What's on the tapes?! - Mystery Tapes Double Feature

[@Water_Lily44]

Fun story about those musical Clorox ads at the end: Back around that time one rainy day, there was a TV station airing a marathon of James Bond movies and my grandfather was watching it. Being bored I decided to join him. During one commercial break, something, somewhere went wrong and the ENTIRE commercial break was those Clorox ads! Legit about 10-12 in a row of "MAMA'S GOT THE MAGIC..." It became a running joke between my grandfather and me for years! Good times...

[@kade41200]

Mama really did have the magic that day

[@Musicradio77Network]

I remember the Clorox commercials. The music sounded a bit more calypso than Harry Belafonte did. It keep saying “Mama’s Got the Magic” over and over like a broken record. If you know Mama got her magic, as the platters would say “You got the Magic Touch”.

[@cutiepatooty123]

Wow! This is better than my version

[@KasumiRINA]

Watching classic movie or mystery series marathons are the best way to bond with your family members at home...

[@Water_Lily44]

@@KasumiRINA I see what you did there!

[@None-Trick_Pony]

Aged 91, lifetime performer. That's a great age to reach, and performing to his death at THAT age is the mark of man whose dedication to his craft knows no bounds. I respect that. I respect that a lot.

[@dorothycrystal2058]

same

[@esmeecampbell7396]

In Tim Minchin's "3 minute song" he makes a joke about how Victor Borge became such a standard for musical comedy that it not only laid the groundwork for people like him but gave him a constant point of comparison. Stilgoe and Skellern are the only other musical comedians I've seen come close to Victor Borge and Tim Minchin in terms of piano playing skills AND comedy, the sheer genius of Richard Stilgoe being able to take any 6 or 7 random things the audience shout out and write a funny rhyming song about them in the time it took Peter Skellern to play just 2 piano songs amazes me still.

[@DominoFreakShow]

Wow Ian aged fast.

[@Tairygreen]

Yeah! I heard he booked himself for his own funeral, and did a hell of a job

[@smashi1310]

I love how it is the one comedy pianist i know

[@C.V317]

I’d honestly kill for a day where the only news is that it’s cold.

[@zanizone3617]

Oh, man, if only!

[@CreepyUncleIdjit]

But then the news would be "Christopher Valentin killed some random person today. It's also cold."

[@1KayBilly]

Be careful. That's what the dinosaurs said.

[@zubrhero5270]

@@1KayBilly "Awesome! Is that a shooting star? ...."

[@DrakeSavage64]

That's pretty much life in Iowa.

[@kie2]

I think that Victor Borge segment was really well presented. I love how we transition from utter confusion to respect and a solemn reminder of the passage of time through this snapshot of a point in time that is this VHS tape.

[@esmeecampbell7396]

In Tim Minchin's "3 minute song" he makes a joke about how Victor Borge became such a standard for musical comedy that it not only laid the groundwork for people like him but gave him a constant point of comparison. Stilgoe and Skellern are the only other musical comedians I've seen come close to Victor Borge and Tim Minchin in terms of piano playing skills AND comedy, the sheer genius of Richard Stilgoe being able to take any 6 or 7 random things the audience shout out and write a funny rhyming song about them in the time it took Peter Skellern to play just 2 piano songs amazes me still.

[@wormdoodles]

"Mr Wallace, isn't this a gorgeous hand?" "Absolutely gorgeous" "There's another one like it" I mean, I laughed.

[@renmage2311]

I enjoyed how intensely dry and almost jaded it was

[@brianstone6463]

The great, late Victor Borge. I got to see him live in concert, a very long time ago.

[@KeenHunter]

Me too. I might have to check out Victor.

[@wormdoodles]

Now that I've rewatched the video specifically for that opera singer skit, I think I'm officially a fan!

[@PowerGlove79]

Brian Stone It’s weird, i was just thinking about him today, specifically the commercial for his best of tape I saw all the time in the early 90s. In fact, this recording may be it

[@alinktoana]

"hello, i'm michael eisner"" that Defunctland flashback

[@None-Trick_Pony]

I can't think of Eisner without thinking of Defunctland. What a damn good show.

[@Dianecites]

OMG hahah You can’t have Eisner without Defunctland

[@xXTomokoKurokiXx]

Yeah, Defunctland has made Mr. Eisner a genuine PTSD trigger for me.

[@camwoodstock]

"Hello, I'm Michael Eisner." Defunctland fans: *[PTSD FLASHBACKS]*

[@NaSandJayZ]

The fact that a bug's land is also gone now (very recently too) is just the cherry on top. Maybe we'll get a defunctland episode on that soon

[@creativ9761]

Seeing a Nintendo Switch recorded on VHS makes me feel weird.

[@eternalspitfire9064]

Ok so it's not just me. Good to know.

[@TombstoneChris]

It doesn't make me feel weird. It makes the world feel right to me.

[@moramento22]

It kinda feels like a portal to an alternate reality

[@viviscera7551]

yeah, real shit. I have dissociation issues as it is lol

[@kryptomanik]

NOW you're playing with POWER!

[@portalpiggy]

hearing "Hello, I'm Michael Eisner" activates my fight or flight response

[@robinw.8083]

It makes me think of Defunctland 😅

[@ryanahr2267]

@@robinw.8083 Him and Yesterworld both for me. But yeah, that was every Sunday night for my family and I for years. It was one of the few real small pleasures we had when I was growing up. Seeing the segments set in the parks always killed me because we could never afford it. I went once when I was 5 and then the next time I got to go was almost 30 years later.

[@artistwithouttalent]

I think the two phenomena are related; I don't think I would've cared a great deal about the CEO of the Walt Disney Company without Kevin going into the foibles of his tenure.

[@travtotheworld]

It's important to remember that the Walt Disney Company was on the verge of bankruptcy when Eisner took over. He saved the company and gave us the Disney Renaissance. It wasn't until Frank Wells died in that helicopter crash that things really went sideways.

