This plain black tape starts with a TiVo-to-VHS transfer of Dr. Phil’s Escaping Addiction special. Most of its commercials were skipped. Then David Blaine: Drowned Alive comes on.
Then it comes on again.
Then it comes on a third time, with a different run of mid-2000s commercials around the repeated recordings.
Program and commercial inventory
- Dr. Phil Primetime Special: Escaping Addiction, with Sears refrigerators, Cingular Family Talk, Maybelline, The Lake House, Lumineers, Ace, and CBS Cares
- David Blaine: Drowned Alive, recorded three times
- Netflix by mail, Slowsky’s Comcast turtles, Honda Fit with Space Invaders, Jon Lovitz for Subway, Tim Hortons Iced Cap, Meijer, Wendy’s Frescata, Applebee’s, Saturn Vue, and the Ohio Tobacco Quit Line
- Taco Bell Big Bell Value Menu, Prego organic sauce, Over the Hedge, Wendy’s Frosty, Listerine, Olay, Venus, Cingular GoPhone, Dyson, Red Bull Flugtag, Discover Card, Breyers, and Lowe’s
- ABC promos for American Inventor, Oprah’s Legends Ball, Lost, and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
No sleeve. No label. Just three consecutive chances to watch David Blaine hold his breath. I found it in the bins in Columbus.
