I remember my sister accidentally ruined my family's portable DVD player by shoving french fries in it. She said she wanted to watch a french fry movie.

Kids these days will never know the extreme irritation of falling asleep to a movie and being woken up at 3am by the obnoxious looping DVD menu audio that was for some reason much louder than the movie was

Disney used to have AMAZING DVD games in my childhood, from going on a Virtual Safari with Timon and Pumbaa, taking a tour around Genie’s lamp (with or without Iago), to watching the ENTIRE Lion King 1 1/2 movie to find all 20 hidden mickeys! No wonder there were second discs for those awesome games!

i was OBSESSED with the animation errors and behind the scenes on DVDs, epically the ones from Shrek and Madagascar. they were equally terrifying and entertaining and i still look them up online every once in a while to watch again :)

I was like “gurl why is this person explaining a DVD menu” and then I remembered that some people have maybe never seen one. Terrifying.

Not only are menus lost, so are bonus features. Remember when they would have deleted scenes, production footage, cast interviews, and sometimes point and click games?

The DVD menu of the second season of Buffy takes you through a graveyard and a mausoleum while THE most eerie music plays in the background... It left a lasting impression on me to the point where I was scared the TV would accidentally turn on at night and start playing it...

Harold and Kumar go to White Castle is one of my favorite menus. The actors filmed themselves sitting in a car complaining about why the viewer isn't hitting the play button. It goes on for a few minutes and it's glorious.

I miss DVD menus. They are so much better than those stock bland Blu ray menus.

The best part of DVD menus is accidentally hitting the wrong arrow and finding a hidden menu option for a secret video or deleted scene

Eddie Murphy's "The Haunted Mansion" had a legitimately terrifying bonus feature where you'd tour the mansion. The tour was a silent first person POV walkthrough of certain rooms in the mansion and the slow movement of the camera quietly moving through these eerily still empty rooms was already frightening enough, but then your time in each room ends when an overt supernatural event occurs that sorta scares you out of the room. It's all profoundly unsettling and some awesome person uploaded the entire thing on KZfaq. I recommend watching it if being alone in large, creepy spaces is your thing.

The Encanto DVD menu would have been the PERFECT place to show more of the house's rooms. I wanted to see that shapeshifters room!!!

Kids these days don’t know what it’s like to fall asleep watching something and wake up to the menu music that’s been on repeat the past 6 hours blairing

It’s so funny to me that everyone had at least one sleepover dvd menu moment where you can’t sleep cuz of the song and you can’t figure out the tv and you don’t want to wake anyone up so you just sit there slowly going insane.

YESSS FINALLY SOMEONE COVERS THIS TOPIC. I've always complained about how 2000s DVD menus are really a lost art nowadays. Especially the Disney special edition discs! In any case, looking back at them now, there's at least a good amount of graphic design and behind the scenes content to appreciate about them. I really hope more people become motivated to preserve some of this stuff on the internet at some point.

My boyfriend and I watched a DVD on his Xbox thst we rented from the library. The movie came out in 2004 and we were literally blown away by the menu and its artwork. It was literally like a time capsule.

the "waking up to dvd menu at a sleepover and cant find the remote" was one of the most relatable, nostalgic, and terrifying thing ive heard in years i had a weird fear of these things, especially when the music would loop and you had a few seconds of silence staring at the dated visuals

I like how you've captured the feel of a DVD menu with looping the same song for 20 minutes.

My favorite part of DVDs is the behind the scenes stuff. I love seeing how much care and effort was just put into these movies.

anyone remembers Windows DvD Maker? It was a software to burn dvds AND you could make your own menus and submenus with your own pics and more depths... i actually loved that.

