Best of the Worst: Black Spine Edition #2 

I'm glad to see the fame monster didn't consume Rich after his appearance on Ellen.

I love it when they introduce new RLM extended universe characters.

I still believe in the black spine edition. You know, that wheel of misfortune does need a "Bankrupt" equivalent. Have a space on the wheel that makes you watch 2 black spine videos.

I mailed in that Kimo video two years ago. Initially, I considered sending in one of Kimo's other videos about punching or strangulation, but ultimately I decided that everyone involved would much rather engage in a lengthy examination of the guard position (Jay most of all). Just for the record, Kimo only had about three years of actual martial arts training when he made that video.

Mike’s girlfriend: “Lets have sex.” Mike: “That reminds of the Star Trek episode where......”

Nice of Hollywood A-lister Rich Evans to make an appearance!

The first black spine edition was not a failure. It brought us the whopper button and partners.

Even if it's mostly garbage, there is something very enticing about a Black Spine series. If it's awful, the audience benefits from their suffering. Just the wide range of weird and randomness in these tapes is very fun to watch.

I can't believe they got Rich Evans of Ellen Show fame for this!

I love that Tim is just brimming with enthusiasm and excitement throughout this episode. Makes for a really good contrast to the rest of the alcohol soaked depression from the rest of the cast.

Rich Evans is so famous now he will only do half-hour BOTW episodes because he's at such high demand

FUNFACT: Kimo lost to Royce Gracie at the UFC 3 tournament, he entered holding a large cross on his back. Later in the night one of his cornerman and him jumped on the cage when Gracie could not contiune in the tournament because of the damage he recieved from Kimo. FUNNERFACT: Who was his cornerman? Joe Son who played Randomtask from the Austin Powers movies. FUNNERERFACT: Joe Son is serving life in prison for Rape and sodomy, and he also killed his cellmate. Did you enjoy my facts? Me neither

Tim looks like he's been running guns to the contras since the early eighties.

Rich looks like he’s going to ref Little Mac vs glass joe

Tim is on track to get hired by Disney and then fired years later for that joke.

Mike and Rich's relationship functionally being that of a C-Grade supervillain and his put-upon henchman is why I watch RLM media on repeat.

Is that Rich Evans from Ellen?

RLM violates the "I'll never do that again" mantra more than an abusive spouse, either way glad to see another Black Spine episode

It's my personal opinion that the best way to make total use of these disastrous Black Spine Editions is to have *all* indication of what the tape contains totally removed. Have a third party scrape off all labels, stickers etc. leaving only the featureless black husk of horror to be inserted in the VHS completely blind. Then nothing will be revealed or expected of the tape until it is already too late.

When you realize redlettermedia probably has the largest collection of VHS tapes in the world at this point

As a member of troop 981 I did receive my Interstellar Travel badge, unfortunately there were a few girls that...didn’t. Some nights I’m forced to relieve the day my troop decided we were ready to earn our badge. I was forced to watch as my flight partner Juliana’s flesh began to peel away from her body while knowing that if tried to help I would then suffer the same fate. Being forced to watch something so horrible and wanting to help but knowing that you could do nothing can really change a 9 year old girl. I woke up the next morning with a voice twice that of my age.

I'm with Mike, let's keep the Black Spine gravy train rolling *TOOT* *TOOT*

Annabelle 3: MARJABELLE

Alternate ending idea: after the destruction of the tapes, we see that Mike was watching the footage on a monitor in another room. Then as he starts laughing maniacally, the camera pans back slowly, revealing behind him an entire wall of black spine tapes.

When I saw Dick The Birthday Boy, my dog barked!

Can't wait to see Disney fire them for these jokes in 10 years!

This has convinced me we need a Mrs. Doubtfire remake starring Rich Evans.

I was going to engage in autoerotic asphyxiation in my hotel room closet, but I guess I'll watch this instead.

only 37 minutes? you guys must have ran out of beer and insulin

When will Julia Roberts be a guest though?

I would like to see a run-off between _Marjibelle's Table Manners_ and _Manners: Who Needs 'Em?_ with the loser being destroyed

2001: a girl scout odyssey

Rich Evans doing the voice of an elderly English woman is basically Jim Sterling

Tim is nice, invite him back some other times!

