Oddity Archive: Episode 205 - VHS Vault Vol. 17 (Vampires & Pumpkins) (Halloween Special 2020)

[@TheApoohneicie]

There’s nothing wrong with joking around. My husband telling jokes and keeping me laughing has gotten me through two bouts with stage IV cancer. We made jokes about even the worst things… especially the worst things. Keep joking and laughing!

[@danmount9462]

Canadian vampires survive on maple syrup and poutine

[@thealrightestguitarist9135]

When these are unavailable, they can sometimes be found hanging from the neck of a moose.

[@thekidfromiowa]

prowrestling.fandom.com/wiki/Vampiro

[@thekidfromiowa]

The best way to avoid copyright claims is to post crap the holders would never admit to owning.

[@OddityArchive]

I wish. You'd be astounded at the obscurities and minutia in the Content ID system.

[@thekidfromiowa]

@@OddityArchive :( KZbin has always been vigilant about copyright even before the Google buyout but they get more ridiculous each year. People have posted their original music and got it flagged because bots don't know their ass from a hole in the ground. You can appeal but YT will probably just gaslight you. The system is rigged against creators.

[@thekidfromiowa]

@@OddityArchive Oh and never mind that it's hard to deprive royalties from out of print tapes from defunct companies. Again the algorithm can't make that discernment.

[@SameNameDifferentGame]

I had the 1988 version of that tape as a kid! I'm from the Milwaukee area originally and, man, seeing Gordy here is a blast of nostalgia.

[@zmbdog]

2:50 I totally called it! Nobody was worse than Simitar.

[@Aquatarkus96]

I really enjoyed the little **boo** in the intro from the EAS demon :)

[@neilforbes416]

19:30 Great big huge piece of..... WHAT? There IS NO GOD! The pumkin grows either wild or in gardens tended by gardeners!

[@imrustyokay]

This Halloween Special was great, and it was a great distraction from the current world at large. Thanks, Ben. Happy Halloween. (By the way, your pumpkin looks cute. Little jagged, but cute.)

[@chadwik4000]

After watching the beginning of this it clicked as to the reason you probably moved. Crazy times, Benny-Boy, crazy times. Love the Archive, I've been a fan since you were maybe only 30 videos or so in, it's awesome!

[@millsyinnz]

The first clip is what you would probably see on History Channel today

[@mikal]

RedLetterMedia did the pumpkin carving guy video on their Christmas Best of the Worst today, and it gave me flashbacks. I came here to review and make sure I wasn't hallucinating.

[@adrienfourniercom]

someone needs to hire the vampire victim actress from the first tape to direct a creepy pasta about the pumpkin man carving the faces of fashionistas he keeps in his basement.

[@prismstudios001]

And he skips the eyebrows, cause she plucks em out.

[@waterandafter]

Gordy is correct: pumpkins are technically fruit.

[@prismstudios001]

Leave their sexual orientation out of this.........

[@noneofyourbusiness4616]

8:23 - thia sounds like the narration on The Orb's "Little Fluffy Clouds."

[@RickinBaltimore]

Ben got a complete McDonaldLand bucket!

[@OddityArchive]

I've had it for a few years now.

[@larrylaffer3246]

@@OddityArchive I had a complete Gargoyles one from BK. Got it from my High School when I visited it once and they were just going to toss it. They were using it as a prop of some kind. Sadly it broke. Cheap 90's plastic.

[@joshm264]

*ALL HAIL STAN* We give thee our finest Laserdisc players and our finest U-matic decks, (etc etc)

[@poody56]

Always nice to hear Robo Voice again.

[@nazznomad]

This episode was really entertaining Ben. Peace from Canada 🇨🇦

[@bongodoug]

Aren't you glad you got Vlad?

[@ericjfeschuk3595]

I LOVE YOUR HALLOWEEN JACK-O-LATRINE

[@adamstamps3568]

that pumpkin looks good

[@emilyhogan4973]

The last time I carved a pumpkin was for a group project in jr high and I accidentally cut the wrong part out of the design and the rest of the group banned me from carving anything more on that pumpkin.

[@memyopinionsche6610]

And thanks to twilight. Vampires sparkle.

[@mightyfilm]

Commercial Announcer: Look what's rising out of the pumpkin path this Halloween! Linus: Can it finally be? Is he finally here? Commercial Announcer: The Pumpkin Cutter! Linus: SON OF A...!!!!!!!

[@newstarcadefan]

It hits really hard, now that the specials aren't being seen on network tv this year.

[@mightyfilm]

Yeah, but most fans have them on home video anyway. Networks have been moving away from showing specials that aren't the major hits since the 2000's.

