Longtime Museum viewer Liz Hamilton threw down a curious challenge for us: to tackle the blecchy subject of “pickup artistry” in the ‘00s. So we held our breath and plunged headfirst into the icky waters of VH1’s 2007 reality show hosted by some chud nicknamed “Mystery”. See “Mystery” school a squad of fidgety goofballs on how to pick up women using odious tactics and dirtbag fashions.

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Meet one of the most fearless people we know! Kiwi journo David Farrier is the mind behind the infamous 2016 doc TICKLED, the Netflix series DARK TOURIST, and the emotionally devastating doc MISTER ORGAN (required viewing for anyone cursed with a narcissistic sociopath in their life). Tonight we sit with David for an overview of his career and some rare clips of his early days in New Zealand television.

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Let’s close out this fuck of a month with a rowdy foot-stompin, ear-blastin’, eye-bleedin’, liver-picklin’, horn-makin’ hullabaloo! This show has it all! Disco madness! Exploding sets! Hot ladies in trenchcoats! A man just trying to pay his bills! A fair amount of blood and screaming! WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT?!?!

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About IVOR: IVOR, a 20-year veteran of weirdo free-form radio, is survived by his two tuxedo cats and a giant pile of rug yarn.

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Gary Coleman’s star power came to an end with this jaw-dropping rare ’85 TV movie previously thought “lost” until a copy surfaced online just a few months ago. Gary plays a bullied teen who fancies himself an arsonist! Co-starring an iconically frazzled Cicely Tyson (SOUNDER), Yaphet Kotto (ALIEN, “Homicide”), Ron O’Neal (SUPERFLY), and some cousin of Travolta. Mad thanks to the intrepid collector who rescued this in the fall of 2024, to the betterment of all mankind.

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The ridiculoso conclusion of Tim Heidecker’s brilliant 2017 mock murder trial from “On Cinema At The Cinema”. What could’ve been a quickie high-concept TV goof is, in Tim’s hands, a slow-cinema high-concept opus crammed with unforgettable performances. Every last detail from an anonymous Court TV-type broadcast is recreated here.

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Tim Heidecker’s greatest artistic achievement is Season 10 of “On Cinema At The Cinema”, which in 2017 ditched his show’s previous format in favor of a brilliantly-rendered mock murder trial. You don’t need to be a deep-dish fan of the “Tim & Eric” universe to enjoy this masterful slice of video art, which faithfully recreates the banality of America’s justice system and contains a dozen laughs per minute. We’ve made a feature-length condensation so weighty that it’s a two-parter!

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Instead of doomscrolling and feeling frozen in grief and fear over what’s currently happening (we can't believe this is STILL going on) in our beloved hometown right now, we’re bucking up to host a multi-hour fundraising livestream this Sunday, JANUARY 12. We’ll kick off at NOON Pacific, screening several episodes of a fantastic show from deep in our archives: @kj__relthmiller’s L.A. DAZE, which examines everything we love about the Southland. We’ll cap off the stream with an airing of our WILD IN THE STREETS edit, which centers on the genesis of the L.A. punk scene.

We hope you’ll consider tuning in and helping us pay tribute to the city we love, one donation at a time. We’re sending love and strength to everyone going through it right now. ♥️

Please visit the Wildfire Relief Resources master list created by MALAN (Mutual Aid LA Network): tiny.cc/malan-fire

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You won’t be able to look away from this absolute roaster of a pitch-perfect Sally Jessy ep, presented with zero edits! This contains all the great daytime talk tropes, but the best possible/most entertaining versions of them. Get ready for shocking reveals, screaming panelists, smug therapists, backstage cams, and one very unsympathetic audience.

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@cyberpunkybrewsterminator returns to the MOHV studio for another marathon sackful of Fasterpieces to ring in the new year. We close out 2024 with an assortment of dystopian sci-fi flotsam “set in the year 2024”, including A BOY AND HIS DOG, THE THIRTEEN FLOOR, and HIGHLANDER II. Plus, we throw in some non-2024 sequels for good measure: CYBORG 2, LAWMOWER MAN 2, and SPECIES II!