[@jecka1021]

"Hello, I'm Michael Eisner" Defunctland crashes through the wall like Kool-aid man

[@FooPanda]

With a sponsor from Squarespace!

[@StompyRoA]

As a massive Defunctland fan, this made me breathe out of my nose when something’s funny on the internet.

[@TigirlakaLaserwolf6]

"OH NO"

[@youtubesfavoriteidot7714]

@@TigirlakaLaserwolf6 OH YEAH

[@deathwoomy6749]

You should really send that clip to Defunctland, Ian. I think he’ll like it :)

[@Splitter4416]

"The only news of the day is that it's gonna be cold tonight." Yup, that's Iowa.

[@serena_elizabeth8453]

Split Banana A fellow Iowan I see. LOL

[@DarwinDerby]

this is the last place i expected to see some Iowan news lol

[@russianbot8576]

hey now, earlier this year they debated furiously about whether or not trans people should be people with rights, or free to hate by corporations and landlords. give iowa some credit. (the decision was, they didn't remove gender identity from discrimination laws)

[@elhazelrah]

This reminded me of a Harvest Moon weather report.

[@vanspoorsveeplays357]

Hooo boy. I remember. >_>

[@JacobHillSBD]

"Teens love Subway" Oh no. OH NO.

[@yourdadsbbqbrisket8526]

jared "close-your-eyes-for-a-foot-long-surprise" fogle

[@kieran6417]

@@yourdadsbbqbrisket8526 definitely more like a 6 inch

[@littlejuliuscaesar8920]

jared “if-they’re-under-3-they’re-alright-for-me” fogle

[@robosexxxual]

Jared “if-their-names-on-the-clock-they’re-ready-for-the-cock” Fogle

[@NatetheNerdy]

Jared "give my sub a little rub" Fogle

[@gingerhoggatt7838]

Thank you so much for dipping into the history of Victor Borge. I got a little teary! My parents were huge fans and I was an avid piano player. They took me to see him on my 12th birthday in 1991. 😌

[@esmeecampbell7396]

In Tim Minchin's "3 minute song" he makes a joke about how Victor Borge became such a standard for musical comedy that it not only laid the groundwork for people like him but gave him a constant point of comparison. Stilgoe and Skellern are the only other musical comedians I've seen come close to Victor Borge and Tim Minchin in terms of piano playing skills AND comedy, the sheer genius of Richard Stilgoe being able to take any 6 or 7 random things the audience shout out and write a funny rhyming song about them in the time it took Peter Skellern to play just 2 piano songs amazes me still.

[@ShirfyrBlaze]

Just so everyone’s clear, the Menards jingle is played constantly in the store. Every 4-6 minutes each day and more during the holidays. Eventually it would drive you crazy. So there was definitely a bonus for me to have an outside position.

[@decepticreep952]

Did they think the shoppers kept forgetting where they were or something?

[@LEdHeadW]

NON STOP but damn it does make me want to go into a Menard for that lumber and tire rubber smell...

[@LickMyMusketBallsYankee]

@@LEdHeadW I've never been to one but you just convinced me to go. (Once this pandemic isn't a bother...) I love those types smells.

[@lunakitty1990]

I remember going to one a few months ago and you weren't kidding about the jingle playing it constantly.

[@zachfakename3747]

I work in Plumbing. What’s worse is hearing “High Hopes” 5 times every fucking day

[@LARKXHIN]

“If women want their own oatmeal...I’m not gonna stop them. “ A true gentleman.

[@pugimonster_944]

A true musical chad

[@jeremyc9593]

Vanilla Cinnamon? I want their oatmeal as well.

[@SpaceLordof75]

Dude, Mike Powell *still* has the long jump record, nearly 30 years later.

[@trajhver3]

SpaceLordof75 so Ian made another mistake?? :(

[@SpaceLordof75]

Yeah, I guess, but who’d expect only 2 world records in 52 years?!

[@DaceyecaD]

That's wild!

[@frankf684]

Mike Powell still has it 4 years later

[@roxiep2010]

I had hearing damage at a young age so I knew the tunes of those musical commercials, not so much the words. It's really wild to go back and listen today with my surgery-fixed ears and hear the lyrics clearly for the first time.

[@shadesilverwing592]

My grandma loved Victor Borge, her favourite sketch was where he plays piano so violently he stops to flip up the seat on the piano to pull out a seat belt. I remember her howling with laughter.

[@NonisLuck]

Hahahahaha sounds awesome

[@esmeecampbell7396]

In Tim Minchin's "3 minute song" he makes a joke about how Victor Borge became such a standard for musical comedy that it not only laid the groundwork for people like him but gave him a constant point of comparison. Stilgoe and Skellern are the only other musical comedians I've seen come close to Victor Borge and Tim Minchin in terms of piano playing skills AND comedy, the sheer genius of Richard Stilgoe being able to take any 6 or 7 random things the audience shout out and write a funny rhyming song about them in the time it took Peter Skellern to play just 2 piano songs amazes me still.

[@vivaeljason]

Victor Borge was wonderful. My grandparents made me watch him when I was like seven or eight and I still laugh now at 36.

[@TheMartinChronicles]

Man, I'm glad I'm not the only one who knows who this is.

[@kingfloopy]

We're the same age and I watched him with my grandparents also. I still think he's great too.

[@gayburrito5353]

I really miss him

[@phoneboxchicken4108]

I never heard of him before now, but he seems like a musical version of Tommy Cooper, who was similar but with magic tricks. Bill Bailey is a modern music based comedy act that is good.

[@JLE8811]

This is something I had not thought about in 30 years.

[@milkshake3280]

"The only news of the day is that it's going to be cold tonight?... Simpler times, man!" That one actually cuts deep.

