The Unnerving Children's DVD That a Redditor Found 

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If I had a nickel for every time reddit called something a money laundering operation I'd need a money laundering operation to make all the money less suspicious

I won’t lie, the animation is far more competent and professional for a budget religious animated film. Like it’s 5/10 but it’s 10/10 in that field

I think what Kirk Nash meant by putting "real fur" on characters is that the hair was actually a 3 dimensional model itself, rather than a flat texture colored to look like fur.

Claiming the movie is award-winning and aired on thousands of stations sounds like Tommy Wiseau claiming he was a student of a dead Oscar winner.

Honestly, for an early 2000’s animation made by a tiny team, it’s actually quite well animated? Sure they’re a little janky, but the fact that they emote, blink, move in a reasonable way is kinda incredible not gonna lie, very sweet, even if it is just to push bible verses, it was cute

'real fur' as opposed to 'faked with textures' refers to either using a particle system to have 'hair' on a characters mesh

When Grandma Mouse said "sometimes it seems that the world is going to the cats" - I felt that.

I honestly respect how much the producer patted themselves on the back, like giving yourself a medal type energy, or playing applause noises when you enter a room.

Not gonna lie, recontextualizing "I Want a Hippopotamus For Christmas" into a hippo girl singing about wanting a hunky hippo boyfriend is actually a pretty cute idea. Though, the parts of the song where the singer explicitly says that other species of animals aren't acceptable and she'd ONLY be happy with a hippo has... implications.

I reached out to Kirk Nash about his other works as well as this one and he responded! He has George And The Flies somewhere but he’d have to dig through over 100 TB of projects to find it. It was mostly live action but some parts were 100% CGI He doesn’t want to share Wonder Worm- Glad I’m Green as the man who asked him to make it scammed him and ended up costing him over $100k

the absolute whiplash of pausing the video as soon as i see an ebay listing, finding it's been purchased, and then finding out you bought it to share with us was so much. i need to lie down. thanks kylie!

There’s so much comedic potential in having a mouse Jesus crucifix. They could’ve named him Cheesus.

Honestly, for as *ugly* as the movie is. It's quite well animated for an independent CGI film from the very early 2000s. The characters have a lot of fluidity to them, so there was likely a lot of hand animation happening with very little tweening between distant keyframes. Making characters move naturally, especially characters with such odd shapes, is *hard*, and Kirk's team did a very decent job.

I was expecting this to be much more creepy

just finished the video, hearing you say "I was the one that bought it" was genuinely such a shock, really excited to hear it! and congrats on the Gamer Supps partnership, been loving the Blue Razz flavour for so long 😭

The first Hallmark movie was apparently in 1951, but the first Chrismas movie is listed around the internet as 2000. I can't seem to find what the actual first Hallmark Christmas movie was, without being redirected to the Hallmark TV Channel. It's infuriating. I really want to know.

For early and cheap animation the fur texture on the main characters is actually rather good considering the budget and tec they had access to

It’s not all that odd to me that a band from the early 2000s would be doing 90s punk. Lots of teens at that time were really into older punk music. Plus, there were years in the early 2000s before emo got a good foot hold where there just wasn’t a dominant new style of music.

it really did air on TV stations. i remember this movie SO WELL from my childhood. they played it every year on Sky Angel, a christian cable company that my family had when I was growing up in the early 2000s in Georgia. this was one of my favorite movies they played.

"Uh, yeah yeah, Luke chapter 2." "Johnny does not read Luke chapter 2." why was this so amusing to me lol

3:25 That menu is usually the one you'd get when recording a DVD using a "DVD Recorder". These were available for home use and usually meant for converting VHS to DVD. You'll usually get a variation of this barebones menu on the finished DVD. This leads me to believe it was home production/ amateur company.

Great video! Just a few thoughts: I think the claim that the characters had real fur instead of textures just means the hair was simulated like they did with Sully in the original Monsters Inc as opposed to something like Food Fight where characters with fur just look like plastic. Also I think the implication is that the town the grandpa lived in was a town for humans and that all the animals live in small dwellings in the buildings (when the camera zooms towards the church it goes through a mouse hole instead of the front door)

I think that this video was your magnum opus, really entertaining and well done, it's like a christmas gift for us viewers.

