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Doh! They got me!

by Anna Johns, posted Apr 3rd 2006 10:47AM
simpsons; tivo
My husband thinks he's so funny. Tonight, I was in the kitchen when The Simpsons started so I didn't get to see the opening sequence where the family piles onto the couch and something funny happens. My husband rewinded rewound it on the TiVo so I could see and when the 'Delete'/'Don't Delete' thing popped up, he says, "Anna, what are you doing?" I threw my hands up in the air and started to stand up, wondering whether I was sitting on the remote. Nope. Just part of the open.

Did anybody else feel a moment of panic, or am I the only dope in the room?

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davidm

They didn't get me. I don't have a Tivo.

April 03 2006 at 11:24 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Evan Adams

got me too. Had a good laugh

April 03 2006 at 5:43 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Anna

I totally said 'rewinded'.

How embarrassing. :)

April 03 2006 at 4:05 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
kel

They got me for a second too. I think the bloops evoke a Pavlovian response from me to do something with the Tivo. I even turned them off awhile ago!

April 03 2006 at 12:07 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
gwangi

I was watching this and it came up. My wife said "Why are you deleting it, is it a rerun?" It was great.

April 03 2006 at 11:58 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Lampbane

They've done this opening before, though. The TiVo bloops and everything.

April 03 2006 at 11:54 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
kerry

I fell for it, too. I heard the little bloop-bloop and went "WTF?" and started hunting for the remote. They timed it nicely, so that it was up long enough for me to fall for it, but not so long that I started actually hitting buttons once I got my hands on the remote.

April 03 2006 at 11:48 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Brent

OMG that is one of the best ever. I will have to see if the wife remembered to record this episode so I can trick her with it.

April 03 2006 at 11:17 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ryan j Budke

Did you say "rewinded" ?
Yea, it got me though too. I was at a friends house who has TiVo and I really have no idea what I'm doing when I'm away from my normal cable-branded dvr.

April 03 2006 at 11:12 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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