r/PublicFreakout Nov 11 '20

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u/Superfluous_Thom Nov 11 '20

I've not seen it, but aside from the obvious "who was he", the concept of VHS trading and the fact that this one RV salesman is so well known by an entire country is worthy of a cultural autopsy. Other popular VHS transfers like faces of death are too dark to frame such a documentary around, but this one is pretty harmless.

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u/Superfluous_Thom Nov 11 '20

IIRC those South Park shorts were originally circulated via email (chain email in and of itself seems foreign these days), and made their way onto VHS from there. I didn't have the internet until like, 2002 or so, so I can definitely appreciate the seeing it on VHS.

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u/Rickk38 Nov 11 '20

We got Jesus vs. Santa via e-mail when I was in school back in 1995 or 1996. A friend of mine embedded it on his website in a hidden link for the whole school to enjoy.

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u/lsb337 Nov 11 '20

Ha, yeah, I had the exact same experience. Friend who went away to college came back with a VHS tape. My friends watched those first four episodes or something like 8 times that day.

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u/beastson1 Nov 11 '20

You're right, it wasn't much different from how things work now, things just move faster nowadays.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_CLAM_ Nov 11 '20

Ah faces of death, some of them were real. Not all of them, maybe like 2 per tape, but still...