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OK guys, I know this is not the sort of video you were expecting and it's indeed not something I usually do on this channel, however I found something rather interesting when I was transferring some family VHS tapes to digital and thought I'd share it with you. Among them, there are a few tapes with Tom and Jerry cartoons on them, so once I was done recording all the important ones, I popped those in too just for the amusement factor. These exist because when I was around 4-5 years old, my folks would sometimes record cartoons off Cartoon Network onto VHS tape for me, particularly when there was a Tom and Jerry marathon going on, which is what these are. As far as I can tell, they must have just hit record on the VCR and let it run until the tape reached the end - they didn't bother to actually watch what was being recorded and pause the tape during commercial breaks. As such, commercials and bumpers that occasionally came on also ended up on the tape, which is what got my interest. It may may not sound like the most interesting topic out there, until out of curiosity I thought I'd try to find some of these commercials online. I was hoping I'd find them in better quality somewhere and I was curious to read through the comments and see how other people my age react to seeing some of these after 20 or more years, especially since sometimes you see some very interesting comments from people who actually took part in making the commercial or the soundtracks or played some part in it (or at least claim so). It's those comments I look froward to the most. After trying my best, my searches turned out empty though ! I was expecting to at least come across some forums where people reference some of these, but nothing relevant ever turned up. This may very well be the first time someone has posted these commercials anywhere on the internet, which is pretty exciting to be honest - it's like a time capsule. Heck, unless someone can prove me otherwise, based on what I could find (or rather *couldn't* find) these may be the last recordings of these ads in existence. Maybe someone recognizes some of these, if they happened to show up in the area you live in. They probably differed in various parts of the world and perhaps even from one network provider to another. These tapes are now over 20 years old, so the video quality isn't the best, as you'd expect, but it's good enough. The audio survived really well though.

This particular batch was probably taped somewhere around Christmas, given the "New Year's Toon Resolution" segment (featuring Morocco Mole from Secret Squirrel), as well as the Christmas theme in the commercials for Dexter's Laboratory and Cow and Chicken towards the end. I find the "New Year's Toon Resolution" bit the most interesting of the bunch. Although I could find absolutely nothing about it, from what I can assume, the segment featured a different cartoon character each time it came on. In this case it's Morocco Mole, but I found a couple with Cow and Chicken and the Red Guy at different points on the tape and on 2 other tapes. Sadly, there's one with the Red Guy where the recording suddenly stops before we get the chance to hear what he has to say - we only see Red introducing himself by saying "HELOOOO ! It's me with the bare derrière" before the video cuts out (how ironic), however that's clearly a different speech than the one he gives in another "Toon Resolution" which was fortunately captured whole, so we can assume there were probably a couple of different "resolutions" for each character. I'd be great if others found this sort of stuff interesting and tried to source some of these old bumpers and commercials so we may all relieve some good memories in VHS quality ! Hope you enjoy ! Cheers.