In the grand, lengthy history of truly bizarre live TV crosses, this is truly a Hall of Fame moment. A pillar of the genre. A watershed moment.
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As word spread around the US of Senator John McCain‘s passing yesterday, major TV networks in America scrambled to break the story. Many of them managed to do so without incident, cutting from commercial breaks or inserting tactful news bulletin stills to soften the blow. The NBC, for whatever reason, fucked it up gloriously.
Newsreaders in NBC HQ delivered the news of Senator McCain’s death with standard aplomb, noting that rolling coverage and reaction to the 81-year-old’s passing would be continuing on their dedicated news channel MSNBC. Regular viewers of NBC would be transferred back to their regularly scheduled programming following the break.
It’s just that “their regularly scheduled programming” happened to be “two shirtless men in dolphin masks pretending to fuck.”
Observe.
https://twitter.com/Beschizza/status/1033519881268940806
We should explain. Probably.
The regularly scheduled program airing across NBC’s country-wide affiliates at the time was a repeat of that week’s episode of America’s Got Talent. The horny porpoise men that just so happened to be on-screen when McCain carked it were Yumbo Dump: a Japanese duo who perform an act called Dolphin Dance where they use air pumps to make dolphin noises on their gunts whilst pretending to bang. As you bloody well do.
If you’re thirsty to see the whole, un-McCain’d performance (and why the hell wouldn’t you be), here it is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWaIpIqUeDA
John McCain, dead at 81. And now, back to the dolphin sex.
Magnificent stuff.
