{"id":8054,"date":"2005-06-06T22:09:23","date_gmt":"2005-06-07T05:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/06\/06\/oddest-thing-ever-spotted-whilst-flipping-through-the-channels.html"},"modified":"2005-06-06T22:09:23","modified_gmt":"2005-06-07T05:09:23","slug":"oddest_thing_ev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/06\/06\/oddest_thing_ev.html","title":{"rendered":"Oddest thing ever spotted whilst flipping through the channels"},"content":{"rendered":"

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. 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