Disappointing Pieces of Lost Media (That Didn't Live Up to the Hype)

You probably remember all the biggest lost media searches but what about that ones that aren't remembered as much? Let's take a look at some forgotten topics today!

[@DWN037]

The most disappointing piece of lost media I've ever seen was Spongebob's lost episode. I know a guy who followed a treasure map for around 40 minutes through his town looking for the last VHS tape with the episode on it, and it turned out to just be five minutes of cheap walk cycles. Absolutely unbelievable.

[@pigsby]

THE LOST EP USED TO SCARE ME SO BAD FOR NO REASON 😭

[@zigzagintrusion]

Can you explain this one? When I looked on Google for info about this, it’s just creepypasta.

[@pigsby]

@@zigzagintrusion sometime in the past, nickelodeon hyped up a really special lost episode of spongebob. The "guy who followed a treasure map around for 40 minutes" was Patchy the Pirate. He found the lost episode buried (i think in a playground or smth) just for it to be a few spongebob walkcycles. It aired on tv, im just not sure exactly what to look up to find the clip. Edit: heres a link to the clip, i just found it!! kzbin.info/www/bejne/eJqxapKshKt5mac

[@losscomic]

gold comment

[@Y0UZHE4E]

@@pigsbyOMG SAME 💀

[@alphabulblax1649]

My favorite piece of Lost Media that didn't exist has to be the Evil Farming Game. Basically, someone said that they remembered a game that was like Harvest Moon, except you kill your wife and have to hide her body from the police. It sparked a search that went on for several years until it was revealed that the whole thing was just a Vinesauce Joel clip that the OP had absorbed into his subconscious and thought was an actual game. It's a rare instance where the end result is so funny that I can't really be too disappointed.

[@TayoEXE]

Joel got a good laugh when he found out one of his ramblings literally made one viewer day dream that such a game existed

[@Neon99]

And I think someone is working o.n making it a real game. Which is kinda cool

[@sensarmy]

ikr same

[@rubyy.7374]

Lol you make it sound like it’s some niche thing. Everybody and their dog knows about it at this point.

[@Pooky1991]

Oh man you just sparked my memory. Learning about that was hilarious, but it inspired someone to make an actual game which is pretty cool

[@Paula-dot-jpg]

Honestly even if the search with A Day With SpongeBob was disappointing to people, it's still a fascinating story to me just because of the weirdness of Regal Films. Like even if we didn't get what we want out of it we found a completely different mystery that has just as much intrigue

[@PIB2000]

That's why I don't feel completely disappointed. We will get something out of this, even if it's not what we expected, but it will be something much bigger and juicier.

[@andykishore]

It's an interesting story for sure.

[@dreampillet]

So... the real treasure was the friends we made along the way? I guess there's always a reason why cliches become cliches :P

[@swcookie2]

True true

[@Gojiro7]

would it be a stretch to say that the Real Mystery were the friends we made along the way?

[@Wolf99555]

Honestly I'm baffled that people considered a slightly different art style but still mostly the same pilot for Billy and Mandy MORE interesting than the bizarre trepanation video we got!? I don't understand what people want out of these searches sometimes.

[@Tree_e888]

When you put it like that it actually doesn't make sense, it's like looking for a obscure version of a public movie where the only difference is that one of the characters is wearing a different colored shirt. What we got was way beyond our expectations and that's actually a good thing.

[@RoyStorey]

i think with some sections of lost media fans there's this issue where people absolutely convince themselves that lost media they don't know a lot about is [x], and if the result of the found media isn't [x] or doesn't give the results that they expect they get aggressive about it. maybe because some of them are young but it comes off rather spoiled to me.

[@kirbyofthestarsfan]

Legit I straight up can't agree with finding Trepanation of the Skull as a disappointment, because that's easily one of the craziest design revisions the series could have gotten. The fact it even had blood and was in shoddy black and white was just the cherry of top, like a real-life creepypasta video but actually real lol Also with how easy it is for old college thesis films to get lost I'm really glad this one ended up found

[@bronwynboudicca7307]

I personally thought the trepanation video was cooler. Aren't pilots supposed to have different plots?

[@ironmaster6496]

strongly agreed, people pretty much found a real life creepypasta...and they are dissapointed!? what the hell sounds like a complain Billy would actually do

[@kalebnolan8343]

I’m gonna be real, most lost media is gonna feel like a let down because the biggest part of the hype is the search

[@mermaidgoddess952]

You're right

[@Tree_e888]

Exactly, looking for it that makes it interesting, when we finally do get to see it then that's it, we've accomplished our goal.

[@kalebnolan8343]

@@Tree_e888 it’s the journey not the destination right?

[@Tree_e888]

@@kalebnolan8343 pretty much. If I'm going on a journey to find this priceless Ruby then I won't end up caring about it because I'll just become friends with a bunch of people that I will end up prioritizing more, it kinda makes the destination useless...

[@Slop_Dogg]

@@kalebnolan8343 this should be the official motto of the lost media community imo

[@deniromorales312]

I think the "go for a punch" search is very similar to the SpongeBob one. When OP came out and said it was fake, seemingly no one wanted to believe them and everyone was still hoping there was a lost anime.

[@marianasobrenome3316]

I used to be in the search server when it all happened, almost voiced an animated re-telling of it coordinated by a guy who supposedly saw it, then me and all the "actresses" found out the dude was obviously LARPing. It was pretty shit but at least i found out about Seno Naiff and other cool guro mangakas

[@thepinkestpigglet7529]

I mean to be fair there's no reason to believe the guy in the saki case was the op. Saki probably doesn't exist and that guy probably isn't the op.