The ants are the ones that creep me out the most, but still an endearing cartoon! So much lost media out there that not even the internet knows about, it's captivating to see people try to save as much human art as possible (because that's how I see it, as human art from unique individuals). Can't wait to be among the first to listen to get everet after so many years lol

i actually really think the character designs are enjoyable af

I am SO excited more people will now know about The Special Christmas Gift! I found a VHS copy in great condition at a church thrift store a few years ago and have shown it to several friends because it's such a bizarre and surprising movie but even without knowing the history, we could all tell a lot of passion went into it. Thank you for doing looking into it and sharing all this info!

This is like some unholy fusion of Rapsittie Street Kids, the Hamster Dance movie, and that one VeggieTales christmas episode. I love it.

Cant believe the Mexican peppers didn't sing feliz navidad

The "real fur vs textures" thing: the producer is claiming that he used modeled, simulated hairs (think Sully in Monsters Inc, for example, for an early example of this.) Usually it would just be a flat image applied to the object as a texture that is drawn and rendered to give it the appearance of fur. You can kind of think of textures as wrapping an object in a wrapping paper with a picture on it.

This feels like a ‘so bad, it’s actually kinda entertaining’.

Oh my gosh, this is amazing to see! You're one of my favorite RU-vidrs, and you've done this silly little Reddit post I didn't expect to go anywhere justice! I apologize deeply for never uploading it, I to this day still can't get my copy to upload to the Internet Archive for some reason :/ But at least somebody else had a copy and was able to post it! The money laundering thing was kind of a joke :) I never knew how deep the rabbit hole went, I knew there was some other misc. lost movies from CDI, but I never knew there was lost music related to it! I'm glad you're preserving it :D Thank you SO much for making a video on this, it was basically my goal to get the word out and let more people know about this silly little obscure movie I discovered and not let it be forgotten!

A person finding an obscure DVD containing a weird film? The kind of weird stories that I really like to hear. This is a good Christmas present from your part, Kylie!

The idea behind "Real Fur" is that the fur is fully modelled in 3d, not a texture. I admire them for going to the trouble of doing it but whatever early 2000s CGI tech they were using just didn't have the processing power to make it look good.

The phrase "high quality animation" has the same energy as Silvagunner calling their vids "high quality rips"

I think what they mean by the "real fur" is that they actually rendered the fur in real time instead of just making it a flat texture. Which admittedly was fairly rare at the time. Honestly? The animation isn't THAT BAD, I'd say it's even impressive for indie-ish animation for that time. Still bizzarre though. Also, their hands look pretty normal to me lol, mice have hands rather than paws, if it makes sense.

Lived ~1/1.5 hours from most of the locations in Illinois mentioned. The area tends to run pretty religious and this definitely would've sold like hot cakes in nearby churches. It's also not far from Chicago (hence several of Get Everet's shows being there) so it would be within the realm of reason (though a stretch of semantics) to also say that it was award-winning and was enjoyed be the numbers claimed

babe wake up, new kylie video just dropped i haven’t watched yet, but i know it’s going to be great already. thank you for making such quality videos all the time :) these are hands down the most interesting lost media videos EDIT: having watched it now- wow, this took an unexpectedly lighthearted turn. i’m currently in my phase of collecting bad, terrible movies, and i think often about how obscure some of these movies are. it would be so easy for these movies to slip through the cracks. if OP never made that post, it wouldn’t have sparked the investigation and we wouldn’t have the movie released for everyone. thank you for covering such a fun story!

I hope the folks who made this find this video and enjoy the love you gave them, because there are so many out there who make art that was a love and passion of theirs for that art to only be forgotten by time. I think of several friends who's music and art can be lost media and how I could never experience it again due to myspace losing all that digital data and friends just losing things over time. Seems Get Everett was getting close to breaking out but never quite got there, a local band from humboldt with The Cutters was like that for me. At least now these folks get to live on a little longer. And the movie is endearing in a almost Veggie Tale quality, there is worse Christian media but this actually seems to follow an actual plot and if the creator had the ability to make a few more practice animations, could of been a lot better. Thanks for this video.

