Invent a lost media story

According to The Simpsons writers and Matt Groening, there were once plans for a spin off from The Simpsons that would span multiple series and each series would focus on a different minor characters from The Simpsons universe to give them more airtime and expand upon them. This was the second ideas that came about after the episode "22 Short Films about Springfield" was created, the first being the cancelled spin off just known as "Springfield" that would focus more on the minor characters of the show.

This second idea was thrown around in the late 90 to early 00s but ultimately didn't get very far and no episodes were made but again was similar to the original "Springfield" idea that focused on minor characters of the show..

The working title for this other planned series was "The Simpsons Files". Each episode would take that title and add the name of the character being focused on for the episode E.g. "The Simpsons Files: Hank Scorpio" or "The Simpsons Files: Lester and Eliza" and so on.

When the series was first going to introduce a character, the first episode about them would have a bit of a backstory to who they were and show clips from The Simpsons episodes they appeared in with a voice actor narrating about them. Then you would see the character in modern day.

Each minor character was to get their own episode, then they would be returned to later in the series, with supposed plans to include a short story arc involving multiple minor characters which would be similar to what The Simpsons episodes "Viva Ned Flanders" and "Homer Loves Flanders" became but with 2 or more minor characters involved in the plot instead of the main cast taking the front seat.

There was even talk of making TV shows that are seen in The Simpsons universe, their own episodes such as Knightboat (The crime solving boat), Hans Moleman: Moleman in the Morning (as seen in the episode Round Springfield), The Happy Little Elves, a 1 hour long special epsidoe of "The Krusty the Clown Show" and even a Simpsons version of an episode of MacGyver being watched by Patty and Selma who are commenting on the episode as they watch it. There are a few animated clips rumored to exist that show off these TV series, but as yet no actual evidence exists that show these to exist beyond a few pretty basic YouTube videos of clearly edited clips from actual Simpsons episodes that are not from this new spin-off idea.

However, like the original spin-off idea, it was cancelled, partly due to the creators not having the time to work on both this and the main The Simpsons series at the same time and partly since they wanted Troy McClure to introduce each episode as his voice is so iconic in The Simpsons, but Phil Hartman was killed sadly so they couldn't do that either. Also it was around this time Futurama came out so there was too much going on to get this spin-off made.

There was a sort of pilot that was scripted and partly storyboarded but never actually made into an actual episode. There is little known of the pilot, but from what we do know per what the writers of the show have said, it wasn't going to be focused on any one character, it was just going to focus on a few of the most minor characters that are so minor, it wasn't worth creating an entire episode about that one character only. Two characters that were planned to be in the episode were: "Freakin' Guns Guy" from the episode "The Springfield Connection" and Ian (Very Tall Man) from the aforementioned "22 Short Films about Springfield."

It was thought the script and storyboard were scrapped sometime after their creation, but rumours persist to this day that there is still copies somewhere, still held by someone who worked on The Simpsons at the time, but as yet, no one has came forward to say these copies still exists.

There was even a plan to make a movie based on this idea that went by the working title "22 Films About Springfield (Now actually a film!)" and "The Simpson Files: The Movie" that would take a few of the minor characters and fully fledge out a plot based on them, which may or may not have included The Simpsons family as minor characters, rather than the main cast in the movie, but that idea was shelved and the only Simpsons movie we got was The Simpsons Movie.

Not just this but there was also 3 plot lines to Simpsons episodes that have as yet never happened:

1. One episode was to focus on why Bart and Lisa have such different hair than their parents. No much is known other than something that happens in the episode is going to be carried forward into future episodes.

2. There was to be an episode where, instead of a couch gag, we would get a sort of mockumentary style tongue-in-cheek part that explained why The Simpsons have a Couch Gag and this would somehow fill the entire episode, somewhat in the style of the episode "Behind the Laughter". - This was written down with some partally drawn storyboards, but it was shelved so far. Hopefully they will make that episode in the future.

3. There was one written but permanently scrapped episode due to its plotline being too close to unforseen upcoming events. This episode was supposed to be written in mid 2019. In the episode, The Simpson family and Selma, with Ling, go back to China to visit and during the episode, Homer visits a restruant that is selling unusual food items and he chooses to try one and a few days later becomes ill. He coughs a lot and gets very sick and has to be quarantined as he is found to be suffering from something highly contagious. This was planned to be made into an episode in 2020 but given what happened at the end of 2019 and early 2020, the plotline was permanently scrapped. The written script for this episode still exists but Matt Groening says he as no plans to release the script to the public and this is all we know about it.  Once again, The Simpsons forseeing future events.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, almost nothing was more popular than the Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles. Having spawned successful lines of toys, comics, movies, tv shows, and more! And, as with anything with this level of popularity, soon came an onslaught of imitators and knock offs. Some of the more notable of these copy cats include Biker Mice from Mars, Sewer Sharks, and Samurai Pizza Cats. But probably none are as infamous as the Psychic Opossums of Sizable Mass. Coming out of Austrailia, POSM was produced by Mr. Big Cartoons for ABC for Kids, and ran for 6 episodes in the summer of 1992. Despite the fact that reviews of the time seemed mostly positive, with one reviewer saying it was "probably the best show about psychic opossums ever made", the show never seemed to find an audience. Since that summer, there have been no confirmed re-airings of the program. While many seem to remember having seem the show, the only known footage to exist publicly, is the show's closing credits, having been ripped from a VHS tape that was set to record the show immediately following.

