Uncovering Bootleg Films & Retro Ads | Mystery Tapes

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In this episode of Mystery Tapes I'm exploring two unmarked sold-as-blank VHS tapes: a Focal Videocasette and an RCA Video Tape. Could they contain found footage gold? Let's find out.
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[@georgegerba409]

The mask was worn by a magician that used to reveal tricks on a show on fox.

[@coolboyyo654]

Bobby wears it in a bit at the end of that episode too

[@brutalmoose]

Woah so maybe I actually recognize it just because of the Bobby bit? I'm going to have to look into this magician some more.

[@PhonePhone-sf8te]

@@brutalmoose He's got a youtube channel and stuff is still posted on it.

[@squintsyadams8463]

Didn't he reveal himself like "It is I. Valentino", and most of us were just like who?!?!

[@Spenerico]

@@brutalmoose The masked magician show was a huge part of my childhood, it's great stuff!

[@muppetbabybobby]

“Will Diego be deported?” Dora the Explorer got intense

[@everfluctuating]

im glad i wasnt the only one thinking of that

[@PauHed]

Same

[@sullivanbard]

I was just thinking about Dora when that line popped up. Surprised it wasn't or it would've been funny.

[@wwe666q]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@supersoniccajun]

Dora in 2020

[@Bobby2Stoned]

The King of the Hill was a cross-promo with the Masked Magician, a TV show where a magician revealed how magic tricks are done. In the KOTH episode Seight of Hank, Hank gets obsessed with figuring out how a magic trick is done.

[@CuteYuffie]

Oh, I remember that show! The mask looked familiar to me, too

[@Thurston86]

My husband recognized the mask as belonging to The Masked Magician but we didn’t know why it was there. That’s awesome!

[@thecastiel69]

usernamechecksout

[@therockazoid1723]

Damn it, Bobby. People don't care how the sausage is made, they just wanna eat it.

[@bogpaddle]

thanks bobby

[@TBTabby]

11:57 WOAH! I remember this ad campaign! The 7up guys tried to brand themselves as an underground fighting against the evil soft drink syndicate, and the only way to avoid their influence was to be an "Un" by drinking 7up. The head in the suitcase is supposed to be one of their evil soda agents spying on you to make sure you only drink the right drink. Even back then, I understood that rebelling against one soft drink brand by drinking another as commanded by their ads was a "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss" scenario. I guess that's why 7up has removed all evidence of its existence, because I couldn't find it anywhere...until now. Hold on to that tape, Brutalmoose. It's a valuable relic of regrettable ads. And keep an eye out, because there were more "Are U an Un" ads.

[@stereo999]

7up was the "uncola"

[@RaSheedapower]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/roKpdKyOYt6SZ7c

[@suoodsWMV]

damn that’s interesting

[@egg1223]

Huh, I assumed it was just a reference to the movie seven with the head in the box

[@keard558]

dnL

[@familyfriendlymoniker8623]

The voice of the Big Lots puppet is Tom Kenny. Spongebob, along with many other voiceovers.

[@cheatsheet3325]

Nice. I thought it was Cam Clarke.

[@nikkieran6535]

i knew it i recognized him as that announcer from spongebob in that one episode where the krabby patty is in the void with some dude

[@ThatWeirdoWhoMakesVideos]

I knew that's why it sounded so damn familiar

[@ghostrider-gq5iv]

Thats it, it sounded like spyro and that's where i reconigized his voice.

[@CalculyticCuber]

Yeah, that's my shot and I'm calling it. He sounds really close to the Ice King from Adventure Time, who is also voiced by Tom Kenny.

[@brizzle777]

People in the 90s: tape shows to fast forward through commercials Ian 2020: fast forwards through shows to get to the commercials

[@worldcomicsreview354]

@Michael Pannoni Late 90's - early 2000's: Buy 100 CD-R's so you can keep a load of backups / will have space to store downloads on 2020: Still have 95 unused CD-R's in the back of the wardrobe

[@bubtheesseffex6015]

Also Ian:S P L O O S H !

[@Blakbox92]

@@worldcomicsreview354 oh man, so true, back in the mid Aughts I had a big 200 disc spool (maybe it was 150? Dunno) used to make all kinds of crappy mix discs with pirated music and shareware games/software, there's probably half the spool left, long forgotten in my parents' home somewhere.

[@KLondike5]

I block all computer & phone ads so I have more time to listen to vintage ads on oldtime.radio Every pound of Parkay margarine contains 9000 units of vitamin A (in the 1940s at least)

[@icecreamforcrowhurst]

Grossly underrated comment my friend

[@thatsuckyhalorevewer]

Please dont stop this series. This is one of the most interesting things Ive seen in a long time

[@marronehz7135]

I totally agree

[@howdyyall4335]

It truly is! God bless 💓

[@ZeranZeran]

18:46 I literally thought this was Ian putting on a voice filter as a joke the first time I saw this. That is the actual voice used in the promo "OH GIRL.. WHATCHA GONNA DO WHEN _THEY_ COME FOR _YOU_ ?" This series is hilarious. I can't wait to see another.

[@isabellamorris7902]

Film bootlegging theory: the dude worked at the cinema or knew someone who was a projectionist

[@PlayButtonPone]

Sometimes they would put the camera in the projection booth, and then they would hook the audio to the camera. That is called a Telesync, I believe.

[@zackschilling4376]

I worked at Service Merchandise in like 98/99 in the electronics dept, and my manager was cool with this older guy who would come in every now and then and buy a bunch of VHS tapes cuz he bootlegged movies. My manager would hook him up with a few extra for free and he'd give him some of his newer movies he had.

