Unsolved Pieces of Lost Media That Have Hit Dead Ends

There are a lot of searched within the community that haven't been able to progress for a number of different reasons, let's check them out today!

[@TheWillrocks51]

The Oswald/Ozzy one was 100% on the VMA’s. They brought the Osborne’s out afterward to promote the new season of the show.

[@kacperkwiatkowski7928]

Yep beacouse why shove down a bunch of salor mouth to 10 Year olds

[@weathermansam2]

I always hate it when hunts hit dead ends. I just feel like there’s something more to do, but sometimes there’s just not.

[@theyalwayscomeinfall]

Yep. What @scum bag said is what's really frustrating. Because 99% of the time someone, somewhere has SOMETHING. They just might not know or might not know anyone is even looking.

[@lpfan4491]

I always find it funny when hunts are a miss and fail entirely, but then the relevant material just appears randomly outside of the search. Unlikely to happen here tho.

[@ASBDYTheAwesome]

i somehow thing wow wow wubbzy’s pitched pilot hit a dead end

[@user-uo8ny1kj4c]

its basically put in statis.

[@TheTrueRaptor]

As far as the Oswald thing goes, maybe it aired on mtv rather than nickeledon? Especially with bleeped words involved, I kind of doubt it was on nickelodeon. I'm sure this has been considered before though

[@sensarmy]

ikr maybe

[@FelipeSouza-gb7yf]

That's what I thought too.

[@starscape09]

This is 100% what I came to say. Maybe teen choice awards or mtv music awards. Viacom owning both opens that possibility.

[@stunzeed9552]

I was thinking the same thing. I believe that it was probably on MTV.

[@R3dux7933]

Better ask ozzy

[@CallMeFreakFujiko]

Hitogata is so simple that I'm honestly pretty okay with the reactions that we have. If it's ever actually found, I have a feeling that it'd be a bit disappointing in comparison to what people created.

[@eggdogtim8593]

I feel this way with clock man. I was expecting something really dark.

[@knightwing5169]

If hitogata actually exists, I could never be disappointed by it being found. Not under any circumstance.

[@knightwing5169]

@@toonandy2189 Yes.

[@knightwing5169]

Unfortunately, I don't think Hitogata will ever be found. I for one am not sure what to think in regard to it ever existing, though.

[@knightwing5169]

@@toonandy2189 Fair point

[@zaneyates5704]

The publicity of the search for Hitogata has ruined our ability to search for Hitogata. Ironic

[@EssexAggiegrad2011]

I wonder if Hitogata is an anti-suicide PSA. Japan does have a high suicide rate.

[@satapon4129]

@@EssexAggiegrad2011 I don't think it would be in a TV PSA though? Suicide is treated as something to be hush hush about in Japan, so it'd probably be more unlikely a few years ago. It's most likely a PSA about being safe neat trains. Also, I can't imagine how popular suicide by train (especially at a crossing) would be in Japan, wouldn't an anti-suicide PSA use something like a noose instead?

[@JesterQueenAnne]

@@satapon4129 being an anti-suicide PSA would make more sense for the time of the day it was aired at and for why it's hard to find now, since I'd see authorities deciding to remove it and companies denying being involved if that was the case. About a noose being better, I digress, since using a train for the PSA even if less popular of a method is a more impactful one, and the constant sound makes it more eerie and sure to stay in the viewer's mind.

[@satapon4129]

@@JesterQueenAnne I just don't think Japan, a country that didn't start trying to focus on mental health until recently, would allow that sort of advert on TV regardless of time. I can't even imagine it getting past a pitch. People tend to push those types of issues under the rug. But I also think that people would remember the suicide aspect of such a PSA?

[@JesterQueenAnne]

@@satapon4129 fair enough. I don't think it's an anti-suicide PSA either but I think it's plausible. So going under the assumption it was, maybe someone thought ut was a good idea and greenlit it but it was quickly removed after realizing it was a fuck up.

[@GodsBurden]

The osbournes clip/skit might not be a kids choice awards thing. It may be an mtv music awards thing. They put skits and clips all over those.

[@gabepollock1641]

I was thinking the same thing. The KCA wouldn’t have them because of the swearing, even though it’s bleeped out. The MTV Music Awards would be a more sensible location.

[@trashbasket11]

As far as marketing goes it makes no sense to air it on Nickelodeon but the age group of most mtv viewers would have actually found it funny so I'm betting you're right

[@macaylacayton2915]

agreed

[@Zulf85]

Yeah, I can't imagine a children's awards show having that kind of joke going on. I'd think many would deem it too inappropriate

[@astranova970]

For the hitogata one, I believe that not only AC Japan but NHK E-tele should be contacted too. NHK is the PBS of Japan and has created shows regarding education, suicide, poverty, documentaries, and various anime. I think there might more leads on there instead of AC Japan.

[@MagcargoCarrier]

Wait, *SUICIDE?!*

[@astranova970]

@@MagcargoCarrier The suicide rate in Japan is extremely high. They have condone interviews regarding as to why. Topics such as abuse, bullying, discrimination, and role of power were discussed. As of right now, the youngest age demographic that has condone suicide is a 4th grade school student. There is also lawyers who take cases of bullying to court just so not only they can prevent the final outcome but for the victim to receive any support necessary. Japan Times is a good website to read articles and such. If you are interested for more information, I suggest using a translator to browse NHK Japan. I lived in Japan for three years, was bullied during school years, and ultimately left to go back to the US. Even if I speak the language and had wonderful times there, I still have a bitter resentment to the school system.

