Oddity Archive: Episode 4 - Local TV Special (2016 RE-EDIT)

NOTES: This episode was pulled from YT after a dispute left it banned nearly worldwide. The 2nd half of this episode has been completely re-edited to resolve some sync issues and other minor stuff. The entire episode’s audio has been remixed.
ORIGINAL TAGLINE: Interested in seeing a clown so laid-back, he forgets he's on camera? Now about a Hawaiian teen idol with a pen fetish? Maybe an American Bandstand ripoff with an evil spirit hosting? If you answered yes to any of these questions, watch this episode--then seek immediate professional help.
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[@gdawg2389]

Svengoolie came back on a few years ago. You can see him every Saturday at 10pm on "ME TV" across the country. Count Scary is probably the best of them all. I feel bad for anybody who didn't get to see him.

[@BlackFlagHeathen]

I just got rick rolled by Ben Minotte. My life is complete.

[@PKSandman]

For those wondering, Svengoolie did get cancelled in '86... then got revived in '94 at another Chicago station. The program was picked up by MeTV in 2011 where it has been since.

[@MORPHOSYS]

I took a screenshot at 14:16 and sent it to a fellow Beatles fan, and she said it looked like a logo for a restaurant. She also said she could use a Paul McChicken sandwich with some Lennonade to drink.

[@rogerb5615]

Ouch.

[@MrWolfSnack]

Yes, thats Jimmy Chamberlin on the drums! Jimmy's good friend Eddie Mayer on Bass. Another good story? Jimmy recorded "The Chicken Dance" with Eddie Korosa Jr and the Boys from Illinois early 80's on a "45".

[@CrowTRobot-ni7zu]

Funny that Ben says "'Soul Train' this is not" during "Kiddie a Go-Go," when those two shows came from the same station.

[@natethefighter]

WBBZ here in Buffalo STILL has televised polka parties every Sunday night.

[@Betapvnk]

I watch Sven every week on MeTV

[@otaking3582]

Who the hell would pursue legal action on a video about local TV programs? I doubt any of these shows are still on the air, and none of them probably can afford decent lawyers or bots.

[@ericn.wilson2345]

+Otaking Mikohani Looking at the credits, I can hazard a guess...

[@XLordLeamingtonX]

+Otaking Mikohani Svengoolie is still on in Chicago but I doubt Koz would care about this video

[@stankydanky]

+Otaking Mikohani People just like to take advantage of KZbin's broken copyright-strike system.

[@MrWolfSnack]

+Otaking Mikohani The footage is still owned by people and people that uphold the law for their own footage can act on it. I uploaded a VHS of semi trucks for kids to youtube before, and after 2 months it was flagged by an employee of the company (that shot the camera footage) that went out of business 15 years ago.

[@otaking3582]

+Axan Naxa Oprah Winfrey?

[@bundangbear]

Thank you for encouraging me to go back and think about my local tv shows, both of which I was on. There was Whiz Quiz from WPBS in Watertown, NY and The Danny Burgess Show, which was the clown format with cartoon, except instead of a clown, it was a local minor sports celebrity and the sports broadcaster.

[@sidecarcn]

You are aware that Ginny Tiu appeared on a number of programs from Ed Sullivan to Make Room For Daddy and many others when she was younger. She was also in a number of movies in the 60s including one with Elvis where they she does a duet with him.

[@IllPropaganda]

That Fisher Space Pen reminded me of the old story, when the Russians were faced with the problem in their space program, writing in zero G at any angle, they used a pencil...

[@fixman88]

That story is a myth. Fisher came up with the Space Pen idea and developed it all by themselves THEN they went to NASA with it. Also, having a highly flammable wood and graphite item in the high-oxygen level atmosphere of spacecraft of the era would have been a very bad idea.

[@jamesslick4790]

Fixy Clary There was (still is) a device called a "mechanical pencil" - Not all pencils are wood.

