Emergency Broadcast Salute | |
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Season 1, Episode 2 | |
Information
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Air date | July 19, 2012 |
Written by | Ben Minnotte |
Directed by | Ben Minnotte |
Music
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Opening Theme | Senses Working Overtime by XTC |
Ending Theme | EBS Jingle by WHEN Syracuse, NY |
Episode guide
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"Emergency Broadcast Salute" is the second episode of Oddity Archive.
Summary[]
Ben discusses Civil Defense Broadcasting in the United States (Including CONELRAD, the EBS, and the EAS), and as a bonus, he yells at a EAS Warning he made. He also discusses the EBS false alarm of 1971.
Running Gags[]
- Company Name: Worse Than Coleman Francis Productions
- Very End Clip: Max Headroom and the EAS Duck Fart sound.
- The Show That: "Dares to ask hard hitting questions as:" (The 5 Neat Guys sing "Who made the egg salad sandwiches?")
Trivia[]
- Max Headroom appears again.
- This episode is one video on YouTube (the 2016 re-edit).
- This is the first episode are Ben does the "The Show That" gag.
- The 5 Neat Guys gag is taken from the Canadian sketch comedy series SCTV.