The dad tape do not touch is a joke from a time in which i was a kid. Dad's would have a reputation to have a tape that they save the games like soccer or hocker or football etc etc and they would write DONT TOUCH so the kids dont record over it. Here kids clearly took dad tape and recorded over it...
lol yeah. VHS tapes had a little tab on the side of it. If you removed the tab, it would make it so it couldnt be recorded onto, which is what I would do to my tapes just in case. But, if you wanted to record onto them anyway, just cover the gap left from the removed tab with scotch tape and off you go.
I love the home VHS "School recital" where the subtitles are just completely roasting the kids with stuff like "off-key singing" "terrible trumpets" and stuff like that. You should definitely show it off in a future part, it's amazing.
I found a VHS tape in a house in between West Point and Louisville and it was just called "Home VHS tape" so I popped it in the TV and a guy said he was going to his workplace and the crossroads mall and execute his boss, but was delayed because of the starting of the Knox event causing all phones to shut down and he didnt know if his boss was even there. It caught me off guard as it was the only home tape I had seen up until now.
With that name (J W Smallbone? Wasn't it?) Might also be a reference to an old 1980's SciFi movie called 'the adventure's of Buckaroo Banzai in the 8th dimension' All the aliens in there go by 'John' as their first name, and there are some very weird sounding surnames. John Yahyah, John Smallberries and John Bigbootay, ones that stuck in my mind. If the CCCW is based in 'Grovers Mill' then yeah, its one of the Lectroids for the 8th dimension, lol. (Ironic, that an alien is making money from calling out other aliens XD)
With the mention of "level 1" I think it also might be a reference to Fallout's Hubologists and their AHS rankings, that you need to donate to go up through.
@@zomiekitteh The Hubologists are a direct reference to Scientology, which was founded by L. Ron Hubbard and requires you to pay for each level on their "bridge" to enlightenment.
I remember finding a VHS tape showing news clips talking about a “flesh eating virus” and how it caused an incident in Raleigh in 1991. Then it randomly cuts out and says a bunch of numbers. I made a post about it on the zomboid subreddit and it didn’t get much attention. Some real lore stuff
In the time of VHS video you would get video cassettes with special labels like, dads vhs do not tape over. In the game the tape has been recorded over as it's a kids show, a throw back to family life in the late 70's early 80's
"Let's keep them in..." "Our thoughts and prayers!" Man, I'm starting to love the devs. ...And I think the Dad's Tapes might be swapped for whatever reason...
No, it's actually a reference to how dads used to record tapes of sports and write "DAD'S TAPE" to make sure kids wouldn't record over it and delete the old footage, which based on what you find on the tape is what happened
@@maxifire32 Oh right, yeah, but I was kinda referring to Tape #4 where it's just... A perfectly normal episode of Hug Bunnies. Unless there's something else about the tape? This might be swapped with the next one.
I know there is a tape that trains in metalworking called "vof" or something. I also found the super rare tape with top secret classified speculation about the secret military base and testing. Can't check exactly because that character became a zombie buffet.
There is a police tape that you cannot find in VHS stores but is probably the rarest in the game. 750 xp reload and 750 aiming xp. I need to find it but anyone else knows where to look for it?
Yeah, my brother had quite the vhs tape collection in the 90s. If we had somehow survived a zombie apocalypse, we definitely would have hoarded a collection.
Im surprised you didnt mention the CONSPIRACY CRAP vhs it talks about the secret laboratory west of rosewood, chilling stuff... Excellent video regardless!
6:45 German (non-)smartass here, its actually "So with this kind of service, your hotel pulls the competitors the sausage out of the sandwich!" according to my bad amazing translate skills
This still doesn't make sense in English- is it "Your hotel pulls the competitors sausage out of the sandwich" or something like it? THe "the competitors the sausage" doesn't make sense unless it's a list, which it being acted upon means it isn't
I've seen plenty of the home vhs tapes. They usualy lie around in boxes in storage units or mostly empty (recently moved in or out of) homes. Maybe in the back of clossets or in a broom closset in some rarer instances.they're ultimetely immersion. You're in the late 90s. There would indeed be plenty home media lying around for you to be reminded of days gone.. never to return.
