Oddity Archive: Episode 172 - VHS Vault Vol. 15 (Potty All The Time)

[@mightyfilm]

Am I the only one disturbed by how loud and bold the hammy singer gets when singing about kids on the toilet?

[@Footjones]

Funny episode. I can’t help but think of the singers, standing in some studio, trying to get through these lyrics without laughing.

[@DINKY77142]

A pay check is a pay check ... Ergh..

[@Footjones]

Amanda T Exactly 😂

[@randywatson8347]

I'd love to see a 45rpm 12inch extended LP on Discogs lol.

[@thekidfromiowa]

Lethal levels of cringe

[@namebrandmason]

Years of training and classes, possibly college, all in the name of a career in music.

[@FlyingDuckMan360]

Even as a kid, I always thought that the tiny guy in "It's Potty Time" was a knock-off of Mr. Conductor from Shining Time Station. The people who made It's Potty Time must have used the same kind of green-screen technology.

[@RobPryme]

It dawned on me while watching this that the "Oops, I Made A Mistake" song from the Interstitials episode would work well with the first tape.

[@ericariley1696]

"Oops I made a mistake. I peed on the floor. And left yellow stains. Ooh baby baby."

[@TheBronxBunnyMan]

"Now I Can Potty!" is from '94? I guarantee my parents bought this. THE FACT THEY TURNED IT INTO A SONG, OMG, SO WRONG YET SO FUNNY! Who knew Siouxsie Sioux was blonde at age 4? Edit: Yes, naps are great.

[@mr3urious]

Strangely enough, "It's Potty Time" happens to be weirder and more disturbing than the Shimajiro anime potty training video from Japan, even with talking excrement and a tiger willy staring right at you. At least there there wasn't some creepy little man watching him do his business, nor were there any clowns feeling him up.

[@michaelfisher9722]

Nothing makes me want to go to the bathroom like songs about going to the toilet in the style of 80s middle of the road pop.

[@Jared_Wignall]

This is an hilarious episode. It’s even better that for me that today is my birthday, so thank you for the incredible work you put into this and the series in general Ben.

[@soonerterp]

Happy birthday. :)

[@JontyMaster]

Well, that "slow jam" was pretty depressing indeed. If I want slow jam I'll stick with Candle in the Wind, thank YO!!!

[@Benjamin_Rowley78]

My favorite episode of Oddity Archive 🤣

[@shuichisaihara7849]

The VHS Vault episodes are always some of my favorites. Great video.

[@marktubeie07]

_"...cause they'll be a couple of years in your 20s where you won't have a potty to piss in!"_ - line of the video Ben. hilarious!

[@ericariley1696]

And if you have chronic constipation and/or it takes hours to go, and you don't have bathroom access or enough time to finish using it, you're screwed.

[@5roundsrapid263]

My mom is a sweet Southern lady who never swears, but she’s always used that exact expression!

[@sutorippuwebmaster8783]

17:40 If ever there were a subject that didn't need its own version of an existing kids' song, this is it. 18:18 If ever there were a subject that didn't need TWO versions of existing kids' songs, this is it. 19:24 IF EVER THERE WERE-- I give up. Sing it, sister!

[@BertLensch]

This was an awkward episode...

[@thekidfromiowa]

Ironically they grew up to be adult babies thus disregarding everything they learned.

[@PlaidDin]

@@thekidfromiowa Look up "babyfurs" and you'll get yourself played.

[@WDCallahan]

Dude, your almost killed me with "baby Budnick"!

[@aiberlane3390]

BTW, has there ever been an episode about Radio Shack's VID system? It was apparently like a wildly overpriced Socrates system, with educational games. I looked up videos on it after seeing it in an old Radio Shack ad, but no Oddity Archive video popped up.

[@BBC600]

Aiber Lane If there hasn’t been that sounds like an interesting topic.

[@VegasLounge]

15:02 I have that "circus" box! It's a wind-up paper music box and the clown's arms and legs are jointed and move. It's actually a pretty cool clockwork knicknack but now I'm always going to look at it and imagine the Potty Sprite is going to jump out at any time. I'm 34, dude, I've got the hang of it.

[@zackstewart4109]

Oh my god those videos are old enough that there may have been session musicians involved. What a gig.

[@FTWOBR2000]

8:04 Did this tape invent the Big City Toilet?

