From Nielson:
Overall, for the six networks that aired the program simultaneously, the spot had a household rating of 21.7% (meaning that 21.7 percent of all households watching television were tuned to the spot.)In comparison, the final debate between the two presidential candidates received a 38.3 household rating in the top 56 local TV markets. The candidates’ first debate on September 26 received a 34.7 household rating in the top 55 markets; their second debate, on October 7, received a 42.0 household rating in those markets.
The last presidential candidate to air a paid simulcast was Ross Perot in 1996, which received a national household rating of 16.8.
Last night, the Baltimore market had the largest TV audience, with a household rating of 31.3, while the Portland market had the lowest household rating: 14.2.
Bitchin’.
I didn’t see the thing myself (I’d had some very spicy Mexican for dinner and was indisposed), but rumor has it that if you start The Wall at precisely the point where Obama, offscreen, says “But everywhere I go, despite the economic crisis … and war … and uncertainty about tomorrow … I still see optimism. And hope. And strength” — and provided you’ve taken a handful of ’shrooms and quaffed at least a sixer of Michelob — the whole presentation comes of like some uber trippy version of Sidney Lumet’s The Wiz.
The kids are calling it Red Diaper Oz. Which I guess means there was a baby and some anal bleeding involved.
But I’d blame that unlikely misreading on the drugs and alcohol.
Comment by alppuccino on 10/30 @ 9:33 am #
I didn’t see the thing myself (I’d had some very spicy Mexican for dinner and was indisposed)
Sounds like the trolls who live in your master-bath toilet, saw a similar production.
Sorry to piggyback on your poo jokes. Can’t resist.
Comment by Jeff G. on 10/30 @ 9:35 am #
Poo jokes?
Oh, you misunderstood. I meant I was banging the cleaning lady.
Comment by pdbuttons on 10/30 @ 9:36 am #
mr. hanky
or towelly if u prefer…want to get high?
Comment by Mr. Pink on 10/30 @ 9:39 am #
I would consider 20 percent of people being WILLING to sit thru a 30 minute political commercial one of the signs of the apocolypse.
By the way did the infomercial have its own commercials or was this 30 minutes uninterrupted? Least give a guy a bathroom break damn.
Comment by pdbuttons on 10/30 @ 9:39 am #
do i hafta dig my own latrine in the ‘camp’
or shall i shatner in my own p[ants?
seriously…does this shit make my ass look fat?
Comment by alppuccino on 10/30 @ 9:45 am #
I meant I was banging the cleaning lady.
She being the spicy Mexican, I take it.
Sorry for the confusion.
This most likely will not put a damper on my fecal humor, however.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 10/30 @ 9:46 am #
I rather watch Shepard Smith and Anderson Cooper make out like they were the last two people left on the deck of the Titanic than watch a 30 minute political ad.
Comment by JD on 10/30 @ 9:46 am #
Fecal humor never grows old. Nor do mullet jokes.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 10/30 @ 9:47 am #
Shouldn’t that be “a Pamper on my fecal humor”?
Comment by JD on 10/30 @ 9:48 am #
Other things that never grow old –
A 10-foot birdie putt.
Waygu beef.
Good sushi.
Plasmas not tuned into Baracky Popeil’s infomercial.
And the word Baracky.
And Joe Montana.
And the Cubs choking.
Comment by FreakyBoy on 10/30 @ 9:50 am #
“Dark Side of the Moon” not coded enough for you, eh Jeff?
Comment by happyfeet on 10/30 @ 9:51 am #
It wasn’t must-see tv I didn’t think so I didn’t see it. Was M’chelle in it? I wonder if it was taped before she found out Baracky was banging Vera. That aside, the Associated Press said it was pretty insipid stuff, which means it must have been some pretty goddamn insipid stuff. I read the transcript and it was all a bunch of pitiful whiners. Baracky loves him some whiners. I wonder though if they’ll be as celebrated when if he becomes our first dirty-assed socialist asswipe president? I’ll be curious to see.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 10/30 @ 9:52 am #
Least he didn’t put David Allen Cole.
