NBC Expresses Regret for Air-Crash Skit- Page 2

[jasonf]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 11:56am

Everyone is way too sensitive about this. The first episode of Lost featured a plane crash - and that event has been a huge focus of the first two years of the series. In order for the entire skit to make sense, the plane crash needed to be there. The parody was of the SHOW, not plane crashes. I highly doubt there was some gleeful producer somewhere clapping his hands and laughing raucously while screaming about "This'll show these stupid plane crash victims!" This wasn't an intentional jab at plane crashes. If you were that worked up about the plane crash to begin with, why were you watching the Emmys at all?
The skit was about a TV show. Period. The skit as a whole was FAR too funny to scrap (if it wasn't as good as it was, maybe I'd be on the other side of this), and I think people just need to get over themselves already.

[iHeartMyGeek]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 11:57am

I personally loved the skit. I thought it was hilarious.

Not because it involved a plane crash. As has been stated, I don't think plane crashes are funny. But I thought that it was a well-done skit and that people can be very oversensitive soemtimes. Until I clicked on this thread I wasn't aware that a plane crash happened in Kentucky and I'm very very sorry for that happening, but unfortunately people who work in television are not equipped with psychic powers. I mean, if they had known, they probably would have edited the skit. Some people can be a little oversensitive. So maybe it isn't that the Emmy people were insensitive. Maybe it's that everyone else is just oversensitive.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 11:58am

"its about someone making a big dieal out of something, really rather small"

Ah, the great Oz has spoken? You find it small, hence all must? Your way or the highway? Sorry...there are many more ways than your way.
I've given you way too much credit in the past. I assumed you were a thinking, rational being......my mistake.

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 12:01pm

"Ah, the great Oz has spoken? You find it small, hence all must?"

where is all this bitterness coming from? I never said they must, they all just seem to, on their own. Have you read the thread elp? I'm not the only saying the things I'm saying.


Have you giving IHeart too much credit? What about Jasonf? Or Jerby? Did you give any of them too much credit?


ALl this anger pointed at me, seems a little silly.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 12:04pm

*randomly walks by*

[Calvin]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 12:09pm

Not having seen the skit or any of the fallout from it outside of this thread, let me offer this prediction on how conservative pundits will spin it:

If you remember, after Sept. 11, there was all sorts of scrambling to edit what sort of images might appear from TV, particularly cutting out any shots of the World Trade Center that might be appearing.

Now, they'll spin this as some sort of evidence that Hollywood cares about the elites (i.e., liberal New York) but is insensitive to the "heartland" (i.e., red-state Kentucky).

And there's your Bill O'Reilly talking points memo for the evening. Stay tuned for Hannity and that other guy.

Edited to adverbize a word. Updated On: 8/28/06 at 12:09 PM

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 12:10pm

"Stay tuned for Hannity and that other guy."


I think this name is Holmes or something, maybe it was Helms, or...oH well who cares, he has no spine anyway.

[colleen_lee]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 12:11pm

I also agree with the majority of what has already been said. This was a parody of a TV show on a TV awards show. The plane crash was a major plot device on said TV show and thus was the plot impetus for the parody. It was really well done, and IMO, the best Emmy opening yet. The whole thing was simply a victim of bad timing. There was no slight there, it was merely sad coincidence.

And, for the record, I went to college with one of the victims.

[bwaysinger]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 12:13pm

Sidenote: Colmes' stand-in recently is some hard-a$$ white lady who put Ann Coulter in her place. That was hot.

Back to your regularly scheduled disagreements.

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 12:15pm

yeah I saw that singer, it was HOT.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 12:19pm

Honestly, I didn't even know about the plane crash until now. I can't imagine the people running the Emmys knew any better at the time either. It happened a few hours previous to the show? A few hours before the show, the producers were probably all so focused on getting the show to run smoothly that they didn't even hear about it until after the fact. Probably the majority of the Emmy-viewing audience didn't know about the crash at the time either. It was just an unfortunate coincidence.