About the "So with this kind of service, your hotel pulls the sausage out of the sandwich!": The sort of literal translation is actually "..., your hotel pulls the sausage out of your competitor's sandwich." It's not an idiom in German but I'm guessing (since there are quite a few sausage related idioms in German) it means: With this kind of service you are drawing your competitor's customers to your hotel. What makes this joke work so well is obviously that the sausage in this context alludes to something else..
8:00 This is a reference to the Imagine video that celebrities did in 2020 I think where they sang Imagine by John Lennon and it was awful and super out of touch.
That "maths equations" tape makes it incredibly clear what it is, a maths tape that has had more private content saved over it, clearly the person who owned it hoped that the maths intro would bore whoever stumbled across it and make them stop watching.
The hollywood insider thing is really cool given that if you start the game in louisville you actually can't watch or listen to the news channels without getting a ton of static (at least that's how it was last time I played)
I once found a tape called hello grandpa or something like that. It was in my starting house, i tought it was for my character and added a new layer for him, since it looked like he had a life before the apocalypse
I actually found two Home VHS when me and my friends scavenging at Muldraugh. There's a VHS shop at north of the gas station and we found em there. I was actually surprised about the existence of these things.
I have a feeling Hollywood Insider Special is a reference to the vapid video of celebrities singing "Imagine" by John Lennon at the beginning of the pandemic. Otherwise, it's pretty prophetic.
Nice one! Also the new added ones have scripts on their covers, and some of them are... interesting to say the least. Waiting for a followup video though!
Some home VHS tapes would be very nice to have, such as "RMFA" and "Combat Wound management," the only tapes that give lots of medical XP. Unfortunately, there's only one of each... in a world with at least *Hundreds of Thousands* of potential hiding places, randomized each playthrough. So without mods or 'cheats', you likely have a better chance of winning real-world lotteries than finding those tapes.
Being the age I am my parents had a VCR and there were definitely "dad's tapes" and we did record over one of them one time and he was cross, we didn't know what was on it but I assume it was something to do with a plumber.
@- No uh we put it in the VCR when we were kids cause we wanted to see what it was because there was lots of good movies they taped from HBO and it was definitely not sports, it was physical though.
Yeah, imagine if a bunch of rich out of touch celebrities got together and recorded themselves singing to a bunch of people who were under some sort of lockdown, trapped in their homes with nothing to do but watch TV and the fear of death around every corner. Would be pretty crazy, wouldn't it? Wouldn't it?
Dads in the 90's were always trying to record some sporting events or TV show and everyone was always recording their crap over it 😂. (Not a porn reference)
I haven't seen one of the home vhs tapes in so long I'd forgotten about them but now that you've reminded me I'm sure there was one I had that gave tailoring XP.
I think that the joke of the “dad’s tape do not touch” was that he was going to tape over an episode of hug bunnies with another pornographic video, but didn’t get around to it (because of the zombie apocalypse) and so far he only wrote the title on it.
Dads in the 90's weren't leaving porn around for their kids to find. It's a joke about Dads trying to record something (usually sports) and their kids recording over it. The gag usually revolved around trying to not hear the results before getting a chance to watch it.
@@nerfherder4284 considering how much other pornographic videos there were I wouldn’t be surprised if my hunch was correct. Especially when you consider that the video right afterwards was German porn taped over an episode of Hug Bunnies.
I got one Hometape on my current save, it's AAAAND half the house reset i got all the tapes for nothing and i also don't have a tv anymore. I hate this game too often.
I think tape #8 is more a jab at how celebs were doing over covid, where they sang some bullshit about all being in this together? It was pretty funny at the time
Tape number two is a hint to the church of scientology which has the exact same ideologies as showed on tape but then asks for money at the end, obvious scam
The most unrealistic one is the celebrities actually thinking it would be a good idea to get together and sing a vapid song from the absolute safety of their mansions. No one would ever do something that lacking in self-awareness in the middle of a viral pandemic, it would be too cringe to even imagine.
