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Infectious agony

Category: Kooks • Media • Weirdness
Posted on: June 19, 2006 2:03 PM, by PZ Myers

I succumbed to the tempting link Corrente waved around, and clicked through to see Connie Chung's farewell to some cable show I never heard of before. I suffered horribly, so it's only fair that you share my pain.

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Holy crap.

Although if I were doing the final episode of a TV show that had been cancelled, I would probably do something similar. What are they going to do, cancel her?

It's kind of like goofing off on your last day at a job. What are they going to do, fire you?

Posted by: plucky punk | June 19, 2006 2:32 PM

I didn't catch the title of that; what was it? Something like "Ensuring I Never Get Hired Again"?

Posted by: RavenT | June 19, 2006 2:42 PM

WOW... just... WOW

Thanks for scaring my adolescent mind.

Posted by: Sunny | June 19, 2006 2:55 PM

Perched on the edge of a white grand piano and decked out in a full-length evening gown,..." quote from NY post.
Is it just me or is that grand piano really black? So much for accuracy in the media

Posted by: gr8googlymoogly | June 19, 2006 3:02 PM

The piano is black, but her gown is white, just like my T-shirt before I spewed coffee all over it.

That's surreal. I can only hope that, with the aid of nanotechnology, neurosurgeons will someday be able to find a way to remove that image from my brain.

Posted by: idlemind | June 19, 2006 3:15 PM

Oh my, oh my, oh my. If you're unable to bear the whole clip, the dismount at 1:30 is not to be missed.

Posted by: tng | June 19, 2006 3:17 PM

It really really is a shame you can't un-see something.

Posted by: Rev. BigDumbChimp | June 19, 2006 3:21 PM

I swear, I *will* get you for this. I have no idea how, nor when... But you *must* be punished.

Posted by: Mark C. Chu-Carroll | June 19, 2006 3:26 PM

Effing unbelievable. I can't believe what I just saw! I need one of those Men In Black brain erasers...

Posted by: J-Dog | June 19, 2006 3:35 PM

#10

Wow - and I thought Phil Mickleson blowing up on the 18th on Sunday was the worst screw up of the weekend.

Posted by: tacitus | June 19, 2006 3:53 PM

#11

She was drunk, right? And didn't know the cameras were rolling, right? Right?

Just for that, I'm providing a link to the new Folger's commercial, which has a jingle that will burn into your brain and never let go.

Posted by: Carlie | June 19, 2006 3:58 PM

#12

Oh man, Carlie, I think I am going to laugh for like 3 days after seeing that.

Posted by: plucky punk | June 19, 2006 4:16 PM

#13

It really really is a shame you can't un-see something.

I want to hurt that video, but I can never hurt that video the way it hurt me.

the new Folger's commercial

I'm still trying to figure out what the heck that was.

Posted by: Rick @ shrimp and grits | June 19, 2006 4:32 PM

#14

I'm still trying to figure out what the heck that was.

What I'm going to see if I die and go to Hell would be my guess...

Posted by: RavenT | June 19, 2006 5:26 PM

#15

There's nothing like a public display of bitterness to cheer my heart...

Posted by: XavierGNZ | June 19, 2006 6:03 PM

#16

May a camel spit in your coffee. I succumbed to both temptations.

The Chung spot was, um, surreal. It's hard to say what her motivation was. Maybe she secretly longs to be Carol Burnett ... without the singing voice ... or the comedic timing ... or any regard for her future in showbiz. (Well, TV news IS showbiz, after all.)

The Folgers ad reminded me of a bad sci-fi or kids' fantasy movie set to music, bad music. The creator must have been tripping on something besides coffee when he came up with that concept.

Posted by: wheatdogg | June 19, 2006 6:07 PM

#17

Even better, this
It's a Spanish parody of abstinence-promotion materials. I can't remember if PZ linked to it before. It's great even if one doesn't know any Spanish.
This is all to try to erase the Chung from the brain but it isn't really working.

Posted by: Carlie | June 19, 2006 8:48 PM

#18

New catchphrase: "I just got Chunged."

Posted by: cm | June 19, 2006 9:42 PM

#19

"Comments have been disabled." Oh, no kidding! My commenting ability has been disabled, I can tell you.

Posted by: older and better | June 20, 2006 12:26 AM

#20

Rev. BigDumbChimp: Not yet, but give neuroscience 50 years.

Posted by: Keith Douglas | June 20, 2006 10:11 AM