[@inendlesspain4724]

@Freesmart There's plenty of anime from the 80s and 90s that were as dark if not even darker than what Saki Sanobashi was described to be. I don't know why you're glad that that one in particular doesn't exist.

[@Gilhelmi]

@@inendlesspain4724 I was going to say the same thing. I mean, the OP saying "the guy was to naive to believe everything on the internet, so I came up with this crazy show that would never be made". Obviously, that OP only watched the super mainstream stuff. Honestly, even "Elfin Lead" was far darker IMO. And I have heard of worse from the 80's and 90's. (Really, EL was bad enough for me to stop after 2 episodes because if was making me sick.) What was described was dark, but not dark enough to have never been made. I don't think that "go for a punch" exists, just that the OP who made it up was naive to think that it was "far to dark".

[@alicethetransdalek7333]

i honestly can't understand how so many people took saki sanobashi seriously for so many years, i've seen Nostalgia Critic creepypastas more believable than the original post

[@Ars-Nova258]

Personally I think the Billy and Mandy one is satisfying, mostly because it’s nice seeing how the creator solved it through just holding onto it. It feels sweet that he not only made a cool showing of it but uploaded it himself.

[@SanzRadio]

I would argue the content of the actual short is *significantly* more interesting than probably 99% of found lost media

[@Zulf85]

Yeah, I was legitimately excited by the end result. Everything about it was so on-brand

[@themcpingu780]

Lost media is never boring when you cover it Mr.LSuperSonicQ

[@thelord6898]

I stan for daddy LSSQ

[@meapgod4417]

We all stan lssq

[@powerpaperone1]

True

[@nostalgiamostalgia0319]

True dat

[@Retroripe]

Of course their not.

[@otaking3582]

I'd say there's still plenty of unanswered questions in regards to A Day with SpongeBob, such as Regal's website containing viruses, those associated with the company wanting to distance themselves, and the supposed cases of money laundering.

[@poppythedogofwonders]

If I had to guess, I think the company is just a money laundering/scam thing. Money Laundering is illegal of course so that explains people wanting to distance from them in case the cops bust down their doors (plus nobody wants to be put in the same ring as scammers). As for the viruses... idk really but probably something done on purpose due to how sketchy they are.

[@PIB2000]

We do know they've made a number of unauthorized documentaries. Not illegal, but still pretty damn shady. The fact that so many associates deny working with the company and the supposed director(there is the possibility that he was someone unaffiliated who wanted to mess with the search)has remained completely anonymous does imply to me that there is more under the hood of this already shady looking company. It does make you wonder where the crowd funding for the film actually went, if the film was ever intended to be made. I don't think this ended up being underwhelming, but completely unexpected. We may have been searching for a film that doesn't exist, but we may have also stumbled upon something much bigger than we could have imagined. Though A Day With Spongebob may not exist, the mystery is still far from over.

[@andykishore]

@@poppythedogofwonders Those viruses might have been done for the same reason as those sketchy free cartoons websites that have viruses and fake advertisements.

[@Willowposting]

I find it likely that the site may have been hacked during the search, though if I recall correctly it was the first time somebody visited the site that they found the virus. So I have no idea. But still, the entire situation is shady. Wouldn't surprise me if it was put there on purpose.

[@ToshisGarden]

That guy in your profile pic's from Excel Saga, right? I can never 100% remember the character, but he reminds me of a cross between Lupin III, Spike Spiegel, and Space Dandy

[@nick15684]

Pretty sure most lost media is going to be incredibly disappointing once it's found. The point of finding it isn't because it's suspected to be grand or great. Rather, it's just for the sake of preserving a piece of media history. Most lost media gets lost in the first place because it's not particularly notable, memorable or popular. So you can't really expect it to be anything amazing in the end if it _is_ found.

[@peterstangl8295]

Not always true, especially if it's older stuff, like from the 70s and before. From times when people didn't care to archive this stuff. For example: original footage of the moment Neil Armstrong stepped on the surface of the Moon was recorded over, because people didn't think about preserving it. All we have now is some poor quality video captured from a TV or something. And that's arguably one, if not THE most important moment in human history. Imagine what else could be lost like that!

[@peterstangl8295]

Not to say some random episode of an obscure 90s animated show that may or may not even exist is on the same level, but still. One may never know.

[@kalkuttadrop6371]

If I’d have to pick, I’d say “Cracks” is probably the biggest successful lost media hunt in the community’s history, primarily due to the age of the hunt compared to Clockman and the fact there was a borderline coverup by Sesame Workshop to keep it from being shown publically, with a few private showing occurring years before the real release. Clockman is close, and due to happening more recently, got more attention, but the actual video didn’t quite live up to the recollections and had been available for years online, people just didn’t know the title. That just can’t live up to a decades long search through old tape archives and legal battles that Cracks had. I will say though, The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet, while not exactly true Lost Media, has the potential to rival the likes of them if the mystery is solved.

[@iprobablysuck9107]

the mysterious song is like reverse lost media. we have it but we got no fucking idea where it came from lol it would be like if in an alternate universe london after midnight was readily available to watch but nobody knew who made it

[@GumSkyloard]

@@iprobablysuck9107 So, Lost Origins? Lost History?

[@Awesomeman-wj8qv]

"and of course, the Hannah Montana anime" The Hannah Montanime

[@BezddRed]

So you recorded a 10 minute video about Flapjack's lost pilot but decided not to finish or release it. Does this mean you yourself have lost media that is coincidentally about lost media?