Updated On: 8/28/06 at 12:19 PM

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 12:21pm

it actually happened like 14 hours before the show. It had been on the news most of the day

[Elphaba]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 12:23pm

zone, I just don't like when people minimize what people feel. I never minimized your feelings, you did minimize mine.

[colleen_lee]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 12:23pm

Yes, but when you're directing/producing one of the biggest live events of the year it's pretty involved. There is a hell of a lot of stuff that goes on pre-telecast. Odds are pretty good these people weren't huddled around watching the news.

[Kitzarina]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 12:23pm

But when E! is showing 5 hours of red carpet footage, how is one supposed to find out about legitimate news??

Honestly, I spent most of Sunday watching movies. Went to Little Miss Sunshine and then came home to watch Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind before tuning into the Emmys. I had absolutely no idea that a plane crash occured, and I didn't have nearly as many pressing issues in front of me as the Emmy producers.

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 12:25pm

No elphaba, I didn't minimize your feelings, I minimized your insinuation that the skit made fun of plane crashes and that the people in charge we cold heart assholes who were sitting in a dark corner laughing hysterically about what happened in Kentucky.

[iHeartMyGeek]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 12:26pm

So, Kitzarina, you had a sunshine-y day?

This concludes the bad joke. Now back to your regularly scheduled topic.

[KelRel]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 12:40pm

I don't think that the woman that lost her daughter was watching the Emmys, but friends or family could have been. I know it wasn't a planned thing, but it did come at a bad time for those of us living in the area and especially for those who lost someone they loved.

I don't think it was intentional and no one here that I am aware of is all upset at the "evil liberal agenda" that is "attacking the heartland". It was a scene that was crucial to the plot of a show, it just came at a bad time- and anyways, who thinks that plane turbulence or crashes are something to laugh about? I think a much funnier skit could have been done with the hatch.

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 12:49pm

They used the hatch kel, they used in a different way, they could just re-write, re-shoot and re-edit everything. those things take time, and money.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 12:53pm

I give up.......

[TheQuibbler]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 1:10pm

Well, this isn't good news for Snakes on a Plane.

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 1:12pm

they should really edit out the plane of Snakes on A Plane, as right now, movies with planes are insensetive and offensive.

[jimnysf]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 4:39pm

NBC Expresses Regret for Air-Crash Skit
Aug 28 4:18 PM US/Eastern

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/08/28/D8JPKV500.html


NBC expressed regret Monday for an Emmy Awards comedy skit that included a mock plane crash and aired on the network the evening of a fatal Kentucky jetliner accident.
"Our hearts and prayers go out to the many families who lost loved ones in the plane crash in Kentucky on Sunday, and to the entire community that has suffered this terrible loss," NBC said in a statement the day after the ceremony.

"In no way would we ever want to make light of this terrible tragedy," NBC said. "The filmed opening during the Emmy telecast was meant to spoof some of television's most well-known scenes. The timing was unfortunate, and we regret any unintentional pain it may have caused."

The prerecorded skit was broadcast as part of the live Emmy ceremony just hours after a commuter jet taking off in Lexington, Ky., crashed into a field and burst into flames, killing 49 people. Only a co-pilot survived.

Criticism of the sequence appeared on Web sites Sunday night, including the Los Angeles Times', with a columnist for the paper calling it "cringe-inducing" and "of questionable taste."

The airing of the skit, a spoof on the ABC plane-crash drama "Lost," was condemned by the general manager of NBC's Lexington affiliate, WLEX.

"It was a live telecast. We were completely helpless," Tim Gilbert was quoted as saying Sunday night on the Lexington Herald-Leader's Web site. "By the time we began to react, it was over. At the station, we were as horrified as they were at home."

The segment, which opened the Emmys, started with host Conan O'Brien boarding a private plane to Los Angeles. Asked by a stewardess if he was nervous about hosting the show, O'Brien answered "Nervous? What could possibly go wrong?"

The plane then pitched violently and a crash was implied but not shown. Instead, the skit cut to O'Brien stranded on an island resembling the one in "Lost."

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 4:41pm

ugh, now the groveling begins

[KelRel]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 9:38pm

I was going to reply, but really there is no point...