Definitely! I was wrong about the background and the mountain set, but otherwise I accurately remembered the fog, most of the dialogue, and of course the Bald Man's appearance/voice!
I live near Harrisburg and also remember this commercial airing sometime in 1995 and/or 1996 but could not find a video of it on RUclips. I thought it was a strange commercial and thought they said “Subway South” at the time and made fun of it at school, but I agree it was probably “Subway Subs”.
Go ahead and skip to 5:04 to see the LEGO reenactment, if you've already read about the lost commercial's background/synopsis. I plan on eventually just uploading the reenactment segment as a standalone video, so people can share it with more brevity.
I wish you luck in your quest. I had a similar (but less bizarre) experience trying to track down a song used in the teaser trailer for the show Angel. I finally found a reel on RUclips that included it. It was most satisfying, though now I can't recall the song. May the truth be out there for you.
Yeah, it's always satisfying to track down obscure media. By the way, there's a subreddit called r/tipofmytongue -- I go there every now and then to see if I can identify songs and TV shows for people!
I literally stumbled upon this video while on break from my shift at Subway. Sadly I'm just a sandwich artist so I probably can't offer much, but I hope this can gain attention and the ad can be found. Best of luck.
To this day I quote this commercial back and forth with my little brother. I remember the script EXACTLY as you quoted it. Verbatim. I was also about your age. We need to find this thing!
Julius, you used me at 1:00 Ha Ha! Is that from the video I made when I worked at Lancaster threaded products? This is only your third video I have watched. I sure picked some good ones.
Definitely! I was able to digitize the VHS footage from your video at LTP in the '80s. I'll send you the full video with the audio cleaned up, in case you'd like to upload it to your RUclips channel.
@@baron_von_brunk Yes I would upload to my channel. I am composing an email to you. The email shall arrive on the 14th of January or the 15th. Your talents amaze me son.
This is a re-upload: last week I accidentally published this video first instead of the Shaggy Mech Suit video, and then after I realized the mistake I made it private! Nonetheless, please share this with your cronies, mates, amigos, and fellow deviants to hopefully solve this mystery!
I 100% bet that this was made by a local advertising agency. Considering all factors, it could even be an “un-official” ad done by a franchise owner? I don’t know a lot about advertising licensing so I have no idea. Good luck, hope you find it!
Thanks! Yeah, as a bunch of Redditors pointed out, they recalled seeing this same commercial being used for Mr. Sub in Canada and Quiznos in the Midwest. They've said that those other sub restaurants were notorious for having low-quality commercials, so we've developed a theory that this commercial originated from one of those restaurants, and that Subway franchises on the East Coast licensed their usage.
Baron Julius von Brunk If it aired in Canada it’s a chance I probably have it on tape, I buy & archive Canadian TV recordings from recorded VHS, I have hundreds of tapes, but I’ll make sure to keep an eye out. Imagine if I find it lol. Will keep updated.
I'm probably of comparable age and grew up in the midwest. i'm just hearing about your quest today for the first time. i read the reddit post and immediately had a memory of subway commercial from the 90's featuring a moses/ 2 tablets kind of thing. I definitely remember two mens standing on a rock with bad beards, but it was definitely Moses-y. i don't remember any low quality standing out. Now i think i'm just mixing up a bunch of different weird commercials. I know you're invested at this point, but how can you be so sure that it's not something that you're combining from various pop culture memories? not disrespect intended. I just have a pretty solid memory for that sort of thing and i couldn't be totally sure of the wording or edits to a particular commercial from over 20 years ago, so it just makes me wonder how you could be so sure. This feels like one of those Mandela effect things which is not in any way real and one hundred percent just misremembered details frothed up into a conspiracy by others misremembering similar errors. then again, i don't know shit. Whatever the case, good luck in your search.
I recently got a huge collection of VHS tapes recorded throughout the central PA area that have many local commercials (all of which I upload here). It's taking a while to go through, but I'll let you know if I find anything. Just learned about this today!