[@MagcargoCarrier]

@@astranova970 Oh… Makes me glad I’m British

[@TheRealMissAcorn]

@@MagcargoCarrier Also remember, Japan has different laws to what can be shown on television than in the US or UK. It doesn't really shock me they'd probably air shows like that.

[@knightwing5169]

@@MagcargoCarrier NHK is more like BBC than PBS. BBC and NHK are both directly run by a government department; PBS is run by a private non-profit organization.

[@willmistretta]

Hitogata makes the most sense to me as a brilliantly executed short creepypasta. There's just enough evocative detail given to make it a self-propagating meme when some readers think "Hmm. Maybe I *do* remember that."

[@MemesToa]

So, something along the lines of Saki Sanobashi?

[@Zulf85]

@@MemesToa I feel like it's more intelligent than Saki. The "deep web" element of Saki is such a cliche it makes it automatically implausible to someone like me

[@sophiagonzales8974]

The Hitogata thing was probably based on a commercial that was seen subconsciously but remembered as Hitogata since the team found too many things on Hitogata.

[@Pehmokettu]

I really respect those media companies that have actually helped the online communities to find something. For example The Most Mysterious Song of the Internet (Like a Wind) is a good example of this - German radio stations and radio show hosts from the 1980's have actually tried to find that song from their archives. But sadly the name of the band or the song are still not found.

[@Iinneus]

The crazy thing about _The Most Mysterious Song of the Internet_ is that it's like... the opposite of lost media. With lost media, we know what it is, we just don't have the media itself. But with this song, _we literally have the media,_ it's easy and available to find... we just don't know what it is.

[@bunnybird9342]

@@Iinneusin that case, it's called unidentified media instead

[@tdubasdfg]

I wish we had time travel TV. It would be cool to enter a specific date in time and watch a specific TV channel from that day in history complete with the commercials and programming. I wanna rewatch 90s cartoons but not just a specific show or episode. I want to re experience the bumper advertisements in between shows and the promos for new episodes airing later on etc....

[@s1nistr433]

Pre-recorded VHS tapes is as close to what you're looking for as you can get. You can find tons of them online.

[@lightyagami3492]

@@s1nistr433 If i had any tapes like that id probably upload them to KZbin or on the internet archive. Sadly i don't have such tapes.

[@noemistephanie93]

Same!

[@BigOlSmellyFlashlight]

VHS on internet archive

[@TheSizzleDash]

Same! I like the old bumper so much, the new ones are ehhh, well, I haven't had cable in a long time, last time was a week ago on a trip to costa rica, the differences from us Cartoon Network and south america cn are big. I got sidetracked but basically i like old bumpers

[@ACN617]

A few things I can remember about the Charlie Caillou thing: It was on a separate PBS channel but it did air at the same time as another PBS channel. It was the same show with the same actors and possibly the same episode. It could very likely have had another difference in the form of it being the audio description version; those versions of channels/shows where an audio narrator describes what's happening as it does. It seemingly had nothing to do with avoiding copyrights, and it has nothing to do with another cartoon than Caillou. I'm personally convinced it was the result of a process of localizing the foreign name for a Western audience.

[@NoobxJoe]

I can concur with this. When i was young, my father was an early adopter of cable TV and speaks fluent spanish, and he would tell me what channel to go to to watch the english cartoons. I do remember having SAP recordings of Dexters lab where they read out whats happening in spanish!

[@IceFireofVoid]

I have really vague memories of being young and thinking it was weird Americans called Caillou Charlie, or maybe an adult in my family had mentioned that. Now that I think about it, yeah, I remember accepting it as a fact when I was little that Charlie was Caillou’s American name, which means that somehow, I, a Canadian, or someone else in my family, was able to see this “American” Caillou. I can’t remember how/when/where. It might have played on TV in a hotel when we went to Disney when I was 8

[@camrynbrewer2370]

@@IceFireofVoid I’m American, and he’s always been Caillou to me. Idk who this “Charlie” dude is.

[@MarcHendry]

seems like an oversight that they would name a *different* bald, dot-eyed, yellow shirt wearing boy Charlie lol It's like if Heathcliff was also named Garfield, and every time you'd have to go "no, it's the OTHER garfield"

[@GumSkyloard]

"Western audience" I'm.. pretty sure that's a French name.

[@SilverScaleMA]

I do recall hearing on a KZbin documentary on Caillou that during the early to mid 2000s there were attempts to slightly rebrand the show to avoid the bad press of it and did release some episodes with altered dialogs as tests to see if it helped any. Unfortunately they came to the conclusion that it was the behavior and not the dialog that parents hated the portrayal of and the project was dropped though the altered episodes continued circulation for a while until the rights to air them expired. Not entirely sure if it is true but that was the explanation given in the documentary and as a whole it was very well researched.

[@s1nistr433]

This sounds like a good lead. Is the documentary still on KZbin somewhere?

[@SilverScaleMA]

@@s1nistr433 unfortunately I couldn't find it and I had subscribed to them but they weren't in my subscription list anymore. It was about 45 minutes long and went pretty deep but the last time I watched any videos from them was over 6 months ago, probably ended up as a victim to the COPPA purge since I couldn't find any of their other documentaries either. Which sucks because they were really good... I might see if they put them on daily motion or vimeo but it is unlikely.

[@s1nistr433]

@@SilverScaleMA Dang, it's lost media within lost media. Thanks for the info nonetheless

[@SilverScaleMA]

@@s1nistr433 yeah I was really disappointed, when it got me thinking I decided to watch it but then couldn't find it, doesn't seem to be on vimeo (which really didn't surprise me) and when I tried to go on daily motion the app was acting so sketchy that I actually deleted it. I have had several channels I watch dissappear this last year...