This is actually heartwarming; that some guy and a close knit circle around him had a dream and were determined to make it a reality. The animation isn't the best, but at least there's nothing sinister or malicious behind it, just some ambitious everymen looking to share their work.

This was an incredibly adorable video, and I enjoyed every second of it. Thank you so much! I cannot wait to hear what those peoples idea of 90s punk was in the early 2000s ha ha ha

Omg get everett played at beat kitchen???? that place still slaps to this day. Most of my favorite concerts ive seen at that venue. Perhaps contacting beat kitchen could get us a lead on the 2 song ep?

90% of Christmas songs are copyright free. There's a lot of holes in this story

Expected a creepy cult made movie, came out with a weird movie with a sweet message. Reminds me of that one Elf Christmas movie that was lost media for a bit (like a day)

HIGHLY personal case of lost media of my own- There were these DVDs that I believe only went into circulation in Canada. (I’m in NL myself) I had about 2 or 3 of these… I remember I got them as Christmas gifts. They were called “Children’s Theatre”. There’s very little info online about them aside from the scattered box art. These came in volume sets. 1, 2, etc. I’m not sure just how many were made but all the box arts are some cheap, tacky and CREEPY as hell looking clip art, and the one thing that absolutely stuck out to me as a kid on every one of them is the ugly jester on the top. They all featured (from what I remember) creepy, experimental shorts that ranged anywhere from the mid 60’s to early 80’s, similar to the vein of Sesame Street. I don’t remember much of what happened in them but a little black boy skipping around while some really trippy stuff was going on, I believe there were video filters over him and it looked very disturbing, and then I remember there was this one animation… I don’t even remember what it was but it truly disturbed me in a way I can’t even describe, I remember the distinct feeling it left me with, almost sickening. It was a trippy Sesame Street-esque animation that I cannot even remember the details about… But all I know is that it scared the shit out of me so hard I never ever touched the DVD again and it just got scratched up and thrown out eventually over the years. I had kind of just brushed it off as something trippy I saw as a kid and nothing more until when I was working at my local goodwill centre recently and I saw like 2 more of them. I hesitated to get them because I didn’t want my co-workers thinking I was nuts… But they were gone the next day. I was kinda pissed… These DVDs are ALL lost media and as far as I’m concerned I’m the only one who actively wants to find them. Their footage is nowhere to be found online, I’ve checked absolutely everywhere. Only some box arts, not sure if all of them are online. I am so mad that I had the chance recently to save 2 of them but didn’t. From what I can tell these DVDs are very very rare… If anyone has them at all… PLEASE upload them because I’m absolutely dying to see what terrified me as a child. All I know is that it was contained somewhere within the first 5 volumes.

This video, and your endearing comments about people just chasing their dreams to the fullest is exactly why i love lost media

Plot twist: The redditor who posted this mystery is Kirk Nash himself and he's just trolling.

This was a neat little story. Nothing weird, just a family and some friends making some stuff not a lot of people saw. I'm glad it will be preserved.

Honestly thank you for sharing the story of this movie. You did such a good job telling it that , that I could genuinely feel the emotions of it. The dude did a real good job for the era and I'm glad that he's still working.

honestly ?? its actually animated very well , just doesnt have an appealing art style.

I remember seeing a portion of this from Christmas VHS tapes we had as a kid. My mom would record a handful of Christmas programs off the TV from various channels. I remember the portion with the hippo onwards, which makes me think she caught it midway being played. Im not sure if she found a movie and copied it or just a channel that played it. Really cool to see this again

I so look forward to every new video you post...you never disappoint. And good, bad or ugly...I think we're all looking forward to seeing(or rather, hearing) what's on that CD! It's so fun watching you investigate some of the many internet and lost media mysteries! Can't wait till the next one!!!

get everet sounds insanely familiar to me for some reason I can't quite put my finger on. I look forward to hearing the cd when you share it to see if I recognize any songs! I'm not from Illinois but I am from another midwest state nearby so it's not implausible that someone I know may have been a fan and shared their music with me at some point.