[@ProGremlinPlayer]

This inception shit is getting out of hand

[@thevioletskull8158]

And he did something that makes lost media in the first place

[@astronights]

What if this comment got deleted. Then it would be lost media talking about lost media which itself talks about lost media

[@gizmoduuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu2773]

@@astronights Delete your comment! have lost media about lost media about lost media about lost media!

[@cometahavoc]

@@gizmoduuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu2773 but what if someone screenshots it before it gets deleted

[@flowerzforsaturn]

I’m kinda surprised people found the billy and Mandy prototype disappointing. I personally thought a childrens show having a really unsettling pilot to be really cool (even though it freaked me out more than it should have)

[@TensaZangetsu1200]

It's an extreme sense of entitlement.

[@toxicZIM908]

It looks like a cartoon from the 1920's

[@KevinLuper99]

@@toxicZIM908 isn't that part of the appeal? Would you rather it look like some modern Cal Arts garbage like Steven Universe?

[@toxicZIM908]

@@KevinLuper99 well i mean yeah

[@KevinLuper99]

@@toxicZIM908 you would? Or are you agreeing with me?

[@ironmaster6496]

idk the billy and mandy one sounds very nitpicky to me, i mean is a super effed up version of the original show and pretty much a real life version of a creepypasta, what more can you want?

[@thelonleyUchiha1]

Personally I do think the more interesting story that the lost media community accidentally probably uncovered some sort of money laundering scheme and became a thorn in the side of the guy in charge all over a bootleg spongebob movie lol. It’s to bad there’s not enough evidence to send to the police cause that would be absolutely amazing 😂 “we were hunting for spongebob but what we found was much worse” 🤣

[@Obskhi185]

okay internet detective

[@the-NightStar]

One of these days, I hope people wake up to the fact that A Day With Spongbob was 100% fake, and everyone who claims to be associated with it or worked with it, including and especially Agent Orange were all 4chan trolls pretending to play the part of real people just to troll the lost media community. It was never real and somewhere out there, a bunch of anonymous teenagers out there are all laughing their asses off about the way people still theorize about this thing. There was no money laundering. It was all a bunch of trolls playing a big prank.

[@user-ck7sf2xc6c]

@@the-NightStar If they made a whole website and produced several films just for that they must be pretty damn dedicated

[@thelonleyUchiha1]

@@the-NightStar if that was a lot of teen pulling a prank like that there’s a bigger issue than just “trolling” also bro you sound a bit delusional if your not trolling yourself.

[@obeseperson]

Nah

[@KingOfInsanity777]

Lost media that isn't all that it's cracked up to be can be disappointing sometimes. Especially when it's so wild.

[@jacksonteller3973]

I wasn't let down by "Sammy" that show was a hidden gem and i'm fucking furious at NBC for treating it so badly. That Brian Bosworth show "Lawless" I was expecting to be way more crazy based on the reviews i'd seen and for the fact that it only lasted one episode, but it's a pretty standard buddy-cop private-investigator show, it's entertaining enough but it felt like it needed more action and the end felt pretty rushed. I'm interested what the unaired episodes were like.

[@mattwolf7698]

Honestly, I don't think that many things that are still lost (that have a realistic chance of being found so not some lost 1920's movie or whatever) aren't that interesting. What I like is the interesting stories that go with it. That said I am glad Cracks, Clockman, and Butchers Hook was found as well as that creepy early 2000's energy bar ad or whatever that was.

[@ExtremeWreck]

"Especially when it's so wild" Bruh that's the fun of looking for lost media in my eyes. You just don't know where the heck the search is going to go & it can lead to some CRAZY results!

[@JackReacts]

My favorite was the prank where people would take "spong knob square nuts" and just burn it onto a DVD that they'd dress up like a day with SpongeBob

[@guacamolenightmaretv7720]

Make me a sponge baby, sandy

[@Spacething7474]

the absolute power contained in the guy at the pixar section who showed up, proved that they had the disc, dumped it, and then completely left after only 5 posts

[@user-uo8ny1kj4c]

>comes on lost media forum thread as a fresh account >yeah i have it >dumps it >refuses to elaborate

[@clarencekisamore3281]

Would love to see what kind of lost media a website like Newgrounds has. I was an avid fan in the 2000s and I wonder how many shorts or series were lost over the years.

[@ImaginaryAlchemist]

Especially with Flash being dead now

[@Gilhelmi]

People are Naive if they think that the Internet means that there will never be lost media again. Websites shut down, storage and bandwidth is limited, people change and destroy their own work, accidents happen and things are lost. A dozen different ways to lose media, and the boulder will never be pushed to the top of the hill.

[@Idiotic_B_Purcell]

Well there's game content that I know of, like the unreleased Pico 2 demos and unproduced full game, as well as the now countless [REDACTED] mods, but yeah there's also a shit ton of images all throughout the site that'll never be found again and it's a crying shame. Whomever decided it was a good idea to shut it down couldn't understand that Flash was basically the core of fandom on the Internet. And there's no way anyone would remake their Flash Player content due to either embarrassment and regret, all that work they'd have to pull through to do something they say is now irrelevant, cases of retirement, or cases of death

[@NAFEDUDE]

@@Idiotic_B_Purcell I don't think Newgrounds got shut down...

