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For me, it was What About Bob?

Dudes(1987). Features Jon Cryer and B the Flea!

I liked the VHS tape that had the naked women recorded onto it.

The Sandlot for me

When I was a kid, my parents wouldn't let me stay up late enough to watch Adult Swim, but they would let me set the VCR to record it on a few blank tapes. And that's how I first watched anime that wasn't on Toonami.

Fern Gully -WAM Sky Dancers -BOOM The Black Cauldron -HAZAA!

Milo and Otis, Toys, and The Goonies. Watched those 3 movies a thousand times.

Now we're in the List of things we "own" on Amazon prime and watch over and over era

Uncle Buck Great movie.

Oh ho, and yet I, a parent, can still put my thumb on the streaming scale. My daughter right now is watching old Nick Jr. Cartoons, playing Mario 64 (as well as a 2yo anyway), and the untitled goose game.

She also watched old seasons of Curb Your Enthusiasm with me since I had it running, though I probably don't want her to adopt Larry David vibes...

I really liked Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. My parents got it for me on VHS at some point and I watched it so much it literally wore out the tape. Then my parents got it for me on DVD.

Can't even watch it on streaming because they only ever have the subtitled version, and the dub is vastly superior for the dialogue. The subs cut so much flavor and poetry out of the dialogue that it becomes super boring and just the basic gist of what's going on.

Before that, the "obscure" VHS my parents had that I watched a lot was Monty Python's Holy Grail. We spent years trying to understand what the "witch" says when she is found guilty and only knew for certain what it was years later when they released a special edition DVD and we watched it with the subtitles on. "It's a fair cop."

You kids with your fancy, newfangled VHS machines. When I was a kid we had two channels of black and white TV and programming started at three in the afternoon.

Bee Movie Ghost Dad The Wizard Secret of NIMH 2 The Ernest Series

I'm 19. Those movies are:

• "Konferenz der Tier" ("Conference of the animals", some kinda obscure children's movie)
• Bambi
• Lassie
• The wonderful adventures of nils

And later:

• Lucky number slevin
• Everything from Quentin Tarantino

All of those are in our possession in the form of optical media, as well as a 0% legal digital copy.

Dance the magic dance

I had the same thing with video games. My dad got a free promotional copy of Morrowind from Fry's. I didn't have a computer/ laptop, but every summer, my dad would let me use his on our road trips. That game made me want to learn so much about anthropology, biology, history, mythology, etc... I played for hundreds of hours and never even came close to finishing.

Goonies, but it was recorded from TV and you had to switch tapes at about the pirate ship.

Did this with spiderwick and bridge to tarabithia but I wouldn't call these particularly obscue.

Also did this with a movie that I can only describe as space jumanji as well

I would tell people about Death Race 2000 and they'd look at me like I was crazy.

Several dozen? Rookie numbers.

Police Academy 1-7 but mostly 4.

The Peanut Butter Solution