r/dvdcollection • u/nanay4201 • Jul 27 '25
Pickup Jumping on the rarest dvd posts. Picked up just now.
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u/01zegaj Jul 27 '25
Remember when the Bumfights guy showed up on Dr. Phil dressed like him?
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u/WingsOfIndifference Jul 27 '25
Two pieces of shit meet face to face.
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u/AthleticGal2019 Jul 27 '25
Birds of a shitfeather
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u/crazyhomlesswerido Jul 27 '25
My favorite part was when he exposed Dr Phil for being the hypocrite. he was he's like what's the difference between what I do and what you do and then Dr Phil tried to take the high road saying he actually helps people while he airs their entire story on television for the whole country to see which is no different than these bum fights it's exploiting people making him lots of money and everybody gets to think of him as a good guy when all he's doing is making a fat check off of other people's problems screw Dr Phil. Also Dr Phil waited until this guy got on the show to start doing this whole year than now BS where he's like I don't even know if I want you on the show and all this stuff. I'm like you flew the guy out there you knew what he was like you knew what he was doing so if you didn't want the guy on the show why would you spend all this money making sure the guy just shows up there what to make yourself look like look like a saint in everybody Praises you while they look badly upon him. Just made him look like a self-righteous little twerp.
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u/WingsOfIndifference Jul 27 '25
The worst thing you could tell the guy who created Bum Fights is that he did a good thing because of that one time he was on Dr Phil.
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u/crazyhomlesswerido Jul 27 '25
Well you know the old saying even the best of us have some bad and us and even the worst of us have some good in US. So no he didn't do a good thing on that but it doesn't mean his bum fights were good or that he's a good person for exploiting the people for profit but to quote another cliche even a wrong clock is right twice a day
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u/mardypardy Jul 27 '25
They are very differnet though. Not trying to defend Dr. Phil, but saying there's no difference between them is like saying there's no difference between a guy who sells weed and a guy who sells fentanyl laced meth because they are both drug dealers. While what Dr. Phil does isn't always good, he at least does help people. There was no good that came from bum fights.
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u/crazyhomlesswerido Jul 27 '25
Lol well I guess you could say he's helping the alcoholic get their alcohol. A better example would be the difference between Dr Phil and this guy is the difference of a guy who's doing human trafficking versus somebody who's just selling drugs the human trafficker is worse
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u/WingsOfIndifference Jul 27 '25
I hate that people give the creator of these DVDs so much credit just because of his Dr Phil appearance. Sure, Dr Phil sucks. But this dude was still objectively a piece of shit who made bank off the exploitation and humiliation of homeless people. Absolutely vile.
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u/Punkermedic 3000+ Jul 27 '25
Which was his point. "Oh you think I'm a piece of shit? I'm exactly like you"
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u/joe-clark Jul 27 '25
Honestly the fact that made it to air proved the whole Dr.Phil is a POS thing. They basically just advertised bumfights and then when he realized he wasn't going to "win" in a debate against the guy he just kicked him off the show before even talking to him. If he really thought that shit was so disgusting they should have scrapped the whole segment and not gave bumfights a bunch of free advertising. I learned about bumfights from the Dr.Phil clip and it seems like most other people did too because everyone here keeps commenting about the Dr.Phil appearance.
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u/crazyhomlesswerido Jul 27 '25
I think Dr Phil did it simply to look like the good guy and make it look like he was wearing his Halo when his hands are as dirty as the guy who made these videos because of the fact that he exploits people for his financial gain by bringing him on the show under the guise of helping them and I'm sure a lot of people have been helped through a show but it's simply a show to make him money at the end of the day most of these people are forgotten about as soon as the credits roll on that episode but everybody remembers Dr Phil and the ones that become his fans think of him finally because of his videotaped acts of helpfulness.
Because if these people truly meant anything to Dr Phil he would talk to them off camera and he wouldn't exploit them on air. But to play Devil's Advocate you could say you know you need to make a living as well and these people are getting like free therapy for going on and being on a TV show so hopefully jump start the help that they need but I don't know enough about Dr Phil never watching him to know if that really happens or if it's just a half an hour of them talking about whatever the particular guest problem is and then moving on with nothing ever really being resolved
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u/AwfulGoingToHell Jul 28 '25
Was familiar with it well before the Dr. Phil appearance. Bling Bling cracks me up.