Yeah, I planned on doing a ton of other various lost/obscure media videos similar to this as a follow-up, but unfortunately most of them had dead ends and were only partially completed. Hence my channel is basically stagnant until I decide to revive those unfinished videos.
Whoa, was I given a shout out? I actually plan on remaking this video to cover any new developments since 2019. I originally made this one a few years ago when I was experimenting with video editing, so it had bizarre cuts and awkward closeups, and the sound was awful. I just moved into a better apartment with better resources to produce videos, so I plan on making more content.
Thanks! Luckily, I was recently contacted by a UK LEGO magazine about potentially publishing a feature about my video, so hopefully this will lead to more people finding out about this mystery!
I remember my mother having a DVD of some sort of children's show. Anyway, its about a purple blob searching town, meeting with other shapes and feeling jealous, as he is not a shape. I have tried to track it down for years, maybe you can help.
While I have not seen this commercial, I have been interested in the story. I know you've discussed the possibility of it being a licensed/redubbed ad. I'd like to bet that it is originally quiznos because the full name of quiznos is quiznos sub, which is likely where "Subway Subs" came from
Baron Julius von Brunk Sounds great. Perhaps you could also try contacting some local Subway executives or franchisees to see it they may have a video recording around. I’d love to see the real thing again as well for nostalgia’s sake.
This commercial seems like it would have been a local/ small town type thing. You know, some local subway auditioning local people to speak in the commercial. It would then make sense if this commercial was low quality
Is this a commercial that you saw only once, or multiple times? And if you saw it multiple times, do you remember the timespan of when you saw it? Unfortunately I can’t help much since I’m from Kentucky and was born in ‘92, so even if I had seen it, I wouldn’t remember it. But I can say that I’m very intrigued. And yes, I will like and share 👍 I’m currently searching Reddit, trying to find a thread with other accounts of this ad, but no luck so far. Great video btw. And I lol’ed when you said “ Subweh! MMMMMMM!”
I remember seeing it on TV pretty often for a few weeks or so, maybe a few months. It was possibly around December '95 to February '96, if my memory serves me well. By the way, if you do come across any Reddit threads about it, chances are they were made by me or my social media followers. I made several Reddit posts for this on my old account in early 2019, and prior to that there were no mentions of the commercial anywhere. Some people also made threads for me and linked my video, so you might stumble upon on of those old threads. Currently on Reddit I'm /u/baron_von_brunk.
@@baron_von_brunk I think that, during the time between my comment and your reply, I found just about every Reddit thread there is on this topic and scoured through them. Incredibly fascinating to read all of these accounts that remember things differently. I did see where you added Kentucky to the list of sightings, so I’ll definitely ask my husband and parents and anyone else who would be old enough to remember. Hopefully the recent video on lost ads from All Things Lost will aid in your search, as that video is how I found out about this lost commercial. Oh yeah; and I forgot to say it in my initial comment, but I’m sure you’ve heard it plenty: the animation is incredible!
@@baron_von_brunk Hey, I just thought of something else. Have you posted on any Facebook groups? There are a TON of 90’s nostalgia groups; I’m in a few. There are also local nostalgia groups, so I’m sure there are at least a few for the Lancaster, PA area. Those 90’s groups are popular and that’s a good opportunity to get it out there.
I also remember another Subway commercial and it was very high in quality. It was one kid who was alone ("Boulevard of Broken Dreams" by Green Day was playing in the background) and he was holding a sub and was eating it while walking down a road. He was in the middle of the road. Just eating the sub. The Background was just a road in the middle of a field. The background was just a loop like the old cartoons. It ends with a picture of a sub for two seconds and slowly fades out. It lasted ten more seconds than the song that was playing. The song was played all the way through.
At one point the original commercial says "nestled in an oven fresh roll graced with subway's universe of extras", at some point your reenactment says "sandwiches each with freshly baked bread and an assortment of delicious toppings". So, um, yeah. Splodlesplurf
Yeah, the montage in the middle was the part where my memory was the most blank. I only remembered random closeups of sandwiches with a voiceover which ended with the "PERFECTION" dissolve. I basically filled the blanks and improvised it.
