I don’t know that you’re “the only one who figured this out” as much as you’re one of the few that devoted this much thought to it. J As I said, when the countdown numbers in the intro started appearing, it was fairly simple to figure out the last date from there, even if the fact that the last two weeks of the year are traditionally dark weeks anyway hadn’t occurred to the viewer. To most people (well, okay…to me, anyway) “the middle of December” has always been a good enough date for me. Whether it was the 18th or a special retrospective on the 19th, or whatever…that much specificity isn’t necessary.
Hell, I know Thanksgiving is on the fourth Thursday next month. But I don’t know the exact date that falls on. *shrug* Because it doesn’t matter…it’ll get here when it gets here. J Doug Fields Tampa, FL From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jon Delfin Sent: Friday, October 31, 2014 9:06 PM To: tvornottv Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] this is news? Curious. TDS and TCR would both be dark Christmas week and New Year's Day week, which meant the last show for each in 2014 would be 12/18. Maybe nobody ever mentioned the specific number of the day, but it was always known that Colbert was running through the end of 2014, which, by implication, meant his last show would be the 18th. I can't believe I'm the only one who figured this out. On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 6:06 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 9:13 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: As far as I recall (fairly religious viewer) yes, this is the first time the date has been explicitly announced, either on air or in any new coverage. Although it didn't take a genius to figure out what the "countdown" numbers in the intro were referring to, and to determine the end date on your own. I am relatively certain he had never before announced an end date on the show. Either CC or WWP may have given us the general time frame of mid December. But he has had a running thing on the show first of pretending he was not leaving, and then of pretending he does not know when. I am not sure if that is part of some gag, or some legal technicality in his contract or what (maybe obligation to sponsors?). I can recall several times earlier this year when a guest brought up that he was leaving and, leaning heavily into his persona, he denied any knowledge of what they were talking about. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
