Virtual TV Smashing: A Collection
Of Sounds And Video
"Ohm-Pah, Ohm-Pah, Doob-Tah-Dee-Dee.
What do you get from a glut of TV?
A pain in the neck, and an IQ of 3."
-- sung by the elfin helpers of Willie Wonka in the movie
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.
Jim Morrison in the song An American Prayer, from the album
An American Prayer (1978).
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- Travis Bickle (Robert DeNiro) smashing his television in the movie Taxi
Driver.
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the sound in WAV format. (50k)-
- Part of the Oompa Loompa song as heard in the movie Charlie And
The Chocolate Factory.
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- A funny "cable TV" service announcement from the TV show, The Simpsons.
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- (This is for all those people who say: "I don't watch TV, I just watch The
Simpsons.")
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A clip from the song, Kill Your Television, by Ned's Atomic Dustbin
from the album Godfodder.
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A clip from Roger Waters' song Amused To Death, from the album Amused
To Death (1992).
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- (If you haven't yet, check out my
full review of Amused To Death.)
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Vincent Vega (John Travolta) doesn't watch TV, from the movie Pulp Fiction.
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the sound in WAV format. (209k)
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- A clip from Frank Zappa in the song I'm The Slime, from the album
Overnight Sensation (1973).
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- The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy's song Television, The Drug Of The
Nation (1991).
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Download the song in MP3 format. (6
MB)
(This is an amazing song that seems to have disappeared off the face of
the earth.)
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- The song Terrorvision by Doro from the album Love Me In Black
(1998).
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Download the song in MP3 format. (2.2 MB)
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- (CAUTION: Adult language -- If listening to this song doesn't make you turn
off your tv, nothing will. I LOVE this song!)
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A sound clip from the conclusion of the movie Quiz Show.
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- (CAUTION: Movie spoiler -- if you don't want to know the ending, don't listen
to this.)
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- Another funny soundbite from The Simpsons. This time Bart tells it
like it is.
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A sound clip from singer Henry Rollins' standup act. The album is called Think
Tank (1998).
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- (CAUTION: Adult language. This is NOT for children, but this is a hilarious
clip. If it has to have a title, it should be called "Television Networks
Are Spitting On Our Minds.")
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- Sounds of my friends Shon and Jim, my brother Scott, and
myself smashing televisions in November, 1996. What fun!
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the sound in WAV format. (297k)
- Video of Jim destroying a television set.
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Video clip from the movie The Cable Guy. The "Cable Guy" falls
on the main TV satellite dish and knocks out the signal to the whole
town -- gosh, what will people do without television?
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Video clip of televisions getting blown up. I can watch this over
and over and over . . . . what cracks me up are the cows in the
background.
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