[@rrpostalagain]

Milkshake I yearn for those days, again. Ironically, the MAGA days have brought us, instead, into the “everything is divisive and you have to think about horrible things at all time” -era. Great time, indeed. I really can’t wait to have a day with no news.

[@fahr]

@@rrpostalagain basically the news media has realized that the best way to attract viewers and keep them coming back is to make them scared and/or angry

[@rrpostalagain]

O That’s nothing new. I don’t agree if you’re trying to say that they are making “fake news” or making up a global infection. What I want is a president who isn’t infatuated with being in the news and being worshipped. I don’t want to think about the president every day. It’s not a good thing.

[@fahr]

@@rrpostalagain ah yes it's all trump's fault definitely not the predatory habits of the news media ok

[@rrpostalagain]

O ok? That’s all you got? Incredulity? At the absolute very least, Trump has failed to unite the country and “lead” with a “plan”. You are somehow convinced that the media expecting something from the president is unfair? Personally, I can’t believe they still give him as much respect as they do.

[@QuackAtomic]

I was in a Menards the other day. They still use that jingle, and it even plays on the intercom between songs.

[@WannbeSomeGuyWithLongHair]

I just wonder how the employees have to deal with that jingle all day and or night. I know they can't help it but every time I shop at Menards thats what I end up thinking the whole. Kinda distracting from shopping if you ask me. Just a regular Minnesotan passing through

[@bikeh]

R E S T O R E A L A R G E P O R T I O N O F C U R R E N C Y A T M E N A R D S

[@bigtaste985]

RESERVE A RATHER SIZEABLE QUANTITY OF LEGAL TENDER AT MENARDS

[@TheSameYellowToy]

Every time I go there, I'm glad I'm not an employee. That jingle has got to be so annoying to hear all day.

[@jayden6538]

@@bigtaste985 RESERVE A RATHER LARGE QUANTITY OF GREEN SLIPS OF PAPER USED TO PURCHASE ITEMS AT MERNARDS

[@ansel569]

its so fascinating how much pop culture and entertainment is pretty much lost from the public consciousness entirely, in just 30 or 40 years. It makes you wonder what we think is a big deal today but nobody will remember 30 years from now, except for in bizarre snippets like these.

[@ibn1989]

I'm glad youtube exists, because a lot of that stuff would be lost to time.

[@deathstinger13]

geeze, that just makes this one concerned with the lack of VHS recordings these days, just how much media is lost?

[@heidifedor]

That’s Victor Borge, he’s probably playing piano in heaven.

[@AndRewUK24]

Yes

[@MrDaveRitch]

Sadly he has passed. I got lucky enough to see him live in concert before he died.

[@rayceeya8659]

That's what I thought. I remember ads for his comedy shows on late night TV back in the 80s.

[@jenNjuice]

I was screaming victors name at my phone lol. Glad I’m not the only one who recognizes him.

[@Cynt3r]

He’s literally talking about Victor Borge in the video though, even mentioning that he died in 2000

[@E3kHatena]

The Cremewiches commercial awakened something primal and eldritch within me that I had forgotten a decade and a half ago.

[@wellthismachinekills3809]

Not to be confused with Cream witches, my go to porn search.

[@XanthinZarda]

And yet, I don't even recall any of those products aside from them existing. Makes you wonder how the marketing execs felt when they made great commercials that _failed to sell anything._

[@malachiatkinson7245]

@@wellthismachinekills3809 ...

[@Cendoria]

When "mama's got the magic" kept repeating, I thought the colours would invert and we'd get segmented shots of mama dead on the floor having drunk the bleach.

[@fabii8321]

BASF, in German "Badische Anilin- & Soda-Fabrik" is a German chemical company in Mannheim and the second largest chemical producer in the world. In the early 1960s and 1970s, they started making cassettes for video and music. Today, BASF is the largest chemical company in the world and is active in the fields of dyes, plastics, finishing, crop protection, oil and gas and even nutrition in 170 countries around the world. In Ludwigshafen am Rhein/Mannheim, where it all started, is the largest chemical area in the world with 2,000 buildings on 10 square kilometers.

[@moramento22]

Oh I didn't knew BASF made VHS tapes, I knew of them as they're quite present in Poland from where I am

[@vacuumandgaspressurecoexisting]

@@moramento22 I only know them from VHS tapes and Floppy Disks. Norwegian national here.

[@FoxMcFoxy]

BASF does a lot of stuff. They produce products for the chemical and automobile industry as well as stuff like VHS tapes back in the days. BASF alone holds 110,000 patents.

[@teflonravager]

At BASF we don't make a lot of the things you buy, we make a lot of the things you buy better.

[@QuJee]

No wonder that tape packaging looked so familiar. Im German and I remember my mother used to buy these.Certainly a blast from the past, let me tell you

[@DragnSly]

I love how the politicians responded to the question about mud-slinging with more mud-slinging.

[@Darkorona]

DragnSly That’s just what I was thinking.

[@rafie281]

Sounds like politics to me.

[@xijinping4418]

Gotta say something when you can't say anything of substance policy-wise like most politicians.

[@pelicanman96]

He's savage

[@qupjproductions2723]

A tradition that continues to this day

[@travtotheworld]

BASF had a ton of commercials in the 90s. They all followed a format of "At BASF we don't make (thing). We make it (adjective)." For example, "We don't make the plane. We make it lighter" or "We don't make the jeans. We make them bluer." Then they would close with "At BASF we don't make a lot of the products you buy every day. We make a lot of the products you buy ever day better."

[@anon7596]

Lads, this is how I got into anime! I had a Japanese friend in school back in the 90s who got sent vhs tapes from his grandparents. I came over one time and got introduced to ruroni Kenshin, detective Conan, kindaichi, kochikame, and Dragonball gt! From then on I was like "gimme all the tapes!"

[@squirrelmanyt6069]

Same! I kinda miss how we distributed shows with tapes.