[@RetroRoadshow]

Thank god we can all sleep safely now

[@BlakeTechnology99]

rocking the XTC

[@bunnybismuth]

But is the world truly football shaped?

[@Amy.B]

I'm glad it's back up.

[@princeofcupspoc9073]

Lazy research, wiki says: Daughter of William Tiu, a teacher from Hong Kong, Ginny was one of the musically gifted and insufferably adorable Tiu sisters, along with Pat, Elizabeth Tiu and Vicky Tiu. Appeared on Ed Sullivan & other variety shows, made at least one commercial (Kellogg's Cornflakes). Rode in the Hollywood Christmas Parade, 1962.

[@OddityArchive]

Um, were you really expecting a definitive survey of the Tiu Sisters career here?

[@princeofcupspoc9073]

@@OddityArchive JK. Actually, Eddie Korosa deserves its own episode.

[@stormerbuzz352]

Ok that NIN polka freaking slaps

[@rockvilleraven]

Bozo was franchised, but so was Bowling for Dollars, Romper Room and Group W's Evening Magazine and the syndicated version PM Magazine.

[@TheMaxx111]

The Shaggs! I totally love that reference.

[@Damaniel3]

Who are parents?

[@starsfan23]

14:00 Why would someone want to write on grease?!

[@MHowell1978]

Blinky's Fun Club freaked me the hell out as a kid, yet I watched it religiously. I think Otis and the singing puppets disturbed me more than anything else about it.

[@MrGhostown81]

Nine Inch Polka!

[@rionthemagnificent2971]

Something we didn't ask for.. but something we didn't realize we need.

[@erocktv]

There's also Ned the Dead, bringing you classic schlock movies in the Green Bay, WI area since the 80s (I think..)

[@edatthegovernance]

Oopsy Daisy. Started in Detrot, moved north and was a fixture on CKCO, the Kitchener CTV affiliate I grew up watching.

[@TheSmart-CasualGamer]

I actually have a Fisher Space Pen, I gotta say that it's got significantly better adverts now. And Ginny Tiu is part of an Animal Welfare Group now, according to Google anyway.

[@XLordLeamingtonX]

Svengoolie is awesome

[@luisreyes1963]

One of Chicago's cultural treasures. Ginny Tiu came in at 2nd place...🤣

[@jamesslick4790]

@@luisreyes1963 Ginny 2 was good, But it hit it's stride with Ginny 3.11, but most "kids" only can remember Ginny XP.😄

[@mrmonty86]

Homie and Krusty the Clown are the best clowns ever!!

[@MichaelHansenFUN]

somewhere during the late 70's early 80's Jerry Mathers was invited for a UHF station special of his faveorite LEAVE IT TO BEAVER episodes he hosted and I WAS SENT TO BED!!!

[@jeffreycoogan09]

The New Colony Six were actually better then Paul Revere and the Raiders.

[@litlblkhouse]

Many of these shows were produced here in Chicago. Kiddie a Go Go was on WCIU (currently the CW as of writing this) and Bozo got his start on the Queen Mother of all Chicago television, WGN. We also had Ding Dong School and Svengoolie as well.

[@pixoariz]

Hey Ben, I'd love to see you take on Wallace and Ladmo, the excellent KPHO-TV kid's show that ran for 35 years. Aside from its cult-like status and being an influence on Steven Spielberg and Alice Cooper, you'll find tart tweeks at authority, contemporary humor aimed at kids and adults, great original music and characters with a lot of depth. Mostly written by the funny and subversive host, Bill 'Wallace' Thompson. Some nice clips and a few complete episodes on YT that could give you a taste. And if you won't, that bratty rich kid Gerald Springer (the boss's nephew) might send his monster to Colorado to deal with you directly! Oops. PS: the show once did an on-air bit on a real rope noose my brother and I sent in to use on Gerald. It was very twisted!

[@soonerterp]

Yes it's back! One of the truly bedrock Archive episodes! *Everything* in this episode is awesome (especially the NIN Polka Remix) but it's still boss at 5:02 to see a riff on HoHo (still revered by Boomer-generation Oklahoma Citians).