When Netflix got big I donated my entire dvd collection thinking that they would only add to their library instead of what we’re dealing with now. Fortunately a lot of thrift stores have amazing movie collections for super cheap if you can find them!

i miss the creativity of the 2000s. it felt alive and has a soul not like the current flat design

It used to be that DVDs tried to cram as much extra content on the disc as possible to supplement the movie, and sometimes they even tucked away tiny things that when you accidentally find it, its like "omg, I never knew it was there!", such as when you're just moving all over the familiar menu screen and accidentally finding a tiny interactive icon you never noticed before leading to something like the bloopers or "making of" content. Sadly nowadays, you just get the bland trailers, then a straight forward menu, no frills, no thrills, no hidden content to find... what you see is exactly what you get.

Back then in 2002 i was at my cousins house and her parents had already a DVD player. It looked like a magic seeing interactive menu of Ice Age. It really impressed me back then. It was great time with menus like these.

Nothing beats the frantic scramble for the remote the second “This DVD is enhanced with Disney Fast Play!” came on during movie night, except maybe seeing “Coming Summer of 2008” years later

DVD menus were the COOLEST! Especially when the DVD had a 2nd disc that came with games and other fun stuff. Or even better, they had a CD ROM you could play on your laptop

Does anyone else remember how awesome the National Treasure DVD was??? The whole menu was a treasure hunt with soooo many hidden clues that led to special features. Best DVD menu ever.

I had a whole DVD game growing up, like no movie, just the game. It was a nickelodeon themed bingo game in a box set with bingo cards and chips, complete with custom voice lines for each of the characters and announcing them. I spent many hours occupied by that growing up

I used to LOVE the blooper parts in dvd’s. Especially in the animated films as I’ve always felt like they made them feel more real🥰

Dear lord, you unlocked a core memory of mine with the Shrek far far away idol. I think as a kid I made my family watch to that thing more often than the movie itself. And *God* did I love the banter of all the characters and the little animations they had when you selected them. I think Donkey's opening line in particular is permanently burned into my brain

There was a personality quiz in the bonus features of some Tinkerbell movie that I used to have and I remember going through the test multiple times with different answers just to make sure they weren't giving me the same result every time. That's where my trust issues were born.

Over the Hedge had a couple of cool games that I played a lot: one of them was like skeeball that you played by pressing a button at the right time to get the right amount of throwing power for the "ball" (it was an acorn). In the other game, you played as Hammy the squirrel and tried to navigate a maze of traps set up by the exterminator while avoiding detection. You would select the path to take and there were different animations that would play for each one. I remember some of the traps being really scary. I used to play that game over and over.

Some of my favourite DVD menu features: - Charlie & The Chocolate Factory's quicktime games, including one where you dance with the Oompa Loompas - Finding Nemo's hidden fish icons that play secret clips. In one of them Dory looks at the viewer and says "Wow, mammals!" - Lilo & Stitch 2's Find Pleakley minigame, where Jumba mocks you if you take too long to find him.

God, you have no idea how often i cry at night thinking about how dvd menus are a lost art. Thank you for spreading the word

I remember I had an exclusive Spongeob DVD called “Absorbing Favorites”, it had a total of 9 episode including the lost episode. I recall 5 y/o me being absolutely terrified of the walk sequence of when Patchy initially found it 😭 I also have faint memory of my dad laughing at the dirty joke made in that one episode of when SpongeBob was giving Gary a bath. The menu screen from what I can gather was of SpongeBob at Goo Lagoon sitting at a tiki bar with that one blue fish. I think whenever you selected a word, SpongeBob would spill something on him accidentally? Idk, my memory is def very clouded at this point, but it’s the best DVD menu I remember.

There were also Scooby-Doo 2 Monsters Unleased and a lot of Pokemon movies that has games in the DVDs. Also Barbie. I grew up with the Finding Nemo menu and the ocean setting was scary and haunting lol.

The special features of the early Harry Potter DVDs were just INSANE like there were entire rpg plotlines in there, not to mention all the narrated, interactive tours of places Universal Studios hadn't put in the park yet

I'm so glad I'm not the only one that spent hours in these menus! I spent hours going through them and finding every secret easter egg and watching all of the behind the scenes content!

i loved watching the special features of movies like Shrek, The Incredibles and Over The Hedge. those peeks into the behind the scenes process are what inspired me to want to be an artist working in animation.