When asked about the show, the creators have said that the original plan was to launch a toy line to accompany the series. But the show's abrupt cancelation halted these and other merchandising plans. The creators have also come out and said that they currently don't posses or own any of the footage from POSM, with everything still belonging to ABC. When asked if there were any plans to release the series in the future, ABC only said "We are always in the process of examining our back catalogue, and trying to determine what holds a special place of interest to the public. When demand around a program or property grows, we then make the decisions whether or not to revisit and re-release any past material." Despite calls from online fan groups, there seem to be no plans for a home release.

"The Blindlight"

The Blindlight is an animated movie/pilot presented as a tv special in 1993, broadcast on Fox kids. The first and, so far, only known broadcast was on Saturday, May 1, though the time slot is unknown.

The Blindlight focused on the story of a post-apocalyptic future following an asteroid impact which rendered most of the world a scorched desert and water had become a rare commodity and it apparently was set in the year 2007. There were many similarities drawn between the Mad Max series and the special/tv movie The Blindlight and in fact many argue that they were elements of Mad Max Fury Road which was also written and directed by George Miller, producer of the special, that were likely carried over from The Blindlight to Fury Road, although with far a greater level of violence and maturity while in The Blindlight it was played down and treated as something more like a PG-13 series. Though even then it was meant to be treated as something for teenagers, with a parental guidance warning prior to the episode being aired; it is thought that this is the reason why the series was not picked up as parents might have complained about the at the time overly mature content including the death of several minions of the primary villain.

From what is known about the plot based on partially recovered commercials and recollections from Reddit and YouTube including at least one 5-minute clip on a VHS recording, was that the special focused on a fifteen year old Asian boy by the name of Cheng voiced by Jonny Young Boch, who was portrayed as a nomadic warrior with a scarred face, who befriended a young blind twelve year old girl named Jenna and her older sister Cora, also fifteen, wandering through the desert. They were being pursued by a masked so-called "emperor" named Gideon who ruled over a nomadic fleet of mobile "land ships" fueled by a type of gasoline substitute harvested from living beings; there is debate on whether it was people or pigs however. He controlled access to water as these ships could apparently drill for it and from the recollections of several Reddit posters he was depicted as essentially a kind of "Darth Vader knockoff" at some described. Promotional images depict him as a tall, lanky, gray skinned individual with skull like mask and a breathing apparatus and one of his arms was a cybernetic prosthesis.

After meeting them, Cheng agrees to help them in exchange for water, incurring Gideon's wrath.

The commercials depicted extremely primitive CGI depicting the land ships however it was mainly 2D animated. Some describe the animation as being very fluid. Several Reddit posters say that they recall a massive fight either near the beginning or immediately after the credits of the TV special/movie which many described as being very similar to an early fight scene in Fury Road which was again also written and directed by George Miller who produced The Blindlight leading many to believe that Fury Road was intended to be some sort of live action follow-up/reboot of the concept.

Promotional art also shows the character Cheng as welding twin curved blades/boomerangs which were shown somewhat faintly in the short commercial that has been recovered.

Beyond this the plot to The Blindlight is a complete mystery with only a few Reddit posts and recollections to piece it together. What is however known is that virtually everyone who recalls it describes it as ending on what can only be described as a cliffhanger since it was apparently originally intended to be a pilot. There is mention of there being some sort of a utopian "Oasis" out in the wasteland which Jenna despite being blind has some ability to find, sensing it through vibrations in the sand or at least this is recollection of several of the posters, however it is depicted in the commercial that she can touch the sand and feel some sort of energy pulses through it.

This nebulous "road" seen only by Jenna is the titular Blindlight as shown in the commercial.

Production sketches for the characters Cheng, Jenna, Cora and Gideon have been found as well as what is believed to be one of Gideon's minions, a disfigured or mutant soldier, but beyond this and the commercials is not entirely known what the animation style was though it appears to have been at least somewhat influenced by anime.

This this Lost TV special/pilot first gained attention on the internet in 2019 when a Tip of My Tongue poster asked if anyone else recalled an animated series with this plot and mention was made of the character Jenna; very quickly it was recalled by another poster as "Blindlight" or "The Blindlight" and continuing searches revealed the commercials and a small clip which was on a VHS tape. Production materials were discovered more recently in 2021.