Imagine if the Girl Scouts really took that modernization to heart: Girl Scout IT support, Girl Scout web design, and Girl Scout Nigerian Prince email scam.

That was chemo volume 8. Volumes 1 through 7 is the prequels where they show how their romance evolves.

If you're wondering how long it'll take them to laugh at the misfortune of an ugly child this episode, it happens just 4:37 minutes in. Potential for many more occurrences, will keep you all posted.

Had my fingers crossed for a Kimo/chemo joke.. :( ...maybe tumor-row

Mike is an evil, sadistic, misanthropic and irascible sorcerer, whose sole purpose in life is making his coworkers hate life itself, and drowning his own sorrows in a constant stream of memory destroying booze? It all makes sense now.

Did they merge Jack and Josh together to make Tim? It reminds me of a Star Trek: Voyager episode....

I need more black spine edition in my life. Never let them stop suffering Mike.

It's nice to see Mike actually excited to do a thing. For a moment or so.

Rich's Hyacinth Bucket impression is on point.

36:33 This is the modern equivalent of burning of the library of Alexandria.

There'd better be a snuff film this time.

I'm just worried one day they'll accidentally watch a snuff film.

Oh my god I love Tim, when he's doing the impressions of the kids, he's having so much fun it's infectious Everybody else, please keep being depressed and horrible, but Tim being happy makes me smile

Fun fact: Marjabelle actually grew up dirt poor and was handed over to an orphanage when she was 4 because her parents couldn't afford to raise her due to the Depression. She then became an etiquette coach and trained the daughters of the Nixons

It took until 12:20 before "Star Trek" was uttered. By Mike. Naturally.

It took star trek man 12:23 minutes until he star trekked

Rich's old rich British woman impression is immaculate

One of those tapes was the only known VHS copy of The Day The Clown Cried. It's gone. Forever.

Tim’s hilarious! I’d be down to see him in more episodes.

Glad this segment is back though the chance for someone's homemade porn from the 80s is pretty high. And reminds me of the premise of VHS

I was a girl scout in the early- to mid-2000s and I never got to fly or walk on the moon :( I demand a refund of my cookie money

I need more of Rich’s pretentious Margibelle voice

Aaaah, that fresh new RLM smell

We're thinking about this Girl Scout tape all wrong. I mean, they come back to the PAST, and their room has changed into a studio? How could their actions in the future have effected the past? Plus, even if they did receive an email from the future, the original iMacs lack the necessary hardware to send ONE person to the future, let alone three simultaneously. I don't think those three went to the future. I think they were ALREADY in the future, and they're the stars of a Truman Show style television program produced in the 2050s. These three girls are unaware that they are the stars of a period piece drama set in the late 90s/early 00s. In this, the 2000th episode of the show, the three girls are allowed to leave the set under the guise of 'time traveling'. Upon being returned to the set, as part of this special episode, they're allowed to interact directly with the studio audience. Of course, after this episode was filmed, a combination of hypnotism and gaslighting were employed to trick the girls into believing the events of the 2000th episode were all a dream so that the show could return to its regular programing. The publicity stunt was a major success, with the next month of programing pulling great ratings as audiences tuned in to see if the manipulation would be successful. These episodes were considered to be a month-long horror special to celebrate October of 2057. Naturally, the show broadcast far too many episodes to ever re-release old episodes for streaming, so some old grandma dedicated herself to recording episodes on her beat up VCR. She kept this VCR operational even in the 2050s thanks to the services of Lightning Fast VCR Repair. Unbeknownst to that lady, Lightning Fast was actually a Looper-esque front business, but instead of sending people back in time to be killed, they were sending bad VHS tapes back in time to the founders of the company. This was done so that they could make enough money to keep the business alive into the 2050s by hosting a crappy RU-vid webseries where they watched bad VHS tapes. It's so dense.

I'm always sad when the episodes are shorter than 60minutes :(

My parents bought us Marjabelle's video when we were kids and we never knew if they did it as a joke... I'm glad you guys got to review it because it's the only video I've considered sending in... There's one point in the video where she scares one of the kids because he was spacing out when she called his name 😆

Working on Thanksgiving? What are you, Walmart?

