About this season
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.
Episodes (16)
1. In Search of AM Stereo REDUX (or, How I Spent My Summer X)
Aired 27 July 2023 • 43 min
Quite possibly the ultimate “headphone” episode of OA…for realsies this time.
2. Record Ripoffs Vol. 13 (At The Movies)
Aired 17 August 2023 • 31 min
The Archive finds itself caught in a celluloid jam…
3. Random (Video) Reel-To-Reel
Aired 31 August 2023 • 33 min
The Archive does a little home video archaeology…
4. Odditytoberfest (A Smorgasbord of Musical Meatballs)
Aired 14 September 2023 • 29 min
Time to fill up on bratwurst and get down to that fonky, fonky, meut-sick!
5. VHS (& Betamax) Public Domain Oddities (Silent Movie Day 2023)
Aired 28 September 2023 • 23 min
Public Domain stuff, VHS, weird music, surrealist humor--your Oddity Archive® bingo card should be 80% full from this one episode alone!
6. Season of the Wince (Halloween Special 2023)
Aired 31 October 2023 • 21 min
Everybody loves a trilogy…and here’s the last piece of it.
7. Great Comedians (Not-So-Great Sitcoms)
Aired 16 November 2023 • 21 min
Even the comedy gods (and goddesses) have their off days…
8. Ben's Favorite OA Episodes
Aired 23 November 2023 • 31 min
You’ve heard of turkey coma, right? This one’ll give you Archive coma.
9. VHS (& Beta) Vault Vol. 22 (Meet Your New VCR)
Aired 7 December 2023 • 27 min
Learn all about the ins and out of SCMPF (Simply Can’t Muster Proper Functionality) for your newfangled VCR thing!
10. Cruel Yule (Christmas Special 2023)
Aired 21 December 2023 • 39 min
‘Twas a few days before Christmas and all through the Archive/A Benny-boy was stirring, to madness he’ll drive…
11. TBS Networkisms
Aired 11 January 2024 • 34 min
An episode that’ll make you want to yell “TB-Yes”!
12. Cable In The Classroom/Channel One News
Aired 8 February 2024 • 29 min
Today’s Oddity Archive® may be taped (analog only) for classroom use until December 31, 2024. After December 31, 2024, all copies must be wiped or destroyed…and don’t think we don’t have the means of finding out if you didn’t.
13. Local TV Vol. 9 (Commercials, Go Fourth)
Aired 7 March 2024 • 25 min
Oddity Archive® lights up your TV’s* with the ads that please!** *A computer screen will also suffice. **As long as your expectations are suitably low.
14. Random Audiocassettes Vol. 4 (Cheese N' Sleaze)
Aired 4 April 2024 • 30 min
The chocolate and peanut butter of the Archive, together at last in the same episode!
15. TV Record Offer Greats (Slim Whitman & Boxcar Willie)
Aired 2 May 2024 • 26 min
The episode where cardboard boxes and BoxCars collide…at last!
16. TV Sign-Offs Vol. 2 (Nocturnal Emissions)
Aired 6 June 2024 • 38 min
Hey, you said you wanted more Oddity Archive…After Dark. Be careful what you wish for.