The holidays are upon us, along with all their various demands on our time. In this hectic season of well-wishing and such, not everyone has 48 minutes to spend watching Bad Brains rock a German punk club, or even 14 minutes to watch the definitive collection of Chris Elliott’s Conspiracy Guy character. Or a couple of hours to come up with a proper Clip of the Month, for that matter. With that in mind, we present you with a fun-filled little clip that clocks in at just over a minute long. It’s a pretty solid minute, though.
Our clip this month goes by the evocative title “Haunted Toaster,” although to be honest, the toaster in question is more demonically possessed than haunted. This brief interview was originally part of a 1984 Today Show segment about tabloid publications. The bearded gentleman at the start of the clip is a reporter for the Sun tabloid.
For the segment, he brought NBC cameras along as he interviewed a handful of typical Sun subjects, such as a man who claimed to have been saved from a watery grave by his Howdy Doody puppet. You can see the whole segment here if you want to explore this further, but for me, this concluding bit sums everything up pretty concisely and perfectly. I don’t really want to give any more away, other than to assure you that this segment apparently really did run on the Today Show back in the day.
So with no further ado, we present “Haunted Toaster”:
There’s a market out there for a toaster that imprints Satan Lives into the bread.
This will make an incredible insert on a Waxing Gibbous album.
“At the end of the day, it makes good toast.”
Hilarious!