Do you seriously not understand why Dad's tape has the bunny part? (He clearly video taped porn over his child's cartoon tape). But maybe you were born after the VHS generation, so that might explain why that confused you,lol.
The dad tape do not touch is a joke from a time in which i was a kid. Dad's would have a reputation to have a tape that they save the games like soccer or hocker or football etc etc and they would write DONT TOUCH so the kids dont record over it. Here kids clearly took dad tape and recorded over it...
lol yeah. VHS tapes had a little tab on the side of it. If you removed the tab, it would make it so it couldnt be recorded onto, which is what I would do to my tapes just in case. But, if you wanted to record onto them anyway, just cover the gap left from the removed tab with scotch tape and off you go.
Well I learned something new today.
I feel sorry for all the dads out there who were victims of it
Not only vhs. Audio cassettes too. This tab pushed a button inside the device that allowed recording.
I can think of another reason mom and dad would have a tape labelled mom's/dad's vhs tape do not touch....
I love the home VHS "School recital" where the subtitles are just completely roasting the kids with stuff like "off-key singing" "terrible trumpets" and stuff like that. You should definitely show it off in a future part, it's amazing.
I wrote this lol
well as a child who sung in school I can confirm that our singing was absolute garbage and the instruments were not much better.
Yep, only good instrument for children is harmonica because it sounds good with the wrong notes.
Man, I sure am glad that the game has a bunch of obscure porn vhs tapes for my friends to find in the collection and discover in horror.
A lot of German for some reason?
@@unoriginalperson72 devs must have an "acquired taste"
I found a VHS tape in a house in between West Point and Louisville and it was just called "Home VHS tape" so I popped it in the TV and a guy said he was going to his workplace and the crossroads mall and execute his boss, but was delayed because of the starting of the Knox event causing all phones to shut down and he didnt know if his boss was even there. It caught me off guard as it was the only home tape I had seen up until now.
Falling Down?
that boss is real lucky that the end of the world stopped a public shooting
@@unoriginalperson72 but would we count dead bodies walking around a public shooting
@@unoriginalperson72 role play as the boss. Your mistreated employees finally come for you... as zeds.
@@unoriginalperson72 speaking of public attacks, did you realise in this timeline Ted the Unabomber is active but never caught?
The CCCW tape is totally a dig at scientology with the "vibroids" thing
With that name (J W Smallbone? Wasn't it?)
Might also be a reference to an old 1980's SciFi movie called 'the adventure's of Buckaroo Banzai in the 8th dimension'
All the aliens in there go by 'John' as their first name, and there are some very weird sounding surnames.
John Yahyah, John Smallberries and John Bigbootay, ones that stuck in my mind.
If the CCCW is based in 'Grovers Mill' then yeah, its one of the Lectroids for the 8th dimension, lol.
(Ironic, that an alien is making money from calling out other aliens XD)
With the mention of "level 1" I think it also might be a reference to Fallout's Hubologists and their AHS rankings, that you need to donate to go up through.
@@zomiekitteh The Hubologists are a direct reference to Scientology, which was founded by L. Ron Hubbard and requires you to pay for each level on their "bridge" to enlightenment.
@@sinisterbutterfli Even the weird space stuff is a reference to Scientology.
scientology, my dad cant escape from them
I remember finding a VHS tape showing news clips talking about a “flesh eating virus” and how it caused an incident in Raleigh in 1991. Then it randomly cuts out and says a bunch of numbers. I made a post about it on the zomboid subreddit and it didn’t get much attention. Some real lore stuff
i think i remember that post
Thats so interesting 😮
You remember the name of that tape?
@@RandomGuy-xr6ll i think it was just "news" or "home" or something like that. Probably news.
Leprosy 2
is tape #8 a joke about that time a bunch of actors sang Imagine by John Lennon during lockdown?
If so thats hilarious
I can confirm this is true! As I wrote it
@@patbren293 lol, if so than great work man.
Quite possibly. It's equally trite and meaningless when applied to the actual issue.