[@jaynenunya6070]

@@zackschilling4376 my friend worked at a dunk's and there was an old lady who came in and sold her son's bootleg DVDs and like, openly watched porn in the dining area. i thought my friend was full of shit, but then I met the lady myself.

[@zackschilling4376]

@@jaynenunya6070 Was it at least a porn with a plot?

[@jaynenunya6070]

@@zackschilling4376 I didn't see the porn, only the bootleg DVD, but from what I know, nah. It was just straight undiluted porn.

[@UnclePhil73]

The mask was a reference to “Breaking the Magician’s Code” and it’s main star, The Masked Magician. Pretty interesting show if you wanna know how magic tricks are done.

[@cobrafeet]

kingofthehill.fandom.com/wiki/Sleight_of_Hank Checks out, thanks

[@TrippyKitty08]

The Masked Magician was my favorite as a little kid!! I especially remember the episode when he got "buried alive"

[@fckSashka]

I knew it! lol

[@Maeth42]

commenting and upvoting to get it to the top. I loved that show and watched it any time it was on.

[@TheStaz2049]

As I recall, that show was also on Fox

[@herron321]

The mask was from the “magic secrets revealed” series that aired on fox

[@kronos43]

yeah! I totally recognized that from watching those magic shows as a kid.

[@everlastingphelps]

This. Google Val Valentino for more.

[@Komander5062]

i remember it was called braking the magician’s code

[@eduardoramirezjr1892]

@@Komander5062 I think they renamed it Braking the Magician's code after Fox put the show on Hiatus. I remember the first few episodes well because of rebroadcasts. And he reveals his face on the final episode like 4-5 years later.

[@endlesswanderer1753]

It was on Netflix last I checked, if anyone wants to see. It was a show dedicated to revealing famous magic tricks. Apparently it really pissed off a ton of magicians, which is hilarious to me.

[@monaroboy124]

The dogs on the RCA tape cover is a throwback to the painting titled "his masters voice"; a painting of a dog called nippy looking at a gramophone. You can see it on the centre label of many record company's as he became a mascot for Victor Talking Machine co. That later became the parent company to RCA records who we now know as the EMI record label. One of their other subsidiary companies was called 'the Japan Victor Company' I.e. JVC. So essentially it would be a JVC tape just with the RCA logo on it. Probably a marketing strategy to say it had better audio quality seeing 'stereo hifi' written on the spine. Interesting find!

[@ZeranZeran]

and here I was thinking it was just trying to make people associate it with 101 dalmations that's actually really interesting, thank you

[@xZippy]

"An all new King of the Hill!" If that doesn't inject you with nostalgia...

[@scottybishop2547]

“Are u an un” could be a reference to their commercials from the 70’s and 80’s where they tried to brand 7Up as the “uncola”

[@SecretIdentityStudio]

Yeah, it was a throwback to that. The promotion had a storyline where "uns" were Cool Young People who drank 7Up to fight the "Anti-Refreshment Syndicate." It was weird.

[@y.bowcat7782]

just scrolled down here to comment exactly this

[@FreakinSweet1987]

The puppet is Tom Kenny, but more specifically he's doing his Yancy voice, Fry's brother from Futurama. Also Spyro. That's likely the connection.

[@Ed411]

He’s also the voice of Sponge Bob Square Pants

[@lineriderman7]

also kind of his Heffer voice

[@WarFan40k]

Also Dog from CatDog, first character I could match from memory weirdly.

[@xScarletHaox]

Yess thank you heffer i knew i was watching rockos modern life for a second.

[@piskelo1065]

@@lineriderman7 yea i was getting some heffer vibes as well, thats why i thought it was Tom Kenny. I love when some voice actor's voices are immediately recognizable to me, like not only Tom Kenny but Patton Oswalt especially

[@hindumuninc]

"You had me kidnapped." "I'm sorry, ok?".

[@spideraba769]

She could've _at least_ gotten him a cake. Honestly.

[@MentalEdge]

Men are such drama queens. What's a few kidnappings or hired killers when ending the relationship? God, take a hint!

[@RheaStorm]

I believe the reason they talk on phones so much is simply a cost saving measure. These actors often can not be there in the same studio each day and they likely film on separate days at different times. So The conversations are shot at different times and lets them save time and money.

[@bulbman2564]

Light bulb expert here: The ge enrich (later called reveal and now HD light) bulb was made with neodymium glass that had a distinct blue tint to it that would filter out some of the redder wavelengths of light to give a more daylight and blue appearance as incandescent bulbs emit more longer wavelengs of light due to procese of incadesing the metal to emit said light.

[@DanielBohnen]

Yeah I work in the lighting department and all I can tell you is that LEDs can create any wavelength and there HD light doesn't make sense and that's after the product knowledge training

[@VectraQS]

Username checks out.

[@punkst3r]

Thank you bulbman

[@Safersephiroth777]

Damn it man you really are an expert.

[@beefcastle]

I like your funny words magic man

[@rollercoastersrule]

Lighting designer here, “GE enrich” bulbs only had a coating to lower the color temperature. They were rebranded as “GE reveal” and I believe they are still sold under that name as LED bulbs. (Yes I know lamp is the proper term for light bulbs)

[@OneOfThem]

Ah, you beat me to it. Here I thought my knowledge of light bulbs was unique enough to contribute first. Oh well.

[@michaeljennisonjr.7410]

@@OneOfThem same. 🤣 Recognized the purple coating. If you want an LED that gives off comparable color, go w "daylight". It's nice if you get bummed out, w dreary days.

[@MikeStavola]

My mom bought 20 4-packs of enrich bulbs, when they were on clearance. She's a hoarder. I think she finally burned through the last of them in the past year or so. She has a big house with lots of lights.

