The Weirdest Things You Could Only Find at Your Grandparents House

Random VHS Collection

You gotta give it to Grandma and Grandpa, they knew you'd want to watch a movie when you visited so they did their best to drum up some kind of a haphazard collection of VHS tapes. Not only were there random movies, but also random TV shows recorded on blank tapes that you would have to fast forward through to figure out what the heck was on it. It was slim pickings, but they tried.

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The More You Know

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