[@funnyscares595]

Wait, if that was you on the phone,and you on the bus, then who was flickering the lights? 13:13

[@chipbush0111]

They should have hired Frank Silva to play the vampire from the opening scene in the first video. It would have been a bit more interesting.

[@daveporter0217]

His fees were probably too high. The victim actress vaguely reminded me of Laura Palmer anyway.

[@Rando1975]

I remember Simitar. Were all their tapes in EP? I'm pretty sure all the tapes I had of them were. I had a bunch of early Jackie Chan movies.

[@oldmantoza]

12:50 See “Overdrawn at the Memory Bank”

[@gunkyzip]

Somehow that David Myler's talking reminds me of The Brain. Same thing we do every night, Pinky... try to take over the vampire world!

[@imrustyokay]

Also, I only carved a pumpkin once, during preschool. Threw up during the hallowing out bit cause it turns out pumpkin guts gross me out.

[@OfficialDJUnikittyYT]

Happy halloween Benny!

[@SmeddyTooBestChannel]

Simitar's best asset is their intro jingle. That's it, though.

[@ericthe7177]

Nah, that's probably public domain too.

[@lascheque]

My next of pumpkin is a bloody Vampire.

[@Cole.....]

"Every human being has eyebrows." -Hey, what about Whoopi Goldberg?

[@jamesslick4790]

@S Hol I'm not sure Whoppi qualifies as a comedian. Comedians have to be funny.

[@jamesslick4790]

@S Hol I am not familiar with her "work", but, In my little world, a "comedian" is funny (even IF I don't agree with their politics). If someone is doing "stand up" and ain't funny, They ain't a "comedian", they are perhaps (at best) a commentator.

[@neilforbes416]

Sex for blood.... Adds a new meaning to the term, "Put the bite on someone!"

[@jamesslick4790]

4:32 - 4:39 Thanks Ben!, Now I have the PERFECT titlecard for my craptastic home movie/video to digital transfers! Yay!!! 😊

[@Fluteboy]

18:16 - Haven't we seen this man before? Episode 20? kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZ3PZ2SVi7SksKM

[@memyopinionsche6610]

Is Gordy gonna talk about smashing pumpkins?

[@HeffeJeffe78]

To look into this VHS tape, is to look into the TAPE OF EVIL. These tights sure do bind at the crotch.

[@suedenim]

Why was that Simitar thing on two tapes, when it was recorded in EP?

[@OddityArchive]

To make you feel like you getting a really great deal (Simitar tapes were usually under $10--even the 2-tape sets).

[@jamesslick4790]

@@OddityArchive I'm guessing they were short length tapes too! (If recorded in SP, Maybe 30 Minutes each.)

[@OddityArchive]

I've since filed them away, so they're not handy, but I think they were T-20's.

[@suedenim]

I didn't even know T-20s existed!

[@jamesslick4790]

@@suedenim I've seen T-20s! Like audio cassettes (C-10 was common for computer use!), VHS could be had in very short lengths. In fact you can RIGHT NOW buy T-20 VHS on Amazon in a 50 tape carton!

[@RickinBaltimore]

Why was I immediately singing "Seein' the Light" with the host of the Vampires tape?

[@chadwik4000]

Wait, is this where Romero go the idea for Martin??? Some speculate vampires as adrenochrome addicts, and they have been doing it since way back, like Sumarian... it involves more than vampire fetish play though, lol

[@thealrightestguitarist9135]

I'm going on the assumption that David Myler is the lovechild of Mark Hamill and Bill Murray. Great video, Ben. I was especially happy to see the chipmunk has finally come to terms with not being a squirrel :)

[@blackphoenix77]

I definitely felt his existential dread at the end of the video.

[@ericjfeschuk3595]

OMG HA !! AT THE BEGANING OF THE SHOW ED WHAT IS HAPPENING ?????

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

Good ol' reality really is terrifying. 😂

[@Rando1975]

What's the point of drawing lines for carving a Jack O Lantern if you're not going to follow them!

[@johnsweda2999]

Can't remember his name now the guy who made Max Headroom dummy same guy who did the alien autopsy dummies you got to laugh

[@snr_gbe]

*** boo. *** AWWWWWWWWWWWWA AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWA

[@toratio8547]

Don't vampires need permission to enter properties? Maybe they are Canadian...

[@algorefan4]

why dies Gordy look like a bargain bin woody allen?

[@classz123]

Vile vhs crap has transcended culture. Is VHS crap real? Yes!

[@imrustyokay]

Honestly, seeing the two main front runners in the election, and certian areas reaction to COVID, I'd rather have my blood drained by a vampire than be in this rhelm. Although I do look like a vampire.