[@dk14929]

This is basic shit. if you don't know this you gotta go back to lightbulb school! And for the love of Edison, just call it a lamp. We don't need to dumb down lightbulb discourse to make it more palatable for muggles

[@MikeStavola]

A true connoisseur of lightbulbs

[@lilithgalac5102]

Broke: VHS filters Woke: Filming on an actual VHS tape

[@ChrisPoindexter98]

Right?!? 🤭

[@PaulBadman]

@D Cannon i dunno my dude, seeing that boomers get upset about woke culture is enough reason.to be it. besides what's wrong with equal rights for all?

[@chemogoblin393]

@@PaulBadman cause that’s pussy shit

[@moppupaws]

@@chemogoblin393 edgelord detected leave now

[@Sweetumskitty1789]

If you’re gonna do vaporwave, do it authenticity

[@marshmellowkiller101]

I know this video is old but that laundry ball thing is actually super useful if you have an older model washer. You actually put fabric softener in it and throw it in with your detergent. Then when the washer goes into the spin cycle, the fabric softener gets diffused and you don't have to add some when the washer is filling with water again. Makes it so much more convenient since you don't have to wait to put the fabric softener in.

[@FatherAxeKeeper]

RE: How the in-theater bootleg was filmed. I had friends who worked at the movie theater who would set up camcorders in the handicap section in the back and film the movies themselves. They'd duplicate and spread them around to friends and family.

[@zackschilling4376]

I worked at Service Merchandise around 99-00 and we had a guy that would come in and my manager would hook him up with blank VHS and he would hook him up with bootleg movies. That same manager was later fired for taking a 300 CD tower box and filling it up with expensive electronics (we worked in the electronics dept.) and having a friend come in and buy it. I think he did it multiple times. He was actually a pretty cool guy.

[@deztitute1017]

I watched Scream when it came out because my cousin set up a tripod and camcorder in the theater. I still don't know how he got away with it.

[@FatherAxeKeeper]

@@zackschilling4376 This exact same thing happened at a Target I was working at, around the same time 99~00.

[@ShakSaintTiger]

people also booked super early or super late screening so barly anyone is in the theater, then they set up the tripod un inturrupted

[@FatherAxeKeeper]

@@ShakSaintTiger yeah exactly, if there arent a lot of people in the theater it's easy to set up a small tripod in the back and go unnoticed.

[@wafflemaster303]

The lips of the talking jet dry dishwasher looks like a fleshlight if I’m going to be honest

[@Lola-re6ny]

Someone had to say it

[@quill_master9454]

r/dontputyourdickinthat

[@katiegrey8111]

Self-cleaning too!

[@Molkalda]

A speaking fleshlight would be peak character design

[@EvilishDem0nic8732WhatItDo]

@@quill_master9454 someone Reddits I see

[@RTHoyt42]

Back in the day I knew someone who was a manager at a theatre. He would run late night showings for his friends and would set up a camcorder on a tripod to make copies of the movie. Not that I would be involved in anything like that.

[@genesanford9412]

Yep!. ,, ... i mean , ah .... right , im sure that happened ... somewhere , ... sometimes.... ah , the old days...

[@masterof4elements826]

The only time I've watched "soaps" is visiting my grandmother. No lie, a year from one episode to another they were still having thee same conversation

[@nessamillikan6247]

My mother was an avid watcher of All My Children when it was on, and I swear, during sweeps (same thing as a season finale), the plot would come right back to “I must do this morally dubious thing because of my child!” And it got ad nauseum especially with this one character named Dixie who only ever did three things: Die, come back to life, and talk about her son. I watched it with mom because it was something to do with her, but it wasn’t very good. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@benl5481]

The puppet's voice is Tom Kenny doing his voice for Spyro!

[@Ieatglowsticks]

That’s exactly what I was thinking, the voice gave me a big spongebob vibe

[@MarioPlushFromMars]

No it’s Heffer from Rockos modern life

[@benl5481]

@@MarioPlushFromMars Tom Kenny also voiced Heffer too! :)

[@TheRealSnurge]

I recognized him as squanchy from rick and Morty

[@robertmiller1770]

spyrp

[@lennymutt]

The 7UP "un" thing was a reference to them calling themselves the "Uncola", basically saying they were different than regular cola drinks therefore superior...somehow

[@erinmoriarty2809]

Back in the late 90s there was this real weird push away from brown sodas. Clear sodas were viewed as less unhealthy by a lot of people.

[@crookedtool]

Seven-up has been the "Uncola" since 1968. Pepsi and Coke were "the establishment."

[@Orangestar1]

Thank you. Was gonna comment just this but figured I should check first.

[@TB-yq5wl]

I was about to say it was an uncola reference, but you beat me to it. Funny thing is I remember the Mt. Dew and Splurge commercial, but not the 7up one. Of course the Mt. Dew one was better.

[@Levleup]

What was with the syndicate thing?

[@TheTrainFan9]

12:17 "It's just strange for the sake of being strange." Yep, that's the late 90s in a nutshell.

[@BroadwayBrittany]

My mom was actually subscribed to Soap Opera Digest for at least a decade, and I never really saw the appeal. The magazine would talk about all the latest juicy plot developments and such in different shows, as well as talk about rumors and even actual spoilers for upcoming episodes (seriously, who would want to get spoiled for this kind of thing?). It also had a lot of interviews with cast and crew, and that was about it. The magazines weren’t as big as your standard magazine-they were tiny, like the size of one of those word search books or Archie Comics you’d see at the grocery store checkout. It’s been ages since the last time I saw one of those (probably 7 or 8 years), so this really took me back, haha :D

[@Lexus3970]

The Jet Dry "mouth" looks like a FleshLight for someone who has a thing for dishwashers.