I also thought it was "paper view." I never got to use the service as a child, so I assumed how it worked was you sent a paper in the mail to the movie/cable company and, once they got it, they would give you the ability to watch it. Or maybe they would send you a DVD that destroys itself after one use.

Finally, someone else who was so obsessed with Matilda they spent hours with the special features on the DVD. I still remember being amazed that the floating chalk had a magnet in it.

one thing that has always stuck in my head about the shrek 2 special features (aside from far far away idol, i loved that so much) was the "technical goofs" section. it's a reel of animation errors that the animators thought was funny i guess but it terrified me as a child. i legit had nightmares about it, my dad banned dvds in my house for a while because of how often i'd go into his room at night out of sheer terror. but something about the weird errors as well as the creepy as hell music they paired with it was so scary. i remember the madagascar and incredibles dvds also had similar animation error reels with weird music that terrified me as a child, i wonder if it's like a whole subgenre of special feature? idk, i had to mention it tho. great video! ^-^

the mine cart game on the snow white DVD will forever live in my heart. IT WAS SO FUN!!

It's good to know that I'm not the only one who endured some terrible, looping, seemingly endless nightmares by falling asleep to these DVD menus!

Over the Hedge had the best games. There was one where you played as hammy and had to get past the security lasers in someone's backyard and there was another one that was kinda just ski ball. I also remember having either a polly pocket or a totally spies movie that had a game similar to the elf one showed in the video, except the characters were in a raft race in a river.

Im surprised you didnt talk about secret dvd features, you know the ones you could only get to by making a seeming random series of menu navigations until the highlighted box was over something outside of the listed menu selections. that stuff was wild to discover as a kid.

My sisters and I thought the song “humuhumunukunukuapua’a” from the CD was hilarious. We replayed it waaaay too often. My husband was surprised I could accurately pronounce the name of the fish, and it is definitely due to this song .

My prized possession is a The Lion King Platinum Edition 2-disc DVD that my dad got me for my 6th birthday. Not only were the games on the first disc fun at the time but disc 2 elevated the experience to a whole new level. Hearing about how much heart went into making The Lion King gave me new appreciation for the filmmaking process, the music videos were nice to watch, I learned about the Broadway stage show through those featurettes, the animal fact featurettes tickled my zoology nerd button, Timon and Pumbaa’s Virtual Safari was lots of fun (seriously, no wonder they put one in the DVDs for both sequels), and best of all the menus on disc 2 were just so atmospheric. On the last weekend of every month I watch The Lion King, then watch the entirety of disc 2 of the Platinum Edition DVD, and I *never* get bored of it.

Shrek 1 had a technical goof reel that had some straight up cursed footage. Also distinctly remember when I found out about hidden things in DVD menus and found the full footage of the video tape in the Ring. That was absolutely scarring but also so cool!

I miss these soo much, experiencing Far Far Away Idol on dvd was genuinely such a fun childhood memory

The HSM2 DVD was just unparalleled. I'm sorry, but it was. Bonus song, music video, bloopers, clips of the cast learning the choreography, sing-alongs, karaoke, like they didn't have to go so hard on the bonus features but they did and little me was absolutely thrilled 😭😭💀💀💀

I remember being obsessed with DVD menus (still am btw). My favorite would be Disc 2 of Monsters Inc. I always loved going to the door vault just to enjoy the view of the background while also enjoying some deleted scenes and the Pixar Air Show, while also enjoying the other content in the monster area. What I enjoy most about DVDs is that they have characters that interact with you as if they’re actually talking to you through the TV. I miss those times and I wish we could have those stylized DVDs again.

The Sorcerer’s Stone DVD was amazing. A POV tour of Hogwarts, a game where you had to get through the puzzles to get to the stone, including a potions game, it was so much fun and very immersive for little kid me

Me and my sister used to have portable dvd players when we were younger (basically, the og iPad kids) so this is also super nostalgic for me because of this. We had some serious taste, watching Barbie movies while eating dinner, or on an airplane.

