Conference ljsrv1::tv_chatter

    I caught the last 1/2 of it.  At first, I thought the part about
    him going to Russia was put on - but when they got detained at
    the missile sight - that was unbelievable!  How in the world
    did they ever get permission for him to meet with all those
    Russian officials?
    
    Pam

    re base note , his name is Michael Moorer (?) I believe
    

    This show continues to be a riot!  Last night, the host
    traveled to Bosnia to find out what this war is all about.
    
    He met with the ambassadors of Serbia and Bosnia, and 
    played them a song that he thinks will bring this war to
    an end.  The song was...
    
    
    		"I love you, you love me..."  - Barney's theme!!
    
    And the funniest part is that they had no idea a purple
    dinosaur was the singer, and they actually sang along!
    
    Then he decided that Communism never got a "farewell tour" like
    some of the big rock & roll bands that have retired did.  So
    he hired a Teamster, painted an 18-wheeler red with the Communist
    logo on it, filled it with Communist propaganda, then had the
    teamster travel from New York to Louisiana to get people's 
    reaction.  He even had the trucker park the truck in front of
    the White House, which promptly brought the attention of the
    Secret Service.  The further south the truck went, the more uneasy
    the trucker felt, and the more hassles he got.  Someone even set
    the engine on fire, so they had to replace the cab.
    
    This show gets more bizarre by the week - which makes it very
    original and funny, in a kind of sick way (that's why I like it!)
    
    Pam
    
    

    re: .3
    
    I think the humor of the show is ironic, rather than ha-ha funny.  Some
    times it borders on mean, since the irony is often lost on the
    interviewees.  (How did the guy who interviewed the religious sects who
    predicted the end of the world keep a straight face!?)
    
    The show does get better every week.  
    
    One nit - the host didn't travel to Europe to talk to the ambassadors
    from Bosnia and Croatia.  Their offices were in Washington, DC. 
    (Didn't you notice that none of the buildings were destroyed?)
    
    This Sunday night ... the best clips from the first five weeks.
    
    Mike

    I missed parts of it, so I guess I just assumed he was in those
    countries (I also wondered why they weren't under attack!)

    I don't suppose anybody in the ZKO/Nashua area has last Tuesday's
    (8/23) episode on tape, do they? I fumbled the channel setting on my
    VCR, and now I find that the episode I didn't get was the one with the
    "How to be a Serial Killer" segment in it. ;-)
    
    -b

    
    
    It wasn't really "How to be a Serial Killer", it was "How many weird
    things can a nieghbor do before people noticed". 
    
    ed

Did anyone catch the email address at the end of last night's show?  That was
the last show of the summer season and they gave an address to send mail to.

Tracy

    They have an America Online account; I believe the address is
    "[email protected]". (I think I'll write them and ask if they have a list
    of their survey results - I can never remember the best ones!)
    
    -b

    Hey - TV Nation is back on the air with new episodes!  The FOX
    network picked it up, and it's on Friday nights at 8:00 p.m. EST.
    
    Last Friday's show was "Payback Night".  The host interviewed people
    off the street at Times Square asking "What really bugs you?"
    
    One person couldn't stand those annoying car alarms that go off in
    the middle of the night (the ones that make 5-6 different noises).
    The host said "what are the chances the president of a car alarm
    company has to listen to those alarms... well, just wait and see..."
    
    They found the home of the president of a car alarm company, parked
    8-10 cars in front of his house, then turned on all the alarms!  
    The guy comes out in his p.j.'s looking puzzled, soon the cops arrive
    threatening legal action if the cars aren't moved in 10 minutes.
    
    They got back at the president of Muzak by pulling a truck with HUGE
    speakers in front of his house and serenading him with his own stuff.
    The president of a dumpster company was visited by a truck that banged
    a dumpster up and down until the cops came again...
    
    A president of telemarketing got a phone call in the middle of the
    night by a TV Nation telemarketer asking his opinion of tv shows.
    The guy kept asking to speak to his manager, then hung up on him in
    anger.  
    
    Glad to see this show back on the air.  I guess FOX only picked it
    up for 8 episodes, but hopefully it will do well and stay on.
    
    Pam

    
    	I am ROLLING!!
    
    	Is this what I've been missing all this time by not watching
    	this show?
    
    	[Of course, I can't say too much about car alarms.  My VW had
    	one that was a little too sensitive, and would seemingly go off
    	if a large insect flew too close to it.  I figure it went off
    	at least 2 or 3 times a week.  But at least we live out in the
    	woods, so I'd ony piss off 2 or 3 families.  8^)]
    

    
    Yes, you've been missing alot. Some of his stories make me cringe, but
    I too roll over them. I especially like it when it was on NBC and he
    tried to find the nuclear missle site which was aimed at his home town
    of Flint, MI. He drove around the countryside asking local Russians
    where the nuclear missle sites were. He found one. He pulled up to the
    site where there was a "STOP" sign, just like on your street corner. He
    looked at the camera wryly and said something like "I guess they know
    who would actually come out here". If you missed that, what is the
    Russian word for "STOP"? He knocked on the gate and this Soviet soldier
    came out and told him to go away, but that doesn't stop Michael.
    He then proceeded to try and drive around the back of the missle site
    which wasn't such a bright idea, but after 2 hours of explaining, he
    and Soviet Army garrison were almost drinking buddies...
    
    I've got to find out where to write him. I'd like him to take Walter
    Koenig to Murmansk and start looking for "nuclear wessels"...
    
    I like to think of it as Hard Copy on thorazine...

    The best payback last week was his going to the houses of "actual
    Jehovah Witnesses" and asking them for a few minutes of their time,
    so they can read his pamphlet about a TV show that saved his life.
    The reactions ran the gamut from confused to pissed to laughing
    about it.
    
    NAZZ

    
    	If anybody in the Marlboro area taped this, can I borrow it?
    
    	Thanks!!
    

I subscribe to the on-line TV NATION newsletter.  Fox is in the process of
trying to decide whether or not to pick up this show.  Michael Moore put in
a plea to all fans to write to the network, TV Guide, Entertainment Weekly,
and so forth.

As a result, Fox received thousands (over 55,000) of letters and the phone 
calls have flooded their switchboards.  The decision is supposed to be made 
today (12/1) so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

- Lori