# Nobody remembers it but You and YouTube **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 12, 2008, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-remembers-it-but-you-and-youtube/463328 "2008-09-12T19:46:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-remembers-it-but-you-and-youtube/463328/1 "2008-09-12T19:46:21Z")
I saw this mock travelogue on PBS years ago and just discovered it on YouTube: [John Cleese: Norway Home of Giants](http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rc4oAdiS6UE) Has anybody else found a TV show or film on YouTube that you hadn’t seen in years? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-remembers-it-but-you-and-youtube/463328/2 "2008-09-12T20:01:57Z")
YouTbe is a great place to find old things you’ve wanted to see, but haven’t. Unfortunately, some of them only stay up a short time, and aren’t there now. I’m not going to look them up here at work, but a few examples are: \*\*The opening to the 1960’s “Alvin and the Chipmunks” show The Openings and Closings to old Hanna-Barbera shows – “Huckleberry Hound”, “Quick Draw McGraw”, etc. Stan Freberg Commercials – especially Jeno’s Pizza Rolls, All American Soups, and Sunsweet Pitted Prunes \*\* (it pains me that I can’t find the “Today the Pits, Tomorrow the Wrinkles” one anymore) \*\* The openings of Jay Ward Cartoons – Super Chicken", etc.\*\* BUT YOU CAN’T FIND “George of the Jungle”!! Grrrr. I’m also annoyed that I can’t find the public sefvice announcement “Aliens Must Register in January of Each Year”. They seemed to run that for years on every Saturday morning at 7 AM. And it was so badly drawn that the “aliens” actually looked as if they were aliens from outer space. ---
**Author:** ![5-HT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/f19dbf/32.png) [@5-HT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5-HT)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-remembers-it-but-you-and-youtube/463328/3 "2008-09-12T20:17:52Z")
This isn’t very old I don’t think, but I love it and don’t know why. [people getting punched just before eating](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILvkEHQPHHg) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-remembers-it-but-you-and-youtube/463328/4 "2008-09-12T20:25:04Z")
**Jay Ward Commercials** – look up “Cap’b Crunch”. If you’ve only seen the recent ones, you have no idea what it was like. Ward’s epics were like mini-episodes of Rockty and Bullwinkle (“We’ve drained Lake Michigan and filled it with fresh milk to see if Cap’n Crunch will stay crunchy _even in milk_…”) ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-remembers-it-but-you-and-youtube/463328/5 "2008-09-12T20:30:34Z")
> [@sciurophobic](#): > > I saw this mock travelogue on PBS years ago and just discovered it on YouTube: > > [John Cleese: Norway Home of Giants](http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rc4oAdiS6UE) > > Has anybody else found a TV show or film on YouTube that you hadn’t seen in years? I remember that! How about this? [Really Rosie](http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=T7zLfpzTPPY&feature=related). I watched this in grade school (mid 70s.) ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-remembers-it-but-you-and-youtube/463328/6 "2008-09-12T20:33:13Z")
[Vegetable Soup](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eIR6SVvpyw). It was a kid’s show in the 70s. I remember, like one of the commenters on YouTube, being totally freaked out by the characters in this intro. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-remembers-it-but-you-and-youtube/463328/7 "2008-09-12T20:42:11Z")
For years, I’d tell folks about an old Mr. Bubble commercial that I remembered seeing as a kid. It was a cartoon that featured a Mr. Magoo-esque grandma giving her grandson a bubble bath - but nobody else remembered it. Then youtube happened, and lo and behold, I found it. [It’s still as funny and cute as I remember it!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmUnqrZI4qE) ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-remembers-it-but-you-and-youtube/463328/8 "2008-09-12T23:49:40Z")
Back in the early 90’s they made a cartoon series out of Battletech - a tabletop game like Warhammer and… uh… those other tabletop games. It’s the basis for the _Mechwarrior_ series of PC/video games. [Youtube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqzEssjkMeU) has the whole series except for half of the final episode. I’d totally forgotten about it, but I thought the show was awesome when I was a kid. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-remembers-it-but-you-and-youtube/463328/9 "2008-09-13T16:17:21Z")
Super Chicken: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/FKss2pBYQ6Y/hqdefault.jpg "The Super Chicken Cartoon Theme Song") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKss2pBYQ6Y) ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-remembers-it-but-you-and-youtube/463328/10 "2008-09-13T19:52:54Z")
The entire first TV broadcast of Menotti’s _Amahl and the Night Visitors_, with a live introduction by Menotti himself. (Since deleted, alas.) The first Carnegie Hall show of Julie Andrews and Carol Burnett [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NGWrRq3b58](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NGWrRq3b58) The 1956 episode of _I’ve Got a Secret_ where the guest had been present at the assassination of a US president. President **Lincoln**. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EHVruM8y3Q](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EHVruM8y3Q) Tom Lehrer’s songs for _The Electric Company_. Much more. > [@CalMeacham](#): > > **Jay Ward Commercials** – look up “Cap’b Crunch”. If you’ve only seen the recent ones, you have no idea what it was like. Ward’s epics were like mini-episodes of Rockty and Bullwinkle (“We’ve drained Lake Michigan and filled it with fresh milk to see if Cap’n Crunch will stay crunchy _even in milk_…”) I don’t remember that ad, but it sounds like it owes a bit to Stan Freberg. To illustrate the power of radio and the limitations of TV, Freberg did a radio spot where he fills Lake Michigan with hot chocolate then adds whipped cream and has the Royal Canadian Air Force drop a huge cherry into it. [Stan Freberg - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Freberg#Radio) ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-remembers-it-but-you-and-youtube/463328/11 "2008-09-13T20:02:11Z")