Okay, you know, I never thought I'd feel so old at only 49, I'm not supposed to be officially old until 65. Here is some basic information for those interested in "lost media". Something that might also inspire those who like to create so called "Analog Horror". Back before the internet and even before dial up media used to be sort of a wild west. People ran all kinds of pirate TV and radio stations, you can even find movies and such about this, as well as some areas having a sort of "public access" loophole where you could broadcast on TV locally or in a limited area without falling prey to other kinds of regulation. If you've ever seen "Wayne's World" that was basically supposed to be a couple of moron hipsters from the era doing the public access thing. Likewise things like "numbers" stations are in part so mysterious because they seen to be devoid of the regulations requiring things like constant station identification, and as they are continual should be getting attention from the authorities. If nothing else why they have things like an identification exemption should be a matter of public record (as it would be in the laws) but of course there is nothing. At any rate given the ridiculous number of local and public access shows that were out there, many run by churches and universities and things it is entirely possible something like this done on a micro budget, as such things often were, might very well have been on 6,000 stations and even won awards from within those communities. It should also be noted that while technically illegal, and later regulated, there was literally a time when everyone with the money to afford some camera equipment an a dream was making movies, and oftentimes avoiding the law in doing so. People used to shop movies around in suitcases to find buyers among privately owned video stores (later largely knocked out by chains such as Blockbuster), and churches and such used to produce movies and shows for use by those doing the public access thing, or to sell in the back of faith based magazines and such. Eventually movie studios, who followed all kinds of rules, and had to pay fees, made some major legal stinks about this and there were crackdowns, but the big thing was that a lot of media was in fact created, that was not intended to be pornographic, in defiance of the law or monitoring. Truth be told though, it is much rarer to see something like this going on after the Millennium, in digital format, and on DVD. Most of the bootleg church stuff tended to favor puppets, and many were shot in the church funding it, or properties owned by them. You wound up with a lot of really creepy muppet-type knockoffs, as pretty much everyone got the idea of trying to use something like Seseme Street to push religion as Seseme Street was perhaps the most successful children's program ever. Horrendous quality horror movies are also pretty common, as there were plenty of people who somehow thought they could make the next "Friday The 13th" with a bunch of ketchup, a prop knife, and a cheap mask. See when looking at lost media from any era, one thing you have to understand is the people who collect this stuff for whatever reason are not eager to share it. As a general rule they aren't interested in weird home videos or documentary footage like is used in a stable of the V/H/S series. See the dream among the real enthusiasts, is to find something that is actually good, or at least interesting among the piles of unknown garbage. It should be noted that in most cases when someone like this say wins a storage unit once owned by the owner of an old rental store, and finds piles of movies, if they find anything interesting with multiple copies the first thing they do is destroy all of them except for one, to ensure it becomes a unique item. They also rarely distribute so it becomes extra-valuable for other collectors to trade them for, or even just see it. Very few of the people into this are interested in making this stuff publically known as it would then be less special. It's sort of like how when it comes to "Doo Wop" music... you know how back decades ago you used yo have black kids doing that stuff in bathrooms and things due to the acoustics, if someone finds a recording of something unknown, even at an amateur level, the first thing they do is make it unique if possible and keep it within a tiny community. Believe it or not a recording of someone doing doo-wop in a bathroom in a high school bathroom back in the 50s or 60s can now be worth a small fortune to the right buyer if you can prove authenticity. The same applies to old VHS tapes, and recordings of public access shows from back when that was common and basically unregulated. Just some general information, many might know all of this, but I know a lot has been forgotten due to the internet. It sort of amuses me to think of "lost media" coming from thrift store DVDs, but I suppose it does make a degree of sense. As far as the tape from "The Ring" or other kinds of cursed retro-media, if anyone doing Analog horror ever needed a framing device, consider there are a lot of ghost towns out there that are only a few decades old. If you need a device that is not often used, such media might be in an off limits town (closed roads and stuff) with an old pre-Blockbuster rental place that is oddly intact. See, you never know what some guy with a trenchcoat was going to pull out of a suitcase to try and get a store to put on their shelves back then. Likewise, very few people tend to approach the idea of say an evil broadcast originating via a very local public access broadcast that I've ever seen, which would also explain why it might have been contained. Likewise if you ever want to take out a university in a story, one of their internal TV stations (depending on era) could be a workable idea.

