From: nebusj-@-rpi-.edu
Jim Ellwanger writes:
>In article <09ednfrMcZeqUiPVnZ2dnUVZ_vjinZ2d@posted.visi>,
> Tony Calguire wrote:
>> nebusj-@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) wrote in news:nebusj.1220424680@vcmr-
>> 86.server.rpi.edu:
>>
>> > Actual Items. Decatur (Indiana) Post: Snack crackers and
>> > cheese. A great way to tell your guests the party's over. (The joke
>> > doesn't work since crackers and cheese are how you start the party.)
>> I believe this was the first "Actual Items" since the writers' strike. And
>> it wasn't very good, either.
>I believe so also, since it's the first "Actual Items" I recall watching
>on my high-def TV, which I bought during the strike. "Actual Items"
>turns out to be really not good in HD, since you can read the
>supposedly-humorous text before the camera zooms in on it. I think they
>need to consider doing a little bit of digital blurring in
>post-production.
Hm. I'd started to answer yesterday but then my Internet
connection dropped out. Well, here goes again then.
My *impression* is that they had done one-shot Actual Item
things, with just a single item, before, but yeah, I think this is the
first time it's come up as a full sketch since the strike.
I do sometimes spot the altered text before it's zoomed in, on
plain old standard-definition TV sets, although that's more generally
because of how they compose the altered images. Occasionally I've
identified the joke ahead of time, although that's more because you know
if it's a product for old people, the punch line is going to be about
waiting for death, and that sort of thing.
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Joseph Nebus
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