Most amusing bit of woo you've seen on television

[lady_mockington]

I once watched "Most Haunted" with Derek Acorah. That would be funny in itself but in this particular episode he was exploring some kind of dungeon in London. Anyway, he started going into his schtick about sensing a presence. It turns out the presence was....wait for it....Jack the Ripper. My then-husband and I burst out laughing. This idiot was serious. Yeah...only the most famous serial killer in the world and he "senses" him. Tool.

[Ravynn123]

My favorite is the Ghost Adventures on travel channel. OMG those guys crack me up. They are so funny.

[Jonquill]

I see Ghost Hunters International has an episode coming up where they look for Adolf Hilter's ghost :eek:

The woos think this is very brave of them :rolleyes:

[lady_mockington]

I see Ghost Hunters International has an episode coming up where they look for Adolf Hilter's ghost :eek:

The woos think this is very brave of them :rolleyes:

Seriously? Wow. That's just stupid and unbelievable yet it isn't.

[MattusMaximus]

In general, any of the "ghost hunting" shows are good for a laugh. I cannot believe how they actually turn that crap into a show - and when you really think about it, when editing is taken into account, what they show on TV is the best footage they have!

http://forums.randi.org/imagehosting/774747dc5f01571c1.gif (http://forums.randi.org/vbimghost.php?do=displayimg&imgid=11269)

[Ravynn123]

I see Ghost Hunters International has an episode coming up where they look for Adolf Hilter's ghost :eek:

The woos think this is very brave of them :rolleyes:

I am looking forward to that episode, it should make for some good comedy on tv.

[Marduk]

Dog the bounty hunter must be in the running surely
:D

[Ravynn123]

Oh yeah his Christmas show where he hunted Santa Claus. OMG so funny.

[shandyjan]

I remember an episode where he started talking to the 'presence' and started using the wrong name! Cant remember the specifics, but it was so blunt..like he was talking to Jack and suddenly called him Peter, and Yvette said 'who is Peter'. It was very funny!

eta- ref to Derek Accorah

[Lucian]

I remember an episode where he started talking to the 'presence' and started using the wrong name! Cant remember the specifics, but it was so blunt..like he was talking to Jack and suddenly called him Peter, and Yvette said 'who is Peter'. It was very funny!

eta- ref to Derek Accorah

So many favorite Acorah moments, it's difficult to choose one. In one episode of MH, they were at a castle associated with Thomas Cromwell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cromwell,_1st_Earl_of_Essex). Ol' Derek sensed and began communicating with a "spirit person." When asked the name, he said, "Cromwell, Cromwell, Oliver Cromwell." Whoops.

[GT/CS]

The Nostradamas Effect 2012

[bethysunport]

I once watched "Most Haunted" with Derek Acorah. That would be funny in itself but in this particular episode he was exploring some kind of dungeon in London. Anyway, he started going into his schtick about sensing a presence. It turns out the presence was....wait for it....Jack the Ripper. My then-husband and I burst out laughing. This idiot was serious. Yeah...only the most famous serial killer in the world and he "senses" him. Tool.

Speaking of Most haunted... http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7ms9r_saturday-night-live-haunted-house_fun?from=rss


I used to love those shows they had on MTV where they put a bunch of teenagers in a supposedly haunted place, like an asylum or a prison, and made them do dares. I miss that show, it was worth a few laughs.

[Ravynn123]

Speaking of Most haunted... http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7ms9r_saturday-night-live-haunted-house_fun?from=rss


I used to love those shows they had on MTV where they put a bunch of teenagers in a supposedly haunted place, like an asylum or a prison, and made them do dares. I miss that show, it was worth a few laughs.


Thank you for the link. That was priceless.

[KeyserSoze]

A couple of my friends had me watching one of those ghost hunter shows one time and they were really into it. The episode we watched was one where the investigators went to a trailer park home to investigate an evil ghost haunting the family. They lost interest in the show after I asked them why a ghost would haunt a family of rednecks living in a trailer. Was he the black sheep of the ghost world?