[@johnathin0061892]

Nah, that pathetic little potty couldn't withstand Billy Mays' storm force shit

[@5roundsrapid263]

9:02 Astronauts actually wear diapers quite often. Race car drivers, too. They both can’t just pull over and take a leak.

[@RadioFreeCedarCity]

Seems like I heard a while back that some NASCAR and indyCar drivers have been using some kind of makeshift catheter during long mileage races. Formula 1 drivers probably can't go 1 or 2 during any race because of the body weight of the driver being factored into the weight limit of the car. If they "lighten their load", the FIA lightens their wallet and championship point total.

[@brandonjustis]

five bucks to the first person to sample any of those clips in a song

[@Busch22Fan]

16:41 The dad could've waited for the balloons to get out of the way before trying to pick Bobby up...

[@pancudowny]

Man, that closing music sounds like gospel... as if they're saying going potty is a religious experience, and they're encouraging you to take "A 'leak' of faith"...!😁 Well, it seems fitting... because Lord knows there are times I go potty that make me go "HOLY-SHIT!!!"😄

[@collectingonthecheap56353]

I still have the It's Potty Time on DVD somewhere. Just stuck it away after the kids got embarrassed by seeing it on the DVD shelf. Was meaning to get rid of it, but never did.

[@PeacefulAutistic]

This was really weird but, enjoyable somehow. Haha. You're great Ben!

[@ShawnTewes]

One of the best episodes yet. I remember seeing the commercial over and over during Saturday morning cartoons. Funny sh*t (umm sorry).

[@thekidfromiowa]

Someone actually wrote and recorded those songs. Imagine that on your resume. Someone was desperate for session musician work.

[@nintendolunchbox]

Thank Christ I grew up in the late 70s. The only thing I had to listen to was Kermit singing about being green.

[@Tornado1994]

I was Potty trained in 1985, Training Pants were practically a New thing at the time. The First Video looked extremely dated even for 1994 standards. The song sounded 5 years late.

[@brbernardini]

Melissa Manchester reference made me literally laugh out loud.

[@ChuckD79]

Hilarious, and the SCTV reference was a nice touch, as well!

[@TheApoohneicie]

My aunt used to be a preschool teacher. I have seen sooooo many potty training videos and books. Some are actually a little disturbing.

[@waterandafter]

These kids are almost 30 now.

[@plushifoxed]

wwwwow. that whole first tape was a toilet humor nightmare

[@plushifoxed]

and it only got worse with the second one!!! holy shit (literally)

[@Dannypuck]

This isn't the pee tape I was looking for.

[@neilforbes416]

This subject is screaming out to be flushed away!

[@ZidaneWarner]

So... How did they exactly teach you how to use the toilet? Cause singing songs about great the toilet is isn't really helping.

[@InsanePsychoRabbit]

9:03 I thought astronauts did their business in astro-diapers. (at least when they're on EVA)

[@scabbarae]

I'm sitting home alone at night, drinking beer and watching children's potty training videos. I don't know how to feel about the way my life has turned out.

[@mrmook3001]

That the kid from "you on kazoo" in the second vid?

[@619_mitch]

The first video “Now I Can Potty” gives off a You on Kazoo vibe

[@studio366]

I kinda thought that was Rerun from What's Happening in the thumbnail.

[@memyopinionsche6610]

Clown measles. That's funny.

[@emilyhogan4973]

I feel second hand embarrassment for everyone involved in the first video including the people who had to watch that back in the day

[@Dementiumfan1990]

Cirque Du Soil is one of my favorite highbrow poop jokes

[@bibberly]

Oh wow. A girl I babysat in the 90's had the second video and really, really loved it. Like, if I offered her the choice of a Disney movie, she wanted to watch that instead. She had an older brother my age whose friends would be over at their house and I didn't want to be seen watching this video in front of guys from school, so I'd try to persuade her to watch anything else. No luck.

[@MissSallyB1]

911, I need to report a case of laughing to death at 18:28

[@ThePhantomSafetyPin]

... so I potty-trained myself as a kid, solely so I could go on a trip to New York with my family. I was like four.

[@derekroberts6654]

Way to go, Benny! Giving the middle finger to the KZbin police with that pic. Now I know...YOURE A REBEL!

[@XaneMyers]

The drawings in the first one… They look digital, so…did they use MS Paint for this? (Well, that or the older "Paintbrush" or whatever.) Based on the VHS-esque flickery distortion at the edges, I have to assume this isn't a cropped screen capture, but Paint can't go fullscreen… It just be some DOS program I don't know about.

