“There is no easter bunny, there is no tooth fairy, AND THERE IS NO SLAMFEST 99!!” seriously though i do hope you find it

I'm still crossing my fingers for Me and My Friends. I mean, there must be some hope left, right?

I used to LOVE The Backyardigans as a young lad, I remember watching it on my parents TV all the time back then and my favorite character was Pablo the penguin. Sucks that the pilot probably won't be released but at least we know it still exists.

Slamfest and me and my friends are so fucking tragic.

It's sad that unfortunately lost media like that are unlikely to get released, stuff like this is unlikely to be found. Either due to any leads reaching their end when you can't find anymore of them, or due to people thinking it's a lost cause when people just don't care about it anymore. It came and went, and no one had the hindsight to preserve this until it was too late.

It would be a colossal DISASTER if the Super Why! Pilot or Me and My Friends Pilot NEVER resurfaced in full!

For the cat animation, I don't think it's a segment, but rather a bumper. You see back in the early 2010s when the internet was starting off cats were EVERYWHERE, an dot me it makes sense that a kids network would do something similar to Dog with a blog where they used effects to make the lips move and have someone narrate them Honestly I can't decide if it was either Disney Channel or Cartoon Network, I know Nick could've done something like this but part of me slightly doubts it was a thing on their channel. I think if it was a bumper, then sadly it might be lost to time unless someone was recording that day and kept it on them for one reason or another, again, I highly doubt that the cat thing will be found

Being a lost media enthusiast has its struggles... On one hand, you want to find these pieces of lost media and have them properly archived but on the other, you sometimes just have to accept the fact that some pieces of media will never be found no matter how hard you try. I have personal journeys in involving finding and archiving personal pieces of lost media and many of them would unfortunately hit dead ends. However, sometimes by sheer luck, I do find said pieces of media and the joy in me re-discovering it again is something only people in the lost community can relate to. One such example is of a now lost spanish fandub of an anime I once stumbled upon years ago. I almost thought that I have exausted all the possible leads I could find but lo and behold, by just using a different browser and the wayback machine, I was lucky to have downloaded archived copies of this lost fandub and I couldn't have felt any happier. Being a lost media enthusiast is a double edged sword, but we as a community shouldn't loose sight of our past victories :3

Me & My Friends is my personal holy grail of lost media I'm so bummed that it's hit such a dead end, then again that just makes me want it found more

I STILL HAVE HOPE FOR ME AND MY FRIENDS

Man, if Me and My Friends would've gotten released at the end of that year, 2022 would've been the best year in lost media ever. I mean, last year was already insane, but that would've definitely been the cherry on top. It really sucks what happened. I get the whole Sesame Street leaking situation and how it was hugely frowed upon since it was basically in government archives, but this based on a show that's ended basically 13 years ago. At that point Nick shouldn't be as concerned with that property since the show is so old.

Wow, the me and my friends tape being found but then never being uploaded is soooo frustrating. I understand why, but it’s still sad. It’s like all of these N64 Protos that keep being shown off on Twitter recently. The legal issues behind some of these things are such a drag.

I'm glad they went with the CGI approach for Me and My friends, the costumes look so freaking creepy man, uncanny valley vibes

Maybe the real slamfest are the friends we made along the way.

LSSQ has been pumping out these lost media videos like crazy! 3 lost media videos in almost 2 weeks!

Just something for the Sponge bob one. I was stationed in Texas in 2005 and remember this being brought up. There was a group of us on the launch truck heading out to the flightline and just chatting. One of the guys had just come back from leave, and I remember that because he HATED Spongebob. Apparently they went to a game and his kid started calling out that Spongebob was on tv. He told us the best part of his leave was where he had been staying had no cable, so he didn't have to see Spongebob for a while.... Then he shows up at a baseball game. That's all I got. One of those random memories that just popped up hearing about it. I can't even remember who it was. Just that we gave him crap about his leave getting "ruined".

At the risk of saying "well, it's better than nothing," I am grateful that we at least have more photos of Slamfest. It may not sound like much, but it's sure a whole lot more than what we started with. Really is a shame this wasn't a touring promotion. I'm sure every performance would have been unique to an extent, but if it had better press and a bigger presence, there would have been a more likely chance something could have surfaced. The one time promotion kinda doomed this to obscurity.

