Oddity Archive: Season 5
Season 5 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Oddity Archive Season 4.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 5 Progress Shield
How I Spent My Summer III
Jul 7, 2016 · 29 min
A little success, a little failure, a little intrigue, a little frustration. In other words, your standard between-season break for Ben.
Record Ripoffs Vol. 6 (98% 70's-free!)
Jul 21, 2016 · 34 min
…dragging the Record Ripoff concept kicking and screaming out of the 70’s. What the hell was I thinking?!?
Home Shopping Channels
Aug 4, 2016 · 27 min
Have your credit cards handy because we're about to launch our own Home-Shopping-type channel! What could possibly go wrong?
LaserKaraoke Vol. 4 (+ VHS Karaoke Vol. 1)
Aug 18, 2016 · 50 min
Crank it up and sing along! The madness will naturally follow.
Ben's Random Audiocassette Haul
Sep 1, 2016 · 39 min
Oddity Archive®: Now in ULTRA lo-fi!
Talking House Transmitter Redux (or, Part 15 Microbroadcasting: The Final Chapter?)
Sep 15, 2016 · 30 min
Oddity Archive: Your home for absurd, costly and borderline-useless “broadcast” experiments since 2015!
The Official Oddity Archive Guide To Retro A/V
Sep 29, 2016 · 56 min
…because I haven’t REALLY opened myself up to mass criticism for a long time now.
Conelrad (Halloween Special 2016)
Oct 27, 2016 · 27 min
This is your Civil Defense announcer speaking (er, typing) with a VERY important message. But first, this nearly 27-minute Oddity Archive episode. NOTE: Yes, I’m well aware that
VHS Vault Vol. 10 (Learning With The Stars)
Nov 10, 2016 · 32 min
…because as we all know, learning is most fun with famous people.
Top 10 Gaming Turkeys (of the 80's and 90's)
Nov 24, 2016 · 26 min
Another Thanksgiving episode? Must be time to unload some more proverbial turkeys (now more cynically than ever)!
The Official Oddity Archive® Idiot’s Guide To A/V Transfer
Dec 8, 2016 · 46 min
The second (and hopefully final) installment in the Archive’s “Idiot’s Guide” how-to series.
Christmas Special 2016 (A Musical Masochist's Christmas)
Dec 22, 2016 · 34 min
The most deep-hurtingest Christmas ever!
VideoGuide (+2 other early Interactive Program Guides)
Jan 5, 2017 · 20 min
Looking at the Interactive Program Guide’s especially awkward adolescence.
Local TV Vol. 5 (More Local Commercials)
Jan 19, 2017 · 25 min
Bargain Bennie is having his all-time biggest sale on local (and regional) TV commercials! Get ‘em before they’re gone!
VHS Vault Vol. 11(D-I-V-O-R-C-E)
Feb 2, 2017 · 28 min
‘Tis the season for love—and love gone down the garbage disposer.
Minidisc
Mar 2, 2017 · 25 min
It’s (100% showtune-free) Musical March (read: Audio Geek March, “Musical March” is just a lot catchier) in Archiveland! Let’s kick it off with a little reevaluation of a format t
Ben Vs. The Reel-To-Reel
Mar 16, 2017 · 37 min
Oddity Archive®: Now with new Superlife® coating!
DBX Noise Reduction System
Mar 30, 2017 · 25 min
And welcome to the Oddity Archive…the show that rapidly contracts and expands—but clearly not rapidly enough.
Ben's Random Reel-To-Reel Haul
Apr 13, 2017 · 44 min
A mere 5 years in the making! You’d never know it though…
Useless VHS Tapes
Apr 27, 2017 · 34 min
No, this isn’t about those 100 million (or more) copies of “Titanic” and “Jerry Maguire”—useless as they are.
Going (Proto-)Mobile! (Sony Data Discman & Apple Newton)
May 11, 2017 · 29 min
With all this talk of so-called “mobile devices” these days, it seemed worth taking a look into.
Video Magazines (or, Oddity Archive: Issue #126)
May 25, 2017 · 36 min
And welcome to the Oddity Ar-ar-ar-ar-ar-arc-arch-(SLAP)-Archive!