[@soonerterp]

+timekiller_s Or feared (as clowns are), depending on your own attitude about clowns (YT won't let me edit my comments).

[@FernieCanto]

9:04 -- I just realised that song is from Godspell. So much foreshadowing!

[@danielslade9485]

The RickRoll was what gave the episode the start that it needed.

[@yotsubafanfan]

Apparently the Lenoir City/Knoxville area in Tenessee had a clown named Bimbo and he has a firework shop/gas station named after him. Oh how badly I need to go back to buy a t shirt so I could have gag gift for a future Christmas party.

[@UNOwen1]

+Oddity archive; I've never heard of Ms Tiu, so this was a cool little treat. Turns out she said prodigy (she's not a 'child'anymore), and I just found this event clip of her (kzbin.info/www/bejne/rnXInayDhMmho68). As for the Fisher Space pen (13:44) - yep -all made (and still made by Fisher). Only difference; the price - it's US$23.

[@eascec8374]

I am totally not sure why she took her local status in Rockford in the first place.

[@j0hnf_uk]

My immediate thought in regard to that pen is why would an astronaut, (presumably doing a space walk, what with his helmet on and everything), want to be writing anything down on a writing pad, especially when he's, no doubt, in some kind of radio contact with those he might need to communicate with?

[@craigmurphy2046]

Hey dude, I grew up with Ho Ho the clown. We loved him. Always had cool toons.

[@briansmith7475]

i love this series

[@basshorseman998]

I grew up in Chicago, right about the time all of this was on the air, most of which I actually did not know about. there were even more programs for kids at that time that held my young attention. Still, great job Ben, great 9 inch piece at the end also. Rich Koz and I went to the same school, just not at the same time unfortunately.

[@BenCossette]

I thought the take down notice was from Ginny Tiu, but it looks like you gave her show more time on this edit. Did you reach out to her and tell her that this is the only exposure she'd probably get in today's day and age?

[@NuclearWintr]

Lol. Ben from K-pop Girl Groups on Facebook watches the Oddity Archive.

[@MikeDest]

16:24 - those guys actually are in Home Alone.

[@neilforbes416]

McLennons - Seems they're too "pens-ive"! Ha-ha!

[@graflex74]

ho ho the clown was from okahoma city and it was aired on KOCO TV CHANNEL 5

[@Dogman2605]

Ben just Rick rolled at us in the beginning 😂

[@RyanSellman1]

My local tv clown was Pete McTee. Good memories.

[@DoctorKandosii]

As for horror presenters, google dr terror's vault of horror from the BBC. But in the BBC's infinite wisdom of fucking things up, they discontinued it and canned the character.

[@goodiesguy]

11:12 That clip is from 1966, not 1969. It's from the episode The New Colony Six appear.

[@MichaelMangi]

So tired of KZbin's broken strike system, and the fact that Ben has to put some episodes on a separate channel so that the Oddity Archive doesn't get shut down here #WTFU

[@gumballguy34]

#WTFU

[@MrWolfSnack]

+Michael Mangi (theblackdog) For about a year there was a system where if you got a copyright strike you just had to delete the video and you'd be OK, the strike would be deleted with it. But that's not the case anymore. They changed it back to where strikes are absolved after 6 months.

[@MrWolfSnack]

yogibear2k10 Well they already have that, called KZbin Red, where you pay a subscription to see certain videos from people that made it available on KZbin Red. Mostly movie companies that upload feature films. Don't confuse it with RedTube though, which is a porn site. lol

[@itzspencerr1403]

It's not KZbin we should be blaming for this hell. It's the government we should be blaming for this hell. That's why we need to get the word out to the government of how flawed the DMCA is, so free use can be returned to the people.

[@stevenstrawsine2205]

Wow, that old intro song brings back some good memories from when I first started watching this show.

[@soonerterp]

+Steven Strawsine You can never go wrong with XTC.