How can they still afford Rich Evans after his stint on the talk show circuit

10:55. The cut from these girls singly terribly to the old beer drinking men sitting miserably on the couch watching it is the best thing I’ve seen in a very long time

No one is going to see this lol, but the "what do you do about gristle?" question reminded me of what I read in my American Girl etiquette book years ago (why do I remember this?): if you come across a piece of gristle you surreptitiously remove it from your mouth and put it on the edge of your plate.

I'm still here waiting for culkin

Time to buy all remaining nukie tapes and take the labels off

Fun Fact: Kimo once had an MMA fight with somebody who appeared in Samurai Cop. Not one of the main actors, though, just a henchman (The heavyset, black dude who got gunned down by Rob Z'Dar during the parking-lot fight).

Took me until 7:50 to recognize Tim - I've totally taken a brewery tour with him at MKE!

I really liked Tim this episode. Wouldn't mind him being a regular

I can only assume that Culkin is in the Christmas episode

I love how Rich's voice is so high-pitched and loud that he consistently overclocks the camera audio in every episode

In before Julia Roberts confesses her love for Rich Evans on the next edition of The Ellen Show.

There needs to be more Tim. There is a certain energy he brings to the table that I absolutely adore.

Just when you thought they'd never do the Black Spine series again... IT COMES BACK!

I feel the need to mention that: _Girl Scout Cookie sale 2000 rightfully predicted the future where everyone did get rid of their silly colored iMac G3's for HD flatscreens and neon lit PCs._ *[This is Rem Lezar levels of foreshadowing.]*

Just the long shots of Kimo “teaching” made me scream laughing man, This is amazing

I'm surprised that Christopher Nolan decided to pay homage to Luis Bunuel with the "Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" reference in the Girl Scouts 2000 video.

I fully expected there to be just a shelf full of nukie tapes

This "new" guy is fun, he should be on more often!

The Kimo Leopoldo jiu jitsu tape review is hilarious you guys came across this. I remember this tape when it came out. Royce Gracie beat him in the UFC & he went & 'learned' jiu jitsu seemingly overnight. Then he released this tape for the money grab that happened with most early UFC fighters putting their own tape out. Then Kimo went off the deep end using meth lol. His sidekick Joe Son is in prison for grape.

The most educational episode of Best of The Worst! We learned how to sell cookies, how to eat with the proper fork, and how to hug a guy on the ground for 3 minutes at a time.

Is this the star from Ellen?

“CLOSE YOUR EYESSS AND THINK OF ENGLAND!” LMAO

Mike's "tape un-destroying" power might seem impressive, but when you look at the date in the corner of the screen, he's actually reversing time by two days. I have no idea what this means for the RLM extended universe, but I look forward to finding out.

The new Josh is so much better.

Mike - I know you’re a big fan of Ghost Adventures, but dressing up like Zak Bagans is a bit much.

I bet all those tapes are just copies of Nukie.

Much love to the hardcore RLM fanclub. May our hearts and minds bear fruit in the passing of time.

You guys should look up some fights Kimo had in the UFC. Dude literally carried a giant cross to the cage sometimes.

nice to see Louis CK working again.

I literally lost my breath laughing at that "Don't come too much in my face" bit... that was classic 😂🤣🤣

rich adding some much needed class to best of the worst with his bow tie

Rich Evans is a better Margibelle Stuart than Margibelle Stuart. I demand a reshoot of that tape

I didnt think they'd resort to this again.

That shot of the open-mouth kid absolutely killed me. I lost it

Yay, Tim origin story! In my top 100 favorite guests.

Marja Bell places her salad fork only AFTER pushing the Whopper button.

oh i have friends for 37 minutes and 46 seconds

I’d like to take this moment to thank the White brothers who lived on my childhood street for funding my future via cookie sales. I had to pay dues every single week despite selling boatloads of cookies and got nothing in return (no camp, no bike...nothing) but it really set me up for the real world. I now realize you guys had the constant munchies but I don’t blame you. Thank you. PS, 20 years later, I saw you at the public pool and you looked the same. Good on you. I have gained weight (cookies hit us all differently I guess) so I did not say hi.

Nice to end the episode with footage of George Lucas and all the copies of the Star Wars Holiday Special that he had amassed over the past 40 years.