[Ravynn123]

A couple of my friends had me watching one of those ghost hunter shows one time and they were really into it. The episode we watched was one where the investigators went to a trailer park home to investigate an evil ghost haunting the family. They lost interest in the show after I asked them why a ghost would haunt a family of rednecks living in a trailer. Was he the black sheep of the ghost world?


ROFLMAO!!! I almost spit pepsi all over my computer monitor when I read that.

[Brian-M]

I remember an episode where he started talking to the 'presence' and started using the wrong name! Cant remember the specifics, but it was so blunt..like he was talking to Jack and suddenly called him Peter, and Yvette said 'who is Peter'. It was very funny!

eta- ref to Derek Accorah


Why is that funny? (Apart from being nonsense, that is.) Jack the Ripper's real identity has always been a mystery, so his real name could easily be Peter.

[Maldon]

I used to love those shows they had on MTV where they put a bunch of teenagers in a supposedly haunted place, like an asylum or a prison, and made them do dares. I miss that show, it was worth a few laughs.

Ah yes, loved that show too!:D

[shandyjan]

Why is that funny? (Apart from being nonsense, that is.) Jack the Ripper's real identity has always been a mystery, so his real name could easily be Peter.

It wasnt the Jack the Ripper episode, I just used those names to stress the point that he forgot midtrance who he was meant to be speaking to! It was a funny moment!

[LibraryLady]

I'm sorry, the Pet Psychic, although no longer on the air, trumps them all.

[Ravynn123]

I completely forgot about the pet psychic show. :lolsign:

[Able]

The pet psychic has a weekly show on Sirius radio. I love it, but I can only take it in five minute intervals. I'm no doctor, but I think her voice might cause tinnitus.

[Able]

Oh, I would also like to nominate extendez (sic?) infomercials. They should count as woo, and they're hilarious.

[MattusMaximus]

I'm sorry, the Pet Psychic, although no longer on the air, trumps them all.

*Completely loses faith in humanity* :covereyes

[MattusMaximus]

Oh, I would also like to nominate extendez (sic?) infomercials. They should count as woo, and they're hilarious.

All I can say is:
You're gonna love my nuts! :D

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[Richard S]

Oh that's easy...

They used to show this on late night TV in the 80's, before infomercials took over. It really is a classic.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5923343867915710231#

Imagine being in college, staying up late partying with your buds, and seeing this randomly show up on TV.

[HumanityBlues]

My favorite is the Ghost Adventures on travel channel. OMG those guys crack me up. They are so funny.

I just saw a commercial for this while watching Man vs. Food. What can possibly happen during the shows? 3 buff guys walk into a room and say "Yup. Looks haunted!". I don't know how people can watch that junk.....even though I kind of want to see an episode now.

[jakesteele]

For me it is just about any Televangelists you see. I am continually amazed that people buy into it even when their guy has a $10,000 Rolex, drives a Mercedez(sp) and lives in a mansion. I must confess, though, I find their sermons fascinating in rythm and cadence and their body language. I find my self trying to imitate them when I'm alone in my house. Sometimes I surprise myself and it gets me to thinking that I would like a Rolex, a mansion and a hot car to get the babes.

[Dr H]

I see Ghost Hunters International has an episode coming up where they look for Adolf Hilter's ghost :eek:

The woos think this is very brave of them :rolleyes:

Not bad, but the one that kind of topped it for me was the guy who "channeled" Michael Jackson, live, on the air on George Noory's "Coast to Coast" show the very day Jackson's death had been reported in the news.

I couldn't help but think 'well, the woos lost no time in hopping on this bandwagon...'

To the guy's (very slight) credit, at least he didn't do a fake Michael Jackson voice. If he had I'm not sure even most of Noory's audience could have taken him seriously. He informed us, BTW, that all of those nasty charges against Michael were false. Nice to finally have that settled. :rolleyes:

[HumanityBlues]

For me it is just about any Televangelists you see. I am continually amazed that people buy into it even when their guy has a $10,000 Rolex, drives a Mercedez(sp) and lives in a mansion.

Don't be a hater!

