Sunday, May 10, 2015

Funny Cable Tape (2)

OK like I mentioned before, I have a huge amount of VHS tapes sitting around my house. The last several years I have been going through each one and writing down what is on each tape. This is #2 out of.... what? 50 something? There are a lot of Cops episodes, along with the shows I'm With Busey and MXC. This is also the tape where I have the news footage of Lake Bluff Station (where I used to work) getting robbed. Enjoy.

(00:00:00)

Most Extreme Elimination Challenge (which will from now on be referred to as MXC). This is a game show where a bunch of crazy Asian folks run through obstacle courses and engage in other silly competitions against one another. Most of the competitions are failed. And in a painful manner. The players are usually split into two groups. For example, in this episode, High Tech vs Civil Service is the theme. The announcers for this show are dubbed over American voices that make nonsensical jokes and comments about the players as they get the crap beaten out of them. And they give them funny names. So yeah, this show is right up my alley. This isn't the full episode, just a few broken up clips of it.
 - Dope on a Rope is the name of the first segment. Contestants swing from a rope and try to land on a small ledge over the water. Most of the contestants fail.
*during the commercials, it cuts over to a clip of Reno 911 where the cops are arresting some guy sitting in his backyard while watering his lawn with a hose*
 - The contestants sumo wrestle. Circle Jerk, I think this segment is called.
*back to Reno 911 during the commercials. Trudy pulls over a car, but it gets away because she didn't put her vehicle in park. The tape then cuts to a small clip of baby tigers nursing on Animal Planet. How cute.*
 - Contestants rush across a series of rotating boards. Hank the Happy Hemorrhoid! Rarge and in charge.
*Reno 911 during the ads again. So much skipping around! One of the cops arrests a cross dressing tattooed Jew with a wig. I imagine this is a lot more common than it sounds.*
 - Brass Balls. Players run across a bridge while balls are fired at them with a cannon to knock them down.




(14:05)

I'm With Busey. This is a reality show about Gary Busey. It should have lasted a lot longer. This show is amazing! Gary Busey is so damn crazy, it's awesome. In this episode, Gary tries to get his sidekick Adam to overcome all his irrational fears. Here's how:
 - Gary takes Adam into the woods and plays bike chicken with him.
*in the commercials we cut to some clips of MXC. Travel vs Circus Industry. The first part, the players dress as giant birds and try to drop eggs into a nest while swinging from a rope*
 - Gary threatens Adam with a knife.
*back to MXC during the ads. Contestants must roll on a surfboard and not fall over the edge of a ledge*
 - Gary tries to get Adam to freeze him in ice.
 - Adam and Gary play out a fake death scene to help Adam overcome his fear of death.
  *MXC, again. Players hang from a giant cob of corn, and try to let go and land on a platform in the water. The tape sharply cuts to a Howard Stern interview where they ask crude questions to some tall old guy at an awards ceremony*
 - Back we go to Busey. Yeah, the early part of this tape jumps around a lot, I know. Luckily this doesn't happen much on upcoming tapes.
 - Busey takes Adam to a destruction derby and forces him to participate. "This is fun."

Crank Yankers. This is a show where crank telephone calls are acted out by puppets on screen, depicting both sides of the conversation.
 - A blind lady tries to get a job at a strip club. But the catch is that they have to allow her to bring in her seeing eye dog. The picture is very shaky during the next two clips.
 - A man named Niles calls a painter and tries to get him to paint a nude picture of himself.
 - Special Ed prank calls an old man and calls him a lady and makes fun of him.

(41:14)

Reno 911. These are just a few small clips of the show, The tape is very shaky here too. Trudy meets a dork who she is romantically interested in. Officers toy with a corpse at the morgue. Hey, A Silence of the Lambs joke is made! A prostitution sting backfires. Officers teach gun control at a school.

(54:18)




I'm With Busey. Lessons from life episode. The tape continues to shake.
 - Gary throws a book down a hill. "We're past college right now!"
 - Gary talks to college kids at a coffee shop and tells them that the best way to learn is to put aside their books and get out there and learn
 - Adam and Gary take tests to determine if they have any psychic abilitiy
 - Adam and Gary cook breakfast at a diner and fail miserably
 - They play football too
 - More Busey ramblings before he goes back to college at the end for a party

(1:15:16)

Clip from Animal Planet of a little koala bear. They finger its butt. Ewww.

Random clip of some TBS show. In it, two woman participate in an Alaskan nose pull. Look this up if you don't know what it is o.O

MXC. This is only, like, half an episode. This is an early tape. These little clips of episodes suck, I know. I have actual complete episodes on the tapes to come. Anyway, this is the Cops vs Cons episode.
 - Giant Roulette wheel
 - Legal Maze
 - Blind Tug of War through a wall

(1:25:27)

Crank Yankers
 - Man calls a scientist claiming that he was kidnapped by aliens.
 - Woman calls a perfume counter to complain that she has developed a vaginal rash caused by perfume that was sprayed on her

Jackass.
 - Man runs around the city in a gorilla suit and dances
 - Extremely fat man chases a small midget through a busy city
 - The guys build a slingshot that is supposed to launch people into a pond, but it doesn't really work

Reno 911. The tape once again gets shaky just for this show. Musta been the way I recorded it.
 - Colored People Time (CPT)
 - Weigel tries to kill herself
 - Two officers (the black lady and the white guy with the 'stache) go undercover at a party
 - Weigel shoots a man robbing a store, before admitting that she didn't really try to kill herself




(1:50:03)

Random clip from the beginning of an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Data looks frazzled.

