Thursday, March 20, 2008

UPSIDE-DOWN LAND

JUST TO BE CLEAR, I was not intending to use my iPhone upside-down in order to make a "joke."

I WAS MERELY DISTRACTED by the gigantic and authentic STOCK TICKER, and the fact that if I broke it, it would cost the show ten thousand ACTUAL DOLLARS.

That is all.

14 comments:

RedCircleLine said...

this is the sort of thing that proves my theory that the interweb has a surplus of nitpicky, neurotic critics with maybe a wee bit too much time on their hands. myself included from time to time, to be fair.

Omar said...

Ten thousand dollars!? That's crazy!

I'll give you a pass on the iPhone controversy, but I must call you out for failing to capitalize on a ripe opportunity for an homage to the "Dead Parrot" sketch. What were you thinking?

certifiedprepwn3d said...

Thrown off by a mere giant stock ticking antique worth less than millions? Mr. Hodgman, to heck with the iPhone, you need to work on your insouciance!

The Curiously Dull Mint said...
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The Curiously Dull Mint said...

thanks for clearing things up - now i can finally turn my tv right-side up. although to be honest, most things on tv don't make any less sense being upside-down. oo, how po-mo of me.

Annje said...

Guess I'm not into gadgets that much, to be honest I didn't even notice the phone was upside down. Nor did I care. I found the segment hilarious. I too would have been distracted by trying not to break the ticker. I too thought of Dead Parrot but it really wouldn't have fit in to the whole segment. I thought the dead canary was a great homage to miners actually. Question do mole men keep canaries underground?

Perry Gerakines said...

Are iPhones PC-compatible, anyway?

SkippyThorson said...

You could buy dozens of your own stock tickers, don't worry about his.

Oh, and rock that iPhone.

Don't scratch it though.

bob said...

Perhaps it was an ear-phone, not an eye-phone.

Omar said...

Annje, I was thinking something along the lines of having the bird be blue. Or maybe reply that it was just pining for the fjörds. Something subtle.

Tim said...

Mole-men do not keep canaries. They have evolved in such a way that underground gases make them stronger. This is the real reason miners need to be warned of gas build-up. No-one wants to have to fight off super-powered mole-men.

Gloria said...

No worries.

It was totally cute.

^_^

Unknown said...

Very funny segment, one of the best in a while, iFlap or not.

Elliot R said...

Displaying the iPhone on TV is particularly difficult. I also had an iPhone fumbling moment in one of Apple's man-on-the-street ads--somehow, it disappeared and reappeared in my hands:

http://www.apple.com/iphone/ads/ad11/

I'm also curious why (and how) Money Beak would be calling. One assumes from Parrot's Heaven, though one imagines God's eternal annoyance with repeating His commands...