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ANOTHER BEARDED MAN WANTS TO INVADE YOUR HOME THIS WEEK—HE BRINGS THE GIFTS OF LAUGHTER AND LOVE! HOLIDAY DANCES FROM THE DANCERS! IT’S A CHRISTMAS-ISH PARTY—BRING YOUR LOVED ONES, JUST WARN THEM THAT IT COULD GET DISGUSTING AT ANY MOMENT!!

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MUSICVIDEODROME: A joyous and frenetic stumble through the archives of music television, coming at you monthly! Forgotten live performances, modern and classic music videos, outrageous interviews & more. Hosted by the International Voice of Reason.

About IVOR: IVOR, a 20-year veteran of weirdo free-form radio, is survived by his two tuxedo cats and a giant pile of rug yarn.

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Film critic/Xmas movie scholar Alonso Duralde has proclaimed NUTCRACKER: THE UNTOLD STORY the single worst Xmas film ever made. This 2010 “updating” of the classic ballet includes hip-hop orchestrations of Tchaikovsky, toy-destroying rats strutting in Nazi-esque uniforms and Nathan Lane camping it up as Albert Einstein. Tonight we Fasterpiece it, and we’ll sit down with Alonso to hear his latest thoughts on the film.

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We love this guy! No matter what mood you’re in, Dom DeLuise can wrangle a smile from your face.  Burt Reynolds said it best: “Dom always made you feel better when he was around, and there will never be another like him." DeLuise worked tirelessly in all corners of showbiz from the ‘50s through the ‘00s.  Tonight we serve up some of our favorite talk show appearances of his (every one a mirthfest), along with some sketch comedy bits.

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LIVE EVENT @ VIDIOTS IN EAGLE ROCK - GET TIX HERE

Museum of Home Video is a found footage livestream for stoners, seekers, archivists, and drinkers. Each week at museumofhomevideo.com, VJ Bret Berg mixes the best and wildest bits of late-night talk, game shows, local programming, movie wowzers, and commercial breaks. Like Weird Al’s UHF with a college radio vibe, the site’s other dazing and amazing streams include Musicvideodrome and the vintage kid media-themed Playtime.

This month, the Museum team brings us A HOLLY JOLLY DOLLYTHON—a video mish-mash dance extravaganza, handcrafted with love by Musicvideodrome host IVOR. We’ll all be hootin’ and hollerin’ at this golly-gosh good-time get-together, packed with heartwarming and toe-tappin’ Dolly music videos, concert footage, TV rarities, and even a live performance by the Musicvideodrome Dancers! We’ll cap off the night with a karaoke hang/open house as we toast the holidays, Vidiots-style.

Plus: Greatest hits from VJ Bret Berg’s weekly Museum livestream, and a raise-the-roof finale from “Musicvideodrome” host IVOR.

TIX AVAILABLE NOW: Monday, DECEMBER 16 at 7:30pm

We were greatly relieved to discover that, after diving into Season 1 of Kids In The Hall, the Kids really did have a higher batting average than the other sketch shows of their era. So we quickly made the follow-up: a feature-length version of our Season 2 faves. Chicken Lady, Daddy Drank, Francesca Fiore and Bruno Puntz Jones, Buddy Cole, Simon & Hecubus, Monsieur Heavyfoot, and The Night of the Cow are but a few of the amazing highlights.

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Shirley MacLaine, Joan Collins, Debbie Reynolds, and Liz Taylor all in one movie, co-written by Carrie Fisher?!  This 2001 TV movie jam from ABC smooshes these magnificent screen divas together for a silly romp that riffs on their checkered Hollywood personas. WEEKEND AT BERNIE’S star Jonathan Silverman is in the mix too, wrangling their epic sessions of ripping each other to shreds while they also hang out and have a good time.

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Local commercials are one of our favorite found footage vibes ever. Tonight it’s another sizable block of charming thirty-second glimpses into the Midwest of the Great White North. You’ll see curling, drinking, advanced computing, low-budget mascots, indulgent desserts, traffic-jam chaos, documentaries in movie theaters, rattan furniture, and other hallmarks of post-modern Canadiana.