Brings me back to the days of going on school trips in a charter bus when I was in middle school. Everyone brought DVDs to watch on the on board tv. You felt like the cool kid if your movie was played

WHY DOES THIS CHANNEL MAKE ME FEEL SO OLD IM NOT EVEN 20 YET 😭😭😭😭 Edit: also does anyone remember the AWESOME mini games some later DVDs and BLU-RAYs had. (Well as awesome as mini games could be with an IR tv remote with awful input lag) Edit 2: they mentioned those games in video and now I look a fool

God, I loved the Madagascar DVD. Everything from the boxes shaking with dialogue, the penguin game, the hidden animation featurette to the guess where Alex hid a snowglobe in his teeth game, it was just fun. Blu-Rays seem to have taken over the extra features that DVDs had.

This gave me such nostalgia! I remember playing the virtual safari game on the Lion King 1 1/2 DVD over and over. Such good times.

Honestly the whole thing with DVD menus really does feel like something that probably should come back. Like it just compliments the content it comes with so well and makes it all feel like a complete package, getting you immersed into the movie before it has even started. Honestly it would be neat to have something like this for some movies on streaming platforms. We know some have already done choose your own adventure style content so implementing DVD style menus wouldnt be too far fetched, even just as an option!

Here are some of my favorite (though specific) memories involving DVDs I had as a kid: -Inserting the Platinum edition version of Cinderella into my mom’s laptop and playing those extra games that let you design and decorate your own bedroom and castle -Playing the yodeling game on the Home on the Range DVD on my Mom’s laptop as well -The Safari Ride games in The Lion King trilogy DVDs where you could choose what directions you wanted the vehicle to move to encounter new dialogue and Disney Easter eggs -The virtual aquarium screen savers on the Finding Nemo DVD, where you could just sit back and wait for Peach the Starfish to slip off the glass and get caught by Gill -Playing the Disney Princess personality quizzes on the Sleeping Beauty DVD and Snow White Blu-Ray to figure out which Disney Princess I was, and eventually cheating to get Aurora every time because she was my favorite -Going to the elevator screen on Disc 2 of Elf and entering the code 1225 for a bunch of bonus content you find by pressing each button in the elevator (like a screen that just infinitely loops the scene with Buddy running in the revolving doors and stopping to vomit) -The menu screens in all 8 of the Charlie and Lola DVDs I had. If you waited for a while on some of the screens, a beetle would pop up and take you to a secret game or themed clip montage if you selected it (I also loved the behind the scenes videos of the children voice actors being coached, but with their corresponding characters animated in their places) -And finally, always going to the scene selection screen to start whatever Disney, Pixar, or Star Wars movie I was watching from scene one because if you just pressed “Play movie” on the main menu, the THX logo would appear and scare the living daylights out of you. That logo and the robot that appeared in the logos with Pixar movies gave me nightmares for years.

i had a Barbie DVD with a secret game that could only be accessed when you put the disk into a computer and it felt like magic to me. I spent so much time arranging my own dollhouse on my dad's work computer even though I had access to a copy of the sims due to the sheer novelty of playing a video game on a media platform mainly designed for watching a film

I love when dvd menus are super over the top and cheesy. Like the menu for 007 die another day has “play movie” as START MISSION, and something like “language select” as LANGUAGE DECODING. It’s not immersive like they probably wanted it to be but I cherish the effort lol.

The lack of special features has been breaking my heart for YEARS

If you watched season 2 of Lost on disc, they made you feel like a part of the in-universe mystery by hiding bonus material under button combinations and hidden menus. I'll never forget the excitement of discovery.

