Lost Media You Used To Have

I actually taped a bunch of stuff as a kid. I think I sporadically taped Pokémon in the morning on Kids' WB for a short time, and I know that I made a few long recordings of Cartoon Network, circa 1999/2000. Tom and Jerry, Cartoon Theater, etc. I'm sure there were commercials and bumpers that haven't publicly survived to the present day.

This thread has lots of potential.

Not so much "used to have" but "still have, I just would need a week to find it".

I have a ton of those Video Smarts and Video Phone VHS tapes, as well as a ton of old Saturday Morning cartoons recorded, because I have OCD hoarding disorder so I'm not even kidding when I say I have THOUSANDS of old tapes in my house, so if given a week or three (or a few hundred people to help me search through the VHS archives) I could find God only knows what.

I think I had a VHS tape with an episode of Cro (1993) 'Laugh, Mammoth, Laugh' it is the only known episode of the show that I cannot find any footage of online. I found every other episode (some not in English) but it is the only one that it isn't online.

The episode started with Dr. C giving a speak about the psychology of laughter and then Phil the Mammoth starts saying it was a dry speech and tries to make a few jokes, then he knocks over a statue of some kind into the pool and they need to figure a way to get it out of there. The episode, like every other episode of Cro has them got back and forth from the present (1990s) to the stone age where they try to get the statue out of the pool, while in the Stone Age story Cro has a situation where a statue of a famous Mammoth comedian also falls into the lake (due to a landslide) in order to clear a few cavemen who were blamed for the statue's disappearance.

The episode is notable for me since it is the first ever time I heard the term 'politically correct' used anywhere. Towards the end of the episode (after the cavemen were cleared and statue found) the two bigotted mammoths Earl and Mojo make a anti-Caveman joke and Gog, the caveman leader, takes exception to it, saying it is 'not funny! Not politically correct either!' and then throws some mung at the mammoths.

This reminds me of a tape I used to have. When I was in preschool my mom tried to record Care Bears on the Disney Channel, but ended up leaving the tape going all day. It was one of those extended play tapes so it went on for like six hours of daytime Disney and the checkerboard era of Cartoon Network. Sadly our VCR ate it like 15 years ago. 

For some reason, a lot of Nick Jr shows seem pretty hard to find if not "formally lost." My parents still have some Franklin, Blues Clues and I believe Little Bear tapes. I used to record a lot of stuff on VCR too when I was young, but I frequently taped over stuff. I cant say if anything there went missing since.

I have a bootleg DVD set of the complete series of Clarissa Explains It All. The vendor was on a place called "sell.com" who has since ceased operations. While several episodes are on Amazon and it may still be airing on some premium cable, Nick spinoff channel somewhere, to my knowledge there is no existing way to watch the whole series anymore. So unless Im wrong, thats my personal lost treasure.

Lastly, Im such a huge fan of the Italian film, Femina Ridens (aka The Laughing Woman), that I sought out a copy of its novelization. It was literally the only one I could find after an extensive search. Who knows how many of them are out there, and how many people who bought one in 1969 took care of this cheap little paperback.

As a kid, I had a VHS tape of Belle's Tales of Friendship, a direct to video special of Sing Me a Story With Belle! I had that tape around 2003 but kinda lost it at either my house or my step brother's house!