Just like with Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon's long history has resulted in a lot of their content having gone missing. Here are some old and new pieces that have become lost and remain rare for that reason.
I am the user who posted about the spongebob pear mystery on the forums. I have been offline for a couple weeks and I am suprised by how much it has blown up. I am very happy that one of my favorite youtubers is discussing it and hopefully that will help the search. Thank you!
I honestly think the Dream Theatre idea was way ahead of its time. While I agree with Geraldin’s statement (2:10) that “sometimes, kids dreams are really scary and dark, with themes about abandonment and other intense issues”, I wholeheartedly disagree with the thought that they “don’t make good stories”. Sure this might’ve been “hard to market towards that audience” at the time, but in our current day and age where darker kids media is so adored by both kids and adults, especially when it allows for lots of interpretations and theories (and especially when it involves personal themes such as mental health), I think it’d have made for an extremely interesting and successful concept.
honestly i feel like the biggest issue for a concept like this is that most people can't remember enough of their dreams to form a cohesive story, especially children. at least for me, when I was a child my dreams were way too abstract and strange for me to describe (to the point where I considered them nightmares when they really weren't). I'm sure a good writer could take the general concept of a child dream and turn it into a good story but then that sorta defeats the purpose of the content being straight out of someones dream. I could see this working as a smaller form of content, like a series of independently produced youtube videos, but I doubt it would have worked as an actual TV show.
Yeah hearing about it I can understand why it was canceled, but I can also tell I would have loved it when I was around 9 or 10. Kids' horror like Kirby climaxes or the gem amalgamations froms SU were so influential on the fiction I came to love
We Bare Bears Creator Daniel Chong was working on a pilot at Nickelodeon called Pudding Toast which suffered development hell and wasn't picked up. I hope what was made from Pudding toast can be found one day.
wild timing, I uploaded one of the pitch pilots to our RU-vid channel a few days ago as others said. credit goes to a guy on the LMW going by Austin though, if you check the pudding toast page you can see them in the comments sending a link where it’s at along with a CG test and some models/backgrounds! definitely recommend going there and checking the link where they found it if interested
honestly when I heard about the Spongebob pear intro I thought it would have been from the episode Shanghaied but then I remembered Spongebob got turned into a strawberry and not a pear.
Wait i have a theory on the Spongbob pear one, i think it could be like an April fools joke one offer, since watching old commercials from 2006-2009 one mentioned an april fools block, so maybe it could of been a April fools joke.
I recall a St. Patrick’s Day marathon of Patrick rampaging around a black and white city as a Kaiju with a booming voice promoting it. I also recall an advertisement for Plankton’s Army that advertised it as a special.
I remember “Beyond Belief” and have been trying to remember the title for YEARS! There was this one episode where it goes to a museum of odd coin operated machines. I remember this one machine where this guy had a cleaver and tells you to put your hand in, then his hair starts spinning and he counts down sounding like a madman until he “chops” your hand off. When, in fact, it was a clever illusion
1:32 Funny how one of the earliest Nickelodeon media had the same woman who would adapt a beloved Disney film (Now turning 30 this year as of this post) into a more beloved Broadway musical.
i remember the sponge bob pear portrait. i remember watching a top 100 facts about spongebob video when i was younger (around the mid 2010s) and one of the facts was that the pirate was replaced by a pear in some international intros. i dont think it ever mentioned a live band but i vividly remember the pear. the funny thing is, i never watched spongebob as a kid.
I really wish that Angry Beavers spinoff would have been made, honestly the concept is amazing. I already love Angry Beavers and imagining a women-led counterpart just sounds perfect. If only I grew up with that
I think Nick might pick it back up today if they ever do anything AB related again but then again people today might think it is Nick pandering to gender equaility
@@mguymarioIt’s fascinating how that’s something most people would’ve never bothered worrying about back then… The mentality of the 90s was so different.
@@teacookieYTbecause back then a character being a woman was just because it would be cool. now a character being a woman is because they need to meet a quota and that's why there also be a gay guy there, a black trans, and a indian non binary
i swear, youtubers like this are the gold standard. this is the perfect overlap between quality, niche, and honesty. when this platform is so full of "single use" content ; structured around maximizing stats and money? content like this is starkly in opposition. nothing but quality information that you could never stumble upon anywhere else. one of my favorite RU-vidrs for sure. not to mention the fast output and consistency!
On one hand, nice to see you detailing some more Nickelodeon lost media. On the other hand...that's horrible timing right there...if you know, you know.
@@benmalsky9834 // I know about that the Nicktoons have nothing to do with the reason why the upload is so poorly timed. It's about a side of Nickelodeon that is so disturbingly hidden, it's right on our faces since you know who came into the scene and it relates to their live-action department. At this point, Nickelodeon should just focus on the Nicktoons. What they did behind closed doors on their live action department is so twisted and disturbing, their jokes now have completely new meanings, and being slimed also has a new meaning.