[@zg64]

Cayloo how dare you be lost media Thats it your grounded grounded

[@capnkaba]

Something about Ozzy Osbourne, the prince of darkness, voicing a family friendly octopus makes me die laughing.

[@IceFireofVoid]

He has actually voiced a surprising amount of characters in children’s animation. The one I remember most clearly is that he was the bad guy’s deer sidekick in Gnomeo and Juliet.

[@mattwolf7698]

I'm not sure that Oswald thing would have aired on Nick, even with the cursing bleeped out, that seems kinda weird to do to a wholesome character on their very own channel. Maybe Nick@Night though. I think MTV would be a far more likely source, I could totally see that airing there.

[@criminallyautistic8372]

I never find these types of "unaired episodes" legit. Yeah a show targeted for kids would suddenly air an episode with curse words. Maybe some exceptions being the Spongebob episode "Fancy Words" or the episode of Dexter's Lab where he and DeeDee have evil clones but other than that I doubt that's a common thing in all kid tv shows. Where they would once in a series just be vulgar. I'm sure if the Oswald crossover does exist it might be some low budget public broadcasting vid. But that's just me

[@ghost-husband]

@@criminallyautistic8372 it's not a whole episode tho just like a bumper, it does seem like kind of unlikely to exist tho, at least if it aired on Nick

[@ghost-husband]

Yeah, I think it would be much more likely to have aired on MTV

[@sensarmy]

ikr

[@criminallyautistic8372]

@@ghost-husband I agree.

[@kirbythings]

Always saddens me what there’s such an interesting lost media topic that doesn’t go away and I hope one day it’ll get more info

[@kirstyyyyy]

It doesn't really count as lost media, but the Charlie/Caillou thing reminded me of an episode of Hurray for Huckle that randomly started playing backwards one day. It was on TinyPop, I think, and was about halfway through the episode when it just ... Played backwards for the rest of the allotted time, and made its way back to the start of the episode. I've never seen anyone outside of my family mention it, so I'm starting to wonder if it was a collective fever dream that me and my mum and brother had.

[@zpcarchives]

Wow that’s strange, I’d love to see a recording of that if it wasn’t a fever dream

[@123Yellowberry123]

That's very interesting! Wonder if anyone else might remember this.

[@wubbzyandsesamestreetfangirl]

It’s also called busy town mysteries

[@wubbzyandsesamestreetfangirl]

Maybe it was on April fools day

[@zpcarchives]

@@wubbzyandsesamestreetfangirl Could be possible but i highly doubt it

[@gregh378]

I know the actor that played Jonny Bravo. He's a really open guy and very welcoming. Maybe I should get in touch with him and see if he knows.

[@channelhasbeenmoved639]

You should

[@Zulf85]

If you ever have anything to share, that sounds genuinely interesting. Even this aside, I've always wondered how he feels knowing the character he voiced is still very much loved by a lot of people. I hope it's a good thing to him and he's doing well.

[@gregh378]

@@Zulf85 " I hope it's a good thing to him and he's doing well." Oh my word, you have no idea how much he loves it! He loves that his work connects with so many people and he always talks about Johnny Bravo with the biggest smile on his face. He lives to make children happy. It's his whole life. He has a very mr Rogers-esque quality about him.

[@Zulf85]

@@gregh378 that's great to hear! He's a legend

[@lurji]

please do and document whatever he said in the lost media wiki forum

[@DrAquapet]

I live in El paso TX, and I remember on ONE occasion growing up he was called charlie. I thought it was just a fluke or as I grew older, a pilot. It was channel 13 KCOS local TV. Hope this helps!!:)

[@TheSuperLegoMaster7]

I really like that original jimmy two shoes idea,shame that pilot might never be seen

[@mattwolf7698]

I doubt that Caillou one ever existed, OP seems to be the only person who remembers it and they very well could have mixed up Caillou and that other Charlie show over the years or even had a dream about them mixed together as a kid but ended up thinking it was legit. A re-dub of that still in US English makes no sense. I don't even see how it would help it from a copyright stand point as it's still the same show, if there was an issue with it, they wouldn't be allowed to air it in the first place regardless of the name change, I wouldn't just be able to throw Pokemon on a TV channel I made and change the name to Piketman and be fine. Unless you want to start getting into alternate universe/mandela effect stuff but still, with those there's still a large amount of people who remember the incorrect details.

[@andykishore]

Even in the book series, he was called Caillou.

[@Pehmokettu]

I also think that lost media that only one person actually remembers should not get this much attention. There are plenty of lost media that has much better proof that it existed and those should be featured more in these Lost Media videos. Hitogata, Charlie/Caillou and Saki no Sanobashi are probably just trolling or false memories of one person but still those are featured in all Lost Media shows on KZbin.

[@satapon4129]

@@Pehmokettu I honestly wonder about Saki. On one hand it is such a strange plot that doesn't fit in with anime at the time but on the other hand, imagining a troll sitting down to write such a strange story doesn't feel right? I feel like there may be some truth to it

[@IceFireofVoid]

If it’s fake, then it’s given me a false memory because I have a recollection of being a kid and finding it weird that Americans called Caillou “Charlie”. I don’t know if I ever saw it myself or if someone told me about it, but it was a misconception I had for a while and this lost redub might explain where that came from.