Thanks! I made this a long time ago, so I was still experimenting with editing and audio, hence the sound may seem off and there's some awkward closeups of my face.
None yet. I spoke with NexPo and they were considering featuring this in a compilation video of short Reddit mysteries, but we never followed up after that.
I offered to trade him a LEGO sculpture in exchange for the VHS tape, but sadly he declined, but instead offered to rip the footage at a higher setting and upscale the quality for me.
But, but, but, why!? You forgot the most important thing, you forgot to tell us why this mystery is so important to you. Just because it's a mystery? There must be more to it than that. There are so many mysteries, why pursue this particular one? If you tell us why it is so important to you, then it may become more important to us as well. Apart for that curiosity, a lovely video :)
It's mostly so I can get closure on the mystery myself, but the reason why I wanted to make a whole mini-documentary was because a few years ago I tweeted about this commercial, and several followers were intrigued by it. We then decided that maybe I could film a documentary about my theories for this commercial, and then reenact its synopsis in the hopes of seeing if anyone else remembered it. What ultimately gave me the green light to make this video was a Reddit post of mine from last summer. In a /r/askreddit thread, someone made a discussion about strange childhood mysteries, where I left a comment about this commercial. My comment got about about 1,000 upvotes and dozens of comments with people baffled by the commercial's premise and asking me to search for it so I could hopefully share it on Reddit. With that said, this gave me incentive to ultimately make this video.
@@cheesemanthe2nd I didn't realise that he was actually the guy who originally started the search. I thought he just randomly decided to make a cartoon about a bad subway ad that went missing for over 20 years.
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The real commercial has been found at last, thanks to the hard work of Lost Media Wiki! ruclips.net/video/tOIZdsgbeAI/видео.html
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Cool.
I found it on my recommendations a day after you found it
@@Andrisiq Isn't life strange like that?
Wow
I am still amazed at how accurate your re-enactment is compared to the real deal now that it is found.
Definitely! I was wrong about the background and the mountain set, but otherwise I accurately remembered the fog, most of the dialogue, and of course the Bald Man's appearance/voice!
Ikr
Subway just needs to get your re-enactment video and make it an ad itself.
Not gonna lie: that's seriously what I'm hoping happens, so they can buy the rights to use my animation and give me free sandwiches for life!
That would be amazing.
The animation was very well done though honestly. Thank you for uploading!
I live near Harrisburg and also remember this commercial airing sometime in 1995 and/or 1996 but could not find a video of it on RUclips. I thought it was a strange commercial and thought they said “Subway South” at the time and made fun of it at school, but I agree it was probably “Subway Subs”.
@@SirGregoireGooch Do you happen to remember which channel you saw it on?
Dycaite Unfortunately I do not.
You recreation was a lot more memorable and fun than the actual commercial
That cover of "Walk, Don't Run" in the background is amazing.
Thanks! I made it in FL Studio using some classical music plugins.
Here after it was found. I watched this way back when it came out.
You have good memory, sir. Most of it is spot on compared to the real deal
Nice LEGO puppet animation
Go ahead and skip to 5:04 to see the LEGO reenactment, if you've already read about the lost commercial's background/synopsis. I plan on eventually just uploading the reenactment segment as a standalone video, so people can share it with more brevity.
I wish you luck in your quest.
I had a similar (but less bizarre) experience trying to track down a song used in the teaser trailer for the show Angel. I finally found a reel on RUclips that included it. It was most satisfying, though now I can't recall the song.
May the truth be out there for you.
Yeah, it's always satisfying to track down obscure media. By the way, there's a subreddit called r/tipofmytongue -- I go there every now and then to see if I can identify songs and TV shows for people!
I'm glad that the actual commercial was found; it actually made me remember this video when I saw it.
I literally stumbled upon this video while on break from my shift at Subway. Sadly I'm just a sandwich artist so I probably can't offer much, but I hope this can gain attention and the ad can be found. Best of luck.
