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It even had phone numbers you could call where the only reply you'd get was that the lines were busy. They tried to make it as realistic as possible and it owns.
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This reminds me of when M Night Shymalan had that 1-2 hour special on the Sci Fi channel where it was implied he had special ghost powers. It never aired again, I assume from controversy. Not really subtle, I suppose, but if you didn't have access to the internet back then I guess it was.
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Nov 26, 2022 20:37
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Philippe posted:It even had phone numbers you could call where the only reply you'd get was that the lines were busy. They tried to make it as realistic as possible and it owns. The number was actually real, it's famous to BBC viewers of the era as their call-in line, 081 811 8181, and the intent was people would hear a "The show isn't real, don't be afraid, but you can tell us your ghost experience after the beep" type message. Problem was that number was *impossible* to get through to at the best of times, people in London got to cheat because they could drop the area code, so the engaged tone was accidental. It certainly added to the realism!
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Nov 26, 2022 21:03
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BooDooBoo posted:Ghostwatch was clearly presented as fiction, after 9pm, which is the time UK TV is legally not for kids. That makes me wonder if every country/society had a “War of the Worlds” incident as people gained mass exposure to radio plays or tv or whatever.
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Nov 26, 2022 21:39
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Warbird posted:That makes me wonder if every country/society had a “War of the Worlds” incident as people gained mass exposure to radio plays or tv or whatever. Criminal podcast had an episode about Ghostwatch, and their very next episode was about a radio station in Ecuador hearing about the War of the Worlds incident and thinking "hey this sounds like a good idea." It reeaally wasn't.
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Nov 26, 2022 23:23
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Warbird posted:That makes me wonder if every country/society had a “War of the Worlds” incident as people gained mass exposure to radio plays or tv or whatever. I feel I need to point out that the UK had mass exposure to radio plays and tv for some while before 1992.
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Nov 27, 2022 00:10
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Can confirm that Ghostwatch is a good time. Saw Knives Onion: A Glass Out Mystery yesterday, and there's a bit where the main cast are administered a plot-magic anti covid spray to their mouth. This makes everyone gag with the exception of Benoit Blanc, who just kinda shrugs it off. I assumed that was a nod to him being cool as a cucumber, but given that we later see him living with Hugh Grant, who is presumably his lover, it's probably fair to assume that Blanc solved the greatest mystery of all: the gag reflex.
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Nov 27, 2022 02:41
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My favourite little aspect of GhostWatch is that two of the presenters were married to each other in real life. Mike Smith in the studio and Sarah Greene at the house. As things start to unravel at the house, non-actor Smith does a really good job of starting to panic about what might be going on with Greene.
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Nov 27, 2022 05:55
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Warbird posted:That makes me wonder if every country/society had a “War of the Worlds” incident as people gained mass exposure to radio plays or tv or whatever. Should be noted that apparently people didn't literally think Martians were invading, except maybe kids; the way the show was presented and talked about invasions and gas made them assume it was news broadcasts of a regular invasion.
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Nov 27, 2022 06:47
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Milo and POTUS posted:Didn't the british have a show where they tricked someone into thinking they were dead Not quite the same but magician Paul Daniels did a live Halloween special in the 80s where, while performing an escape artist bit with an iron maiden, the door slammed shut on him, the screen dimmed, and an announcer in the studio told the audience to leave in an orderly fashion. Roll credits with no audio. I saw it at the time and it freaked little me out. There were thousands of calls to the BBC asking if he was okay.
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Nov 27, 2022 06:51
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franco posted:Not quite the same but magician Paul Daniels did a live Halloween special in the 80s where, while performing an escape artist bit with an iron maiden, the door slammed shut on him, the screen dimmed, and an announcer in the studio told the audience to leave in an orderly fashion. Roll credits with no audio. Good to know that American dad was following a historical event. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhuoG3arFQQ
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Nov 27, 2022 07:06
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franco posted:Not quite the same but magician Paul Daniels did a live Halloween special in the 80s where, while performing an escape artist bit with an iron maiden, the door slammed shut on him, the screen dimmed, and an announcer in the studio told the audience to leave in an orderly fashion. Roll credits with no audio. It's why when they beheaded Daniel Radcliffe on the QI Christmas special they were careful to put in a last shot showing that he was OK.
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Nov 27, 2022 10:57
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BooDooBoo posted:The number was actually real, it's famous to BBC viewers of the era as their call-in line, 081 811 8181, You just triggered an ancient memory of that number being recited as a musical jingle on some show, possibly "Live and Kicking" I even remember they altered it when the number start changed to 0181 Thanks brain, good use of resources
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Nov 27, 2022 14:17
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bitterandtwisted posted:You just triggered an ancient memory of that number being recited as a musical jingle on some show, possibly "Live and Kicking" Could be worse. You can remember a jingle for an actual number; all my brain's managed is the jingle to a fake emergency number from The IT Crowd. But knowing The IT Crowd, I suspect that joke was based on the jingle you're remembering. It certainly had a lot of 1s and 8s.
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Nov 27, 2022 14:25
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bitterandtwisted posted:You just triggered an ancient memory of that number being recited as a musical jingle on some show, possibly "Live and Kicking" The Multicoloured Swap Shop used to have the phrase ‘That’s 01 if you’re outside London’, and my Midlands number had only 6 digits.
