Update: The video has apparently been pulled from the Vimeo site. Here’s a screen capture, more can be seen on Ben’s site.
Ben says the figures only appeared on the HD version of the broadcast. What do you think? Did it really happen? Or is he trying to make an “eat” out of “C” and “H”?
Further update: Based on responses to his post, Ben now believes that it was done by somebody at the local NBC affiliate in Helena, Mont., having fun with/testing its HD channel, which this person may have thought nobody was watching. It apparently was only seen in the Helena area.
Yet another further update: As Ben points out in our comments section, KTVH has confirmed that the silhouette did appear, supposedly due to the use of second-hand equipment being used for the first time. There’s no explanation why the silhouette was on the equipment in the first place.
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if it isn’t ‘real’, it’s cute and well-done.
if it is real, does this usher in an era of ‘MST-Rolling’?
hmmmmm…looks fake to me
He’s telling the truth because the just before the very next commercial, Jim Lampley introduced Jesus, who gave us the results of the two-man skulling prelims, in which Elvis and Bigfoot set a new Olympic record.
Fake!
Huh, I didn’t know J. Elvis was buddies with Bigfoot. He’d make an awesome silhouette on CT!
On a slightly-but-not-really-related note, I had to keep laughing when the announcers said “double scull” or “quadruple scull.” I thought it sounded like a birth defect.
I frequently do a Google video search for MST3K stuff added and actually saw that up. I read his claim and I’d say It’s a bunch of fecal unless others come forward. If it was indeed showing for over an hour then other people had to have seen it.
If it DID happen, I’d be curious to know what the significance of it was if any. Besides the obvious absurd hilarity of it of course.
I declare shenanigans of the most bovine fecal variety. It shouldn’t even be posted on this fine website.
Link with a screen grab:
http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/18/mst3k-crew-appears-during-the-summer-olympics-broadcast/
Hopefully someone will post the video to a site free of copyright nazis
Just put it up on PirateBay or some other torrenting website.
I happen to know for a fact that Big Foot is using steroids.
There are a few others from Montana who came forward in comments on engadget saying they also saw it. I suspect it was a local affiliate playing a prank.
Silhouette sightings, tonight on “Believe It Or Not.”
(Must be said in Jack Palance voice).
Ben how could you use poor sweet mary for your own Childish games. I hope the disembodied head of ms Granbee gives you a stern talking-to
EXTREMELY funny ( stick to your guns crow )
i’m in Montana and I was watching about that time and I didnt see it. Of course, I took a break in the middle of the olympics to watch my copy of Boggy Creek II, so i suppose its possible i could have missed it…
Likely done with adobe premiere or something, but why the hell would someone go to the trouble of doing this? It’s neither funny nor gains them anything. It’s pointless.
Agreed, this is a lame attempt at grabbing the ‘pointless hoax of the month” trophy. :roll:
Whenever Jesus is on my TV I get Immaculate Reception. Thank you!!
Could be fake. Tom’s facing the wrong way.
The only thing more fake than that image is the hope that Barack Obama is presenting to the United States.
And it’s official! For bringing up blind, partisan, and irrational Obama hatred in a discussion forum about the Olympics & a cow-town puppet show, “Jesus Thinks You’re a Jerk” wins the Douchebag of the Week Award!
Congratulations, douchebag! You earned it!
Hey I Like watching shows about congress…
The Shadowramalympics… why the hate? Of course, we all know it’s a fake of some kind or another. Best Brains and Shout Factory haven’t got the scratch to perpetrate such a remarkable and illegal guerilla marketing scheme. I’m sure whoever did it spent just as much time and effort on it as they wanted to, it’s pro-MST ( which we should all be in favor of ), it’s harmless at worst and darn funny at best. Cute, fine, ha-ha , let’s move on.
( Oh, and I guess we now know much of what we need to know about JTYAJ )
For somewhat at the local affiliate to put up a chyron like that would require considerably less effort than it would take for this guy to fake it. Master control can be pretty boring; it’s not at all hard for me to believe that somebody would put that on the air for a laugh (although doing it during the Olympics is pretty ballsy).