I wonder if that lost Spongebob Baseball animation is related to a behind the scenes clip I saw once on Nickelodeon back in the day. It showed Tom Kenny recording for Spongebob, singing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame." As far as I knew back then, this wasn't used in any Spongebob episode, nor was it in any advert shown on Nickelodeon, and since then I've always wondering what that recording session was for. If they're related, Nickelodeon definitely had some involvement making the animation, or at least allowed Tom Kenny to record his voice for it, as they've done so in the past with a sketch on SNL. If not, there might be another Spongebob Baseball related lost media animation or advert out there Edit: so the SNL skit was actually not approved by Nick and is actually the reason for Nick restricting Tom from using his Spongebob voice for outsider projects Edit 2: so at least one instance of the "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" recording was used at a Philadelphia Phillies game--no animation, just the song over the loud speakers--which says to me it's not uncommon for Spongebob to be used as a baseball promotion. Though I wonder what purpose would it be to have an official voice recording from Tom Kenny, which is a lot of effort to make and obtain given how protective Nick is of their golden boy, and only use it for one event

There was lost media which I thought was kinda a dead end because I was not able to find anything online, aka the Animal Kaiser OST (2010). It was only now where I found out that the full OST was posted to youtube 6 months ago, and I thought it would never be online because no one was really that interested on it. I didnt make a post on reddit that time about it since i did not have a reddit account, but there was only one post about it 7 months ago about how someone's friend (possibly the guy who uploaded the ost to youtube) found the album. I kinda wanna know more about what happened since I also never looked into the discord. But if something like this is able to be found, then I believe older lost pieces of media can be found as well.

I have a feeling the "Me and my Friends" Pilot was never meant to be seen by the public, like many of these lost pilots. That's just my opinion, though.

The Super Why bit aged amazingly.

Hey I'm from 2 weeks into the future I came 2 say The Super Why Pilot has been found and uploaded

I have a lost media request!! When I was young I remember watching a MTV maybe VH1 special where cereal mascots were shown attending rehab, like the trix rabbit & captain crunch, & I specifically remember captain crunch telling the staff “you can take me away but you can’t turn me soggy” right before they inject him with drugs to fall asleep, I wanna say it aired maybe 2006-2007

Damn I was hoping Me and my friends would've been found, it's such an interesting topic!

Recently the super why pilot was found and it has been uploaded to KZfaq two days ago !

I had a video idea: lost media that’s super close to being found, like we don’t have the full thing yet, but we’ve found so much of the thing it’s almost completely found

the super why pilot being found gives me hope for other pilots like me and my friends being found too, i never thought the super why pilot would see the light of day

I am absolutely obsessed with the original idea of jimmy two shoes and I’m so upset that’s not what we got AAAAAAA

There was one hoarder I saw on a show that had a house full of boxes of recorded television channels. To the point where even if you watched it non-stop there was no way they could have watched everything as we’re talking decades of recording multiple channels every day. I think it was all thrown out, but I couldn’t help but wonder if there was any lost media that by chance happened to be recorded that is now sitting in a landfill somewhere. (And how it could have been gone through without driving someone insane.)

I am quite disappointed by the fact that the search for Slamfest has reached a dead end, but I still have some hope and I know one day it will be found

it's really sad when it happens, i hope slamfest can be found

I think I might've seen that cat news thing that storyboard artist was talking about, as it sounds like the kind of interstitials/bumpers they were airing around that era of the network. It sounds like the kind of wacky, random skit they'd do during that time when Fried Dynamite was their Friday night block. No idea if it was a series of shorts, feel like it'd be more like a random one-off thing.

I feel like I recall someone during harassed during the Me And My Friends search that put a dent in it for awhile, though I could be thinking of something else.

i actually included me and my friends in a project i did for a speech class, and it made everyone curious so i hope one day the world will be spread more 🙏🏻

I think Slamfest is something that will resurface eventually, because it’s already on the track to and by more people being aware everyday, I’m sure someone will come forward with it. Also on the me and friends stuff, yeah it’s definitely being blocked by Nick, I’m Sure if there wouldn’t have been any issue with releasing the tape they had, it would have been up a long time ago.