[@GdotWdot]

Over here in Poland in the 90s we had an Italian-owned TV shopping channel that ran actual shows in certain narrow timeslots. It had the cheapest old shit they could syndicate, but that ended up largely being twice-redubbed ancient anime, most of which barely if ever made it into the US by the way. The Italians had censored these shows at some point, but there was still a lot of random child beating and violent deaths. One of the shows was "Tiger Mask", an anime from the 60s about a wrestler who donates his winnings to an orphanage. Dude actually kills people a few times lol, still, because of his backstory when people in Japan donate to orphanages they to this day occasionally do it under his name (Naoto Date).

[@mellowcorpsep6665]

@@GdotWdot tiger mask rules, i still got a vhs of the swedish dub

[@nope1018]

the fact that you're filming this on VHS adds a lot

[@CRANTIME]

"You're 2 years old" "No I'm not" That's probably the hardest I've laughed at a video a few weeks lmao

[@joetriche2891]

I used to talk to commercials like this. I hate when they tell you what you do or want.

[@purplecatonbroadway]

Same, it just caught me off guard lol

[@jeremyc9593]

@@joetriche2891 You don't hate that.

[@Porkey_Minch]

@Frizzurd That was a real yikes moment when they said that

[@internetnobody6754]

Hardee's casually admitting to grinding up a bunch of people to put in their new sandwhich

[@russianbot8576]

pigs are better than people, but should we really consider chauvinists and capitalists 'people', over smart, big hearted pigs? really makes ya think

[@warbossgegguz679]

​@@russianbot8576 "should we really consider chauvinists and capitalists 'people', over smart, big hearted pigs?" Nice post Snowball. How's the farm going?

[@livly_garden]

@@warbossgegguz679 pigs are so much cuter than capitalists if you ask me.

[@thisisanexonym]

Hardee's - e a t t h e r i c h!

[@warbossgegguz679]

​@@livly_garden But they're still people. The only thing lower than all 3 is a communist, but being fed to humans or pigs is too good of treatment. Good people have been killed and fed to pigs, and it would be an insult to the dead to do that to a communist. :)

[@007MrYang]

I don't remember stuff in the 2000's looking this old. I'm getting old

[@joeinsanity2512]

It was recorded on a vhs of course it looks old lol

[@aniyaturner6]

Me too...

[@romulocasas4906]

I totally thought that debate was from the 80s

[@RoyalSky424]

i remember the 2000s

[@TheInkPitOx]

@@romulocasas4906 I thought it was from the 90s

[@DenSporetrix]

"Is it still worth anything?" He says, a sad look washing over his face, realizing he may be in the same situation as that other man.

[@PeanutButterGamer]

I remember every singe one of those musical commercials.

[@richiesmeckgeckscas46]

Mama's got the magic

[@ForestGramps]

Yo, just found peebs in the comments? Hope ya’ll are staying safe/healthy out there

[@mayaslug]

S I N G E

[@anetterana]

What is this? A crossover episode?

[@chickenwings6172]

Same here

[@vermillion1735]

I still have vivid memories of Chef Boyardee commercials, with the cans rolling down the road into a kid's house.

[@malachiatkinson7245]

YES!! Oh my God, I always used to turn on the NC channel 46 Saturday morning cartoons- Yu-Gi-Oh was my favorite- and I remember that commercial clearly. I'd basically forgotten about it until I read this

[@oldkid820]

I just tried that stuff, it’s ass.

[@cozimae]

Ian aggressively singing and dancing along with the Chef Boyardee ad with his eyes opened up till the breach looking absolutely insane is one of my favourite things now... 29:26

[@godspeedyoublacknerd]

I love that you're wearing an Everything is Terrible! beanie while talking about VHS tapes

[@Karmy.]

I think the fact that he's wearing a MST3K shirt is perfect

[@joelrizzo2786]

Whatever happened to the EIT KZbin channel. Any idea?

[@secondman]

@@joelrizzo2786 It got deleted by YT but they made a new one at kzbin.info/door/qTOTqDeuSBP5rSc2ov5oMw

[@joelrizzo2786]

@@secondman Thank you very, very much. Love those people. And god knows we can all use some laughs now.

[@danceshimmyshake12]

the man has impeccable taste

[@carnivalissmellsnotgood2324]

The piano part feels like something I'd watch as a kid bored zoned out home alone at 5 pm ish after having eaten multiple shrimp flavored cup noodles.

[@chayden153]

22:34 "Hi I'm Michael Eisner" *Defunctland intensifies*

[@bradtoddler3765]

Oh hi there, Defunctland viewer!

[@LoganBowlby]

... and I'm Kevin Purjurer

[@zerir.3726]

despite the fact i was born in 2003 everything looks so _close_ to being familiar i’m mad for not recognising anything

[@soda_fairy]

Fr

[@bluesquadron8667]

I get what you mean. I remember a lot of this stuff even though I was like 3

[@sand0decker]

I felt the same with the video he did about VHS from 1998/1999

[@dariuskikstra3994]

Zeri R. Not scientifically possible

[@zerir.3726]

@@dariuskikstra3994 yeah that’s what i’m tying to say

[@TombstoneChris]

This has quickly become my favorite series on KZbin. the fact that you are recording this on an actual VHS and uploading it like this is phenomenal. I am hugely nostalgic and I am one of those people that have no problem popping in a VHS movie on a CRT TV and watching it. The world has become too fancy. There is something that just makes you feel good about something that comes from a time when the world was I wouldn't say perfect but felt more right. I love the randomness of what's on the tapes because you just don't know. I never thought of this idea but now I am definitely going to be purchasing old VHS tapes like this hopefully I come across some gems. I'm a sound cheesy here but watching this just takes on a roller coaster of emotion. I admit I'm shedding tears over here. I truly am one of those that long for the days of old. Thank you so much for doing this.