[@shrimpyalfredo3933]

The caillou thing sounds like an April fool's thing where they changed just the name

[@IceFireofVoid]

I’m not so sure. Hearing that story unearthed vague memories of me being a child and finding it strange that Americans called Caillou “Charlie”. Maybe I saw the Charlie version on a TV in a hotel when my family went to Disney when I was little, and if that’s the case, then the Charlie version would have been on TV in the summer.

[@bronsontolliver9027]

@@IceFireofVoid I've lived in the states all my life and have never once heard anyone call Caillou by any other name. I think you're just overwriting memories with convenient fiction.

[@Anthonypython]

@@bronsontolliver9027 I recall this having been on the SAP version while both was broadcasted. I've mistakenly have switched to that version as a kid during that era.

[@bronsontolliver9027]

@@Anthonypython I have no idea what an "SAP version" is (Google isn't much help without more context). I just know that I've never heard him being called Charlie. I was 10 when the show started and currently I have a 5 year old child. I have seen probably every episode of the show that's currently available. I genuinely think this is just a manufactured memory combining a globally popular show with a smaller local one.

[@axeoseilez3207]

Hitogata does seem fascinating and I hope it does become found. I remember blameitonjorge covering this and it was just as compelling as I remember. I myself have never seen it or claim to have. But if it does get found I'd gladly watch it. Same with that jbvo special which combines two of my childhood nostalgia fixes johnny bravo and dbz. A match made in heaven.

[@skainovember7262]

The Oswald / Osbournes crossover definitely happened, I remember seeing it, but only once. It was sometime during the late evening approaching Nick@Nite hours on a random weeknight, so definitely not during the Kids’ Choice Awards. My theory has always been that somebody working at the network snuck it in during a random ad break, as it seemed completely unpredictable and I never saw it on tv again. I believe it may have surfaced on the internet at some point, I’m nearly positive that I watched it again somewhere, sometime in the last ten years. For those saying it aired on MTV, I’m positive that it aired on Nick as well. It possibly could have been made for MTV and slipped into a Nickelodeon ad break.

[@tymime]

It'd be really cool if the lost media community could figure out what the heck is going on with Scrat Tales. It's a series of shorts about Scrat from Ice Age that was supposed to debut on Disney+, but it seems to have been cancelled (or maybe not?). And now there's a rumor going around that some woman has somehow managed to get the copyright to Scrat the character, and that Disney can no longer use him. I did a lot of research myself on this whole thing, but I can't come to any definite conclusion on anything. Scrat does seem to be in some sort of legal limbo of some kind, but the exact who, what, where and when is a mystery to me. EDIT: Yes, this is coming out now

[@gracekim25]

Wait he’s meant to have a show? I know Buck is getting one😅

[@CinnamonGrrlErin1]

Wasn't the guy who voiced Scrat one of the creators or the director of Ice Age? He probably took the rights to the character when Disney bought Blue Sky.

[@maggieent3215]

I heard that that person is the creator of Scrat.

[@TheCanadianWeeb5]

pretty sure i saw those sometime in my life

[@silverfoil8854]

The woman was the original designer of the character and she was fighting with Sky over the rights to "Squirtle Rat" since the first movie.

[@JacksonSTUFF777]

3:53 "BLM Laboratory" caught my attention. It apparently stands for "bigger, louder, messier" from the 2002 Kids' Choice Awards for anyone wondering.

[@EverybodyCartoons]

same, thought it was something else

[@ExtremeWreck]

I thought it stood for the Blitz Lazer Mind.

[@ShadeATV]

I have an idea of a lost media search! Japanese artist InuMiya hasn’t been heard from since 2001, and most of her art files except for those I’ve saved in my computer are corrupted, even on the Wayback Machine

[@Heattokun]

Theory: could the Oswald commercial have been aired on MTV, and not Nick, where we’ve been looking up the wrong tree?

[@Wills4gottenbday]

Spent the day in bed with bad morning sickness, your channel kept me sane today. Thank you ❤

[@criminallyautistic8372]

Morning sickness? Are you pregnant? Hope you feel better.

[@vacuumblink2300]

Why are you pregnant?

[@42Fossy]

@@criminallyautistic8372 That's literally the only reason a person would have morning sickness lol

[@42Fossy]

Congratulations!

[@andykishore]

Pregnant? I want to know the story behind that.

[@TheJiamy]

For the Oswald Osbornes, the detail of bleeped out swears makes me wonder if the commercial/skit actually aired alongside the osborne show

[@briansimms2935]

The Oswald commerical reminds me of this George Lopez one from 2008 of George meeting Dora who was trying to find his way to Nick At Nite. I saw this many times on Noggin.

[@killerklown94]

I remember the Oswald thing! But slightly different. I actually remember Oswald dressed like Ozzy with the round sunglasses and a long wig

[@TheWillrocks51]

I posted that on the wiki and got flamed haha. I remember the Oswald thing happening on the VMA’s. It was Kelly Osbourne on stage talking about how she loved the cartoon because it reminded her of her dad then they show a clip of Oswald dressed as Ozzy and the whole family comes out to promote the next season.

