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Commercial Pop-Up
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A trend of a commercial blurb in the form of a "pop-up" style graphic (audio optional) during a show. Commonly called "snipes" by broadcasters, these ads are typically not for products, but for the network's programming. They are not to be confused with logos used to identify a channel — which are usually called "bugs". However, snipes are often designed to interact with bugs (often triggering animations or other effects to it when a snipe appears). Often, they advertise what show is on next or later that day on the same channel. Sometimes, it can be a commercial popup indicating what show you are watching and what network you are watching it on. Occasionally the broadcaster will even go so far as to put a logo or text near the bug or in a different corner of the screen, to remind people that it is in fact a NEW EPISODE!!◊ and not some ancient old one, or put up an #EngineeredHashtag telling people that they can talk about the show on social media with it. The stations justify this because some people DVR and record shows—this is also how the networks can remind people who are watching a pirated program where the program originated from, and ensure pirates at least buy the DVD to pirate from. A similar trend is to start airing commercials during the credits of a show or movie by smashing the credits to one side of the screen and showing promos on the other. The credits are usually sped up and muted in favor of the shocking revelation coming on later tonight. You can bet that if you see or hear "stay tuned for scenes from next week's show" at the end of the episode before the commercial it'll be this. Beyond just reclaiming some of the valuable advertising time they had previously wasted on actual show, these popups serve several other purposes linked to the rise of digital video recorders: They can not be easily skipped like normal commercials (their first appearances were around 2001-2002, coinciding with the rise of the DVR) They make DVD releases more desirable than off-air recordings. (However, there are many DVD releases that show a persistent studio logo in the bottom corner of the screen.) They "brand" the video feed, making bootleg/YouTube'd copies easier to identify. If the pop-up is a countdown to something the network considers high priority, then it's a New Content Countdown Clock. Compare to Breaking News Interruption, when a program gets interrupted for breaking news. |
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A VH-1 advertisement for Scream Queens (2008) manifests itself as a high-pitched scream during an otherwise quiet moment in a show. | |
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On Clic Clac's airings of Inai Inai Baa!, the channel bug is placed in the exact area the title of the song appears in, causing the names of some of the songs to be partially obscured. | |
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Marge went further at the start of the 2007 Treehouse of Horror: with so many ads, she gets angry ("Can't people just watch the show they're watching?") and gets rid of the promos in various ways, such as vacuuming football players with a minivac, sticking House in a microwave and putting the rest in a meatloaf. Wherein they wriggle. | |
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Inverted on the Today show. They will run their commercials in a popup for things coming up later on the show. | |
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On G4's X-Play, bugs became so common (and occasionally covered up important words or numbers, such as game ratings, at the corner or bottom of the screen), that, in one game review, they inserted a number of bugs all over the screen at random intervals that obscured it completely. | |
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During a showing of The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) on AMC, an ad filled the entire bottom of the screen for a western mini-series, accompanied by loud horse noises. Rather annoying, to say the least. | |
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The Simpsons: One gag had Homer eating a Joe Millionaire pop-up. Similarly, another Couch Gag had the Fox logo pop up on the screen, with the entire family rushing over to stomp on it (back when logo bugs were the only commercial pop ups around). The creators of The Simpsons currently have a deal with Fox, wherein they will not put up real advertisements like this on during their show. Also parodied in The Simpsons Movie, where, during a scene where Homer and Bart are daring each other, a pop-up ad for Are You Smarter Than A Celebrity appears, stating "Yes, we even have these in movies now." (Actually, it's a newsbar, but still...) Marge went further at the start of the 2007 Treehouse of Horror: with so many ads, she gets angry ("Can't people just watch the show they're watching?") and gets rid of the promos in various ways, such as vacuuming football players with a minivac, sticking House in a microwave and putting the rest in a meatloaf. Wherein they wriggle. |
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Sci Fi loved running half-screen Ghost Hunter popups in the middle of Eureka. | |