@@sexygirlmax2019 // The "Quiet on Set" documentary. Nickelodeon, as well as Dan Schneider, got exposed for their long-term history on pedophilia on their live-action productions mainstream, especially on hiring literal children in the live-action shows. The jokes in those shows now got new meanings as a result, and getting slimed at Nickelodeon also got a new meaning as well. Thankfully, the Nicktoons have nothing to do with it.
I would love to see that Dream Theater pilot, but given the long history of Nickelodeon, and the different studio locations they've moved in and out of over the years, I wouldn't be surprised if it had gotten lost or scrapped.
your vhs mascot walking is so super cute I really like seeing him a lot and I really would love to own a plush toy of him. he reminds me of color crew from baby's first I watch at night to help me sleep at night and baby's first has lost media too with shows and bumpers.
#1. The pear ad: Are you sure the live band isn't They Might Be Giants. There's a lead: Nickelodeon used to air reruns of Malcolm in the Middle. TMBG did the theme song for that show. This means that someone involved at Nickelodeon would have known about the band, and they did frequently collaborate with children's networks at this time (including doing a theme song for Disney Channel and a special video related to Courage the Cowardly Dog for Cartoon Network.) #2. The Beyond Belief thing is funny, because at one point I had remembered seeing this strange show randomly (which is how a lot of lost media searches start, people seeing strange shows randomly as a kid) and then one day I was looking on this streaming service called Stirr (which I believe has just shut down) and found a show that was randomly airing on the "main channel" of the Stirr format that said it's title was Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction, and it looked just like the strange show I had remembered. So it's funny that this thing that for me was the same way a lot of lost media searches start has the same name as a piece of lost media.
Gubby brought up Beyond Belief. I know I watched at least one episode because that was the kind of info I loved to learn. I do quite distinctly recall watching a segment on one of those kinds of shows about Catherine of Selina, an incorrupt saint. As the info, he gave mentions someone recalling such a segment about an incorrupt saint, I do wonder if it's possible it was that show. I honestly thought it was on PBS, but Nick would have made just as much sense for a show like it at the time.
I found a TV series called House of Rock a while back. It's animated and most of season 1 seems to be lost media. I can only find a few clips of the first season. Some of season 2 is uploaded on here, but some of those episodes are missing now too. I think it aired on Channel 4 or ITV. House of Rock is about a bunch of dead rock stars stuck in a house together.
jesus man, i spent hours of my life researching this damn company and yet every single entire in this video i have not heard of before and almost every single one just grab my attention, HOW YOU KEEP FINDING THIS STUFF.
Yknow, as a kid, like a toddler to kindergartener, everything was bizarre and colorful and everything had a weird and fun artstyle. Sometimes the weirdest and scariest stuff just ended up being shapes and figures and didn't seem scary until adults treated it like it was supposed to be scary. Nature versus nurture stuff. Sometimes I was scared by completely innocuous things and were just unfamiliar and hard to comprehend. Some sesame street skits, like the one with clips of a cg satellite.
Nitpick, but I don't think it's fair to describe Pinwheel as not being an original Nickelodeon production since it used acquired shorts to fill time. When Pinwheel began on Qube, all of it was unique footage.
If anything, when Nickelodeon began, as its predecessor on Qube, it had NO acquired programming since the only show it aired was produced for the channel.
And if we really want to get technical, Count Duckula was Nick's first original animated series, since they were behind the development and the series was basically made for Nick. In fact, when Nick was seriously pursuing their Nicktoons at the beginning, Cosgrove Hall pitched an idea about newspaper reporters or something that got turned down.
..Beyond Belief was one of my favorite non-cartoon shows as a kid, I remember it vividly. To know some of it has become lost media -- a normal show airing at normal times on a popular channel in the 90s when everyone was recording everything on VHS is so crazy to me... one might say... beyond belief. Also Angry Breavers is my #1 favorite nicktoon of all time, on the one hand I'm so happy that so much content related to it is still being dug up and found out about and keeping it relevant, but on the other hand I feel so bad that so many cool things they were GOING to do with the show got cancelled or never even got to happen at all. And that sisters' show would have been awesome if the adult forms were actually the focus, and they showed them as kids first then timeskipped to them being Norb and Dag's age and getting kicked out of the house themselves. It would've had a totally unique feel with that all-female cast and crew. I reeeeeally really wish we got to see it, but I guess that notorious final episode got a lot of stuff related to the beavs canned. Maybe some of it will get a second chance at life someday, as more and more people with nostalgia for the show get jobs in the industry and that kind of stuff's been all the rage.
It's actually intriguing, and slightly scary how woefully under-documented many things in history are. Not just modern media, but pre-television era things as well. Just think. How many things in history are lost to time? Things that definitely happened, but nobody knows about and never will. We struggle to keep documented the things that happen now in the digital age where it's much easier to do so. Imagine how many things in the ancient world we'll never know about.
