Up Next: Into the Woods. Fooled You! It’s Into The Woods.
MSNBC has a schlocky Dateline documentary called Into the Woods about “[a] brave high school girl tries to outfox her fugitive kidnapper after being held hostage for ten days in an underground bunker.”
Now, of course there’s also the award winning Sondheim musical of the same name:
It’s understandable how you might confuse the two, and Daniel Kells noticed that Time Warner Cable had in fact done just that:
There’s going to be some very unhappy musical theater geeks tonight (and some very unhappy fans of pedophile kidnappers).
May 9th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
I don’t know if you mis-typed, but that makes no sense. If the musical is actually playing, there would be *happy* musical theater geeks and unhappy fans of pedophile kidnappers whereas if the documentary is playing it would be the reverse.
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May 9th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Excellent point, I was lost in a cloud of fog thinking that the description could go either way, when clearly I already know which show is going to play. My fault.
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May 9th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
Oh, no, it works if you think of it from the point of view of someone choosing what to watch based on the listing. The musical theater people will be excited, and then disappointed (and probably disturbed). The fans of pedophile kidnappers will be disappointed because they could have watched this show that they would have enjoyed, but instead choose not to based on its incorrect description.
Phew, glad I got that all sorted.
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May 9th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
I read it as the girl gets away so the fans of the pedophile kidnapper are sad for their hero.
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May 10th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
I can’t decide which I have less respect for: corny musical theater or lurid, hysterical cable news/magazine pieces about missing white girls.
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June 5th, 2008 at 1:23 am
Perhaps it was aimed at the viewers who are both pedophile kidnappers AND musical theatre geeks? They also did a story ‘Sunday in the Park with George’. MT geeks thought is was the Sondheim musical, but it was really footage of baby Bush walking Barney. I hear the scottie-owning, impressionist painter demographic is HUGE!
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