[@waterandafter]

As much as I like XTC, I think your own song is a better fit for OA. Considering you had to make changes I'm amazed you were able to keep the song. Also, isn't "happy birf day to you" owned? I wonder if Bink'y payed his licensing fees for it.

[@nicolerichwine5767]

+waterandafter Happy Birthday is no longer under copyright. www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-happy-birthday-song-lawsuit-decision-20150922-story.html

[@GiovanniCloud]

5:04 oh hey, what's good, McCree?

[@hebneh]

Ginny Tiu and her sister co-starred with Elvis Presley in the film "Girls! Girls! Girls!".

[@thekidfromiowa]

Yes I remember seeing Blinkie when my family went to Colorado to visit my dad's relatives in the summer of '94.

[@NP4Mayans]

Please add what cities (and TV stations) these clips came from.....

[@UNOwen1]

Are these 'local shows' asked which aired on local broadcast stations, or were they public access? I LOVED public access (NYC) during the late-70s to the late-80s. There were shows which were similar to Oddity Archive (WFMU. The public access show, NOT the radio shows). I say this as a compliment. In fact, one the two of my favourite episodes (the That's Irritainment specials) is on KZbin (kzbin.info/www/bejne/infcqayHf7uDpZo). Ben describes OA as having a 'nighttime' feel, and it really does. I suffer from insomnia, and in occasion, I'll just watch episode-after-episode (NO; I DIDN'T say it works as a sedative 😉). Thanks, Ben!

[@emmarose4234]

Perfect Strangers reference, YAY!

[@heidifedor]

Pandora’s Box is also a euphemism for a lady part.

[@JL-sm6cg]

@7:58; Tom "Count Scary" Ryan. I met the dude at a flea market in Southgate, MI.

[@heidifedor]

LOL I used to watch Sammy Terry when I lived in Indiana.

[@johnnyhellfire6]

omg I love that remix!!!!!! Do you have anything with manson??

[@heggy_69]

isn't mclennon what they call romantic pairings with john lennon and paul mccartney?

[@RudyValenciaDotCom]

OddityArchive I also live in Colorado and remember Blinky!

[@calliope6991]

Blinky,the clown looks like one of red skeletons characters

[@frazzleface753]

Vicky Tiu became the first lady of Hawaii.

[@SunshineOnlineTV]

I missed this episode, brings me back to when I started tuning into OA.

[@imrustyokay]

18:31 Well, he IS from Chicago.

[@benwhackley]

What about Zacherley?

[@jamesslick4790]

".. Just like the DOORS ..maan!.."

[@maxwelsh6121]

I remember making my father buy me a Fisher space pen (at our local Bush Stationers a stationary & office supply store this one located inside of a mall that and the pre-internet times did so much business it could afford to be a two-story store inside of a mall) so exciting that FSP can write underwater upside down, and then I got home with it and in my opinion it wrote less smoothly than a standard Paper Mate, not really a fan and I imagine the Parker jotter cartridge is pressurized also but I never hear them talking up any special features on any of the packaging I've ever seen on one... cross and Montblanc types are also sealed refills and maybe stuff like zebra also may be pressurized but most ballpoint pen cannot write upside down or in space " all a part of this vocation; i got my pen i got my hand , i got my filin' system!"

[@rionthemagnificent2971]

You know Sammy Terry was at one time the only way to watch old horror movies in / around the Indianapolis area. He also did a lot of charity stuff In character. He's a household name to those who remember him. My dad used to watch him every weekend during the afternoons where they showed old horror / 50s sci-fi b-films. (This was in the 60s btw). The Original Sammy Terry passed away in 2013, while his son has now donned the character for conventions, charity events, and film festivals.

[@roundduckkira]

Oh god while I barely knew him myself, his legend certainly continued in Indiana, even Southern Indiana, and I'd heqr stories of the man. I heard from my family his show did continue beyond the 60s when my parents were born in the 70s, so yeah `^ ^ Oooh btw ninja edit here, while the original guy died, his son has continued the role and since 2011 has done often yearly halloween specials on WTTV where he would host a horror movie, tho moved away from the crappy fare his predecessor covered, going for more modernish horror in the form of shows like Amnityville and Night of the Living Dead.