What I find interesting about the towel is that the date for the premiere party is July 24th. However, SpongeBob premiered on July 17th, a week earlier than the date. Since it would've been a party for the premiere, that means the original premiere would've been on the 24th, but was later changed to the 17th.
july 17th 1999 was a saturday, and the 24th is the following saturday, so maybe since it's labeled friends and family day, its meant to be a celebration with friends and family who already saw their loved ones work the week before? I could see them not wanting to hold a work event on that day so people could watch with their friends and family- they would have had no idea if spongebob was going to be a short lived series shoved into a weird time slot or if it would blow up to be nickelodeon's biggest property, so they may have thought they would let people enjoy their saturday with their family watching what they worked on, and celebrate the next week?
There is a movie I saw when I was young, that might be lost media, I don't remember its name or much from it, only something very vague, all I know is This movie in question I saw when I was really really young, all I remember is it was some weird Fairytale Crossover movie, it was animated, but the one part I vaguely remember, is what I think was a Lab, with 2 Labrat like Characters, all I remember was one of those Characters Introducing himself and the other Labrat Character {I don't know their names or what they look like} all I remember was the one that was Introducing them both and _"He's the one that, pees in the glass"_ referring to the other Labrat thing, I'm sorry I don't have anymore info, It's Artstyle was crude slightly I think, when I came across Hoodwinked I thought that was it, but it's not Hoodwinked 1 or 2, soooo I'm still searching for it, any help would be appreciated, because I'm *_SO_* Curious to find this weird movie I saw
that spongebob pear entry sounds so fucking cool but also too cool to actually exist. someone would have found something regarding it by now if it were real.
having heard of this, but not seen it, take this with a grain of salt. i dont think the alternate spongebob theme was a opener, but a television bumper. there was a lot of similar things done in the early 00s, specifically on disney channel, but i wouldnt doubt it was a thing on nickelodeon because they tend to copy what works
I think I too remember the spongebob pear, but I'm not sure if it was an intro. could've been a bumper of some kind🤔 (I'm not finished watching the video)
Is there a possibility that the spongebob one could be the op getting confused with the bird brain's "Underwater sun" song from the episode party pooper pants? I seem to remember a live action rock band playing over that. As for the pear I don't know
I got some potential lost media to share, one night in my younger days I saw an advert that involved a decimated land scape, a young girl with green-ish skin in rags wearing a medallion, and a giant black monster that took the shape of an explosion cloud and had a skull for a face, I made a few reddit posts about it awhile back if you're interested
How do I make a request to you for lost media? I’m going to be making a RU-vid short proving this: There’s a band that I love. They only have 3 songs that survived across 3 different websites. However, on other websites, you can see that their music existed there before with all tracks listed, but the music is GONE. Completely scrubbed. ERASED! So how can I show you this insane nonsense and have us find one or both of their two major albums?!
Holy shit wait, I REMEMBER Beyond Belief! I haven't thought about that in... man, 30 years, probably? But I actually do remember it! Man, it isn't often that something I'm actually familiar with shows up in these videos, so that caught me off guard. I was LITTLE when it aired, I don't know how I remember it, but I did watch a whole lot of Nick around that time.
You know, I've had this memory trapped in my head for quite some time now, and I think with the subject of this video, I think it's about time I ask the question. Am I the only one that remembers a York Peppermint Pattie advert with Mr Krabz in it? I think it was on TV for a short period of time in 2007?
I'm friends with one of the beavers spin off leads on facebook through some strange means. I don't know how I feel about reaching out...not like we're personal friends.
need your help on this one?. What is the song in the video named Buying Used Panties by comedic RU-vidr Sneaky Sushi it starts at 8 seconds into the video and ends at 13 seconds sounds like some kind of VZW Airwaves kind of stuff I've heard that before in those early Comcast/Gerber life or Book Publishers/Publishing commercials in the early 2000's. I have been watching old Cartoon Network and Adult Swim commercial breaks to find it but to no avail though i did find those old Ted and Ned, Mediacom and Apple Jacks commercials and had a good laugh. Is the song lost media by any chance. Weird i heard it in another RU-vid video about 4 to 5 years ago by chance though. I'd really appreciate it if someone could help.
i have a vague recollection about a irl band in spongebob, but it was a long time ago and it sounds so unusual i would believe it was not real, mainly because i live in brazil and it could be just a promo or just another show mixing with it.
did anyone adrss the possibility that the spongebob pear opening was actualy multiple unrelated openings combined together perhaps because the same strange episode played multiple times sometimes after something with a pear and other times after the thing with singers and all that information just combined together?
Don't believe it's always been lost media. But their channel all together. Can easily be checked by going to their channel, should have the join date somewhere