Thats amazing, not at all what I expected haha. I love finding old threads and uncovering new pieces of information and even new hyperfixations purely because of weird little connections between IPs. Loved this video and I'll be watching the full show soon. Thanks!

i think this is my favorite topic that you've covered so far! something about it was just so whimsical and endearing to me, it feels like the core of what lost/mysterious media is supposed to be all about. keep up the good work!

Clearly, The Special Christmas Gift got robbed at the Oscars. We live in the bad timeline 😭

always a good day when a new kylie video drops

Great video! I recently got into browsing old forgotten PC games, and this video kinda motivated me to continue my search for weird and cheap, yet perplexing and charming stuff

i'm usually a lurker on your channel, but i love your approach to lost media and the pacing of your videos. this video was awesome, can't wait for more !! :D

Was expecting strange, but this is for sure endearing and wholesome af. Happy holidays everyone!

Holy shit, what a journey, i actually want to hear this album now

Always really enjoy your vids, you find interesting topics to talk about and have a great way of explaining things :)

the animation style of this kinda reminds me of scott cawthons early animations

Great video, thank you. I haven't heard of this before or the last media towards the end, I'm glad you do cover topics like this. Maybe a video about the Boards of Canada lost media?

Love the new Somber Toboggly rebrand. Sounds like a Star Wars character name :)

The animation on the mouse playing piano was honestly pretty good, especially with the way his movements were tied to the music.

23:27 This is the second time something you’ve posted literally hits home for me. 😅 No joke, when you started searching for the record store, I had to pause and do my own quick search because York Rd. is where I spent a LOT of time in the early 2000’s since my cousin was going to Elmhurst College. Sure enough, this intersection was crossed many times, and now many more since bestie’s family lives nearby. I’m in all the local Facebook groups, so I’ll look through the members and see if anyone on there is from either of these families. If so, I’ll see if I can get them in contact with you. Btw, the other one was about the McDonald’s ad a while back ago. Still searching for that. Unfortunately, the person I knew who once did business with corporate moved to AZ and I can’t get a hold of him.

Thank you so much for digging this all up Kylie! If you didn't cover this stuff I would have no clue of its existence.

It's been awhile since I've commented but I'm catching up on your vids and it's been a joy watching how far you've come since I started watching you ❤ happy to see your progress and excited for future vids, Kylie 🦆💜💙

>Power goes out >They tell an entire story to pass the time >Power comes back on once the story is finished The director wouldn't have happened to have worked on Family Guy at all, would he?

Say what you want, but this is pretty ambitious for the time and budget. This was back before 3d animation was something just anyone could do. It was still new and unexplored and that film has camera moves and synchronized to music. It's no surprise he progressed.

imagine making a post about a movie you can't find anything about, and not uploading said movie in the same post

I've been subbed since this was a tiny baby channel, and it continues to grow and impress! Keep it up!

Just stumbled onto your channel through a random rec, and I'm glad I did. Really interesting video! Although I was practically screaming "JUST BUY THE CD!" before the ending reveal, haha. Anyway, subbed.

Hey thanks for the great vid and free gamer supps!! My first time trying :) Super excited to find your channel on my yt fyp. Cheers, and Merry Christmas!

