MHV #309: THE WILDEST GAME SHOW WE’VE EVER SEEN
Are you ready for the wildest game show we’ve ever aired? WOW, this is one hell of a tape. Nearly unedited by us, we present the infamous 1994 episode of the short-lived British phenom “Don’t Forget Your Toothbrush”…the one with a finale akin to Oprah’s “You get a car, and you get a car, and you get a car...”. “Toothbrush” is an unholy manic hybrid of variety show (Barry White guests for a few songs AND is an erstwhile contestant), sketch comedy (the red-headed host just won’t stop riffing), “Let’s Make A Deal” (audience encouraged to bring enormous paper-machine toothbrushes), “Numberwang” (the fictitious surrealistic UK game show), and shock reality programme (see: finale). You won’t regret this.
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MHV #310: LAFF TRAX
One of the Museum’s greatest loves is unseen footage of 1980s Los Angeles. We recently stumbled across a whole few episodes of the short-lived “Laugh Trax”: a Xerox of a competitor to “Fridays” (itself a janky clone of SNL). This show was filmed on location across the whole of LA. Cameos by Fred Willard and Leslie Nielsen, and a musical shots by General Public. SNL ’80 alumnus Gail Matthius (from the infamous “worst season ever”) acquits herself just fine here as a main cast member. And you’ll get to see the inside of some neon-soaked nightclubs
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MHV #311: AN EVENING WITH MICHAEL DENNIS OF REELBLACK
Simply put, Reelblack is one of YouTube’s finest archives of rare footage, and one of YouTube’s longest-running channels ever! Michael Dennis has been saving impeccably cool nuggets of African-American life on film and video for 20 years. We honor Mike with a megamix of our favorite Reelblack moments. Behind-the-scenes with The Roots and The Neptunes, TV commercials that will blow your mind, Richard Pryor crooning (which will also blow your mind), historic dance parties, DMX on a rollercoaster, and the hair show to end all hair shows! We’ll also hear the scoop on Reelblack’s first Blu-ray release: RIVERBEND, the previously-lost ‘80s action epic starring the late Steve James (AMERICAN NINJA and many other Cannon Films).
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MUSICVIDEODROME #96
MUSICVIDEODROME: A joyous and frenetic stumble through the archives of music television, coming at you monthly! Forgotten live performances, modern and classic music videos, outrageous interviews & more. Hosted by the International Voice of Reason.
About IVOR:IVOR, a 20-year veteran of weirdo free-form radio, is survived by his two tuxedo cats and a giant pile of rug yarn.
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MHV #308: SANDRA BERNHARD SPEAKS
The look…that piercing look! Sandra’s rocked this world with fifty years of being WHO SHE IS. Starting her career as a manicurist to the stars, Sandra brings that intimacy, cattiness and filthiness that only a salon-ster can really bring. Tonight we bring well over 60 minutes of incredible talk show appearances and enthralling chutzpah.
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MHV #307: ADVERTVERTVERT
A supersonic blast of superlative, demented high-energy TV commercials from the UK. You’ll hear jingles you’ll never be able to unhear! You’ll see foods that probably shouldn’t exist! Get down with elfish mascots, obscure condiments, baffling animations, naughty chocolates, wildlife chugging P.G. Tips, a few Python cameos, absolutely haunting PSAs and other delights.
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MUSICVIDEODROME #95
FRIDAY NIGHT! Your loins’ll be a-burnin’ like her voice is urgently yearnin’! She’s the brand ambassador for BIG HAIR and a lobbyist for SULTRY FLOWING FABRIC! It’s a SPOTLITE on the late great BONNIE TYLER! LATER IN THE EPISODE — A People’s Guide to Fisting Safety!
MUSICVIDEODROME: A joyous and frenetic stumble through the archives of music television, coming at you monthly! Forgotten live performances, modern and classic music videos, outrageous interviews & more. Hosted by the International Voice of Reason.
About IVOR:IVOR, a 20-year veteran of weirdo free-form radio, is survived by his two tuxedo cats and a giant pile of rug yarn.
