Oddity Archive - Season 5
Browse all 24 episodes in this season, including available images, air dates, runtimes, ratings and episode summaries from TMDB.
Episodes
Episode 1
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.
Episode 2
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?!?
Episode 3
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?
Episode 4
LaserKaraoke Vol. 4 (+ VHS Karaoke Vol. 1)
Crank it up and sing along! The madness will naturally follow.
Episode 5
Ben's Random Audiocassette Haul
Oddity Archive®: Now in ULTRA lo-fi!
Episode 6
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!
Episode 7
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.
Episode 8
Betamax
The Archive takes it to the max--the Betamax, that is.
Episode 9
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?
Episode 10
VHS Vault Vol. 10 (Learning With The Stars)
…because as we all know, learning is most fun with famous people.
Episode 11
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)!
Episode 12
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.
Episode 13
Christmas Special 2016 (A Musical Masochist's Christmas)
The most deep-hurtingest Christmas ever!
Episode 14
VideoGuide (+2 other early Interactive Program Guides)
Looking at the Interactive Program Guide’s especially awkward adolescence.
Episode 15
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!
Episode 16
VHS Vault Vol. 11(D-I-V-O-R-C-E)
‘Tis the season for love—and love gone down the garbage disposer.
Episode 17
Random Kiddie Records
Crank up the Fisher-Price turntable!
Episode 18
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.
Episode 19
Ben Vs. The Reel-To-Reel
Oddity Archive®: Now with new Superlife® coating!
Episode 20
DBX Noise Reduction System
And welcome to the Oddity Archive…the show that rapidly contracts and expands—but clearly not rapidly enough.
Episode 21
Ben's Random Reel-To-Reel Haul
A mere 5 years in the making! You’d never know it though…
Episode 22
Useless VHS Tapes
No, this isn’t about those 100 million (or more) copies of “Titanic” and “Jerry Maguire”—useless as they are.
Episode 23
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.
Episode 24
Video Magazines (or, Oddity Archive: Issue #126)
And welcome to the Oddity Ar-ar-ar-ar-ar-arc-arch-(SLAP)-Archive!