Mike, Jay, Jack, Josh, and Rich Evans try their luck on the Wheel of the Worst™ but fail on an epic level. They must watch every tape!! Or at least PART of every tape!!!
They showed "Nightmare on Drug Street" in my health class in high school. My friends, you missed pure gold because the third story is truly twisted and wrong: a third grader overdoses on crack.
@@shaggycan I never really understand why they give up. And after only a few minutes many times. It's not like these are two or three hour videos. You can watch it for 20 minutes to pluck the most interesting moments out of it.
lifeanddecay I had the same reaction when I saw the Nostalgia Critic review Felix the Cat. I saw when I was like 5 and spend 15 years that had to be a nightmare and couldn't be a real movie.
That "How To Be A Teenage Ninja" one in another episode was on constant rotation in my house and as far as I could tell no one ever saw it outside of our house. I also have no idea how that tape came to exist in our house. It's delightful vindication when some of the weirdest bits of your childhood are confirmed to have existed.
The idea of a small child unknowingly incubating a horrible eldritch abomination as an imaginary friend "egg" thing while mysterious things start to happen is a pretty interesting horror premise tbh
What is phase 2 then? Firing lazers from the butt while screaming in kantonese "I LOVE STAR WARS" and masturbating a Purg while Mike says at a distance: "That´s embarassing"?
@@science_bear I'm pretty sure that those girls were being abused by the orderlies. Notice that 'the mayor' is just the hospital admittance guy, and he's Amber's 'client' in the babydoll's mind.
Mike is now weaponizing his dementia to plant false memories into Rich’s mind. It didn’t work this time with the beanie babies but it will work some day
The actress who played Jill in Nightmare on Drug Street, Joleen Lutz, also played the court stenographer Lisette Hocheiser for the last few seasons of Night Court. She has an immediately recognizable voice.
It's been 7 years since this video released, I know, but I just thought I'd let you all know that Corny *is*, in fact, voiced by Richard Horvitz, voice actor of Invader Zim. Jack was right.
@@atomic_wait nah you're thinking of coal (particularly in Europe and North America). Oil is instead derived from plankton and algae in the oceans, so not dinosaurs.
When I was in 2nd or 3rd grade our class watched "Stranger Dangers" and I left the room because it was too scary. I'm glad to see my fear was completely justified
The funniest thing to me about the whole "stranger danger" thing is that it actually does more harm than good. Less than 2% of child abductions are perpetrated by strangers, and there are multiple cases of missing children failing to be rescued because they wouldn't go for help from a "stranger." Yet so many parents still push the message onto their kids. Just kinda funny if ya ask me.
OMG Jack was right. Corny was played by Richard Horvitz, the voice of Invader Zim! The raping of DOOOM!!! I love that Jack likes Invader zim. It's one of My favourites
@@explodingtomahawks7589 It's most noticeable when Corny says "That house over there". I mean, all the voices in Invader Zim are digitally processed somewhat, but when you hear Horvitz speak in interviews, he's so close to Zim naturally that he clearly had the least amount of digital altering.
I caught that immediately, too One year later ... Check out the IMDB page for Nightmare on Drug Street The "More Like This" section is definitely field by RLM watchers, and it includes such classics as "Kill Point", "Carnosaur", and "Surviving Edged Weapons".
Someone mentioned this in the Wheel of the Worst #7 comment section, but I'll repeat it here: Steve in the Beanie Babies video is the same guy from the Dog Sitter video.
Yeah, corny is voiced by Richard horovitz, best known as the voice of zim, raz from psychonauts, Billy from Billy and Mandy, and Daggett from angry beavers. He's also the voice director for helluva boss and voices moxie.
>"I can't believe that anyone who could build a spaceship as sophisticated as this has never heard of a freight train." >Shows footage of a passenger train >??????
@@SuperDevolution isnt it also true that when sherman made his march he tore up the railroads? Because Atlanta was a HUGE industrial city and its never been the same EVER
The egg video is, removed from commentary, the funniest thing I’ve ever seen on this show and I don’t know why Jay was the only one who laughed at “looks like he dropped the egg”
29:30 No No No. The egg opens and another one of this kid comes out of it with his own egg. That's why he was so protective and creepy about it, that's how it multiplies.
I actually watched the 'Stranger Dangers' video in my kindergarten class ( back in 1995). I only remembered because of that goddamn stupid looking alien. His 'zapper' would teleport him out of dangerous situations and into other dangerous or awkward ones. I think he 'zapped' himself into a couple's hot-tub date, if I remember correctly. It was fucking weird and stupid, even when watching it as a young child. For years I've been trying to find this video so I can prove to everyone that it exists. Thank you so much, Red Letter Media, for letting me relive this tainted childhood experience!
