I had a bicentennial Panasonic tape recorder. It was made in Japan.

@MARIO1UP2000

4 жыл бұрын

Oh, the Irony

No lie, I would buy that vacuum if I saw one. The bag pattern is unique and vacuums of that design deep clean carpets well.

@niccage6375

8 жыл бұрын

only for the low low low price of $1776

@syxepop

6 жыл бұрын

Knowing the prices in that era most likely it was U$177.60 (that'd still be expensive, since that'd be more like U$785 in '18 or more expensive than ANY Dyson model only less expensive than water-based Rainbows).

@jamesslick4790

5 жыл бұрын

@@syxepop Blah, all three of those are cheap junk to the Kirby Avalir 2 owner.

America isn't a baby girl, he's a 19 year old nerd with the body of a stereotypical high school jock, you can't just ignore canon things like that!

@girlscanbedrummers5449

5 жыл бұрын

'Merica! *punches you across the room*

It's July 4th, 2024, and I've returned for my annual viewing of this OA classic. I kinda miss beautiful downtown Aurora.

Here in Canada, we had Olympic fever as Montreal hosted the 1976 21st Olympic games. There were Olympic t shirts, radios, Bic ball point pens,Olympic coins, and Ford built a special edition Olympic Pinto. And for the record, Up With People, did not perform at the 76 Olympic opening ceremony thank goodness.

@WAQWBrentwood

7 жыл бұрын

rEdf196 Even "down" here in Pittsburgh,PA the Olympics were a "thing", In fact ALL I can remember of 1976 was The Montreal Olympics and the Bicentennial! (admittedly,​ there MAY be other reasons for me not remembering a lot of1976! 😜)

@MARIO1UP2000

4 жыл бұрын

What was that like? Having a case of Olympic fever that is.

That platform they are dancing on is shaking and looks like it is going to collapse.

The USA celebrates 250 years of independence from Britain on July 4, 2026! Six more years! (I typed this on May 12, 2020)

@JL-sm6cg

2 жыл бұрын

That's the only celebration I might be around for that I'll remember. lol I was only a year old when the bicentennial happened.

I’m making it a tradition to watch this every 4th of July! Also is it sad that I kinda like the solid color dresses? I’d totally pair them with a different colored pair of leggings and a solid color necklace.

i wasn't around for the bicentennial, i probably won't be around for the tricentennial... on a related note, it's still weird that some countries have been around, building a culture and an identity 5, 10 times longer than we have

@thekidfromiowa

7 жыл бұрын

DrHillbillyShow This country was inhabited for millenia before the white men arrived. ;)

@jamesslick4790

5 жыл бұрын

@ My (Pittsburgh,PA,USA) house (1866) is actually older than the country known as "Germany".

@Dafoodmaster

5 жыл бұрын

hey it's what we do. don't worry though, everyone that did is dead.

@JL-sm6cg

2 жыл бұрын

I was 1 year old when the bicentennial happened. Unless God wants to punish me, I don't think I'll be around for the tri either, and even if I am, I'll probably not know wtf is going on just like for the bi. lol

@dorourke105

Жыл бұрын

i probably will, i'll be 98 years old though but if i'm still alive i'll watch it on tv or something

I'm sure we won't be that goofy at the 240th Anniversary of the founding of the United States next year. Now where can i score a near-mint condition copy of that Bicentennial Playboy magazine?

@ChristopherSobieniak

8 жыл бұрын

I got a bicentennial 7up bottle!

@jamesslick4790

5 жыл бұрын

I'm betting it'll be WORSE.

@JL-sm6cg

Жыл бұрын

We're now creeping up on the 250th anniversary.

I remember making a break-in track when I was in high school, around the time I had an unhealthy addiction to the Back to the Future trilogy. Very cringe-worthy writing, but it was still fun to put together.

you remind me of the neighbor from Home Improvement.

(5:25 & 17:50) Todd in the Shadows sent me here.

In 76 here in Oz the biggest bicentennial impact was the Mad magazine special issue.

Loved that 200 animation! When I saw that it was by Vince Collins I had a double take- I wonder if Ben knows he's on KZread?

@dangerouslytalented

9 жыл бұрын

nobuyukinyuu It's out of copyright and I have used it multiple times.

