Remember the show on Fox, Zits 8, and The Greeny Channel called Greeny Phatom in 1995, right? Well, Fox refuses to count a couple of its episodes, making its amount inconsistent. The reason for this is a lost episode from season 1.e
Finding details about this missing episode is difficult, no one who was working on the show at the time likes to talk about it. From what has been pieced together, the lost episode was written entirely by Robert Stainton. During production of the first season, Robert started to act strangely. He was very quiet, Mentioning this to anyone who was present results in them getting very angry, and forbidding you to ever mention it to Robert.
I first heard of it at an event where Terry Ward was speaking. Someone in the crowd asked about the episode, and Ward simply left the stage, ending the presentation hours early. The episode's production number was G0G06, the title was Little Guy's Suicide. The episode labeled G0G06, Wanted: The Great Drink Thief, was made later and given Little Guy Suicide's production code to hide the latter's existence. How did I find this out? Here's the story.
So until recently I had a job as an intern at Sony Wonder. My job started in 1995, the same year Greeny Phatom came out. Sadly yesterday I got fired from my job because I was too clumsy at my job, but I remember this day while I was walking out of the Sony Wonder studio building, I tripped on the floor and found a VHS tape.
Crudely written on it was: "Greeny Phatom Season 1 episode 6 Little Guy's Suicide". SUICIDE? Little Guy did not kill himself at all, though as you would expect, I was interested.
So I took the tape home. When I got back to my house with the VHS tape, I popped it into my old tape player. As soon as I popped the tape in, the intro played, but something was wrong about it.
The animation looked very rough, like it wasn't finished yet, and everything was red. The audio was also pitched down two octaves, and was in g-major. So after the intro, indeed, the episode name was shown.
The name of the episode was "Little Guy's Suicide". As you would expect, I was very shocked. But I thought at first that this was maybe just a morbid joke, seeing how this episode looked somewhat unfinished. So I finally got to see the episode.
The episode starts with Little Guy playing the piano, then Dr. Beanson came here to talk to him. Little Guy tells him to get out. Dr. Beanson said okay. he wants hang out with Doctor. Little Guy was playing the piano again. but Dr. Beanson came here to make funny sounds. Then, Little Guy was very angry to get out now. But, Dr. Beanson was felling a little worried.
Act one ended with the shot of Dr. Beanson. When act two started, Little Guy setting on his bed, crying. The crying went on and on, it got more pained, and sounded more realistic, better acting than you would think possible. The animation started to decay even more as he cried, and you could hear murmuring in the background. The character could barely be made out, he was stretching and blurring, he looked like deformed shadows with random bright colors thrown on him.
This sobbing went on for all of act two.
Act three opened with Little Guy still crying on his bed. he touch his eye and cried. he cried really loudy and super loud. Then, shows to the scene where blood is coming out of his eyes, and his eyes were pitch black and his pupils were red. He was also in grayscale. Screaming is heard in the background. the screen switchs to a man's dead body in the ground laying. Little Guy hated Dr. Beanson.
Act three ended with the shot of Little Guy's killer. When act four started, Little Guy is trying to kill Dr. Beanson with a shotgun and soon kills him. Then he carries his dead body, and hangs it with a rope on a noose in the kitchen. The final scene was Little Guy killing himself as he lays in the bed, but all made in a hyper realistic fashion.
Then the lost episode ends, with a black screen and text saying: "Little Guy killed himself in 123 Greeny Phatom. End of series. Goodbye." Then the credits roll, for some reason only listing: Writer: Robert Stainton" thus they looked silent and hand written. Then it cut to a normal episode of Greeny Phatom before the VCR exploded in sparks. Oddly enough, however, while the VCR was totally destroyed, the tape remained intact. If only I could show it to you, because I've locked it in a impenetrable safe, and I don't know the combination.
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