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MHV #306: THE ROBERT GUILLAUME SHOW - “ALL THAT SHIMMERS”
An unusual slice of warm ’n fuzzy watching from the Hall of Forgotten Sitcoms. After his iconic ten-year stretch between “Soap” and its hugely successful spinoff “Benson”, Robert Guillaume was looking for his next big move. Tonight we’ll watch a full episode of Guillaume’s short-lived titular sitcom from ’89, the unusual vibe of which is very cozy, low-stakes and more like an indie arthouse film.
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MHV #305: BRUCE CAMPBELL on PBS Late Night ‘83
A babyfaced Bruce Campbell at age 24 (!), captured in a great late-nite moment in time. Finding this recording was the first we’d heard of “PBS Late Night”: a long-running public television competitor to Carson and Letterman, broadcast live from Detroit, MI. Here, affable host Dennis Wholey interviews Bruce at length on the May 6th, 1983 edition about THE EVIL DEAD. And they take live calls from around the States like it’s Larry King’s show!
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MHV #303: HOUSE PARTY!
What a discovery! Before the iconic ‘90s indie that showcased the skill and style of Kid ’N Play, young filmmaker Reginald Hudlin shot an early version of HOUSE PARTY in ’83 for his undergrad degree at Harvard! Many of the scenes would later end up in the feature film verbatim, and this charming short did end up on PBS’s “Image Union” back in the ‘80s.
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MUSICVIDEODROME #94
MUSICVIDEODROME: A joyous and frenetic stumble through the archives of music television, coming at you monthly! Forgotten live performances, modern and classic music videos, outrageous interviews & more. Hosted by the International Voice of Reason.
About IVOR:IVOR, a 20-year veteran of weirdo free-form radio, is survived by his two tuxedo cats and a giant pile of rug yarn.
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MHV #302: THE DRAGON LIVES AGAIN
The multiverse has never been filled with this much madness. Easily one of the most unhinged and surreal martial arts spectacles to ever escape from Hong Kong, 1978’s THE DRAGON LIVES AGAIN finds the departed spirit of Bruce Lee battling through the Underworld against Dracula, James Bond, The Godfather, The Exorcist, Emmanuelle, and even some mummies. But he's not alone! Along the way, Bruce befriends the One-Armed Swordsman, Caine from the TV show “Kung Fu,” and last but not least, Popeye the Sailor Man. Tonight we’ll watch this whole damned thing, unedited!
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MHV #301: DOUBLE FASTERPIECE THEATER
Lab coats, libidos, and piles of cocaine! Not one, but two hospital comedies from 1982, chopped up in the finest line of anti-comedy crank for you to snort and then feel weird about the drip afterwards. First is Garry Marshall’s yuk-laden YOUNG DOCTORS IN LOVE, giving the AIRPLANE!-stye treatment to the operating room with Michael McKean and Sean Young in tow. Then it’s the zoinked JEYKLL & HYDE: TOGETHER AGAIN, an early HBO staple and one very uncool movie starring Mark Blankfield (from the era-defining unfunny sketch show “Fridays”.)
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MHV #300: FLEETWOOD MAC-A-THON
Stevie…Lindsey…Mick…Christine…and that other guy! It’s a full hour of fantastic live performances, iconic (and sometimes iconically strange) music vids, and a bit of interview fluff from not only the Fleetwood Mac canon but also Stevie and Lindsey solo stuff. This is the smoothest.
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MHV #299: ALL OF LIZA MINELLI FROM “ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT”
It all fits into a neat 30-minute package! Here’s every frame of Liza Minelli’s arc as Lucille Austero on this iconic Aughties sitcom. This is also a great tribute to Tony Hale, who most often played opposite Liza as the wormy Buster Bluth.
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MUSICVIDEODROME #93
FRIDAY NIGHT! GRACE JONES! GINGER ROOT vs. McCARTNEY! KISS vs. EARTH, WIND & FIRE! SPOTLITE on CHICKS ON SPEED!