[@Koicifer]

The perfect meal for me!

[@dangus6934]

Definitely what everyone was thinking... he does like to gulp that jet dry liquid down!

[@turnoffautoplay]

They’ve figured out my secret

[@blockyoxwinkle5829]

Easier to clean too

[@Musicradio77Network]

The Jet Dry mouth looks like it came from a horror movie.

[@shiori4671]

Upset man: "You had me kidnapped" Irritated woman: "I'm sorry.... okay?!" For cryin' out loud mister, can't you see she's sorry? jeez... some people. Can't even move past a little kidnapping. (¬_¬ )

[@josephdavila6511]

I know right. People are so sensitive.

[@CatychoVT]

The fact that you recorded it on a VHS and kept the quality that way automatically makes me love the video 3 times more

[@timberwolfmerlot]

Yeah, I always find myself coming back to this series just to get some of that VHS warmth

[@ZeranZeran]

@@timberwolfmerlot same ♥

[@xenaleena]

Not sure if anyone else posted this, but here's the feature about the Atlanta mannequin models kzbin.info/www/bejne/qGHQmmutq7CLqZI

[@trulyinfamous]

Very helpful

[@robinw.8083]

Was surprised this was legit (cause internet). Thanks for posting!

[@TJFlannagan]

10:40 I believe this is in reference to the final scene of that King of the Hill episode. That's the mask the magician in "Magic's Greatest Secret Revealed" wears and that is the mask that Bobby wears at the end when they parody the show and demonstrate how the trick is performed.

[@davidazambranajr]

I just left a comment about it being from the masked magician too but glad you got to it first. It was driving me nuts because I knew it looked familiar and then I remembered when I got to work. Lol

[@ZergRushJohnny]

The Big Lots puppet actor sounds like Tom Kenny, specifically close to his voices closer to his natural speaking voice like Heffer from Rocko's Modern Life.

[@advokatie]

was about to say, def tom kenny

[@lzcrow98]

I thought of him. Yes I think so!!

[@TheInredibleMrH]

Agreed. I'd bet on Tom Kenny.

[@pestulio07]

Also agreed!

[@alastryona]

Its almost an uncanny valley of Tom kenny

[@corsaircarl9582]

That mask on Hank for King of the Hill was from a short-lived show on Fox where a magician wore it to hide his identity as he showed off the tricks of how magicians did their tricks. And since the episode in turn was about Hank and his cronies trying to figure out how the trick is done, it was apt to show that mask.

[@plushdragonteddy]

wow, genuinely loved hearing the pillsbury dough boy timidly say “…dood” thank u for this beautiful cinema moment

[@OTACONXIX]

That is undeniably the voice of "Tom Kenny" doing the voice of that puppet, ironically plugging video tapes for a show he also voice acted in. He was the voice of "Heffer Wolfe" in Rocko's Modern Life. Also the Downey ball was made so you didn't pour laundry detergent directly on your clothes in the wash. Some detergents, especially the gritty sand like ones, would sometimes leave soap strains behind. The idea was that you'd fill the ball with detergent, lock the ball with this rubber pull up thing, and then it would release the soap mid-wash. My family had one in the late 90s and what would always happen is that the ball would open, but most of the soap would still be inside of it. So what you ended up with was a watery ball of soap at the bottom of your washing machine.

[@skooks3]

No.

[@RedTV8888]

"Yeah that's Barack Obama. He used to be a senator." That's how you sound for not mentioning Spongebob.

[@1Thunderfire]

It's common in the UK to put liquid detergents in an open top ball as we have front loaders.

[@skooks3]

@@RedTV8888 I think that you missed the point that the puppet was advertising for the sale of VHS's including Rocko's Modern Life in which Tom Kenny voiced a character on. Bringing up Spongebob makes no sense in this context as it did not even exist at the time this commercial was created and has nothing to do with the products being sold.

[@ArcaneEther]

The Downy Ball is not for detergent, it's for Fabric Softener. Fabric Softener counters hard water and is supposed to be added during the rinse cycle. I use one today. They're still very much a thing.

[@jmiller101480]

Back when that episode of King of the Hill aired, there was a big hoopla in the magician community (I know, I think it's weird they have one too) about Fox's airing of a show in which the "Masked Magician" revealed the secrets behind some of their biggest, flashiest illusions. Hank Hill wearing the mask was both promotion for that and also because that particular episode was about a magician. Peggy Hill is asked up on stage and goes through one of the magician's tricks, and then spends the episode shooting down Hank's attempts to figure out the trick, because Peggy Hill was arguably the most insufferable pain in the ass on TV at the time.

[@cheezburgrproduction]

And somehow peggy ended up being a positive to some people. She is a direct foil to Hank, she even lied to get Hank to marry such a trainwreck of a person. Love that show v well done.

[@pissfrog]

I'm with Peggy just enjoy the freaken show

[@pattyofurniture694]

Dont talk shit on my girl Peggy!

[@SSDDR32]

Bobby also wears the mask during a credits scene where they explain the trick, which i guess they just edited onto hank there. Screencap of it imgur.com/ifGtgvM

[@OdaSwifteye]

The mask creeped me the fuck out with the way they edited it. Just Hank's eyes flickering in a perspective different to the mask.

[@ItSPohsiB]

33:12 - I had that exact same Pooh Bear toy!! I would have never remembered it if it weren’t for this video, and this series. Please continue it for as long as you can!

[@superotterboy1737]

The aspect ratio of this video makes me nostalgic af. These videos really are like mini time capsules.

