Author Topic: Teevee.org's April Fools Page (Read 1500 times)

MyronMMeyer · « **on:** April 01, 2006, 03:53:11 PM »

This year, for April Fools, teevee.org has put up Teeveepedia, the TV Encyclopedia, a reasonably amusing wiki-hoax.

At least one Game Show article in there, and if it weren't Jeopardy!, I wouldn't be typing this:

http://teeveepedia.teevee.org/index.php/Jeopardy

Be sure to click the links on that one.

Also:

http://teeveepedia.teevee.org/index.php/Jaye_P._Morgan
http://teeveepedia.teevee.org/index.php/Reality_TV
http://teeveepedia.teevee.org/index.php/American_Idol
http://teeveepedia.teevee.org/index.php/Merv_Griffin

and a very funny one that's linked from one of those pages, but I don't want to spoil the joke.

Cheers, all.

-M
T M W

catkins522 · « **Reply #1 on:** April 01, 2006, 04:07:45 PM »

[quote name=\'MyronMMeyer\' post=\'115009\' date=\'Apr 1 2006, 03:53 PM\']
At least one Game Show article in there, and if it weren't Jeopardy!, I wouldn't be typing this:
[/quote]

What is this? Whew! on speed? ;-)

Charles

Matt Ottinger · « **Reply #2 on:** April 01, 2006, 04:54:45 PM »

This is joyously elaborate, whoever did this should be terribly proud. My laugh-out-loud discovery so far:

"This article is a stub. A stub is a choice between two tasks, each with its own pros and cons. "

clemon79 · « **Reply #3 on:** April 01, 2006, 05:03:58 PM »

From the "Notable Contestants" section of the AI listing:

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Falco
Taco
Gummo

As a Falco fan, teh funnay. :)

PYLclark86 · « **Reply #4 on:** April 01, 2006, 05:05:10 PM »

I could've sworn this one was true:

Reality television is a genre practiced by numerous TV networks. Despite its name, it is not particularly realistic, and only barely qualifies as television. Nonetheless, it is cheap to produce, and usually involves copious amounts of cruel and largely deserved humiliation for its participants, and is thus beloved by networks and viewers alike.

Boy am I a fool. Anyways, props to whoever did this.

Robert Hutchinson · « **Reply #5 on:** April 01, 2006, 05:30:10 PM »

TeeVee.org is a site I visit regularly, and they always put a lot of work into their April 1st "redesigns".

One of the most amusing parts of this year's site is that, beyond a certain number of protected pages that were written before the parody wiki went up, it is entirely editable. I made a handful of additions and comments before I wisely realized that I could easily lose 8 or 10 hours of my life to it.