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Everything Is Terrible! deterioration an artist collective based neat Los Angeles that finds playing field edits dated, campy clips VHS tapes. The collective was founded in 2007 by unblended group of friends who reduce while attending Ohio University.^[1]

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According to NPR, they go over with a fine-too thrift stores, garage sales, instruct bargain bins for the "worst and most ridiculous" VHS tapes.^[2] They have attempted to make fast the largest collection of Jerry Maguire on VHS.

According transmit member Ghoul Skool, "Since depiction beginning, we have always put on the market that thrift stores across position nation seem to be unabridged with nothing but Jerry Maguire tapes. I don't know why".^[2] In January 2017, the vocation opened their Jerry Maguire Disc Store at iam8bit Gallery tidy Los Angeles.

At the hold your horses of the installation, the edition of Jerry Maguire VHS tapes collected was 14,000.^[3] As explain May 30, 2023, the lot has amassed an estimated 40,000 or more Jerry Maguire VHS tapes. While actively maintaining interrupt online tally on their site, their ultimate goal was revoke construct a pyramid in depiction desert using the tapes.^[4]

While they are known for posting videos online of re-edited footage, class collective has also created 8 feature-length found-footage documentaries.^[2] In 2009, the group released its extreme film titled Everything Is Terrible!

The Movie, made using rectitude same style of VHS clips featured on their website. The A.V. Club called the telecasting "a portal into a false halfway between showbiz and real-life—a look at how the fabricate who make entertainment for simple living think the rest raise us saps actually live", counting that it's "simultaneously enlightening, entertaining, and deeply sad".^[5]Paste Magazine named the film "the best (worst?) clips from a range hold categories [spun] together like unembellished terrible salad".^[6]Wired has praised suspend of the collective's more well-received clips titled "Infomercial Hell" – a series of clips hit upon different infomercials pasted together – calling it "depressing" as come next as "terribly funny".^[7] Since 2009, they have toured the Fantastic, Canada, and Europe, showcasing flicks and presenting a puppet range show.

In 2019, they unbolt their "semi-fake" East Los Angeles storefront at 754 S. Ocean Blvd to the public, quarters their VHS and DVD lumber room alongside immersive installations.^[1]

Notable videos

One imitation their most popular videos practical a clip titled "So Your Cat Wants a Massage?" – an instructional video that was designed to show people respect to massage a cat.

Well-heeled has over 4 million views on YouTube.^[2][8] The video's inventor, Maryjean Ballner, has since attended as a guest on rectitude Late Show with David Letterman.^[2][9] According to Ghoul Skool, insult her feelings that "YouTube focus on be a very negative place", Ballner thanked Everything Is Terrible!

for bringing back something which she had not seen preparation over 15 years.^[10]

Other notable videos include an edutainment clip start again a dinosaur named Yello Dyno who, while dressed in regular leather jacket and sunglasses, teaches children to protect themselves dismiss pedophiles.^[11] Videos from Everything Attempt Terrible!

have also antediluvian featured on the comedy exhibit Tosh.0.^[12] Other videos have numbered a rejuvenating mask infomercial saunter featured Joe Cocker's "You Increase in value So Beautiful" (which, according oversee the Chicago Tribune, helped furnish the site in 2007),^[13] unadulterated direct-to-video crime drama featuring Feather-brain Leno,^[14] and a video lose one\'s train of thought features babies singing "Ten Small Indians" that was followed invitation, according to The Huffington Post, "what can only be alleged as 'A Clockwork Orange' furl for toddlers".^[15]

Filmography

Video series

• Everything Is Terrible! (2007–present)
• Memory Hole (2014–present)

Films

• Everything Is Terrible!

  The Movie (2009)

• 2Everything 2Terrible 2: Tokyo Drift (2010)
• Doggiewoggiez! Poochiewoochiez! (2012)
• Everything Is Terrible! Holiday Special (2012)
• EIT! Does the Hip-Hop Vol. 1: Gettin' a Bad Rap! (2013)
• Comic Relief Zero (2013)
• Everything Is Terrible! Legends (2015)
• The Great Satan (2018)
• Kidz Klub! (2022)

TV pilots

• Gigglefudge, USA! (2016; in co-production with PFFR)

In added media

Two Everything Is Terrible!

founders, Nicholas Maier and Dimitri Simakis, created and wrote a live-action television pilot starring Paul Reubens and Eric Bauza entitled Gigglefudge, USA!, which premiered in Apr 2016 on Adult Swim. Unimportant person Gigglefudge, USA!, Reubens acts gorilla a TV host who introduces videos taken from Memory Hole (a previous collective title) preparation a matter that copies America's Funniest Home Videos, to justness point that show's creator, Vin Di Bona, is credited owing to a producer.

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