voice was lost (it was an analog, not digital, signal).
the term 'operator' in 'operators are standing by now!' in infomercials is a holdover from those central operator networks. =)
in small villages, there wasn't a centralised operator station. but everyone in town could hear the phone line by picking up their receiver and listening in, like a household landline phone. needless to say, no one cheated over telephone ;)
I remember when they added area codes to phone numbers... They had it all over the news... And I was freaking out, because I was little and was worried we wouldn't be able to call anyone.
Wait til you hear that we didn't have the internet back then too
The cut at 30:17 makes me laugh so fucking hard every single time I rewatch this video.
I haven’t had a good long laugh like I did watching the HEMORRHOIDS after the Coffee Mate. Laughed so hard I was crying...you made my night (after a really shitty day)
I know its been 7 months now, but i hope youre doing okay. Er ya know - better. :)
Nothing says Christmas spirit better than a baby's burial
Or Blackface!!!
Or a bombing
"I'm ready for some hollies and some hollies"
*Inserts tape
"And what greater sorrow can there be than the death of a baby?"
7:53 I was listening to this at 1.5x speed, the first 3 notes played Megalovania at just the right tempo, and I-
One day Brutal Moose will find a tape that's actually a manifesto of a serial killer/terrorist with their planned crimes recorded on it lol.
I already knew about the old pregnancy test involving rabbits. My mother, after introducing me to someone new, often jokes that when the doctor came skipping in shouting "The rabbit died! The rabbit died!" she shouted back, "Well, you better give it CPR!"
It's funny, you see...because I was a mistake. Ha. -_-
That's so sad, I'm sorry that your mother holds on to that.
I honestly hope the hemorroids ad becomes a recurring gag, its perfect
The insane prejudice agaisnt everyone, but particularly the Romani, in Rabbit Test is just... wow
Whoa that exact Santa is like a thing in my family because I was obsessed with it every year as a kid in the 90s. Called him CawCaw. Storytime over.
No it's not. Come back here and tell us why you named him CawCaw.
Lol probably some avant-garde interpretation of Claus
"What Greater sorrow can there be than a death of a baby?" Err....Merry Christmas...?
.... "happy" new year...
So I guess that "three evenings" scam has been a blockbuster staple since the early days. The three evenings include the evening you picked it up off the shelf and the evening it had to be dropped back.
Rabbit Test makes me grateful to live in the 2000s, whoof.
The ad at 10:30 for that Oklahoma store I’ve actually been to. It’s a gun store now. Wow what is the odds of this? Brutalmoose fibds random tape, tape has random ad for a store, turns out the store sits where a gun store is, same gun store I’ve been to that I never would’ve gone to if my brother wasn’t a gun nut. Crazy how the stars align that way
We not going to mention that this movie also has Michael cain and Richard Pryor and maggie smith
Yeah idk why it was Bill Cosby he pointed out
It was also the one and only film directed by Joan Rivers
Yeah, screw Cosby, I'm in for Pryor.
I know!!! Was looking for this comment 🤣
If anyone wants to know, Christmas Coal Mine Miracle is a slightly depressing and dramatic movie where a bunch of miners on strike gets trapped in a mine. Considering how obsessed I am with mines in general it is quite an interesting watch for me, but otherwise, you are all not missing much.
Wait, if the miners are on strike, why are they in the mine? That’s got to be the least visible strike I’ve ever heard of.
@@C.V317 They got trapped in the mine, and everyone, including the miner's familys, gets pissed at the mine owner. The trapped miners are like if we ever get outta here we are gonna go on strike. The main character punches the mine owner at the end when they all get out, it's satisfying. :3
I think your interests in mines is pretty cool
Oh good god my Media Amnesia kicks in for a third winter. This is my new winter tradition; rewatch this video like it's the first time, only to have it all come back to me when Brutalmoose says MPREG, and the cold terrified shiver down my spine makes it all comes back to me that I have seen it before.
Merry Christmas everyone!
I've been watching this episode for two years and I still die laughing when she pushes the kid down followed by the explosion 😂
I keep waiting for this series to take a dark turn, like Ian McMystery finds evidence of a murder or a tape that kills you seven days after you watch it. This unsettling atmosphere really helps accentuate the humor.
I mean...
The blackface was a pretty dark turn.
Turns out Mystery Tapes was just an elaborate setup for the return of Televoid all along! Its a Christmas Miracle!
Ian: *includes a content warning*
"Hold onto your butts."
Get your Anusol ready!
God. Children really needing trigger warnings. The next gen is doomed.
@@dimsumboy22 Ok boomer.
@@dimsumboy22 I love when people pretend GenZ and millennials invented feeling offended and warning people about objectionable material. It's like Boomers and their parents forgot about their needing to have labels on movies, cds, and videos games. Or their panicked hand wringing over d&d and harry potter and then there's the long history of music censorship....for example:1954- Boston Catholic Youth patrol local radio
The Boston Catholic Youth Organization (CYO), concerned that obscene songs might stir the hormones of Catholic youths at dances, monitors the music selections at dances and on the radio, and demands that radio stations refrain from playing any songs with obscene or sexually explicit lyrics.
