I don't even want DVD special features back – I want VHS space-fillers back. I grew up in the era when distributors would just stick random shit at the end of a VHS tape to use up any space left over once the actual film was recorded, and sure, a lot of the time it was previews for other movies, but sometimes it was The Weird Stuff.
#also . tbh i think it'd be hilarious if some lost media was uncovered this way #like imagine a lost dr who episode being found on a vhs after the credits of like. jimmy neutron (via @exoflash)
It's honestly not outside the realm of possibility. The 1997 Warner Bros. VHS release of Cats Don't Dance famously used the original pilot episode of Dexter's Laboratory – an episode which, at the time, was not available in any other home video format – as space-filler at the end of the tape, and the 1984 Family Home Entertainment VHS of The Care Bears in the Land Without Feelings has a bunch of random Merrie Melodies shorts from the 1930s and 1940s padding it out, just off the top of my head. It's completely plausible that some bit of otherwise-lost media is just hanging out on the tail end of the VHS release of a random movie from 1992.
(Ironically, The Care Bears in the Land Without Feelings would itself later be used as space-filler at the end of an unrelated VHS release, though for the life of me I can't recall which one.)
Am now regretting never speeding through the credits on any of my movies