I love how there was so little to talk about on this episode's tapes that even with a discussion of all eight tapes, it barely managed to reach an hour long
One of the fun things about the Beanie Baby craze was that during its height and even well into its decline, Beanie Baby vendors were a _fixture_ at gun shows in the US.
We watched nightmare on drug street in 5th grade. I wish you kept watching because the girl “Jill” gets addicted to cocaine and steals from her family and friends to feed her habit and then dies of an overdose on camera. Then the little boy smokes weed with his friend and feels kinda funny so his friend tells him to smoke more and he dies because he had a rare heart condition. I remember thinking that was odd even as an 11 year old
This video destroyed my sense of humor. I named the npcs in my d&d game's Thieves Guild "Becky Becky Vicky and Steve" because of this goddamn video lmao
1:37 I just imagine Jay editing this trying to decipher "Neelix", but as soon as mike mentions Corky from Life Goes On, he immediately includes a picture for reference.
@@johnt.campbell316 Not even close. Beanie Babies were NOTHING. Brilliant idea selling a children cuddle toy (designed to be a cheaply made, cheaply sold item which is acknowledged to be ruined by children within a year or two) as an exclusive collectors item (which is cheaply made, sold for high dollar, and bonus points people now jerked themselves into a froth treating these like collectibles, they'll take immaculate care of them and make future ones more able to fetch your top dollar), but they relied entirely on the seemingly endless and unconquerable ability for humans to be a moron. I mean, I just started a job at a thrift store. We have at least 1 giant plastic storage bin, plus 3 milk crate sized cubby holes by stuffed animals, plus another smaller bin with just McDonalds ones. That's only the stuff that's out in the store. There are 2 more full sized bins and another full one of McDonalds in the back. And that's only the stuff that was there when I started a month ago. McDonalds bin is getting stuffed full and there's a 3rd that's been started. People still don't give a shit about the things. intrinsically
I don't know why my reply got cut off, but I made a point about Funko Pops at the very least holding value because you can display them. Even if you grow out of it and give up a large collection of the "kiddy" Pokemon stuff or a giant wall of in the box, someone else will buy and display them themselves. No one above the age of 20 owns more than one Beanie Baby (98% of which would be a childhood toy you can't throw away, 1% of them will be like my mom putting a hippo on her dashboard as an inside joke, and the other 1% have a box in a closet they will never open because it was their parents investment in their future). But if an elite businessman in a swanky Manhattan office and get away with having a Peter Venkman or Batman or Michael Jackson pop on your bookcase, anyone can. That's why Funko's are just above "worthless"ness. Might have no real purpose at all and I might think they are idiotic, but I understand they can display and they're essentially advertising.
@@clairee527 lol. I know, right? Just say "Shut up, bro!! I collect them! Don't make fun of me!!" It's okay to collect them, but they will have the same worth as Beanie Babies in (short) time. But, yeah... I said the same thing about Pogs in '97... It wasn't true then either. I could literally write what that guy said about Beanie Babies but replace it with "Funko Pops" or whatever they're called, and it *will* be true in 20 years.
“I’ve always thought that unicorns were fantastical creatures!” “Well now that we’ve seen each other” said the unicorn, “if you believe in me, I’ll believe in you.”
So when you’re walking around a big vehicle like a bus or truck, if you can make eye contact with the driver they can see you. However, large vehicles have large blind spots and if you can make eye contact with the driver they can’t see you at all and you risk being run over. This is especially important with children since they’re short.
@@depolarization but it sounds like, the driver can see me and the driver can see me lol, they both needed to say each line AND each other's lines to make sense
The ENTIRE Beanie Baby discussion mirrors the way people talk about NFTs and crypto - it's only worth anything because people are willing to pay for it 💀 at least you could line up Beanie Babies on a shelf.
Ohhhhhh myyyyyyy goooooooooood! After rewatching this video, I realized I think you're really onto something as there are 9 circles of hell. And this video features 8 VHS. Eeeeeekkk! I think the missing 9th one is a clue. But to what? What does it all mean?!?! *chews off fingers* ...Maybe RLM is trying to tell us what they really feel, what represents them. *attempts to solve the mystery* 1st video) Stranger Danger possibly represents the Second Circle/Lust since there's a creepy pedo lusting after some scary alien kid. Bleck! 2nd video) Safe Crossing may represent the First Circle/Limbo since it feels like you're in limbo while watching. 3rd video) Amazing Things possible represents the Sixth circle/Heresy. After the artsy opening, the video seemed disrespectful to art itself. 4th video) Nightmare on Drug Street maybe represents the Seventh Circle/Violence. It's often portrayed that drugs lead to violence. 5th video) Traveling with Ooga Booga represents Ninth circle/Treachery cos Ooga Booga's hardly in this. 6th video) Just Kidding definitely represents Fourth circle/Greed. The video was slapped together to make an easy profit. 7th video) Bear Attacks is an easy one. It represents the Third circle/Gluttony as there were plenty of bears eat humans jokes. 8th video) How to Spot Counterfeit Beany Babies represents the Eighth circle/Fraud - well, title speaks for itself! And I know, one would think RLM would be implying they're the fraudsters, but this clearly isn't the case. So, we're left with one: Fifth Circle/Anger. Oh, is that all? RLM is angry? Oh ok... Shit! That wasn't at all enlightening...
