Personal Reflections – Page 26

…and now, MAD TV is going mad

Excited about MAD TV Madness Week, which happening next week from 8-14th February. It’ll be a lot of work, but it sure as hell will be a lot of fun putting it all together too.

I came up with two different print ads for the event. This first one has been published in the latest edition of The Stag too.

It features guinea pirates. Basically, they’re pirates but at the same time they’re also guinea pigs.

I also made a second ad, which didn’t get approved/published. This one features eyes from Texas Chainsaw Massacre and critical praise from The Washington Toast.

Apparently, this second ad was judged to be too scary for release because of the disembodied eyes. 😉

And yet, after doing all this, I still didn’t truly feel that I was part of the Internets generation. This feeling has been gnawing away at me for quite some time. I had epiphany recently. No, it wasn’t “Bananas are an excellent source of potassium. [slap]”, nor did it have anything to do with the Boob Lady.

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Oh, did I hear you say “What is MAD TV Madness Week?!”. I guess you’ll just have to tune in to www.madtvsurrey.co.uk to find out.

In case you haven’t read it already, you might also be interested in my previous blog post Has MAD TV Gone Insane?

PS – After discussions revolving around various university and students’ union policies, some content posted here earlier has been taken down.

Has MAD TV Gone Insane?

This is a spoof news story which I wrote as something which could’ve gone in the next issue of The Stag, but it wasn’t approved by the MAD TV executive committee because it was irreverent to MAD TV. Publishing it here anyway!

The continued absence of MAD TV on the airwaves has been raising some eyebrows on campus, apparently. This itself appears to be a startling fact, since MAD TV broadcasts on YouTube, and not actually via airwaves. A boffin claiming to be David Pugh (science editor of The Stag), although suspiciously not like the real David Pugh in appearance at all, said “We have got top-of-the-line Ghostbusters equipment scanning the airwaves for forced jokes made in a studio, but have been unsuccessful so far”.

Students are questioning why hardly any new episodes have been released over the past few weeks. A source reports to us that just this other day an angry mob congregated outside Rubix wielding pitchforks, demanding real-time Twitter updates on when University of Surrey Student News will be back. Angry Mob Protestor #26 said, “I feel listless these days without any new MAD TV episodes. I might just have to go back to…stalking people on Facebook to bide time”. The mob dispersed when they were given £5 vouchers for Young’s Kitchen (valid on any purchase above £300).

Efforts to reach MAD TV executive producer Mike Frazer for a response were mostly futile, except that one time when we had a brief chat to discuss what MAD TV plans to do with all with funds it has got, now that it is an official society. Mr Frazer mumbled something about a new website being developed, before sauntering off hollering “Assemble…”

In other news, a protester who broke into a Stag committee meeting demanding to know who these ‘sources’ tipping us off on what he called ‘completely cooked up news stories’ were. He was kindly escorted out of the room and given a free issue of The Stag to appreciate his feedback to this newspaper.

by Mykfrey Zur