Awesome WJET channel 24 signoff at the end. I'm from Erie...

I know my mom was wishing for a July 4th (1976) birth .... I guess I was 22 days late

3:55 Ladies and gentlemen, KZread Poop, pre-KZread.

You actually paid to be part of "Up with People" - allegedly $9800 a year. The whole thing was a project of Moral Re-Armament, the people who gave us Alcoholics Anonymous. That version of "Up with People" ended in 2000, then a new version appeared after 2004, and it's still trucking along.

@chadwik4000

5 ай бұрын

Hey, kids! Take a walk on the WILD SIDE....an' all the races sing SHOOP DAAH DOOP SHOOBYDOOBYDOODOOP DOODOO SHOOBYDOOBYDOO-YEAH!

7:25 Ah yes. The great ancient countries of Asia, Africa and Europe.

@imrustyokay

3 жыл бұрын

"Did you know Africa is a Continent?" -Ryan Stiles

I'm also highly surprised you didn't show Richard Pryor's album "Bicentennial N****r" in this, even for a blip.

10:32 that voice crack

Now that I think about it, I haven't seen a Bicentennial Quarter in awhile. I used to get them a lot as change.

@imrustyokay

6 жыл бұрын

Austin1987VCR i have one

@jamesslick4790

5 жыл бұрын

@@imrustyokay I get about 1 a month. (at least when I look, Probably more.)

Back in '76, my Dad and a group of other men connected with the CETA works program built and sailed a reproduction of an 18th century flatboat down the French Broad and Tennessee River. For America250, I've been trying to get together the people and funding to recreate this event on the same rivers. I've got some people on board, but a really long way to go.

Novelty Records: The Great Grand-Pappy Of Ytp.

The year 1976 was supposed to have three major World gatherings in the United States. Denver was supposed to host the Winter, Los Angeles was a contender to land the Summer Olympics, and there was to have been a world's fair in Philadelphia on a 500-acre site along the Delaware River. But the world's fair got cancelled around 1972 (thankfully, no construction had started). Los Angeles lost out on the Summer Olympics (which went instead to Montreal), and Denver voters rejected using tax dollars to finance the Winter Olympics (which Denver was given but were re-awarded to Innsbruck, which had hosted the 1964 Winter Games, and had all the facilities in place). As of 1972, the space program was scheduled to have a big day on July 4th, 1976: In the morning, the first manned space shuttle mission was to have been launched, and late that evening, the unmanned Viking 1 was to attempt a soft landing on Mars. But the maiden orbital flight of the shuttle was delayed almost five years, while Viking 1 didn't land on Mars until a couple of weeks later (the wait was worth it; Viking transmitted pictures and other data back to Earth).

..they do look like the Charlie Brown kids.. Happy Birthday, America. (and me, bicentennial baby)

@Justin-Hill-1987

4 жыл бұрын

The Peanuts Gang

Certain Oddity Archive episodes make for good yearly traditions.

I lived through the bicentennial (I turned 16 2 days after the 4th of July) and I must tell you that that animated film is what it REALLY was all about. Also, you may find this hard to believe, but I am probably the only one in the world who actually likes the song "Afternoon Delight". I would blame the drugs, but I didn't take any until I was 18 (in 1978).

my mom was 10 years old when this happened. I'm going to be 82 when the tricentenial arrives

Subscribed at: "Nothing says patriotism more than Saudi Arabian oil." xD

Have you heard anything about CBS-TV doing new versions of what will be renamed "250th Anniversary Minutes" that would run nightly from July 4th, 2024 through July 4th, 2026?

The "Up with People" theme tune inspires me to drink, really drink, like a lot! 😨🍻🍺🍷

I was born just before July 4, 1976.

Man, you've been at this a long time, and somehow I never knew about you, however, this is my cup of tea, and I'm happy to have found it. Good stuff!

In 76 i was 12 and i remember my folks remodeling the kitchen with bicentennial paneling .

Now that I know that the 250th is the same year we host the FIFA world cup in 26, now we have a reason to worry

Another thing and I let Benny-boy know about this. I literally saw a car on the commute to work this morning (5/9/2023) with a sticker saying "Up With People" on it.