MUSICVIDEODROME: A joyous and frenetic stumble through the archives of music television, coming at you monthly! Forgotten live performances, modern and classic music videos, outrageous interviews & more. Hosted by the International Voice of Reason.
About IVOR:IVOR, a 20-year veteran of weirdo free-form radio, is survived by his two tuxedo cats and a giant pile of rug yarn.
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MHV #298: 60 MINUTES - FRANKLIN MINT ‘78
Attention, plate collectors! Time for a muckracking exposé into some classic 20th-century consumer fraud: the offerings of the Franklin Mint. Imagine the SNL ‘84 “Nathan Thurm” sketch with Martin Short, but in real life! This downright hilarious vintage “60 Minutes” segment finds Morley Safer easily shattering every retail myth about the worthless trinkets and chintzy collectibles from this bastion of American culture.
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MHV #297: BOOMER RATS IN THE ‘80S
We welcome back Graham and John Paul from the Major Label Debut podcast! With their previous appearance (Ep. #260), we bonded over a Fasterpiece Theater treatment of Oliver Stone’s THE DOORS: one of the ultimate filmic Boomer totems. Now we’ve locked and loaded three different cutdowns of Eighties Boomer excess: the mid-career missteps of Paul Simon’s ONE TRICK PONY, Macca’s GIVE MY REGARDS TO BROAD STREET and Bob Dylan’s HEARTS OF FIRE. Dylan’s haggard “Skeksis-in-drag” look is especially troubling!
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MHV #296: DANGER STORIES - A WORD SALAD SYMPHONY
Created by Bret for AGFA (American Genre Film Archive), this frantic ode to culture jammers like Negativland and Bruce Conner takes 30+ hours of 20th-century health-and-safety “scare films” and mixes them into 60 minutes of mirthful musical terror. Here we take the jittery “word salad” edit aesthetic to new heights; it’s one of the most out-there pieces we’ve ever cut. The raw material for this mix is courtesy of Something Weird Video: the legacy home video label from Seattle that specializes in mid-century exploitation films and other detritus. ALL TIMES ARE PACIFIC
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MHV #295: CHINATOWN PUNK WARS
One of the most fascinating chapters of the OG L.A. punk era, captured in a superlative recent PBS documentary crammed with tasty footage and photos. A stone’s throw from each other in the same Chinatown plaza, Madame Wong’s and the Hong Kong Cafe were the joint epicenter of total awesomeness. The intense rivalry between these two clubs in ‘79-‘81 is the stuff of legend. ALL TIMES ARE PACIFIC
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MHV #294: THE MAKING OF “THE MUPPET SHOW”
There is no purer catnip than behind-the-scenes footage of Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Dave Goelz, and the rest of the Muppetmakers doing their jaw-dropping best. We give you two contemporaneous pieces to their height of fame with the OG “Muppet Show”: a “60 Minutes” profile from ‘79 and a syndicated special from ‘81 (shot by future cinematography star Roger Deakins). ALL TIMES ARE PACIFIC
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MUSICVIDEODROME #92
MUSICVIDEODROME: A joyous and frenetic stumble through the archives of music television, coming at you monthly! Forgotten live performances, modern and classic music videos, outrageous interviews & more. Hosted by the International Voice of Reason.
About IVOR:IVOR, a 20-year veteran of weirdo free-form radio, is survived by his two tuxedo cats and a giant pile of rug yarn.
