Wordgirl: Beyond the Veil of Dreams

I'd like to tell you about the day I found a piece of lost media if you are living under a rock.

I was beautifying my bathroom when the doorbell rang. I said, "I'll be right here," and went downstairs to open the door.

When I opened the door, all there was was a mannequin with a sign on its chest that said, "Look down!" And had a big red arrow pointing down. I looked down and saw a Wordgirl DVD that looked like it was made by an amateur content creator. It read: "Wordgirl: Mysterious Occurrences in Fair City, featuring 10 well-known episodes and a bonus never-seen-before episode!"

The DVD CoverOn the DVD cover were Wordgirl and Huggy, Eileen, Tim and Sally Botsford, Miss Question, Beatrice Bixby, Victoria Best in her superhero outfit, and Emma and Tessa eating chocolate cake. I was pretty impressed on how the cover looked because it looked like an official Wordgirl DVD, and a pretty convincing one, too. Am I being too redundant? Anyways, I took the DVD to my room and figured I could decorate my bathroom later. When I opened up the case, to my surprise, the actual DVD itself was just a blank DVD with marker handwritten on it that read, "Wordgirl: Mysterious Occurrences in Fair City." At least the handwriting was readable.

I shrugged it off and put the DVD in the DVD player. The PBS Kids Dot Logo from 1999 played, but it was different. Dot was dressed like Wordgirl, the background was blue, and the audio was pitched 3 semitones down.

Then, it started playing the following previews: A Boohbah promo from 2003 or 2004, the Lalaloopsy Silly Hair Star commercial, and an early promo for Super Why promo from 2007. Then, it went to the DVD menu. It looked great. I don't know why they would need a blank DVD for something so convincing.

The DVD MenuI pressed Play All Stories to watch all the episodes featured. It started at "The Birthday Girl" and went through the following order: "Slumber Party Pooper," "Victoria Best," "Mr. Big's Dolls and Dollars," "Invasion of The Bunny Lovers," "Birthday Town," "Mount Rush Here," "Lady Redundant Woman Gets the Blues," "Who is Ms. Question?" and "The Ordinary, Extraordinary Botsfords."

After those episodes, there was a warning.

It lasted for about 30 seconds and stated: "Warning! This episode was not made by a Soup2Nuts veteran but this episode never got put onto air for multiple reasons. Firstly, Soup2Nuts, the studio that made Wordgirl, shut down. Secondly, this episode will seem normal at first, but it's longer than just ONE Wordgirl episode and there are some strange topics that kids might never understand until they grow up. Anyways, if you are old enough and brave enough, then proceed. If not, go back and find another episode to watch. VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED."

I thought, "Hey, is this one of those Spinpasta type DVD's? I've read about other people seeing a screen like these before they watch DVDs like this."

Then the Wordgirl theme song played, only it was different. Everything was black and white, the people's eyes were red, and it was pitched and slowed down so instead of it being in the usual A minor progression, it was in F minor. You might understand what A and F minor chords are if you know about music, like me.

After the theme song, the title card appeared. It read: "Wordgirl in Beyond the Veil of Dreams."