Introducing Video Toaster 4000 (Conor and Sean)
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Introducing Video Toaster 4000

Anyone with an advanced film degree knows that Video FX peaked in 1992 when Snoop Dogg turned into a doberman in the “What’s My Name” music video.

But back then, if you wanted to achieve that level of technical wizardry at home, the deck was stacked against you. Amateur videographers who wanted to take their home movies to the next level used to have to send them off to a random Culver City P.O. Box and hope for the best. Adding a star wipe to little Susie’s seventh birthday party footage would cost upwards of five hundred dollars — and you’d be lucky to receive it by the time she turned eight.

Then came the Video Toaster 4000. Powered by a Commodore Amiga, it revolutionized the field of cheesy transition FX and crappy word art graphics. To announce the new product, Team Toaster released this infomercial featuring celebrity testimonials from pro skater Tony Hawk, magician Penn Jillette, and sentient mayonnaise smeared on white bread Wil Wheaton. It was impossible to watch this short and not think to yourself “That cost how many thousands of dollars??” Still, it looks better than 85% of the movies we cover at RiffTrax.

Having mastered 90's mainstays The Internet and Bike Safety, Conor and Sean turn their attention to technology that was obsolete by the time you finished saying “Kiki Stockhammer” in Introducing Video Toaster 4000!

Written by: Conor Lastowka & Sean Thomason

High (TV) 480p (191.59 MB)

https://mega.nz/file/hr4ykT5J#tvUmf2kJHV...JYnQ8U0Gdk

caps: https://mega.nz/file/tl0m3RDL#12csZbUGhw...DVqT9kEgzg
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Thank you. That was fun. I hope they do more oddball stuff like this.
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Amazing. I'm really looking forward to watching this one. Thanks!
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I still have my Amiga from childhood. Poor things gone all yellow. I wonder if it still works. I had the Disney animation studio. Greatest thing ever
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I really love it when Conor and Sean do these hidden "gems" from the 90s.

Thanks!
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Thanks Peep! Not that they stole another from RLM but I remember Colin from Canada talking about this on BOTW a few years back and it sounded hilarious...glad they did this!
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This is great peephalk, thanks!

Note, the background music from 0m40s-3m02s and 4m45s-8m34s is the Lords of Acid new beat/house techno classic Rough Sex.

An amazing song with great percussive distorted keyboard riffs.

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Thanks Peep!
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(Nov 01, 2024, 10:09 am)cdmjr720 Wrote: I really love it when Conor and Sean do these hidden "gems" from the 90s.

Thanks!

i used to watch the mario bros cartoon when i was a kid (and once a week it would be a zelda cartoon). if they keep pickin' 'em like that they can go ahead and start getting regular VOD rotation pls
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Anyone have their bike safety video? I've never seen it!
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