The Kung fu panda DVD special features taught me how to use chopsticks as a kid lol. We were a family of 8 so the portable DVD player my grandfather gifted us was literally a life saver on road trips

I fondly remember Barbie movies having some of the best DVD menus lol. I nearly forgot they existed until you posted this video. Now it's gonna be a thing I will severely miss now :(

I remember that in one of my Dora the Explorer DVDs there was an entire episode of Backyardigans in the bonus features, I loved watching it. I also recall that there was Mickey Mouse DVD with a game where you had to find different items, back in the day I would replay it over and over until eventually I memorized it. And in one of the releases of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory there were 2 separate DVDs, one for the movie and the other for games, one for every one of the five kids. DVDs really were a whole concept on their own, they were perfect

Honestly, one of my favorite DVD menu has got to be the 2002 Beauty and the Beast two disc Special Edition DVD menu. I remember watching the special edition version of the movie in which they add a deleted song back into the movie that is in the Broadway musical “Human Again” all of the time. Not only that, but they also had a Work In Progress version of the movie that they showed at the 1991 New York Film Festival which I always found cool!

By far the best DVD menu was The Incredibles. There was something so ominous yet cool about it and I remember it being packed with special features. Idk about anyone else but I was a baby animation nerd who actually liked listening to the commentary tracks even as a kid. They were interesting and could be pretty funny at times! I wish there was a way to preserve the audio of those…

I'm wondering that maybe once the whole generation who grew up with DVDs gets nostalgic for them that it's possible they'll have a resurgence in popularity (similar to LPs).

This is such a perfect timing for me lmao. Just got 4 dvds for a tv show but they got the most generic ass selection menu. The only bonus feature you can access on a dvd player were actor biographies, photo galleries (one-fourth of them were behind the scenes stuff), and several episodes of a completely different show. The rest of the bonus features (actor interviews/podcasts, etc) can only be accessed by playing it on a pc but turns out it's inaccessible because some website ended its service. Kinda wished there was more effort put into those dvds.

Over Christmas break my aunt rented a cabin in the mountains, and my cousin and I found an entire stash of DVDs in a closet. Needless to say we both had a very productive afternoon.

I still have my portable DVD player and I refuse to toss it out because of how convenient it is, especially since I have young cousins, nieces and nephews that get bored so easily in the car. I used it last year when I was going to Destin with my niece. We watched that one bratz fairy tale movie and the little mermaid: ariel's beginning. When I tell you, those DVD menus really sent me back and made me feel like it was 2008 again. She loved the bonus features that ariel's beginning had, especially the game that it came with. Watching her play the mermaid vanity game where you look at the vanities of ariel and her sisters almost made me shed a tear. I used to love that game so much, and I'm really glad to be able to show her parts of my childhood that she finds enjoyable too! DVD menus are unmatched, nothing else matches up to the feeling of hearing that 30 second song loop, looking at the bonus features exclusive to that DVD, and playing the games

Personally, a story about Amazon deleting downloaded shows off people's devices after getting rid of a title scared me back into physical media, and i TOTALLY rediscovered my love for DVDs and their menus (still kept the VCR but this is finally a DVD centric video for once lol)

I feel like I was a lot more invested in DVD menus than other kids my age at the time, so much that one of my personal hobbies back then was copying the menu options onto notebook paper. 😂😂

Matilda was one of the only DVDs I had as a kid, so I watched it a LOT and also played with the special features. I still remember how they did the "psychic chalk writing" scene (magnets and string), and the mode to watch the movie where every so often a small red bow would appear in the corner that would take you to behind the scenes stuff. The first "special features" content I can remember was deleted scenes at the end of the first Harry Potter VHS. For some reason they cut the scene of them learning who Nicholas Flamel was from a chocolate frog card and put it after the credits as a "bonus." I loved the books and that always bugged me.

