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Telethon
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Marathon television show, almost always broadcast to raise money for a charitable cause. Can run anywhere from 24 hours to a week or more of combined Variety Show and pointless filler. The first telethon, broadcast by NBC in April 1949, was a fundraiser for the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation. (In fact, NBC executive Sylvester Weaver coined the word "telethon" — a portmanteau of "television" and "marathon" — to describe the program, which was a radically different event that he hoped would entice people to buy TV sets.) The Foundation's first big fund-raiser, the telethon ran a then-unprecedented 16 hours with Milton Berle as its host, and raised $100,000note $1,247,046.22 in 2023 dollars. In all ways it was more or less indistinguishable from "modern" telethons, from the stars and celebrities who performed and urged donations, to the big on-screen bank of telephone operators taking calls. |
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Cheers: In "Take My Shirt...Please", Sam donates his old baseball jersey to a PBS pledge drive, and is humiliated when the jersey doesn't sell. | |
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The Simpsons: In "Missionary: Impossible", Homer flees the country after welching on a $10,000 donation he made to get PBS to end their telethon. At the end, it turns out the entire episode was part of a FOX telethon, which Bart tries to end with a $10,000 donation. An earlier episode, "Marge on the Lam", also starts with a Public Television telethon. Donations are coming in so slowly, that Troy McClure doesn't recognize the phone ringing when Marge calls in to pledge for ballet tickets. |
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Full House: One episode has Danny hosting a telethon at the TV station he works at. When what he plans to be a 2-minute rest ends up with him out like a light, his family has to keep the show going. | |
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One of the games on Whose Line Is It Anyway? involves Colin and Ryan hosting a telethon to raise money for ridiculous causes, like helping thumb-suckers break the habit or getting NBA star Dennis Rodman more tattoos. | |
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Taz-Mania had an episode where the cast made a telethon to keep the show on the air, which raised only ten cents. It turned out that Digeri Dingo had switched the telethon's donation number so the pledgers would call his house, and he stole all of the money. | |
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The Zeldathon Team hosts a week-long charity stream, twice a year, called, well, Zeldathon, where all the members play every game in The Legend of Zelda series. The most they've raised was over $375,000 during the Zeldathon Cures marathon, for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. | |
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Games Done Quick is a Twitch channel that streams speedruns of videogames, typically twice a year, for Awesome Games Done Quick in the winter, and Summer Games Done Quick in the, well, summer. Since 2014, they started making over $1 million per marathon, and since 2018, they have started to rake in over $2 million for charity per marathon. | |
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Total Drama: The second Aftermath episode of World Tour is dedicated to holding one of these in order to raise funds for the rest of the season. | |
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Family Ties: Steven was working a PBS Telethon when his snowbound wife goes into labor. And again when Uncle Arthur tried it on with Mallory. That guy had no luck with telethons. |
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UHF: Near the end, George holds a telethon to raise funds to buy the station. | |
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Project for Awesome, started by the VlogBrothers which includes a 48-hour livestream on YouTube. | |
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American Dad!: In "The Phantom of the Telethon", Stan steals Roger's idea for a telethon to raise finds for the CIA's torture program, leading Roger to try to sabotage it. Roger claims that he actually invented the telethon in the first place, but Jerry Lewis stole the idea from him then too. | |
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Seinfeld: In "The Pledge Drive", Jerry hosts a pledge drive at WNET Channel 13, and then has Kramer take over while he searches for his missing Nana. | |
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Phineas and Ferb: In one episode, Dr. Doofenshmirtz hosts a "Telethon of Evil," which hilariously gets mistaken for satire by Lawrence Fletcher. | |
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KaBlam!: In "Hurts So Good!", Henry and June host a "Staplethon" to raise money for more staples for the comic book they turn. The episode ends with "The Staples Song", a parody of charity motivation songs, featuring appearances by Loopy from Life with Loopy, Prometheus from Prometheus and Bob, the cast of Action League NOW!, and the titular characters of Sniz and Fondue. | |
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Not for Broadcast has a level called "The Telethon" using "archive footage" as a test of their capabilities. It starts with the majority of the talent, the audience, and most of the crew stuck in traffic and goes downhill from there. | |
