Weirdest DVD or Blu-Ray Special Features?

[mstrsmth]

What are some of the oddest special features you've encountered on a DVD or Blu-Ray?

[jzbadblood]

Originally Posted by mstrsmth

What are some of the oddest special features you've encountered on a DVD or Blu-Ray?

I saw something called "First Ever DVD "DRINKING GAME" Technology!" on the Wild Zero DVD from Synapse. No idea what that entails, but it sounds fun!

[filmbuffTX]

The Blu-ray for Galaxy Quest allows you to listen to the audio in Thermian Dolby Digital 2.0.

[CyberpunkCentral]

Off the top of my head, I think Sonic The Hedgehog second animated series on DVD. For some reason Inspector Gadget is instructing how to use a DVD (that's how old this DVD is). Even though Inspector Gadget has nothing to do with Sonic at all. I also remember there being a very pointless special feature in the Sonic DVD, but don't remember 100% what it exactly was. I just know it's stupidly pointless. But again, it's an early DVD.

[Monterey Jack]

Originally Posted by CyberpunkCentral

Off the top of my head, I think Sonic The Hedgehog second animated series on DVD. For some reason Inspector Gadget is instructing how to use a DVD (that's how old this DVD is).

Move the glowwwwwwwwwwwww over to the BUT-ton...!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzK00wW1G1o&t=8s

[jayman3]

Not quite the weirdest, but most certainly an amusing one.

The Saw II Special Edition DVD bonus features disc had an Easter egg or game where after solving a series of riddles, putting in a numerical code would unlock several Jigsaw Fairy Tales that were done through shadow puppets.

[meremortal]

Maybe not "weird," but things like actor biographies seem pretty pointless in the age of internet. Perhaps they're not as common now, but it used to be a fluff feature on dvds.

[starsteam]

Originally Posted by meremortal

Maybe not "weird," but things like actor biographies seem pretty pointless in the age of internet. Perhaps they're not as common now, but it used to be a fluff feature on dvds.

Those cast galleries Sony included on some of their early UHD releases take this to a whole new level of pointlessness.

[Laservampire]

It’s so painful going back to some early DVDs and seeing the absolute low-effort crap they used to shovel onto them, along with the unskippable animated menus.

The worst was when a legitimately awesome bonus feature wasn’t even advertised, like a deleted scene hidden as an Easter egg.

[Scoot79]

Not weird or really a special feature, but one of the most awesome DVD animated menus was on the Unrated DVD of Van Wilder (2002). It featured Ivana Božilović (Naomi) changing her shirt (and revealing her boobs) every time you made a selection. Only the menus on the Unrated DVD showed boobs. The [R] rated theatrical DVD had a censored bar across her chest.

When the film was released on Blu-ray, criminally, the Unrated DVD menus did not carry over. That's why I held onto my Unrated DVD as well as purchasing the 4K UltraHD Blu-ray.

[Weeb_Unleashed]

Speaking of animated menus, I just upgraded my Gladiator DVD to the 4k one. So today I noticed that "animated menus" were advertised under Special Features on the old DVD disc.

[Tsukiyomi]

Jiggle counter it was on 2 of ADVs DVDs Plastic Little and I guess the series Burn Out Excess had it as well. Always wondered if the guy forced to make notes on I questioned his life choices at the time.

[JediJones77]

I thought the Van Wilder DVD had the jiggling. What do you mean by jiggle counter?

They snuck this one past YouTube.

Van Wilder menu movie (Tetas Al Aire) - YouTube

[critterdvd]

The original DVD for 'Final Destination' had a 'game' where they asked you a few question and then predicted the date of your death. Now that the disc is 20+ years old it's actually kinda funny. Was watching it with some college buddies and we had a blast turning it into a drinking game while we marathoned the series a few weeks ago.