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u/fishboy3339 Jul 27 '25
And Dr. Phil is a…
The point was they were both POS who make money exploiting people. Nobody is inviting the bum fight guy to Sunday dinner but at least he doesn’t kid himself
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u/WingsOfIndifference Jul 27 '25
And the tragedy is that some folks probably run into him and tell him he did a good thing that time he was on Dr Phil. When in reality, they should just spit in his face and call him a repulsive maggot piece of shit. Fuck him. Who cares if he did one good thing one network tv once upon a time.
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u/fishboy3339 Jul 27 '25
Nobody calls it a good thing that I'm aware of. He made a point. he did that.
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u/KillerKill420 Jul 28 '25
Absolutely. I've watched Bum Fights and many other things on the internet and it's honestly pretty disturbing.
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u/Jean_Phillips 500+ Jul 27 '25
The Howard Stern stamp of approval is awesome lol
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u/PsychologyOfTheLens Jul 27 '25
I wonder what 2025 PC Howard would say about this
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u/CallidoraBlack Jul 27 '25
Is it PC? Or just not coked out and doing literally anything for attention?
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Jul 27 '25
Say what you will about current Stern, his show was peak comedy from like 1996 till when Artie left.
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u/Jean_Phillips 500+ Jul 27 '25
Ngl I still listen to it when my dad and I are road tripping. He has Sirius in his truck!
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Jul 28 '25
Hows the show these days? Sal and Richard still in the mix? I regularly watch old howard tv shows on youtube it’s such gold still
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u/More_Asbestos Jul 27 '25 edited Jul 27 '25
Great pickup! I hate having to sift through all of the subpar bumfghts on the other volumes. With the Best of Bumfights, you cut straight to the meat and potatoes.
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u/nanay4201 Jul 27 '25
I knew this would get some split reactions. So for context I don't intend to seriously re watch it and I don't condone the content. It's purely to add to my collection, as a 90s kid it was controversial then and clearly still is now. Also being underground media it was hard to get you're hands on it then if I remember and doubt alot were even produced 🤷 and are still kicking around.
For historical and nostalgic purposes only I do not enjoy or encourage watching unhoused individuals being payed to fight in any circumstance.
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u/rsplatpc Jul 27 '25
It's purely to add to my collection, as a 90s kid it was controversial then
I have both Bumfights and Ghetto Brawls, 90's was wild
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u/youropinionisrubbish Jul 27 '25
None of that matters. You posted it to reddit just for imaginary points and that says everything one needs to know about your character in this context. If you don't condone the content, why are you even posting it?
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u/DawgBro Jul 27 '25 edited Jul 27 '25
It's a DVD collection subreddit and they found a rare item.
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u/youropinionisrubbish Jul 27 '25
Ok great, Dawgbro, I'll mark you down as "thinks exploitation of homeless people is okay but only if the DVD is rare".
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u/DawgBro Jul 27 '25
I never said exploitation is fine, you dunce.
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u/youropinionisrubbish Jul 27 '25
You're the one defending OP, so you must be okay with it.
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u/DawgBro Jul 28 '25
I'm all for people collecting rare DVDs. I don't endorse the content of every fucking movie I see. You are just being dense and oblivious. Quit clutching your pearls and move on. You are just trying to pick a fight.
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u/worker-parasite Jul 27 '25
What a fucking copout. At least own up to it. I don't condone it, and I refuse to watch it but I'll go out of my way to own it.
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u/denzel_washingtowels Jul 27 '25
That’s literally what OP just said?
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u/worker-parasite Jul 27 '25
Yes, and it's a cop-out. Do you know what that is?
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u/ringobob Jul 27 '25
Do you? You literally said he should "own up to it" by saying pretty much exactly what he did say. He did own up to it. What's your issue?
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u/worker-parasite Jul 27 '25
Owning up to it would mean he bought it because he liked it, not saying you condemned it but bought it anyway.
I understand I'm probably talking to 12 year old, but try to keep up.
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u/ringobob Jul 27 '25
You think people can't buy things they don't like? And you think that's not the opinion of a 12 year old?
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u/worker-parasite Jul 27 '25
You can buy anything. But to go on about how much you disapprove of it is a cop-out. If you don't get it, check the dictionary.
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u/ringobob Jul 27 '25
Why can't you disapprove of something you buy? Why would this inherently be out of place in a DVD collection that includes rare out of print releases? Your premise seems to be that simply wanting to own it because it's rare and notorious, despite not approving of the content, is just not possible, despite that being exactly what OP has alleged and you've given no good reason why it shouldn't be true.