Stand Up comedy on Comedy Central. Rich Voss tells some jokes. This guy was on Last Comic Standing.

I'm With Busey. The trust episode. Gary wants Adam to trust him more.
 - Adam and Gary go to a psychologist
 - Gary asks Adam to take 300 dollars out of an "ATF" machine. Gary then takes the money and gives it away to random strangers
 - Adam climbs up to an eagle perch and jumps off. Screaming Eagle!
 - Adam admits he stole his friend Sean Lennon's shoes as a kid. Gary then gives away this secret and causes Adam's friends to get mad at him. Busey acts really silly in the diner while doing all this. It's hilarious!
 - Gary and Adam go on a road trip and get a flat tire

(2:11:20)

The Man Show. Joe Rogan plays a TV psychic who tells secrets about people in the audience.

Conan O'Brien show - funny Andy Richter clips.

Reno: 911.
 - Deputy Johnson becomes engaged to a white trash criminal guy
 - Cops come to the door of a hotel room and arrest a man who's filming a porn with himself and a blowup doll. He's crazy and oiled up.
 - The officers play a song for school children. "Don't Mess with Meth, Beth."
 - There is a bachelor party, and one of the cops is a male stripper
*during the commercials we cut to a Triumph the Insult Comic Dog special. Highlights are shown from when he asked questions to people in line at a premiere for one of the Star Wars movies. Also, there are highlights from when he was at the Westminster Dog Show. He humps the legs of many dogs at the show*
 - The wedding happens and then the episode ends.




(2:36:53)

MXC. USA vs World Team. A full episode for once!
 - Sinkers and Floaters. Players must run across a series of rocks in the water. Some of the rocks are solid, and some are "fake" and cause anyone who tries to run across it to fall down. The stoner guy in this clip is my favorite. A different guy falls down before he even begins to run across the rocks. I should mention before we proceed any further on these tapes that each episode of MXC always has someone with the last name Babaganoosh in it somewhere. I'm going to keep a running tally of how many of them I have in tape. This segment of the show has our first Babaganoosh.  Kezemek Babaganoosh! One down, many more to go.
*during commercial, there's a clip of Jack Black acting goofy*
 - Dope on a Rope
 - Dash To Death. This is a pretty fun looking obstacle course.
 - Log Drop. Players run across a bunch of spinning logs. There are usually a lot of hard falls in this segment.

(2:52:40)

MXC. Toy and Game Makers vs Office Workers.
 - Holes of Glory
* tape cuts to Reno 911 in the commercials. Funny prostitution sting*
 - Skidmarkers
*More Reno 911 during the commercials. The blonde cop goes into a porn store and tries to get the worker to talk about pot*
 - Back to MXC for the third time.
 - Log Drop. There is a big, belching Asian lady who takes a huge fall.
 - Chum in the Mouth. Hayjee Babaganoosh is in this segment! That's 2 now.





(3:11:17)

Clip from some soap opera. A crying woman sings Iris from the Goo Goo Dolls.

Clips from the Howard Stern television show
 - Howard interviews the girls from the show VIP. So much jack material here from when I was younger.
 - Rapid fire highlights from interviews with several guests.
 - A bunch of guys take place in a contest to sleep with the porn star Houston. A black guy who can't cum during sex wins, but Houston is on her period. He has to settle for a beej. And he does finish!
 - Crackhead Bob dresses up like Elvis at Graceland, and pretends to be the long lost cousin of Elvis.
 - Hero of the Stupid: Steve Martin. Here of the Stupid is a segment where they ask rude and classless questions to celebrities to try and frazzle them.
 - Jason Alexander clip
 - Filthy 3D Joke Man tells a joke
 - Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf does a promo for the show and messes up repeatedly
 - Howard sings a parody of the song Glycerine. It's called Listerine and is about Gary's teeth.
 - Filthy 3D Joke Man again
 - Howard interviews a big girl with massive breasts who wants to be a model. She shows them. More jack material from when I was younger.
 - Hero of the Stupid: Don Cornelius
 - No one knows who Jon Stewart is
 - Nerdy dude named Mise eats bugs
 - Hero of the Stupid: Cindy and Joey Adams




(3:42:38)

Punk'd. Seth Green is set up for the blame when an illegal craps game is raided by the authorities.

Jimmy Kimmel Show - Bobcat Goldthwaite is interviewed. A fake preview for Police Academy 19 is shown.

An MPTV clip of some dude learning yoga in India

A Discovery channel clip of the marooning of Selkirk. He is haunted by trippy images of cats.

