Black Ooze from 'That's Incredible'

[SpeedwayRyan]

@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 and I will give you some** insite.**

Get a good editor.

[johnpost]

i saw some black stuff on a new reality cooking show, ‘That’s Inedible’.

i don’t think it’s related.

[Amateur_Barbarian]

@johnpost

i saw some black stuff on a new reality cooking show, ‘That’s Inedible’.

Stolen from (or at least preceded by) Arthur C. Clarke, in a footnote of his autobiography.

I remember enjoying That’s Incredible! - and I think part of the reason was because the shows were so jammed with material, unlike today’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 changed… from slight funning with subjects to making people look like completely worthless assholes, and making both them and audiences keep coming back for more…

Odd… why does IMDb have an essentially empty entry for this show?

[Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker]

@NitroPress

. . .Odd… why does IMDb have an essentially empty entry for this show?

That’s the case with most older *‘weird people’ programs. No one as added any (or many) details. There was no IMDB when they were current, and they haven’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.

*“Real People” “You Asked For It” “Ripley’s Believe It or Not,” etc.

[Duckster]

The Zombie That Came From The House Of Black Ooze!

That’s incredible!

Bwahahahaha!

[kenobi_65]

@NitroPress

Odd… 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 doesn’t appear to have ever been released on home video).
• It doesn’t look like it’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, it’s the fans who often wind up “populating” the IMDB entry.

[hogarth]

@Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker

That’s the case with most older *‘weird people’ programs. No one as added any (or many) details. There was no IMDB when they were current, and they haven’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 “Good Rockin’ Tonite” 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.

[kenobi_65]

@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 “Good Rockin’ Tonite” 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, “pics, or it didn’t happen.”