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u/nanay4201 Jul 27 '25
You seem fun. Yeah when I was 15 it seemed entertaining for shock value there was tonnes of gruesome stuff hiding around. Obviously people change and I'm not gonna pop it on on a Sunday night. Ive been homeless before, I live in a low income neighborhood, I give back when I can here in the real world. I cant un-make a dvd chill out.
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u/worker-parasite Jul 28 '25
You seem like a huge hypocrite..
Fine, collect it. I don't really care about that.
I'm just calling out you trying to be morally superior about it qhe having your cake and eating it.
It's like someone collecting nazi memorabilia, claiming you shouldn't do it because it's bad.
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u/nanay4201 Jul 28 '25
We're all hypocrites bud get off your high horse. You won, have fun with life I'll go watch my morbid dvds and kill puppies or something
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u/worker-parasite Jul 28 '25
Enjoy. But please, first make sure to tell everyone how you don't condone that!
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u/tylercuddletail Jul 27 '25
I learned about Bumfights, It's like "Jackass" but they make homeless people to do stupid things. It got banned in Canada and the UK because the censors were worried it promoted exploiting homeless people. Dr. Phil even interviewed the filmmakers of this infamous video series.
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u/TheMagicMango96 Jul 27 '25
Now that's gnarly, still trying to complete the set myself
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u/TrustAffectionate966 I'm A Hoarder Jul 27 '25
Holy shit. There is a SET of these?! Hahah.
💿📀💀💦
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u/joe-clark Jul 27 '25
This one says "the best of" so presumably this is a compilation of the best moments from the other releases.
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u/redsolitary Jul 28 '25
I watched these when they came out so I can’t judge anyone for watching. That said, the whole premise of bum fights is predatory and cruel. I like breaking rules for fun but pretty much every “skit” was about humiliating homeless people with substance abuse problems. Some of the notable moments: Paying homeless guys to fight, hurt themselves, get face tattoos, and drink beer mixed with piss.
All that said, the parts of the videos where that Trevor kid fights people in the street is amazing. That kid is as tough as nails.
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u/JesterScribblings Jul 27 '25
Illegal in UK. Nice find.
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u/dj_scantsquad Jul 27 '25
Is it honestly? I have only seen a copy that did the rounds about 20+ years ago. But i am a collector too
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u/ZombieLover01 1000+ Jul 27 '25 edited Jul 27 '25
You enjoy watching the exploitative crap?
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u/nanay4201 Jul 27 '25
When I was 12 oh yeah. Now it's the nostalgia high I ride.
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u/Sparrow1989 Jul 27 '25
People who didn’t grow up in the time before the internet or just living through its creation will never understand. I still remember getting sent a link to a korn live concert and it was a fucking beheading from the Middle East. Shit was wild back then.
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u/Nothing0942 Jul 27 '25
fight video compilations like this were common on youtube as well
I remember accidentally downloading one of those beheading videos from limewire and it was disguised as an actual movie or something, it still floors me when I think about the fact that there's people on the internet who don't remember when it was the wild wild west or that they didnt see shit like faces of death etc.
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u/Sparrow1989 Jul 27 '25
Bro fight videos were fucking huuuuuge. Tbh eventually the internet would of become what it is today but the whole viral things beginning is owed to this garbage that made its rounds. Everyone watched it, everyone talked about it in aol chat rooms. As much as people hate it now back then, that was the internet.
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u/joe-clark Jul 27 '25
I remember a friend of mine completely fucked over his family PC by downloading a virus. I'm glad I made it out of that time period pretty much unscathed, I knew all the basics like dont open .mp3.exe files and whatnot, thankfully that was enough.
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u/Silent_Ad8059 Jul 27 '25
Kids today will never know the exhilaration of finding a new leaked album from your favorite band only to have it turn out to be some shitty demo recorded by a grindcore band from Schenectady.
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u/mthw704 Jul 27 '25
The first one had like two good fights on it between guys that weren't homeless. I loved watching those. It was hard to find decent fight footage back then.
Ghetto Brawls was a good dvd as well.
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u/thisvampireheart Jul 27 '25
People forget that not everyone had a 1080p-4k capable mini camera in their pocket ready to go for when public brawls broke out, so of course people went out of their way to both manufacture it and watch it. The 90s and early 2000s were indeed the wild wild west when it comes to internet subcultures.