The weirdest bonus feature I can remember was on the Flushed Away DVD that was literally just ~20 minutes of footage of a slug?? It was called slug cam or something, and I sometimes used to try to watch the whole thing as a kid, convinced that there would be some huge exciting secret at the end lol, but I always got too bored before it finished (I honestly thought it was an hour long) I recently put the DVD on again and nope there was nothing at the end, it was genuinely just… a slug

This video made me realize I'm not the only one that has a DVD menu cemented into my brain. when I was 10, I was obsessed with the movie Frankenweenie, and it still is my favorite movie now. When I was younger, I pretty much revolved my whole personality around that movie. I would carry around a plush of the character Victor with me everywhere, I would look everywhere on the internet for anything relating to Frakenweenie, and I even drew my own fanart of the characters. When the movie came out on DVD and Blu Ray, I had just gotten out of the hospital after having a bad reaction to medication I was on for my autoimmune disease. I was so excited to pick up the movie from target that day, that the moment I got home I put it in my (very old) little disney princess tv and DVD player. since then through the rest of my elementary school and some of my middle school years, I would watch Frankenweenie before bed on my old princess tv. I didn't mind watching it on a tv with slowly aging sound and graphics, I was just happy to be able to watch my favorite movie, even if I couldn't watch it in the best quality. Then one day, I came home from school and saw a completely new tv and blu ray player in my room. And on that new tv was the main menu for Framkenweenie. I was so excited and seeing that I could now experience my favorite movie at such a high quality made me so happy. to this day, I so vividly remeber the Frankenweenie DVD menu, the animation of Sparky laying down next to his tombstone, the somber yet happy music, the lightning sounds, and the bats that would occasionally fly by the screen. Frankenweenie as a whole will forever be an important part of my life, as it was the movie that made me want to be an animator. Framkenweenie is the film that holds such a special place in my heart and my memeores.

Lion King 1, 2 and 1/2 has an extensive virtual safari ride game that I played religiously. Each very different and honestly replayable due to the pick your own adventure nature of it. The amount of work and though put into it for just a dvd bonus game is wild.

I was obsessed with the Monsters Inc. DVD special features. Pixar wrote flavor text and drew art for *every* background monster.

I remember watching like, all six hours of the special features on each of the Pirates of the Caribbean DVDs. Curled up with my bunny slippers and some popcorn, watching behind the scenes footage about the costumes and fight choreography, and playing the Liar's Dice game. Amazing.

i remember after like 10 years of complete abandonment, one day i decided to look for my portable DVD player. I found it and actually watched a movie. Brought back a lot of fun memories... i'm not crying, the 2000s got into my eyes.

I remember seeing a portable GameCube at a GameStop as a kid and losing my mind. I didn't think a portable dvd player could get any cooler. Also, I loved the mini games some dvds had!

Anyone remember the menu screen for Freaky Friday 2004? That if you selected the fortune cookie at the bottom, their outfits changed? That didn't need to be added in there- but it was. Bc dvds were just so cool!

I remember sitting through the Shrek bloopers on repeat when I was a kid I thought that was the funniest shit ever. Another dvd screen story I had was there was one night when my mom and stepdad went on a date night and I watched Little Women and woke up to a loud 10-15 second audio loop and that terrified 11 year old me lmao

Your videos always fill me with nostalgia, even for things I've never experienced myself. Most importantly I think you are doing a great archiving job for every little thing that made the childhood of many kids born in the early 2000's special. Your channel will be a way for gen Alpha and beyond for understanding better our generation through the little things.

The Cars movie DVD screen is a MASTERPIECE showcasing just half the potential of what could be done with them!

Man i remember those portable DVD players, i used to call them "mini TVs" and my family would give me and my siblings each one when we went on road trips (so basically we were ipad babies before we even got our first ipads lol) kinda surprised mine never broke considering i used to get carsick REALLY easily tbh

Far Far Away Idol is the best special feature ever made. Whenever I hear "I'm too sexy for my shirt" all I can think of is Prince Charming.

By far one of my favorite movies as a kid was Home on the Range. I know it's not well liked, but I'll always have a special fondness for it and a big part of that was the DVD menus. The backgrounds and music made my 4 -year-old self feel super immersed in that wild west environment.