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Nov 27, 2022 14:50
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Cleretic posted:Could be worse. You can remember a jingle for an actual number; all my brain's managed is the jingle to a fake emergency number from The IT Crowd. But... but the joke is that its like 40 digits 
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Nov 27, 2022 17:17
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franco posted:Not quite the same but magician Paul Daniels did a live Halloween special in the 80s where, while performing an escape artist bit with an iron maiden, the door slammed shut on him, the screen dimmed, and an announcer in the studio told the audience to leave in an orderly fashion. Roll credits with no audio. Went to an escape artist live show thing and the big finale was the guy escaping from a tank of water and they really built up how dangerous it was as part of the act and I realized woof i don't like the idea of potentially seeing someone die in front of me
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Nov 27, 2022 17:27
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Well, good news! It actually wasn't dangerous at all. Magicians and escape artists are performers, not thrill seekers.
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Right, but part of the entertainment is the idea that it's dangerous and that was the part that turned me off a lot is what I was saying
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Nov 27, 2022 17:52
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It's like going to wrestlemania and complaining that they some just talk their differences out. Yeah, okay sure, you don't have to enjoy watching people pretend to fight and it's completely reasonable to nope out. I just wonder what brought you in in the first place.
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Baron von Eevl posted:It's like going to wrestlemania and complaining that they some just talk their differences out. Yeah, okay sure, you don't have to enjoy watching people pretend to fight and it's completely reasonable to nope out. I just wonder what brought you in in the first place.
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Nov 27, 2022 18:06
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That Italian Guy posted:Card tricks are significantly less stress inducing I assume. You're not worried about the magician shuffling and accidently having one card go flying off and cut someone's jugular?
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Nov 27, 2022 18:15
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franco posted:Not quite the same but magician Paul Daniels did a live Halloween special in the 80s where, while performing an escape artist bit with an iron maiden, the door slammed shut on him, the screen dimmed, and an announcer in the studio told the audience to leave in an orderly fashion. Roll credits with no audio. I remember that. It really loving upset me. I'm still kind of angry about it to be honest - he was well known as a kids' entertainer. e: I loved Ghostwatch, but I suppose I was older then. And ghosts aren't real whereas dying via big spikes seemed possible to little me. HopperUK has a new favorite as of 18:31 on Nov 27, 2022 |
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bitterandtwisted posted:You just triggered an ancient memory of that number being recited as a musical jingle on some show, possibly "Live and Kicking" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmNPyQ-OOp0
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Nov 27, 2022 21:57
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That's the one!
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Noel Edmonds killed a man in 1986, but it was in a rehearsal and not broadcast.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Late,_Late_Breakfast_Show posted:
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Eh pretty good, but he’s no Matthew Broderick.
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:But... but the joke is that its like 40 digits It's not THAT bad, 01189998819991197253 is only twenty digits! A dumb subtle and probably unintentional bit about that joke, to fit with the thread: part of the joke is that it's trying to be easier to remember and harder to confuse than the old emergency number, which one character tries to recite and accidentally says the US emergency number. The new, 20-digit number does include both the UK and US emergency numbers, so it somehow is successfully serving that purpose!
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Unkempt posted:Noel Edmonds killed a man in 1986, but it was in a rehearsal and not broadcast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Rj3N9Pmz8
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I know Moonfall (2022) gets a really bad rap but according to the research conducted on my website you can’t actually disprove anything that happens in the film
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die hard 3 in the elevator, he scopes them out and stuff, its basically a version of the Kitano scene that Refn also used for Drive. but, the subtle detail is this: McClane uses his new york cop kung fu style to force the Russian guy to shoot into the wall, and the German guy to shoot into the roof. Yet, when he exits the elevator, those guys are dead and McClane is covered with blood. It is a conundrum
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oh also, they use several trucks and schemes to steal 120 billion dollars lol classic dr evil
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I just noticed this in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, when Raul Duke first gets to the hotel and is tripping out in the lobby. There is a cowboy on the phone talking about a young woman who's been brutally murdered and that they took her blood and removed her penal glad. Later in the film Duke's attorney gives him "adrenochrome" which he says he got of a satanist freak who didn't have any money to pay him - he also mentions he only took the creeps case because he was worried he might have "picked up a letter opener and gone after my pineal gland" if he refused
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true detective, ep 5 when they cross the walkway over the water in the beginning, they are in exact lockstep. when they walk back over, they come gradually out of sync about minutes 8 and 18
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Carthag Tuek posted:true detective, ep 5 gonna lose my place on plex but holding you to this better be worth it
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I haven't watched anything beyond S1 of True Detective and that was only when it was new. That was 100% a deliberate artistic decision
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I really did not enjoy TD S1. I found it engrossing and compelling. But there was an odd bit. I think Matt M's Rust Chole character was trying to figure something out and was in a bar talking to a former victim and current male prossie. Thing was I read an article that directly paralleled that about a guy in some flyover, maybe Illinois or Indiana or Michigan but he specifically stated to a reporter that there was an institution of politicians and cops that did stuff to kids. Talking about it was a death sentence. You can't google it (for goodness sakes don't try) and I even bookmarked it but it 404'd. The ending of True Detective is not a resolution. I see it as a Lethal Weapon homage. Woody get's Matt a carton of cigs and they both jump up and high 5 to say they've killed the villain. Solved all the crime. Except they explicitly haven't. It's all still there. I'm not a hill dawg email qanon cheese pizza truther but I believe there are things like Epstein that remain. And they didn't really finish the case.
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The ending always felt like a saccharine cop out
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TD season 1 is just so loving heavy and emotional and grim and weird that I’m really glad they went for the ending that they did. Maybe it went against the themes of the show but it just felt like a relief after everything we witnessed.
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MokBa posted:TD season 1 is just so loving heavy and emotional and grim and weird that I’m really glad they went for the ending that they did. Maybe it went against the themes of the show but it just felt like a relief after everything we witnessed. Truth. There was nowhere else to go but to make it Homeland or loving The Handmaid's Tale at some point. Wrap it up 'B' Still didn't feel right but oh well. Season 3 was good. 4 had its good parts too.
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