If you have an older supervisor, definitely let them know - if they're close to my age (mid 30s), they might remember!
August Quill Can you possibly tell me how to order that sandwich? I want to try it.
To this day I quote this commercial back and forth with my little brother. I remember the script EXACTLY as you quoted it. Verbatim. I was also about your age. We need to find this thing!
My goal is to track down the real commercial and compare it side by side with my reenactment to see how accurate my memory is!
"And perfection can be yours, take your hunger to, Subway Subs!"
"SuBWAy SuBs!!?!"
You've made me oddly curious about a commercial I've never seen. I'm not even from that area and now I have a duty to help you.
That's the spirit!
I don't have your commercial, but I *did* enjoy the "Walk, Don't Run" playing throughout the video!
I hope you find your commercial, my man!
Haha, thanks -- I'm glad you've noticed!
Julius, you used me at 1:00 Ha Ha! Is that from the video I made when I worked at Lancaster threaded products? This is only your third video I have watched. I sure picked some good ones.
Definitely! I was able to digitize the VHS footage from your video at LTP in the '80s. I'll send you the full video with the audio cleaned up, in case you'd like to upload it to your RUclips channel.
@@baron_von_brunk Yes I would upload to my channel. I am composing an email to you. The email shall arrive on the 14th of January or the 15th. Your talents amaze me son.
This is a re-upload: last week I accidentally published this video first instead of the Shaggy Mech Suit video, and then after I realized the mistake I made it private! Nonetheless, please share this with your cronies, mates, amigos, and fellow deviants to hopefully solve this mystery!
Why is this channel so underrated wow
I 100% bet that this was made by a local advertising agency. Considering all factors, it could even be an “un-official” ad done by a franchise owner? I don’t know a lot about advertising licensing so I have no idea. Good luck, hope you find it!
Thanks! Yeah, as a bunch of Redditors pointed out, they recalled seeing this same commercial being used for Mr. Sub in Canada and Quiznos in the Midwest. They've said that those other sub restaurants were notorious for having low-quality commercials, so we've developed a theory that this commercial originated from one of those restaurants, and that Subway franchises on the East Coast licensed their usage.
Baron Julius von Brunk If it aired in Canada it’s a chance I probably have it on tape, I buy & archive Canadian TV recordings from recorded VHS, I have hundreds of tapes, but I’ll make sure to keep an eye out. Imagine if I find it lol. Will keep updated.
@@giotv1 Awesome - thank you!
@@baron_von_brunk No problem! We need to find this commercial and archive it!
I'm probably of comparable age and grew up in the midwest. i'm just hearing about your quest today for the first time. i read the reddit post and immediately had a memory of subway commercial from the 90's featuring a moses/ 2 tablets kind of thing. I definitely remember two mens standing on a rock with bad beards, but it was definitely Moses-y. i don't remember any low quality standing out. Now i think i'm just mixing up a bunch of different weird commercials. I know you're invested at this point, but how can you be so sure that it's not something that you're combining from various pop culture memories? not disrespect intended. I just have a pretty solid memory for that sort of thing and i couldn't be totally sure of the wording or edits to a particular commercial from over 20 years ago, so it just makes me wonder how you could be so sure. This feels like one of those Mandela effect things which is not in any way real and one hundred percent just misremembered details frothed up into a conspiracy by others misremembering similar errors. then again, i don't know shit. Whatever the case, good luck in your search.
Commenting and liking to spread attention. I hope you find your answers. Confirmation.
Subway subs: very expensive!
I recently got a huge collection of VHS tapes recorded throughout the central PA area that have many local commercials (all of which I upload here). It's taking a while to go through, but I'll let you know if I find anything. Just learned about this today!
Excellent, thank you! If you can find a copy of the commercial on VHS, the offer is still on the table - I'll trade you a custom LEGO build!
Watching this get solved in real time was something else.