[@drhfq]

My youngest sister was a toddler when Oswald was relevant and I remember that promo because I was a teen that liked The Osbornes at the time. Around this time TiVo/DVR was also becoming big so people were recording things off their TV to VHS less, and VCRs were being traded for DVD players, so I’m not surprised it’s difficult to find

[@klustrfrick2980]

The Charlie Caillou could’ve been just a dream

[@mudleydatthews]

@@klustrfrick2980 Holy shit, I did not expect to find you here 👀

[@klustrfrick2980]

@@mudleydatthews I’ve never expected you to be here either

[@wubbzyandsesamestreetfangirl]

If it was real , he could’ve recorded some of it and uploaded to KZbin for proof

[@rapparappa2006]

@@wubbzyandsesamestreetfangirl maybe they didn’t have any recording software at the time

[@wubbzyandsesamestreetfangirl]

@@rapparappa2006 yeah

[@kingnewcomer2029]

I really do hope that someday, these lost media programs will finally be solved, cause I do wanna check out the original pilot for the short-lived cartoon, Jimmy Two-Shoes, which was far more aimed for adults compared to the final show, and see it in full animation as opposed to only images. Of course, it always gets so aggravating that just when we're getting close to the finish line, we run into several more roadblocks. XD I also wanna see the Dragon Ball Z clip in its entirety in the JBVO segment as I do have some nostalgia from watching it back in the early 2000's, though I don't know how much I've watched of it, nor do I remember recording any of it. At any rate, another solid lost media video, LSSQ! :D Can't wait for the next one!

[@c.j.4180]

I really wanna see JBVO, I have so kuch nostalgia for both those cartoons and the old sort of bumpers festuring characters from those shows!! They never seem to do things like that anymore. I never watched Jimm Two Shoes or heard about the lost pilot, but it seems like LSSQ came sooo tantalizingly close to finding it. It's killer!

[@HistoryandReviews]

I remember JBVO with the DBZ caller. He said they cant show it because it was “a half hour show”) but showed screen shots from the Frieza and Goku fight

[@kingnewcomer2029]

@@c.j.4180 Me too, they were awesome! :D I know, right? It's a shame. I wish they did. Me either since I never had DIsney XD. It sure is! Hopefully, he'll finally find it one day! Sorry for the late reply. :P

[@kingnewcomer2029]

@@HistoryandReviews Interesting. Sorry for the late reply

[@caphead100]

All I know about Caillou is that there's a Canadian version where the narrator is reading "The Story Of Caillou" to two children; one could potentially be named Charlie. Also the original source material for Caillou was called Lollipop. My mom would read it to me all the time as a kid.

[@TurtleCraftZ1]

I don't imagine the Caillou Charlie episode exists. The Caillou cartoon was based on a series of children's books, I don't imagine they'd create a cartoon based on a pre-existing series of books and then change the name of the main character, even if it was just for a test pilot or something. Seems unrealistic to me unless it was some dub created locally to get around copyright with PBS.

[@theravenpirate4744]

Yeah I remember watching a french dub here in Canada of Caillou where he had a different name and it was the only program on the channel that was constantly set to Described Video mode with a narrator, but I don't understand how there could be an english version where only the name is changed. It would almost be more believable with more differences.

[@mattwolf7698]

I don't see how a name change would suddenly not make there be a copyright issue, it's still literally the same show apart from the name.

[@rookeealding2803]

Does anyone remember who publishes Caillou then? because I know for a while Scholastic books actually owned a production company or two that created the shows based on books. If that were the case, then it's possible that they would have made that decision.

[@andykishore]

I'm not sure Caillou's creator, Hélène Desputeaux, has anything on this topic. He's still alive by the way.

[@misseselise3864]

@@rookeealding2803 PBS owns scholastic and PBS kids is where caillou aired

[@hotstankygarbage788]

I don't know if it was a cable mess up but we had a channel 0. It would play Leap Frog learning videos 24/7.

[@td9519]

I have just recently started getting into Lost Media. I find it interesting because most of it seems to be around the period of when I was a kid. My grandmother had a VCR back then and recorded a lot of Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon shows. I also know they we recorded a lot of specials that only aired once or twice. Definitely going to go get those tapes and see what I can find.

[@OblivionKnight76]

The fact that Johnny Bravo reacted to Dragon Ball Z on Cartoon Network is so surreal and interesting to me that I'd literally pay good money to see it

[@DomBobomb]

I feel that the Oswald/Osborne thing cannot possibly be a real thing, unless it was a parody in SNL/comedy variety shows. Sounds like a funny concept parody, but coming from a marketing POV I can’t understand what this crossover helps, it’s not like Oswald fans are watching Orbournes or vice versa.

[@wolfetteplays8894]

Yesss I finally caught one of your vids early! Thank you Jesus!

[@sillydog]

Same

[@Ryan_Metzelar]

Same

[@wolfetteplays8894]

@@Ryan_Metzelar nice pfp. Asriel is my homie 💚💛💚💛💚

[@RealHyperHedgehog]

I hope the JBVO Dragon Ball Z episode gets found.

[@ballaballacjm]

charlie was the grandson of one of the writers of caillou. there were a couple other cartoons that were specifically made for friends/family that aired on one of the 3 alternate pbs channels on comcast around the time, since they usually had trouble filling up the time slots on all those channels every day.

[@senbonzlenci1219]

Hey, just an important tidbit in your search, back in the day teen nick and the slap had its own channel on certain providers, so it could’ve aired specifically on that channel. I can vividly remember watching teen nick midday back in the day. Making it possibly more provider exclusive. I guess that may just also depend on tv providers in your area. Maybe try to find the general area people claimed they saw it in, and try to figure out the provider at that time (if said people could recall), I feel like that might eliminate a bit and unearth more.

[@djangomarkov7948]

Yeah my uncle had it at his house and it would play like invader zim, kappa mikey, and dbz. I only saw it at night i think but it was for sure a separate channel

[@sorurus7552]

I was (and still am) in Indiana getting cable from Comcast Xfinity and I've never heard of Charlie. Always was Cailou for me.