[@Idiotic_B_Purcell]

@@NAFEDUDE I meant Flash

[@DecadoPrime]

That lost Pixar DVD really shocked me. I never even heard about this search

[@themangoman9315]

My heart sank when you said 2015 was 7 years ago 😭

[@itssunday1990]

Hold me 😫

[@LuLzer01]

now it’s almost 10 years ago…😬

[@steventylerrocks8382]

One of the most disappointing searches for me was the one for Dreamfinders. I had hoped we would find a three-episode series that aired on the Disney Channel for a few weeks and never again, but it turned out it was never made.

[@hptwillightfan123]

To me, the reason why Day with Spongebob was a disappointment was more because I don't believe we got the full story. While I'm inclined to say that it didn't exist, everything about it was extremely sketchy. I mean, we had Lorenzo saying it was made, then we had Mr. Orange saying it wasn't. That alone is really suspicious, especially since Lorenzo was the one who gave the contact info for Mr. Orange in the first place. Sure, the moving of addresses and alleged employees refusing to speak to the searchers and pseudonyms can be explained for more innocuous reasons rather than elicit activities, but changing the story just has never set right with me. Now, do I really care about this? Not really at this point, there's plenty of crazy twists and trolls in the rest of the search story that amuse me greatly when I want to take a trip down memory lane. But I don't think we ever got, nor will we ever get, the full truth

[@Mehhhhhhhh]

He's a scammer. I heard he or some other people are trying to make a "found footage" tape to sell it. They're aware of the hype.

[@SuperGoomba6464]

Nickelodeon loses fucking everything lmao do they keep anything or do they just throw the tape in the fire after it airs

[@darkfoxfurre]

I'd like to further affirm that the series finale of Ka-Blam probably doesn't exist, simply because Nickelodeon loved to put cartoons into syndication. Making an "ending" to any of their cartoons would ruin the illusion that the show hadn't been cancelled yet. The only Nick Toon that I can recall off the top of my head that had a "proper ending" was Angry Beavers, and supposedly there was some contention between Nickelodeon and the studio regarding its creation.

[@PurpleRupee]

A lot of that happened when departments got new leaders. I wish the creator of this vid woulda mentioned where the award ceremony clips came from: kids choice awards!

[@ranger1333]

Is anyone ever going to bring up that episode 29 is a fanfic.

[@KaBlammer1992]

Episode 29 … ah, I’m so glad that “phase” is done. Hope you’re well!

[@mattguy1773]

Still finding lost media is always a win Some are just lesser wins than others

[@ScumSookar]

Episode 29 is one of those things where if it was real, we probably would of found it a long time ago. I really think that case was some people confusing childhood imagination with a memory.

[@alexandramcginnis8872]

Most Lost Media have no historical, quality, or any other means to it. They tend to be insignificant. And there nothing wrong with that. Unless you are looking for VERY VERY early (talking about early days of traditional movies), or finding the lost libary of Alexandria, it’s unlikely to be significant. When it really come down to it, the appeal and the amaze of Lost media finding is a community, working it’s hardest to find media they remember! And that is worth more than the prize

[@mattwolf7698]

Honestly the stories behind finding the media is usually more interesting than the media itself to me.

[@peterstangl8295]

Well, you never know what could be significant later. I maintain that in the sea of unsignificant lost media there are some hidden gems to be found.

[@robokill387]

@Ichijou Miyamoto and that lost beatles song, carnival of light.

[@M50A1]

​@@peterstangl8295i doubt anyone is gonna want a random sandwich commercial some dude on Reddit saw when he was sick on a random Wednesday in 1998 at 2:37pm in October

[@Homerstar]

Even though the end result of A Day With SpongeBob was disappointing, I’m still glad it happened because without it I would have never gotten into Lost Media.

[@TheHankScorpio]

I think underwhelming outcomes are representative of the human curiosity and desire. Similar to how conspiracies are often insanely overblown and beyond the realm of common sense, if Lost Media han't been found, or like Pixar people clam up about it, it MUST be because it's this amazing piece that if shown would end the world. Whereas in reality it's either too similar to existing media (Flapjack Pilot), a personal thing (Pixar MiPR) or just a bit rubbish (A Day w/ Spongebob). By no means is everything Lost Media disappointing, far from it, but the effort put to finding them has potential to far outweigh the payoff if expectations are set sky-high. Though I think A Day with Spongebob's search is its own rabbit hole that supersedes the media itself, so many questions about Regal Films.

[@mattwolf7698]

Lost media honestly lost some of it's charm for me when I checked out Cry Baby Lane, it's not really that scary even for a kids movie (seriously Coraline and Return to Oz are far scarier than it) once you get past the backstory in it, it wouldn't surprise me if Nick just forgot about it. I do still find a lot of it interesting but I've learned to set my expectations low.

[@silverxstar01]

Mannnn... this made me realize how long I've been into lost media too. That Blameitonjorge video you mentioned was also the gateway into it for me... I just found it so fascinating how pieces from popular franchises can have no documentation online whatsoever. I have not actively participated in any searches or spent much time on the wiki, but even just watching from the sidelines is thrilling enough. Keep up the good work -- the community may continue to grow, but you will always be one of the best creators.

[@mightyfilm]

I always feel just a little disappointed when, in cases like Sesame Street Cracks and Clockman, the actual found footage is never really as creepy or has the same mystique as the hazy recollections explained by those who started the searches. It's great we found them and all, don't get me wrong, but the reality never quite stacks up to a grown adult's memory of something they saw as a kid and exaggerated in their minds about how frightening or disturbing it was.

