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On the hotel cable, a show on Univision (Spanish language TV), La Parodia<\/a><\/em>, doing a spoof on …<\/p>\n

The Time Tunnel<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

I mean, complete with Lee Meriwether and Whit Bissell look-alikes, swirly time-travel shots, the music, something that resembled the Tunnel, and slow motion appearances where\/when Doug and Tony (er, Frank e Ygor) showed up.<\/p>\n

It’s not so much that the parody show was odd (aside from trying to figure out what was being said — albeit the comedy was so broad that it wasn’t too difficult to follow), but that it was parodying an Irwin Allen American TV series from 1966 that probably two in a hundred Americans could recall, let alone name. Unless there’s been some odd repeats of TT <\/em>on Mexican TV, I can’t imagine what they were thinking of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the hotel cable, a show on Univision (Spanish language TV), La Parodia, doing a spoof on … The Time Tunnel. I mean, complete with Lee Meriwether and Whit Bissell…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11312,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/09\/26\/se_dice_go_vols.html","url_meta":{"origin":8054,"position":0},"title":"Se dice “Go Vols!”","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 26-Sep-07 8:31am","format":false,"excerpt":"One interesting, unexpected aspect of Tennessee I'd not noticed before is the large Hispanic population here -- at least based on Spanish-language middle-of-the-dial AM radio and cable TV stations....","rel":"","context":"In "Travel"","block_context":{"text":"Travel","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/travel"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":20442,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/14\/santiago-travelogue.html","url_meta":{"origin":8054,"position":1},"title":"Santiago Travelogue","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 14-Mar-11 7:57pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Random thoughts, untweeted, of the trip thus far. 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