[@joshuajohnson3296]

I feel that same way. All the best dude.

[@TombstoneChris]

@didz13 Thanks

[@danieldietrich9969]

If you like this kind of stuff, you may be interested in RedLetterMedia's Best of the Worst: Black Spine editions.

[@ShinySpinarak]

I wish I could find a comment like this that can enjoy stuff like this without having to complain about current day. Soundcloud is fun to dive into and see the random songs people come up with, youtube has so many random videos to go through... current day is just as fun and random if you know where to go.

[@mortemmalum7228]

You, sir, have won hipster of the year! Please report to headquarters to ensure your beard is up to code and then you can collect your reward and get a polaroid with the club president.

[@Mikitanfox1]

Seeing this recorded in VHS makes me nostalgic... something about the grainy shittyness of vhs recording takes me back to a more happy time. Stay safe dude!

[@pattyofurniture694]

Agreed, I absolutely love the way this was recorded.

[@DumbIdeaPresentedStupidly]

And forgetting whats coming next, I had a friend over one time and i put on a tape that had the hot wheels cartoon. But kept forgetting how many other shows where on before it

[@talkinghoorse6936]

22:34 Somewhere out there, Defunctland is seething in anger and doesn't know why.

[@joshuaterry846]

Watching Ian's passion and love for things makes me so happy. Sometimes I feel life is kind of devoid of anything to care about except maybe a few close people, but then i see Ian talking about how much he enjoys this kind of stuff and it warms my jaded heart ❤

[@lulu_9000]

Re: Scrubbing Bubbles: I think it's supposed to be a literal scrubbing bubble. The bottom brush part is the "scrubbing" and the top is the "bubble."

[@stagpie6449]

The real question: does it know it exists in a body so temporary? Do living bubbles fear death??

[@floyd2386]

I thought that was obvious, painfully so. How could he not see that?

[@lulu_9000]

@@floyd2386 Maybe because the design is too opaque. They look solid white on top, not translucent the way you'd expect a bubble to be. It took me years to see it myself for this reason. When I was a kid I just assumed that was maybe a specific design of a bathroom-cleaning brush.

[@wjdelu6758]

I always thought it was some kind of brush you held in the palm of your hand. Kinda weird now that i think about it

[@lulu_9000]

@@wjdelu6758 That's what I used to think, too.

[@Norweeg]

I love this series so much. Oh, and it starts with Victor Borge. He was hilarious and a legend!

[@hollogyny]

norweeg what I love more is the fact that you have a yes album cover as a profile picture

[@Norweeg]

Hollogyny Thanks! I get that comment a lot. ✌️

[@TheOddMindofSamBo]

I love how Ian’s channel is now just artsy LGR

[@squidud]

SamTheSclam that’s a great thing

[@daniellomas3003]

Lazy game reviews

[@squidud]

I think he actually did a cameo in one of LGR's videos. The Y2K one I think.

[@daniellomas3003]

@@squidud yup you are right

[@HoveringNebula]

It's actually kind of funny. Back when LGR started out, he recorded his live action stuff on a VHS Camera, then moved on to a modern one. Ian's just worked backwards, but dammit if I don't love this niche. Now Ian just needs to get his own ugly 70's plaid chair.

[@idnastalks]

Oh my gosh Victor Borge! I remember watching this a lot when I was younger. It was one of my dad’s favorite. Thank you for that nostalgia trip I just went on

[@esmeecampbell7396]

In Tim Minchin's "3 minute song" he makes a joke about how Victor Borge became such a standard for musical comedy that it not only laid the groundwork for people like him but gave him a constant point of comparison. Stilgoe and Skellern are the only other musical comedians I've seen come close to Victor Borge and Tim Minchin in terms of piano playing skills AND comedy, the sheer genius of Richard Stilgoe being able to take any 6 or 7 random things the audience shout out and write a funny rhyming song about them in the time it took Peter Skellern to play just 2 piano songs amazes me still.

[@baitzadasuto]

Gotta love the Hardee's ad that seems to be unintentionally implying they're selling a sandwich made of human meat mixed together with actual pork

[@tanztummitternacht4236]

Chauvinist police meat apparently 🤣

[@jasonblalock4429]

Long pig is still technically pork, right?

[@AgentLane13]

Human, the *other* other white meat.

[@ebonhawken574]

Ever seen Soylent Green?

[@xenshia]

Eat the rich

[@0rluh]

Those early 2000s commercials feel like just yesterday. I could watch these for hours. Feels oddly soothing right now. I guess I want to pretend like it’s any time but now.

[@octogonSmuggler]

I have an old recording of Van Helsing that has amazingly calming Christmas commercials from the early 2000.

[@julissamedina5664]

Same same 💓

[@videogamegurl96]

Me too. I started watching old commercial compilations a few years ago during a depressive episode. Anymore, media like this gives me a sense of comfort.

[@kwya]

"I mean I don't really get haircuts but..." 2014: I love milk just about as much as I love getting haircuts, I have a tall glass of milk pretty much every night.

[@turnoffautoplay]

Classic

[@harrylane4]

Character development

[@allendrake6960]

I'm glad you brought that contradiction up! It adds further weight to my theory of why "Ian" (as he would like us to believe) is different in so many ways from how he was years ago. Avid watchers of Mr. Moose's channel, including his Brutal Foods spinoff series, may recall a particular episode revolving around reviewing a variety of *Hungry-Man™* brand frozen TV dinners, back in 2017. _"But where are you going with this?"_ you might ask, and with good reason. Perhaps your mind went to the friendly and lovable Tiny Ian from certain Brutal Foods episodes, having discovered a way to enlarge himself to successfully impersonate (Big) Ian? Maybe, but unlikely. We've never been given reason to be suspicious of Tiny Ian. No, the real culprit is none other than *Hungry-Man™* himself! Who was it that supposedly came to the rescue by flying to Ian's apartment, when a not-hungry Ian was assaulted with frozen dinners, pleading for help? *_Hungry-Man™!_* And who was nowhere to be found for the remainder of the video as soon as that muscled, hungry "hero" arrived? _IAN!_ If you look closely enough, those gargantuan muscles are nearly bursting out of his sleeves at all times. Who else would have the might to not only lock Ian away but restrain his physique for the last few years to fool us all? It all adds up! >:(

[@EagerSleeper]

@@allendrake6960 Allen did we just experience a manic episode?