[@porcelainboy264]

Dressy Sally is mildly creepy still, Clockman himself especially

[@mightyfilm]

@@porcelainboy264 I actually find Sally to be a great deal creepier looking than the Wizard, not to mention a little chickenshit that gets what she deserves. I guess an adult perspective on any of that sketch is going to be different than the memory of seeing it as a kid. Of course, some of it is unnerving, but for me that's the odd art style and the general off putting cutout animation. That said, I did see one of the misleads in the search, Nutcracker Fantasy (the opening about the Ragman was confused for Sally), and that's a different level of creepy and disturbing. The movie's a fever dream of a bad acid trip. It's on Retrocrush.

[@mattwolf7698]

I feel that way about Crybaby Lane, excluding the back story (which isn't really shown) it's not that scary, seriously Coraline is a much scarier kids movie.

[@Pooky1991]

I found the creepy descriptions people gave the episode more interesting than the actual episode. I thought it was going to be one of those creepy kids media type situations like that one scene from Tom Sawyer with the devil.

[@mightyfilm]

@@Pooky1991 That's the power of imagination right there. Nothing will be as creepy as what your mind will fill in as creepy.

[@sadrat5375]

This video has that same feel of finding an employees only door in a hotel as a kid only to go inside and find out it's just a boring, shitty office or a generator room

[@Twinklethefox9022]

I went to look up the billy and Mandy pilot when seeing this thumbnail. Not sure if it's the same one as what you're about to talk about but that one was a bit unsettling. And this is coming from someone who grew up on the show

[@sinofsanity6593]

"there is one topic next to these that doesn't get quite as nice of a reception" the Go For a Punch anime and how toxic those still looking for it can be when someone's convinced it doesn't exist? "a day with spongebob" I felt a shiver. the search just devolved into rumours about it being a cash write off for the mafia or things like that. those rumours became far more interesting than the film itself

[@ChangedMyNameFinally69]

I'm kinda glad Go For A Punch didn't exist though

[@NotEmilio]

18:04 "the search was back in 2015 to 2016 so old at this point" man don't say that i don't want to think that 2016 was long ago

[@ryanlajeunesse7931]

I have one that stands out. The earliest prototype of sonic 1. About a year ago we got a prototype and most theories and speculations were confirmed such as zone names being altered , tile sets being changed, difficulty alteration, etc. The one in question had a green hill with a city with japanese kanji text in the background with an enemy that didnt resemble the badniks that we got at all. Supposedly according to yuji naka its internally lost st sega. What that means for finding it in any capacity is uncertain

[@oldgenesys7886]

I don't know what are the standards for lost media but i think its cool to know the origins of a particular piece of media even if it doesn't live to the hype around it, but what people really expect? Hyper realistic eyes and blood? A really dirty plot regarding incest and adult jokes? People morbid curiosity sometimes takes out the worst of us

[@ChangedMyNameFinally69]

That was the Billy and Mandy pilot though lol. Also Jimmy Two Shoes

[@slimcognito383]

A day with SpongeBob is one of those things that even if I was a part of it I still would have been disappointed with. For me, I hate doing so much work in the hopes that something will come of it only for it to result in nothing. It's that feeling that I wasted my time on this thing when I could. been doing something better/fun with my time.

[@lllWicked]

At least the mystery is solved, more than nothing

[@Jon-Patrick-S]

While the final product itself may not always be the most interesting thing, I'm personally of the opinion that the most important thing is that at least we reach a definitive conclusion that this either exists or it doesn't and we've found it or we haven't yet. That and the stories that go along with that process usually have a strong appeal and value of their own.

[@alaskaberri]

Treasure was a British-Canadian animated series that originally ran for a single 13-episode season on YTV's now defunct Limbo block in Canada from its inception in September 2000 until its discontinuation in January 2001 with reruns airing without any special branding until evidentally 2002 and on BBC2 in United Kingdom from December 2001 until 2002 with reruns airing until evidentally 2006. The series was based off a newspaper column by the late Michele Hanson which was eventually adapted in book form as Treasure: The Trials of a Teenage Terror. It was a co-production between BBC Bristol in United Kingdom and what was then known as Cinar in Canada. The only home media releases of the show were the first episode which was included as a bonus episode on the Dark Oracle: The Complete Series DVD (which i will be getting shortly) and the thirteenth episode on the Cookie Jar Christmas Collection DVD (which I actually have). Other than that, only three episodes (the second [which was on a BBC Bristol screener tape that was ripped to Vimeo], the fourth [which was on a Cinar screener tape that was ripped to KZbin], and the twelfth [which was found from a 2006 airing on BBC2]) have been found. The other 8 episodes (103, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, and 111) are currently considered lost media.

[@verylostdoommarauder]

Even though the ADWS search didn't end with any video being found, there is still one thing about it that will never fail to be funny to me. Given the suspicious activity of Regal Films and it's employees, the theory that was posited was that they were a money laundering scheme, even though they weren't. Could you imagine being someone running a money laundering scheme, everything is going well, then one day a bunch of people start calling you and asking about a bootleg Spongebob movie you didn't actually make, then the entire scheme is busted.

[@unodrake]

Damn I love your longer uploads! I always play the big videos while I'm working to get caught up with the community, and I really enjoy being able to listen to this for hours, as well as the re-watch capability being perfect. Keep making these videos man!!

[@KnottsBear-yTalesPreserved]

I never was a fan of the Day With Spongebob topic; don't shoot the messenger. But the best thing I can say about it is that it created a wonderful and amazing team of people who are willing to go out and search for things that are lost. And I am very grateful for that! Thank god the dive for Lost Media caught on! On a side note, I've been on a personal seach for the soundtrack of the Kingdom of The Dinosaurs dark ride at Knott's Berry Farm. And while I recovered the ride's predecessor (Knott's Bear-y Tales) prior to the wild events of 2020. Kingdom still remains lost which is strange because people deem it to be the best ride in the Bear-y Tales building yet its missing its iconic soundtrack...