They found Super Why!! It’s super cute and it’s on KZfaq!!

Maybe the real Me and My were the Friends we made along the way.

I REMEMBER THE CAT SKIT! I don't remember which channel it was on, but I do remember seeing Cat News right before I went to the dentist. Knowing how little I remember, I wouldn't be much of help.

The Super Why pilot has been found!!! I used to love Super Why so this makes me so happy

I just wanna say a pilot that hasn't surfaced that has hit a dead end, is the 1983 "down the mine" thomas the tank engine pilot. I don't see many people talk about outside of the fandom. There is only a bit of footage that made it into the actual aired episode and there are two pictures of the models from the pilot, that being Gordon's model,thomas' model, Clarabel's model and sir topham's model. But that's where the search has been so far. There has not been alot of other info than that.

I think one lost media search that has hit a dead end yet no one talks about is the original unaired 1986 pilot of Power Rangers known as Bio-Man. The closest that it's seen the light of day is a few clips that were on a MMPR pitch promo and two shots of people running away that were shown on the original MMPR pilot episode. Miguel A. Nunez, Jr., an actor who was in the Bio-Man pilot, said he has a copy of it but it's buried in a storage unit. Paul Schrier, the actor who played Bulk in MMPR, said he has seen it but he doesn't have a copy of it. There was a petition to get Saban to release the unaired pilot some years ago but that's just about it.

the spongebob animation piece, could likely be just a custom animation made for the team itself. For example, in Ottawa, one of the baseball teams around mid 2010s would always start their game with a customized clip from King of the Hill to tell the audience to be aware of baseballs flying around.

Looking back at it the me and my friends pilot is so mysterious cuz everyone acts like it’s something that can’t be seen like what are the crew members hiding 😭

Ah the SpongeBob baseball topic, that brings back memories indeed. I remember the contact chain hitting the dead end and then from there it slowly died out. Glad to see you cover it again, I'm unsure if it exists but I will be delighted to see it resurface!

Frisco, Texas is my hometown where I grew up and all I can say is that the Spongebob thing kinda rings some bells. I went to couple games as a kid with my parents, and even went to a game for a class field trip. It seems familiar.

Woohoo! Super Why pilot has been found!

The squidward transformation scene couldn’t have been real for one simple reason, it would’ve made the episode too long. It could have been planned, but it sure as hell didn’t make the cut.

Hey man, glad to see you still making great content. I’ve been around since before 30k and I’ve always enjoyed watching you. Keep up the amazing work and always keep searching!

Searches that I think also hit dead end are actually two. The bubble guppies pilot The teamumizoomi pilot aswell. These pilots have had no new findings in years. I really hope they get found one day. Could you make a video about these pilots one day? Also it’s really sad how the me and my friends pilot could be easily found but we don’t have anything other then pictures and 1 short piece of footage because the person that had the tape had to get permission from his ex boss??? To put it online. And the worst thing is that he didn’t even reply back. Imagine if they said yes but didn’t reply back or just completely forgot. And if the boss said no, WHY?? why do you want to hide it so badly?? What do you get from hiding a pilot from a Tv show that people have been trying to find for YEARS.

Dang man, Me and My Friends is probably one of the few pieces of lost media that I'm really hoping to see get found someday.

Good news! the super why pilot is officially found!

Did anybody think of asking around the wrestling community about Slam Fest 99? Perhaps the people who wore the costumes and did the moves might have a copy of their own for their portfolios.

The Update of Me and My Friends broke my heart so much :(

It's weird that Super Why used to look like a Discovery Kids cartoon (I'm from Mexico and stopmotion cartoons with cute characters were very common in Discovery Kids' early years)

Imagine you made a friend who shares your love for a series you worked on years ago and after 3 months of talking it's made clear they only really wanted the pilot you held on to all this time. I'd be hurt enough that I just wouldn't put the tape up.

Good news: the super why pilot was finally found

Love the videos, man. Keep it up!!!

Based on my own personal searches for lost merchandising and other lost media, I’ve also hit a bit of a dead end, because I don’t know where exactly to look or who to contact. Also, I’ve practically endlessly searched online, hoping to find photos or something, but I’ve only found bread crumbs or things that were not exactly what I was looking for (but close to it). I also tried asking around and I got no response or they didn’t have what I was looking for.