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MHV #293: KIDS IN THE HALL S. 3 Part II
Our love for Dave, Kevin, Mark, Bruce, and Scott hasn’t waned as we get deeper into the vast amount of Kids In The Hall material. At this halfway point in the show’s run, it maintains the highest batting average of any vintage TV sketch institution. Tonight we revel with Cathy & Kathie, Simon & Hecubus, the Party Kabob Choker, the Suburban Potato Salad Lady, Danny Husk, Buddy Cole and Satan himself. ALL TIMES ARE PACIFIC
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MHV #292: JOHN WATERS & DIVINE INTERVIEWS
It’s about time we properly celebrated two of the American counterculture’s greatest heroes. Forever helixed in film history are the dual beacons of director John Waters and his star Divine; they were witty, creative, shocking and assured in equal measure. Their archive of TV talk show appearances is massive, and tonight you just might learn something new about both of them. Vive la dog shit! ALL TIMES ARE PACIFIC
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LIVE in NEW ORLEANS: THE DR. LOOMIS TAPES
PART OF THE OVERLOOK FILM FESTIVAL in NEW ORLEANS, LA
Museum of Home Video is a weekly found-footage livestream for stoners, seekers, archivists, and drinkers. VJ Bret Berg returns once more to Overlook for an IRL version of his show, including a riotous tribute to Donald Pleasance in "The Dr. Loomis Tapes". This is MOHV’s revolutionary new remix of the classic HALLOWEEN slasher franchise, told solely through the eyes of Pleasance’s unstable (and possibly wasted) psychiatric savior. Watch as he gets increasingly unhinged and shattered as the series goes on. Could it be that Loomis is as dangerous to the town of Haddonfield as Michael Myers himself? You be the judge! Also in the program: some special Halloween-twinged vintage game-show moments, and a toothsome CGI surprise.
MHV #291: A KATE BUSH…EASTER?
We reach back into the archives for one of Museum of Home Video’s greatest achievements. In December 2020, when everything about the world was so gravely uncertain (in just a slightly different way than now), we put together a 2+ hour megamix of aesthetically rapturous sights and sounds from one of the UK’s greatest art-pop visionaries. This was originally our “Kate Bush Xmas”…but fuck it, now it’s our Kate Bush Easter. No matter if you’re a diehard fan or haven’t heard a note of Kate’s music, her choreography and unique voice will speak to you. ALL TIMES ARE PACIFIC
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MHV #290: MUSEUM REWIND: Ep. 119
We reach back into the archives for one of our favorite episodes from the yesteryear of 2022. Back then the days were longer, Bret’s hair was (slightly) shorter, and we had a different studio. The headliner for Ep. #119: a tribute To Jim Bailey, one of the greatest female impersonators of the 20th century. Jim not only nailed 100% accurate impressions of Barbra Streisand, Mae West, Peggy Lee, and Judy Garland, but also fully sang in their styles…truly a marvel!
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MUSICVIDEODROME #91
AN ARSENIO ARSENAL! ABBA! ELO! MADONNA’S HORNY BANTER! I MUST REMIND YOU WE LIVE IN A NIGHTMARE AND THIS IS FUN! SEE YOU SOON!
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MUSICVIDEODROME: A joyous and frenetic stumble through the archives of music television, coming at you monthly! Forgotten live performances, modern and classic music videos, outrageous interviews & more. Hosted by the International Voice of Reason.
About IVOR:IVOR, a 20-year veteran of weirdo free-form radio, is survived by his two tuxedo cats and a giant pile of rug yarn.
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MHV #289: FASTERPIECE THEATER - FREEJACK
Ridiculous, bombastic, and crammed full of major-league actors that should’ve known better, FREEJACK set the Nineties cyberpunk genre back decades before it ever really started. Emilio Estevez, Rene Russo, Mick Jagger(!), David Johansen, and Anthony Hopkins bounce off of each other in the future dystopia of 2009(!!). Hopkins is the Musk-ian billionaire without a body, Estevez is the NASCAR driver sucked into the future (!!!), and Jagger is the henchman with the most impenetrable American accent possible. We’re joined by @cyberpunkybrewsterminator in-studio for this special sci-fi occasion.
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THE FIVE MINUTES GAME at VIDIOTS!
it’s coming up fast! It’s our next IRL Museum show on Sunday, March 22nd @ Vidiots. Join us and co-host Josh Miller (screenwriter of VIOLENT NIGHT and the SONIC THE HEDGEHOG movie franchise) for a session of the most fun you could possibly have in a movie theater. We’ll show you the first five minutes of ten different films you’ve never heard of, and then we all vote on what we’ll watch in full. TICKETS HERE