[@mattwolf7698]

Yeah, I think people only wanted A Day With Spongebob found because Spongebob is popular, if it wasn't a well known cartoon, I don't think many people would have cared. Now If it was some weird official thing I could understand looking for it but some unfunny looking unofficial looking mockumentary didn't really look worth finding to me anyway. Also, as soon as nobody could find the DVD's or any evidence of anybody having it, I was pretty sure it never entered production and it turned out I was right.

[@Red_Savarin]

I remember watching 'Trepanation of the Skull & You' during the Tromanimation livestream back then. IIRC everyone in the chat was completely disappointed and wondering why it was so short to begin with.

[@ItsJayDee]

The algorithm blessed me with your channel a couple days ago and since then i've been Neck Deep in amazing lost media contentm keep up the great work man!

[@elphive42]

See, I’ll always appreciate the Point Richmond DVD, because it did contain the original cut of Knick Knack, among a lot of other early Pixar content which hadn’t been widely released in good quality.

[@SpaceLizardful]

I wonder how much info from old episode guide sites is false. Besides "Episode 29", at one point nearly all info online about Street Sharks online was made up by one guy. He wrote an article about it, and how some people started to "remember" the characters and episodes he made up. Wonder who else did that and never revealed it, and how much of that info is still bouncing around.

[@mattwolf7698]

There's this wiki called "Fanon" which is a bunch of made up shows or episodes to shows, I'd had that come up a few times when researching stuff before and eventually realized some of the info wasn't adding up and then found out that it was a weird form of fanfiction. I'm not saying all false info stems from that site but I have seen made up shows in the same vein be listed on things before (I once saw something about a Pokemon show that supposedly ran for 3 years and there was no info about it anywhere, yeah, there's no way that existed.) Also, some people do just have legit false memories and might write down the wrong info.

[@ChangedMyNameFinally69]

​@@mattwolf7698Ah yes Camp Pokemon

[@tuxedobird]

For me, getting irrefutable evidence something is fake is at least almost as good as learning it’s real, so nice to be able to close a case for good after years of debate

[@ImSarrow]

Great video as always dude, it’s always cool to see where these journeys take us, even if the destination isn’t what we thought it might be

[@stevenwhuntva]

I personally just want stuff found and preserved. Even things I have no interest or are boring objectively are important to find.

[@ExaltedUriel]

My personal favorite piece of lost media (or I guess more accurately just unreleased media since it was never broadcast to the wider public) was a pilot for a potential Kingdom Hearts cartoon for Toon Disney. A pilot was made and did well with focus groups, but never got made a series because Square/Nomura didn't want to worry about it possibly contradicting future games. And one of the many reasons Disney probably has it locked tight in their vault with no hope of seeing the light of day again is because it apparently used score from the 2000 movie Gladiator unlicensed, lol. RebelTaxi talked about it in one of his videos and you can even see some storyboards for it.

[@brass_fox]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZnrcmGmdhr95nsU

[@ChangedMyNameFinally69]

This aged well lol

[@elconejofunco]

I don't even understand the Kablam! episode 29 rumor. Why would they produce a "finale" as the third episode of a season? Makes absolutely no sense.

[@Darxide23]

I remember those animated Listerine and Trident commercials. Never knew those were from Pixar.

[@LegionEagles22]

13:24 Billy and Mandy gives me a surreal sense of nostalgia. I discovered the show one night when i was younger at 4 am because i couldn't sleep (i have insomnia) and i turned on the tv. The show stuck with me, but i had forgotten the name and didn't watch it again until finding people talking about it on the internet a few years later. It's kind of unrelated but i just felt like sharing.

[@ImaginaryAlchemist]

I think the main problem with lost media searches is often the internet itself. Things can spread and gain traction pretty quickly on the internet, drawing more people to search. Especially these days with social media and platforms like Reddit becoming more popular. As more people get involved, they add half-remembered, misremembered, or completely fabricated details to the investigation. Some of them legitimately want to help, but there are those who will intentionally mislead people to troll them. It's also very easy to make something fake and pass it off as real. So it's not surprising many of these searches end up as wild goose chases or something underwhelming. I mean, dare I mention "that evil farming game?" I'd say that had a pretty underwhelming conclusion.

[@Jacob_was_here]

Meanwhile in a parallel universe where lost media is released.. Guy 1: Hey man, what cha' doing? Guy 2: Oh, just watching A Day with Spongebob, how about you? Guy 1: I'm watching the Me and My Shadow trailer. Guy 2: I can't wait to see that movie, man!

[@timthewizard6102]

Probably the biggest offender of this kinda lost media is Go For A Punch imo

[@J0SHUAKANE]

I still find it hard to believe people fell for that so badly.

[@CherryPixelBun]

@@J0SHUAKANE my favorite part was the implication of it being on the dark web because it's so bloody and fucked up but you can find far worse looking up 90s straight to video OVAs right here on KZbin

[@J0SHUAKANE]

@@CherryPixelBun the story seemed more inspired by uziga waita's artwork than anything, like his cover for lord gore's autophagous orgy.

[@ChangedMyNameFinally69]

​@@CherryPixelBunAt least it means there's one less guro anime in the world

[@marxmatter]

For me this was personally with Izzy's quest for olympic gold. For a while back in the day i had a hyperfixation on olympic mascots and found out Izzy have or used to have a bunch of lost media and when i found out there was a lost special? i was fairly interested. Until it was found, watched it and it was just.. mediocre. No wonder it was mostly lost lmao. But hey at least it's found..