[@5roundsrapid263]

So that’s how Puddles Pity Party got his name!

[@johnathin0061892]

They couldn't decide whether the lady singing was supposed to be Jamaican or Scottish

[@memyopinionsche6610]

I am an old school. I didn't learn on the internet.. I learned it by trial and error..

[@dunes8817]

That 1st video feels a bit older than it actually is.

[@5roundsrapid263]

I know, right. The hair and clothes (and the bathrooms!) look like 1988, not 1994. It might be a re-release.

[@superorangecat6937]

This is Chris Hanson's favorite episode!

[@adrienfourniercom]

does Bobby live in a pit? His garden is way beneath the ground

[@memyopinionsche6610]

A big wheel that's dope..

[@Armorhunterash]

18:29 your chorus made the song funnier

[@derelictfields]

And yet the most disturbing part of this episode was the clown.

[@hayleywaalen2612]

The teddy bear is going potty now.

[@JSRphones]

"Where did it go wrong?" Considering all the adult babies and the like that exist nowadays, I'm wondering the same thing.

[@miata149]

Ben: That episode was . . . painful.

[@soundminedd]

These lyrics too earnestly sung its perfect❤❤❤

[@memyopinionsche6610]

I thought the second videos about Bobby..but now about Lizzy.. Plot twist M Night Shyamalan couldn't produce. What a twist..

[@Stephie2007]

20:50 Mr. President! What are you doing?!

[@ericjimenez8777]

20:10

[@Keranu]

Pretty sure that's Danny Tamberelli that hosts the OddityArchive.

[@jordan.m2485]

Incredible.

[@iamlem2542]

Why does the beret guy from the second tape look like a hybrid of Tom Kenny and Samuel L. Jackson?

[@waterandafter]

Join us. Do like we do. Potty fascism.

[@owllymannstein7113]

114 comments and nobody noticed how badass that bathroom with the roses is, or that the little girl puts the fucking bear's head in the toilet chair when she wipes it?

[@martafrederick5503]

Clown is really creepy in the movie

[@martafrederick5503]

Kids actually Laughing into hypnotic Trance while the clown actually sings

[@zaksnow2233]

I'm surprised he cut out the part where the clown takes the kids to the toilet.... Yeah I'm not joking that's in the film. I should know I grew up with it.

[@OddityArchive]

It would've been too much awesome.

[@chadwik4000]

K.I.D.S. Kids In Daily Situations... what if the Kids in the first word was the acronym and it's just a never-ending loop? K.i.d.s. In Daily Situations

[@uncaaj]

Ah, It’s Potty Time. We meet again.

[@FooPanda]

Ohai!

[@hdofu]

Remember that one time Urkel and Rerun fused together into one creepy creeper and made a potty training video?

[@hdofu]

Also great casting choice in the first one with a kid who had to be constantly diapered through out the video, plus Jamaican reggae... Jamaican Reggae about using the Potty, I would never have thought that was a thing.

[@dylaninpieces2]

I still know what VHS is. Seriously!!!!

[@zeldajunkielol2]

Do you like Potty training videos ? I've been a big Potty training fan ever since the release of their 1990s video, "Now I can Potty". Before that, I really didn't understand any of their work. Too artsy, too intellectual. It was on Now I can Potty where Kids In Daily Situations presence became more apparent. I think "Can I Bring My Potty?" was the group's undisputed masterpiece. It's an epic meditation on intangibility. At the same time, it deepens and enriches the meaning of the preceding three songs. Listen to the brilliant ensemble playing of pee pee, poo and wee. You can practically hear every nuance of every instrument. In terms of lyrical craftsmanship, the sheer songwriting, this album hits a new peak of professionalism. Take the lyrics to "Learn how to use a potty". In this song, Now I can Potty addresses the problems of abusive political authority. "My Potty is the most moving pop song of the 1990s, about monogamy and commitment. The song is extremely uplifting. Their lyrics are as positive and affirmative as anything I've heard in Potty training videos.

[@619_mitch]

Bruh…

[@WhyWhydaguy]

Uh.

[@wilnnn5]

Weirdest comment ever.

[@ZXRulezzz]

18:28 And now I know and now I know and now I know and now I know and now I know and now I know that you can hear me, know that you can hear me The earth will shake in two will break, the earth will shake in two will break Death all around all around all around around

[@DINKY77142]

GOOD!

