My 24 Hours With G4TV

http://www.thegamerag.com/archives/2006/07...s_with_g4tv.php

 

A writer watches an entire days worth of programming just to see how bad G4 really is. It was worse than he thought.

 

 

An excerpt:

"8am. God it’s early. G4’s first hour of programming is something called ‘Kaiju Big Battel’. Yes, Spell-check, its spelled Battel, and no, I don’t know why. It’s an hour-long block with only 1 ad, and I tell you this, it’s weird. It’s reminiscent of shows like ‘Wake, Rattle and Roll’ from my childhood, wherein cartoons are surrounded by awkward live bits. In the case of ‘Kaiju Big Battel’, the awkward live stuff is some kind of fake wrestling with people dressed in stupid foam monster costumes. No, seriously. They wrestle in a ring with a bunch of cardboard boxes that, according to the 2 incredibly hammy and annoying announcers, are supposed to be buildings. Oh, they’re GIANT monsters! So…what about the human sized crowd…and the REF? Is he a monster too? There are also segments with a hot little number in a lab coat and glasses (yum) hawking Nerf crap. But the live stuff isn’t the point here, the cartoons are. The first half hour was taken up delightfully by classic G.I. Joe. The episode, which had something to do with the northern lights, was fantastic. By that I mean it was total crap, but I haven’t seen G.I. Joe in at least 15 years, so it was great to see the pap that used to make me sh*t myself. Also, as a fun note, the episode is centered around a rescue mission, 2 Joes and 6 UN Scientists. At the end the Joes get rescued, but not the scientists. They drown in arctic waters. No one says a damn thing about them either. No wonder the UN hates us."

Ha, Kaiju Big Battel is Boston based. They would do local shows at the colleges every couple of weeks / months. In Boston, Kaiju is kind of a big deal.