I have so much to say because DVDs were one of the most important parts of my childhood. Blu-rays too. One of my favorite childhood movies was Surf's Up. I absolutely loved everything about it. The documentary style of filming (which the used real camera movements and incorporated it into the CGI of the film to get those documentary style shots), the soundtrack, and the story. It really made me want to be a professional surfer as a kid (didn't happen but oh well lol). But one of my favorite things about the DVD was the bonus features. The games were by far my favorite. I think there were 3. In one of them you can make your own surfboard (shape, color), but it had to be done a certain way. The second is where you have to help the chicken character hop on top of whales??? And the last one is this lava tubing game. It's extremely similar to the game in the Elf bonus features, where you slide around a lava cave. It was insanely difficult to me as a kid. But yeah. Another one I liked was The Cat in The Hat's bonus features (2003 movie). I don't remember there being games, but the menu was SO fun to navigate. It gave you a choice if you wanted to choose the brother or the sister's side. You could also choose the fish. Each side would take you to different types of bonus features. But the really cool thing about it is that each actor recorded several minutes of dialogue so the menu wouldn't loop as quickly. First, they'd explain the sides. The sister would talk about how her side was more about how the movie was made. And the brother would say how his side had a bunch of cool activities and things. The fish I think features movie scenes, bloopers and outtakes, and deleted scenes. If you didn't pick a side quickly, the actors had would stand there for a few minutes telling you to pick something. If you waited around long enough, they'd start doing random things, and at the end throw a dance party. The menu would loop again after that. I'd usually spend hours going through everything. But by FAR the most intricate DVD menu was for Monsters Inc. This was REALLY interesting. The movie would come with two disks. The disk that played the movie had pretty much no bonus features. But the second disk was ALL bonus features. And boy was it AMAZING. The team behind the movie would introduce themselves. They'd talk about some of the things the bonus disk had. Then you'd be given the option between two doors. There were also Scream cans on the bottom. One was for the outtakes which also play at the end credits of the movie, and the other two were for Pixar shorts. The doors were labeled either humans only or monsters only. The humans only door would take you to this menu with a TON of doors, and it was more about the movie making process. It featured SO MANY things. When you entered the menu, each door would have different thing to look at about the movies production. Character design, behind the scenes, the soundtrack, story boards...things like that. One door would show you a video of this paper airplane contest that the studio did at the time. And on some of the behind the scenes videos, the crew would act a little bit to make things fun. And on the production tour option, there would be a video that played with the cast, telling you about ANOTHER menu of doors that would pop up, but they'd be unlabeled. The doors did different things, like play a quick Sully jumpscare, a video of one of the crew members, and the coolest was a test scene of Mike and Sully with their original designs and dialogue. Anyway, then the monsters only door would show you another menu. Selecting something off to the side (I can't remember what) would show you a quick scene with Pete Docter and a small bit of the animation process. When you went back to the normal monsters only menu, one of the options would take you to ANOTHER menu, with the city the monsters live in. It had multiple selections. There was the short for the movie (which was also on one of the Scream cans in the first menu), There was a selection that would show multiple clips of tv spots that had promoting the movie. But they weren't so much trailers as they were short clips themed around different things like Holidays or Sports. The next option was really strange. Pixar had created animations for a Japanese TV show called Ponkickies 21. The menu for this would feature two games. The characters all spoke Japanese but you could include subtitles. You had the option of either rock paper scissors, or a game who you would guess who'd come out of a door (Boo, Sully, or Mike). The next thing you could do is select this game where you'd have to find different pieces of Boo's door in order to rebuild it for sully. And you'd travel to different parts of the world to find each piece cause Randal hid them. The next thing ws this read along story about the movie. The menu also featured a music video and a DVD rom game that I've never seen lol. Then when you'd leave the city menu, there was a behind the scenes menu. This had the animated outtakes (again), the company play (which was another short basically putting on the actual play that Mike made up during the movie), and then an option that would play a video with a news reporter interviewing Mike and Sully at work. That one was interesting because Pixar did this thing (I only know about it for one other movie which I'm about to mention) where they had news reporter interview the characters. They also did this for Finding Nemo. They were interviewed by an animated monster for the Monsters Inc feature, but for Finding Nemo it was a live action human for some reason. And I guess it was some sort of bonus feature series of sorts because at the end of both the interviewer would say, "You're watching me, so I'm watching you". And that'd always creep me out. And finally going back to the monsters only menu one last time, if you selected the orientation option, you'd go to another menu. This would let you look at things specific to the movie's universe. You could watch the commercial for the company or watch an orientation video as if you were working there yourself. There was also an employee handbook you could look through, which would feature employee ids, rules about working there, or just facts about the company itself. There was also a 'Monster of the month' wall. One of the coolest things you could do though was select the Scare Cards. These were basically collector cards (like baseball cards). There were cards for a ton of the monsters who would scare. They had card for some of the main characters, but they also had a few for the background characters. And each card would give you a bit of information about the character, so you could read stuff about them that you wouldn't have known in the movie. ANYWAYS that's basically everything. It took me 2 hours to write this entire comment cause I had to go back and check if everything would correct about the Monsters Inc bonus features. But I always wanted to talk about how cool these were lol. If you read to the very end thank you so much! Bye :)

