Season 5
24 episodes · Jul 7, 2016
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- S5E1
How I Spent My Summer III
Jul 7, 201629mA little success, a little failure, a little intrigue, a little frustration. In other words, your standard between-season break for Ben.
- S5E2
Record Ripoffs Vol. 6 (98% 70's-free!)
Jul 21, 201634m…dragging the Record Ripoff concept kicking and screaming out of the 70’s. What the hell was I thinking?!?
- S5E3
Home Shopping Channels
Aug 4, 201627mHave your credit cards handy because we're about to launch our own Home-Shopping-type channel! What could possibly go wrong?
- S5E4
LaserKaraoke Vol. 4 (+ VHS Karaoke Vol. 1)
Aug 18, 201650mCrank it up and sing along! The madness will naturally follow.
- S5E6
Talking House Transmitter Redux (or, Part 15 Microbroadcasting: The Final Chapter?)
Sep 15, 201630mOddity Archive: Your home for absurd, costly and borderline-useless “broadcast” experiments since 2015!
- S5E7
The Official Oddity Archive Guide To Retro A/V
Sep 29, 201656m…because I haven’t REALLY opened myself up to mass criticism for a long time now.
- S5E9
Conelrad (Halloween Special 2016)
Oct 27, 201627mThis 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?
- S5E10
VHS Vault Vol. 10 (Learning With The Stars)
Nov 10, 201632m…because as we all know, learning is most fun with famous people.
- S5E11
Top 10 Gaming Turkeys (of the 80's and 90's)
Nov 24, 201626mAnother Thanksgiving episode? Must be time to unload some more proverbial turkeys (now more cynically than ever)!
- S5E12
The Official Oddity Archive® Idiot’s Guide To A/V Transfer
Dec 8, 201646mThe second (and hopefully final) installment in the Archive’s “Idiot’s Guide” how-to series.
- S5E13
Christmas Special 2016 (A Musical Masochist's Christmas)
Dec 22, 201634mThe most deep-hurtingest Christmas ever!
- S5E14
VideoGuide (+2 other early Interactive Program Guides)
Jan 5, 201720mLooking at the Interactive Program Guide’s especially awkward adolescence.
- S5E15
Local TV Vol. 5 (More Local Commercials)
Jan 19, 201725mBargain Bennie is having his all-time biggest sale on local (and regional) TV commercials! Get ‘em before they’re gone!
- S5E16
VHS Vault Vol. 11(D-I-V-O-R-C-E)
Feb 2, 201728m‘Tis the season for love—and love gone down the garbage disposer.
- S5E18
Minidisc
Mar 2, 201725mIt’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.
- S5E19
Ben Vs. The Reel-To-Reel
Mar 16, 201737mOddity Archive®: Now with new Superlife® coating!
- S5E20
DBX Noise Reduction System
Mar 30, 201725mAnd welcome to the Oddity Archive…the show that rapidly contracts and expands—but clearly not rapidly enough.
- S5E21
Ben's Random Reel-To-Reel Haul
Apr 13, 201744mA mere 5 years in the making! You’d never know it though…
- S5E22
Useless VHS Tapes
Apr 27, 201734mNo, this isn’t about those 100 million (or more) copies of “Titanic” and “Jerry Maguire”—useless as they are.
- S5E23
Going (Proto-)Mobile! (Sony Data Discman & Apple Newton)
May 11, 201729mWith all this talk of so-called “mobile devices” these days, it seemed worth taking a look into.
- S5E24
Video Magazines (or, Oddity Archive: Issue #126)
May 25, 201736mAnd welcome to the Oddity Ar-ar-ar-ar-ar-arc-arch-(SLAP)-Archive!