Dirty Red Commie

Update: The No-Fun brigade has killed all the videos I've uploaded. Sorry

We have confirmations!   Apparently it was local to Helena, Montana.

If I hadn't recorded it, I'd think I'm losing my mind.  I was idly fast-forwarding through the olympics broadcast on my MythTV box, and  I saw Joel, Tom Servo, and Crow T. Robot at the Olympics!  They appeared today, August 17 between about 2:00pm and 3:13pm Mountain Time on NBC.  Did anyone else see it?  If you did/didn't, please let me know!  It's possible that this was only visible on the HD broadcast.  I don't think they were added by the local station, because they were constantly present over both events and nationwide commercials, but they disappeared for local commercials.   They were just static sillhouettes, so there was no hilarious commentary added.

For those wondering, it was on the KTVH over-the-air HD broadcast. 

From the apparent cause of our entertainment : 

I'm a master control operator
for an NBC affiliate in Helena, Montana. I basically switch on air
programming from standard definition to high definition and roll local
breaks during network television.
...
I somehow accidently
clicked a button on that program while playing solitare that brought up
the Mystery Science Theater3000 sillouette at the bottom of people's tv
screens in town. I don't fucking know how it got there but people
watching television were probably losing there fucking minds.
 
 

We made the news!

http://billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/08/24/news/state/45-glitch.txt

http://helenair.com/articles/2008/08/23/top/60lo_080823_mst3k.txt

 MST3k during Women's Basketball Volleyball

 MST3k in Beijing!

 Even over the nationwide commercials!  Somebody is fired!

They disappeared sometime during the Men's 10,000k 10,000 meter.

[The author of this post can be contacted at tbone-mst@drclabs.com ]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4914320.stm

Revealing quotations:

"In pigball, similar to football, the piglets were split into two teams of five in a pen where they chased a ball covered in fish oil with their snouts."

and 

"Pig swimming was a new event in this year's games, with pigs attempting to paddle to the other end of a small pool. However, the pigs were more interested in bumping into each other than racing, and one piglet managed to get his foot stuck in a rope separating the lanes."

 It's one of those stories that I wish were untrue.