I heard from somewhere that there was also a frog puppet character that may or may not have been in Me and My Friends. Someone said that there were more additional set photos with this frog character hanging out with the meerkats from the pilot. This person in the video said that these pictures weren't allowed to be released. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pq2lhKd0zsfRk2Q.html

aaaa im so happy I can catch yiur stuff early!!!! I used to watch ur stuff all the time then forgot

Who wants to bet that me and my friends will come out online right after this video is uploaded

4:23 I’m glad this aged like milk

SUPER WHY PILOT WAS FINALLY FOUND!!!!!! Please post about this amazing news!

The Cats Telling the News short skits from CN reminds me of Cartoon Planet (slight reboot of the Brak Show). I might be wrong, but I remember that show also having a bunch of random skits in between cartoons

after 2 weeks after this uploaded super why was found

THE SUPER WHY PILOT WAS FOUND

Who's here after the Super Why pilot is found?

I love the super why part and me and my friends, the super why one feels like getting a hair in a hay pile, I have a very lost piece of lost merchandise, the Pop'nstep, The snoopy one, he is pretty much worth a bank. comment if you wanna request anything. ( edit ) well he isn't really a prototype but he can never be found anywhere and mostly are scams, Maybe the real Me And My Friends were the friends we made along the way

The Super Why Pilot has been found👍 Please update this!

I have a 5% feeling the me and my friends film is going to show out of nowhere because that what happens to most intense lost media searches like Cracks, Sesame Street 847, Cry Baby Lane, and Blues Prints

Can't believe the last one is still missing. Could've sworn it was found.

Who’s here after Super Why’s pilot was found… gives me hope for Me and My Friends! :)

My most wanted pieces of lost media that I want to become found are Slamfest, Shrek HP commercial, Blue Prints, Me and My Friends, Mess O Blues, Down the Mine Pilot, The Wiggles Pilot, and Snuffy's Parents Get a Divorce.

the super why part on this video has successfully aged horribly, gg!

Still waiting for the Oswald Osbournes commercial to be found.

Well, the super why pilot just got found, so there’s still hope for the others!

DUDE THE SUPERWHY PILOT HAS BEEN FOUND

I looked into the thread talking about the Baseball video. OP gave a few updates. He posted a picture of him at the game. It was dated June 13. Possibly the game between the Rockhounds vs Rough Riders.

There was a German music show that aired throughout 1969 to 2000. Episodes 2-25 were recorded on shoddy tapes, which resulted in them dissolving and the videos being lost to time forever (with a few select examples). However, numerous people had recordings on many of these lost episodes, allowing for episodes 4-25 to be reconstructed fully! The 17th episode had the first twoish minutes preserved due to a magazine and an award show discussing the show. Episodes 21-25 had an amateur filmmaker recording, with the 21st and 22nd episodes being of the afternoon test run, and the 23rd to 25th the live show itself! The 2nd episode exists online thanks to only **one** recording, resulting in one of the songs and the moderation of the presenter becoming lost to time. As for the 3rd episode, it has no known recordings to this day. Pictures of the broadcast exist, but it’s likely the episode has been lost forever. This one is especially tragic since it had one of the last live performances of a singer (Alexandra) who would pass away from a car accident only a few months after the episode’s airing. The show itself was unique for numerous reasons, which has made it have a somewhat notable fanbase years after its cancellation. The reconstructed episodes exist on KZfaq (the channel “lautfm HITPARADIO), but the third episode is expectedly missing. I don’t expect much to come from this, but I reckon it’s worth a shot

Damn uncle gus is super stylish, should have been a cartoon. Got that oliver the talking dog vibes

I remember watching the animated version of backyardigans (me and my friends). I had a bunch of DVDs I would play in my grandmother’s car with those little tvs that hung on the back of the seat. Edit: I also remember super y. Oh the nostalgia is getting to me 😭

Hasn't the SuperWhy pilot found? I thought I had found it on KZfaq a few days ago.

This reminds me of what happened to my lost media search. Ended up running into a deadlock with two different production companies and the only other people I could potentially contact are major movie stars who don't have Twitter DMS open

I’ve already lost faith in finding the Super Smash video. And if we’re being honest, so have you.