[@majorchaotic5544]

28:08 That man voicing the puppet is Tom Kenny. You probably know him from Spongebob, Dilbert, and the Ice King from Adventure time. He also voiced one of the pigs in Hoodwinked.

[@jnerdsblog]

Great find, and I hope one day you get recognized for your discovery. I appreciate it!

[@drink.juice.]

its quite obvious to me

[@lydiabutz9955]

I'm sorry to come in a year late here, but I think it's Cam Clarke. It just has a little... Cam Clarke-iness. I could be wrong though.

[@DaRealJGRIF]

Sounds like Jason Griffith to me he has that sonic the hedgehog quality to it

[@roopydoggie]

The voice he's doing is very similar to the voice he does for heffer from rockos modern life

[@jared6343]

Funfact: The concept of the Big New Yorker was made by Reggie Fils Aime back when he was the marketing executive for Pizza Hut and it was a massive success

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

I always forget he worked for them. Old Reggie really gets around. Now he's going to help GameStop liquidate their inventory.

[@thatcriticvideo]

This IS a legitimately fun fact! Thanks for sharing!

[@ImOblivious]

He don't miss!

[@zech6857]

i passed by this comment 3 seperate times all of which i assumed it was a joke

[@senorbones1869]

THE Reggie?

[@SeniorWhoopyIRL]

This is so good if you watch it and then constantly check the comment section for answers on questions that brutal moose asks. It's like a good pairing on a meal. they just go perfectly with each other. Please make more of this content

[@nemesisofeden]

Omg, I remember having to watch The Young and The Restless at lunchtime because my mom was obsessed. I can tell you, there was ALOT of phone talk lol. So much nostalgia, wow. Simpler times.

[@Metal_Mouth]

*puts in vhs* * *flickers in and out of the 7 levels of hell as the voices of Silent Hill groans out incomprehensible words* * It's Friends time!

[@bubtheesseffex6015]

OH. OH NO.

[@bubtheesseffex6015]

"SEYOSUMAGAISH"

[@jackuval9362]

and topshelf expired product

[@AaronderSchaedel]

Regarding the Taco Bell Dog: The cost of animating the dog speaking with the technology at the time was incredibly expensive, and didn't necessarily result in the increased sales they were hoping for. It took a lot of work and required a lot of really expensive hardware.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

And of course the voice stylings of the same guy who did rocko on rocko's modern life and the Geico gecko among many more. And of course he was on the cast of Reno 911.

[@donutrapture]

John Doe carlos alazraqui

[@powpowouchy5]

They could have just made his mouth stop moving

[@noothernamestothinkof5837]

But RIP that dog though.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

@@donutrapture Yes thank you. I couldn't believe just how many cartoons I grew up with he voiced. And still does.

[@PupRiku]

The fact you record these on VHS tapes is the icing on the cake.

[@fungamesandstuffwhy2516]

The reason for hank wearing the mask is that Bobby wears it at the end of that specific episode explaining how the trick that drove hank insane was done

[@FoxNoctom]

Big lots puppet is Tom Kenny, the man has done possibly thousands of voices, fun fact he was also the Guy (groom) in the Smashing Pumpkins music video for "tonight tonight"

[@eddiepollock5820]

FoxNoctom SpongeBob! Can’t mention Tom Kenny without SpongeBob, everyone’s had to have heard that voice at some point

[@TheVideogamemaster9]

The puppet's voice is *exactly* how he voiced Spyro the Dragon (excluding the first game, which had a different voice actor)

[@aaronmnowak]

Yeah, his voice reminds me of his Heffer voice in Rocko.

[@middleschoolgravy]

Was he also on Rocko’s Modern Life? Cause that’s what that puppet was talking about in the ad

[@FoxNoctom]

@@middleschoolgravy yes, he was Heffer and other characters.

[@adansc3858]

"What's up with the dogs, man? Whose dogs are those?" The dogs are RCA's mascot, Chipper and Nipper. They're not used as much now a days, so it's understandable you don't know who they are.

[@joshm.7592]

I figured a guy pretty familiar with retro video electronics would have known that... Guess not though

[@SprightlyValentino]

@@joshm.7592 Maybe he just didn't make the connection. If he were looking at the picture of the RCA mascot dog staring at the phonograph with its head cocked, maybe he'd recognize that.

[@MinorLG]

One of the dog mascots came from victrola, when the merger to become rca-victor

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

Here's a legitimate question does RCA make anything anymore?! I honestly can't remember seeing anything with their name on it in quite some time. In fact I would say I haven't seen any RCA products since RadioShack closed down and that was years ago now.

[@MinorLG]

@@JohnDoe-wq5eu according to their website, they make TVs, and home alarms. And a $30 mp3 player that looks like a dildo. That being said, ... Today, RCA exists as a brand name only; the various RCA trademarks are currently owned by Sony Music Entertainment and Technicolor, which in turn license the brand name to several other companies including Voxx International, Curtis International, AVC Multimedia, TCL Corporation and Express LUCK International, Ltd. for their products.

[@blockrocka225]

The "grandwich" bit at 31:10 sends me every single time

[@ethanrocket430]

31:12

[@mrmike73]

The mask was for the masked magician who revealed how tricks were done on Fox as well and the Hill episode had magic in it.

[@markenproductions2274]

The purple man is Tom Kenny, Spongebob's voice actor.

[@skittyrocks]

Thanks man that was driving me nuts

[@JoshTHankins]

As soon as it showed rockos modern life in that commercial, it hit me that it was Tom Kenny. Sound close to Heffer’s voice.

