r/Lost_Films • u/Autistic_Joker1988 • 20h ago
My quest to find the [fully lost] Waterhog Water Conservation Tape
When I was in 3rd Grade, there was a whole couple weeks where we did a unit on water: Aquatic Life, why water is important, that sort of thing.
On one of those weeks, my teacher showed my class a water conservation tape from the late 80s called Waterhog.
The video has a guy in a pig costume and his dorky looking friends spending the entire day wasting water. Meanwhile, some kid is fishing at a lake that is also that universe's only water supply.
The more water that Waterhog and his friends waste, the lower the lake becomes and then when his friends do need the water for an emergency, it's too late. The water supply is gone, the lake has dried up, and Waterhog has to come to grips with having to drink and bathe in his own pee and his dorky friends become chopped up and processed into Soylent Green so their neighborhood can eat and because they were responsible for consuming the entire town's water supply.
Lol I'm just messing with y'all. None of that happens. xD Real talk though, after the lake dries up completely, the kid looks at the camera and says "Don't be a waterhog."
I bring this all up because I have been trying to find that video in its entirety. The only clue I have is another old Subreddit about the tape. Otherwise, it seems to be lost media!
Internet Archive doesn't have it, DailyMotion doesn't have it (not that it matters since I don't use that website with how obnoxious they are about ads interrupting their videos every 5 minutes), not even Everything is Terrible or The Found Footage Festival People seem to have it (and they show a lot of oddball VHS Crap).
I just hope out there is someone with a copy of the tape and that one day they get it uploaded to YouTube for everyone to bask in the video's glorious stupidity I just described. I would hope some grade school or even a public library might have that tape, but considering technology advancing, those kinds of places keeping any of their old VHS Tapes is likely shooting for the moon at this point.
Either way, to anyone who may have a copy, or anyone who knows someone who does, if you're reading this, please upload Waterhog to YouTube or Internet Archive if at all possible