[@averyeml]

The Oswald thing feels more like someone’s 12 year old friend told them at lunch in middle school one day “hey man, wouldn’t it be funny if that Oswald octopus was Ozzy Osborne? And said stuff like ‘f*ck you, Sharon,’ because it’s a cartoon octopus for toddlers lol” I feel like back in that day all childrens’ rumors were just mashups of stuff they saw on TV or the early internet. Like a pre-creepypasta.

[@andykishore]

15:59 I noticed how one of those videos said it was blocked by Turner EST, despite JBVO Host not being available to watch anywhere else legally at the moment. Unless anyone was fortunate enough to have the show tapped off TV from back in the day.

[@t.o.4251]

I'm leaning towards the Charlie/Caillou thing being bullshit but I can think of one reason such a change would have been proposed, had a few episodes made, and accidentally released. If OP's timeline matches with the early and mid 2000's (especially 2003-2006), it was 1) the heyday of taking out foreign references in anime and other imported cartoons, even if having a French name is hardly uncommon even in the US, and 2) when stupid shit like changing french fries to "freedom fries" was going on due to France's opposition to invading Iraq. Since PBS is federally funded, there could have been talks to toe the line lest they get another funding cut that ultimately didn't get adopted.

[@OhDangTana]

Makes absolutely no sense when you put a few minutes of thought into it. Especially with 0 evidence

[@IceFireofVoid]

The weirdest thing is that I swear I remember this. It unearthed a memory of me as a child thinking it was really weird that Americans call Caillou Charlie. It might have been when I went to the US when I was 8 that I somehow encountered this Charlie version. Seeing it pop up as a lost media thing threw me for a loop because yeah I definitely remember being younger and just assuming Charlie was Caillou’s American name.

[@pal1784]

I feel like if we want to find the Oswald and Ozzy Osbourne commercial it would be better to look at the mtv side of it because after all I heard it sounds more like a commercial mtv would do rather than nickelodeon for their MTV music awards. Also I couldn't find a full recording of the 2002 MTV music awards so I think looking for the commercial there would be our best bet.

[@123Yellowberry123]

I grew up during the VCR age, but never used it to record media myself. I wish I had!

[@wolfgangervin2582]

I will say it's worth looking up the Hitogata recreations to see how diverse the interpretations of a simple idea are.

[@blaa6]

I'm looking forward to you finding out one of these had a breakthrough the week after this got uploaded.

[@DarkbloomVis]

I'm looking to get into the community, after following your channel and a few others I wouldn't mind throwing my hat in the searches, besides LMW what other sites / subreddits are good for lost media

[@lolitslloyd]

The Oswald one sounds really interesting! Hopefully something else will come up

[@lucretiamacevil362]

It was just a glimpse, 17 seconds in, but I got dropped with a nostalgia bomb at seeing Mousercise. I remember exercising along to the show in my special magenta Minnie Mouse leotard, using an old beach towel for the floor portion. My mother would put my hair up in a ponytail as the intro played. Great memories. The whole video was really interesting, and I love how exhaustively you search. And how discerning you are when it comes to what information you find.

[@madden8021]

Sad that we cannot find the final day of the Powerhouse Era on June 13th, 2004 till the early hours of June 14th, 2004 for 5:00 AM and 5:30 AM to when it transitioned to the City Era at 6:00 AM Someone PLEASE find it even if we're currently at a dead end.

[@chairmannom9507]

Always love seeing new vids from ya man!!!!

[@steventouchton2508]

Awesome as usual. Love the channel!

[@ikarikakarot]

As a young child I remember seeing this show where it was alphabet letters that were made of clay and they were cursing, I think it aired on adult swim around 2005 or 2006, does anyone know if it actually existed or did my mind make it up

[@klustrfrick2980]

That’s interesting

[@ethanpaul1865]

Robot Chicken sketch maybe?

[@Tree_e888]

Definitely sounds like a robot Chicken sketch

[@demoarchive7649]

This is actually really similar to something that happened in TVO in Canada. Theres some British cartoon called "Little Charley Bear" (at least I think it's british). When it aired in Canada on TVO, it was changed to "Little Wilfey Bear". Which is really strange. But if you look deep enough, you actually can find the Wilfey version on KZbin in low quality. And the change is exactly like this thread, it was all redubbed with the exact same actors to say Wilfey.

[@KasumiKenshirou]

There's also the Where's Waldo cartoon, which has an alternate Where's Wally version to match the original title of the book series outside of the USA.

[@kayc.2047]

You should have wayyyyyy more subscribers brooo everything is so well executed on your channel ❤️

[@nostalgiamostalgia0319]

You did a great job, as always!

[@saraschmidt5612]

The Jimmy Two-Shoes pilot will always be the most interesting one out of these for me. I remember watching that show as a kid and always thinking it actually took place in Hell. Lo and behold, I was (kinda) right about my assumption. An edgier version of that show just makes me think it'd be something like Invader Zim, which makes me want to see whatever this pilot could've been all the more.

[@comog]

Regarding the charlie i do remember the “on demand” feature always had random things and slightly weird versions. They still do.

[@sushicat999]

Absolutely loving these videos!