[@allendrake6960]

@@EagerSleeper Don't be fooled by his incredibly muscled and insatiably hungry facade! THAT'S JUST WHAT HE WANTS! #EXPOSEHUNGRYMAN™ #FREEIAN

[@feraldynasty]

There's a reason everyone from the midwest has the Menards jingle permanently seared into their brain, it's pure nostalgia

[@AndrewConlan]

i believe the reason she takes such a round about way of saying "low prices" is because low prices makes it sound cheap an people don't want cheap, they want quality for a low price, so "always on sale" sounds better than cheap, because something on sale COULD be quality, but something cheap could be cheap for SO many reasons.

[@allendrake6960]

Sounds right. "It's cheap because I'm nice enough to sell such a fabulous, premium quality product to you at a reduced price, not because it's cheaply made!"

[@KasumiRINA]

I have the other stereotype: low prices simply mean they're not overcharging. While always on sale means they have problems selling it due a high amount of returns or negative reviews, so I always double check items that are often on sale for reviews online.

[@artistwithouttalent]

Could also just be that saying they always have low prices is because they would've been sued by Wal-mart. Occam's Razor and all that.

[@whiteydiamond]

I remember the Campbell's commercial where a snowman came into a house, ate some soup, and melted into a kid. The catch phrase was "Mmm Mmm Better"

[@Red-Wolf-Ben]

Oh, the weather outside is frightful...

[@yo-kaishopper5049]

Mmm Mmm Good, not better.

[@jerrica76]

I remember the snowman commercial they showed it a lot at Christmas

[@TheOneGuy1111]

You just stirred up a memory that I haven't recalled in years...

[@ZeranZeran]

@@yo-kaishopper5049 I don't feel Mmm Mmm Better

[@mudikyu]

Fun fact: it turns out that Burma-Shave signs are still up in parts of old Route 66 in Arizona. The company may be long gone, but it's neat to know that their influence is still around.

[@epn9394]

It’s funny how vintage these ads feel, and they’re only from 2002. Which doesn’t seem like that long ago. I love these, it’s like looking through a time capsule.

[@Rexdrinksredbull]

Everytime I see Micheal Eisner, I can faintly hear Kevin Perjur letting out a single scream

[@kesitepe]

I lost it at "You're two years old" "No I"m not." Also, don't worry, the "women need their own oatmeal" thing is definitely weird.

[@someone___1240]

I don’t understand why we need our own oatmeal

[@bluesquadron8667]

@@someone___1240 because marketing

[@ashaler__]

by the oatmeal logic, i want nonbinary corn flakes

[@bradbradlylife9918]

I want iron in my oatmeal tho that's cool

[@Jkdabomb10A]

Tlontb, the NB Ukrainian Army Ball love this.

[@speedrublucas1139]

Mama's got the magic, and she's gonna get burned for being a witch.

[@PsDnK]

How do you know, that you love a KZbinr? You watch each and every commercial through without skipping it. Oh, and love the fact you discovered Børge Rosenbaum aka Victor Borge. Not many remember him nowadays. Fun fact, he ended up buying an old castle here in Denmark.

[@TheArcherboy11]

are we not going to talk about that transition from, "look i can jump far!" to "I lost my leg to gangrene."?

[@thewayfayer3268]

No.

[@RikuHino]

Oh fun!

[@steelstrider2624]

I really like the VHS aesthetic,. at first I thought it was just a filter, but the authenticity of it being recorded on an actual VHS tape pulls the whole thing together. This turned out fantastically. great idea and great execution

[@heatherchaundy1943]

that piano/stand-up guy is victor borge!! my dad loves him and the stuff that ive seen of his is pretty funny.

[@Ramonatho]

The Iowa Senate debate from 2002 opened a point in my mind from which I was so young and had no idea what was going on, but the old KCRG logo was so nostalgic.

[@mythhavennoir]

"Does a woman need her own oatmeal?" Translation: "Let's us sell you the exact same product for more money."

[@OdaSwifteye]

It's expensive making things pink. They might even throw in a few objects that vaguely taste like strawberries.

[@artchic528]

I find these sorts of products insulting. How dare they assume I want pink oatmeal! I want my oatmeal brown and boring like everyone elses!

[@omnipresentsnowflake4698]

Because pandering is empowering of course

[@sheepish2159]

I don't get the point of complaining about the "pink tax." If it's the exact same product then just buy the cheaper version?

[@HaydenX]

They added soy to it...that's it. At the time, the phyto-estrogen research for soy made it seem more effective than it actually was for treating symptoms of menopause. That said...just buy regular cheap oatmeal and make it with soymilk.

[@StCerberusEngel]

Sorry to be the millionth person to tell you this, but: The top of the scrubbing bubble is a ... bubble. It's a bubble with a scrub brush on the bottom. A scrubbing bubble, if you will.

[@gurvmlk]

You just blew my mind. I always just saw it as the brush's handle.

[@wendyokoopa7048]

@@solchapeau6343 I'm here with the Real Name from the official S.C Johnson website his name is Scrubby. Also I'm in with the company as my sister works for them. I love my scrubbing bubbles.

[@purplecatonbroadway]

Why did this never occur to me

[@decepticreep952]

Wait, so it's not a handle? All these years, my life has been full of lies...

[@ireallydidntwanttomakeanac575]

A scrubble.

