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My VCR ate my Are You Afraid of the Dark? tape right before the big finale

I was at my friend's house in 1995, and we were rewinding the episode with the Ghastly Grinner when the VCR made this awful grinding noise and spat out a mess of brown tape. We spent like an hour trying to wind it back with a pencil, but the tape was totally shredded. Did anyone else have a show totally ruined by their tech back then?
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robinson.holly
Oh man, you can sometimes save it with two pencils.
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theas94
theas942mo ago
Read that in a survival guide once.
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tara_palmer
tara_palmer1mo agoMost Upvoted
Ugh, that's brutal. Nothing worse than a VCR deciding to eat your favorite tape at the worst possible moment.
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