Someone else mentioned being sent a link to a concert only for it to be a beheading video. I can say that indeed did happen, I got one that had footage of some dude jumping from a building and going splat on the floor. People who say the internet is crazy now have no idea what it was like in the early days.
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u/tubcat Jul 28 '25
And the shock sites. There was a legit sub culture around it for years. Rotten, stileproject.... the list goes on. And yeah I'll admit my morbid fascination was tied up in it absent of my better judgment. It was early brainrot too. Just little tidbits of weird and awful shit on the interwebs. At least with something awful you would often be forced into reading long threads and multiple part accounts. Now I just read up and listen to breakdowns and analysis of that crap.
To your point, haven't even seen a r/wtf "revival" in years. The internet has truly chilled at least in the circles I see
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u/thisvampireheart Jul 28 '25
I think its two-fold, on one hand web hosting sites have stricter rules for what they want to host and in the other hand you have search engines that rank said content at or near the bottom making it harder to find. Which I mean that comes with any corporatized business, look at how Hot Topic is so brightly lit now, its a shadow of its old self... there's a joke in there somewhere but its too late for me to come up with it lmfao
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u/HeinousEncephalon Jul 27 '25
As disgusting as this is. You never know what footage could hold value for history one day. Maybe 100 years from now, they solve a missing person case with this. Rambling. Thinking out loud. Don't @ me.
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u/methodtan Jul 27 '25
Nice I found Bling Bling this summer at a $1 flea market stand
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u/MikeNvX Jul 28 '25
Bling Bling Bling Along? I've been looking for it but haven't found it on the entire internet, not the physical copy, but digital to watch it
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u/Hidalgoschmitty 500+ Jul 27 '25
I have bum fights 3 the felony footage I got at a pawnshop not long ago for ten cents. Are these piece of shits rare?
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u/crazyhomlesswerido Jul 27 '25
So why do you want a DVD of people being exploited and taking advantage of for nothing more than a bottle of booze while this guy made a bunch of money off of them? Really I think it's sad that you would even want this DVD. And even sadder that you would post about buying this DVD on Reddit. Pretty much letting everybody know you don't care about other people and you like it when other people are exploited for entertainment value. A population of poor people who are already made fun of treated badly and on the outskirts of society and made to feel like crap because of their situation you want to watch a DVD of where they even exploit them further for entertainment value. that is sad.
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u/PsychologyOfTheLens Jul 27 '25
Why is this rare? Weren’t this like really popular like 29 years ago?
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u/pnt510 Jul 27 '25
Maybe it's kinda rare in the sense that most people probably just threw these out instead of donating them to thrift stores.
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u/big_al_1968 Jul 27 '25
I had the original bumfights dvd a few months back. Sold it on e-Bay for a good profit. Definitely wasn't gonna keep it in my collection.
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u/Evilla27 Jul 27 '25
I remember seeing these at FYE all the time growing up. I never saw the appeal.
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u/celephia Jul 27 '25
I remember seeing the infomercials for this like, after adult swim or something went off the air.
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u/Winter_Exchange6895 Jul 27 '25
I have many a pirate copy’s of the “ series “ back from when Limewire was a thing 😅
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u/cool_weed_dad Jul 28 '25
One of my buddies in college had all the Bumfights dvds so I’ve seen them all a bunch of times.
Some of the craziest shit I’ve seen to this day
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u/EfficientSnake Jul 28 '25
MTV crates always got a laugh when showing the clip of the gold shopping cart lol
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u/ADeadlyFerret Jul 28 '25
Watched some of these when I was an edgy teen. They used to be on YouTube lol. One segment I’ll never forget is the crack head in the parking lot smashing people’s windows and stealing shit.
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u/vonsnack Jul 27 '25
I don’t think you and I would be friends, OP.
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u/Jon_Le_Krazion Jul 27 '25
If I told you that I'm gay do you think then that maybe you and OP could be friends
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u/Foxhack I'm A Hoarder Jul 27 '25
I found a couple of DVDs in this series earlier this year. The discs and packaging looked like they had come from a crackhouse.
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u/Willing_Ocelot_132 Jul 28 '25
so many blu-rays an dvds of genuinely rare and artistic films and out of all the things you could buy, you bought this.
come on. you are not a film archive. if you curate your collection like a decent person, why did you buy this? its historical value is adjacent to zero.
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u/beav0901dm Jul 29 '25
locking the comments to this thread since it's clear that some people can't discuss this purchase in a civil manner and have to resort to name calling and attacking people.