[shandyjan]

For me it is just about any Televangelists you see. I am continually amazed that people buy into it even when their guy has a $10,000 Rolex, drives a Mercedez(sp) and lives in a mansion. I must confess, though, I find their sermons fascinating in rythm and cadence and their body language. I find my self trying to imitate them when I'm alone in my house. Sometimes I surprise myself and it gets me to thinking that I would like a Rolex, a mansion and a hot car to get the babes.

Youre gonna burn along with Benny :D

[teedot]

I chanced upon Gary Spivey on television one day. I couldn't concentrate on what was going on because his hair is just so darn distracting.

[arthwollipot]

The idea that if I pay $6.50 twice a week, I can find out whether someone is compatible with me by texting my name and theirs to a particular number.

[Iconoclast08]

The Nostradamas Effect 2012

Seconded. Very amusing. That Pet Psychic show-- also classic.

I've found in recent years that I get more pissed than amused when watching the psychic shows, especially when I see families that appear to be in genuine distress being bilked by charlatans (well, I guess the families that aren't paid actors, at least).

Shows like Psychic Kids on A&E and Paranormal State are atrocities, especially the former where they have a licensed psychologist using her Ivy League credentials to Trojan horse New Age ideology into viewers' impressions of child psychology (not to mention the nature of reality itself-- as infinitely elastic in accordance with wish-thinking).

[Belgian thought]

There's something about Mary..... wish I had met her!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uD0dPhr9cQ

[JoeyDonuts]

The Pet Psychic show sounds like something that would be one one of the parody talk radio stations in a Grand Theft Auto game.

[TheSkepticCanuck]

How about the commercials for the upcoming new show, "Past Life", where crimes are solved using the reincarnated victims? At least, that is my take on the show, based on the commercial I saw last night. And yes, this is a Fox show. No surprise there.

[Ashles]

There was a paranormal type show on in the UK in the mid nineties - The Magic and Mystery Show (http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/series/23028) and it was really cheap and rubbish.

In one fantastic episode a man claimed he could locate objects (I forget whether it was via dowsing or just mental powers). The presenter went in to the guys back garden to hide a ball for the man to search for.

Incredibly the presenter selected a plant pot and put the ball under the plant pot basically in the middle of the patio.
An upturned plant pot just sitting there on the patio.

But more incredibly... the guy couldn't locate it! He ignored the plant pot, wandered all the hell over the place and ultimately gave up.


As an aside, the reason I was watching it was because they had filmed some stupid device called the Dream Machine in use on some guy who worked in a Wholistic Healing centre for a segment on the show. That guy was me and I was keen to see if I had made the final cut.
I wasn't in the show.

But bizarrely when searching for the name of the show just now I came across this episode (http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/510536) - "Dr Keith Hearne has invented the Dream Machine which he claims will eventually enable people to control their dreams."
Maybe I was in it but bumped to another episode I missed? I'd love to find that footage.

[steve s]

Head On. Apply directly to the forehead.
Head On. Apply directly to the forehead.
Head On. Apply directly to the forehead.

Steve S.

[Ravynn123]

Head On. Apply directly to the forehead.
Head On. Apply directly to the forehead.
Head On. Apply directly to the forehead.

Steve S.


Umm Steve the OP says most amusing not most annoying. :lolsign:

[Bitter Monk]

I can't believe no one has brought up Henner Fahrenbach on Sci-Fi Investigates stating bigfoot smelled like a homeless guy's junk.

Perhaps that was more bowel shakingly disturbing than it was amusing.

[mike3]

I once watched "Most Haunted" with Derek Acorah. That would be funny in itself but in this particular episode he was exploring some kind of dungeon in London. Anyway, he started going into his schtick about sensing a presence. It turns out the presence was....wait for it....Jack the Ripper. My then-husband and I burst out laughing. This idiot was serious. Yeah...only the most famous serial killer in the world and he "senses" him. Tool.

I am not sure if I'd call it "amusing", but the most absurd piece of crap I've seen on TV was called "Earth's Black Hole". These guys didn't even have a clue as to how geology even works. They though matter was being "created" when large igneous provinces (LIPs) are formed instead of it just bubbling out of the Earth's interior. I couldn't believe they were saying something like that.