MXC. Wedding vs Trucker Industry
 - Tricycle race. Guy comes from way behind after falling down to win.
 - Brass Balls.
 - Nut Baggers. Taboule Babaganoosh is in this segment. That's three!

MXC. Hobbyists vs the Food Industry.
 - Sinkers and Floaters. Yellow Babaganoosh is one of the first few contestants. Yay at not having to wait long for him! That's four now. Apparently that's all I got of this episode, because the tape moves on to something else after the first commercial.

(4:08:26)

News footage of when Lake Bluff Station gets robbed. Little John is a TV star! K'you!




COPS
 - A man hides under a car and crawls out like an alligator. He becomes short of breath after admitting to taking drugs, and is taken off in an ambulance.
 - A man with a cap gun is arrested while sitting at a picnic table in the park. He had been threatening people at the park with that gun.
 - John sting. You know, where they arrest guys who pay hookers for sex. The first guy arrested is an old man looking for "Hokey Pokey." The second guy is a young Hispanic dude who tries to run away through the parking lot while handcuffed.

Clip from Jenny Jones. Fat black girl does a a somersault and it is showed on replay several times.

Reading Rainbow Clip - "Come Away From the Water, Shirley".

Random Sesame Street Clips, including a song about bananas

Exercise show from the 80's, highlighted by a dude with one of the best mullets ever

America's Funniest Home Videos (which will be hereby referred to as AFV). Due to the huge volume of clips they show over the course of an episode, I will only be writing down the highlights from each show.
 - Kid picks his nose and wipes the boogers on his baby brother's head
 - Little boy fills up his brother's diaper with a hose
 - Funny montage of wedding and couple clips, set to the tune of the song "Shop Around"
 - People are tricked into thinking they have won the lottery
 - Tom Bergeron looks at several clips in slo-motion. One of the clips is a lady getting hit by a pinata that is knocked off the string. Another is of a guy narrowly getting out of the way of an out of control car in the mud.
 - Funny sports clip musical montage




(4:35:39)

COPS
 - Man is arrested for trying to break into a store by knocking a hole in the wall outside
 - Police respond to a shooting call in an old abandoned building. The man had been shot while breaking into the apartment next door.
 - Pizzeria workers call the cops when they spot two people who fit the description of two people who robbed a different pizzeria. The guys are found at a nearby gas station and arrested. One has a mullet, and the other is a dude in a tie-dye shirt.

(4:49:35)

Clips of ESPN's World's Strongest Woman competition

Real TV. An old fire blower lies in bed and lights his face on fire while trying to perform his trick.

Clips from the religious channel. Jamaican guy babbles on about something or other.

VH1 special about people with missing limbs and other disabilities. The first is a guy named Doug. He is in high school and has has no legs. The second person is a girl in a wheelchair named Jennifer, who it shows catheterizing herself. Doug plays basketball in the next set of clips, and it shows him working out in gym class.
* during the commercials, we cut to an Animal Planet show with funny cat clips*
 - Back to the VH1 show. Doug goes to the prom and break dances on the dance floor.

(5:02:54)

COPS
 - Person is arrested trying to run from the cops on a motorcycle. He is tazed.
 - Woman narcs on her friend and makes a meth deal to lure him into a police trap. He is a humongous gangsta Asian dude. But he is very cooperative with the po po, so props to him for that.
 - Police pull over a man who had been trying to avoid a police roadblock. It's a black dude with dreadlocks who likes to say "Oh lordy." There's a gun in the car, but he says it is not his. The guy breaks down and cries when he's cuffed and put into the squad car.
 - A dog jumps into a man's car while he's in the gas station and won't leave. The cops are called and the dog is removed.
 - Police go into a bar and pull a man who is on a payphone outside to arrest him. Apparently he had been waving a knife around. He tries to run while handcuffed, and is thrown into the front seat of a squad car. He spits on the window while in the car, causing the police to pull his shirt up over his head. That's about it. The guy is very unruly.
 - Police respond to an auto accident on a street corner. It was a hit and run accident where a trucker hit motorcycle riders, and then took off. Victims are put into an ambulance and taken off.
 - The cops arrest a crazy, naked guy walking around on the street. He wraps foil around his privates but it falls off repeatedly. He says "you can cut it off" referring to his penis. They go into his house and it's a complete pig sty.
 - Police respond to a domestic call. A gay black man who is allowing someone to stay at his house claims that that person trashed his house. The dude he is referring to is a total crackhead and gets arrested.
 - More john stings. A dude on a Harley is the first guy caught. Nothing exciting about the second arrest.
 - Car accident! Guy with a bloody head crawls out of a demolished car. He was swiped off the road by a driver who wasn't paying attention.




Clip from a UW-Milwaukee basketball game. In the top right corner behind Bruce Pearl, you can see the bottom half of the face of a retarded guy named Michael who I used to work with at the Union.

(5:55:45)

The Dave Chappelle Show.
- Lil John is at the Doctor. Proof of insurance? Hooooo-what?
- 2004 World Series of Dice. This is where the tape starts to fuck up. It's almost over, that's why.
- Another skit, but you can't tell what's going on here because the tape gets so bad.



END OF TAPE

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