tag yourself im SPR
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MA(n)SPLA(i)NTR
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Today I learned something new about this live children’s show that I mentioned that ran for 35 years until 1989, and that I used to watch as a kid.
The hosts would use a seating chart to pick which kids in the audience would get those bags of prizes. It turns out it was always just a blank piece of paper and they chose the kids randomly in the moment.
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corpse flower livestream, waiting to see the flower bloom
thousands of people in the chat all swearing they saw a petal move a fraction of an inch
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The chat has named the corpse flower “Putricia”
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Putricia bloomed, does not appear to be stinky yet. Looking forward to the crowds occasionally visible in the video pinching their noses in a few hours
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we popped onto the stream a couple hours ago and there were LOTS of people waving at the camera. no-one visibly smellshocked but people were in the chat like “yeah i was there and it reeked lol”
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So I shelled out for the generative Eno doc livestream last night to hopefully see some of what fate decided that I didn’t get to see in the theatrical screening here last year, and there was a segment about how during the NYC era he bought a stolen video camera off of a roady for Kansas, and because it didn’t sit properly on its base, he set it up in his window sideways feeding to a sideways tv in his apartment.
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a new, longer video about bbc select. i didn’t know about the bmtv precursor, or about the absurdly ambitious subscriber numbers they were hoping for for this incredibly niche service
one thing i don’t like about the video is how it acts like the bbc is supposed to be a profit-making business, rather than a public service that exists to experiment with stuff like this, even if it means a bunch of money gets wasted going down dead ends.
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Huh.
Decades before the TV Land sitcom Hot in Cleveland, here’s an ultimately unsold pilot for a potential series, a sketch comedy anthology entitled From Cleveland, as aired on The CBS Late Movie as a “Special Presentation” over WBBM Channel 2. It is presented mostly uncut, save for editing out of the commercial breaks. It’s basically a strange amalgamation of the comedy of Bob & Ray mixed with SCTV (none of whom are actually ‘From Cleveland’ originally)
[modification note: some of the music featured in this special had to be reversed, or quality degraded, to avoid YouTube blocking]
This pilot features Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding (credited as “The Bob & Ray Radio Show”) as late-night disc jockeys introducing sketches featuring members of the cast of Second City Television (SCTV), credited in order: Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Catherine O’Hara and Dave Thomas. The pilot was made before a third season of SCTV was picked up (on which all but Ms. O’Hara participated; she would not return until SCTV Network 90 on the NBC Network the following year; notably missing from this show is John Candy). Except for the two veteran radio comics’ segments, the sketches were all taped in Cleveland itself (and would have aired in that city over what was then WJKW Channel 8, but ironically, and in actuality, never did).
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Chris Elliot’s dad!
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