@@patbren293 if that’s true, thank you! Little jabs like that being added are hilarious and keep me on my toes when I’m looting vhs stores
In the time of VHS video you would get video cassettes with special labels like, dads vhs do not tape over. In the game the tape has been recorded over as it's a kids show, a throw back to family life in the late 70's early 80's
I love the historical accuracy in this game
"Let's keep them in..."
"Our thoughts and prayers!"
Man, I'm starting to love the devs.
...And I think the Dad's Tapes might be swapped for whatever reason...
No, it's actually a reference to how dads used to record tapes of sports and write "DAD'S TAPE" to make sure kids wouldn't record over it and delete the old footage, which based on what you find on the tape is what happened
@@maxifire32 Oh right, yeah, but I was kinda referring to Tape #4 where it's just... A perfectly normal episode of Hug Bunnies. Unless there's something else about the tape? This might be swapped with the next one.
As a German Iam terrified by this game now
Döitsch moment
I am incredibly sorry for you
I know there is a tape that trains in metalworking called "vof" or something. I also found the super rare tape with top secret classified speculation about the secret military base and testing. Can't check exactly because that character became a zombie buffet.
it's like "vof vid" and its pretty much a metalworking 1-3 freebie
The effort of this man finding the tapes is 💯 persistence! You're a legend!
There is a police tape that you cannot find in VHS stores but is probably the rarest in the game. 750 xp reload and 750 aiming xp. I need to find it but anyone else knows where to look for it?
Home vhs tapes are pretty rare, but some are quite useful like the Muldraugh AV club one helps skip the grind for electronics
I remember the first time I found this one.
Thought the AV stood for something else ! 😂
@@georgewash8926a man of culture I see
@@albertoandrade9807I don't get it
Yeah, my brother had quite the vhs tape collection in the 90s. If we had somehow survived a zombie apocalypse, we definitely would have hoarded a collection.
That first tape he shows is like that "homework" folder a lot of us have in VHS format.
I'm from germany and you wont believe how many times I deinstalled all mods and the game because I thought the VHS tapes had a language bug.
Im surprised you didnt mention the CONSPIRACY CRAP vhs it talks about the secret laboratory west of rosewood, chilling stuff... Excellent video regardless!
I've had that one in my sights from the start, still haven't found it, thanks for the info!
*turns out, there is infact sex in project zomboid.*
6:45 German (non-)smartass here,
its actually "So with this kind of service, your hotel pulls the competitors the sausage out of the sandwich!" according to my bad amazing translate skills
This still doesn't make sense in English- is it "Your hotel pulls the competitors sausage out of the sandwich" or something like it? THe "the competitors the sausage" doesn't make sense unless it's a list, which it being acted upon means it isn't
The "Sausage" is a certain part of a guy and the "sandwich" might be a certain part of a woman from the evidence given
4:14 Havent laughed that intense for days
You really have earned my L&S!
me too, it was great :d
these are great! legendary stuff
Komp!
so when can we use our unfurled drain snakes on the zomboids?
Plumbing update: coming soon
A reference to real life right there with Tape 8, but in the game they where smart enough to not air it^^
İt is like they were aware it made them look completely retarded
But if it wasnt aired thst what was it doing in civillian homes ?
yeah it's a reference to when celebrities sang "Imagine" during the covid pandemic
I've seen plenty of the home vhs tapes. They usualy lie around in boxes in storage units or mostly empty (recently moved in or out of) homes. Maybe in the back of clossets or in a broom closset in some rarer instances.they're ultimetely immersion. You're in the late 90s. There would indeed be plenty home media lying around for you to be reminded of days gone.. never to return.
German pornography included...at least twice apparently...
The Dog Goblin as a Smoker Veteran: "I'm mildly more awake now."
About the "So with this kind of service, your hotel pulls the sausage out of the sandwich!":
The sort of literal translation is actually "..., your hotel pulls the sausage out of your competitor's sandwich."
It's not an idiom in German but I'm guessing (since there are quite a few sausage related idioms in German) it means: With this kind of service you are drawing your competitor's customers to your hotel.
What makes this joke work so well is obviously that the sausage in this context alludes to something else..
