Oddity Archive: Season 8
Season 8 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 7.
- 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 8 Progress Shield
How I Spent My Summer VI (The Great A/V Overhaul of 2019)
Jul 11, 2019 · 35 min
Ben gets far more than he bargained for…and it was hardly a bargain.
Record Ripoffs Vol. 9 (HITS on the '60's!)
Jul 25, 2019 · 32 min
A special limited addition—because we don’t think this’ll sell too well.
The Right Way To Tape Record (1965-Style)
Aug 8, 2019 · 36 min
Oddity Archive®: On the cutting edge of amateur, home recording (as of 1965).
Scanimate
Aug 22, 2019 · 19 min
A banquet of oversaturated and generation-lossy goodness from the Archive! Fill-in-the-blankwave fans will love it.
Local TV Vol. 7: Dialing For Dollars (& other Franchised Game Shows)
Sep 5, 2019 · 21 min
…and the jackpot goes up to 178…episodes, that is!
LaserKaraoke Vol. 7 (Golden Moldies)
Sep 19, 2019 · 37 min
Our seventh annual marathon of soft rock and mullets…lots and lots of mullets.
Employee Training Videos Vol. 2 (Loss Prevention)
Oct 3, 2019 · 28 min
…or, Ben enters the Loss Prevention Protection Program.
Random Reel-To-Reel Tapes Vol. 2 (featuring "The Ballad of Tom")
Oct 17, 2019 · 39 min
Another batch of (no more than) 7.5ips goodness…straight from the hea-a-a-arrt.
After Hours (Transmitter Maintenance) (Halloween Special 2019)
Oct 31, 2019 · 21 min
It takes a LOT of sacrifice to maintain the Archive…
Video8 (8mm Video) (and its children)
Nov 14, 2019 · 23 min
Getting the History of Home Video train back on track with the first great (albeit rather dull) camcorder format.
Top 10 Earworms (to date)
Nov 28, 2019 · 26 min
Guaranteed to get stuck in your head for days…er, weeks…er, months…er, years after viewing!
Christmas Special 2019 (Ben's Christmas Kookies)
Dec 19, 2019 · 42 min
Would you please make welcome to the Archive…tap-dancing Christmas trees, teddy bears that can wipe out entire armies and…Dennis.
Future Oddities 2: A Kissoff To The 2010's
Jan 1, 2020 · 19 min
Saying goodbye to the decade that brought us selfies, Alexa, and fidget spinners…and not a minute too soon.
History of VHS, Vol. 1 (the '70's)
Jan 16, 2020 · 22 min
A history lesson so big, it’s gonna have to be its own subseries.
Theatrical Policy Trailers
Jan 30, 2020 · 24 min
Please silence your phones, mobile devices and other electronics…actually don’t. You won’t be able to hear this episode otherwise.
VHS (& Beta) Vault Vol. 16 (A (cautious) Romantic Tale)
Feb 13, 2020 · 32 min
It’s a love obsession at the Archive!
Special Bulletins (or, we Interrupt This Archive...)
Feb 27, 2020 · 40 min
We interrupt this episode of Oddity Archive to bring you…a bunch of other interruptions.
Ben's Music "Career" Vol. 4: Greetings From Elderbush Gulch
Mar 12, 2020 · 42 min
Time to leave the ol’ cassette 4-tracker behind…
Ben's Random Audiocassette Haul #3
Apr 9, 2020 · 28 min
A springtime-fresh bouquet of ferric (or chrome) goodness!
History of VHS, Vol. 2 (Format Wars & VHS-C)
Apr 23, 2020 · 26 min
Oddity Archive®: Now in our exclusive EP (Endless Play) Mode!
Local TV Vol. 8 (Even More Local Commercials)
May 7, 2020 · 23 min
…or, the Archive’s idea of nocturnal delight.
(Semi-)Lost TV Series (Personal Favorites)
May 21, 2020 · 20 min
Some shows were pre-destined to land in the dumpster or collide with the ol’ bulk eraser…here are five of them that have (at least) somewhat cheated fate.
Switched-On Archive (Carlosploitation)
Jun 4, 2020 · 31 min
…or, how an unlikely hit album launched an even more unlikely tidal wave of cash-ins and imitators. In a way, it’s the perfect Archivism.