[@XenuLordofTheSky]

*Epilepsy Warning during the entire Oswald segment.*

[@BrightCrystalLegend-Astal]

I can already tell this video will cover quite a few topics from over the years

[@DecadoPrime]

Another great video. Sad to see these searches end

[@auralunaprettycure]

Something from Oswald being lost media is so shocking to me, since I remember that show so well from my childhood haha. When I think of lost media, it’s so surreal and distant but this is one of those times it feels closer

[@JrIcify]

Most lost media is so obscure it feels like nobody has ever seen it. So it feels weird when it's something lots of people did see.

[@beowulf1417]

With things like the Oswald one, let's be logical about it. Was there ever another example of Nickelodeon doing ANYTHING remotely like that before or after? Because a small handful of people claiming they remember it is not evidence of anything especially since people have a thing for trolling/making stuff up and you know, the previous posts over the years allow them to easily add similar details to their own story.

[@danield9003]

This is a bit of a dead end, but I'd love to see a video on the Where the Wild Things Are trailer from 2000

[@gracekim25]

Wait would something I remember from Nick Jr be lost media? My dad’s the one who’s helped me remember: all I know is a long time ago they would show a short of a young hungry Penguin trying to find food but keeps accidentally biting a large animal’s foot like a walrus, polar bear etc. The penguin’s stomach would go ‘grumble grumble roar roar!’🤣 I don’t remember how it ends but I’m guessing fish is involved

[@Luckyrabbit1927]

I can answer this! It's not actually completely lost media, as recordings exist on youtube, and copies of the 'game' are floating around on the internet still. It's called Rumble Grumble Gurgle Roar! I'm not sure about the television version, but I remember it was an interactive storybook you could play with on Nick Jr's website. It was part of a series along with 'Dave the Brave Meets a Big Orange Monster'. Used to absolutely love both of them as a very little kid.

[@gracekim25]

@@Luckyrabbit1927 oh thank you for replying 🙂 I think I found it…kzbin.info/www/bejne/eJXXoWepd8hjjpY I’m unsure if it’s the same as what was on TV as it was so long ago

[@CinnamonGrrlErin1]

Maybe the Ozzy/Oswald skit was on SNL or MadTV or Conan or another late night show.

[@sirdonivandoodle2403]

Great video, I hope that maybe I can participate in the search of the johnny bravo dragon ball z episode someday, and maybe it can lead to more pieces of the episode to be found, at least I hope. Also, speaking of which, what was the song that played during the Johnny Bravo section of the video? I really like the melody of it.

[@sophiehanssel2017]

Whenever LSuperSonicQ uploads a new video I want to spend the whole night watching it

[@ryleesharlein1047]

Keep up the awesome work

[@snoopythedog8947]

Hey, I think something you could look into is the six segment Hanna-Barbera series, CB Bears, I saw many episodes were lost. Not many people are talking about it unfortunately. Though CB Bears and Blast-Off Buzzard were found, the rest of the segments are missing some episodes.

[@mightyfilm]

The Charlie thing doesn't track for me. If it's not a test dub, I don't see any reason for it existing. Only thing I can see is that they probably intended to sell the series to syndication as a back-up if PBS passed on it and they had to give it less of a French Canadian name, and somehow those test episodes got mixed into one station's master tapes. I'm getting "Berenstein Bears" vibes from this.

[@pubigub.7250]

Have you ever heard of some of the thomas lost media? Such as the Down the mine pilot, or the pilot from '83 where an engine derailed live and a hand placed it back on the tracks, thanks for reading either way!

[@FatMarioHeads]

I remember the Oswald commercial. I’m surprised others remember it too, enough to want to rediscover it. My account of the commercial though may be a little different from others, as I don’t remember it to a T but I figure that I may be able to help on it: -As far as I remember, there was no censored swearing in the commercial. There may have been, but I don’t remember there being any and I personally don’t think there was -It may have not been Ozzy Osbourne but an impersonator or even new voice clips by Ozzy done for the commercial. Obviously Ozzy swore a lot in his reality show, I’d imagine finding a sentence where he didn’t swear was difficult. However I do think it was voice clips from the show, with just Ozzy mumbling something -This I’m not sure about, but I think the commercial aired on Nickelodeon and not the Nick Jr. block. This would make some sense, as older kids would likely be more familiar with The Osbournes than pre-schoolers, not to mention I don’t think it’d be considered as inappropriate to air on Nickelodeon than on Nick Jr. Kind of odd this obscure Nick Jr. show had two crossover commercials when it was airing, the other being one with Spongebob Squarepants, which fortunately is not lost

[@TheTrueMajorD]

While the Charlie thing seems far fetched to me, Caillou was originally a French Canadian show so the name could've originally been Anglicized to Charlie, but I doubt that.

[@grizzgo]

I agree, that is the plausibility of this "lost media"

[@IceFireofVoid]

I definitely remember being a kid and somehow thinking that it was weird Americans called Caillou Charlie. I’m convinced this one is real. I either saw the Charlie version myself on a trip to the US or someone I knew had seen it and told me about it.

[@lightyagami3492]

@@IceFireofVoid Im an American and I've never heard of a "Charlie" version of this show. When i did see it it was always the normal Caillou version.

[@IceFireofVoid]

@@lightyagami3492 well it clearly wasn’t widespread, but I’m confident it existed

[@lightyagami3492]

@@IceFireofVoid If it does ever surface id be interested in seeing it.

