Earliest VHS memories

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To kick things off, what's the one tape you remember watching as much as possible when you were a kid? I'd have to say mine was probably The Cat in the Hat with Mike Myers -- unlike most people I love the hell out of that movie, it's hilarious and the special effects are insanely good -- admittedly a few of the dirtier jokes were unnecessary, but that doesn't dampen things. I watched it, but my dad hated it -- not because of the critical response, but because everyone was screaming all the time in the film.

What're your "kid plays it every day and drives the parents nuts" tapes?

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As a kid I was really into trains and my parents got me a collection called america's railroads which is nothing but footage and commentary about old train's and I would watch that nonstop and everyone else found it extremely boring lol.

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As a kid, Mostly Disney's The Lion King. I also have a lot of recorded vhs tapes that I need them to convert to DVD.

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mine was watching a blue's clues tape that i'm surprised i didn't break from playing too much LOL

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I hear that. I had Blues Clues tapes too as a kid, I watched those all the time. I think watching them all the time is what gave me a fear of the Paramount "Feature Presentation" logo for years after -- I thought, between the bombastic music and the words zooming into the screen, that the logo would come out of the screen and eat me.

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I had a massive collection of Disney VHS tapes as a kid (still do in a box somewhere) and used to watch them every night before bed.

One tape in that was particularly loved wasn't even Disney though, it was a little heard of film called "The Elmchanted Forest" It was one of the ones I watched the most. I remember particular scenes, especially at the beginning that were full of big grey bars of static floating down the screen. I grew out of its target audience at just the right time cause it was definitely on the way out!

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yoo, I had watched a blues clues vhs tapes too! I'm pretty sure my first crush was the nick jr face that would sometimes appear before an episode lmaoo, I also watched the animated Scooby-doo movies a whole bunch, but the movie I used to watch on repeat that annoyed my parents and siblings was actually not a vhs, but the finding nemo dvd XD

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Well, I suppose the earliest memory I have of VHS are all those Blue's Clues episodes that were packaged on those tapes. It's hard for me to remember!

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Scooby Doo: Alien Invaders and tapes with episodes of Dora, The Power Puff Girls, and Courage the Cowardly dog were some of my earliest. Also a tape my mom recorded Anne of Green Gables on for me (or so she thought) but my dad recorded the NBA finals over it lolllll

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lol the live action Cat in a Hat was my no-no movie 😹

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Jurassic park

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omggg probably Little Miss Sunshine xD i don't remember anything from that movie except my mom hating how much i wanted to watch it for some reason

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the 1998 Godzilla movie with Matthew Broderick. i wore out the tape when i was a kid.

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I didn't watch a lot of vhs when i was younger. But i do remember watching a tape of the care bears every time when i went to my aunt. Sadly, they got thrown out before i started my vhs collection :(

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