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On an airing that occured after the logo was moved to the top corner, a bug for Care Bears: Unlock the Magic obscured part of the lyrics during a song about karate. | |
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The premiere airing of one episode of Justice League had a bug that featured a giant robot, including metallic stomping and explosion sounds that actually obscured several lines of dialogue. Needless to say, the fans were not pleased. | |
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Teen Titans Go!: On Easter weekend of 2017, there was an event called the Teen Titans Go Easter Egg Hunt on Cartoon Network, where they hid colored eggs throughout the episodes and viewers had to find them. If they named the correct episode and scene the egg appeared in, they would be eligible for a chance to win exclusive Cartoon Network merchandise. Labor Day weekend of 2017 had promo cards pop up in the corner advertising the special Labor Day episode, which also include the Titans interrupting the show with a sound byte yelling "Labor Day!". There was also this incident where a "Stop Bullying" bug appeared on the screen over a scene where most of the Titans were acting like bullies. |
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During the 'world premiere' of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force film on Adult Swim, the movie was displayed without sound in a tiny box in the corner of the screen, and episodes of Family Guy and Futurama aired while the movie ran (in its entirety) in the corner. During this, humongous pop-up ads for the movie with loud sound effects also appeared from time to time. But...this 'world premiere' was on April Fools' Day several days before the theatrical release, so it wasn't meant to be the 'serious' television debut by any means. | |
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Okaasan to Issho: As of November 2023, a QR code pops up in the left corner during "Karada Dandan" for the viewer to watch a dance-along of the same song. | |
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The Beauty and the Beast Diamond Edition and Alice in Wonderland 60th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray Discs advertise new bonus features during the end credits. | |
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An episode of Scrubs had a parody on one of these, after JD thinks of a silly sitcom about the Janitor and Ted adopting a kid, called "Legal Custodians." The next time JD brings it up, a Bug for it appears at the bottom of the screen. The first episode of Season 8 has an example of this using the network logo. Scrubs had switched from NBC to ABC between seasons 7 and 8. In the opening of the episode, JD walks in, points very obviously at the ABC logo and says "That's new!" The camera then pans to the Janitor to show he has a new watch. |
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Television Without Pity forums used to have one post about a forum-er who saw The Reveal of a tattoo in a 7th Heaven rerun get covered up with a pop-up. | |
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Back when they had Animaniacs, Cartoon Network had a bug where the Warners would march across the screen while their theme song played for about three seconds. It can be seen here. | |
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Ads for Yin Yang Yo! had Yang pull a banner down (complete with sound effects) which obscured 80-95% of the screen. He then pulled it up after about two seconds. | |
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The premiere of the Sesame Street special The Cookie Thief in early 2015 pulled a similar trick. Three times during the course of the premiere, a bug of Cookie Monster would pop up followed by a text box similar to the ones described in the Odd Squad examples below, reminding viewers that, yes, they were watching The Cookie Thief. Viewers Are Morons indeed. Hilariously, it first popped up during a scene that Cookie Monster was in, which may have momentarily confused the show's young viewers. During the Cartoon Network premiere of the Elmo's Playdate special, Big Bird's face was partially obscured by the Cartoon Network bug. |
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One episode of Frisky Dingo had a message on the screen for 15 seconds at the start that said "This is where the network puts that mammoth bug." Then, "Enjoy the show." Biting-the-Hand Humor doesn't even begin to cover it. | |
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DuckTales (2017) occasionally has a big screen bug (taking up almost half of the screen) on some shows with Huey, Duey, Louie, and Webby climbing up on the Disney XD logo, and they jump on Launchpad's ship coming from the left side of the screen. There was also an in-universe example during the Sitcom Homage Episode "Quack Pack!" that only Huey was able to notice. | |
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Also parodied in The Simpsons Movie, where, during a scene where Homer and Bart are daring each other, a pop-up ad for Are You Smarter Than A Celebrity appears, stating "Yes, we even have these in movies now." (Actually, it's a newsbar, but still...) | |