[@jakejohnson6954]

Speaking of lost media, im hoping someone could help with this. A few years ago i watched a video about an animated short video of a girl who is a mental patient who goes to her neighbors house when she believes that she is being abused by her parents. She later discovers that the girl is actually a monster and her parents are trying to contain her

[@tex56]

Kinda sounds like the pilot to a canceled series called Deadtime Stories kzbin.info/www/bejne/onqpaYmapLx-ec0

[@jakejohnson6954]

@@tex56 you are a freaking hero. Thank you thank you

[@tex56]

@@jakejohnson6954 No prob! Glad to help 👍

[@shuruff904]

My man LSupersonicQ needs at least mil subs, like soon. He has my blessing. 🙌

[@hunderslash]

I found a JBVO ad on a 2000 cartoon network vhs, it’s nearly identical to other ads that have been found aside from the date being september. It was still interesting to see though.

[@NobodyUndefined]

That Caliou one about him being named Charlie is a complete waste of time and obviously fake. They definitely misremembered it or made it up for clout, there's no way it should be considered as real considering it's got nothing to back it up.

[@real.roninthomasvids]

nope

[@ZoogWeekendz]

Great video!

[@paperbagboi3185]

I remember watching it on tv either on Channels like Jetix/Disney XD, Disney channel or Cartoon Network, boomerang could also be an option. I think the short is around the 2010s It was about a man feeding fishes on a fountain. It was a comedy short and the story went like this: A man was on a park and every time he attempted to feed the fishes who were on a fountain, the big fishes would always horde all the food leaving the smallest of the fishes without food because all of the other fishes were faster, stronger and were always able to get to the food first. The man attempted to feed the tiny fish a couple of times, but every time the bigger fishes would always get to the food first Leaving the small fish without eating. The man getting fed up with this decided to put hot sauce on the fishes food in hopes the big fishes would take the bait and let the small fish eat. But unfortunately that didn’t happen and when the man gave them the sabotaged food (which was now more reddish in tone) all the fishes except the tiny one turned away from it, as if they knew it had been sabotaged. The man looked horrified as the tiny fish eat the sabotaged food and for a moment it seemed like he had killed the little fish. I remember there was another character, I don’t remember if he was a guard or a police officer or a bystander, but he noticed the man feeding the fishes was acting weird and decided to approach him. The man feeding the fishes upon seeing someone was approaching him panicked and I believe he tried to hide the fish in his clothes (I can’t recall if this is exactly what happens, but something similar along those lines) it turns out the fish was alive and Ok, and now moving around, this startled the man and made him fall into the fountain.

[@ari-dynamicarchive]

I'm still looking for an animated segment from a late night horror host in San Jose. I made mention of it on a closing logo wiki but apparently they mistook me for some guy that trolled their website, lol. I don't recall if it was a "closing logo" per say, but it always did close out the show. It was those 90's horror hosts that would play old bad b-movie horrors from the70s and 60s or farther back, sometimes with riffs on them MST3K-style; one night while he was riffing on Jack Nicholson/Boris Karloff's "The Terror" the show had this weird crude animation where some headless horseman would ride off the production logo with some jank SFX. It's not "Leap Off Productions" but was a pretty amusing parody of some kind with it. I'm not making it up 'cause I saw this as a kid in the very early 90's and kinda kicked off my fondness for closing logo stuff. It's really nothing special but I'd be amazed if someone who knew what I was talking about would help me find it.

[@OhDangTana]

The Caillou/Charlie thing doesn’t make sense and is likely fake.

[@seymourbutts1281]

yesss finally someone brings oswald and ozzy up!! I remember thiss

[@KylaTea]

I think with the Oswald commercial it may be a mix up. I remember during that time Nick/MTV did do a lot of Osbornes parody things during that time due to the popularity of the show. This may be a case of mixing up other stuff as trust these parodies were not in short supply at the time. I think I remember them having a cross commercial with I think a show on Nick at Night but it’s very VERY hazy.

[@Viper505repiV1]

3:32 Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics artwork. I literally had a song off of this in my head at work towards the end of my shift.

[@Trillyana]

Johnny Bravo was watching DBZ on fast forward, so the Frieza fight only took 4 months instead of 5

[@Wyrdwad]

You know, on the subject of lost commercials from Japan, there are a couple I'd really love to find that aired on Japanese TV about 20 years ago (when I was teaching English in Japan through the JET Program), but which don't seem to have been archived anywhere on the internet. I'm not really too involved with lost media, so I'm not sure where these lost media communities are that you deal with, but I wouldn't mind ducking my head into one or two of them and seeing what the community is able to find (if there's even any interest). Where would you recommend I start, in a situation like this?

[@beanybabysnail8576]

Maybe start on reddit or something? That could start it up

[@ellieleekz]

Can you do a video on the Moshi Monsters animated series? I have a page on it on the “lesser known media” section on the LMW forums!

[@PkmariO64]

I’m not gonna lie, there’s something slightly unnerving about the Charlie Caillou one.

[@Tree_e888]

I feel like all lost media has something slightly unnerving about them, even if it's a deleted scene in Care bears or something, just the idea of not being able to find it and not knowing everything it holds leaves me interested in slightly creeped out.

[@real.roninthomasvids]

That’s why i like searching for it

[@NoelComiX]

I got one for ya. Ive been searching for the Vocal song played in the background to the first ever game boy commercial. I have 2 vids on it on my channel. Lost media on both sides of the Pacific.

[@animationtakesalongtime]

So there was a cartoon about the viewer that fell thru the roof of a magician’s house and the magician saying “you broke thru my roof, oh well it’s ok” and another cartoon where the main character goes to a retired magician in a apartment, to get a magic wand/hat, it was probably aired at 2015 because I was 5 at that time and it was in the Philipines

[@jturner2577]

Finally caught one of your videos early.

[@elianewinter2638]

that intro animation never gets old 😊