Silly Little Country

SpikeTV's Monkey

The combination of sleeping uncomfortably, and therefore not much, and a curiosity regarding EclectEcon's professed taste for the CSI series (that's the plural of series) has put me on the path of taping all the CSIs I can find each day and watching them during the long periods of sleeplessness. (There are not enough episodes of Law and Order, only 3-5 a day, and I am starting to remember some of them, and each weekday features at least 3 CSIs. Syndication into the 500-channel universe is wonderful.)

Two of the episodes I pick up are on a network called SpikeTV.

Currently the network is running an ad for itself; the conceit is that all the regular staff have gone for the weekend to the SuperBowl, and so they have left weekend programming in the hands of a monkey (they say monkey, but a chimpanzee appears on the screen). The ad ends with the claim that SpikeTV is "the only network with the balls to let a monkey make programming decisions". Apparently a feature show on the weekend is the programmer's personal favourite, "When Animals Attack".

This is humour from the BudLight school of humour. Or perhaps the PLO school of humour. But I like it.

posted by Alan Adamson @ 7:37 AM