Question: What’s the Buzz?

Answer: Why, that’s the sound of the Indianapolis Colts piping in crowd noise.

Did you just think, “WTF?” Yeah, us too.

During yesterday’s Pats-Colts game, which the Pats 24-20 won despite a special blend of horrible officiating and their own ulcer-inducing mistakes, there were allegedly a few extra cheers coming from the stadium. A shout-out to Prospero for the vigilant tip-off here, and a co-shout-out to Caesar and Prospero for info on the Jon Kitna Halloween costume post.  Nothing gets by the Phalanx of Fun.

It’s reminiscent of those TV shows like The Beverly Hillbillies and The Brady Bunch with the laugh tracks dubbed in. (Personally, we think “write funnier scripts” is a better solution to laughlessness than ”let’s try to fool the viewers at home into thinking other people actually thought these jokes got a chuckle or two,” but what do we know?). 

In a move that pales in comparison to Scooby Doo, The Flintstones, and every other Hanna-Barbera cartoon that faked an audience, the Colts added a mite of spectator might. Listen closely to the crowd in this 30-second audio clip of the TV broadcast. Toward the end you’ll hear a funky feedback-ish noise that likely had a producer or four hopping up and down yelling “Cut! CUT!” to the sound engineer who spilled his beer over the controls because something pro-Colts happened, thus wrecking the eeeevil (and NFL-illegal) plan. 

*Clears throat self-consciously* Meanwhile, we’re going to slink away and nonchalantly search online for downloadable laugh tracks to add to the blog for those days when the jokes seem to fall flat . . .