Great video as always

Another piece of lost media I think not a lot of people have covered was the Sheriff Callie's Wild West pilot, which had been unaired, and the only mention of it was on some blog post I believe. It also wasn't called Sheriff Callie's anything; It was called Oki's Oasis back then.

4:23 well this aged poorly

i remember your now deleted me and my friends was the first video of yours i ever watched, and i was always so interested on how mysterious it was. It sucks to see how difficult and infuriating the search has become

I think one that everyone used to be obsessed with before people inevitably gave up on it was Pink Morning Cartoon (PMC)

19:40 I agree, ascertaining the current status of the copyright and seeking permission would be the most likely reason for checking in with their former boss.

Well if Me and My Friends was a pilot, there must have been editors. Perhaps you could reach out to anybody who may have worked at the Nickelodeon place where it was worked on in 1998 and especially on the pilot, like editors.

I think Nickelodeon just doesn’t want to share the MAMF pilot I remember a similar thing happened with the blues clues pilot. People were searching for it and then during blues clue’s anniversary they tweeted screenshots of the pilot proving they have it. When people asked if they could upload the pilot they either didn’t respond or straight up said no I don’t remember. The only entires I think we won’t find (or at least have a very hard time) is the SpongeBob or the CN cats one as we don’t even have any pictures. People have also suggested the cats one is a bumper if that’s true it’ll probably be impossible to find

2 weeks later the super why pilot was found

seeing me and my friends as the thumbnail devestated me

the situation with me and my friends is so irritating, just knowing that someone has it and yet they're unable to give it out for one reason or another

When Tasha says why do I had the urge to pee

Me and My Friends will be found one day, it may take years, but the fact that we know it exists at all is all the promise I need

I copy paste them repeated. Also, that so sad and messed up. Let's hope her songs isn't too late of Lorie Salvatera's Album ( It's a Groove Thing )... 😔 The Lost songs pieces of Lorie Salvatera. Hi L Super Sonic Q, I have been seeing your videos through out a year. I first remember your video when you talked about a lost plush toys Cartoon Network characters that haven't been released in the USA, I just hoping that all of the plush toy characters, if Cartoon Network announce these products, will be released real soon, I just really really wanted these each characters so BAD. Also, there was something I want to tell you that there was a lost album or each songs that have been forgotten. There was this album that called "It's a Groove Thing" to a young star singer named Lorie Salvatera, and I believe it was released in Hawaii or USA year 1996, but all I know that I found it was only released in the 90s? There were four songs that are found on KZfaq and I love listening to them so much (love/like). One of my favorite song that touches me deeply was a wonderful music, and I listen to it for a very first time in 6 weeks, here the name of the song " I'll always be your friend " it really touches my heart listening to her song and her voice was so beautiful, very soft and smooth jam. I just don't really know why she hasn't been released so soon when it haven't been public and other social network / media, like it almost been forgotten. There's one thing that's been forgotten was 7 different songs that haven't been in public, those are the songs I have never been listen to and it's not on KZfaq, I'm hoping each & everyone must have the album with them. It's not very easy to find them and I try. So I was hoping if you could please maybe help do a little research, explain about what happened, and find them, that would be very helpful and get a chance to listen to these more songs of Lorie Salvatera, including everyone who has one, that would be great/awsome (This needs to be heard), but if you can't, I'm very appreciated that you try and did your best to find. I hope your read my comments very well ( sorry I write too much and slow, due to a learning disability, hope you understand ). All my best and Thank you for sharing of your videos of the lost media. 😊 Here is the rest of the list of Lorie Salvatera songs ( If you haven't heard these music, hope you guys will enjoy it ) : 4 Found: "I'll Always be your Friend", "Music and Me", "143 means I Love You", & "Love Is". 💖🎶😊🌈 7 Lost: "Ones Upon a Kiss", "If We Try", "All Coast Flava", "Everybody, get on up and Dance", "It's a Groove Thing", "Could this be Love", & the second final one is "I'll always be your Friend ( with Reprise )". 😔😭

More lost media that is lost forever please!

Could the cats with ties thing been made by Aaron Benitez from Aaron's Animals? He's worked with lots of companies and mainly does stuff with cats.