# Black Ooze from 'That's Incredible' **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 21, 2011, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-ooze-from-thats-incredible/568456 "2011-01-21T16:11:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![SpeedwayRyan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@SpeedwayRyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpeedwayRyan)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2013, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-ooze-from-thats-incredible/568456/21 "2013-02-21T15:25:25Z")
> [@Eicnj](#): > > I was with the njdep and investigated this case when it was discovered.\*\* I am in the process of writing a book\*\* on the subject because so many years later aspects of the incident still bother me. Write me at [eicnj@aol.com](mailto:eicnj@aol.com) and I will give you some\*\* insite.\*\* Get a good editor. šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2013, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-ooze-from-thats-incredible/568456/22 "2013-02-21T16:03:23Z")
i saw some black stuff on a new reality cooking show, ā€˜Thatā€™s Inedibleā€™. i donā€™t think itā€™s related. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2013, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-ooze-from-thats-incredible/568456/23 "2013-02-21T16:14:10Z")
> [@johnpost](#): > > i saw some black stuff on a new reality cooking show, ā€˜Thatā€™s Inedibleā€™. Stolen from (or at least preceded by) Arthur C. Clarke, in a footnote of his autobiography. I remember enjoying _Thatā€™s Incredible!_ - and I think part of the reason was because the shows were so jammed with material, unlike todayā€™s shows where every ten seconds of content is padded out to episode length. I know they got something of a reputation for making serious, honest folk look a bit foolish, but it goes to show how much things have changedā€¦ from slight funning with subjects to making people look like completely worthless assholes, and making both them and audiences keep coming back for moreā€¦ Oddā€¦ why does IMDb have an essentially empty entry for this show? ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2013, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-ooze-from-thats-incredible/568456/24 "2013-02-21T16:26:39Z")
> [@NitroPress](#): > > . . .Oddā€¦ why does IMDb have an essentially empty entry for this show? Thatā€™s the case with most older \*ā€˜weird peopleā€™ programs. No one as added any (or many) details. There was no IMDB when they were current, and they havenā€™t been rerun or made available for public use in many years. IMDb requires a lot on user-submitted contributions from these types of programs. \*ā€œReal Peopleā€ ā€œYou Asked For Itā€ ā€œRipleyā€™s Believe It or Not,ā€ etc. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2013, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-ooze-from-thats-incredible/568456/25 "2013-02-21T16:27:58Z")
_The Zombie That Came From The House Of Black Ooze!_ Thatā€™s incredible! Bwahahahaha! ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2013, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-ooze-from-thats-incredible/568456/26 "2013-02-21T16:31:21Z")
> [@NitroPress](#): > > Oddā€¦ why does IMDb have an essentially empty entry for this show? A couple of guesses: - As a proto-reality show, other than the hosts, there were few, if any, actors appearing in it, and there were no plots or stories, per se. - It was on the air only at the beginning of the era of widespread home VCRs (and doesnā€™t appear to have ever been released on home video). - It doesnā€™t look like itā€™s been shown much in syndication over the past few decades (the Wikipedia entry says that it played, at some point, on Retro Television). - It may lack a strong fan community, who might have cataloged the shows. As **Earl Snake-Hips Tucker** notes, for an older show, itā€™s the fans who often wind up ā€œpopulatingā€ the IMDB entry. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2013, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-ooze-from-thats-incredible/568456/27 "2013-02-21T16:49:14Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > Thatā€™s the case with most older \*ā€˜weird peopleā€™ programs. No one as added any (or many) details. There was no IMDB when they were current, and they havenā€™t been rerun or made available for public use in many years. IMDb requires a lot on user-submitted contributions from these types of programs. Tell me about it. I had submitted Trivia entries before on the IMDb (which is fairly easy), so I figured it would be just as easy to add the fact that Stu Jeffries was the host of ā€œGood Rockinā€™ Toniteā€ between years X and Y based on what it said on his web page and on Wikipedia. Nope: they required a screenshot from the actual show or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2013, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-ooze-from-thats-incredible/568456/28 "2013-02-21T16:56:34Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > Tell me about it. I had submitted Trivia entries before on the IMDb (which is fairly easy), so I figured it would be just as easy to add the fact that Stu Jeffries was the host of ā€œGood Rockinā€™ Toniteā€ between years X and Y based on what it said on his web page and on Wikipedia. Nope: they required a screenshot from the actual show or something like that. I guess even IMDB can say, ā€œpics, or it didnā€™t happen.ā€ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-ooze-from-thats-incredible/568456.md?page=1)