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Invoked on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert when the stars of the series Schitt's Creek were guests. Supposedly, the censors only let them mention the name of the show on-air if an ad appeared ("Schitt's Creek — Wednesdays on Pop") each time it was mentioned. Of course they proceeded to do so a lot. | |
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One gag had Homer eating a Joe Millionaire pop-up. | |
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When Law & Order: Criminal Intent moved to USA Network, a gag ad was created where Goren wanted to know what the hell the USA bug in the corner of the screen was. He then tried unsuccessfully to interact with it before declaring it "weird". | |
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Dragon Ball Z Abridged mocked this in their "The Plan to Eradicate Christmas" movie, where the villain (Santa gone evil) accuses Goku of recklessly endangering the world countless times thanks to his lust for battle. Goku responded by asking how he could possibly endanger the whole universe — at which point a pop-up ad for Funimation's stream of the Tournament of Power appears. | |
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A rare non-news example of this trope on Japanese TV: On one episode of Chibi Maruko-chan, a text message thanking the late Sakura Momoko for her work was shown over the closing credits. | |
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Neopets spoofs internet popups with their game Advert Attack—the game's entire challenge is navigating around or getting rid of fake ads that dominate the screen so you could actually get at the game's controls. | |
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A gag one happens with the network logo version on Chowder. Chowder scribbles on the screen and gets yelled at. After it's cleaned up he points over at the Cartoon Network logo and asks "What about that one?" to which Gaspatcho responds, "That one doesn't come off. I've tried." The channel icon is part of the episode, making it obvious that the logo has changed since the episode's initial airing. | |
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On the Amazon prints of various PBS Kids shows, the logo will be placed in the bottom-left corner. This also happens on the iTunes versions of the Season 25 episodes of Arthur. | |
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In the Steven Universe Fake Crossover episode with Uncle Grandpa, "Say Uncle", Uncle Grandpa says he remembers Steven trying to activate his shield in the first episode, "Gem Glow" because he was watching from a bumper advertisement for his own show. Steven doesn't remember this at all. | |
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The Phineas and Ferb special "Summer Belongs to You" parodies this. A fake pop-up appears declaring "You're watching television!", a sound effect is heard indicating Phineas has an idea, Phineas complains that the "ad" is obscuring a visual gag, and the pop-up disappears to show Ferb holding a triangle. | |
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TNT had small pop ups that weren't very intrusive, but when it changed formats, it got bad. Spike TV had a bad habit of doing animated pop ups for their cartoons like Gary the Rat and Stripperella, often just before or after commercial breaks. They'd take up perhaps a third of the screen. | |
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During the 2018 edition of their Toy Story marathon, pop-up trivia facts appeared during random points in the movies. One of them, which was a Take That! at Shadowhunters, outraged fans of the show since it appeared during a scene where the Magic 8 Ball tells Woody "DON'T COUNT ON IT". | |
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Lost: ABC ran a countdown clock for V during the US premiere of "The Package". The bug was annoying enough and to make matters worse it was positioned in such a way that it blocked a notepad Sun was using to communicate, so viewers couldn't see what she'd written. Lost fans complained on social media, a sentiment echoed by showrunner Damon Lindelof. | |
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Also on Cartoonito, with Pocoyo taking place primarily in a White Void Room, the Cartoonito screenbug would be mostly hidden, since the logo was white. To make up for this, later airings used a black logo. | |
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Prior to the premiere of Elinor Wonders Why, Elinor would pop in from different sides of the screen, from time to time during PBS Kids shows that lead up to the premiere, with Elinor waving at the audience and giving a silent laugh. During the last show before the premiere, Martha Speaks, Elinor would pop in and wave as the show's logo appears next to her, reminding viewers to tune in for the premiere. | |
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This can get pretty extreme during Professional Wrestling shows, as not only do the pop-ups take up space on the screen and distract from the match, but the commentators all of a sudden start ignoring the match and begin shilling for the show or product being advertised. | |