Yeah, I planned on doing a ton of other various lost/obscure media videos similar to this as a follow-up, but unfortunately most of them had dead ends and were only partially completed. Hence my channel is basically stagnant until I decide to revive those unfinished videos.
Who came here because of Chuggaconroy?
Whoa, was I given a shout out? I actually plan on remaking this video to cover any new developments since 2019. I originally made this one a few years ago when I was experimenting with video editing, so it had bizarre cuts and awkward closeups, and the sound was awful. I just moved into a better apartment with better resources to produce videos, so I plan on making more content.
Subway hired David Lynch to make a commercial
You know, this is (excuse me) a DAMN FINE turkey sub.
No idea about the video but I'm damned interested in seeing it. Please let us know if you find a source.
Thanks! Luckily, I was recently contacted by a UK LEGO magazine about potentially publishing a feature about my video, so hopefully this will lead to more people finding out about this mystery!
@@baron_von_brunk yo really tho?
Well you're in luck ruclips.net/video/tOIZdsgbeAI/видео.html
You described it very well it’s actually like the real commercial well done 👍
I remember my mother having a DVD of some sort of children's show. Anyway, its about a purple blob searching town, meeting with other shapes and feeling jealous, as he is not a shape. I have tried to track it down for years, maybe you can help.
In that case, check out Reddit's /r/tipofmytongue: maybe they could help.
ruclips.net/video/2YUs3b7SW8k/видео.html maybe that?
This is oddly creepy lol.
Trust me, I remember the actual commercial being much creepier -- yet funnier!
Well, it was. The way he ate the sub was terrifying.
While I have not seen this commercial, I have been interested in the story. I know you've discussed the possibility of it being a licensed/redubbed ad.
I'd like to bet that it is originally quiznos because the full name of quiznos is quiznos sub, which is likely where "Subway Subs" came from
Also, if it is quiznos that would explain the quality. as seen by the singing rodents, Quiznos didn't always have amazing quality control
I remember seeing this commercial in this area in 1995 and/or 1996 as well but don’t think I have it recorded.
Awesome! I'm actually going to hopefully redo this video by making it more polished and adding some possible leads based on Reddit posts.
Baron Julius von Brunk Sounds great. Perhaps you could also try contacting some local Subway executives or franchisees to see it they may have a video recording around. I’d love to see the real thing again as well for nostalgia’s sake.
This commercial seems like it would have been a local/ small town type thing. You know, some local subway auditioning local people to speak in the commercial. It would then make sense if this commercial was low quality
Yeah, the two men were also probably Subway managers, too. The bald man especially!
@@baron_von_brunk Yeah, that'd make sense
Holy shit you have a good memory.
All Things Lost brought me
Is this a commercial that you saw only once, or multiple times? And if you saw it multiple times, do you remember the timespan of when you saw it?
Unfortunately I can’t help much since I’m from Kentucky and was born in ‘92, so even if I had seen it, I wouldn’t remember it. But I can say that I’m very intrigued. And yes, I will like and share 👍
I’m currently searching Reddit, trying to find a thread with other accounts of this ad, but no luck so far.
Great video btw. And I lol’ed when you said “ Subweh! MMMMMMM!”
I remember seeing it on TV pretty often for a few weeks or so, maybe a few months. It was possibly around December '95 to February '96, if my memory serves me well. By the way, if you do come across any Reddit threads about it, chances are they were made by me or my social media followers. I made several Reddit posts for this on my old account in early 2019, and prior to that there were no mentions of the commercial anywhere. Some people also made threads for me and linked my video, so you might stumble upon on of those old threads. Currently on Reddit I'm /u/baron_von_brunk.
@@baron_von_brunk I think that, during the time between my comment and your reply, I found just about every Reddit thread there is on this topic and scoured through them. Incredibly fascinating to read all of these accounts that remember things differently.
I did see where you added Kentucky to the list of sightings, so I’ll definitely ask my husband and parents and anyone else who would be old enough to remember.
Hopefully the recent video on lost ads from All Things Lost will aid in your search, as that video is how I found out about this lost commercial.
