Saturday, January 31, 2009
Puppy Bowl V
For the few of you out there who have not been waiting with fierce anticipation for months for this year's event, we send notice of Puppy Bowl V, riveting Super Bowl counter-programming by the Discovery Channel's four-legged Animal Planet Channel. The two-hour program will be screened seven times during "Super Sunday." [Note that some of you may prefer to watch it 'MOS*' after three or four viewings.]
Last year's innovations included the spectacular Water Bowl Cam that according to the Puppy Bowl Wikipedia page, "provides shots upwards through the transparent bottom of a special water bowl built into the stadium floor, with a wide-angle lens that allows viewers to watch the puppies drink water up close."
And don't miss the feline hijinx during the Kitty Half-Time Show that features, again as researched and reported on the Wikipedia page, "kittens playing for 30 minutes with lights, laser pens, balls of yarn, a scratching post, flint sweepers, and a wide variety of other toys."
* MOS = Mit Out Sound
[video above looking back to highlights of the glory that was Puppy Bowl IV.]
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3 comments:
Finally, a Bowl that I can feel excited about. Thanks Jon!
We're glad Jenna's happy! Some people have suggested that Puppy Bowl was a take-off on The Puppy Channel(R), which tried to get going as a cable TV network in the 90's. Today thepuppychannel.com lets people watch puppies goofing around 24/7/365, and lets the public upload their own puppy video. Puppylovers can preserve their most adorable puppy moments and share, rate, comment and meet one another at thepuppychannel.com. Woof!
Dan -
Thanks for your comments. [Jenna as well!]
In 2006 Ira Glass' brilliant "This American Life" featured a story, "Puppy Love," on the Puppy Channel. [Puppy Love begins at the seven minute mark on the stream.]
Excerpt from introductory text on the This American Life Web site below:
"Act One. Puppy Love.
Molly FitzSimons tells the story of her father starting over. After 25 years in the same zip code, as an executive in the same company, he moved to Los Angeles and tried to start over in a new life with a new venture: a cable channel, with no people, no talking, no plots, but lots and lots of puppies. It's now on the web: thepuppychannel.com."
We couldn't help but notice that you and Molly share the same last name. Are you perhaps her father, the creator of the Puppy Channel?
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