Did it start with a butterfly?

February 28, 2006 2:25 PM

I was listening to WFMU a few years ago and I heard this insane fake news report type thing. A reporter in a helicopter is covering a car crash that slowly builds and builds until it becomes apocalyptic (possibly there's an alien attack). He stays perfectly calm through the whole thing.
posted by aiko to media & arts (7 comments total)

Sounds cool!
posted by thirteenkiller at 2:34 PM on February 28, 2006

Did you email ken at wfmu?
posted by zonkout at 2:37 PM on February 28, 2006

There was a dj on WFMU who did a couple of those things, I remember when flight 587 ( I think) crashed in Queens there was a fake news report from the bay and the DJ was supposedly in a rowboat reporting on the types of wreckage he was finding floating in the water.

WFMU is doing their fundraiser now, why don't you call them or e-mail them?
posted by jeremias at 2:38 PM on February 28, 2006

Did you have a question?
posted by y6y6y6 at 3:30 PM on February 28, 2006

That reminds me of a comic, I can't remember who it was, doing Harry Carey as he deapans the distant nuclear blasts and mushroom clouds of the apocolypse while continue to narrate the baseball action.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 3:34 PM on February 28, 2006

Sounds like Joe Frank's "Eye in the Sky" episode from his series Somewhere Out There.
posted by extrabox at 3:54 PM on February 28, 2006

extrabox, that's it! thank you so much!
posted by aiko at 6:50 PM on February 28, 2006