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Mystery Science Theater 3000: During the Sci-Fi Channel run, a pop-up of the Sci-Fi Channel logo would appear in the bottom-right corner of the screen, often obscuring Crow T. Robot during the theater scenes. This was so annoying that viewers successfully petitioned Sci-Fi to move their logo to the other side of the screen. Earlier than that, MST3K fans had the same demand with Comedy Central during its run on that channel. They also managed, while the show aired on that network to stop text crawls across the bottom of the screen, and got them to stop running voice-overs during the show's credits because gags would frequently be carried over and played on top of them. |
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Numerous times during Cartoon Network airings of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, a promo would appear on the lower part of the screen, sometimes obscuring the Life Points total. | |
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The Australian sketch comedy show Comedy Inc. parodied this with a sketch featuring a CSI: Miami parody where increasingly bigger fake pop-ups for the channel kept covering crucial items (first a seemingly critical piece of evidence, then a stripping character's nudity), at one point covering half the screen. At this point Horatio gets on his cell phone and tells someone to arrest someone at Channel 9 for the number of ads. | |
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Similar to the Rugrats example detailed on the Nickelodeon page, Family Channel in Canada had one around 2004 for a back-to-school-themed contest where a "BTS" bug would appear at a random point in the show. You could be entered for a contest if you correctly named the show and episode that it appeared in. YTV did the same about a year earlier but with a different colored Froot Loop rolling by (the contest was sponsored by Kellogg's). |
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Comedy Central's Futurama ends with the credits being shown in a small 'tear' in the bottom of the screen while the beginning of the next episode starts. Great idea, saves time and everything, right? Well, except that it now completely blocks out the unique-per-episode punch line they have written on the bottom of the screen...unless it's one of the few early episodes that starts with a cold opening, of course. Reruns of Scrubs do this, too, though both shows go back to the regular format if it precedes something like The Daily Show. | |
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Though technically not a pop-up, the "TV ratings" logos used on American TV appear to be getting bigger and bigger, with it now not uncommon for the icon to over as much as 1/5 or more of the screen, obscuring the scene noticeably. Fortunately, rumors at the time of their introduction that they'd be required on DVD releases as well turned out to be untruenote strangely enough, though, one TV rating bug appeared on a VHS release of the Reading Rainbow episode "Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin". | |
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On the first broadcast of Star★Twinkle Pretty Cure, an ad covered the top corner of the screen during the ending theme telling viewers that they can watch this episode again on demand on TVer. | |
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It's not just television that has done this, either. Japanese video site Nico Nico Douga actually started adding interstitial ads smack-dab in the middle of the video you happen to be watching, with no way to skip ahead or pause at all. When you try to watch a music video, you get hit with a two-minute ad for Penguin Musume Heart out of nowhere. | |
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Fox teased the premiere of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles by randomly broadcasting a pair of red eyes on its feed during certain shows like Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares. Example. | |
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During the premiere of the SpongeBob SquarePants "Have You Seen This Snail?" special on Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network used this trope for a in-joke with a bug featuring a snail resembling Gary with an "I LOVE CN" sign appearing at the bottom of the screen during random programs. The intended joke was that Gary had "run away" from Nickelodeon to Cartoon Network, but many viewers didn't get the joke and found the bug to be rather annoying. | |
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There is the incident with the season 2 finale of Transformers: Animated. The credits included a humorous dialogue between Megatron and Starscream's head, floating about stranded in an unidentified region of space. But both of the original English-language airings (first YTV, then Cartoon Network shortly afterward) dubbed over that dialogue with interstitials, promoting mass rage within the Transformers fandom (or at least those who appreciate Animated). | |
