# Do any US movie channels ever screen Eraserhead? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 9, 2006, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-us-movie-channels-ever-screen-eraserhead/359989 "2006-06-09T00:46:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Don\_Logan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@Don\_Logan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Logan)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-us-movie-channels-ever-screen-eraserhead/359989/1 "2006-06-09T00:46:27Z")
This & El Topo, I am pretty sure for El Topo it is a definite no due to a legal battle, but I can’t recall ever seeing Eraserhead. Anyone? ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-us-movie-channels-ever-screen-eraserhead/359989/2 "2006-06-09T01:03:57Z")
There is probably a reason you never see it. It isn’t really a movie. It is, well, something else unknown with all of the good and bad that entails. Most people couldn’t just sit there and watch it like they would something else. It is disturbing and the storyline is incompressible in the normal way. It is really more like a music video gone wrong (but not). I don’t think many channels would want to just plop it out there for all to stumble upon. (I have it and I have made a point to try and watch it several times but I never made it all the way through. It is fascinating in a way but really bad in other ways that make it a chore unless there are illegal drugs involved. ---
**Author:** ![awldune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@awldune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/awldune)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-us-movie-channels-ever-screen-eraserhead/359989/3 "2006-06-09T03:36:44Z")
Pretty sure I’ve seen it on IFC or Sundance. Can’t see more mainstream channels showing it. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-us-movie-channels-ever-screen-eraserhead/359989/4 "2006-06-09T06:03:35Z")
I think it was on USA a long time ago. Maybe A&E. Sometime in the nineties. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-us-movie-channels-ever-screen-eraserhead/359989/5 "2006-06-09T13:29:30Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > Most people couldn’t just sit there and watch it like they would something else. It is disturbing and the storyline is incompressible in the normal way. It is really more like a music video gone wrong (but not). I don’t think many channels would want to just plop it out there for all to stumble upon. In other words, your basic David Lynch movie. ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-us-movie-channels-ever-screen-eraserhead/359989/6 "2006-06-09T15:00:00Z")
FWIW, IFC has been running new episodes of Greg the Bunny and they spoofed Eraserhead. It was still disturbing. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-us-movie-channels-ever-screen-eraserhead/359989/7 "2006-06-09T23:02:42Z")
I know I saw it in TV… it might have been PBS.