I’m watching _Yes, Prime Minister_ on YouTube right now 🙂 Some clever wag has managed to get it past BBC Worldwide’s “Hey! That’s our content!” department by titling it just “Prime Minister s1e1” and so on. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-remembers-it-but-you-and-youtube/463328/12 "2008-09-13T22:16:32Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Some clever wag has managed to get it past BBC Worldwide’s “Hey! That’s our content!” department by titling it just “Prime Minister s1e1” and so on. Someone did the same with Doctor Who by labelling the episodes 55P9 (Story 55, part 9) but youtube seem to have come down hard and heavy on them all of late. Speaking legally, I couldn’t find this one till a few days ago and hadn’t seen it since privatisation of the UK’s electricity firms took place. Star Trek and Powergen [enjoy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7PW8qGFFi4). ---
**Author:** ![CWN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bc79bd/32.png) [@CWN](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CWN)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-remembers-it-but-you-and-youtube/463328/13 "2008-09-13T23:36:20Z")
Showing my age but anyone remember the show Andy’s Gang with Andy Devine and Froggy the Gremlin and his magic twanger? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/YYZazW9Ja1k/hqdefault.jpg "FROGGY THE GREMLIN PLUNK YOUR MAGIC TWANGER") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYZazW9Ja1k) ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2008, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-remembers-it-but-you-and-youtube/463328/14 "2008-09-14T00:00:26Z")
> [@rowrrbazzle](#): > > The 1956 episode of _I’ve Got a Secret_ where the guest had been present at the assassination of a US president. President **Lincoln**. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EHVruM8y3Q](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EHVruM8y3Q) That was interesting. Someone commented that guy could have shaken the hands of Lincoln and Bush in his lifetime. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2008, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-remembers-it-but-you-and-youtube/463328/15 "2008-09-14T00:55:57Z")
Fingerbobs! [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU32lw4WXZw](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU32lw4WXZw) ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2008, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-remembers-it-but-you-and-youtube/463328/16 "2008-09-14T09:47:31Z")
> [@rowrrbazzle](#): > > The 1956 episode of _I’ve Got a Secret_ where the guest had been present at the assassination of a US president. President **Lincoln**. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EHVruM8y3Q](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EHVruM8y3Q) Only in the 1950s could you have a show which dedicated more time talking about cigarettes and Desi Arnez, than they did to the guy who’d seen Lincoln get shot. TV, you’ve come a long way, baby. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2008, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-remembers-it-but-you-and-youtube/463328/17 "2008-09-14T13:47:38Z")
[This beef commercial](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBAYiAwZ214) was filmed in my hometown in the summer of 1989, which is the last full summer I lived there, so that shot of Main Street is exactly how I remember the place. I think the laughing woman was a lunch lady at my school. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2008, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-remembers-it-but-you-and-youtube/463328/18 "2008-09-14T13:54:39Z")
> [@GargoyleWB](#): > > Fingerbobs! > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU32lw4WXZw](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU32lw4WXZw) I remember that too, Mum made me the mouse as a kid, then Dad sat on it 😛 ---
**Author:** ![sweepkick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@sweepkick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweepkick)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2008, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-remembers-it-but-you-and-youtube/463328/19 "2008-09-14T17:26:07Z")
[No gnews is good gnews…](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAwVIZDAUF0) ---
**Author:** ![LorieSmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a587f6/32.png) [@LorieSmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LorieSmurf)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2008, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-remembers-it-but-you-and-youtube/463328/20 "2008-09-14T22:14:31Z")
> [@woodstockbirdybird](#): > > [Vegetable Soup](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eIR6SVvpyw). It was a kid’s show in the 70s. I remember, like one of the commenters on YouTube, being totally freaked out by the characters in this intro. Whoa, that was weird. But then, weren’t most 70’s kids shows? I think directors were on perpetual acid trips back then. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-remembers-it-but-you-and-youtube/463328.md?page=2)