If there was a part of the video I’d like to see, it would be the parts where (so he says) it goes to local commercial and disappears. Although it could still be faked, the credibility might be slightly higher if we could analyze…What am I talking about? This if pure plastic puppet poopy! :???:
You know, no one has yet to consider what Mike and the bots might be SAYING about this particular scene…
Tom: “Are they all tied together”?
Crow: “It’s a three-hundred legged race!”
Mike: “And the crowd goes wild.”
All: “yaaaaaay.”
Goodness! We’ve gone from fake Olympic shadowramas to political brawling! You certainly get it all at Mst3kinfo!
Why so agressively defensive, Torgo? (Agressively defensive?)
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fair enough, and since the rules will be applied fairly I’m sure we’ll all agree and abide. But would you apply this same rule to extended Melvins threads ?
Please ?
Pretty Please ?
Get a clue, little shrew. This ain’t the place for political debate and Zappa references. Also: picture is totally fake.
Sorry, Sampo. That wasn’t posted when I started mine. :shock:
There should be nothing wrong with Zappa references….
“Weasels ripped my flesh— RIZZZZZ!”
Hoax? I thought this was one of those crappy Rhino covers.
In cheesy bubbles:
Mike (pointing, of course): “The Richard Simmons look is back in.”
Tom: “We’re lucky. NBC usually only releases Olympic woodcuts.”
Crow: “I boxed the 2433 with the 1662 and played 1857 across the board.”
Zappa references – the right people will get them! :wink:
https://www.mst3kinfo.com/ward_e/listzap.html
Frank Zappa, David Byrne. Firesign Theater. Johnny Mathis.
It’s all good. As long as you keep it MSTy.
…. I get MSTy, and too much in love.
Olympic runners move around in a circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area.
Wow, the high gas prices has really changed the morning commute.
Sorry had include my own riff here.
Great! Is this what Jim Mallon planned that he turned down Joel’s offer of a 20 year reunion show for?
@35
… but destined to replace the mudshark in your mythology. Here it is now, The Circular Motion!
Sings: “We’re walking really really fast, we’re walking really really fast…”
The shadowrama is real but the flower boxes to the right of the runners are obviously superimposed.
The flowerboxes were added digitally by NBC as paid advertising for the Flowerbox Association of America. The time clock, however, really is right in the middle of the track and seconds later runner 1662 tripped over it and broke his knee.
Crow: (as one of the runners) Oh sure, no need to use the REST OF THE TRACK!!!!
Servo: Why are they bunched up like that anyway? As Crow said they have the rest of the track…
Joel: Maybe they’re like Zebras and need to stay in a tightly packed group to avoid predetors?
Servo and Crow: Oh that makes se- Huh?
The numbers on their chests represent China’s medal count in different events.
I guess J&TB had to sit at the other end of the theater so the runners wouldn’t trample them.
re #44. No silly, the reason they’re on the other side of the theater is that China’s on the other side of the world.
Thats not a clock in the lower right, that’s the time code !!!
And time code is an elf that lives inside your head – TB
..they live by a code, that is usually SMPTE, which-stands-for-Society-of-Motion-Picture-and-Television-Engineers. Maybe I think that’s what keeps them in synch…… – FZ
#46 -What goofballs are you hopped up on?
Also – If China is on the other side of the world, wouldn’t J&TB be upside down on the top of the screen?
It’s a simple matter of quantum linear superpositioning. They’re not upside down because they exist in the USA but are simply being observed in the relative vector state of China.
I dunno. standard bored-at-work-and-kind-of-sleep-deprived goofballs, I guess.
Beijing is at the same latitude as NYC, so they are on the other side of the earth in an east west sense not in a north south sense. but I like the squanto superior propositioning thingie too.
Hey, I crammed in a Zappa reference and an ACEG reference at the same time in a post that was vaguelly ( admittedly VERY vaguelly ) referential to the screen cap. That’s a good day’s work in my book :D
@49
I think I’ll give you a, give you a, give you a drink!