Rewind This!

If it grabs me then we'll get it.

That's, uh, that's the name of the game.

I don't have any hard, fast rules.

I just kind of... I just kind of look, you know.

Obviously, I'm gonna be looking for some- some trash.

Some cheese.

We're lookin' for Chuck.

We're lookin' for Charles Bronson.

We're lookin' for Dolph Lundgren.

That kind of thing.

Action.

I've seen a lot of... door handles.

They got, uh... doorknobs.

And, uh... lotion.

I- I never expected to see a whole table full of...

lotions and... shave gel.

We've got socks here.

All the socks you could possibly want.

Still waiting on some tapes.

Still hoping for some tapes here.

Doll heads... doll heads.

It's the same old stuff.

I'm surprised to not already have seen Titanic.

That's, like, the most...

most common tape I see.

The two disc.. er... two tape Titanic... um...

Oh, what do you know?

It's the- the two tape Titanic.

I'm gonna have to go with Shakedown.

We're gonna have action.

You can see it right here. There's explosions.

And there's Peter Weller. What else do you need?

A dollar. - A dollar?

We've got five for two.

Got some kids clamshells.

But we also got some other ones we're gonna go through.

No, definitely not.

Clarissa... can't explain that.

The Adventures of Timmy the Tooth

is something very creepy

that I have personal nostalgia for.

It's been a long time.

Thank you. - Thank you.

Something about dental movies,

animated things that they make for- about, uh- dental hygiene,

always seem to be really creepy.

Frank Gorshin is in this movie. What?

Frank Gorshin was, of course, The Riddler,

on the original Batman.

So, I hate to say it, but...

We're gonna have to buy Game Day,

starring Richard Lewis.

Uh, the Gorsh factor just hit.

It just sunk in.

Titanic. Two tape Titanic set, again. Always.

You know you're gonna have to rewind it.

Why not just go ahead and buy a rewinder?

And there was this thing in the corner,

next to the TV, that... my parents said,

"It's for playing and recording movies".

I saw this thing and I thought,

"Well, How does it work? This sounds like heaven".

VHS tapes were so widespread, and they were so common,

and so prevalent... that...

I think for most people...

they were just sort of part of the everyday, you know,

background of your life, growing up.

Or, if you were an adult during that time frame,

they're just something that you had.

It wasn't until a little, you know,

maybe by '84 or 5,

where everybody and their mother had the machine.

Because we'd had just enough Christmases

to get the machines in everybody's home.

Videocassette got me, you know, hooked on movies.

I loved going to movies as a kid,

but the VHS tapes,

bringing those movies home,

I could watch them any time I wanted.

Getting us all together to go to the theater was a big deal,

and it didn't happen very often.

we had to get there, pay, get popcorn, all that.

So, home video was the standard for me.

They opened, in our neighborhood,

this, uh, video store.

And it was called Pop N' Go.

And my mom is from Mexico,

and she would call it "Po-Ping-O".

So she would alway say, "Oh, Let's go to Po-Ping-O."

And the popcorn was so good.

I remember going,

and the giant, like, cardboard cut-outs

of, like, movies coming soon.

And that's the first time I ever saw The Toxic Avenger ,

in the giant cut-out.

And I was a little kid, and I was like,

"I've gotta watch this."

Back then it was huge.

It was like the Friday night thing to do.

And it was, you know, I mean,

you really took your time thinking

'cause you- it was $29 to join.

You know, so it wasn't free to join.

So I'd spend my Saturdays, get on my little bicycle,

my Ninja Turtles bicycle,

and go from one store to the next,

like, looking for this title. Whatever it might be.

And I remember specifically,

I really wanted to see Basket Case.

And none of the video stores had it.

And so, for like, months, I would go to every one,

and be like, "Did you's guys get Basket Case yet?

I wanna see Basket Case."

I saw Apocalypse Now is out,

and I went "Oh, I need that."

And then I saw Blood Feast was out.

And I went, "Oh my God, I need that."

And I saw Beyond the Valley of the Dolls was out.

"Oh my God, I need that."

So, I bought my first Betamax,

you know, with the top loader,

with the big piano keys,

and the remote was attached to a wire.

You know, so it really wasn't even a remote.

Well, video took cinema out of the movie theater.

So, you know, it takes a lot of money

to build a movie theater.

It takes a lot of seats.

You put the seats in, you have to get all the people

to sit in the seats to make it profitable.

And so I think, If you- If you say worldwide,

yeah, I think it was kind of like a democratization.

It was a form of wider exposure.

It's Friday night, you're with your friends,

you're having a sleepover, you're at the video store.

You wanna make each other laugh

by finding the dumbest thing possible.

I think that was a huge, huge part of it, really.

Sitting around with your friends, laughing,

eating pizza...

What is better than that?

It was a very special time,

where you could, all of a sudden,

be introduced to all of this stuff that never...

never would have been available.

Never would have shown on TV.

Um, never would have been in your movie theater.

Certainly in a place like Nottingham,

which is kind of a small city in England.

I grew up on 42nd Street.

So I had access to movies...

the average person normally wouldn't have, unless,

I guess, you lived next door

to a drive-in or something.

So I loved the fact that I was seeing crap

that no one had even heard of.

What surprised me was how much of that crap

came out on VHS.

I'm very proud to say that I have 82 movies

that start with "dead", "death" and "deadly".

82. So, I've really made it.

I'm really a great success in life.

Above you can see that I have my big boxes,

my oversize clamshells. Things like that.

Um... I have things alphabetical,

to keep things simple.

The way I've done it, is color.

Because to me it looks the most aesthetically pleasing.

I just tried doing it in a Roy G Biv kind of way.

And just came all the way down to black and white.

I also do my books that way.

And for me it's a system that totally works.

You can ask me any video and I can be like,

"Okay, that one's green." and pick it out.

And it's really easy for me,

and I think it looks really nice.

This is one of my all time favorites, though.

Corey Haim: Me, Myself and I.

So good.

I know Corey passed, ya know. And I love Corey.

I'm not really even making fun of him,

but this is the awesomest thing ever.

The direction in my life right now

I guess proceed with, um... in the business, is...

gradually, um, from being the little boy,

from a younger, you know, brother,

trying to get to be the older brother,

or the only brother.

I don't know if this is the pride of my collection.

This is the tape that I've

gotten the most fun out of recently.

It's called Bubba Until it Hurts.

"It's for men and women...

It's not just another pretty workout."

3, and 4, and 5, and 6, and...

"Unlike many exercise programs, Bubba Until it Hurts

utilizes a minimum of jumping."

"The lack of jumping up and down

makes this program ideal for apartment house dwellers."

It's just like, why would you put that on your VHS?