8:00 This is a reference to the Imagine video that celebrities did in 2020 I think where they sang Imagine by John Lennon and it was awful and super out of touch.
some of the references in this game are next level
thats too funny xD
Yep that's ✅️
That "maths equations" tape makes it incredibly clear what it is, a maths tape that has had more private content saved over it, clearly the person who owned it hoped that the maths intro would bore whoever stumbled across it and make them stop watching.
Same thing with Washington high
The hollywood insider thing is really cool given that if you start the game in louisville you actually can't watch or listen to the news channels without getting a ton of static (at least that's how it was last time I played)
The Hollywood Insider tape seems like a dig at the "Imagine There's no Heaven" debacle from 2020
Yeah PZ devs seem to love putting hidden inside jokes and references in the game.
8:02-8:33 That's a reference to Hollywood Celebrities signin' that God awful cover of Imagine durin' Covid.
I once found a tape called hello grandpa or something like that. It was in my starting house, i tought it was for my character and added a new layer for him, since it looked like he had a life before the apocalypse
I remember watching playing with bruce, really wholesome
I actually found two Home VHS when me and my friends scavenging at Muldraugh. There's a VHS shop at north of the gas station and we found em there. I was actually surprised about the existence of these things.
I have a feeling Hollywood Insider Special is a reference to the vapid video of celebrities singing "Imagine" by John Lennon at the beginning of the pandemic. Otherwise, it's pretty prophetic.
Thats amazing these devs love their little jokes
should like an inspiring challenge: As a nomad, collect all home VHS tape.
3:10 5$ in 1993 is 10 bucks 41 cents today, hell no I am not donating to the church, I am staying with vibroids and a pringles can!
I actually wrote most of these, thanks for the great vid!
Even the ones with German 😳?
@@RayCist. No
@@RayCist.no that was me
Nice one! Also the new added ones have scripts on their covers, and some of them are... interesting to say the least. Waiting for a followup video though!
The “Edward Stack” tapes have gotta be a reference to Unsolved Mysteries hosted by Robert Stack.
if anyone is wondering, the song that plays in the background of tape #2 is “the empty moons of jupiter” by divkid
I hate to notice this bit of the video but the person introducing themselves in the first tape is a female Professor not a male lol.
Joan Grim's daughter.... yeah, that sounds about right
My brain must've been on airplane mode how did I not notice that :DD
Some home VHS tapes would be very nice to have, such as "RMFA" and "Combat Wound management," the only tapes that give lots of medical XP. Unfortunately, there's only one of each... in a world with at least *Hundreds of Thousands* of potential hiding places, randomized each playthrough. So without mods or 'cheats', you likely have a better chance of winning real-world lotteries than finding those tapes.
Tape #1 just like a Pornhub scenario XD
8:12 I can imagine someone getting mowed to death by zombies while this aired
That like and subscribe bit got me
Tape 3 is making fun of unsolved mysteries, with Robert Stack
5:39 that sonic image combined with the context had me bursting out laughing lmao
This is the type of PZ content I wish more people did I am so glad I foudn your channel
When game gets too real
“That’s how we kept warm in the bundeswher”. Nothing like a little camaraderie.
As South Park perfectly put it: "Dude, what the fuck is wrong with German people?"
u should look out for a tape called "final regards" its recorded very recently and its quite intresting
Being the age I am my parents had a VCR and there were definitely "dad's tapes" and we did record over one of them one time and he was cross, we didn't know what was on it but I assume it was something to do with a plumber.
@- No uh we put it in the VCR when we were kids cause we wanted to see what it was because there was lots of good movies they taped from HBO and it was definitely not sports, it was physical though.
Yeah, imagine if a bunch of rich out of touch celebrities got together and recorded themselves singing to a bunch of people who were under some sort of lockdown, trapped in their homes with nothing to do but watch TV and the fear of death around every corner.
Would be pretty crazy, wouldn't it?
Wouldn't it?
tape 3 is totally fitting inthe 1990's satanic pannic
I was convinced at least 4 of these VHS tapes are pornos.
