listen, a really good reaction gif is worth its weight in gold

I was surfing the parts of Wikipedia dedicated to Sesame Street the other day and discovered that one of my fav childhood movies, Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is available on DVD! It's been available on YouTube for ages (as has my other rare childhood film favorite, The Phantom Tollbooth (1970)), so I gave up looking for better-quality copies of both of them over ten years ago, but —

I just realized if I actually had a subtitled DVD of it I could capture a subtitled gif of the scene where Oscar walks into the gallery of Greek and Roman sculpture and says,

"Why, it's trash — the most beautiful trash I've ever seen!"


Even waxjism admits that this would be a really useful reaction gif.

But, sadly, it was printed in 2011 and the rights reverted and there's no indication anybody wants to release it again, besides which it was probably region 1 in the first place.

I don't actually know how to make gifs, either, although Wax figured out how one time last year when our Viaplay satellite feed got some bonus footage of the Leafs bench that nobody would have seen in North America and William Nylander used it to bite Auston Matthews's shoulder. She did it as a service to fandom. But I'm not sure the knowledge stuck around after that one weekend full of tutorials, anyway.

I'm not sure I'm up for trying it with low quality video source if I also have to make my own captions. But it might be worth it...

postal service update

It turns out they DIDN'T lose the second copy of CMBYN, or else they found it again! Which is a point in their favor, I guess. But now we have two. Not ready to deal with that yet.