The 2 vidoes that inspired me to write this thread is the "Today Show Flasher" and the Shepard Smith/JLo Blow Job Video...I love when stuff happens on live TV....does anyone have any other vidoes they know of? I know there was one I saw and I can't find anymore where a football palyer was being interviewed in the locker room, and in the backgound if you look, another player is walking by...sans pants......but I can't find it! LOL

Anyone know of others?

Following one of last year's presidential debates, the talking heads were chatting about the debate while screaming, rowdy, seemingly drunken college kids were behind them yelling and waving. Two girls in particular were looking pretty frisky and in one wide shot, one of the girls looked ready to flash her boobs. Well, the quick-thinking director (who had probably been watching the crowd pretty closely) quickly switched to a shot of one of the commentators. When the wide shot came back, the girls were gone, obviously escorted away.

I don't understand why news studios need a window onto a sidewalk as their backdrop. I find it very distracting and really unnecessary. I also get really nervous, wondering when some whacko is going to pull out a gun or stick a spectator with a knife on camera. Maybe that's what it will take for the window-backdrop trend to go away.

I also remember years and years ago the camera came back to Jim Lampley early during a voiceover and he had his pinky finger up his nose.

And I love when you have two newscasters, one is speaking but the camera is still focused on the one who is not speaking. They always get that deer in the headlights look. hahaha If they studied journalism instead of going to charm school maybe they would know how to handle themselves better.

Something I saw the Fox & Friends Weekend Edition, was in the backdrop, a guy walked by and noticed he was in camera shot, then his buddy walked up, and they did an impromptu wrestlling thing, one grabbed the other in a headlock and started fake punching him, you could tell it was a joke, it was funny.

Perhaps you're thinking of this video from a Dallas TV station?

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/cowboyslocker-room.html

To switch gears a bit: has anyone been watching Anderson Cooper this week reporting from Sri Lanka on the tsunamis? I believe it was on Tuesday, a stray dog starting nudging him and nipping at him for food. At first he tried to ignore it, but eventually he reached down to try to quiet the dog. Later it tried to bite his right hand! CNN had to break away from him, and he must have sent the dog away.

Nothing serious, just found it humorous.

Keeping in the sports vein, I will never forget the game years ago, in the Steelers' hayday, when Franco Harris had just scored a touchdown, he was sitting on the bench without his helmet trying to catch his breath, the commentators were going on and on about how great a football player and person he was, and then suddenly Franco leans over and throws up, I mean barfs for like 10 seconds, lunch, breakfast and late night snack, and the pic never cut away and the commentators kept extolling his virtues. Then he sat up, took a swig of water, then stood and walked away.

It was funny and disgusting at the same time.

One other screw-up on the news front. On WABC in New York, late 70s I think, a reporter who was live in Brooklyn gave someone the finger when she thought she was off camera. When she realized she had been caught, she looked mortified. Back at the studio, everyone on the anchor desk looked horrified. Except for Roger Grimsby. He deadpanned that that was just her way of saying, 'We're #1.' (WABC was the powerhouse local station in New York in the 70s and 80s.)

I vaguely remember seeing this as a child; Roger Grimsby died in 1995, and WABC showed this video in its retrospective. Wish I could find it via Google. Grimsby was known for these sly asides under his dour demeanor.

I remember this video..it was cool (-:
Was the actual player ever identified?

Josh

This is my all time favorite.

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