Last week, while discussing the recent flood of people swearing and dropping puppies on The Today Show and Good Morning America, I asked the question, “What in the hell is going on with morning shows lately?” This, it turns out, was the wrong question. As you will see in the video below, unearthed today by Fark and Gawker, the question I should have asked is “What in the hell has been going on with morning shows FOREVER?”
I don’t want to spoil this for you, so here are just a few quick and dirty facts to set it up:
- It is from an episode of The Today Show that aired 28 years ago.
- It features a woman who claims that her toaster is possessed by Satan.
- Her last line is funnier than anything you or I will ever say, do, or think.
There you go. I vote we keep the original footage of this in the Smithsonian. Or, even better, in an airtight, underground bunker in some remote, unpopulated part of the country, just in case terrorists or communists or whoever hit us with an attack that takes out the Internet. Although it will definitely be rough sledding for a while, I think we’ll survive it, and I want assurances that this video will be there waiting for us when it’s time to rebuild.
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what the what
That was like the Woody Allen punchline from Annie Hall, “We need the eggs.”
I remember a TV morning show – This Morning with Richard and Judy – that had a regular phone in relationship advice segment with the resident expert, Denise Robertson. On one occasion a caller – who was either a genius troll or should probably have been reported to various authorities – asked for guidance on how he could continue to have sex with his thirteen year old girlfrend because he feared what her father might do if he got her pregnant. His question: “Is anal okay?” I’d kill to see that again.
“i” missing above. Insert where appropriate.
Well? What was the answer?!?
The expert asked how old the caller was because he sounded reasonably mature. He was 21. There was some reassuringly British mild discomfort from the hosts about things being inappropiate and the next caller was queued on.
inappropriate – I’m all over the place.
I was rite along with you until yore spelling mestakes took me rite out of the gayme.
Holy cannoli! She delivers it with such perfect timing too. This is too valuable for the Smithsonian – put it in Fort Knox!
That might be the best closing line to any news story ever made.
I think it’s safe to assume that this is the kind of reporting that Aaron Sorkin pines after while writing each episode of ‘The Newsroom”
Does nobody else care that the toaster more than proved that it’s possessed by BREATHING FIRE!?
This broad invented trolling before there was even an internet to troll. She wins.