We had a tape that had Asterix in Britain followed by the Only Fools And Horses feature-length episode where they go to Florida and Del-Boy gets mistaken for a mob boss.
To this day, I can probably quote both from beginning to end.
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Star Wars Episode I recorded off its debut on German TV by my grandpa for my older brother. Watched that so often, I had it partially memorised. That and Disney's Hercules and The Sword in the Stone. And apparently I was really keen on watching TV ads when I was little :D
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Monkey Trouble is my wife's jam. We have it on Laserdisc even because I like collecting junk :)
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My uncle had a vhs player many years before we did. He had 2 movies.
Smokey and the bandit probably more then 100 times in total.
The sting probaly around 40-50 times.
LA Story! I still love that movie. Our movies were whatever the people that lived in the house before you left when they moved back to wherever they were from (expat life in the Middle East). Also my grandma taped all the Fairy Tale Theatre episodes for me. The three little pigs was the best! Billy Crystal as the runt and Jeff Goldblum as the big bad wolf, so so good.
The cabin we vacationed at a few times had exactly two VHS tapes, as I recall:
Green Eggs & Ham (Side 1) / Star-Bellied Sneeches (Side 2)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Also we watched fuzzy news coverage of the Olympic bombing in Atlanta and it briefly seemed like it was the end of the world for like 2-3 hours. Probably because I was a kid + fuzzy TV in a cabin in the mountains + dramatic parents, etc.
Edit: I realized I said Side 1/Side 2 like it was a record. Anyway, it was just a 2-part Dr. Seuss VHS, not a rare dual-layer VHS.
The Court Jester (1955)
My grandparents had it on vhs, recorded from a tv broadcast. We watched (and quoted) it obsessively every time we went to visit them.
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Junior year of college, there were a few months where the only tapes in our house were Yellow Submarine, Slackers, and something I can't remember
During the 80's I remember watching Clash of the Titans on Saturday morning TV repeatedly.
The stop motion monsters still hold up.
It's funny because it's true. Little children should not be in front of screens. Period.
If you sit too close to the tv you could go blind!
Nonsense, Boomers were the first generation to grow up in front of the TV, and look how they turned out!
Oh, I see your point.
The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog. Like, the shitty one with Grounder and whatever the chicken robot's name was... Had like the whole collection of those when what I wanted was the more anime like series where Sally Acorn came from. 😔
They still have that today, though. It's just on streaming alongside the big films.
I don't doubt a portion of the Disney remakes would have ended up being direct-to-VCD sequels you'd only find in a video rental store.