I had to look it up after Jack mentioned that Corny sounded like Invader Zim... and yeah, that's Richard Horvitz. Also, the Slow Burn Child Molester is Sean McNamara, who directed the film and also stuff like that religious movie where a shark ate a girl's arm.
i was just about to mention how it was made in my hometown before i saw this comment. i feel honored to live in such a city where this amazing media was filmed.
The Beanie Baby craze, and all those other speculative-market crazes from the 90s were entirely fueled by baby boomers being scarred for life because their parents all threw away their first-edition Action Comics 1, original Star Wars figurines, and all those other things that turned out to be worth thousands of dollars when they grew up (even though the only reason they're worth that much in the first place was because their parents threw them away). So any excuse to preserve a potentially valuable collector's item, they jumped on
@@mvc9178 while the current speculative crazes are similar, their origins are certainly not - at least as far as I can tell. for gen z & millenials we're mostly chasing the dream of financial freedom *or* trying to build a personality/identity via collecting dumb popculture bullshit we like. (not saying i dont do it too).
@@thomasnaporano9822 Kenner's first run of star wars action figures, all worth quite a bit now, was in 1977. What generation do you think would be getting those?
I'd just like to note that Jack was 100% correct. Richard Steven Horvitz, voice of Invader Zim himself, was in "Get Street Smart: A Kid's Guide to Stranger Danger" as Corny. IMDb lists his role as "Capricorn", which explains the name Corny. This was shortly after his work in the English dubbing of Pom Poko, the Ghibli movie about the racoons that bounce around on their nutsacks.
AT 3:10 - 3:12, the actor playing "Felipe" from the video is none other than Raymond Cruz from Breaking Bad. He is famous now as "Tuco" from Breaking Bad. I thought I recognized his face, and when he spoke in the video clip I knew I had identified Raymond Cruz.
After the intro of the Dr Misterio video, I was STOKED to see the rest... and then we go to boring origami 101 and I'm yelling BRING BACK THE SUPERVILLAIN CLOWN!
I think they might actually be done with WotW. they have been getting more and more sick of it with every episode as they keep getting the most unwatchable crap in the world
I vividly remember watching a bus safety video involving a giant egg as a kid but in my memories the kids goes under the bus to get it and ends up getting run over. I can't imagine there are 2 egg based bus safety videos out there so I have no idea where this memory is coming from. Maybe the latent horror vibes of it infected my memories of the video.
Rich Evans, Wheel of the Worst 13: "How come we can't get away from 9/11?" Also Rich Evans, Wheel of the Worst 18: "The highest place you can imagine is on top of the World Trade Center..."
I've kinda come to face the truth that SBF content has drooped a bit. I think I need to listen to the podcast again to get back into them cause the LPs aren't really doing it lately. It's not that anything is worse, it's just that it isn't changing or evolving. All they need is for Pat to say those thoughts out loud, then Crazy Talk can activate and things will improve
It's true, this is why I never want to see the Super Best Friends try to branch into movies, nor do I want to see Red Letter Media try to branch into video ga- Oh... wait...
I don't think they should stop; the wheels are the best episodes; I find learning about all these obscure videos interesting. I do think they should wait a bit before doing it again, because, I've seen fatigue setting in through the wheel episodes. you notice that, hiv / aids, and, hangin with Leo disapeared between 11 and 12 , and, there was a completely new set this time. it shows that more and more often they are passing on reviewing videos , when at first it seemed they just took the brunt of whatever they got. I could actually stand to see a retrospective of videos they passed on in previous epiodes, a " worst of the worst" out take vid.
Y'know, I hadn't thought of this before, but Jay's comment during the Stranger Danger tape, "I guess molesters aren't picky," is actually 100% correct, because they aren't. Child abusers, abusers in general really, don't care about how their victim looks, or even if they're related - They care about having power over another person above everything else.
Everyone in the comments is going nuts because they mentioned that this will be the last Wheel of the Worst; but remember, this is the same video where they admit how much of a bunch of liars they are, so don't trust a damn thing they say.
Holy shit I just remembered my elementary school actually showed us the “Get Street Smart” video when I was a kid. I had completely forgotten until the long repressed memory of a weird alien getting electrocuted on power lines was reawakened by a group of Wisconsin drunks spinning a wooden wheel.
In regards to the "slow burn" molester, did you know that Jeff Goldblum's first big movie role is as Freak #1 in Death Wish? He rapes and murders Charles Bronson's wife and daughter.