[@lamelane2762]

Marken Productions he kinda sounded like the guy from the kid cuisine commercial

[@mello_yello_man]

yup, I came to the comments to say this. Definitely Tom Kenny

[@markenproductions2274]

@@skittyrocks No problem! If you want to see Tom Kenny in something wild you should check out, "The Altered States of Drugachewsettes"

[@unbindingfloyd]

That mask Hank was wearing was about the Masked Magician show that was on in the 90s. At least thats the mask he's wearing. Im not sure why but its a reference to the Masked Magician show definitely. Anyways, this Magician would wear a creepy black mask with white stripes on it and he would do different tricks and he explained how he did some of them sometimes. He always had hot chicks helping him too.

[@gregcruz5152]

the Masked Magician aired on FOX i'm sure this was some kind of tie in with that show.

[@OSVSL]

In the episode, Hank obsesses about how a magic trick is done. At the end of the episode, Bobby (wearing the mask) tells us how it was done.

[@RookJupiter]

That show gave me so many nightmares as a kid! The masked magician REALLY creeped me out. I rewatched it recently and it has Skinner from The X Files as the narrator and he makes REALLY creepy commentary about the assistants etc. Such a weird show

[@beanieman3000]

breaking the magicians code its called, used to watch it as a kid

[@CM-di1oz]

the premise of the show is raveling magician tricks, so it kind of makes sense.

[@theinsanebookworm]

This is an amazing time capsule I never expected. Enjoyed this way more than I thought I would going into the video.

[@Exeter002]

The mask on Hank Hill’s face is from “The Masked Magician” show that was also on Fox. Decent show!

[@pattondan7]

The red headed guy in the pager commercial that said he was “waiting for his sweetie” was the kid from sandlot that said the notorious line “you play ball like a girl”

[@josephsepulveda7486]

The Great Hambino

[@itsthatchrono]

YOU'RE KILLIN' ME SMALLS!

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

And the other guy was a pre-scream David arquette. And of course the woman selling the treasures chocolates was the mom from everybody loves Raymond.

[@dementedpuppy]

Knew I recognized him.

[@SatoshiKong]

John Doe David Arquette: the greatest WCW champion of all time.

[@littlejuliuscaesar8920]

One of the reasons why soap operas have the cliche of looking off camera is because they usually only have time for one take. So a lot of the stars are reading cue cards.

[@ZeranZeran]

also most of them are shot at 60fps instead of 30 which gives them a weird look.

[@Zynet_Eseled]

@@ZeranZeran maybe a 45fps recording would look pretty solid?

[@vapor404]

@@ZeranZeran60 should stick to video games and other things that require a smooth video

[@ZeranZeran]

@@vapor404 Agreed. Also works with very certain animation, like Studio ghibli. using SVP really makes the animation pop out, so beautiful

[@samlaramie9456]

That king of the hill commercial gave me untold amounts of nostalgia

[@MM-fc9fz]

The dogs are Nipper aka the “his masters voice” dog and Chipper, Nipper’s pup who is a smaller version of himself to show how RCA brings the theatre experience home.

[@andrewigley3931]

Ian this VHS aesthetic is the most relaxing thing ever.

[@PACKERMAN2077]

I know it's straight legit. He's filming this with his VHS camera,

[@taticatnineland]

Surprisingly, this is incredibly relaxing!

[@ImOblivious]

Vaporwave aesthetic > all else

[@MattIsTheCat]

I have one to, look at me everyone I am the center of the universe. Everything is about me.

[@ashsgarden1811]

Very Cozy

[@Ordoo145]

Friend: "So what do you watch on youtube nowadays?" Me: "Oh, gaming videos, vlogs, and this hippie looking guy that films himself reviewing VHS tape in VHS tape form" Friend: "Ok then..."

[@gurvmlk]

Friend sounds like he's missing out.

[@JoelGloade]

I watch a white haired virtual character who laughs like a dolphin.

[@echotrapta]

HEY HE'S CUTE DONT JUDGE

[@BigBearMan]

I remember the downy ball! We had them when I was growing up. It's actually for fabric softener so that it gets released at the end of the washer cycle. Don't know how it works, but that was the purpose.

[@MattRevs]

A rare video where watching in 480p actually enhances the experience. Very nice.

[@MissManicMuffin]

Few things: - I actually had the taco bell talking dog toy as a kid and LOVED playing with it lol. - My mom watched about 3 soaps a day back in the early '90s (Still watches General Hospital till this day) and she read those digest religiously. As a kid, I used to steal them and read them to see what the hell was so good about soaps. Turns out, they were just as boring as the program! - I used to have those call 1-800-ATT commercials stuck in my head for days since they happened all the time. They were so popular even Jhonny Bravo made a reference to it in their musical episode! I love these mystery tape videos so much! They are perfect to watch during any meal as well as in the evening before heading to bed. The nostalgia they bring are pretty heartwarming. I hope you keep making more of these!

[@tastywindex]

Fun fact: the last time i was in a goody's I was like 9 and got in trouble with the manager for raising the arms of all the mannequins in the air

[@mikekazz5353]

The manager: why the hell did you do this!?! The mannequins: whoo yeah!!!

[@SethWistful]

Please don't touch the live models

[@eldritch-tailedfeydeer7320]

Reminds me of the time I pulled the fire alarm at a local super market while not knowing what it would do. I think the police actually came. I apologized to them and they understood that I was just a stupid kid, so they let me off with a warning. Before they came my dad was pretty bad with me, and I tried to put the lever back into place thinking that it would stop the alarm.

[@crizmeow8394]

@@eldritch-tailedfeydeer7320 once I convinced my brother to touch the controls of the refrigerated section of the supermarket, said controls closed down the meat section and left everyone confused, neither me or him got into trouble thankfully

[@russellkabirmusic]

Pure nostalgia hits to the dome. Crazy. Love it all, Ian! Keep up the amazing work!