Oh and Elvis's hips and the Beatles' 'bigger than jesus comments"...
The doctor being played by Paul Lynde kills me
I remember being SO careful not to tape commercials as a kid, but later I regretted it. Same with cassettes taped from the radio. They're like little virtual time capsules!
never thought i'd see billy crystal in a movie abt mpreg of all things
FINALLY. Finally someone talks about the pain caused by "The Christmas Shoes"
That pain is way too real
Sorry but everyone talks about that. The only people who like that movie are wealthy religious families.
Is this a joke? Patton Oswalt has a whole standup bit dedicated to that.
@@misterkite Patton Oswalt murdered his wife.
@@misterkite I wish patton Oswalt hadn't gotten so annoying and political
He was really funny
The Blockbuster Video commercial was the high point of this episode. Brings back memories of a time before the instant gratification of the internet. Kids nowadays never experienced the disappointment of every copy of Terminator 2 being rented out already. No wonder they all have an attitude of entitlement.
These are so fun to watch. The idea doesn’t sound like it will be this entertaining, but it’s my favorite on the channel I think.
“Chocolate Chips don’t need an anthem”
Just like Nēstle doesn’t need your money!
Nestle makes good tasting products so who gives a shit
@@user-10021 The starving people in third world countries who have their water taken from them and given back for a price
Nestle has a history doing evil shit.
@@user-10021 They killed hundreds of babies in third world countries by intimidating mothers to stop breastfeeding and use their baby formula with dirty water instead
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Words I thought I'd never be so excited to see.
Oh my God, all of those commercials after that Pioneers movie - save that local one - I remember them. I was singing along with that Peter Pan jingle. Yeah, I also remember when those plastic jars came into usage for stuff like that. It was pretty amazing to us lol. The clip you used from Airplane reminded me of the times when that came in a glass bottle. Damn, am I at that level of OLD now?!
Okay but that sweater and light setup coupled with the purple lighting feels really cozy
Agreed
I'm loving just how nostalgic all this is. The VHS recording, there old ads, and all the classic packaging. This is all so cool
ok
And the racism, don't forget the nostalgic racism
Unbearably curious about Christmas Coalmine Miracle now...
When that kid started playing that horn, I really felt that.
Did you just glance over the fact that there was a store selling Stereo AND Waterbed in the same building. That's a weird ass combination.
It's not that weird, though I've never seen a waterbed on sale because it's not the 1970s or 1980s, but there are definitely "upscale" department stores that sell mattresses (with full beds on display even) as well as large electronics like televisions and sound systems.
You could also probably find the same combination at discount warehouse furniture places that just sell a little bit of everything.
@@Blakbox92 well idk if it's just the fact that i live in canada but it's not a concept i'm familiar with. i mean we got departments store, but i've never seen a store that specifically sell Waterbeds AND Stereos. I mean from the shot in the commercial there seems to really be only Waterbeds and audio related stuff. but why not put a couch section or a dinning room section. That's 2 oddly specific product that are a odd combination to open a business around.
@@waImartofficial I live in Canada too so I can give you an easy example:
The Bay/Hudson's Bay is a department store that would sell both audio equipment and mattresses. I think the commercial only highlighted products that were on sale or newly arrived in store, not the only products that they sold.
Selling sex and accompanying mood music
@@waImartofficial Don't let him back you down, that combo is weird as hell and isn't close to being the same as a department store that sells everything under the sun. The store selling waterbeds and car stereo equipment was completely wacky and the most 80s combo ever. It just needed to also sell leg warmers, headbands and cocaine.
It seems like nobody could escape depressing drama tv during the 70's.
So fun fact about the movie Airplane:
The director wanted a cast of actors who at that point weren't really known for comedy.
Hence why we see the main protag of that film in such a serious role here.
Leslie Nielsen, the comedy legend, also was not originally known for that kind of role and Airplane basically made his career turn an entire 180 from serious roles to comedy.
Until COVID is done I'm not putting down my christmas lights, it's christmas baby
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Every New Year's midnight, I have this tradition of taking out my dinky little handheld TV and attempting to watch TV with terrible reception and limited channels. And I gotta say, thanks to this series, I enjoyed it more than ever! It's been maybe a decade since I watched any real tv and it was a surreal, delightfully dated treat.
This year featured:
- A 15 minute Spanish infomercial for a board that vibrates that you're supposed to exercise on, so everybody on it was just jiggling
- An iHeartradio concert with an old Bon Jovi
- A giant plastic egg that hardboils eggs in the microwave
- And a pretty funny show from the 90s about a woman with an intense New York accent becoming a nanny
Ian, if you ever run out of tapes, feel free to take a romp through the old lady TV still on air. Could do a live TV night.
I was considering streaming the hilariously awful quality I had, but I'm not sure it would've worked, given how hot the device was getting.
A true Holiday tradition.