[@grahamkeithtodd]

back in the uk,we had NATIONWIDE!... and it was just as bad as this lot....

[@toratio8547]

There is more NIN polka out there - Weird Al incorporated Closer into one of his polkas, either Alternative Polka or the angry white boy one, I forget which.

[@FTWOBR2000]

I would pay good money for the polka version of "Survivalism" on Bandcamp.

[@OddityArchive]

Don't have the rights to post it to bandcamp.

[@FTWOBR2000]

@@OddityArchive Dang :\

[@EmceeCh4p]

12:25 is my style of humor lol

[@user-ui4kv9wt5s]

FREEBIRD!

[@beyondobscure]

Surprised you didn't make a Beatles joke with "McLennon's"

[@OddityArchive]

1/4 Scottish Beatles?

[@nicholsjoshua15]

Smashing Pumpkins are my favorite band, that's not really Jimmy is it? Please, I really want to know.

[@danmount9462]

Free I Hate Everything. #WTFU

[@oktoberK]

Amen my friend.

[@gumballguy34]

FREE HIM! #WTFU

[@ColeHomeVideo]

I have no clue why Ben is SOOO harsh on Ginny Tiu. I think they're really cool and wholesome.

[@OddityArchive]

Because the whole angry reviewer thing back then. If I really hated Ginny Tiu, she’d have never appeared on OA.

[@ColeHomeVideo]

@@OddityArchive Yeah, I'm glad that period died tbh. It's not aged well and comes off as oddly cynical. Not speaking solely of you but lots of people back in the day (e.g. most of the films Nostalgia Critic used to rant about aren't even that bad, I've seen Rollergator so any other film is a Ingmar Bergman masterpiece). As a fan of the channel since 2014, things definitely have matured for the best and talking about what makes you happy is when OA is truly great which you seem to be doing more in this current era.

[@justjennie7394]

Actually as much of an analog writing geek as I am-I use fountain pens-I would love to visit McLennon's if it was still open

[@davidbroz-tanner1756]

Fucking Polka Survivalism. Thanks Ben.

[@steverhodesvideos6244]

No mention of Morgus or the Ghoul in Detroit?

[@redder_]

sam terry aka mask 3

[@redder_]

#wtfu

[@lkmsl]

Oh hiding behind a box is not creepy ?

[@marinaraman8238]

Where does the tv shut off noise come from

[@MrWolfSnack]

8:23 Sammy Terry = Sammyterry = Cemetary

[@neilforbes416]

That's extremely "grave"!

[@SuperCosmicMutantSquid]

"Hold...back...the teaaaaaars....."

[@FighterJetArt]

This video contains my first rickroll in a very, very long time.

[@Nightwulff19]

What the name of the that's play in the beginning?

[@joeyquirk64]

Senses Working Over Time By XTC

[@tanookitoad979]

Berwyn!?

[@NP4Mayans]

4:46 ..... and there are still multiple Bozos throughout the country.....

[@johnnyklebitzrevenge4793]

1:03 Not bitching

[@marcusmanson4]

Don't talk shit about Sammy Terry he's an Indiana legend.

[@superpan218]

Who likes clowns now?

[@uncleTedK]

Bozo the Clown 4 Life

[@hecanseeme8210]

Polka NIN is way better

[@snr_gbe]

whats the intro song?

[@themacfan]

fuck i love it !!!

[@lkmsl]

Language!

[@MediaWatchDawg]

We don't need "commentary" EVERY four seconds.

[@neilforbes416]

Seeing these excerpts of American regional TV only confirms my view that Australians did it much better!

[@betaman7988]

70s and 80s American local TV is like British local TV of the late fifties

[@neilforbes416]

Probably right, though I've not seen regional US television, so I'll take your word for it, Retro Ads.