[@ironmaster6496]

that's an interesting aspect about lost media, sometimes the thing got lost because there just wasnt nothing interesting about and people just didnt care for it

[@ExtremeWreck]

Yeah I honestly thought it would've been a cool special about Izzy & his friends having to save the athletes so that the Olympics can happen & they'd have to travel all throughout the entire world to find them & stop the bad guys.

[@gege1178]

i am surprised 'go for a punch' isn't in here , it's literally the prime example of fake lost media . the amount of bullshit relating to that search is astounding . 'a day with SpongeBob' is a classic Tho , the weird ass EVERYTHING is fascinating . it has one of the most interesting searches and it not existing , and the surprise appearance of mister orange , just makes it TOP TIER ! my point is 'go for a punch' is boring with very little tpp look back on while 'a day with SpongeBob' is fun .

[@salem2503]

YEAH the concept for go for a punch was very interesting but it’s genuinely disappointing that it doesn’t actually exist

[@schuszter4280]

“Episode 29” is my most hated piece of lost media, it was talked about SO MUCH and of course it was made up as if it wasn’t obvious

[@kingnewcomer2029]

Great video once again, LSSQ! :D Yeah, I agree it is a shame that not all of lost media have lived up to our expectations, but it's still a joy to try, and discover what we can find that's gotten lost over the years, or even decades (even if some of them may be disappointments as shown in the video)! :)

[@denniswilliams6519]

Lost media by nature is most interesting simply because it is "lost." It is like a forbidden fruit you cannot have, and when lost media does pop back up and no longer becomes lost well...it is never gonna live up to what you imagine it to be.

[@l.g.956]

The spongebob search was a huge let down in the end but to me it was the wildest and most insane ones. It’s the kind of story I tell my real life friends when I talk about lost media things with them, I got a kick out of it but we all felt sort of cheated by the end of it. If anything, it’s a good example of what not to do in a search (contacting people with no connection, harassment, and overall derailing the search effort and focusing on stuff found in the rabbit hole that’s irrelevant to the media) But I would say that Cracks was the crowning achievement of the community, it was one out first combined efforts and it was a huge success.

[@porcelainboy264]

There's something off-putting about that Billy and Mandy short, something about the art and animation, specifically Mandy

[@joshhacker8503]

Perfect timing! I was just looking for something cool to watch while cooking dinner!

[@twoicecreams.]

I totally forget about Kappa Mikey! As soon as you said the title name, I remember hearing about it on Nicktoons in the mid 2000s, although I didnt watch it as compared to SpongeBob and the old 90s cartoon block (which weren't that old back in the 2000s). Thanks for jogging my memory!

[@tabuoey]

would you be interested in helping somebody else find an obscure piece of lost media? or do you only search for ones that you are familiar with or are personally appealing to you?

[@piepivotmonitor5986]

What do you have in mind?

[@tabuoey]

@@piepivotmonitor5986 unfortunately i dont remember much of it, making it very hard to search for. it was a late 90s-earlt 2000s PC video game, featuring a duck character. i think there were colouring in mini games and other educational stuff. the only thing i clearly remember is the ending where the duck would swim down a stream as the credits rolled. there is a possibility that this is a french video game and not in english. i do not remember

[@piepivotmonitor5986]

@@tabuoey This is a fascinating case. I hope it turns up.

[@ExtremeWreck]

I would definitely help, but I myself have a bunch of very obscure lost media cases that I like to search for myself. So far I haven't gotten much from them, but they'll do for now.

[@Julia-tk2em]

@Tabby Is it a platformer? Or is it formatted more like current childrens games.

[@slyfox7452]

One hunt that was quite disappointing is “go for a punch”

[@jacksondiegoc-g4434]

its almost like lost media was lost for a reason

[@mattwolf7698]

Honestly, a lot of it is mundane stuff that's not really important. Occasionally some cool stuff gets found like Clockman for example though.

[@Pooky1991]

I think some of my favorite cases of Lost Media are the Recobbled cut of Arabian Nights due to how interesting the backstory is and the fact people are stull searching. A Day With Spongebob Squarepants because despite the movie not existing there's still a lot of mystery surround Regal Film and the sketchy shit surrounding the studio. Cracks because its just amazing the work people put in to find it, for it to suddenly pop up. The Gravity Falls pilot treasure hunt which was fascinating. Another one that still hasn't been solved that is less lost media and more a video game mystery is this stuff surrounding Ben and Ed which had this completely bonkers end game easteregg that branched into RL and almost sounds like some horror movie shit And lastly, lost media horror movies. Thatcreepyreading did a whole video on them and it is intriguing. Two in particular that had me curious was this anti-lbgtq film at the time that sounds like something you would see on pureflix and people would riff the hell out of and this one about a couple who pretty much want to murder each other.

[@Doodliver]

I'm from Venezuela, here when I was a child the Billy and Mandy episode was aired, I already watched the show in it's final state with the designs when arealdy know for the characters, so when I saw the pilot it looked very strange to me, but I could recognize them

[@rapparappa2006]

lies, lies, nothing but lies

[@educatetheleft]

Animation seems to make up a large percentage of lost media

[@carlcarlington7317]

I feel like most lost media findings are/ would be disappointing. Like some piece of media that goes missing is always interesting, but once you find it what do you have left? In most cases just another episode of a tv show. Even obviously fake things like “go for a punch” would probably be disappointing if someone actually found it. It would just be another gore anime ova from the 90’s. The mystery is where most of the interest is for me tbh.