Oh yeah; and I forgot to say it in my initial comment, but I’m sure you’ve heard it plenty: the animation is incredible!
@@baron_von_brunk Hey, I just thought of something else. Have you posted on any Facebook groups? There are a TON of 90’s nostalgia groups; I’m in a few. There are also local nostalgia groups, so I’m sure there are at least a few for the Lancaster, PA area.
Those 90’s groups are popular and that’s a good opportunity to get it out there.
I actually saw that commercial and the reconstruction was actually correct.
See, I'm not crazy!
I also remember another Subway commercial and it was very high in quality. It was one kid who was alone ("Boulevard of Broken Dreams" by Green Day was playing in the background) and he was holding a sub and was eating it while walking down a road. He was in the middle of the road. Just eating the sub. The Background was just a road in the middle of a field. The background was just a loop like the old cartoons. It ends with a picture of a sub for two seconds and slowly fades out. It lasted ten more seconds than the song that was playing. The song was played all the way through.
Any new developments?
*reads your name*
At one point the original commercial says "nestled in an oven fresh roll graced with subway's universe of extras", at some point your reenactment says "sandwiches each with freshly baked bread and an assortment of delicious toppings". So, um, yeah. Splodlesplurf
Yeah, the montage in the middle was the part where my memory was the most blank. I only remembered random closeups of sandwiches with a voiceover which ended with the "PERFECTION" dissolve. I basically filled the blanks and improvised it.
Walter Cronkite meets....uh.....LEGOS.
Great video
Thanks! I made this a long time ago, so I was still experimenting with editing and audio, hence the sound may seem off and there's some awkward closeups of my face.
Any progress on this?
None yet. I spoke with NexPo and they were considering featuring this in a compilation video of short Reddit mysteries, but we never followed up after that.
Hey reddit
The Baron abides.
Did the person who found it get their reward?
I offered to trade him a LEGO sculpture in exchange for the VHS tape, but sadly he declined, but instead offered to rip the footage at a higher setting and upscale the quality for me.
@@CantPayEpisodes Not yet.
Are you happy this commercial is found?
Yep - I'm actually working on a follow-up with a side-by-side comparison, too!
But, but, but, why!? You forgot the most important thing, you forgot to tell us why this mystery is so important to you. Just because it's a mystery? There must be more to it than that. There are so many mysteries, why pursue this particular one? If you tell us why it is so important to you, then it may become more important to us as well. Apart for that curiosity, a lovely video :)
because it's......absurd! ;)
It's mostly so I can get closure on the mystery myself, but the reason why I wanted to make a whole mini-documentary was because a few years ago I tweeted about this commercial, and several followers were intrigued by it. We then decided that maybe I could film a documentary about my theories for this commercial, and then reenact its synopsis in the hopes of seeing if anyone else remembered it.
What ultimately gave me the green light to make this video was a Reddit post of mine from last summer. In a /r/askreddit thread, someone made a discussion about strange childhood mysteries, where I left a comment about this commercial. My comment got about about 1,000 upvotes and dozens of comments with people baffled by the commercial's premise and asking me to search for it so I could hopefully share it on Reddit. With that said, this gave me incentive to ultimately make this video.
@@baron_von_brunk Oke the mystery gets bigger, i like it :). Bon chance mon amie.
subway (bites) *MMMMMMMM*
That's the spirit!
i was across the street when they filmed the subway commercial in venice beach
Great lost media that's local for me
Do you still have the Lego puppets?
I dismantled the Great Seer a while back, but kept the head of the Bald Man for use with another video that I didn't release yet.
However about the rumored versions for other sandwich franchises, I met it would be “QUIZNOS SUBS?” or “MR. HERO! MMMMMM!”
YTP
Whyyyy did you make this???
Why not?
@@cheesemanthe2nd I didn't realise that he was actually the guy who originally started the search. I thought he just randomly decided to make a cartoon about a bad subway ad that went missing for over 20 years.
Lol