So in a funny twist of fate, here's a lost media wiki article I wrote that got deleted because it was too messy, (and almost lost). Oh the irony of an article about lost media almost becoming lost.
Fried Dynamite
was a Friday night premier programming block on cartoon network that aired
between August 2007 and September 2008. While many bumps are lost, a major lost
event was the Halloween themed Cartoon Network House Party from October 6th
2007. What made this special was that part of the block was in red and blue 3D.
3D Content
The main draw
of the night was the 3D premiers. These were Out of Jimmy's Head, Foster's Home
for Imaginary Friends, and Thrillevile Off the Rails Trailer. Due to the fact
that this was TV quality imagery with the red and blue 3D glasses, the 3D
effects were not the best.
The episode of
Foster's was Nightmare on Wilson Way. In this episode, it is Halloween and Bloo
wants to prank everyone with a can of snake peanut brittle. He
"pranks" Mr. Harriman, only for Mr. Harriman to have a heart attack
and die. He then comes back as a zombi, and starts turning everyone into
zombies. The 3D primarily consisted of characters holding things out to the
audience, such as Bloo holding his can of peanut brittle to the audience, and
Wilt holding a bowl of candy out to the audience.
In the
Thrilelvile Off the Rails Trailer, it was a first person perspective video of
one of the roller coasters. The game itself did not have any 3D elements, so
this was the only 3D content of Thrillevile off the Rails.
In the episode
of Out of Jimmy's Head, Ghosts, Jimmy sees what he believes to be ghosts. These
include a hand, a foot, a mouth, and (other body parts I am forgetting). He is
constantly followed by them as they moan "finish us." It turns out
that these are unfinished cartoons. For the 3D, there was a gag where the dad
pushed a pen out towards the audience, and the floating body parts had 3D
components. Of the 3D content, the body parts were probably the best.
House Party DVD
In trying to
find information on the 3D Cartoon Network House Party, I found a forum post describing the "Cartoon Network
House Party Kit." In it hosts would receive: A custom DVD from Cartoon
Network, A brand new, 3D episode of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends,
Special-edition CN 3D glasses, A bonus episode of the hit new show, Out of
Jimmy's Head, Party supplies, including plates, cups and napkins, Temporary
tattoos of your favorite characters, A commemorative host certificate, and A
free party website, hosted by houseparty.com, to send out invites, check blogs
and post photos and videos of your party. I was unable to find anything on the
contents of the DVD. One can assume that it would have the episodes from the
premier in 3D, but there is no information on it beyond rumors of it's existence.
Availability
The 3D episodes
were only aired once in 3D on TV. Afterwards, the episodes were aired in 2D,
and the thrillevile trailer was not aired again, and if it was it was in 2D.
With Out of Jimmy's Head already rare, the 3D version
of the episode is exceptionally rare. Of the content, the only episode to be
available online is Nightmare on Wilson Way, in both official release behind a
paywall and on bootleg.
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