[@mattwolf7698]

Honestly a lot of the more recent lost media (so not some 1920's movie for example) is lost because it wasn't interesting enough for anybody to save in the first place.

[@thecapitalg]

You should mention El Chavo del Ocho lost media, because over 50+ episodes of that show are lost, sadly.

[@blasternixon8013]

Yeah i remember finding billy and mindy found pilot to be disappointing yet gross out just to be a 1950s parody

[@Tree_e888]

One of my friends pointed this out but if you were expecting a pilot with the exact same formula as the final show just with minor aesthetic changes then why would that be interesting in the first place? The fact that it's totally different than the final product is what makes it so interesting because we could have gotten something totally different.

[@CherryPixelBun]

im sorry but were you not expecting a billy and mandy thing to have gross out humor

[@devon7585]

Hey LSSQ, long time fan! Love the video BTW, but I got a question. Where do you get your music? It's so charming and kinda matches your style of videos.

[@coyoteartist]

That cat in the Bill and Mandy looks like a sticker I have somewhere.

[@fawfulthegreat64]

I really hope the search for the 2010 beta of Paper Mario: Sticker Star, even the trailer for it, gets mainstream attention because i want that to be found so bad

[@odestahunicrisp7691]

Great insight on these topics that people have decisive opinions on! I feel very enlightened

[@skrrrrrrrrt]

Lost media has always seemed creepy to me, even when it has nothing remotely scary about it

[@ItsMadyAgain]

"I made a video on the Flapjack pilot, but never uploaded it" GREAT. Now the lost media guy has lost media

[@wesleyhunt7599]

Lost Media is never boring. There is ALWAYS a great story to tell when finding it.

[@Cuiasodo]

The Ka-blam award show episode was lost media?! Gosh, I remember that one airing, like, five different times back then. I don't remember Henry and June kissing, but there was DEFO an award show episode, I just don't think it's a finale.

[@CloverCutieASMR]

It's so cool that you found lost media through blameitonjorge! I found his videos from watching your video!

[@0ne0nlyLarry]

I'm more surprised to find out June was a girl this whole time. NO I NEVER REALIZED IT BECAUSE OF HER NAME NOR DO I RECALL JUNE EVER BEING MENTIONED AS A GIRL. I ALWAYS THOUGHT SHE WAS A BOY... Kind of the Double D effect where folks thought Double D was a girl.

[@PeiceofNick]

The Double D effect?

[@ExtremeWreck]

Well I always thought El Tigre was a girl for quite some time when I was looking for GBA games to play & I never got around to playing that game. I also thought Alex Kidd was a girl as well before actually knowing anything about that series. Oh & you'd be surprised on the amount of people that thought Pepper Ann was a guy lol.

[@porcelainboy264]

@@PeiceofNick Double D from Ed, Edd, and Eddy. His name is Edd, with two Ds, but he's very rarely called by his name, and the other two rarely use pronouns when discussing him. I thought he was a girl for ages myself til the nickname clicked

[@abanana]

i remember being really excited for the search of a day with spongebob but then being disappointed when it wasn't real

[@CaptainUnikitty]

I’ve never wondered about some lost media being disappointing But this video was a good one

[@DavidMcCarthy08]

As much as I liked this video, I wasn't much of a fan on how this was presented, where a lot of it was focused on _their experience researching it_ instead of just what happened with the lost media. Probably just me.

[@KitsuneCentral]

"Oswald/Ozzy Osborne Crossover"... What?...

[@sagacious03]

Neat analysis video! Thanks for uploading!

[@clovercat1227]

That ~14 second clip starting at 1:12 just made me find one of my new favorite songs omg…. I was so surprised that there were lost mcr songs (excluding mcr5) and the one that got found is so good

[@braxbro7602]

You forgot to mention the evil farming game which didn’t even exist and was just imagined by a delirious Twitch viewer and wasted everyone’s time

[@KubesVoxel]

"It was for Pixar employees!" Worst human.

[@dguy0386]

shows the average 90s pixar employee's dedication to the company that NONE of them wanted to leak it, almost a shame it got leaked when you think about it that way

[@wolfetteplays8894]

Same reason very little iPhone prototypes get leaked

[@PoetTreeDotTV]

You're really good at dragging out videos, holy crap

[@dn22pkkdd476]

My favorite piece of Lost Media that didn't exist was The Mask Episode 55: "Animated End" As a child, I was enamored with the Jim Carey movie The Mask. I watched the cartoon based on the movie religiously, but only few episodes were ever aired, in repeats, where I lived. Years after it's cancelation, I would reminice on the series and as I grew older I would watch bootleg episodes online. During one of my random binges of the series, I stumbled apon a tv guide website that had a listing for 55th episode entitiled "Animated End". This episode was supposed to serve as a finale for the whole cartoon spinoff, and would have aired after the Ace Ventura crossover. The listing gave a brief plot synopsis, run time, and spoilers. I searched high and low, but could never find any trace of a 55th episode. A year later, I found an imdb listing for the episode, saying that it was aired as a 2 part special, and the search began again, only to come to acomplete halt a month later. A year later, trying to search it brings up nothing. Not the TV Guide site, or the IMDB listing. Knowing what I know now, I figure the episode listing was a fake, my first interaction with someone's fan fiction that somehow got picked up by a few websites. From what I remeber of the synopsis, it sounds bogus as all hell, so I guess I can consider it a fake and move on with my life. But a part of me still wonders.......