# Help me find this obscure video w/Carrie Fisher **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 23, 2007, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-obscure-video-w-carrie-fisher/412898 "2007-07-23T22:38:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2007, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-obscure-video-w-carrie-fisher/412898/1 "2007-07-23T22:38:49Z")
I call upon the vast parallel-processing capability of the SMDB! I’m looking for the name, and any pertinent information of a video I saw in the late '80s or early '90s. It was (possibly) on POV. Starred Carrie Fisher who ends up getting sucked into a TV and going to “Starving Children’s Land”. Not in her IMDB credits, and my Google-Fu has failed me on this one. ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2007, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-obscure-video-w-carrie-fisher/412898/2 "2007-07-23T23:16:35Z")
[QUOTE=beowulff] I call upon the vast parallel-processing capability of the SMDB! I’m looking for the name, and any pertinent information of a video I saw in the late '80s or early '90s. It was (possibly) on POV. Starred Carrie Fisher who ends up getting sucked into a TV and going to “Starving Children’s Land”. Not in her IMDB credits, and my Google-Fu has failed me on this one. [/QUOTE] Are you sure it was that late? In the early 1970s she was on a satirical TV show called [Groove Tube](http://www.carriefisher.com/home/filmography_movies.php?ID=22) and that sounds kind of like one of the zany sketches they might have done. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2007, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-obscure-video-w-carrie-fisher/412898/3 "2007-07-23T23:34:52Z")
I sure it was later than this - she was an adult in the video (so definitely post Star Wars). This has been bugging me for quite a while. Thanks for the help, though. [QUOTE=Swallowed My Cellphone] Are you sure it was that late? In the early 1970s she was on a satirical TV show called [Groove Tube](http://www.carriefisher.com/home/filmography_movies.php?ID=22) and that sounds kind of like one of the zany sketches they might have done. [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2007, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-obscure-video-w-carrie-fisher/412898/4 "2007-07-25T17:31:03Z")
Have I stumped the SDMB? Say it ain’t so… ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Hildo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@Johnny\_Hildo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Hildo)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2007, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-obscure-video-w-carrie-fisher/412898/5 "2007-07-25T17:45:31Z")
Is it possible it was a sketch from _The New Show?_ It was an 80s _Saturday Night Live_ clone and I remember her hosting an episode of that. The only part I remember is that she donned a bikini in a sketch. ---
**Author:** ![lowbrass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dc4da7/32.png) [@lowbrass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lowbrass)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2007, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-obscure-video-w-carrie-fisher/412898/6 "2007-07-25T17:56:02Z")
[QUOTE=Swallowed My Cellphone] Are you sure it was that late? In the early 1970s she was on a satirical TV show called [Groove Tube](http://www.carriefisher.com/home/filmography_movies.php?ID=22) and that sounds kind of like one of the zany sketches they might have done. [/QUOTE] I think Groove Tube was a movie. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2007, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-obscure-video-w-carrie-fisher/412898/7 "2007-07-25T18:08:50Z")
[QUOTE=Johnny Hildo] Is it possible it was a sketch from _The New Show?_ It was an 80s _Saturday Night Live_ clone and I remember her hosting an episode of that. The only part I remember is that she donned a bikini in a sketch. [/QUOTE] Oooh… That’s a good lead. There’s almost no information on “The New Show” on the Intarnets, but maybe I can find a plot summary somewhere. The episode she was in was called “Prank Call”, but that doesn’t sound like what I’m looking for. ---
**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:** [July 25, 2007, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-obscure-video-w-carrie-fisher/412898/8 "2007-07-25T18:10:46Z")
I took the liberty of posting your question on the IMDb message board. One of the experts posited that your video might be [Trying Times episode ‘Hunger Chic’](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0792842/). Here is a [description](http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE5DA1331F930A25753C1A96F948260). How close does that sound? ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2007, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-obscure-video-w-carrie-fisher/412898/9 "2007-07-25T18:51:56Z")
[QUOTE=Earl Snake-Hips Tucker] I took the liberty of posting your question on the IMDb message board. One of the experts posited that your video might be [Trying Times episode ‘Hunger Chic’](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0792842/). Here is a [description](http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE5DA1331F930A25753C1A96F948260). How close does that sound? [/QUOTE] THAT"S IT!!! Thank You!