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Most of the time, the news telops that appear during programming don't appear on streaming versions of the episodes. However, this wasn't the case for episode 2 of Love Live! Superstar!! on the NHK Plus service, which oddly enough kept the earthquake warning that occurred during its' original broadcast. It's likely that this was an error. | |
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A variation happens on video sharing websites such as YouTube where the pop-ups are usually for larger companies. Case in point: During a stream of an Amagami video, an ad for McDonald's coffee showed up, resulting in a hilarious juxtaposition◊. It basically looked like the character was peeing out of her bathing suit. | |
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4Kids did this, and their logo was not particularly semi-transparent. This often made it difficult to see things like life points, or the attack strength of a monster (in Yu-Gi-Oh!). | |
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This was spoofed in one of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books. Rowley's family recorded a Christmas special long ago, and the year they recorded it there was a storm warning at the bottom of the screen. Now whenever Rowley watches the video, he calls Greg to tell him there's a winter storm coming. Greg used to fall for it until one day when Rowley called him about a winter storm during summer vacation. | |
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Cartoon Network did this with the Pokémon: The Series episode "Crossing Paths", where Jessie releases Dustox. What ruined the moment? A bumper for the new episode of Ben 10: Alien Force. | |
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In the week leading up to the South Park season 24 premiere (a one-hour special themed around the COVID-19 Pandemic), pop-ups showed up on not just Comedy Central, but other Viacom-owned networks such as TV Land and MTV. The bug noted how many days until the special aired and showed images of the main four boys with masks on. | |
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Their Mork & Mindy marathon that ran the day after Thanksgiving of 2008 (which included episodes from the fourth season, which was unlikely to be released on DVD at the time due to music rights issues) was also plagued by Ghost Hunter pop-ups. | |
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Some children's preschool programming blocks like Nick Jr. and Playhouse Disney kept a solid logo in the corner of the screen, obscuring what was under them. For instance, when Playhouse Disney was about to premiere JoJo's Circus, they showed a bumper that not only took up part of the screen, but also had an animation of a floating balloon accompany it. | |
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Parodied in a Strong Bad E-Mail where Strong Bad mentioned "Discovery Channel" specials about CGI dinosaurs. While he said this, a bug for the fictional CGI Walking With Trogdor appeared. Sadly, despite being a parody, it fit here, as it appeared exactly within the confines of the back of Strong Bad's head. | |
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On airings of Pretty Cure on TV Asahi, if the episode runs longer than usual, the sponsors will be displayed◊ in the lower-right corner during the beginning of the episode itself, and again during the On the Next segment. | |
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Family Guy: The episode "Movin' Out (Brian's Song)" makes a joke using this where, during a feminist speech by Lois, Marge appears in a pop-up ad for The Simpsons at the bottom of the screen and Quagmire tries to have sex with her. It then shifts into an overly long Take That! against The Simpsons. In the episode "Peter's Progress", during the wedding ceremony scene, there was a running gag where Stewie would repeatedly break the fourth wall to complain about and kibitz the pop-ups. Plus, most of the promos were for fake shows named after the type of image in the pop-up, such as "Shovin' Buddies", "Slowly Rotating Black Man", and "Crossarmed Opposites". When the aforementioned episode first aired in Spain on laSexta, they went on with the gag by putting a banner of its flagship humour show Se lo que hicisteis. After this incident, the program did a sketch about what had happened. Here's the full video. Family Guy being what it is, it's used pop-up ads for Biting-the-Hand Humor multiple times. |
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When LazyTown aired on CBeebies, an ad usually popped up that had a yellow blob "thinking" of whatever show was coming up next, covering half the screen during the Once per Episode song and staying there for about 15 seconds. | |
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Bugs for the latest game in the The Escapist's promo cycle appear in many of their video features, including Zero Punctuation's. | |
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Parodied in an episode of Drawn Together: Ling-Ling (who speaks in pseudo-Japanese and can only be understood through subtitles) is trying to convince the other housemates to help him, when suddenly a bug for The Daily Show appears, obscuring everything he's saying. Another character exclaims "Ling-Ling's right! I love the Daily Show!" | |
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