[@RosasEnLaPrimavera]

"There's no us it's just me." I'm pretty sure MJ won't appreciate her erasure from the company.

[@NotOnLand]

I went to Disney California in 2013 and the Bug's Land part was _still there,_ over a decade later. I never liked the movie but the park zone was really really cool, every little detail was some scaled up object. Awnings and signs were leaves, posts were things like pencils and bendy straws stuck in the ground, benches were made from popsicle sticks. It really felt like you were shrunk down to bug size.

[@maddieb.4282]

It was great but sadly it’s now been replaced with Cars land

[@NotOnLand]

@@maddieb.4282 Both were there when I went, so unless Cars Land moved or doubled in size you're mistaken

[@SpingotGoomer]

Anyone else find that piano concert bit in the beginning actually very interesting?

[@chadschmaltz9790]

Absolutely. Victor Borge is hilarious.

[@alexdimaria3689]

Yes ! Victor Borge help ppl to love orchestra by doin the clown on scene ! It was very nice !

[@WCtheComedian]

Loved Victor Borge for decades-he was incredibly talented. Best Of videos to be found on YT

[@officialnezquick]

“Lucky for us this tape does include commercial breaks...” I’d only ever hear that on this channel

[@moldyskittle]

nezquick there’s whole compilations of old ads on KZbin. I hate modern ads but the early 2k and before stuff is just nostalgic as hell. I guess this is the only channel you’d hear that from but he’s not alone for sure.

[@ptcrusa]

Mike Powell still holds that long jump record actually, 29 years later.

[@malachiatkinson7245]

Damn, son, that _is_ a long jump. I'm sorry.

[@ptcrusa]

He is just now re-entering our atmosphere

[@malachiatkinson7245]

@@ptcrusa His landing shall purge the Earth like the lizard titans before us

[@MyMyMicah32]

Over a year later, I just woke up from a dream with the chips ahoy jingle stuck in my head. I genuinely couldn't go back to sleep as I was hunting around to find where i heard that tune before.

[@HeadsetGuy]

If you're a fan of Victor Borge now, I'd recommend checking out his "Inflationary Language" bit if you haven't already.

[@FabricFool]

Thanks, Headset Guy: I hoped someone would point out Victor Borge, one of the funniest Danes since Hans Christian Andersen. Funnier.

[@Xeno426]

I particularly enjoy his "version" of The Magic Flute.

[@dracoinsanity]

I think that was the most interesting part of this video for me. His comedy looks like the kinda stuff that's right up my alley. I'm definitely gonna look into him after his. :D

[@dumpling6410]

Phonetic Punctuation is great too!

[@Just-in-Space]

I remember watching his stuff as a kid. Idk why must have been a rerun.

[@soap7203]

Just waiting for when Ian finds lost media on one of his tapes and puts some years-old manhunt to rest lmao

[@warpath6666]

I found an unlabeled tape. On it was Anal Intruders vol. 1-3 😯

[@holyshard530]

That would be absolutely amazing!

[@SoulcatcherLucario]

It's so odd how nearly twenty years later the Menards ads haven't changed at _all_

[@jordanthejq12]

There are some 2019 and 2020 ads available on KZbin. Aside from a modernized look, they haven't changed one bit.

[@afrog2666]

Aliens..

[@wareforcoin5780]

Same banjo intro, same enthusiastic male voice, same green. Everything is there same.

[@Demache92]

@@wareforcoin5780 Even our local store, which was built in 2002 when I was 10, really hasn't changed. Heck, at some of the customer assistance desks, they still have the same CRT TVs that show who is working right now and they are so faded from running nonstop for 20 years.

[@Ali_Womble]

"Momma's got the magic... Momma's got the magic... That's where I wanna... That's where I wanna..."

[@Tomorrowandtomorrowandtomorrow]

Victor Borge is a legend. As a child I watched him on Sesame Street, back when that show was full of culture and humor.

[@ToonamiT0M]

Heck yah! Victor Borge is awesome!

[@esmeecampbell7396]

In Tim Minchin's "3 minute song" he makes a joke about how Victor Borge became such a standard for musical comedy that it not only laid the groundwork for people like him but gave him a constant point of comparison. Stilgoe and Skellern are the only other musical comedians I've seen come close to Victor Borge and Tim Minchin in terms of piano playing skills AND comedy, the sheer genius of Richard Stilgoe being able to take any 6 or 7 random things the audience shout out and write a funny rhyming song about them in the time it took Peter Skellern to play just 2 piano songs amazes me still.

[@RingoBuns]

I remember in public school when those listerine packs came out we would dare each other to hold the entire pack’s worth of sheets in our mouth and my god did it ever burn.

[@HookedonChronics]

We convinced some kid that it was a tab of acid and he started acting like he was tripping like an hour later.

[@octogonSmuggler]

@@HookedonChronics God I miss gullible kids. I once convinced a girl that all sparkling water was actually vodka. She started coming to school "drunk".

[@julissamedina5664]

I did 12 once my sinuses were clear for a day(had childhood asthma lol)

[@saranghae1saranghae]

"Mama's got the magic..." "Mom has got the magic..." WHICH ONE IS IT?!

[@PrincessAshley972]

Sounds like "Mama's got the magic" to me

[@allendrake6960]

Easy. "Mama's has got the magic".

[@sullivanbard]

I only remember it as "Mama's got the magic." So, I go with that.

[@theSato]

Anyone who hears 'mom has' is just wrong lol

[@DumasDumasDumas]

I was in kindergarten when the creamwich sandwiches were at their peak, I loved them so much. Until one day the kid across from me told me the cream was made specifically from sheep, and I asked my mom not to buy them anymore.