This may be my favorite episode :)

Weed was one hell of a drug 40 years ago.

6:31 Exxon and Mobil were two separate companies until their merger in 1999. Really bad with oil companies huh? Shell is from the Netherlands and not Saudi Arabia.

@imrustyokay

3 жыл бұрын

but the Oil comes from Saudi Arabia

The Bicentennial Special intro totally ripped off Doctor Who's.

Ah, yes, about the time I went to college. We all wanted some afternoon delight, but mostly we just got the song. Oh, well. And although I might like the sentiment of Up With People....yeah, that song got grating after the first hundred times.

Funny how celebrating the nation now a days would be seen as racist/nationalist.

The bicentennial cartoon I remember is different-- there was a special with several cartoons animated from newspapers, including Broom Hilda. The commercial transition animation had rockets exploding in it. Been looking for that one for years.

13:46 - You are not alone! Two British guys also took the task of drinking a Bicentennial bottle of 7-Up: kzread.info/dash/bejne/nnehprylYdraqrg.html

This whole time I never FULLY got the Simpsons joke from the Duff Gardens episode... The 'Clean-Shaven Sounds'(c)(R)TM of Hooray-for-Everything were inspired by real life bicentennial half-time show performers Up with People!

Arlo Guthrie actually accepted money for Up with People to cover one of his songs. Check please, Alice.

Happy 40th anniversary of the bicentennial!

@SNARC15

8 жыл бұрын

And just thing, 10 years from now all we'll hear about is the 250th.

@iron1349

5 жыл бұрын

Yes lol

So the USA pretty much defines themselves as a cornucopia spewing forth hamburgers, hot dogs and TV; but if *I* say that, it's "disrespectful"...

@boozerverif

9 жыл бұрын

The animation was commissioned to Vince Collins, who had a history of making pretty weird, edgy animations and is a self-professed countercultural weirdo; I'm inclined to think the baseballs and hotdogs and stuff were kind of tongue in cheek.

@ChristopherSobieniak

8 жыл бұрын

Even Colonel Sanders' head shows up in one sequence!

I nearly screamed when Country Roads started playing. Darn memes...

I hit your vid and get treated to the Grateful Dead's US Blues. Nice touch.

Man I'm glad I wasn't born anywhere near the 70's

@Astolfo2001

2 жыл бұрын

r/lerightgeneration

3:00 Oddly enough I have that issue and still in mint condition.

I used to think Frank Zappa was paranoid about something that didn't end up happening when he mentioned the bicentennial merchandise on the horizon at the beginning of Poofter's Froth Wyoming Plans Ahead, as well as the rest of Bongo Fury (200 Years Old) But no. This episode taught me he was right. Like he was most of the time.

I was listening to an oldies station in the car last month; they played 'Afternoon Delight' and I just started laughing.

@TimelordR

9 жыл бұрын

***** Looking forward to 2016, are we?

@Musicradio77Network

9 жыл бұрын

I've heard this song on the radio last weekend and it was not that bad. The lyrics are silly and kinda stupid. "Afternoon Delight" by the Starlight Vocal Band hit #1 on the Billboard charts, but WABC in New York City played this song when it was a Top 40 AM radio station. I'm trying to look for a 45 of "Afternoon Delight". Some people thought it was the worst song ever, and as for me, not bad for a lame song.

@AtlantaCommercials96

8 жыл бұрын

+LuigiGodzillaGirl Ya, it's a stupid song. I think the only reason people remember it is due to comedy shows taking the mickey out of it like "Arrested Development" and "Anchorman" and that gives an impression on the younger audiences who didn't grew up with it, like me! :) "I'd advise to give yourself a tattoo, so you can relive the memories..Starland Vocal Band?! THEY SUCKED!"

@NoctournalDonut

8 жыл бұрын

+AtlantaCommercials96 Grandpa Simpson: DEEEEAAATTTHHH!!!!

@AtlantaCommercials96

8 жыл бұрын

NoctournalDonut That's only the Cat, Grandpa!

Elton John retroactively deserves that for defending Eminem.

PCU reference ?

"Art Buchwald Fingers Our Founding Fathers." Ummmm.

Other than all the ritual killings, the worst thing about “Afternoon Delight“ is it proved once and for all that Jason Bateman can’t sing.

