Richard_Cheese said:That evil muppets story sounds just like an episode of "Angel" .
fnordish said:there was a show back in the, er, late 80's maybe called Mr. Wizard. it was a kid oriented science show with some oldish balding guy (Mr. Wizard) who would have some kids on the show and guide them through various, generally not very complicated experiments, whilst explaining the scientific principles behind them. this was in the states, by the way, i dont know if the show had any existence elsewhere.
anyway, my friend claims to remember seeing an episode where mr. wizard was discussing electricity and the effect it has on muscle tissue and nervous tissue, etc. the big demonstration was a dog laid out on his metal table with its brain exposed. mr wizard would proceed to deliver little shocks to various parts of the brain, causing the dog to bark, or jerk a limb, and so forth. did this happen? i highly doubt it, myself, as i cant see that being allowed on television, especially not a kids show. i dont remember the episode myself, though i watched the show often as a kid, and no one else hes mentioned it to remembers seeing it, but my friend swears it happened.
Porn appears on rugby programme
New Zealand rugby fans watching a regular sports programme found themselves viewing hardcore pornography instead on Sunday afternoon.
Four minutes of pornography interrupted sports coverage on the Prime Television channel, after what a spokesman described as a distribution mix up.
The pornographic footage was meant for an adult pay-per-view channel.
Instead, it found its way onto a regular free-to-air programme called "Grassroots Rugby".
Rival television channels reported that some viewers were angry about the broadcast, which may have been seen by children.
Super Bowl porn hits US viewers
US sports fans in Arizona got a surprise when their TV coverage of American football's Super Bowl was interrupted by a pornographic film.
Tucson-based KVOA-TV said it was "dismayed and disappointed" after some cable viewers had their match coverage disrupted towards the end of the game.
The company said the material was only seen by viewers of one cable network.
"KVOA will investigate what happened and make sure our viewers get answers," company president Gary Nielsen said.
"When the NBC feed of the Super Bowl was transmitted from KVOA to local cable providers and through over-the-air antennas, there was no pornographic material," he added.
Comcast, the cable company whose viewers saw the material, said it was investigating.
Local media outlets reported that they received calls from furious viewers.
The clip showed a woman unzipping a man's trousers, followed by a graphic act between the two.
"I just figured it was another commercial until I looked up," viewer Cora King told the Arizona Daily Star.
"Then he did his little dance with everything hanging out."
The interruption happened just after the last touchdown by the Arizona Cardinals, who lost the match to the Pittsburgh Steelers.
gncxx said:Here's a TV mystery, and only Andy Kaufman knows the truth about it. Kaufman was on Fridays, a Saturday Night Live style comedy sketch show, when it all went wrong:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Bc1GXuNPuQ
Was it staged? A hoax? It's certainly in keeping with Kaufman's sabotaging sense of humour. Do you think it looks real?
ignatiusII said:According to some members of the "FRIDAYS" cast, Kaufman had it all planned in advance, while according to others, it was entirely spontaneous. Whatever the truth, it supposedly infuriated then-cast-member Michael Richards (SEINFELD's TV buddy Kramer), who refused to ever work with Kaufman again.
On January 3, 2007 in Australia, during a broadcast of an episode of the Canadian television series Mayday on the Seven Network, an audio loop unexpectedly started playing, clearly saying in an American accent, “Jesus Christ, help us all, Lord”. This same voice message continued to repeat itself over and over during the show for a total of six minutes. A spokesman for Seven later denied that the transmission was a prank or a security breach and claimed that the repeated line was actually part of the original broadcast and said, “Jesus Christ one of the Nazarenes”, although there is hardly any similarity between the two phrases. Subsequent investigation by independent researchers revealed that the invading transmission was actually from a video taped news broadcast of a civilian truck being ambushed in Iraq. It remains unknown whether or not this was an intentional act of television piracy or a genuine glitch of some sort.
gncxx said:By the way, was there ever any follow up to the story of the American couple who got the threatening messages over their cable TV set up? Can't find anything online and can't recall which FT the story was in.
gncxx said:Maybe Irish readers can help here, there's an article in FT 279 about the 1985 story where the Blessed Virgin Mary statues came to life, and in one paragraph it says many viewers of RTE were watching the reports of the Ballinspittle phenomenon when they saw the face of Christ appear on the screen. When engineers watched the footage back, they couldn't see anything untoward.
Anyone recall this, or even better, witness it on their TVs?
ramonmercado said:Can't remember that incident. I followed the events at the time.
The Bulgarian TV show Otechestven Front – which translates loosely as The Home Front – does seem to be experiencing a cluster of bad luck. Its format is simple: through a series of on-location interviews, presenter Martin Karbovski introduces a selection of ordinary people, each of whom has an extraordinary (but not always cheerful) story. Think of a macabre That's Life, or a clothed Eurotrash, and you'll be getting warm.
Yet over the past two years, no fewer than six of the show's subjects have died shortly after taking part. The first was a particularly unpleasant former criminal known as The Rose, who collapsed a matter of days after his interview was filmed, amid rumours of black magic. An 85-year-old woman called Gena, who told Karbovski her legs had been eaten by dogs, was next, dying in her sleep.
Another victim was Ivanka Arsova, the 62-year-old owner of an icon of the Virgin Mary and Child, which was reputed to cry real tears and became a site of pilgrimage. In her case, it was an undiagnosed cancer that killed her, shortly after she claimed to have been visited by a stranger saying "God was calling".
Last month brought the strangest case of all, when Halil Baev, a herbalist, was killed in a fire that destroyed his house. Having been rescued once, Baev would have survived, had he not returned in an attempt to rescue his black cat. Nova TV, which transmits Otechestven Front, says they are aware of the supposed curse, and are "looking into it".