After Kad & Olivier sign off and the Satisfaction production logo fades, viewing audiences are oftentimes treated to a cold open of an empty talk show set... one that quickly becomes the impromptu dance floor for a shameless Frenchman making an absolute giddy fool of himself while lip-syncing pop songs alongside a menagerie of...
wait, *what*?! That's right.
The Late Late Show's Craig Ferguson appears to have
a not-so-secret French admirer -- one who's not above ripping off both his opening titles and
his signature dance sequences (including
the iconic animal puppets):
"ABC" by The Jackson 5,
"Flashdance" by Irene Cara,
"On the Floor" by Jennifer Lopez and Pitbull,
"Waka Waka" by Shakira,
"Men in Black" by Will Smith,
"Let's All Chant" by the Michael Zager Band,
"Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" by Wham!,
"It's Raining Men" by The Weather Girls, and
"Vive Le Vent (Jingle Bells)" by Tino Rossi.
Luckily, Ferguson's sense of showmanship is
more prodigious than litigious -- he responded to Arthur's "
homáge" by booking a pair of translatlantic crossover shows, with Arthur visiting LA that week and Ferguson flying out to Paris just last month. Video of both shows (plus lots more) inside!
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posted by Rhaomi
on Jul 11, 2011 -
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KaBOOM! This past Friday, the
MythBusters exploded 500 pounds of ammonium nitrate (25% of the same material used in the
Oklahoma City bombing,) at a rock quarry in Yolo County, CA for an upcoming episode. But the explosion was apparently a wee bit bigger than they expected. It
shattered windows in nearby Esparto and was large enough to be picked up as a "small event" ground tremor by National Geographical Survey sensors. Which myth were they busting, you ask?
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posted by zarq
on Mar 26, 2009 -
73 comments
Adam Savage's talk at The Last HOPE: Fascination with the Dodo Bird
parts:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C
(YouTubeFilter with a great audience Q&A session)
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posted by Chuckles
on Aug 29, 2008 -
37 comments
Mythbusters Saves! "Recalling an episode of a reality TV show he recently watched, the driver waited for the cab to fill with water before lowering a window and swimming out, Mora said." (Mythbusters has been in the blue
before, saving those lives through reality television). Hi, Adam!
posted by thanotopsis
on Dec 31, 2007 -
93 comments
TV's
Mythbusters, (and as such Metafilter's 'very own'
asavage), hopes to use the global reach of Youtube to
send a yawn around the world.
"If only one per cent of the global population took part in the Yawn Around The World experiment then 65 million people would have yawned across the globe" Savage was quoted as saying. The equivalent amount of air exhaled would
"be able raise the Titanic or even inflate all the bicycle tyres in Beijing." Fascinating stuff! Watch the (hopefully) yawn inducing footage
here.
posted by Effigy2000
on Sep 25, 2006 -
34 comments
Archimedes Death Ray: Idea Feasibility Testing. Ancient Greek and Roman historians recorded that during the siege of Syracuse in 212 BC, Archimedes (a notably smart person) constructed a burning glass to set the Roman warships, anchored within bow and arrow range, afire. The story has been much
debated and oft dismissed as myth. TV's
MythBusters were not able to replicate the feat and “busted” the myth.
MIT students rock!
posted by mrkredo
on Oct 11, 2005 -
52 comments