[@thunderlina3237]

The puppet was Tom Kenny (Spongebob, Heffer, The Mayor of Townsville, etc.) and the "T-Bone" dog treat commercial featured the voice of Jim Cummings! (Winnie The Pooh, Peg-Leg Pete, Darkwing Duck, etc.)

[@MrSkerpentine]

The “Are U an UN?” thing is based on 7up’s tagline as the UNcola

[@hannahb2306]

Mr. Skerpentine for like a solid two minutes I thought you meant they were the official soda of the United Nations

[@doompocalypse842]

Hannah B that’s what it should’ve been

[@kagemetal4life]

R U AN UN?

[@protogen_apollo]

Strangely enough, the first time I had a 7-UP was in a Taco Bell.

[@doubtful_seer]

Eve after you explained it, it still makes no sense. Gotta love that era of ads.

[@Wet_bread618]

The mask is from a show called Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed and i suppose it's because hank wanted to know how the magic trick was done

[@SuperCatfire]

oh shit

[@RecipeRepository]

A few weeks ago (as of commenting) Food Theory has done an episode explaining the weird soda adds and how exactly that whole era of commercials happened.

[@westreadwell9675]

You can be a pro voice actor. Very clear and recognizable. I also was going to start a channel doing pretty much what u are here. Broken hearted...and excited at the same time!

[@laze_dybo]

> obsessed with random puppets voice actor > totally misses Jim Motherucking Cummings as the voice of the dog in the next Godamnit, Moose

[@aaronm4858]

It's tom kenny btw

[@blacksun3884]

The voice of the puppet is Tom Kenny. You might know him as a little yellow sponge who lives in a pineapple under the sea.

[@Roadent1241]

That was Jim Cummings? Wow. All I was thinking was "Huh, Dog's Life in the Real World before the PS2 and even came out!"

[@supersoniccajun]

Eggman the dog

[@Unirule]

@@blacksun3884 the voice he was doing sounded more like heffer

[@wateringcan2]

"you had me kidnapped." "i'm sorry, greg. GOD" also, kudos for the flashing VHS artifacts warning. i'm not epileptic, but it's heartwarming to see people care about others' safety.

[@MilnaAlen]

This reminded me that Legal Eagle apparently watched tons of Ally McBeal because he managed to convince his parents it was "educational" lol. Not sure if it's quite appropriate for children...

[@doughboywhine]

That guy in the Mountain dew ad must be close to one of the first recorded instances of a Kyle. Also, the Surge ad makes me nostalgic because the gas station it takes place at is strikingly similar to one I have in my hometown.

[@________________3413]

That mask on the Hank Hill is a reference to this old show where a masked magician revealed a huge amount of magic secrets and how to do the tricks. Love the content btw,

[@brutalmoose]

I don't think I've ever heard of this? Must have seen some promos for it back in the day because the mask is really familiar to me. I'll have to look into it some more. Thank you!

[@batbeeps]

@@brutalmoose The show was specifically called "Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed" and featured "The Masked Magician," who, true to the show's name, broke the Magician's Code by revealing how popular magic tricks actually worked.

[@________________3413]

@@brutalmoose The guys name was Val Valentino. Honestly it could totally work as an episode on the channel.

[@Cosmiichu]

Omg I knew it was familiar I used to watch that show every Saturday, good times

[@Hawdkoah]

@@brutalmoose I think some episodes were uploaded to KZbin awhile ago. It was called Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed.

[@IxionGames]

If I recall, the removal of the chihuahua in the Taco Bell ads was a combination of two things. It wasn't drawing in good money, and taco bell lost a lawsuit to the people who originally pitched the whole dog idea, right down to the catchphrase, so they had to either pay a bunch of money to keep using it or just give it up. They chose the latter, I guess.

[@monster-teeth5378]

With the fabric softener plastic ball, we have one at my home! I've always grown up with it.... I didn't realize it wasn't something other people used. You put the fabric softener in it so that it doesn't release until after the detergent has done it's job. It's like how you shampoo your hair first and then you use conditioner? Without the ball unless you set a timer to go and put your fabric softener in then you're basically using a 2 in 1 shampoo and conditioner on your hair and we all know how that's not the greatest thing to use.

[@PraxMusic]

Im sure lots of people have said by now that I think the mystery voice is Tom Kenny, can't confirm but it sounds like him. The floating meat commercial was also Jim Cummings though and it always is funny and surprising to see how many random things big voices have worked on

[@BugsyFoga]

I have to admit , filming this vid through a vhs camera is super neat aesthetic. 😁👌

[@peterg6889]

Dude you're here too? You watch everything I watch with few exceptions

[@username-mk4qv]

“Will Diego be deported?” My mind instinctively went to Dora and Go Diego Go.

[@ChargeQM]

I went to Jojo part 7 myself. The best Diego.

[@katanaj3005]

7:22 the original “you know i had to do it to em” meme.

[@starkieable]

Hahaha the downy ball, that brings back such memories. When I was a kid our household had Charter Pipeline. They used to post coupons and free samples during commercials, and the Downy ball was one of them. They actually had a limit of 1 per household, but for whatever reason I could order a bunch! We must have had 10 of those things, to which my mother kept asking where they all came from. I had to tell her they were 100% free, you just put your info in and they were delivered.

[@pollywogapocalypse7432]

10:23 Ian the deal with the mask over Hank’s face is a reference to *magic’s biggest secrets finally revealed* come on man you remember the episode and called it a “classic” but you don’t remember Bobby dresses like the magician from *magic’s biggest secrets finally revealed* and revealing how the trick was done and asking the audience to not tell his dad during the end credits!? How could you forget Ian!? lol XD

[@kinddoe3869]

Oh thank god someone cleared that up!! The mask seemed so familiar, but I couldn't remember where I had seen it. Would have bothered me for a long time. Thank you so much!

