Oddity Archive - Season 5
1 - How I Spent My Summer III
Air Date: July 7, 2016
A little success, a little failure, a little intrigue, a little frustration. In other words, your standard between-season break for Ben.
2 - Record Ripoffs Vol. 6 (98% 70's-free!)
Air Date: July 21, 2016
…dragging the Record Ripoff concept kicking and screaming out of the 70’s. What the hell was I thinking?!?
3 - Home Shopping Channels
Air Date: August 4, 2016
Have your credit cards handy because we're about to launch our own Home-Shopping-type channel! What could possibly go wrong?
4 - LaserKaraoke Vol. 4 (+ VHS Karaoke Vol. 1)
Air Date: August 18, 2016
Crank it up and sing along! The madness will naturally follow.
5 - Ben's Random Audiocassette Haul
Air Date: September 1, 2016
Oddity Archive®: Now in ULTRA lo-fi!
6 - Talking House Transmitter Redux (or, Part 15 Microbroadcasting: The Final Chapter?)
Air Date: September 15, 2016
Oddity Archive: Your home for absurd, costly and borderline-useless “broadcast” experiments since 2015!
7 - The Official Oddity Archive Guide To Retro A/V
Air Date: September 29, 2016
…because I haven’t REALLY opened myself up to mass criticism for a long time now.
8 - Betamax
Air Date: October 13, 2016
The Archive takes it to the max--the Betamax, that is.
9 - Conelrad (Halloween Special 2016)
Air Date: October 27, 2016
This is your Civil Defense announcer speaking (er, typing) with a VERY important message. But first, this nearly 27-minute Oddity Archive episode. NOTE: Yes, I’m well aware that the LP’s discussed in the video have nothing to do with the Conelrad broadcasting stuff—just humor me, will ya?
10 - VHS Vault Vol. 10 (Learning With The Stars)
Air Date: November 10, 2016
…because as we all know, learning is most fun with famous people.
11 - Top 10 Gaming Turkeys (of the 80's and 90's)
Air Date: November 24, 2016
Another Thanksgiving episode? Must be time to unload some more proverbial turkeys (now more cynically than ever)!
12 - The Official Oddity Archive® Idiot’s Guide To A/V Transfer
Air Date: December 8, 2016
The second (and hopefully final) installment in the Archive’s “Idiot’s Guide” how-to series.
13 - Christmas Special 2016 (A Musical Masochist's Christmas)
Air Date: December 22, 2016
The most deep-hurtingest Christmas ever!
14 - VideoGuide (+2 other early Interactive Program Guides)
Air Date: January 5, 2017
Looking at the Interactive Program Guide’s especially awkward adolescence.
15 - Local TV Vol. 5 (More Local Commercials)
Air Date: January 19, 2017
Bargain Bennie is having his all-time biggest sale on local (and regional) TV commercials! Get ‘em before they’re gone!
16 - VHS Vault Vol. 11(D-I-V-O-R-C-E)
Air Date: February 2, 2017
‘Tis the season for love—and love gone down the garbage disposer.
17 - Random Kiddie Records
Air Date: February 16, 2017
Crank up the Fisher-Price turntable!
18 - Minidisc
Air Date: March 2, 2017
It’s (100% showtune-free) Musical March (read: Audio Geek March, “Musical March” is just a lot catchier) in Archiveland! Let’s kick it off with a little reevaluation of a format that I’ve bashed in the past.
19 - Ben Vs. The Reel-To-Reel
Air Date: March 16, 2017
Oddity Archive®: Now with new Superlife® coating!
20 - DBX Noise Reduction System
Air Date: March 30, 2017
And welcome to the Oddity Archive…the show that rapidly contracts and expands—but clearly not rapidly enough.
21 - Ben's Random Reel-To-Reel Haul
Air Date: April 13, 2017
A mere 5 years in the making! You’d never know it though…
22 - Useless VHS Tapes
Air Date: April 27, 2017
No, this isn’t about those 100 million (or more) copies of “Titanic” and “Jerry Maguire”—useless as they are.
23 - Going (Proto-)Mobile! (Sony Data Discman & Apple Newton)
Air Date: May 11, 2017
With all this talk of so-called “mobile devices” these days, it seemed worth taking a look into.
24 - Video Magazines (or, Oddity Archive: Issue #126)
Air Date: May 25, 2017
And welcome to the Oddity Ar-ar-ar-ar-ar-arc-arch-(SLAP)-Archive!