[@XenoDelta212]

omg lol why did kids come up with oddly specific places where food came from?? I have a similar story where a kid in 1st grade told everyone that mcdonald’s hamburgers were made of “goat brains”, and even though i eventually knew it wasn’t true i didn’t eat them for years after that just because that was what i associated them with lol

[@Has-uo1lq]

As a woman, I don’t feel empowered by the oatmeal commercial. .........why does oatmeal need a gender?

[@SolaireHighwind]

Now I'm just thinking about Manly Oatmeal for Men. Extra large *manly* oat grains, cedarwood packaging, 500 grams of protein per serving to get you SWOLE. Gendered food is weird.

[@omnipresentsnowflake4698]

Pepperoni Pizzazaroli, for women!

[@MrMatthias]

@@omnipresentsnowflake4698 Chef Girlardee? 🤔

[@triccele]

Why? Because you can charge them extra if it's pink and says "for her"

[@gurvmlk]

@@SolaireHighwind You forgot the part about it being bacon-flavored.

[@justme002]

Being able to make food look appealing in advertising is a relatively recent thing. Most advertising involving food avoided showing it too much back in the day.

[@BenCol]

And they have all kinds of tricks to do so. One of them (for print ads and product labels at least) is soaking a tampon in water, microwaving it, and then hiding it behind the food to make it look like the food is steaming hot.

[@EricTheRed4143]

this series is kinda like the 'remember when' show in a way. same thing, really, just a century later, late 20th centurt-early 21st nostalgia

[@blingmobile]

when the documentary about the 1900s came up, i thought it was ridiculous that boomers would sit and watch tv just to make themselves feel nostalgia and then i heard "mamas got the magic" and went "ooo i remember that :)"

[@sand0decker]

As soon as the Clorox 2 bottle came up, it all came back for me.

[@kevinm5940]

What's strange to me is that the time period seems a little too early. Surely there wouldn't be many people in the 90s who felt nostalgic for the late 1800s.

[@ashkitt7719]

It would be the Silent Generation or Greatest Generation that was nostalgic for that era. Boomers would be nostalgic about the 60s I guess.

[@blingmobile]

@@ashkitt7719 thanks for the correction :D

[@inyrui]

This entire series/video is literally just watching TV to make yourself feel nostalgia lol

[@SonicKurosaki]

"It makes A Bugs Land look pretty fun" It wasn't

[@heavenlything]

thank god its gone

[@sleepyote]

Just like the movie

[@ninelivesstealer]

Having grown up in the Midwest, I've been seeing Menards commercials and hearing their radio ads for my whole life. I don't know why, but for some reason the "SAVE BIG MONEY AT MENARDS!" jingle has never gotten old or annoying even when so many other commercial jingles do. Reminds me of the good old days when my grandpa would take me to Menards and complain about how everything is more expensive now.

[@glorybr]

Weird fact, Good’s furniture still exists but now it’s also a BnB as well as a furniture store, so you can vacation in a furniture store? So bizarre

[@ThemightyHerm]

Legit I grew up in a small town not far from the town goods furniture is in and ended up working for a company that delivered there, turns out the lady in the commercials is not a nice person when you meet her

[@romajimamulo]

@@ThemightyHerm ... Can you spill the details?

[@motherofthetans]

I played piano as a Young Person, and loved Victor Borge ever since my grandma introduced me to him. The man was a legend and exactly the kind of performer/musician I desperately wanted to be (but never became).

[@michaelmartin9022]

"Be kind - tape over?" Who knows how much revenue you've denied big media by watching an old Golden Girls somebody taped in 1990??

[@jimboleparrot1299]

this series is just as good a brutalfoods, absolutely love it

[@drewby4701]

I love that you're filming on an old camera. They have a charm that modern cameras simply can't capture!

[@starkieable]

The Campbell's commercial is so nostalgic. I remember coming in from the snowy weather as a child and seeing that commercial (that one and the snowman one), and making myself a nice warm bowl. Such nice memories, thank you Ian. ☺️

[@jamiep9991]

I love how he’s basically making a shared universe with the characters from past tapes, like pizza guy and camera guy.

[@salad_bucket]

With editing like this, I'm surprised Ian never got into marketing as a career. Fortunately for the rest of us, he stuck around here.

[@MegasXLR7]

Imagine my surprise seeing an ad for Thomasville furniture, the very town I live in now. Incredibly sad given the state of it now, *all* of the factories are shut down. I've never actually seen a Thomasville furniture ad; this was pretty cool, Thanks for these, dude, I can't wait for more.

[@Catglittercrafts]

That first guy is Victor Borge. He's absolutely amazing! You should check more of his stuff out. He's a very or was a very accomplished concert pianist but also extremely hilarious and charismatic and did a lot tours and television appearances I believe in the sixties and seventies mostly.

[@esmeecampbell7396]

In Tim Minchin's "3 minute song" he makes a joke about how Victor Borge became such a standard for musical comedy that it not only laid the groundwork for people like him but gave him a constant point of comparison. Stilgoe and Skellern are the only other musical comedians I've seen come close to Victor Borge and Tim Minchin in terms of piano playing skills AND comedy, the sheer genius of Richard Stilgoe being able to take any 6 or 7 random things the audience shout out and write a funny rhyming song about them in the time it took Peter Skellern to play just 2 piano songs amazes me still.

[@BlightVonDrake]

"MAMA'S GOT THE MAGIC!" Ian please, my brain is melting. I'm so excited for more of this dude, this series is great.

[@ShayBot3000]

"You're 2 years old." "No I'm not!" I died lol

[@Wombattlr]

F

[@samcarroll6210]

Time stamp?

[@MikeKobela]

22:33 "My Eisner-senses are tingling!" - Kevin Perjurer

[@LeftHandGloveClub]

Defunctland is getting pretty big...

[@theactualTVB]

Mike Kobela speaking from someone who is a fan of Defunctland, I get the reference.

[@Verolzy]

That oatmeal ad wasn't very empowering. It just feels patronizing.

[@doomslayer3593]

Cause it is