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Have you ever found something that you had thought or assumed was lost forever, only to have found it?

This is really specific because that's what just happened to me.
I've been thinking over a movie I was really obsessed with as a teen called 'The Children's Hour' starring Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine. Then I remembered coming across this movie because of a random video I saw on youtube waaay back in the 2000s. It was a parody with Bertie and Ernie acting out a scene from The Children's Hour that lead me to looking it up and finding a fan video with clips from the movie using a Plumb song.
In any case, years later I could not find this parody anywhere since I didn't think to save the link to the video and typing up 'Children's Hour' With Bert & Ernie mostly lead to actual sesame street clips.

Today I'm in the middle of watching a long lost media ice berg video and paused it to randomly search for Bert and Ernie The Children's Hour on DuckDuckGo - And a Wikipedia article about it just pops up.
With a link to the video. I think it might actually be the video that I had watched on YT because its dated 17 years ago in 2006. I kind of feel like screaming right now.

Just as a heads up in case anyone looks it up; both The Children's Hour and the parody video (Ernest and Bertram) features suicide as well as homophobia/internalized homophobia.
Also the video to the parody I was looking for:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TeNdsoCIgc

there's also Brokecookie Mountain, which is a Bert and Ernie slash parody of guess what movie?

Ringing Bell. I found it back before YouTube was as big. Very fucked up anime. https://youtu.be/DQt8CqVPNC4

I wish I could find the original version of an old Pam Grier movie, Sheba, Baby. The dvd of it has a bunch of stuff cut out and somehow that new version seems to be the master everywhere I look :(

I recently found an online copy of a tarot deck I hadn't seen since the 80's. Unfortunately the art wasn't anywhere near as impressive as I remembered it.

This is reminding me of a time when I went looking for the art of Candyland, and come to find out that there have been so many redesigns that it took going to the fandom wiki for the game (which I had no idea existed) to narrow it down to the one I was picturing in my head. I liked the art better as a kid, but it didn't really disappoint.

But everything else about the experience was more suprising than I would have guessed. I had no idea that it was originally designed by a schoolteacher who was recovering from some illness in a hospital, in the middle of an epidemic of childhood polio, and drew a simple boardgame intended to entertain children who had low energy levels, many of whom were too young to know how to read. Hit me right in the feels, though, when I realized 1) that the original boy and girl were wearing leg braces, and 2) the end of the path when people won the game back then was just getting to go "home" - from the hospital.

I found that wiki you were talking about. The cultural evolution of the game is very interesting! (I don't think I played it as a kid-- or if I did, I'm too old to remember now!)

AYRT

Yeah, I thought so, too.

I had this children's cassette tape with a weird mix of stuff on it (songs, rhymes, short stories). And one of those stories was something creepy, someone sleeping in an old castle and the ghost of a knight scaring them. And I loved scary stories as a kid and remembered this story fondly. But we spent have this tape anymore and I wasn't sure what the name of it was. And it was driving me insane.
And a few years ago, I actually went on Ebay and found a tape I thought it might have been but wasn't sure about and just bought it on a whim. And it was the right one! I digitalised it immediately and now I finally have peace lol

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