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Newhart: In one episode, Michael convinces Dick to host a 72-hour telethon for the TV station they work for — despite that it's a commercial station and not PBS. | |
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The President Show had a "Make America Great-A-Thon" hour-long special in early April 2018, drive to fund the Mexico border wall... and infrastructure... and whatever else Trump wanted when he got bored with the current focus. | |
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SCTV: There were four episodes involving telethons and pledge weeks. | |
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Mystery Science Theater 3000: During the show's presentation of Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, Pearl held a PBS-style telethon, in reference to the film's origin on public television. | |
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G.I. Joe: One rather silly episode involves Cobra holding a telethon to fund their next evil plan. They raked in almost a billion on it, though, so at least it was successful. | |
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Rocky and Bullwinkle: A "Bullwinkle & Rocky Fan Club" sketch involves Bullwinkle hosting a telethon for the club. They end up with minus ten cents, because Rocky gave Boris a dime for the parking meter. | |
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Robot Chicken: In the Season 3 finale, creators Seth Green and Matthew Senreich host a telethon for the show, and Matt ends up killing everyone to attract donors. | |
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Tiny Toon Adventures: The episode "Pledge Week" has the Tiny Toons hosting a telethon. However, nobody seems to be pledging any money, or even calling, aside from a prank caller. In the third wraparound, after telling the viewers the wonderful stuff they could get if they pledged (including the actual Plucky), they manage to raise $0.07. | |
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Not technically a telethon, as it's not aired on television, but LoadingReadyRun holds "Desert Bus for Hope" every year to raise money for Child's Play. | |
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Johnny Bravo: "Johnny Telethon" features a public access telethon to raise money to save the local discount store. Because the Tingblad Family Chimps weren't able to make it to the show, Johnny improvises by showing off his armpit-farting talents. They end up losing so much money that the donation counter goes into the negatives. | |
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My Bride is a Mermaid: Parodied when Lunar holds a telethon for Mikawa when everybody thinks he's dying. | |
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Ed, Edd n Eddy: In "Hands Across Ed", Eddy starts a telethon scam in order to pay for Ed's "eyebrow operation". It ultimately doesn't work as the acts stink, so Kevin and Rolf start their own show. | |
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Codename: Kids Next Door: The end credits for "Operation: R.E.C.E.S.S. / Operation: H.A.M.S.T.E.R." shows a telethon being held by Sector V and several hamsters to save recess. Numbuh One's discussion of the telethon eventually turns into a rant about what he believes schools are doing to kids, until it is cut off by a We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties screen. | |
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The focus of one episode of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel — Midge books a slot on a telethon, her friends and family react in various ways, and the entertainment industry's forces that be keep pushing her to more and more undesirable timeslots. She makes it work. | |
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The Muppets (2011): The climax involves the Muppets hosting a telethon to save their studio. Thanks to the villain knocking a telephone pole down with his car, the telethon ends with them mere cents away from their goal. | |
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The Frasier episode "Look Before You Leap" has Frasier on a PBS telethon, where he usually sings "Buttons and Bows" but, taking his own advice to "take a leap" for leap year, he's going to sing an aria from Rigoletto. When everyone else's "leaps" go wrong, he chickens out, but unfortunately he hasn't rehearsed "Buttons and Bows" this year, so he makes a mess of it anyway. | |
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In the Friends episode "The One Where Phoebe Hates PBS", Joey is asked to assist with a telethon. He thinks he has been invited to host and arrives in a tuxedo, but discovers that he is actually one of the volunteers assisting with answering the phones. During the broadcast he tries to draw attention by waving to the camera, only for the person sitting next to him to smack his hand away. He eventually takes a donation from Phoebe that gets them over the target amount and leads to the actual host coming over to thank him (and compliment him for dressing up). | |
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Americathon: In a future America, the country holds a 30-day telethon to repay its debts or risk foreclosure by Native Americans. | |
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On Becoming a God in Central Florida: The last two episodes of Season 1 are set against the backdrop of a telethon for the FAM multi-level marketing company. | |
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