News show fails at life - Monkey Island style!

[144_v1legacy]

O hohohoho. There's no better form of comedy than reality.

 

[oliveira8]

"What could possibly be SCUMM? I Googled it, and it's an alcohol delivery service"

What? But...how? I don't - maybe it's a language discrepancy. But what could he possibly be referring to?

SCUMM was the game engine that Monkey Island ran on and the name of the bar where Guybrush meets the pirates.

When the dude googled it up it probably came SCUMM as the Pirate bar. A bar is a place where alcohol is sold. The doctor isn't very smart.

 

[AvsJoe]

O hohohoho. There's no better form of comedy than reality.

There is no truer sentence out there. You can find comedy in almost any situation.

 

[Captain Blackout]

That...that was special.
As in the short bus.

Actually, you know what?
I think that's beyond the short bus.
Perhaps a clown car.
If that makes any sense.

Oh, it does. A very sad clown car. That was driven by pranksters right over the short bus. And the news agency decided to take the clown car to replace the short bus and drive off with it. How the fuck do you even look at the list and not just say "Next story!"

And I thought Fox was bad....

/facepalm

EDIT: Gov't run or not, as the head of the agency how the hell do you not walk in and say:
Everybody is fired! Get out, all of you! No news tonight, we start again tomorrow with a whole new crew! That's right, all of you! I don't give a fuck if it's not the janitor's fault, get the fuck out! And take your kerosene with you!

 

[pneuma08]

"What could possibly be SCUMM? I Googled it, and it's an alcohol delivery service"

What? But...how? I don't - maybe it's a language discrepancy. But what could he possibly be referring to?

SCUMM was the game engine that Monkey Island ran on and the name of the bar where Guybrush meets the pirates.

When the dude googled it up it probably came SCUMM as the Pirate bar. A bar is a place where alcohol is sold. The doctor isn't very smart.

Hm, an interesting theory. Still, I don't know if I would ever describe a bar as "an alcohol delivery service". It's more of a seller and less of a service.

 

[oliveira8]

"What could possibly be SCUMM? I Googled it, and it's an alcohol delivery service"

What? But...how? I don't - maybe it's a language discrepancy. But what could he possibly be referring to?

SCUMM was the game engine that Monkey Island ran on and the name of the bar where Guybrush meets the pirates.

When the dude googled it up it probably came SCUMM as the Pirate bar. A bar is a place where alcohol is sold. The doctor isn't very smart.

Hm, an interesting theory. Still, I don't know if I would ever describe a bar as "an alcohol delivery service". It's more of a seller and less of a service.

It's the translator's fault and the doctor's fault. The man says first a place..then grumbles and says something like service(In spanish of course).

 

[Clashero]

"What could possibly be SCUMM? I Googled it, and it's an alcohol delivery service"

What? But...how? I don't - maybe it's a language discrepancy. But what could he possibly be referring to?

Google Argentina's first hit for SCUMM is ScummVM (the SCUMM emulator), then tons of hits for Lucasarts, the Wiki article for SCUMM, etc. I don't know what he googled up to come up with a bar.

Googling scumm delivery comes up with the drink delivery service he was referring to, though: http://www.scummdelivery.com.ar/index2.html

"What could possibly be SCUMM? I Googled it, and it's an alcohol delivery service"

What? But...how? I don't - maybe it's a language discrepancy. But what could he possibly be referring to?

SCUMM was the game engine that Monkey Island ran on and the name of the bar where Guybrush meets the pirates.

When the dude googled it up it probably came SCUMM as the Pirate bar. A bar is a place where alcohol is sold. The doctor isn't very smart.

Hm, an interesting theory. Still, I don't know if I would ever describe a bar as "an alcohol delivery service". It's more of a seller and less of a service.

It's the translator's fault and the doctor's fault. The man says first a place..then grumbles and says something like service(In spanish of course).

What he says "It's a.. a... delivery of alcoholic drinks in the West zone (of Buenos Aires)". But still, I don't know he came accross it (look just above)

 

[Diablini]

Pahahaha! That was awsome!

 

[hungoverbear]

hahahahaha totally made my day!

 

[theultimateend]

Almost like an American News station reporting on the graphic child sex you can have in Sims.

Lord knows that little incident was foxy.

 

[EnglishMuffin]

They could have actually looked up what grog really is. I think they are just taking after fox news.

 

[DazZ.]

Wish they had made it themselves as research.

But obviously they didn't research the story at all, I'm sure if you googled the ingredients together you would get a Monkey Island site... brb.

Well right now you get a load of sites showing this news bit, but I'm sure before it would have been a MI site.

 

[Mozared]

LOL.

Seriously, I wish I had more to contribute to this thread, but all I can say is one massive LOL.

 

[Skeleon]

This... is... the... BEST HOAX IN THE ENTIRE WORLD!

 

[Twilight_guy]

What's funny is that a number of people would be busting up laughing at that story and others would be horrified. I bet they call got a call in the next day explaining things and making them look really dumb.

 

[Captain Pancake]

Well done, argentina news group, you got majorly duped.

Made for some LULZ at this end, though.

 

[Pseudonym2]

Were the clips from Monkey Island in the original newscast or were they added by the guy who put it on youtube?

 

[KeyMaster45]

Holy crap, has anyone written this news station and told them the drink in question is the monkey island grog? I mean holy hell doesn't anyone over there know how to use google?.

This is like soopah mega ultra fail on a level that just surpasses anything I've ever seen.

I mean seriously? They really think people would put battery acid in a drink hahaha. I'm going to go play monkey island now and laugh the entire time.

 

[Lord George]

I think the most worrying part is that the height of their journalistic abilities is to "google it".