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A charmer, an actress and a media-savvy legend of a certain kind, Zsa Zsa Gabor was more complicated than her reputation suggests. This intense one-on-one with Phil Donahue took place while her infamous '89 Beverly Hills trial (over slapping a cop during a traffic stop) was still in progress. Here, Zsa Zsa plays to the rafters, making a solid case for police reform while also steamrolling like a true narcissist.  What a performance!

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Unbelievably, it’s once again time for IVOR and Jenny’s THIRD Annual Double Birthday Extravaganza! Stop by and hang with these zany kids and their big, steamy pile of music video madness…and of course: CAKE.

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MUSICVIDEODROME: A joyous and frenetic stumble through the archives of music television, coming at you monthly! Forgotten live performances, modern and classic music videos, outrageous interviews & more. Hosted by the International Voice of Reason.

About IVOR: IVOR, a 20-year veteran of weirdo free-form radio, is survived by his two tuxedo cats and a giant pile of rug yarn.

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It’s about time we tackled this, both Fasterpiece’d and with commercial breaks. The epochally banal ’78 variety special brings together TV stalwarts Harvey Korman(!), Art Carney(!!), and Bea Arthur(!!!!) with a whole family of grunting Wookies, the OG cast STAR WARS, a few musical numbers and a buckshot of comedy bits. It’s shot on video like a soap opera and ends up feeling like a transmission from Mars…or daytime programming on VIDEODROME’s Channel 83.

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We’re finally airing the horror-inflected piece we’ve toured across the country at IRL shows! Our modern surveillance state is built one doorbell cam at a time. Nearly one in four U.S. homes is decked out with them; they’re literally everywhere. Thus the subculture of viral doorbell cam mixtapes was born, highlighting an ocean of creepy human behavior befitting a slasher film. In “Ring, Ring”, you’ll see the very best of porch thieves, patio punks, door-to-door doorbell lickers, local yokels flipping birds, scared-stiff missionaries, wasted grandmas, killer klowns, Karen-style freakouts, armed assailants, autonomous lawnmowers, pyrotechnic explosions, rainy day weirdos and the pure soulless eyes of chaos.

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Spooky-ookie-ookie Halloween Extravaganza! The dancers have tricks and/or treats! Celebrating four years of navigating this living nightmare together!
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MUSICVIDEODROME: A joyous and frenetic stumble through the archives of music television, coming at you monthly! Forgotten live performances, modern and classic music videos, outrageous interviews & more. Hosted by the International Voice of Reason.

About IVOR: IVOR, a 20-year veteran of weirdo free-form radio, is survived by his two tuxedo cats and a giant pile of rug yarn.

Catch up on past episodes of Musicvideodrome on our Patreon.

What if you could binge-watch a festival’s worth of wild horror movies all at once? Across two hours, we serve up 10 tightly-edited movie cutdowns sautéed and shattered ’til only the spicy parts remain. Highlights include Lou Diamond Phillips battling Satan in THE FIRST POWER and Julie Delpy’s CGI lycanthrope in AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN PARIS. 

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Amusement Park Babylon! Marketing guru Ed Dreisdadt was on the team that grew Anheuser-Busch’s network of theme parks and water parks to new heights in the Nineties. Peek behind the curtain of this empire as Ed walks us through our found footage stash of internal marketing videos, which are often silly and satirical.

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We’ve found it…we’ve found the loosest, most useless game show ever created. This pilot for the unsold 1979 show “Mouth Trap” looks like it was made for $20 and a sandwich. Celeb panelists like JM J. Bullock do word-association games with future “Double Dare” host Marc Summers as a contestant. The bonus round is made up of Cronenberg-ian 19th-century artifacts. The host looks like he doesn’t want to be there. This shit rocks!

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A classic example of Gilbert Gottfried in sublime overdrive. Here he lays waste to the totally square approach of “Later with Bob Costas” guest host Chris Connelly (yup, formerly from MTV News)...talking not just over him but up, down ,and all around him. Filmed during the peak of Gilbert’s fame from “Aladdin” at the dawn of the Bill Clinton era.

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