I Just Laughed My Ass Off

[jkid101094]

So I was reading this article on Cracked and eventually reached #3 on the list. Tired and not know what to expect I read on. I skipped the video due to their warning but then clicked the wikipedia link about the situation...Here's why I'm posting this:

Later that night, around 11:15 p.m., during a broadcast of the Doctor Who serial Horror of Fang Rock, PBS station WTTW (channel 11)'s signal was hijacked using the same video that was broadcast during the WGN-TV hijack, this time with distorted audio.[1] The person in the Max Headroom mask appeared, as before, this time saying, "That does it. He's a freakin' nerd," before laughing and jeering, "Yeah, I think I'm better than Chuck Swirsky. Freakin' liberal."[3]

The unidentified man continued to utter various phrases, including New Coke's advertising slogan "Catch the Wave" while holding a Pepsi can (Max Headroom was a Coca-Cola spokesperson at the time), then tossing the can down, and making an obscene gesture with a rubber extension over his middle finger (the gesture was cut off at the bottom of the screen due to the close-up of the camera) then retrieving the Pepsi can, and saying "Your love is fading," before removing the rubber extension, then began humming the theme song to Clutch Cargo, and stating that he had "made a giant masterpiece for all the greatest world newspaper nerds" (the call letters WGN are an abbreviation for "World's Greatest Newspaper," in reference to the Tribune Company's Chicago Tribune). He then held up a glove, said "my brother is wearing the other one," and put the glove on, commenting that it was "dirty", and "that's what you get for recycled!"
The picture suddenly cut over to a shot of the man's lower torso. His buttocks were exposed, and he was holding the now-removed mask up to the camera (with the rubber extension now placed in the mouth of the mask) while being spanked with a flyswatter by an unidentified accomplice wearing a dress, as the man exclaimed "Come get me, bitch!" and howling, "They're coming to get me!". The transmission then blacked out and cut off, and the hijack was over after about 90 seconds.[3]

WTTW, which maintains its transmitter atop the then-Sears Tower, found that its engineers were unable to stop the hijacker. According to station spokesman Anders Yocom, technicians monitoring the transmission "attempted to take corrective measures, but couldn't."[4] "By the time our people began looking into what was going on, it was over," he told the Chicago Tribune. WTTW was able to find copies of the hijacker's telecast with the help of Doctor Who fans who had been taping the show.[2]

I don't know why, but this made me laugh my ass off. I'm too afraid to watch the movie and find out how horrifying it really was but for one of you brave souls go right ahead. Here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWdgAMYjYSs&feature=player_embedded

[Elija2]

That thing is old and the only thing scary about it is a dude getting his bare ass smacked with a flyswatter.

[jkid101094]

That thing is old and the only thing scary about it is a dude getting his bare ass smacked with a flyswatter.

Hence why I lol'd.

[Hakudamashi]

the f*ck?

[jkid101094]

the f*ck?

I had been up for 24 hours and was reading Cracked.

Really, how much do I have to explain?

[Hakudamashi]

Everything
like.... the flyswatter

[jkid101094]

Everything
like.... the flyswatter

Read the article.
I don't find it as funny anymore, though. It was probably only because I was so tired.

But hey, at least I managed to corrupt your mind.