Sunday, November 22, 2009

As God is My Witness,

I thought polar bears could fly.

Via Watts Up With That? CGI polar bears are seen in an anti-CO2 PSA. It's not real, but pretty realistic:



The original WKRP in Cincinnati had the same sense of horror without being nearly so graphic.

There’s a famous scene in a 1978 episode where Mr. Carlson, “the Big Guy” (the general Manager) sets up a helicopter promotion to give away live turkeys at a Cincinnati shopping mall parking lot. He launches them from the helicopter into the crowd below. The event is reported by newsman Les Nessman ala the Hindenburg disaster. It is one of the funniest moments in television ever. Here’s the ending.



See the whole episode on Hulu.

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