wmartin@brl-smoke.ARPA (Will Martin ) (05/01/86)
I can't read net.wobegon due to access restrictions at this machine, though I may be able to post to it -- if you read this, then I could! :-) Anyway, just thought I'd throw out my $.02 on the TV show of the 26 April PHC... Considering that this is probably the first introduction to PHC for millions of people, I think it was a disappointment. The music was fine, and it was certainly interesting to SEE the people we have heard for so long (ever noticed how few people look like you think they should from their voices? :-); however, it was nowhere near as humorous as many of the shows in the past have been. There should have been more of the old-standby fake ads (Minnesota Language Systems, Fearmonger's Shop, etc.) The "News" was hardly humorous at all. There should have been more of the "skit" sort of thing that used to be more common on PHC. Maybe, for the first TV airing, they should have done a "best of" type show, and have videotaped a bunch of PHCs, and edited together the funniest segments, giving a result with a higher humor-to-music ratio? Then, again, maybe that is just my personal prejudice as to what I like best on PHC; I had a subtle impression that they might have been consciously trying to keep this show low-key, maybe so as to not give a false image to the first-time viewers/listeners. After all, if you watched a specially-tailored and extremely funny show, and thereafter tuned into PHC on the radio, expecting each week to get a split-your-gut-laughing riot, you would be very disappointed, since the show just isn't like that. So maybe this was designed deliberately not to raise false hopes, and increase the radio audience for a brief flash, but end up leaving a residual ash of disaffected former listeners. (Are there any metaphors I haven't mixed yet? :-) Will Martin UUCP/USENET: seismo!brl-bmd!wmartin or ARPA/MILNET: wmartin@almsa-1.ARPA
pan@well.UUCP (05/05/86)
I enjoyed watching the special effects being done, and I don't think the Bach fugue would have been as funny without seeing the other guy hold the key down. All in all, I think that I prefer my weekly dose of PHC on the radio, though. There is something about GK's voice that doesn't quite "fit" his physical appearance, at least as I imagined him ( which for some reason, is an Abe Lincoln look alike :-) ) I think the show would lose its appeal for many if it were televised too often.