Lost Media Wiki

[Drtooth]

That whole story breaks my heart because the concept could have really worked but was clearly put in the most incompetent hands imaginable. Now it's going to take several decades before anyone even tries to do it again, lol.

I'm actually sympathizing with the saboteurs. They could have stopped a terrible project from happening. I have to admit... the concept screams "sub-par Toy Story ripoff" at best. And at worst, it turned into yet another kiddy fart fest. They did have the concept before with Logomania or Logo-a-rama or something (never saw it, don't really care to), and I'm sure that was a great gazillion times better than Foodfight turned out to be.

And the main character is a ripoff of Ace Hart (or Yu, if you're talking about the original special). Design wise especially. And that human cat girl thing would have looked frightful even if they had the highest capacity animation software and worked 30 years on it. I don't see how CGI TV shows, even Jimmy Neutron, looked a million times better than the final project. They might as well have outsourced the thing. Not like there was any quality in the writing to begin with.

Incidentally... I assume this wiki has a page about that terrible Jerry Lewis film about Holocaust Clown.

 

[charlietheowl]

Incidentally... I assume this wiki has a page about that terrible Jerry Lewis film about Holocaust Clown.

Some behind-the-scenes footage from that movie recently surfaced.

Jerry looks especially creepy in clown makeup in front of a dark, empty circus setting.

 

[CensoredAlso]

The other thing that bothers me is that a lot of these missing projects give off a really Creepypasta-ish vibe.

That's actually kinda why I like it, I just have these disturbing images of old reels of infamous episodes and films gathering dust after falling behind a shelf for 30 years or something, neglected and forgotten. Kind of like that Paul McCartney song about the junk shop:

"'Buy! Buy!' says the sign in the shop window. 'Why?...Why?' says the junk in the yard..."

 

[minor muppetz]

I've been on the Lost Media Wiki a few times, mainly to look at the page for the rarely-seen Sesame Street animation "Crack Master". I also saw that there's a page for episode 847, the one with the Wicked Witch. I understand why that one would get a page over others, but at the same time, hundreds of Sesame Street episodes from 1969-1991 could qualify for the lost media wiki.

I wonder if there's a page for the "Snuffy's Parents Get a Divorce" episode. Or Jim Henson's "Cinderella" pilot from 1965, which was lost until 2012 (and the announcement that The Jim Henson Company located a copy was made a few months ago). I also wonder if there's a page for the pilot version of The Muppet Show with Connie Stevens.

I was looking at the page for the last volume of The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald. I've never seen any volumes of the series, never been interested in seeing them, and yet I hope that the last episode surfaces somewhere. It's weird that the last video was only sold online, I wonder why McDonald's never sold it in the restaurant.

Does the wiki have pages for things that were lost and then found (say, they were lost when the pages were started, then were found and the info was added to the pages)?

 

[mr3urious]

They did have the concept before with Logomania or Logo-a-rama or something (never saw it, don't really care to), and I'm sure that was a great gazillion times better than Foodfight turned out to be.

For a film made up entirely of product placement, Logorama was pretty good. It also helped that it was a short film at only 16 minutes.

 

[Drtooth]

Some behind-the-scenes footage from that movie recently surfaced.

Jerry looks especially creepy in clown makeup in front of a dark, empty circus setting.

I tell you. Not only did Animaniacs make fun of this film brutally (the Apocalypse Now parody episode which clearly referenced the film if you look out for it), but the criminally underrated sitcom Yes Dear really brutally made fun of it... with Kevin Smith no less. I like Jerry and all, but I can see why he's bitterly angry about this film. It seems almost like a brilliant parody of Oscar Bait Holocaust movies they crank out, only it was made well before that started being a trend and certainly it was no parody.

That's actually kinda why I like it, I just have these disturbing images of old reels of infamous episodes and films gathering dust after falling behind a shelf for 30 years or something, neglected and forgotten. Kind of like that Paul McCartney song about the junk shop:

It would if some of the projects didn't actually sound like they should have stayed lost. The Aliens cartoon sounded like junk, and was clearly only made to sell toys. And not in the fun Transformers/G.I. Joe way. The jaded Maxie's World/Loonatics Unleashed way.

But then again, some of them sound like solid gold. Too bad they don't have other pages for original drafts of scripts. They have something about the original voice cast recordings of Hoodwinked (yet not Janet Waldo's original recordings for the Jetsons film)... too bad they don't have the original not screwed up script for the sequel mentioned anywhere.

I wonder if there's a page for the "Snuffy's Parents Get a Divorce" episode. Or Jim Henson's "Cinderella" pilot from 1965, which was lost until 2012 (and the announcement that The Jim Henson Company located a copy was made a few months ago). I also wonder if there's a page for the pilot version of The Muppet Show with Connie Stevens.

I swear there was one for the Snuffy's Divorce thing...

 

[Drtooth]

I was going to edit, but I think I should post this separetely...

They do indeed have an article on The Snuffy Divorce episode as well as the Wicked Witch of the West one.

No mention of other lost Sesame Street media (other than the Crack Master segment). But there is one lost Henson project... Monster Safari

They can't even get a project off the ground if they're only the distributor.

 

[charlietheowl]

I tell you. Not only did Animaniacs make fun of this film brutally (the Apocalypse Now parody episode which clearly referenced the film if you look out for it), but the criminally underrated sitcom Yes Dear really brutally made fun of it... with Kevin Smith no less. I like Jerry and all, but I can see why he's bitterly angry about this film. It seems almost like a brilliant parody of Oscar Bait Holocaust movies they crank out, only it was made well before that started being a trend and certainly it was no parody.

If you think about, Life is Beautiful's plot, which tried to make a human comedy out of the Holocaust, isn't that far removed from the plot of The Day The Clown Cried. They're both supposed to be about characters growing and making sacrifices in tough situations. However, I think the biggest problem with Jerry Lewis' movie was that it was directed by and starring Jerry Lewis.

 

[CensoredAlso]

It would if some of the projects didn't actually sound like they should have stayed lost.

Well that's always the way. The mystery is more fascinating than the solution.

 

[Drtooth]

If you think about, Life is Beautiful's plot, which tried to make a human comedy out of the Holocaust, isn't that far removed from the plot of The Day The Clown Cried. They're both supposed to be about characters growing and making sacrifices in tough situations. However, I think the biggest problem with Jerry Lewis' movie was that it was directed by and starring Jerry Lewis.

Life is Beautiful was a little less... well... hamfisted than what has been said about Lewis's film. It happened con-current to the Holocaust, there were some great jokes and a general lightness that paid off in a very dramatic way when the film got dark and directly involved the Holocaust. It was handled in a very well done manner that keeps it from being melodramatic. Lewis's film, however, sounds like something between cry porn, a Creepypasta, and a vanity project. It sounds both horrifyingly bad and outright horrifying (not in the intended way, either).