Comment by psycho... on 10/30 @ 9:54 am #
This all fails to take into account the 100% Obama support among the “Yeah, I don’t have a TV” doucheographic.
Comment by pdbuttons on 10/30 @ 9:59 am #
dicky dreyfuss cutting the potatos of mash
30 minutes and the politics of ass
3 dog mullet night gets a pass
my hope boner can change the world/channel
hudson brothers
Comment by JD on 10/30 @ 10:05 am #
30 minutes of misery pimping, at its finest.
Comment by J. Peden on 10/30 @ 10:12 am #
I don’t think people expecting perhaps the final pregame warm up of the whole freaking World Series were amused, along with others simply wanting to kick back into their regular routine without being bothered by some jack-ass.
Others may have wondered if SNL had decided to go completely crass low class, or if “paid programming” had finally decided to tank itself by advertising the finer aspects of stool physiology.
“Low class”, yeah. Fawning over B.O., no.
Comment by BJTexs on 10/30 @ 10:16 am #
Policy by Anecdote, JD. He just does it better and classier than any other Democrat in memory.
The Progressive Church of the Misery Pimpage lives!
Comment by JD on 10/30 @ 10:16 am #
It was really no different than watching 30 minutes of Olberdouchebag’s show.
Comment by NukemHill on 10/30 @ 10:17 am #
Say it ain’t so, Joe. Baltimore? Oh, now I’m really ashamed.
Comment by C Smith on 10/30 @ 10:23 am #
I TiVo-ed the Prozac Sandwich, so I could more readily broad-jump the rivers of kool-aid.
Does that mean I counted as a viewer for the ratings?
Comment by pdbuttons on 10/30 @ 10:28 am #
will the guvmint send out one of those clockwork orange eye opener peeps w/eyedrops?
cuz i’m in
Comment by Carin on 10/30 @ 10:30 am #
I didn’t watch Teh Obama Show because I always wait to see if they’re gonna get picked up for another season by the networked. I got BURNED by Firefly …
Comment by maggie katzen on 10/30 @ 11:04 am #
no, no, the lady on the radio just told me it was Reaganesque. Just.like.Morning in America.
with whiney people.
Comment by J. Peden on 10/30 @ 11:30 am #
As with the confirmed trolls, I’m really only reading the responses here – that, and of course listening to Shaggy go off on “Hope”: ~
Only strong survive Yeah
Uh Uh
Comment by J. Peden on 10/30 @ 11:56 am #
Racist!
Comment by Patrick on 10/30 @ 11:59 am #
I can’t believe they delayed a World Series game that I don’t give a fuck about, for a paid political infomercial from a guy who I loathe.
I wish I had a cleaning lady…..
Comment by Patrick on 10/30 @ 12:01 pm #
Fireflies aren’t supposed to hurt. You’re squeezing them too hard.
Comment by ginsocal on 10/30 @ 12:54 pm #
Actually, it’d be an Eight-balls 40, not Michelob.
Comment by Blitz on 10/30 @ 4:56 pm #
Eight balls? ah…good times, good times…
Comment by Mikey NTH on 10/30 @ 7:53 pm #
#11 Freaky Boy:
It may have been coded, but the listeners were drunk and/or stoned so that they didn’t hear anything but ‘Doritos, need Doritos…no, gonna hurl…this is so deep!’ ‘Does Happy Pizza still deliver? I got a coupon.’
Comment by Mikey NTH on 10/30 @ 7:57 pm #
And then they turn to an infomercial because they can find the remote, but no one can crawl up to the kitchen to use the phone to order the pizza. The light of the morning filtering through the basement windows isn’t very friendly when they finally wake.
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Comment by McGehee on 10/31 @ 1:36 pm #
I knew somebody was checking me out in the shower!
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 10/31 @ 6:05 pm #
Are you related to George Washington, McGehee?
Comment by McGehee on 11/1 @ 12:33 am #
Well, he is the father of our country.