2:37 Mmmm... Coke!

@jamesslick4790

5 жыл бұрын

Well.....70's...

SEIZURE WARNING

Closed captioning can be hilarious. Enable it, and check out the time mark 10:26 ...

The good old days, when sport was played during the DAY.

makes me almost afraid for when America gets the taste of Olympic fever in 2028!! I knew they really didn't do much when we hosted the winter games. But it's not as much of a big deal than the summer games. Im especially worried when it hits the 250th.

i have that flatware of the 13 colony spoons hanging up in my kitchen

It was a good thing I wasn't around for the BIcentennial...

Do you remember the commercials with Arba the Bicentennial Eagle? That thing's given me nightmares for forty years!

Ben, you should do an Oddity Archive podcast, that would be cool.

I can't wait for the tricentennial of 2076.

13:35 From a company whose full name involves the Dutch royal family.

@Chrnan6710

7 жыл бұрын

Meh, same flag colors, close enough

@artistwithouttalent

7 жыл бұрын

Chrnan6710 Didn't know what you were saying at first. Lol

@13:40; and was a British oil brand. Go figure. lol

Don't forget the Bicentennial half dollar and dollar coins.

JET 24.... good ole local TV...

TAKE ME HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOME

Have you ever heard a gay men’s chorus? They make UWP sound like the Temptations.

8:57. “Leif Garrett, how could you?”

@Attmay

2 жыл бұрын

It’s easy, when you’re as strung out as he was then.

I was six. The only thing I got was a little sister!

I prefer up with mini skirts.

Up with Ben❤❤❤

I thought this Pokimon episode was banned for causing cesures.

Thank God that Up (chuck) with People ain't playing the Super Bowl anymore! They were hideous back then and are still awful now.

Was everyone in Up With People white except for the two tokens at the Superbowl?

@Exarian

10 жыл бұрын

It's called "up with people" and you know how it goes... Undefined defaults to white. At least in the US. We've gotten better, where instead of tokens we are warming up to shows with more realistic ethnicity proportions, but even today it's still an issue.

@AtlantaCommercials96

8 жыл бұрын

+Michael Mangi (theblackdog) "We Got A Black Girl in the chorus already..quit your whinin'" But, seriously, I noticed that, too. Diversity in these things were very rare back then and you were lucky if you got more than a few tokens. Especially, something as stereotypical "white" as this.

FREEBIRD

Anyone kinda wish Ben brought up the American Freedom Train and the various railroads that did Bicentennial paintschemes for their locomotives? Some of the paintjobs are pretty bad...

Shell is a Dutch company actually

@Colddirector

6 жыл бұрын

TheHarbingerOfDeath I don't know much about how oil companies operate, but I think he was insinuating they source their oil from saudi arabia, not that the company itself is saudi arabian.

10:53 at that point, i don't think they even knew he was gay.

Too bad an episode with OA lore (the transition to HD) is a "lost episode."

10:23 City of New Orleans? Seems odd, given the song is about the slow painful death of the American passenger train.

@jamesslick4790

5 жыл бұрын

American Revolution,BABY!!! The British invented railroad train was surpassed by the American invented airplane.

If you're interested, I have a butt load of tapes you can have

I wonder if that cartoon was made by the Soviets to induce mass epilepsy in the American people... Certainly reminds me more of their animation techniques than anything America could do...up to and including an 'End' caption.

@Attmay

2 жыл бұрын

This technique was invented by communists, specifically Dziga Vertov in *Man with a Movie Camera.* Any film school that continues to show that to its students needs to lose its accreditation.

Why do I find this all so disturbing ? Possibly due to my being a Native American ? Damn I hate that imposed title !

16:39 Well that and also cheeseburgers and porn

16:52 LOL

I was born in 1976, but not in America thank God, what a tacky time to be born, flares, hippies, afros, bad music and cheesy cartoons. No wonder I am so tacky myself. The year of disco duck.

Rockist glibsnark on every non-rock genre of music. I almost thought you were a boomer. Based on that, I must sadly give this video a thumbs down. Thank you for proving yet again why Frank Sinatra was right about schlock ‘n’ roll. It is phony and false and created by cretinous goals, and time has only revealed it as such.