Has a Christian, I really REALLY wish a lot more movies would explain what the chapters they refer to mean, that's exactly why you go to church to learn of these chapters and be guided but instead a lot of Christian movies opt to never say a thing nor explain the chapters and that easily explained by another surging problem is other Christians getting the misconception that movies/TV and others could be a replacement for church so they skip nor attend, hence why a lot of Christian producers and even involved pastors are slightly in question of whether they should include an explanation of the chapters or not. which is not a very exceptional good thing, yeah sure there's the chapters that explain to you how after the death and revival of jesus christ ,jesus the son becomes the church of your heart so that you can pray anywhere else aside from the church and be heard by god that's a TRUTH HOWEVER it's later explained and expresses that you should still attend church for a better guidance and not depend on your sole explanation or interpretation because sometimes you can be wrong, you might have other ideals that could be more of harm than of good and so on. The only show that has genuinely explained or expressed what the chapters mean(At least a huge amount sadly not all of them) the most is literally veggie tales.

Love the vid, amazing work as always!

Your best video so far. Cannot wait to hear the lost album!

The Salad Fingers references were cracking me up ! I had never heard of this let alone SEEN it until you shared it with us. It certainly is uncanny and unpredictable !

Extremely intriguing, I’m excited to hear what’s on the album! If only it were so easy to get a high-quality recording of “I Wish You Well” from Imagine Dragons. It’s my favorite song from them, and all we have to hear from it is a low-quality live recording and 30-something seconds from the studio recording. I really, REALLY hope that at least the studio recording is released at some point. Your videos are always so interesting!

love your background music choices! automatic subscribe :3

That bare bones dvd select screen is present on some of my home-burned dvds from the mid 00s. 😂 clearly a homebrew job from the creators

Maybe the true special Christmas gift was the lost media we found along the way.

I know I'm getting old when people are completely perplexed that CGI was difficult to do well in the 90s-00s 😭 The technical prowess (and software and hardware budgets) required to build such lengthy, complex animated scenes back then can hardly be put to words. It's really not the least bit surprising that that caliber of computer nerd didn't have much headspace left to also be expert screenwriters, or the energy/time/money to perfectly refine the models, textures, and animations. Compare to the compromises Veggie Tales or ReBoot made in order to achieve more well-rounded products under similar team constraints. That fur was fantastic. I bet Kirk is still very proud to have pulled it off.

i’m so excited to listen to this ep!! genuinely hoping i’ll love it

18:56 That ant is blinking out of sync 😮

17:59 This is unbelievably vicious. Here i was enjoying lost media early 2000s trippy nostalgia we never had and this happens

9:05 look mom i'm on tv!!! still have the tape, if there's interest i could do a better transfer sometime. i also should probably scan the cover art :p

Great video as always!

I hope this movie gets a Letterboxd page since it would be sad to not have that gem up. Also, I hope someone archives that Get Everet album and the art since it sounds promising as someone who is a sucker for that kind of indie punk. Edit: You sly dog, you!

I hate how well animated this is for an "indie" studio from the early 2000's. Yet the shading is dark and eerie at the same time. It almost makes me feel comfortable watching it, but something feels off.

can't believe I found this channel from a Pingu Thumbnail, the editing/research is amazing I am truly surprised you only have 100K subs

There's something that makes me admire "bad" animation. Not sure what it is, it's just nice to see things that look different for a change, as most 3d animation now looks the same.

I’ve seen dvd menus like that from some homemade dvds with “bonus features” made by an amateur “filmmaker” in 2002. So, they’re definitely a real thing.

i can't wait for he will explode, absolutely love the artwork and i'm always looking for more 90s/2000s punk

Sounds like an interesting low-budget film. I could tell from the menu that it looked like a DVD-R type of situation. Also, the Get Everet album was neat to listen to. Glad you were able to find a copy and share it with us. They gave me a sort of Ataris mixed with Simple Plan vibe.

The fact that singer mice in church look so different from all other mice really bothers me

Seems there was a musical sideproject of Michael Gouwens called 'Dutch Blitz' - not much more out there about them but he did do songs under the name. I hope whoever bought the CD puts the music online, I'm fascinated!

I'm only a minute in, BUT I wanted to say that the transition from "yay, Christian furry thing!" to "beaver's teeth shattering from presumably trying to drop an F bomb", EVEN AS A KAKOLOGOPHOBE, WAS HORRIFYING TO ME!