Season 5

01 How I Spent My Summer III Episode 17th July 2016 A little success, a little failure, a little intrigue, a little frustration. In other words, your standard between-season break for Ben. 02 Record Ripoffs Vol. 6 (98% 70's-free!) Episode 221st July 2016 …dragging the Record Ripoff concept kicking and screaming out of the 70’s. What the hell was I thinking?!? 03 Home Shopping Channels Episode 34th August 2016 Have your credit cards handy because we're about to launch our own Home-Shopping-type channel! What could possibly go wrong? 04 LaserKaraoke Vol. 4 (+ VHS Karaoke Vol. 1) Episode 418th August 2016 Crank it up and sing along! The madness will naturally follow. 05 Ben's Random Audiocassette Haul Episode 51st September 2016 Oddity Archive®: Now in ULTRA lo-fi! 06 Talking House Transmitter Redux (or, Part 15 Microbroadcasting: The Final Chapter?) Episode 615th September 2016 Oddity Archive: Your home for absurd, costly and borderline-useless “broadcast” experiments since 2015! 07 The Official Oddity Archive Guide To Retro A/V Episode 729th September 2016 …because I haven’t REALLY opened myself up to mass criticism for a long time now. 08 Betamax Episode 813th October 2016 The Archive takes it to the max--the Betamax, that is. 09 Conelrad (Halloween Special 2016) Episode 927th October 2016 This is your Civil Defense announcer speaking (er, typing) with a VERY important message. But first, this nearly 27-minute Oddity Archive episode. NOTE: Yes, I’m well aware that the LP’s discussed in the video have nothing to do with the Conelrad broadcasting stuff—just humor me, will ya? 10 VHS Vault Vol. 10 (Learning With The Stars) Episode 1010th November 2016 …because as we all know, learning is most fun with famous people. 11 Top 10 Gaming Turkeys (of the 80's and 90's) Episode 1124th November 2016 Another Thanksgiving episode? Must be time to unload some more proverbial turkeys (now more cynically than ever)! 12 The Official Oddity Archive® Idiot’s Guide To A/V Transfer Episode 128th December 2016 The second (and hopefully final) installment in the Archive’s “Idiot’s Guide” how-to series. 13 Christmas Special 2016 (A Musical Masochist's Christmas) Episode 1322nd December 2016 The most deep-hurtingest Christmas ever! 14 VideoGuide (+2 other early Interactive Program Guides) Episode 145th January 2017 Looking at the Interactive Program Guide’s especially awkward adolescence. 15 Local TV Vol. 5 (More Local Commercials) Episode 1519th January 2017 Bargain Bennie is having his all-time biggest sale on local (and regional) TV commercials! Get ‘em before they’re gone! 16 VHS Vault Vol. 11(D-I-V-O-R-C-E) Episode 162nd February 2017 ‘Tis the season for love—and love gone down the garbage disposer. 17 Random Kiddie Records Episode 1716th February 2017 Crank up the Fisher-Price turntable! 18 Minidisc Episode 182nd March 2017 It’s (100% showtune-free) Musical March (read: Audio Geek March, “Musical March” is just a lot catchier) in Archiveland! Let’s kick it off with a little reevaluation of a format that I’ve bashed in the past. 19 Ben Vs. The Reel-To-Reel Episode 1916th March 2017 Oddity Archive®: Now with new Superlife® coating! 20 DBX Noise Reduction System Episode 2030th March 2017 And welcome to the Oddity Archive…the show that rapidly contracts and expands—but clearly not rapidly enough. 21 Ben's Random Reel-To-Reel Haul Episode 2113th April 2017 A mere 5 years in the making! You’d never know it though… 22 Useless VHS Tapes Episode 2227th April 2017 No, this isn’t about those 100 million (or more) copies of “Titanic” and “Jerry Maguire”—useless as they are. 23 Going (Proto-)Mobile! (Sony Data Discman & Apple Newton) Episode 2311th May 2017 With all this talk of so-called “mobile devices” these days, it seemed worth taking a look into. 24 Video Magazines (or, Oddity Archive: Issue #126) Episode 2425th May 2017 And welcome to the Oddity Ar-ar-ar-ar-ar-arc-arch-(SLAP)-Archive!