It is possible that there was a second showing of the film or rather it was divided into segments and then re-released as a miniseries, since memory of something called "Blindlight: Revolution" also popped up on Reddit. Some believe that Revolution was a miniseries follow up. However the original TV special was more than an hour and a half long with commercials and it's possible it was divided into three parts to create this miniseries and repackaged and re-released a second time. No production materials or commercials exist of Revolution whether it was a miniseries or direct sequel.

It's currently rated as partially lost media. Some footage and sketches remain, but the actual special/pilot movie is lost.








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In the mid 2010s a group of online animators and voice acters got together to make a crude Spongebob fan animation called Wasted, it was about Patrick bringing Spongebob to a bar after he lost his job at the krusty krab. the two then proceed to get extremely drunk, and then spongebob tries to drive them home until they get into a car accident by crashing into the krusty krab, killing everyone inside the restaurant. The short featured impressive animation that replicated the show very well to the point where it was sometimes hard to tell if it was official or not if you didn't know the context. The voice actors however were laughably bad and would say curse words and dick jokes practically every sentence. The short was originally posted to Youtube but was taken down by Viacom due to copyright reasons. After several failed attempts to get it reuploaded the creators decided to give and abandon the project, they haven't been heard of since 2017. No screenshots or footage remain of the short and very few people remember watching it.

Rumble Roses

A live-action low-budget movie adaptation of the cult classic PS2 wrestling game from Konami, Rumble Roses was an erotic action-comedy flick directed by Fred Olen Ray under the pseudonym Nicolas Medina that was a direct-to-cable movie airing on Cinemax and HBO during the Spring and Summer of 2005 and then again in October of that year. 

The film focused on an all-female fighting tournament called "Rumble Roses" on a tropical island in the Pacific Ocean that was secretly a front for a super-soldier program, and as HBO/Cinemax had the Rumble Roses film rights from Konami they were able to include cameos from other Konami owned franchises due to a legal technicality.

Rumble Roses was notable for a mix of corny jokes, gratuitous nudity and sex scenes typical for a 2000's softcore late night cable movie, and deviating from the source material in many ways.

While the game's two leading characters Reiko Hinomoto and Dixie Clements both appear, they are no longer the main protagonists as the ninja character Bloody Shadow is the main protagonist as Reiko merely acts as a sidekick of sorts. The main villains Dr. Anesthesia and Lady X both appear (with a third male antagonist supporting them) as well as the characters Candy Cane, Miss Spencer, Noble Rose, and Aisha. 


The weirdest deviation is the inclusion of characters from the Metal Gear Solid franchise, most of which were in one-off sex scenes. Both Solid Snake and Meryl Silverburgh are in the movie as backup for Bloody Shadow, and both of them hook up with Bloody Shadow while Solid Snake appears a second time in a cheap deus ex machina role near the film's ending.

Liquid Snake and Revolver Ocelot also appear with Dr. Anesthesia while Otacon and Colonel Campbell have brief cameos, Otacon has a codec call with Bloody Shadow and a short sex scene with Miss Spencer. The Colonel is only in a brief scene at the beginning giving Bloody Shadow her mission briefing.

Notably, Solid Snake, Liquid Snake, and Otacon are the only male characters to have scenes of nudity or sexuality in this odd movie.

Despite airing in two later rotations in Spring 2006 and Summer 2007 as well as a rumored airing on HBO Zone back in November 2008, Rumble Roses was never released to DVD or Blu-Ray nor has it been found online, despite a fairly positive reception from the softcore crowd and the "So Bad It's Good" B movie crowd.

It's been heavily rumored that Hideo Kojima was outraged that characters from Metal Gear Solid were included in the film and threatened legal action but neither he nor Konami have ever confirmed this as true.


Credits
Director: Fred Olen Ray (as Nicolas Medina)
Executive Producer: Kimberly A. Ray

Cast 
Bloody Shadow - Syren
Reiko - Christine Nguyen
Dixie Clements - Rebecca Love
Dr. Anesthesia - Nicole Sheridan
Lady X - Beverly Lynne
Liquid Snake - Evan Stone
Candy Cane - Misty Mundae
Meryl Silverburgh - Erika Jordan
Solid Snake - Frankie Cullen
Miss Spencer - Julie K. Smith
Otacon - Alexander Boisvert
Noble Rose - Kaylani Lei
Aisha - Dee
Colonel Roy Campbell - Ted Newsom
Revolver Ocelot - Marcus "Buff" Bagwell

Im not a good writer but here goes nothing  : 

There was a Poppy and MARINA (Formerly Known as Marina And The Diamonds) collab, I believe it was during the FROOT era (for MARINA) and Poppy.Computer Era (Poppy), it was callled "Dizzy" and it went for a electro pop feel and both artists teased the collab, it was scrapped for unknown reasons. It has yet to be found at this point.