[@kreeperjoe]

Came here to say this! Fox loved that terrible ass magician.

[@oldUmanUshea]

Also the dog on the RCA tape is Nipper the old mascot! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nipper

[@TheFastfoodcritic]

"are you an un? " is a reference to the fact that 7-up used to be referred to as the un-cola.

[@Musicradio77Network]

Yes it does, the lamest 7up commercial ever, but the “Are U an Un” tagline was funny. I prefer the 1970’s 7up commercials that has terrific animation, and it was used in the anthology film called “The Fantastic Animation Festival”.

[@xIsaacCantu]

Please do more of this! I love the 90's and I love your editing. This needs to continue its so funny and nostalgic. Feels like the time never ended when I watch these

[@axelsxnumba1fan]

That Guiding Light commercial hit me like a brick. Wow the nostalgia... I remember when I was just a kid my grandma and mom loved soap operas. Always watching The Guiding Light, The Bold and the Beautiful, and As the World Turns. I haven't thought about that in at least 10 years or more.

[@adamsfusion]

On the GE bulbs, I imagine the Enrich bulbs work a lot like how GE's current Reveal bulbs work, which is that they dull a large part of the yellow portion of the light spectrum and use a filter to enhance the spectrum distribution of each individual color. There's something called the Color Rendering Index, or CRI, and it's a measure of how close a light gets for a particular color against a reference light in reproducing that color faithfully, and again if it's like the Reveal bulbs, you're looking at a pretty consistently high (>80) rating for all colors within the spectrum. Normal consumer warm and cold bulbs will usually wash out spots in the spectrum.

[@jerrell1169]

avfusion The Enrich bulbs are actually what the Reveal bulbs are today, though I believe the coating has been updated or something to that effect. I remember while working in maintenance for an office building the manager of a company which occupied most of an entire floor ONLY wanted Enrich bulbs, so when I told him that they stopped selling them he went on a hunt to scoop them up from hardware stores on clearance, only for me to get an email back from GE telling me that they just rebranded them into Reveal.

[@User0000000000000004]

@@jerrell1169 Reveal and Enrich are similar but the light isn't anywhere close. Reveal bulbs are blue, Enrich are red, more or less. Lavender / Pink? They may have similar manufacturing methods but the color they produce is completely different. While they replaced Enrich with Reveal, they are NOT the same thing. Nowhere close to the same.

[@robinok3]

I love how the Brutalmoose channel completely changes every season

[@benross7279]

21:16 That man’s name is Bill Williamson, or William Williamson

[@skipperxiv9401]

32:54 I remember we used to have a Downy Ball. To this day I have no idea what it was for but I remember I used to use it a lot back when I first learned to do laundry, cause it was kinda fun.

[@cbaslee1]

The king of the hill mask was a promo for a miniseries Fox ran called “Magic’s biggest secrets revealed”, or something to that effect. Show was pretty good, might be worth making a video on.

[@nemo5150]

cbaslee1 I remember it pissing off slot of stage magicians

[@andrewwindsor2287]

That makes alot of sense

[@DaRealKing303]

It was a big deal in 98, 99. They promoted the shit out that show.

[@sb1301]

Wow I thought it looked like the masked magician but I didn’t know the show aired that early, I thought it was in the mid 2000s

[@DrewberTravels]

YES!!! This was totally it. Its funny that they ran this episode around the same time as the magics biggest secrets.

[@ObiWanBillKenobi]

12:40 The “un” is short for un-cola. 7UP was branding itself at the time as “The un-cola.”

[@InVinoVeratas]

@Cali SocReject sprite and 7up exist.

[@checkpoint3441]

@@InVinoVeratas so does squirt

[@vap1777]

@Cali SocReject the only one of those I haven’t had in the past 3 months is Slice, never heard of that one. Fresca still exists too...

[@cr-nd8qh]

Orange slice is bomb bro

[@chosentonessournotes]

No idea what that’s even supposed to fuckin mean. Lol

[@thedude5295]

Bootlegging was so huge in the 90's, especially in NYC, that there was an entire episode of Seinfeld about it.

[@TanstheMan117]

I love everything about this series. I hope you continue to make more of these mystery tape videos!

[@askhowiknow5527]

Those dogs are from the old RCA Victor logo that said “His master’s voice”

[@brutalmoose]

Yoooo that's right! What a callback.

[@betaman7988]

In Britain we actually have His Master’s Voice stores with the dog as the logo. I buy my records from there

[@jclay205]

RCA still uses the dogs today. Heck, RCA held a contest to to win plushes of the dogs. Edit: In Japan, JVC use the dogs for their music label (Victor Entertainment).

[@BBC600]

@@jclay205 Our TV starts up with a splash screen of the dogs.

[@jclay205]

@@BBC600 Nice.

[@rayceeya8659]

I'll bet they filmed the movie screen by hiding the camera in a giant novelty cowboy hat.

[@diegomedina4145]

Like Doug Dimmadome.

[@captaincook420]

@@diegomedina4145 exActaly

[@crizmeow8394]

maybe its inside a fake plastic pie

[@gregerfulgerman7802]

Hmmm everyone knows you only get 15 minutes before permanent neck damage

[@EmilyPuppet]

33:20 "Iv got a see-n-say friend and he talks to me"

[@JaclynFox]

"Because you had to know how the narrator said 'sploosh.'" You, sir and I think alike. That was one of my favorite books as a kid though.