[@loneshewolf74]

See? This is why cats are better than kids. Not only are they easier to house train, but we don't have to watch a cringy video with them about using the litter box.

[@enemyv]

Tell that acronym rule to the creator of WINE, which stands for WINE Is Not an Emulator.

[@JSRphones]

And GNU (GNU's Not Unix)

[@robertgaines-tulsa]

Yeah, adults were morons back in those days. It was also the height of Barney the Purple Dinosaur. Sure, I was a teenager by then, but we still need our antidepressants. I am appalled their were no fart jokes though. Farts were all the rage on Nickelodeon at that time. I never had a potty. I learned with a real toilet. My parents didn't believe in wasting their money on crap. They did get one for my older brother though. He was always a spoiled asshole. He used it outside with a coat on in the middle of the summer from what I was told. I've seen pictures that back this up. My father photographed weird shit.

[@bdwalton27]

Is that the Charmin bear?

[@Z3R0FiR3]

demon sprite is creepy AF.

[@619_mitch]

At least the obscure production company who made “Now I Can Potty” has a creative name. K.I.D.S.(ids) is out of business sadly. The lady singing the “Potty Power Ballad” in Now I Can Potty sounds like Kelly Clarkson. Growing up, my family did not have either of those tapes you watched (Now I Can Potty, and It’s Potty Time) as they were outdated by my time. I had to watch Potty Time With Bear (in the Big Blue House).

[@zalibecquerel3463]

... the whole town says she does it ...

[@tylerwilliamson7128]

Even though this was a potty training video I use to watch this tape all the time when I was a kid cause I wanted to watch the birthday party scene that’s the only thing I would watch

[@randywatson8347]

Omg vaporgringe all the way!!!! Seriously I would smao if they play these songs in public restrooms 😂😂😂 (or playing loudly fom your smartphone)

[@Fluteboy]

In the UK we had a kiddie show called Potty Time, but it was nothing to do with the old "drop one curl one": kzbin.info/www/bejne/joOvZ6CvZt9jqdk

[@memyopinionsche6610]

And damn.. Lizzy is the flash in female form.. Wow she quick.. Quicksilver Maybe?

[@soonerterp]

So the second potty-training video was produced by Duke University Medical Center. In 1991-ish. This is just me but I bet those kids would have been a lot more thrilled to see Coach K, Grant Hill, and Christian Laettner rather than that low-rent clown.

[@tommynesbitt4837]

I believe the University of Michigan sought such an idea two years later, starring Chris Webber: "If you're a girl, you pee sitting down; if you're a boy, you pee standing up; and if the national championship is on the line, you pee away your chances by calling too many timeouts"

[@NECHOII]

*I LOVE WATCHING POTTY-TRAINING VIDEOS WHERE THE GROWN WOMAN IS THE TEACHER SHOWING US HOW TO USE IT!*

[@memyopinionsche6610]

Bobby is depressed because Izzy is way more powerful than he is. The MCU never addressed this storyline..

[@DINKY77142]

Gross. I would, however, pay well for that aqua toilet.. Vintage.. nice.. keep the spawn, gimme the throne..

[@waterandafter]

I liked that red one.

[@waterandafter]

Was the the whole It's Potty Time video?

[@neilforbes416]

Videos about toilet training toddlers.....yeah, only in America! We Aussies got by just fine without such nonsense!

[@collectingonthecheap56353]

To be fair, my generation did too. I just watched my Grandfather. These were made mostly for those parents who felt they had to have instructional information for every aspect from pregnancy to graduation.

[@neilforbes416]

@@collectingonthecheap56353 Well, I grew up in an age before the VCR and we NEVER needed stuff like this. America, what the F**K is wrong with you? Why must you have instruction videos for this, that and everything else? I really don't know how you Americans manage to survive!

[@sk8terboi10003]

15:36 man that lady did have a shit ton of teeth

[@iron1349]

dafuck's up with Liz's parents' house? She goes down stairs and then up stairs to the bathroom?

[@jimmymelendez1836]

Can you say awkward? Wow!

[@joehowe9020]

I STILL TAKE KNAP LOL 😂 😆 😝

[@alanbritton3326]

Now please wash your hands. And your VCR remote.

[@iamlem2542]

And the VCR itself.

[@MultiRachel05]

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