What are your missing Holy Grails of lost stuff?

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Movies you can't find, television shows, music, old sneakers brands or designs you loved. Toys maybe. Animu.
This thread is for something you have in the back of your memory that you haven't been able to find even in the age of the interwebs. Maybe someone can help you remember it or find it.
 
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I've tried to find clips of that old TV show Round House to post examples of the Dad's motorized armchair with both a TV and a grill built into it, but there are none to be found on YT.

I'm sure there's much more that I can't think of right now.
 
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The Legend of Calamity Jane famously has never received any sort of release whatsoever outside of its short TV run and now only exists as shitty transfers of shitty VHS recordings uploaded to Youtube. Even then, it's incomplete. To the best of my knowledge, several episodes are completely gone.

This all happened because it got ganked from TV due to hover mothers freaking out over a cartoon with guns, coupled with copyright issues afterwards because it was a collaborative effort between two studios from different countries.
 
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I remember watching some stop-motion animated short about 4 (or 5) aliens in space living together, and the episode was about what to do when someone knocks over your glass of milk (or something else?)
I watched it on a VHS tape many years ago and I don't know if I still have it
 
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I would really love to be able to watch every episode of X-Play.

You can find plenty of clips and even some full episodes online, but it's by no means a complete archive, there's tons of stuff I remember that I've not been able to find online, I can't even find the first episode.

What really sucks is for the 1000th episode they had a marathon of best of episodes, including the first episode, that I had saved on a DVR... that I was later forced to turn in when I switched to a different cable provider.

I don't know how or if I could have transferred the data from that DVR but I really wish I had been able to.

X-Play is one of the peak nostalgic things from my teenage years, it would be incredible to watch all the episodes I saw again.
 
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I have a few.
The rest of the live action Laughing Salesman show seems to be lost, I think only two have been found. I really like both anime, and just wonder what the live action was like.
There was also this guy on YouTube named LolItsThad. He was just a guy who would talk over FPS game footage about how much he fucks and was just generally a spaz. I don’t know what happened, but all his stuff’s gone.
 
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There was a web 1.0 website that recounted the adventures of the worst grandpa in the world and his hapless grandson. It was something like "Granpa Walter" or "Walter's Grandpa". Probably the second one, I think the kid's name was Walter. I used to laugh my ass off. It probably wouldn't be nearly as funny to reread.
 
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The English dub of The Little Twins. Loved this show as a kid when it briefly aired in the 90's, and I'd love to revisit it, as it makes me feel deeply nostalgic.

However, only 4 English episodes were ever released to home video, and no one seems to have any surviving TV recordings of those that didn't see a home vid release.

Japanese releases of the show are also incredibly rare, as well as very expensive (with tapes costing around 150$ a pop) so it's not like I can watch it in Japanese either. :'(
 
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Three things:
1 - There was an old rapper who did some rap in the 80s like "six minutes of funk" or some such. Very famous. I should have it in my stash. That's actually not the song I'm looking for. A rival rap group got angry at this guy and made a six mines rap tearing him to shreds making fun of his funky sneakers and pretty much everything about him. Haven't heard it in decades.
2 - Looking for an old 80s / 90s movie where a guy I believe is going to get married soon or something, and goes to an expensive car dealership to buy a really expensive car, like a Lambo or something. Some short haired blond chick works at the dealer and takes a liking to him and antics ensue. Somewhere in the movie is a scene where the guy is at a mexican food stand and orders burritos or some such. After eating he asks how much he owes by saying, "What's the damaged?" The mexican guy answers, "Your colon." ... I want to see that again.
3 - Old late 80s / 90s martial arts flick. Young guy who MIGHT be French moves to a barrio. Mexicans everywhere and other people dealing with a nasty mexican street gang. Eventually it ends up just being him and an old war veteran I believe in a wheelchair with the veteran armed with an old shotgun as the gang members surround the house to get them. I would swear the old man in the wheelchair was a famous character actor but I haven't been able to find any proof the movie existed.

Both movies 2 and 3 are before 1995, I know for sure.
 
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Callan.

A great, very gritty and grounded, British spy TV series starring Edward Woodward. It ran for four seasons but sadly many episodes from the first two seasons are lost, and the ones that survived aren't in the best of quality. The only real surviving info on the lost episodes is what people remember of them back when they were broadcast in 1967 and '69.
 
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There was a collection of screenshots from 4chan where every reply was a cartoon green ball getting closer and closer to the screen and the poster increasingly freaking out about it. It probably wasn't as funny as I remember it but it's been bothering me for years that I could never find it again. This was at least a decade ago so I think it qualifies.
 
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Some PC action RPG from the early 2000s. I can't even remember the name of it, it played like Diablo but set in a sort of Feudalist Japan/Wuxia Chinese style. Have a lot of good memories bonding with my little brother during that time playing it and it being the first PC game I introduced him to that he really got into.

I'd like a complete collection of Joe Bob Briggs Monstervision as well. Used to stay up late watching that in the 90s, and it introduced me to a lot of old horror flicks and weird B movies. Pirate Bay has three separate collections you can download, and they're pretty decent, but nowhere near complete.
 
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There was a live action show on Noggin that I watched as a kid that I cannot remember for the life of me now.

There's an SNES game where the main character dies and gets resurrected by a fox in the opening that I can't remember either.

And finally there's some Halloween Oriential Trading magazines that I liked looking at as a kid. (Mainly the pics of candy.)
 
The English dub of Minky Momo, AKA Magical Princess Gigi.

For everyone who doesn't know, Minky Momo is an insanely influential magical girl anime that's the reason "getting hit by a truck" is a cliche in anime, along with tons of the tropes you may have thought originated with Sailor Moon. When the original series got cancelled, the creator had the main character, a little girl, get hit by a truck and fucking die for real. This was a show that children watched. It was also extremely popular, so lots of kids saw this.

Aside from a small handful of episodes online, the English dub is completely unavailable due to antics by, shock of shocks, Harmony Gold, who produced it. To make the story even more insane, some random company put the whole English dub for sale on Amazon, then pulled it very quickly, seemingly before anyone managed to actually buy it.
 
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