Comments on: The Best Thing on Television in 2002

The Best Thing on Television in 2002

ZenMasterThis — Mon, 30 Dec 2002 07:16:20 -0800

The WPIX Yule Log makes its triumphant return.

By: PrinceValium

PrinceValium — Mon, 30 Dec 2002 07:30:16 -0800

Posted last year here.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Mon, 30 Dec 2002 07:33:18 -0800

yeah, PV, but then it was the best thing on television in 2001. this is totally different! :-)

By: ZenMasterThis

ZenMasterThis — Mon, 30 Dec 2002 07:44:09 -0800

I wish I had said that... :-)

By: Daze

Daze — Mon, 30 Dec 2002 08:04:08 -0800

Hey, Beavis . . . "log".

By: LinusMines

LinusMines — Mon, 30 Dec 2002 09:34:07 -0800

This year's broadcast swept its time slot in NYC, apparently outdoing its showing from 2001. And this year, the video bonfire turned up in another city.

By: MrMoonPie

MrMoonPie — Mon, 30 Dec 2002 09:35:58 -0800

I watched it Christmas morning in DC, for the entire run, while I was cooking and baking and cleaning and otherwise preparing for the family onslaught. Good background noise.

By: Satapher

Satapher — Mon, 30 Dec 2002 10:08:41 -0800

the best thing on a television is a fucking sledgehammer.

By: ZenMasterThis

ZenMasterThis — Mon, 30 Dec 2002 10:22:15 -0800

Man, do I wish I had said THAT!!!

By: blue_beetle

blue_beetle — Mon, 30 Dec 2002 10:38:04 -0800

mmm, digitally remastered combustible forestry byproducts....

By: oflinkey

oflinkey — Mon, 30 Dec 2002 12:17:27 -0800

I love Yule Log. It wasn't Christmas those 12 years without it... my brother used to get marshmellows and a stick, and sit in front of the TV.

By: kurumi

kurumi — Mon, 30 Dec 2002 12:40:26 -0800

"Word has it" that in the early 1980s, WPIX ran a version of "TV POwWW"* where the kids would yell "pix" instead of "pow." True? *TV Powww (or "poww"): on the TV screen, Intellivision-style graphic spaceships would drift in and out of targets. If you were the lucky kid on the phone, you would yell "Pow!" at the right instant to shoot the ship and get points. Beat your opponent (usually side-to-side) and get a prize. WTXX (ch. 20) broadcast this between afternoon cartoons in the Waterbury, CT area. The only strategy I ever remember seeing in use is Powpowpow, where you yell "Powpowpowpowpow" repeatedly, as fast as you can.

By: chicobangs

chicobangs — Mon, 30 Dec 2002 13:45:04 -0800

Man, do I wish I had said THAT!!! You will, ZenMaster, you will.

By: oflinkey

oflinkey — Mon, 30 Dec 2002 21:46:05 -0800

Kurumi- It is true. I remember. But the strategy was to yell PIXPIXPIXPIXPIXPIXPIXPIXPIXPIXPIXPIXPIXPIXPIX as loud and as fast as possible.

By: a3matrix

a3matrix — Tue, 31 Dec 2002 04:55:51 -0800

I too remember the PIX game on WPIX. It was an Intellevision game, the name escapes me right now. There was an interim Yule log, I think in the 98-99 xmas season, it was on cable though. I was staying at my brothers house, having just recently returned to LI, NY. He would fall asleep on the couch, and I would put that channel on every night and then go to bed, after 2 weeks he finally broke, and openly questioned how he kept waking up to a fireplace on tv.