The Aladdin DVD bonus features were definitely one of my favorites. Going through a tour inside the Genie's lamp felt like the most surreal experience ever as a kid!! The "Funny Factory with Donald" menu was also pretty cool, since the entire menu and viewing experience is centered around the titular factory. Btw, bunny slippers are cute :)

I remember getting so many DVDs back then and played around the DVD Menus! Honestly as a kid I played around it a lot I loved the bonus features,DVD minigames,watching Behind the Scenes,and the shorts! There for the CARS DVD Movie I watched Mater and the GhostLight still one of my favorite PIXAR Shorts to this day and watched how the movie was made. Another one of my favorite DVD Menus is The Cat and the Hat one!

People like you could make a video about cabbages and I’d still watch it because no matter the topic, i always remain entertained and invested throughout the entire video

Your channel is my comfort channel, I LOVE watching and rewatching your videos over and over and over, they are so comfy I just cant stop! Gives some sort of nostalgia to times I never experienced

It's interesting that you should mention the lack of bonus features in modern dvd's. The Dvd for OUATH has a lot of bonus features, from extra scenes to Rick Dalton doing red apple cigarette commercials. It really helped with the world building of the movie.

A couple of cool ones I remember. On the DVD of the original Shrek, they had a special feature where you could dub your own voice into certain scenes. They gave you the script on the bottom, but you can bet that my siblings and I made super dirty versions of these scenes. This one was only available if you put your disc into a computer, though. Another interesting one was for the first three Pokemon movies. Sadly, they're very hard to find now (I got the first one by chance while browsing a thrift store), but they were full of cool special features, including a commentary track (super exciting because they often teased what was coming up for Pokemon in the future), music videos, and even a scholarly essay about the impact of Pokemon on popular culture (this was another one only available by putting the disc into a computer). As for "grown up" movies, the James Bond movies usually didn't disappoint when it came to DVD menus. I remember putting in Live And Let Die (one of the first movies I owned on DVD) and hearing Jane Seymour's character Solitaire tell me to "Pick one" when presented with all the DVD options. If feels like if you want a special disc now, you have to go with a box set where they go all out. The recent releases of the Ghostbusters trilogy and Back To The Future are packed with content, but they are fully intended for collectors. They usually come in special boxes (the Ghostbusters box looks like a ghost trap and has a green light inside, and the Back To The Future box has a light up Flux Capacitor), and the special features included are genuinely exclusive to that edition (Ghostbusters 1 and 2 have work print and TV versions of the movies consisting of alternate takes, new scenes, and re-edits).

DVDs also had really cool extras that were criminally underrated like angles and different takes that allowed you to alternate different angles in a shot if they added it, or switch from storyboard drawing in animation.

Scooby Doo’s Outkast song playing over and over in the menu was such a banger. Also Shrek and Madagascar had fun games in the special features too

4:25 I can't believe more people have went through something like this. I remember my little sister really wanted to watch Finding Nemo a bunch and so we played it for the night. I woke up in the middle of the night and the DVD Menu kept playing and I didn't know where the remote was so I was just stuck dealing with it.