https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFmgBo41IV0
What even is this? It’s one minute and eleven seconds of Bobdunga taking close up videos of one of her toys. This is insane, it’s pretentious, and it tells us NOTHING about ANYTHING.
I had to look it up. Saint Seiya is an anime. I guess. There were seven tv series and six movies. There were also a bunch of comic books or “manga”, if you prefer.
If you’d like to learn more, consult Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Seiya
So…The Secret Stories of Saint Seiya is an unreleased…movie or tv show? I guess? It’s nowhere on the Wikipedia article and I couldn’t find anything from a quick DuckDuckGo search.
There’s something to be said about trailers just giving a little tease and leaving you wanting more but…I don’t give a shit about this. At all.
It’s just going to be another stupid video from crazy Bobdunga where she goes all X-Files on us, interviews some shadowy people who don’t give a shit about any of this, and then the thing turns out to be in The Library of Congress. She’ll describe the entire process in minute detail down to what she had for breakfast each day. And her and her Youtube pals will talk about what idiots the audience are. Right there in the video. Oh, and she’ll insert a lot of footage of ladyboys into the video for no apparent reason.
There is a lot of lost media out there so maybe Saint Dungalous is on to something. But you don’t have to limit yourself to fucking anime.
I’d like to see the entire series of The Super released. The only footage that seems to exist is this poor-quality intro on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzwiZZ7nbrE
It was never released on any physical media, as far I’m aware. It’s not on Youtube. It’s not on the pirate sites. Indeed, according to the Lost Media Archive, there’s no footage anywhere.
https://lostmediaarchive.fandom.com/wiki/The_Super_(Lost_1972_ABC_Sitcom)
But that’s just one of many, many examples of tv shows that don’t exist any more. There was a similar show in the late 1980s or early 1990s that starred a very famous, very Jewish actor but I can’t remember his name or the name of the show. The show only lasted a few episodes before it was cancelled.
Chicken Soup. That’s what I was thinking of. Where can I watch this? Nowhere, according to a quick search. All I can find is the opening.
Oh. I found the last half of the pilot episode on Daily Motion. But where’s the rest? I guarantee that you can not find the entire series anywhere on the internet. Maybe there’s some obsessive Chicken Soup fan out there who has them all in his personal VHS collection but he’s not releasing it.
Or what about Hooperman? I’m just naming shows that sound similar. The Super, Chicken Soup, Hooperman. They all have the “ooh” sound in them. But show me the complete collection of Hooperman. You can’t find it. Lost media.
And this was a fucking John Ritter show. People like John Ritter. And it lasted a couple of years. It was from the late 1980s. All you can find is the opening. People really seem to like to save the opening theme song for shows but not the actual shows.
It’s not even really about how old the shows are. There are plenty of shows from the 1980s, 1990s, probably even 2000s that you just can’t find anywhere.
Nerd shit always gets preserved. Star Trek was probably the first show to be uploaded to the internet. Some nerd in his mother’s basement. It has never been difficult to find any of that shit. Star Trek (all series), Twillight Zone, even more obscure stuff like Babylon Five or Sliders or whatever. If it’s some nerdy science fiction shit, you can easily find it on the internet, no matter how obscure. Because the nerds are interested in this shit.
Nerds don’t care about Chicken Soup. So it’s gone.
Obviously, the further you go back, the more likely it is that footage no longer exists. There are many tens or hundreds of thousands of forgotten tv shows.
Virtually all game shows don’t exist. Even fairly modern stuff. Show me the entire run of The Price is Right. I want to watch every single episode. Can’t be done. Nobody has it.
Same with soap operas. You might think that people would want to see that . Well, maybe they do but nobody recorded all of that shit. Or if they did, they haven’t put it on the internet. There must be loads of people who want to watch the 12 June 1992 episode of Days of Our Lives but they’re just fucked. The episode isn’t available.
Talk shows, same thing. I want to watch the Tempestt Bledsoe (Vanessa from The Cosby Show) talk show where she did an episode on “bra makeovers”. She did a lot of “bra makeover” episodes, actually. But I can’t. No footage exists.
Or what about Tony Danza’s short-lived talk-show. Not available anywhere.
And it’s not just obscure shit. I want to watch every episode of The Jerry Springer Show. Or Donahue. I can’t.
Any daytime shit is just considered disposable. Even the people who produced this shit likely don’t have it. Maybe they re-used tapes or whatever so the footage is just gone.
But also stuff like The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. I believe that Johnny Carson was upset to learn that they recorded over his shows so he started making his own archive of shows. But as a result of recording over shows or whatever, loads of that shit is gone.
David Letterman’s videos only exist because an autistic weirdo named Don Giller recorded every episode. He’s apparently working for David Letterman now. Here’s his channel.
https://www.youtube.com/user/dongiller
That guy is a giant fucking asshole to everybody who ever leaves a comment. He has extreme autism. But it’s this extreme autism that lead him to record every episode.
Nevertheless, this is just this guy’s personal archive. He hasn’t uploaded anywhere near his entire collection on to the internet. As far as I’m aware, the vast majority of it is just on VHS tapes.
Local news broadcasts are another example of lost media. Even national news broadcasts. If I want to watch a particular episode of ABC World News Tonight starring Peter Jennings from 1988, is it available anywhere? I don’t think so.
Locally-produced children’s television is mostly gone.
And this is just American stuff. The non-American stuff, virtually all of it, it’s gone.
You can go on and on and on. There’s loads of lost media. So I suggest that Bobdunga focus her “journalistic” efforts on some of this shit. Fuck anime. There are enough nerds out there already who are preserving anime. You don’t have to worry about anime. Every anime that has ever been produced is out there and fairly easy to access.