Endut! Hoch hech.
But…but…More geeky nitpicking the nitpick.
I think in the Episode “The Lawndale Files” Artie the pizza delivery guy who was abducted by a UFO appears on Sick Sad World being interviewed about his experiences by a SSW reporter and tells his story about the aliens replacing all his skin with a synthetic that stretches.
The News with Ted Baxter
Speaking of commercials and Family Guy, I still want to see an episode of Slowly Rotating Black Guy.
And if movies are indeed permitted, Storm Saxon, the white-supremacist dystopic adventure TV show popular in Fascist Britain, is a disturbing little part of V for Vendetta.
“Ow! My Balls!” from Idiocracy.
Twitch City was a crazed Canadian comedy series starring Don McKellar as Curtis, an agoraphobic TV addict. His favorite: The Rex Reilly Show, featured Bruce McCullough as the abrasive talk show host in season one. Mark McKinney was the second Rex Reilly–after a head transplant…
One character from TC appeared on The Rex Reilly Show & Rex showed up during a hostage situation at Curtis’s little house. But we mostly saw episodes as backdrop to the action (or non-action) in that house. The rest of the cast consisted of The Usual Canadian Actor Suspects (aka “Three Degrees of Callum Keith Rennie”–three degrees are enough Up North.)
In 1976, a film called *Drive In *was released. It portrayed the events at a small-town drive in theatre over the course of an evening. A comedy, it concentrated on the stories of the people who went to the drive in, but not necessarily to watch the movie.
Anyway, the show that is playing on the drive in’s screen is Disaster '76, which is obviously a parody of all the 1970s disaster movies: planes crash, buildings burn, ships sink, sharks attack, and so on. But this film-in-a-film is itself a sendup of disaster movies, featuring the stereotypes of typical disaster movie characters–the steely-eyed hero, the bumbling authorities, the girl without whom the hero could get nothing done (and with whom the hero rides off into the sunset), among others. You get glimpses of what’s happening onscreen in *Disaster '76 *from time to time, and even when you don’t, its soundtrack plays quietly in the background so you can hear the dialog.
I’ve seen *Drive In *a few times, and it’s funny. But *Disaster '76 *is funnier.
Monster Chiller Horror Theater
Farm Film Report Celebrity Blow-up
Bob and Doug MacKenzie’s Great White North
From SCTV.
And how can it be no one has mentioned Weekend Update yet???
I always enjoyed the bounty hunter show in Cowboy Bebop. Hubba hubba.
And this made me fall out of the chair.
Then, of course, there’s everybody’s favorite edu-tainment puppet show, Smile Time!
The Simpsons were mentioned several times in this thread, but if it counts, I’ll add The Planet of the Apes (the musical, not the planet).
Kramer’s resurrection of the Merv Griffin show on Seinfeld, and the way George looks very slightly excited that he really may be on TV.
Was there a The Critic show within the The Critic? “But I have nowhere to go.”
To continue this important nitpick - you actually see part of an episode of Sick Sad World in the very first episode of Daria - Esteemers.
Actually I thought about that one myself,I think that if IRL boring old governments didn’t make it illegal it would actually be an incredibly successful programme/station.
The use of hypnosis and probably subliminals would be very appealing both to those stressed out proffessionals AND the long term unemployed couch potatoes.
"You feel relaxed,you have no worries you love your job,you will buy “X” brand coffee,“Y"brand cornflakes,go to bed at 11pm .have a good nights sleep and go to work happy tomorrow morning at 8pm and then when you return home you will watch Hypno toad”
Mental health would take a boost,you could include in your message that drugs are bad,too much alcohol is bad,cigarettes are bad.
Advertisers would be ecstatic,the economy would boom and crime would go down.
Funnily enough I’ve never actually thought about this subject before ,but then it came to me last night when I was watching T.V.
I also think that Hypnotoad should be elected God Emperor,IMO,and it should damn well be your opinion as well.