Trivia / Big Bill Hell's

• Colbert Bump:
  • While the advert was by no means obscure when the famous Lets Player Markiplier included it in his "Try Not To Laugh Challenge" video, the fact that the ad was featured in such a popular video from such a famous youtuber still was of much help in spreading the word of its existence. Case in point, if you actually go ahead and read the comments from the original upload of the commercial (God help you), you'll quickly notice the disproportionate amount of "who else is here from Markiplier" comments.
  • Before that, the ad gained some notability after its use in the Toy Story YouTube Poop "Toys Gone Wild" where it replaces the Buzz Lightyear commercial from the film.
  • Now it's UrinatingTree for his "Congrats, Orioles" video, which parodies the original ad.
• Doing It for the Art: Not only this ad, but all ads that were part of the aforementioned Parody Commercial contest were this, as they were all done purely for shits and giggles despite the fact that the people making them could be putting their marketing jobs in serious jeopardy for doing so. (Doubly so in this case, because it's such a direct parody of an ad the makers made for Heritage Auto Park that Heritage would've likely been extremely angry about it, thinking it was a critique of them specifically.)
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: While an infinitude of copies of this ad are now available on YouTube due to its memetic nature, for a long time, the only existing copies of the ad were second-generation VHS tapes dubbed from one of the two master copies, shared between tape traders as evidenced by the original YouTube upload's description:
  "Someone made this commercial in Maryland back in the 80's. Before YouTube, we actually copied stupid videos like this onto VHS tapes and traded them around. We were idiots."
  • While the highest-quality circulating copy of the video is in good enough quality (480p, which in 2006 was very high quality for YouTube), the chances of a fully high-quality copy in its original framerate of 60 fps are extremely low, unless an original copy (or a dubbed recording) of the source tape is found. The only other known copies of the video, one uploaded to Fugly.com and the other to YouTube, are in much worse quality (240p at 15 fps, seemingly digitized from third- or fourth-generation copies). The Fugly copy in particular is incomplete, missing a few seconds at the beginning, while the alternative YouTube upload has been digitally manipulated to superimpose the logo of "B & R Auto Salvage" over the door of one of the cars seen three seconds in.
  • The co-creator behind the video component of Big Bell Hell's, Sean Paul Murphy, still owns his first-generation VHS master tape of the advertisement and has expressed interest in digitizing it, according to a 2022 comment on his Blogger page; however, as of 2024, a new digitization has not been forthcoming.

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