So, one day while I was searching around eMule to find some cool rare stuff to stuff, HDTV rips, cinema bootlegs and all, I came across this file called “Sky.Special.The.Simpsons.Movie.S00E50.WS.PDTV.XviD-hV.avi”. And I borderline jaw-dropped when I saw this. Being a British person and being familiar with Sky’s channels and The Simpsons, it is an amazing find I was able to get, and thankfully it managed to download, though when I watched it, I noticed that the file felt corrupt, even MediaInfo doesn’t seem to identify it. It only was only was able to read the first 3 minutes, until everything stopped. Even when I tried to convert it using avidemux, it doesn’t seem to work, repairing it with VLC or any AVI repair tool seems to hang, even remuxing to an MKV file only plays the first 5 seconds.
From what I can gather, this special, hosted by Iain Lee, and aired sometime before or on 24th of July 2007, two days before the film’s official UK release, according to a post on TPB, goes through the behind the scenes look on how they made the movie. From what I can remember from the first three minutes, it actually contains a deleted scene of the movie you wouldn’t find on the DVD, Blu-ray, animator sizzle reels or on promotional content, so I might think we might get to see more that he haven’t seen, yet even more amazing if it was ones we only got screenshots of. I did try to do it again by redownloading it to see if it was the file or the long inactivity of the file that caused it, but as of writing, no is online to let their file download to my computer. I knew I can’t try the torrent version because it is dead now, even people on Soulseek don’t seem to have it. I tried Google, no results. Internet Archive, nothing.
So, basically this is a call for help to anyone who was lucky to have a fully working file to PM me the link so I can release it on YouTube. In fact, as of now, I don’t know if it did surface on YouTube or not. If it did, it might just be an upload of the AVI file or just a VHS recording. Hopefully this will get the word out. If YouTube’s copyright system worldwide blocks the special, I’ll have to stick to Internet Archive and PM links for anyone who wants the AVI file.