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Fat Albert - Smiling

Part 1: The VHS

Way back in the '80s as a child I used to watch a show called "The Adventures of Fat Albert and The Cosby Kids." The show is currently one of the longest running cartoon shows in history and is famous for teaching young children life lessons. I loved the show and watched it every day, however by the age of 13 I stopped watching the show. I am now grown up and live in an apartment in New York.

One day when I was browsing around the internet, I found a site that was selling episodes of "Fat Albert and The Cosby Kids." I scrolled through and saw they had the whole collection. Naturally, like most people my age, I bought the collection to relive my childhood. I received an entire DVD collection in the mail of all the seasons. Oddly enough though, there was one that I received that was on a VHS

The image in japanese that appeared before the video started

I did some research on the Internet and what I got was a few posts discussing an episode of Fat Albert that aired for only a few minutes. According to the fans the episode was just beginning to start up but then right as the theme began to play the show cut to static and an announcement was made on CBS (the channel that "Fat Albert" originally aired) that tonight's episode of "Fat Albert and The Cosby Kids" was cancelled and another episode will play instead.

Upon realization of this I became excited not only because I now have the complete collection of my favorite shows that I loved as a kid, but I also have some rare unreleased episode. I decided to play the episode titled: "Smiling" first. I got out my old VHS player and plugged it into the TV and put the VHS in. I was greeted by a black screen which just said in bold red letters "Fat Albert and The Cosby Kids: Smiling" From there it then cut to a picture of a mouth smiling with odd japanese text above it. There was a rip in the screen that covered most the last 3 symbols. Thankfully, I texted my friend who spoke Japanese friend and he was able to tell me, using the parts of the symbols that weren't cut off, what they were and translate it for me. He said it translated out to, "Smiling is the mask of the suffering" was an odd way to begin and it unnerved me for some odd reason. Now before I mention the theme, I need to mention that a lot of the intro was cut out and only the scenes I mention are in it.

The main theme began to play except something was wrong. The song was lower and slowed down making it sound depressing and ominous. Even weirder in the scenes where Bill Cosby was supposed to be on the stage dancing around during the theme, he wasn't there it was just an empty background. It then cut to the scene where Albert's friends are supposed to be carrying him, but instead it was just a picture of Albert lying on the ground and footprints leading off screen in the direction that they were carrying Albert. But what really stood out was that there were scratch marks leading in the opposite direction of the foot prints. From what I could gather I believed that the boys saw something and ran away, however one of the boys wasn't able to get away fast enough and it grabbed him and dragged him away.

The intro then cut to the junkyard and it was abandoned and empty. It showed the instruments the Cosby kids use for music. The instruments were lying on the ground mangled and broken. I could have sworn that on the end of one of the instruments I saw a bit of blood, as if someone had used it as a weapon and hit someone. The intro finally ended and I was quite shocked at some of the imagery I saw but I had continued watching the episode.

Part 2: The Episode

The episode shows the Cosby kids and Albert playing in the junkyard. Rudy began talking about how he heard about a new girl moving into a home nearby them. Rudy went on to say, "I've heard from kids who have spoken to her tell me that she is really weird, we shouldn't hang out with her!" Albert then replied, "Just because she is different doesn't mean we shouldn't hang out with her!". Before Albert and Rudy could finish their conversation the school bell rang. Albert and the gang then hurried to school.