You watch "Good Day New York," kids? Not us; we're too busy masturbating to Ann Curry's face while Johnny Mathis plays in the background. So apparently we missed a total anchor meltdown by someone called Jodi Applegate this morning. We'll reconstruct what happened from viewer e-mails after the jump, but if any of you out there happen to have video, please get in touch.
Right before I turned off my t.v. to go into work, I witnessed Jody Applegate from Fox 5 in the morning go absolutely ape over a stunt to guys pulled on camera. They were supposed to be promoting some movie they made about how easy it is to steal bicycles in the city, and they were using some sort of electric saw to cut through a lock when one guy starts acting like he's being cut by the saw. It was totally fake and completely lame, but Applegate freaked out, lectured them on camera, and then felt it necessary to apologize to the viewing audience after the commercial break, denouncing the pair as jerks.Keep in mind, this is all after she has been on air trying to convince every male anchorman/weatherman in a 50 mile radius to take their clothes off....She even offered to strip down on t.v. herself.
...two guys that had just shot an indie flick about bike stealing in NYC were on demonstrating how easy it is to cut through most bike locks.They were using an electric circular saw to cut the lock when suddenly one guy jerked and pretended to cut the other, who exploded a ketchup packet in his shirt. Needless to say, the Fox crew had no idea what was going on, and talking bobble head Jody Applegate totally lost her shit. She starting screaming at the guys to stop and yelling into the camera . . . breaking her "little miss sunshine" persona.
But one of the guys started to use an electrical saw on a piece of railing whilst the other guy fell on the floor screaming and grabbing his neck like he was choking.Cut to Jodie Applegate flipping out and telling them to stop and that kids were watching the show and telling viewers that Good Day had gotten burned by theses "jerks" etc etc. It went on for a good 45 seconds and then cut to a commercial. When they came back to the studio Applegate was STILL raving. I couldn't believe it!!
I'm not sure if you guys would know anything about it, but when I turned on my TV this morning a little before eight I heard Jodi Applegate on Fox's 'Good Day New York' make the following statement coming back from a traffic report (transcribed from memory, so forgive innacuracy):"We apologize to our viewers: we know that a lot of people don't like to see that sort of thing and most people don't like to see blood and carnage and gore at any time, let alone this early in the morning. Just know that we at Fox had nothing to do with planning that, we didn't know they were going to do it, and if we knew we wouldn't have had them on. They burned us. They burned us and we're never having them on again and if they're selling something on the internet you should not buy it."
Interesting fact about these submissions: Each one came with some variation of the line, "I'm ashamed to admit that I watch it, but on today's 'Good Day, New York'..."
Get us that video, kids.










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Jodi used to substitute for Katie Couric. At some point she realized that she would not get the full time Today show seat and moved to Fox 5.
"And if they're selling something on the internet you should not buy it."
BURN!
Ahhhh....love to see the smiley, normally collect bobble heads go ape shit. Please, somebody send video. An interview with the bike flick guys is forthcoming also, I hope.
i saw it, the whole thing was entirely ridiculous. i am thinking she had someone close to her lose a finger in a traumatic power tool accident.
I saw a Fox weather report last weekend and NYC was missing from the east coast - Tampa was there and few other crappy cities, but no NYC. I haven't got a TV so I don't know if that's normal for them - ?
She lost the e at the end of her first name in a buzzsaw accident when she was ten. Sometimes at night she can still hear it screaming.
"we know that a lot of people don't like to see that sort of thing and most people don't like to see blood and carnage and gore at any time, let alone this early in the morning."
Meanwhile, let's cut back to Day 16 of the Israel/Lebanon conflict...
Oh Gosh! I watch that show (and I'm not embarrased to admit it, it's a lot better than watching Diane Sawyers' constipated face)and when something happens, I MISS IT!!!
At least I got to see Stacy Ann sallivating after Mike and Tiki a few months ago - she definitely was thinking threesome.
I actually like Jodi Applegate, but she definitely lost her shit over something that was pretty lame. Thought it had to be a stunt, but I guess not.
I don't know.
I thought she handled it pretty well.
The guy seemed to yell "fuck" when he pretended to get cut by the saw and spread fake blood.
The other guy had a steel-cutting saw going. Who knew what they'd pull next?
Jodi simply took control of the show and made it clear to her viewers that their friendly wakeup team didn't pull jackass stunts to make you regurgitate your coffee.
And by the way, isn't she the former NBC gal who was briefly a bunny waitress in a Playboy club?
Sis Christina is very disappointed...
Found the video, it wasn't so hard being linked on Digg and all:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ryBd0Er5Jo
And now that I've seen it .. I don't really get what all the fuss is about. It really was a childish prank, and she had every right.
But dudes, way to go for grabbing onto your 15 minutes of fame for all you're worth.
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