Ben Minnotte
Director
Oddity Archive (2012)
Season 5
The Oddity Archive is a web series that revolves around the "cultural dustbin", especially as it pertains to media. The Archive also functions as an actual archive of sorts, with a modest collection of off-air Betamax and VHS recordings (about 400 total as of June, 2014). There's also a decent collection of ephemeral video, "ripoff" and "drugstore" LP's/cassettes/8-tracks, as well as (working) obsolete technology.
Released July 5, 2012
Episode 28 min
10+
Genres: Comedy, Documentary, History
Keywords: mdblist.has-trailer, tmdb.cardboard-box, tmdb.hidden-face, tmdb.technology, tmdb.broadcasting
Network: YouTube
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S5E1 - How I Spent My Summer III
A little success, a little failure, a little intrigue, a little frustration. In other words, your standard between-season break for Ben.
July 7, 2016, midnight
S5E2 - Record Ripoffs Vol. 6 (98% 70's-free!)
…dragging the Record Ripoff concept kicking and screaming out of the 70’s. What the hell was I thinking?!?
July 21, 2016, midnight
S5E3 - Home Shopping Channels
Have your credit cards handy because we're about to launch our own Home-Shopping-type channel! What could possibly go wrong?
Aug. 4, 2016, midnight
S5E4 - LaserKaraoke Vol. 4 (+ VHS Karaoke Vol. 1)
Crank it up and sing along! The madness will naturally follow.
Aug. 18, 2016, midnight
S5E5 - Ben's Random Audiocassette Haul
Oddity Archive®: Now in ULTRA lo-fi!
Sept. 1, 2016, midnight
S5E6 - Talking House Transmitter Redux (or, Part 15 Microbroadcasting: The Final Chapter?)
Oddity Archive: Your home for absurd, costly and borderline-useless “broadcast” experiments since 2015!
Sept. 15, 2016, midnight
S5E7 - The Official Oddity Archive Guide To Retro A/V
…because I haven’t REALLY opened myself up to mass criticism for a long time now.
Sept. 29, 2016, midnight
S5E8 - Betamax
The Archive takes it to the max--the Betamax, that is.
Oct. 13, 2016, midnight
S5E9 - Conelrad (Halloween Special 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?
Oct. 27, 2016, midnight
S5E10 - VHS Vault Vol. 10 (Learning With The Stars)
…because as we all know, learning is most fun with famous people.
Nov. 10, 2016, midnight
S5E11 - Top 10 Gaming Turkeys (of the 80's and 90's)
Another Thanksgiving episode? Must be time to unload some more proverbial turkeys (now more cynically than ever)!
Nov. 24, 2016, midnight
S5E12 - The Official Oddity Archive® Idiot’s Guide To A/V Transfer
The second (and hopefully final) installment in the Archive’s “Idiot’s Guide” how-to series.
Dec. 8, 2016, midnight
S5E13 - Christmas Special 2016 (A Musical Masochist's Christmas)
The most deep-hurtingest Christmas ever!
Dec. 22, 2016, midnight
S5E14 - VideoGuide (+2 other early Interactive Program Guides)
Looking at the Interactive Program Guide’s especially awkward adolescence.
Jan. 5, 2017, midnight
S5E15 - Local TV Vol. 5 (More Local Commercials)
Bargain Bennie is having his all-time biggest sale on local (and regional) TV commercials! Get ‘em before they’re gone!
Jan. 19, 2017, midnight
S5E16 - VHS Vault Vol. 11(D-I-V-O-R-C-E)
‘Tis the season for love—and love gone down the garbage disposer.
Feb. 2, 2017, midnight
S5E17 - Random Kiddie Records
Crank up the Fisher-Price turntable!
Feb. 16, 2017, midnight
S5E18 - Minidisc
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.
March 2, 2017, midnight
S5E19 - Ben Vs. The Reel-To-Reel
Oddity Archive®: Now with new Superlife® coating!
March 16, 2017, midnight
S5E20 - DBX Noise Reduction System
And welcome to the Oddity Archive…the show that rapidly contracts and expands—but clearly not rapidly enough.
March 30, 2017, midnight
S5E21 - Ben's Random Reel-To-Reel Haul
A mere 5 years in the making! You’d never know it though…
April 13, 2017, midnight
S5E22 - Useless VHS Tapes
No, this isn’t about those 100 million (or more) copies of “Titanic” and “Jerry Maguire”—useless as they are.
April 27, 2017, midnight
S5E23 - Going (Proto-)Mobile! (Sony Data Discman & Apple Newton)
With all this talk of so-called “mobile devices” these days, it seemed worth taking a look into.
May 11, 2017, midnight
S5E24 - Video Magazines (or, Oddity Archive: Issue #126)
And welcome to the Oddity Ar-ar-ar-ar-ar-arc-arch-(SLAP)-Archive!
May 25, 2017, midnight
Network: YouTube
Episode Runtime: 28 min.
Season Runtime: 8240 min.
Released: July 5, 2012
Last Air Date: Nov. 27, 2025, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: NR / 10+
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