September 13, 2004

• At first I thought, heh, that's immature but kind of funny. But then I watched the clip and realised - hey! They're interupting some miniseries - don't they know how hard those are to follow? You watch every week, you really put in an effort - maybe you're taping it. And they just go and ruin it for no reason. Why couldn't they have interrupted like Seinfeld or something. You always know what's going to happen there.
• great link, thanks
• I found this link a few years ago. Facinating stuff. Conspiracy Theory Rock is BRILLIANT. A must watch for everyone. If there was any justice, it would appear on a regular basis for grade school kids.
• Holy shit, I've been looking for that SNL School Room Rock / Conspiracy Theory Rock clip ever since it aired. (1997?) There's a better quality clip here. (~11.3MB download; thanks Indymedia.) pete_best- have you seen this one? Hilarious.
• jb, if the worst thing that ever happens to a person is having his or her videotape collection of a television show interrupted, that person is leading an impossibly charmed life. These are pranks, utterly harmless and silly, and I think I'd watch more television if I thought it were likely that more would pop up. As an aside, when my nephew was in high school, he worked for a local cable station. Someone 'accidentally' broadcast about twenty minutes of a tape that had been made in the studio featuring the station staff and volunteers mocking the various shows they worked on. Complaints came in, and the tape was pulled immediately. Not so surprisingly, the only people parodied who complained at all were the municipal government councillors and other minor league government officials -- one of the childrens' show's hosts and a gardening show host asked to use the footage of them in their credit reel, and the rest of the people mocked thought the whole thing a humourous and harmless incident.
• Thanks alot Wedge
• Reminds me of the incident on Southern UK television in 1977, when a news bulletin was broken into or hacked by a 5½ minute message from "Gramaha of Ashtar Galactic Command" or some-such. A spooky voice spoke slowly over the continuing images of the newsreader, warning mankind to change its ways in the face of the 'Age of Aquarius'. The perpetrators of this broadcast were never discovered.
• That's because they were super intelligent lizard-people from outer space, you feeble-minded Earth-putz.
• You could always do it the old-fashioned way like when a bunch of lesbians invaded the BBC TV news studio. Seeing Sue Lawley trying to read the news while a whole load of squawking came from under the desk is a glorious memory. She said: "I am sorry about the racket. We have been invaded, but will try to bring you the news as best we can." Apparently Nicholas Witchell sat on one of them
• that person is leading an impossibly charmed life. Maybe so, but dammit, it's so hard to follow miniseries as it is! And sometimes you get so wrapped up in them, it really does feel like someone ripping out your guts when you miss some/have the tape ruined. (I always believe in sweating the small stuff - saves you worrying about the real crap in your life.)
• To each his own, jb, but I think people who complain about missing television programmes probably have a few more loose screws than the rest of us.
• /remembers quarrelling with visiting older brother after some impromptu request by him made flagpole lose the Oscar's 'Shame on you!' acceptance speech, live, by Michael Moore. Hangs head in shame.