You played Project Zomboid as Rich Evans.
theres so many taped over episodes from dad.. intresting
One dad is just a child at heart and the other is.... You get it
Dads in the 90's were always trying to record some sporting events or TV show and everyone was always recording their crap over it 😂. (Not a porn reference)
or maybe the dad's kids got hold of the tape and recorded over it
in my latest solo run, the second house i went into had the "Basic Gun Handling (Officer Use Only)" pretty cool
Does it surpass "Surviving Edged Weapons" in quality? Because that's the best police training video ever.
me ( a german ) watching this just asking myself if my brain is combusting in on itself.
The first one got me so hard I almost puked from laughing.
i founded 2 of this VHS one is jason birthaday e another was a marry
You forgot about the best of them all the Police training one that gives Aiming and reload
Yeah but I wanna know if Bruce is still ok after all of this.
I got the birthday party home tape! All it does is reduce boredom
They should add the Ringu VHS tape, and u die one week later if u watch a TV again, imagine they did a special zombie for it coming out of the TV
FYI u dont actually need to search for these tapes to make the video lol, u could just get a mod to spawn them in
Me and my friends found the DAD'S DO NOT TOUCH VHS. It was in my pals spawn house, but I don't recalls it being anything Raunchy.
getting long blunt xp from the tape. I'm pretty sure watching porn won't likely give that much combat exp. Perhaps it's a murdering footage.
I haven't seen one of the home vhs tapes in so long I'd forgotten about them but now that you've reminded me I'm sure there was one I had that gave tailoring XP.
Ofcouse the adult VSH tape with "chocolate pudding" is in German.
Is no one going to talk about how dope that thumbnail pic is?
I think that the joke of the “dad’s tape do not touch” was that he was going to tape over an episode of hug bunnies with another pornographic video, but didn’t get around to it (because of the zombie apocalypse) and so far he only wrote the title on it.
Dads in the 90's weren't leaving porn around for their kids to find. It's a joke about Dads trying to record something (usually sports) and their kids recording over it. The gag usually revolved around trying to not hear the results before getting a chance to watch it.
@@nerfherder4284 Or it was clickbait :P
@@nerfherder4284 considering how much other pornographic videos there were I wouldn’t be surprised if my hunch was correct. Especially when you consider that the video right afterwards was German porn taped over an episode of Hug Bunnies.
I got one Hometape on my current save, it's AAAAND half the house reset i got all the tapes for nothing and i also don't have a tv anymore. I hate this game too often.
bro was gonna get shot by the British (IRELAND VACATION 1989)
This dude has clearly never used a VHS tape if he didn't understand the Dad's tape joke
I have found one useless one and the cop training one that one gives a good amount of xp
I think tape #8 is more a jab at how celebs were doing over covid, where they sang some bullshit about all being in this together? It was pretty funny at the time
the pastor tape is a play on scientology lol
#7
My girlfriend that has been 2 months sober is high again. Feels bad man.
so the CCCW and the church of wellness tape is a parody of scientology
Why do I always get jumpscared by German
Tape number two is a hint to the church of scientology which has the exact same ideologies as showed on tape but then asks for money at the end, obvious scam
cool video dude
5:45 either the kids recorded over dad’s tape, or dad got them mixed up…ruh roh
The most unrealistic one is the celebrities actually thinking it would be a good idea to get together and sing a vapid song from the absolute safety of their mansions. No one would ever do something that lacking in self-awareness in the middle of a viral pandemic, it would be too cringe to even imagine.
Okay, the bruce one made me sad :(
I only play Project Zomboid for the lore
You should have seen the look on me and my friends faces when we popped in 'dog goblin' and our characters spooked themselves nearly to death
Do you seriously not understand why Dad's tape has the bunny part? (He clearly video taped porn over his child's cartoon tape). But maybe you were born after the VHS generation, so that might explain why that confused you,lol.
i just found Signs of Satanism the other day
Thank you for finding my tape sir 🤣
ok dude whens part 2 for this
I found a tape where it was a documentary about a haunted Cabin/House East of valley Station
Some of the signs of satanism is just wtf
tape #2 is a reference to scientology
For skill ones, the two tailoring vhs probably the ones hardest to find :x ...
Idk what happened to my brain but I thought it read "Rare Vapes" in the title.